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Bibliography Cakras General Kundalini
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Links, References, Resources
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Crazy
Wisdom. By Wes Scoop Nisker. Berkeley, California, Ten
Speed Press,
1990. 226 pages. ISBN: 0898153506.
Embodiment Training. Developed by
Will Johnson.
Ecstatic
Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook. By Belinda Gore.
Foreword by
Felicitas Goodman. Santa Fe, New Mexico, Bear and Company, 1995.
Endnotes,
284 pages. MGC. ISBN: 1879181223.
Hatha
Yoga: The Hidden Language; Symbols, Secrets and Metaphor. By Swami
Sivananda
Radha. Foreward by B.K.S. Iyengar. Spokane, Washington, Timeless
Books, 1987,
1995. Index, 308 pages. ISBN: 0931454743.
MGC.
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, Volume One. Translated and
annotated by
Garma C.C. Chang. Boston, Shambhala, 1989. Oriental
Studies Foundation 1962,
Shambhala 1977. Pages 1 - 356. ISBN:
0877730954. MGC.
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, Volume Two. Translated and
annotated by
Garma C.C. Chang. Boston, Shambhala, 1989. Oriental
Studies Foundation 1962,
Shambhala 1977. Pages 357-730. Index to
pages 1-730. ISBN: 0877730962. MGC.
International Journal of
Tantric Studies
Kundalini. By Ajat Mookerjee.
The
Practice of Tibetan Meditation: Exercises, Visualizations, and Mantras for
Health
and Well Being. By Dagsay Tulku Rinpoche. Inner Traditions Intl.
Ltd., 2002.
160 pages. ISBN: 0892819030.
Qigong:
Guides, Links, Bibliographies, Quotations, Notes
Shambhala Warriorship: Tibetan
Buddhism, Tantra, Yoga
Tantra Internet Links
By Nick Douglas.
Tantra:
The Path of Ecstasy. By Georg Feuerstein. Boston, Shambhala,
1998. Index,
bibliography, notes, 314 pages. ISBN: 157062304X. MGC. An
excellent introduction
to Tantra - the best starting point for readers.
Tantra Works By Nik
Douglas.
The
Tibetan Book of Yoga. Ancient Buddhist Teachings on the Philosophy and
Practice of
Yoga. By Geshe Michael Roach. New York, Doubleday, Random House,
2003.
114 pages. ISBN: 0385508379. MGC.
Tibetan Buddhism: Shambhala
Warriorship
Traditional Yoga Studies
Manton, California. An informative and
extensive website
with articles, forums, resources, links, and information
about a variety of types of
traditional yoga. The website provides detailed information about
the 800 hour distance
learning course of traditional yoga studies conduced by the noted scholar
and
author, Georg Feuerstein.
Yoga of the Mahamudra: The Mystical Way of Balance. By Will
Johnson. Rochester,
Vermont, Inner Traditions, 2005. 151
pages. ISBN: 0892816996.
Yoga:
The Technology of Ecstasy. By Georg Feuerstein, Pd. D.. Los
Angeles, Jeremy P. Tarcher,
1989. Index, notes, 344 pages. ISBN: 0874775205. MGC.
The
Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosphy and Practice. By
Georg Feuerstein,
Ph.D. Foreword by Ken Wilber. Prescott, Arizona, Hohm Press,
1998. Index, bibliography,
glossary, chronology, 686 pages. ISBN: 0934252831.
MGC.
Kundalini and Cakras
Anatomy
of Hatha Yoga: A Manual for Students, Teachers and Practitioners.
By H. David Coulter. Foreward by Timothy McCall. Honesdale,
Pennsylvania,
Body and Breath, 2001. Index, bibliography, appendices, 623
pages.
ISBN: 0970700601. MGC. 2002 winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award
for
Health, Wellness and Nutrition.
The
Book of Charkra Healing. By Liz Simpson. Foreward by
Teresa Hale. New
York, Sterling Publishing Co., 1999. A Gaia Original. Index,
glossary, bibliography,
143 pages. MGC. ISBN:
0806920971.
Chakras
for Starters. By Savitri Simpson. Nevada City, CA,
Crystal Clarity Publishers.
144 pages. ISBN: 1565891562.
Kundalini: The Energy of the Depths. A Comprehensive Study Based on
the Scriptures
of Nondualistic Kasmir Saivism. By Lilian Silburn. Translated by
Jacques Gontier. New
York, State University of New York Press, 1988. Bibliography, 223
pages.
ISBN: 0887068006.
Kundalini:
The Evolutionary Energy in Man. By Krishna Gopi. Shambhala,
1997.
288 pages. ISBN: 1570622809.
Kundalini
Yoga: The Flow of Eternal Power. A Simple Guide to the Yoga of
Awareness. By
Shakti Parwha Kaur Khalsa. As taught bey Yog Bhanjan, Ph.D.
New York, Perigee Books,
1996. Index, appendix, 321 pages. ISBN:
0399524207. MGC.
Kundalini:
Yoga for the West. By Swami Sivananda Radha. With a foreword by
Herbert V. Guenther. Inroduction by Stanley Krippner. Boulder,
Colorado,
Shambhala, 1981. Index, 357 pages. MGC. ISBN: 0394748840.
Layayoga:
The Definitve Gude to the Chakras and Kundalini. By Shyam Sundar
Goswami.
Rochester, Vermont, Inner Traditions, 1999. Index, glossary, 342
pages. ISBN: 0892817666.
MGC.
Living with Kundalini. By Krishna Gopi. Shambhala, 1993.
401 pages.
ISBN: 0877739471.
Tantric Yoga
Quotations, Sayings, Mantras, Chants
Coming in August 2006.
Tantric Yoga
Principles
Tantra 77Kb. A very informative introduction to the principles of Tantra.
Coming in August 2007.
Tantric Yoga
Notes
"Tantric philosophy also teaches that everything is to be experienced playfully,
yet with awareness and a sense of sacredness in every gesture, every sensory
perception, and every action. The path of Tantra is a spiritual one, which includes
and appreciates the experience of our sexuality and sensuality as a conscious
meditation, as a flowing together of the physical, erotic and cosmic energies.
If you were a devoted student of tantric philosophy, you would go through an
extensive program of physical, sexual and mental exercises to heighten your
sensory awareness."
- Tantric
Philosophy, White Lotus East
"In the Shaivite tradition, the god's companions (kaulas) are described as a troupe of freakish,
adventurous delinquent and wild young people, who prowl in the night, shouting in the storm,
singling, dancing and ceaselessly playing outrageous tricks on sages and gods. They are called
Ganas, the 'vagabonds', corresponding to the Cretan Korybantes and the Celtic Korrigans
(fairies' sons). Like the Sileni and Satyrs, some of them have goat's or bird's feet. The Ganas
mock the rules of ethics and social order. The personify the joy of living, courage and imagination,
which are all youthful values. They live in harmony with nature and oppose the destructive
ambition of the city and the deceitful moralism which both hides and expresses it. These
delinquents of heaven are always there to restore true values and to assist the 'god-mad'
who are persecuted and mocked by the powerful. They personify everything which is feared
by and displeases bourgeois society and which is contrary to the good morale of a well-policed
city and its palliative concepts.'
- Shri Alain Daniélou, Shiva and Dionysus (reprinted as Gods of Love and
Ecstasy), p. 99
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