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Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciouness

Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 794. Band

Yogic Perception, Meditation and Altered States of Consciouness

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-6648-1
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-6719-8
Subject AreaAsian Studies
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Eli Franco - Dagmar Eigner

Preliminaries

page I

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Contents

page V

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Introduction

page 1

Lawrence McCrea

“Just Like Us, Just Like Now”: The Tactical Implications of the Mīmāṃsā Rejection of Yogic Perception

page 53

John Taber

Yoga and our Epistemic Predicament

page 71

Eli Franco

Meditation and Metaphysics: On their Mutual Relationship in South Asian Buddhism

page 93

Anne MacDonald

Knowing Nothing: Candrakīrti and Yogic Perception

page 133

Vincent Eltschinger

On the Career and the Cognition of Yogins

page 169

Dorji Wangchuk

A Relativity Theory of the Purity and Validity of Perception in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism

page 215

Orna Almogi

The Materiality and Immanence of Gnosis in Some rNying-ma Tantric Sources

page 241

Philipp André Maas

The So-called Yoga of Suppression in the Pātañjala Yogaśāstra

page 263

Marcus Schmücker

Yogic Perception According to the Later Tradition of the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

page 283

Marion Rastelli

Perceiving God and Becoming Like Him: Yogic Perception and Its Implications in the Viṣṇuitic Tradition of Pāñcarātra

page 299

Karl Baier

Meditation and Contemplation in High to Late Medieval Europe

page 319

Diana Riboli

Shamans and Transformation in Nepal and Peninsular Malaysia

page 347

Dagmar Eigner

Transformation of Consciousness through Suffering, Devotion, and Meditation

page 369

John R. Baker

Psychedelics, Culture, and Consciousness: Insights from the Biocultural Perspective

page 389

Shulamith Kreitler

Altered States of Consciousness as Structural Variations of the Cognitive System

page 407

Renaud van Quekelberghe

Mindfulness and Psychotherapy: The Revival of Indian Meditative Traditions within Modern Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Medicine

page 435

Michael DelMonte

Empty Thy Mind and Come to Thy Senses: A De-constructive Path to Inner Peace

page 449

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Contributors

page 481