Karey Pohn
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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The Magic of Maya
Just what is maya? Maya is a Sanskrit word meaning the divine power of illusion, the principle of appearance, the marvelous power of creatio
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