Download or read book Aghor Medicine written by Ron Barrett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aghor Medicine moves seamlessly between an ethnography of religion and medical anthropology. The stories of suffering and renunciation, of collective experience that turn Indian hierarchy and discrimination upside down are quite marvelous. The writing is clear and direct and the interpretations balanced and scrupulously documented. Barrett has written one of the best accounts on local traditions "modernizing" in ways that combine indigenous significance with globally crucial changes that react against health and social inequalities."—Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University "Ronald Barrett's fine account of aghor medicine reveals essential characteristics of India's popular culture, and, since an ashram in California has an important role in the story, of American popular culture as well."—Charles Leslie, author of Death Row Letters (forthcoming)
Download or read book Living with Reality written by Robert Svoboda and published by . This book was released on 2017-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than four decades have passed since I met the Aghori Vimalananda, and it has been thirty-three years since I last heard him speak. Happily for me he permitted me to write down many of his musings so that I would have them to remind me of the wisdom that he embodied. And, thanks to his compassion for others, he instructed me to publish some of this material after he was gone, which I did in the three Aghora books, books that I continue to regularly read and that continue to offer me thought-provoking guidance at any step along my own path.An aghori is someone who plunges so deep into darkness that he emerges into light. Aghora is a spiritual path that because of its extreme heterodoxy has been¿ough I cannot myself claim to be an aghori, the example that he thus set has inspired my own sophomoric attempts to transmute into equanimity all that is both gratifying and grotesque in life, focusing on the subtle world while living in mundane reality, for Vimalananda always emphasized the importance of living with reality." Dr. Robert E. Svoboda Illustrated by Satya Moses
Download or read book Aghora written by Robert Svoboda and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aghora trilogy have been embraced world-wide for their frankness in broaching subjects generally avoided and their facility for making the 'unseen' real. We enter the world of Vimalananda who teaches by story and living example.
Download or read book Shiva And The Aghoris written by Sasindran Kallinkeel and published by markmybook. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many of us have the courage to address and follow the true spiritual calling from within and beyond. This is the story of Shiva as he embarks on a journey to become a part of the most feared and simultaneously revered cults - Aghori. Shiva was borne on auspicious day of Shivaratri in an orthodox Hindu family in Trivandrum. His family was follower of Lord Vishnu but since childhood Shiva’s devotion was inclined towards Lord Shiva. He was curious as to gain knowledge on myths and tales of Lord Shiva. His queries were often greeted by his family with raised eyebrows and getting the warning to shush it down. His curious mindset towards this created issues in his life but Shiva just couldn’t ignore his calling to become a true devotee of Lord Shiva. Sasindran Kallinkeel in his yet another fiction novel Shiva & The Aghoris written in autobiographical style gives insights on the real life of Aghoris and their spiritual beliefs and practices. The journey of becoming an Aghori is the most demanding and cruel one. One does not simply attain the status of being qualified for even becoming a hermit in Kashi and in midst of that Shiva struggles and completes his calling of becoming an Aghori.
Download or read book Aghora written by Robert E. Svoboda and published by Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited. This book was released on 1993 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aghor Medicine written by Ronald L. Barrett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming intoxicants out of human skulls. In recent years, however, they have shifted their practices from the embrace of ritually polluted substances to the healing of stigmatized diseases. In the process, they have become a large, socially mainstream, and politically powerful organization. Based on extensive fieldwork, this lucidly written book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. Ron Barrett examines a range of Aghor therapies from ritual bathing to modified Ayurveda and biomedicines and clarifies many misconceptions about this little-studied group and its highly unorthodox, powerful ideas about illness and healing.
Download or read book Personal Liberation written by Sri Krishnaqayaamat and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Liberation: The Way of the Aghori is the first publication written by Krishnaqayaamat, a Western-born aghori. Krishnaqayaamat outlines a concise and very effective set of methods for the seeker of truth to liberate themselves from the fetters of the world and discover their true nature. The methods of teachings will be considered unorthodox to many but this is due to their straight-forward honesty and their embracing of the atavistic nature of the human animal. Personal Liberation: The Way of the Aghori may serve as a thorough foundation upon which the seeker of truth may set forth on their journey to genuine enlightenment.
Download or read book Yogini written by Dinkar Goswami and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Himalayas the Savage Mount K2 stands as the second highest peak on the planet. Shrouded in mysticism, it protects the greatest secret the world has ever possessed - an enigmatic Vital Knowledge of Yog that can bestow unparalleled cosmic powers called Siddhi. The Mighty Asura of the planet Nicaea, cosmic subjugators and destroyers of worlds, have searched for this Vital Knowledge since time immemorial. A megalomaniacal super yogi Bubba, has partly accessed the Vital Knowledge using guile and deception. Consumed by siddhi, this super yogi commands a sinister army unlike any other under a single edict promulgated by him. He has made an alliance with the Asura and set in motion an ancient Warning. Forced to confront this edict is a young American yogini, Gerua. Victim to tragic events in the Himalayas, this reluctant warrior is chosen by providence to partake in an ancient Prophecy that follows the Warning. Giving birth to a paragon, she must find an ancient, shape-shifting Gate that jumps space and time. This Gate leads to the cosmic realm of the lord of yog where her son Danta can fulfill the Prophecy, and bring balance in the cosmos. Vital Knowledge is secretly bestowed on Gerua, endowing her with siddhi. But she is forbidden from using the power. Mythical beings of the mountain, ascetic warriors and immortals join Gerua and the five-year-old Danta to challenge the corrupt super yogis demonic ire and his reckless use of siddhi. Deciphering clues and battling the malevolent legions of Bubba that relentlessly pursue them, Gerua and Danta must race against time if they are to find the Gate.
