{"id":5032,"date":"2018-08-14T23:50:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2018-08-14T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T21:50:09","slug":"luminality-to-be-used-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/?p=5032","title":{"rendered":"Luminality, to be used later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5034\" src=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/65d59cb20f654d04e1abb8220ba37f16_original.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/65d59cb20f654d04e1abb8220ba37f16_original.jpg 680w, https:\/\/hansvandergugten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/65d59cb20f654d04e1abb8220ba37f16_original-300x102.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>Hi Foetsie,<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I saw a post of I.S. on facebook and as my habit is I searched for the source of that quote and from there I came, clickertheclackwiththemouseetcetera, at a wikipage that was of interest to me.<br \/>\nIt added a consept to something that I already for long want to write about later.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the reconstruction of the search and find operation.<br \/>\nIsaac posted this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"j_1d57ijfmga y_1d57ijc8_5 clearfix\">\n<div class=\"clearfix y_1d57ijfnhp\">\n<div class=\"_38vo\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_s0 _4ooo _5xib _5sq7 _44ma _rw img\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-1\/p100x100\/12279163_10153324431817449_208954681348755693_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&amp;oh=125f51eac5ec095e01a616290dce9eb1&amp;oe=5C087064\" alt=\"\" aria-label=\"Isaac Shapiro\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix _42ef\">\n<div class=\"rfloat _ohf\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"u_1d57ijfnhq\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"_6a _5u5j\">\n<div class=\"_6a _6b\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_6a _5u5j _6b\">\n<h5 id=\"js_dde\" class=\"_14f3 _14f5 _5pbw _5vra\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;C&quot;}\"><span class=\"fwn fcg\"><span class=\"fwb fcg\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;;&quot;}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/isaac.shapiro.9?hc_ref=ARQH59eVk1lx3Wo0wF6925RCZr_ZjRbjWYt3YwODxgZmvuSCaf46w66X5pLM1gpwoJQ&amp;fref=nf\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=521637448&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22hc_ref%22%3A%22ARQH59eVk1lx3Wo0wF6925RCZr_ZjRbjWYt3YwODxgZmvuSCaf46w66X5pLM1gpwoJQ%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22nf%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\" data-hovercard-referer=\"ARQH59eVk1lx3Wo0wF6925RCZr_ZjRbjWYt3YwODxgZmvuSCaf46w66X5pLM1gpwoJQ\">Isaac Shapiro<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n<div id=\"feed_subtitle_521637448:-8034654366042399520\" class=\"_5pcp _5lel _2jyu _232_\">\n<p><span class=\"fsm fwn fcg\"><a class=\"_5pcq\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/isaac.shapiro.9\/posts\/10155919110727449\" target=\"\"><abbr class=\"_5ptz\" title=\"08\/13\/2018 8:46am\" data-utime=\"1534175205\" data-shorten=\"1\"><span id=\"js_ddf\" class=\"timestampContent\">Yesterday at 8:46 AM<\/span><\/abbr><\/a><\/span><span role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"_6a _29ee _4f-9 _43_1\" role=\"img\" data-hover=\"tooltip\" data-tooltip-content=\"Shared with: Public\" aria-label=\"Shared with: Public\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"js_ddg\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3ds9 _3576\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<div id=\"id_5b72ed643a93f6360668569\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p>Toss aside your map of the world,<br \/>\nAll your beliefs and constructs.<br \/>\nDare the wild unknown.<br \/>\nHere in this terrifying freedom,<br \/>\nNaked before the universe,<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nCommune with the One<br \/>\nWho knows everything from the inside:<br \/>\nInvisible power pervading everywhere.<br \/>\nDivine Presence permeating everything.<br \/>\nBreathe tenderly as<br \/>\nThe lover of all beings.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>~ Vijnana Bhairava Tantra<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is often the responses, the remarks and questions, that spark my curiosity in action.<br \/>\nThis time one of the questions asked was &#8220;isaac do you know anyone who has lived and teaches the bhairava Tantra? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That raised the question if this was not just a cherry picked text from some larger body of wise antique texts, but was maybe referring to a practice of some kind.<\/p>\n<p>So, I googled for<br \/>\n&#8216;Toss aside your map of the world,All your beliefs and constructs.Dare the wild unknown.&#8217;<br \/>\nSo, it became right away clear that the quote is taken from a text on which we have this wiki: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vij\u00f1\u0101na_Bhairava_Tantra\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vij\u00f1\u0101na_Bhairava_Tantra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now I look it up again and clicked through on the title of the pdf that I saw yesterday, suddenly there is a new name in the title of the pdf: Sanskrit Literature, Hinduism texts, Dharma Texts, Vedic literature, Hinduism Scriptures, Shaivism, Shiv Puja, &#8216;Vigyana Bhairava Radiance Sutras 112 Gateways to the Yoga Wonder Delight, Lorin Roche.pdf&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Yoga? Wonder? Delight? Lorin Roche?