Home Services Sitemap. Best Epub - by Zeke Feinberg. D, Albert J. Of America. Swezey;Annette Swezey. Improve your credit today! Full collections - by Arnold S. Wolfelt PhD. What s Your Super Power? Best Epub - by Lisa A. Eydi Bauer. Max Wideman. Best Epub - by Robert H. Goodman describes the source of the visions experienced in the trance to be the alternate reality, stating that the body is tuned to the posture in the trance in such a way that we are enabled to experience, to perceive a certain part or aspect of the other dimension.
Nauwald believes the Hatha yoga asanas also have their roots in the ritual body postures of shamanic cultures. Maxwell describes the Tantras, meaning woven threads, as an integral part of meditation rituals which have been developed to harness the powers needed to achieve enlightenment in a single lifetime. Metzner argues that for millennia it was, and still is, the concern of Indian yoga methods to extract oneself from the subtle web of illusion maya spun by sense experience.
Dhyansky 91 describes the origins of Yoga as a practice to have begun over five thousand years ago in the Indus Valley, which is based on the discovery of over steatite seals depicting human figures in very specific postures, often with horned headdress and animals, including elephants, bulls, tigers and most commonly snakes. Dhyansky argues the snake represents the kundalini, which is believed to be very powerful and lies blocking the entrance of the nade or energy channels until it is awakened and removed.
The following passage from the Hathayogaprakipika , IV, pp. Then the prana flows in the susumna and the mind is absorbed in the void; the knower of Yoga uproots all objects.
Later images in South Asian dance, art and religious liturgy depict geometrical designs, or yantras, for the transformation of visual sense experience, mantras for the transformation of auditory sense experience, and mudras for the transformation of bodily experience through the channelling of energies by means of special postures and gestures Metzner, Reedy states the mudras are used extensively in Buddhism to help practitioners in their quest for enlightenment, with the art communicating complex metaphysical and practical ideas Reedy, Although able to identify structural patterns in the mudra markings in art, Reedy concedes that specific information communicated by a set of mudras is impossible to obtain from textual or oral sources and that exact meanings of iconographic components are unknown Reedy, Given the similar iconographic images described in the yoga traditions to postures revealed in other ancient art work, perhaps a key to unlocking the meaning of these postures could be the use of techniques as utilised by Goodman and her associates in their work with other sacred postures.
The obvious difference between the postures described by Goodman and those elicited in yoga practices is the binary of outside and inside, for Goodman the ecstatic trance perception is of going out, of leaving the body and journeying beyond the self whereas the yogic trance, emphasises the control of the mind and body allowing for an interpretation of the inner body. Both forms of spiritual practice facilitate the breaking down of perceptual boundaries in which altered states of consciousness allow for contact with the alternate, the sacred reality.
Cowan argues that just as the Buddhist practice of yoga is not contained to the Far East, shamanic practice is not bound to any particular culture, continent or century. Cowan uses the analogy of Buddhism as an example of how resilience is inherent within the universal message of Buddhism allowing for other cultural expressions of its practices.
Cowan believes that for all the exotic and mysterious phenomena associated with shamanism the experience is simple, timeless and universal. This introduction to ritual postures includes descriptions of 39 postures with historical information and research with numerous participants to determine the nature of the experience the posture tends to mediate.
With introduction by Dr. Felicitas Goodman. The Spanish language translation, Posturas Corporales Extaticas, is available in Chile posturasances-traleschile gmail.
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