Download or read book Death and the Regeneration of Life written by Maurice Bloch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-12-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology.
Download or read book The Hidden Hindu 2 written by Akshat Gupta and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first battle is lost. The book of Mritsanjeevani is in the wrong hands but Nagendra's plans are not limited only to immortality. What seemed to be the end of all wars was just the beginning of an incredible journey in search of a hidden verse. Om is still incomplete without the knowledge of his past, but he is not alone anymore. Two of the mightiest warriors of all time stand by his side. Two mysterious warriors stand unconditionally with Nagendra too or is there a hidden agendas behind all the allies? Who are LSD and Parimal in real and who is Om? Tighten your seat belts for an adventure in search of words that hold a bigger purpose than even immortality for Divinities and Demons.
Download or read book Fearless Living written by Swami Rama and published by Himalayan Institute Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a collection of anecdotes from the life of the late Swami Rama, helps us understand that there is a way to move beyond mere faith and into the realm of personal revelation. Through the spiritual practice of meditation and yoga we can aspire to enter the world of spirit ourselves.--From back cover.
Download or read book The Passion Test written by Janet Bray Attwood and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible to anyone of any faith or background, The Passion Test takes readers on a journey to experience the transformation that occurs when they determine what really matters most to them. Through interactive sections, the book helps the reader to identify their top 5 passions, and provides guidance on how to align their life with those passions. Combining powerful storytelling and profound wisdom from the world's leading experts in self-development, The Passion Testshows practical ways how the law of attraction can be used to bring a life of unlimited reward and unconditional love.
Download or read book The Theory of Economic Personality written by Taner Güney and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do individuals have an economic personality? Is there a model for real-life human economic behavior? Can real-life economic behaviors be predicted? This book identifies the theory of economic personality. Economic personality leads an individual to exhibit predictable behaviors without the need to be rational in cases of uncertainty. So, this book argues that the individual is not rational; what is rational, however, is the systematic repetition of behaviors dictated by people's economic personalities.
Download or read book Death in Banaras written by Jonathan P. Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Hindu death rituals and the sacred specialists who perform them in the Indian city of Banaras.
Download or read book The Cult of Dismembered Limbs written by Gideon Aran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a suicide terrorist strikes in Israel, the usual contingent of first responders that one might see anywhere in the world -- police, medics, firefighters -- are accompanied by another group, one found only in Israel. They wear yarmulkes, white coveralls, rubber gloves, and dayglo yellow vests. These are the men of ZAKA, an Israeli religious organization dedicated to dealing with the mutilated and scorched bodies and the severed limbs of the victims of violent death, mainly those killed by Palestinian terrorism. ZAKA arose, reached its peak, and gained fame during the two waves of suicide terrorism that characterized the intensification of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the last decade of the 20th century and the first five years of the twenty-first century. ZAKA has a few hundred all-male activists, typically volunteers, exclusively Haredi (ultra-orthodox) Jews. Well trained and equipped, they are among the first to arrive at the sites of unnatural death, especially the arenas of mass mortality, where they perform a scrupulous procedure, laden with symbolism. This involves collecting the corpses and body parts, sorting them, identifying them, and reassembling them while diligently preserving respect for the dead and for body parts, and preparing them for burial according to the rigid strictures of Jewish law. Gideon Aran has spent years embedded with the men of ZAKA, and in this gripping ethnography he takes readers inside the organization and on the ground with these men as they do their gruesome -- but, in their view, holy -- work.
Download or read book Urban Aghori Siddhis in the City written by Jahn Hooks and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-17 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is presenting a way to approach living in the grimy city and amongst heavy populations consumed with pollution as a healer, shaman, and alchemist. To joyously and fearlessly serve in the city and use the would be dangers of the city itself as a part of our spiritual practice is the will of the Urban Aghori. Ideas and simple effective practices are shared here that may assist in transforming the apparent mundane into your personal mandala.
Download or read book Love Makes the Dead Alive written by Dinesh Singh and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ominous accident puts Karan, a skeptical boy, in between the Demon and the Divine. A series of mind numbing haunts sets him on a perilous journey to battle an evil power. Vasuki’s tormented soul finds Karan to quash virulent Pishach. Karan sets her soul free, but at a heavy price. He doesn’t know that Fate has unanticipated plans for him.
