For the Divine Mother of the Universe (Remixed and Reissued)
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Jan 1, 2025
This discussion delves into the goddess's profound essence beyond modern interpretations. It highlights a thrilling motorcycle journey through India's landscapes, interwoven with transformative encounters that connect the divine with the natural world. The narrative explores the goddess's role in creativity and ritual, emphasizing the ecstatic experiences tied to her awakening. Themes of surrender, duality, and the interplay of beauty and terror bring listeners closer to understanding her omnipresence and significance in everyday life.
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The Goddess Beckons
Josh recalls a pivotal experience in India where a young girl led him to a goddess temple.
There he witnessed trance possession and felt a powerful, tangible animacy that changed his life.
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Goddess as Nature
The goddess is not a concept but a living force embedded in the land, expressed through nature.
She's a shapeshifter, mistress of animal powers, inseparable from the natural world.
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The Goddess's Fallen Body
The goddess's body is a sacred geography linked to places across India.
Her dismembered body parts formed sacred sites like Chamundi Devi and Ambaji.
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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower..
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower..
Dylan Thomas
While technically a poem, "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" by Dylan Thomas is often anthologized in collections of his work, making it a valid inclusion. The poem is a powerful and evocative exploration of the cyclical nature of life and death, using vivid imagery and intense emotion. It speaks to the interconnectedness of all living things and the relentless force of nature. The poem's themes of mortality and the power of nature resonate deeply with readers, making it a significant work in Thomas's oeuvre. Its inclusion in this context highlights the poem's connection to the themes of animacy and the cyclical nature of life and death discussed in the podcast.
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Christopher Wallace
Samaya
Samaya
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Trevor Hall
Mantana
Mantana
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Rava Tantra
Malini Stava
Malini Stava
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Mark Dyskowski
Mother of the Universe
Mother of the Universe
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Lex Hickson
Devatma Shakti
Devatma Shakti
Swami Vishnu Teertha Jee
Kshema Raja's Commentary on the Netra Tantra
Kshema Raja's Commentary on the Netra Tantra
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Kshema Raja
The Yoga of the Netra Tantra
The Yoga of the Netra Tantra
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Bettina Balmer
Offering flowers, feeding skulls
June McDaniel
Vicissitudes of the Goddess
Vicissitudes of the Goddess
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Sri Padma
The Goddess Within and Beyond the Three Cities
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Jeffrey Lidke
The Tantric Body
Gavin Flood
Gavin Flood's "The Tantric Body" delves into the rich history and practices of Tantrism in India. It explores the diverse range of Tantric traditions, highlighting their emphasis on ritual, meditation, and the transformation of consciousness. The book examines the role of the body in Tantric practices, including the use of energy channels and subtle energies. It also discusses the relationship between Tantrism and other Indian religious traditions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Flood's work provides a comprehensive overview of Tantrism, shedding light on its complex and multifaceted nature.
The Possessed
Sometimes also known as 'The Devils' or 'Demons'
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Possessed is a social and political satire, a psychological drama, and a large-scale tragedy. It tells the story of a provincial Russian town taken over by political revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky, who orchestrates a series of violent and chaotic events. The novel centers around the enigmatic and morally complex figure of Nikolai Stavrogin, whose influence over the other characters is profound. The story involves themes of nihilism, revolutionary ideology, and the destructive consequences of these movements on society. It is loosely based on real events, including the murder of a student by Sergey Nechayev’s group in 1869, and reflects Dostoevsky's critique of liberal and nihilist views prevalent in Russia during that time[2][4][5].
There’s a lot of cultural clutter these days around 'The Goddess.' She appears everywhere, her many names are invoked free of context in a hundred thousand ways. She’s what? An empowerment tool. An archetype. A self-help course. A political symbol. Something that is invoked to bring more creative energy or material abundance into our lives. Something that, in an individualistic modern world, always seems to have a whole lot to do with us. Yet the goddess, traditionally, is much more than this. She is the animating power of the universe itself, felt in bodies, realized in states of deep conjunctive rapture, accessed through ritual protocols, alive in trees and stones and living geography, alive in song, alive in the myths and stories of her, alive in sound, alive in longing, alive in trance, alive in the states of consciousness realized by those who feel her. This devotional episode honors the goddess as the animating power of creation, drawing on her texts, her myths, her songs, and on personal experiences of journey to her sacred seats to evoke her as a living presence rather than as a conceptual abstraction. With songs and slokas from special guest Nivedita Gunturi.
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