Dr. Amelia Hall: Hidden Lands, Tantric Pilgrimage & Agents of Deep Time

Hidden lands, outer and inner meaning

Sacred landscapes, tantric paradise, land to help you wake up

Qualities embedded in the landscapes itself.

Treasure teachings, time traveling

How these hidden lands are chosen, Sa Che, geomancy

Land aiding in sadhana visualization practice

Features of Mechuka landscape that connects with 4 enlightened activities,

Longchenpa, “Spontaneous Song of the Wild Woods”

Diety practice in Buddhist practice, the purpose, how the these hidden land supports them

Liberation in one lifetime through the difficulty of pilgrimage on these lands

Yogi’s understanding a view that is a highly evolved view of reality that many indigenous cultures have.

Her research in the hidden land of Mechuka, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Right relationship as a researcher

Recovery and reclamation with non-human beings and spirits in her own British Isle homeland of fairies, leprechauns, elves

Pragmatic purposes of having right relationship with the land.

Appropriation of indigenous cultures, as a way to fill the longing for relationship with the landscape.

Bhutan and Sikkim as examples of right relationship with land and conversation policy

Sacred places and landscapes that are sacralized by the practice of yogis in the past and the present.

A reading from Jamgön Kongtrül 19th C, on sacred places and pilgrimage, and different levels of seeing the land

The invitation fo more scholar-practitioners