The Upanishads represent a foundation for Indian philosophies. Using complex linguistic devices such as puzzles, paradoxes, metaphors, dramatic personae and word-play, they force an engagement of consciousness. The Isha Upanishad is among the most concise and complex of Upanishads, and one of the most diversely interpreted. Sri Aurobindo wrote a commentary on this Upanishad, seeing it as embodying a problem of becoming, the attainment of a consciousness in which unity and multiplicity are identical and do not erase each other.
From the days of the first shamans, through Homer, Dante, the traditional ballads, Rumi, Blake, Emily Dickinson and Lew Welch, poetry has been rooted in metaphysics. In What Poets Used To Know: Poetics, Mythopoesis, Metaphysics, Charles Upton presents poetry both as a set of contemplative techniques and as a key to the accumulated lore hoard of the human race. This book does what it can to restore poetry to its original theurgic function: the concentrated expression of human and spiritual truth.
Imagination has been marginalized – depicted as a way of escaping reality, rather than coming to grips with it. This insightful and inspiring book argues that, for the sake of the future of our world, we must redress the balance. Ranging from the teachings of ancient mystics to the latest developments in neuroscience, The Lost Knowledge of the Imagination introduces a philosophy and tradition that restores imagination to its rightful place, and argues that it is not only essential to our knowing reality to the full, but to our very humanity itself.
This 820 page book details the academic research findings of the world’s first comprehensive multi-language quantitative and qualitative five-year academic research study on individuals that have had UFO related contact with Non Human Intelligence (NHI).
Controlled Remote Viewing, or CRV, is an easy set of written protocols designed to help you distinguish true intuitive perceptions from mere imagination. Sitting at a table with paper and pen, you are free to explore the far reaches of time and space. This first book in the series will teach you the basics of the first phase of the CRV process, and show you how to use this information in practical ways in your own life.
