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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
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Eli Franco, Dagmar Eigner

Preliminaries

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Eli Franco, Dagmar Eigner

Contents

V

Eli Franco

Introduction

1

Lawrence McCrea

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

53

John Taber

Yoga and our Epistemic Predicament

71

Eli Franco

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

93

Anne MacDonald

Knowing Nothing: Candrakīrti and Yogic Perception

133

Vincent Eltschinger

On the Career and the Cognition of Yogins

169

Dorji Wangchuk

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

215

Orna Almogi

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

241

Philipp André Maas

The So-called Yoga of Suppression in the Pātañjala Yogaśāstra

263

Marcus Schmücker

Yogic Perception According to the Later Tradition of the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta

283

Marion Rastelli

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

299

Karl Baier

Meditation and Contemplation in High to Late Medieval Europe

319

Diana Riboli

Shamans and Transformation in Nepal and Peninsular Malaysia

347

Dagmar Eigner

Transformation of Consciousness through Suffering, Devotion, and Meditation

369

John R. Baker

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

389

Shulamith Kreitler

Altered States of Consciousness as Structural Variations of the Cognitive System

407

Renaud van Quekelberghe

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

435

Michael DelMonte

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

449

Eli Franco, Dagmar Eigner

Contributors

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