Words of Power: Mapping Primal Reality; Further Notes On A User's Guide to Human Incarnation (Part IV: Vijnanabhairava, the Body Electric & the Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch - Cover of Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych

Hieronymus Bosch - Garden of Earthly Delights

This is the fourth in a series of seven monthly talks I am giving at the San Francisco Lodge of the Theosophical Society. The series includes talks on the four great texts of Kashmir Saivism (i.e., Shiva Sutras, Pratyabhijina Hridayam, Spandakarikas and Vijnanabhairava) as well as other aspects of Yoga, Buddha Dharma and Shamanism.

This fourth presentation focuses on teachings from the Vijnanabhairava, and references Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights; it also includes a review of the three prior talks in the series.

You will find a link to the first three talks in the series listed below, under "Related Talks."

The next talk, Part V, will be given in February 2013.

Listen ...

-- Richard Power

Related Talks

Mapping Primal Reality; Further Notes On A User's Guide to Human Incarnation (Part III: Spandakarikas, Secret Doctrine & Human Significance of Skin)

Mapping Primal Reality; Further Notes On A User's Guide to Human Incarnation (Part II: Pratyabhijinahrdayam, Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle & Jung's Process of Individuation)

Mapping Primal Reality: Further Notes for A User's Guide to Human Incarnation (Part I, Siva Sutras, Maslow's Hierarchy of Basic Human Needs, October 2012

A User's Guide to Human Incarnation (Part III, October 2010

A User's Guide to Human Incarnation (Part II, September 2010)

A User's Guide to Human Incarnation (Part I, August 2010)

About Richard Power

Richard Power is a writer, speaker and yoga teacher. He offers workshops, classes and private instruction in yoga and meditation. He is the author of 14 books, most important are Wyrds of Power: New Languagee for A New Reality (2017), I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans (2018), and Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution (2021). For more information on all of Power's other books, visit his author's page on Amazon.com.

For much of his life, Power worked in the fields of security and intelligence. He delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and was an adviser to governments and corporations. His views have been featured in interviews on CNN, PBS, NPR and the BBC, and quoted in mainstream news media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press.

This blog explores new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Kashmir Shiva-Sakti philosophy, Hatha and Tantra Yoga, the Shamanic path, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage. It also offers commentary on art, music, literature, human rights, sustainability, independent journalism, economic justice and the Climate Crisis.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Mapping Primal Reality; Further Notes On A User's Guide to Human Incarnation (Part IV: Vijnanabhairava, the Body Electric & the Garden of Earthly Delights