<br \/>\nGoogle for Lorin Roche and right away you land in the New Age.<br \/>\nWith in the upper hits a link to a video: &#8220;The Radiance Sutras With Lorin Roche &amp; Deepak Chopra, MD&#8221;<br \/>\nZucht. (Sigh).<\/p>\n<p>Another, more interesting thing that I found yesterday, was while I was quickly scanning this above mentioned wiki page, a sentence with a for me new consept that drew my attention.<br \/>\nIt is the line &#8220;Vijnanabhairava or Techniques for Entering Liminal Consciousness by Dmitri Semenov<sup id=\"cite_ref-16\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vij%C3%B1%C4%81na_Bhairava_Tantra#cite_note-16\">[16]<\/a><\/sup>&#8221; on this wiki page:<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vij\u00f1\u0101na_Bhairava_Tantra\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vij\u00f1\u0101na_Bhairava_Tantra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I look at it again I read that the text is introduced as follows:<br \/>\nQUOTE<br \/>\nThe\u00a0<i><b>Vij\u00f1\u0101na Bhairava Tantra<\/b><\/i>\u00a0(sometimes spelled in a Hindicised way as\u00a0<i>Vigyan Bhairav Tantra<\/i>) is a key\u00a0<a title=\"Tantra\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tantra\">Tantra<\/a>\u00a0text of the\u00a0<a title=\"Trika\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trika\">Trika<\/a>\u00a0school of\u00a0<a title=\"Kashmir Shaivism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kashmir_Shaivism\">Kashmir Shaivism<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a title=\"Sanskrit\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sanskrit\">Sanskrit<\/a>\u00a0language. Cast as a discourse between the god\u00a0<a title=\"Bhairava\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhairava\">Bhairava<\/a>\u00a0and his consort\u00a0<a title=\"Bhairavi\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhairavi\">Bhairavi<\/a>, it briefly presents 112 Tantric meditation methods or centering techniques (<i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Dharana\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dharana\">dharana<\/a><\/i>).<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vij%C3%B1%C4%81na_Bhairava_Tantra#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0These include several variants of\u00a0<a title=\"Anapanasati\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anapanasati\">breath awareness<\/a>, concentration on various centers in the body,\u00a0<a title=\"Nondualism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nondualism\">non-dual awareness<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Japa\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japa\">Mantra chanting<\/a>, imagination and visualization and contemplation through each of the senses.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vij%C3%B1%C4%81na_Bhairava_Tantra#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0A prerequisite to success in any of the 112 practices is a clear understanding of which method is most suitable to the practitioner.<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vij%C3%B1%C4%81na_Bhairava_Tantra#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><br \/>\nUNQUOTE<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight this is what I might have meant with cherry picked: this long text is about a lot of action and this one above quoted text is posted from an atmosphere where a adagium is that you don&#8217;t have to do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Back to my what caught my attention: Liminal Consciousness.<br \/>\nGoogle delivers right away this: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liminality\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liminality<\/a><br \/>\nAnd I know that I found something that will be of use in a yet to write story.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile take a hike on the just discovered Liminal Highway.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophercerrone.com\/liminal-highway\/\">http:\/\/www.christophercerrone.com\/liminal-highway\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, on my search for a good picture to start this blog I stumble upon this website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@davegray\/the-roots-of-liminal-thinking-3be4bea6fd63\">https:\/\/medium.com\/@davegray\/the-roots-of-liminal-thinking-3be4bea6fd63<\/a><br \/>\nSo here it is and I&#8217;ll find another image to start with.<\/p>\n<p>And because I have been lectured on copyright and theft recently, her is the website where I just found the luminity banner: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1750418996\/liminality-an-immersive-dance-dome-film\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1750418996\/liminality-an-immersive-dance-dome-film<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Foetsie, Yesterday I saw a post of I.S. on facebook and as my habit is I searched for the source of that quote and from there I came, clickertheclackwiththemouseetcetera, at a wikipage that was of interest to me. 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