Karey Pohn
Inquiring Minds Want to Know:Is it Just One Big Divine Oops?
Just what is the nature of this play? Did the Divine know what it was doing? Could this all be one horrible mistake? As we have just seen a
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Karey Pohn
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Mechanics of Trance-Endence? — To Find a Way Out!
In the “Haunted Mansion” at Disneyland, after entering you are shown into a room, and then the walls close, and as the room begins to lower
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Getting Involved
It's very involved, actually, and literally. As we have seen, according to Hindu philosophy, the phenomenal world, which we take to be real
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Maya At The Movies
As participators in the creative, transformative power of the imagination, we make our own illusory reality, "mini-maya" through visual arts
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Artful Universe?
The gods, as previously mentioned, are seen as artists and the universe is the creation of their imagination, so in addition to being a divi
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"Oy Veil"—Help I’ve fallen and I Can’t Get Up!
Later Indian philosophers, however, had a different view of maya, and they often used the term maya to convey “the mind’s pernicious and mis
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Cosmic Hide and Seek—We’re It!
Zimmer gives an example from the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, which speaks to the playful nature of the Goddess’s maya and why she lets so
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Roots of Maya
While we are on the subject of the poetic basis of consciousness, language springs from this as well, and thus belongs in this way to the Di
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Presto-Chango—Cosmic Illusion and Confusion
Hindu mythology is sometimes confusing, because the Divine has many aliases reflecting different aspects of itself. Everything is a manifes
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Dueling Dualities in Doubt
Considering opposites is itself often oppositional. The monotheistic religions have definite value judgments attached good/evil, right/wron
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