Transpersonal Philosophy

  Following Patanjali we have said that Yoga is samadhi. And that the Yoga of Knowledge, the Ñana (Gnana or Jnana) Yoga, would then be “being the Consciousness of Samadhi”, which is a Consciousness of Bliss (Chidananda Rupa). Let's focus our Buddhi mind on samadhi for a moment. Sankaracharia, one of the great teachers of Hindu Advaita Vedanta, speaks of two types of samadhi: savikalpa (subject to differentiation) and nirvikalpa (not subject to differentiation). Savikalpa samadhi is the conscious state of “mind of Bliss” in which the Subject and the objects of knowledge maintain their own identity and difference from one another. With an example. Suppose you contemplate a rose and its beauty intoxicates you so much that your Soul transforms its configuration and you enter a state of absorption in Beauty. In this state of samadhi, you are intermingled with the rose, but the different identities of the rose and you are maintained. As Sankaracharia says, in this stat...

  Siguiendo a Patanjali hemos dicho que Yoga es samadhi. Y que el Yoga del Conocimiento, el Ñana Yoga, sería entonces “estar siendo la Conciencia de Samadhi”, que es una Conciencia de Bienaventuranza (Chidananda Rupa). Enfoquemos nuestra mente Buddhi sobre el samadhi por un instante. Sankaracharia, uno de los grandes maestros del Advaita Vedanta hindú, habla de dos tipos de samadhi: savikalpa (sujeto a diferenciación) y nirvikalpa (no sujeto a diferenciación). Savikalpa samadhi es el estado anímico consciente de Bienaventuranza en el que el Sujeto y los objetos de conocimiento mantienen identidad propia y diferencia de unos con respecto a otros. Con un ejemplo. Supongamos que contemplas una rosa y te embriaga tanto su belleza que tu Alma transforma su configuración y entras en un estado de absorción en la Belleza. En este estado de samadhi, tú te encuentras entremezclada con la rosa, pero se mantienen las identidades diferentes de la rosa y tú. Como dice Sankar...

  M usic is not just sound, in fact, sound is not really the foundation of music . Can a ballerina dance without sound? Of course, and it's still a musical experience. According to Leibniz , music is a n experience of the soul in relation to the order of time, performed by counting, albeit an unconscious counting process . Can we count unconsciously? Leibniz seems to suggest that arithmetic, or more precisely, the action of counting natural numbers, i s a fundamental mental process that occur s out of the focus of our attention. Therefore, unconscious counting , or better, our experience of the unfolding of order and harmony in the course of time, would be a full liminal action. It is an action in the limit, sub-limen action, and sublime action. It happens in the threshold of conscious formation, and therefore with a transforming potential for individual identity as no other art form has. There is a basic intuition of the experience of time that music and mat...

  Existence is Encounter. Meeting at the limen. In the limen, the masks disappear, that is, the basic intuitions of identities, such as the identity that I feel and think in relation to the tree that I see in front of me. The identity of the tree is a projection of mine: the unity of my process of perceiving the tree generates a mask in me, the ghost of a limited unity separated from everything else. The simplest form of intuitive understanding of masks and limen is given to us by numbers. Numbers intuitively express the liminal tension that is Existence. A little etymological note. Rythmos in Greek means flow. Arythmos (number) is what does not flow, what remains solidified. Numbers express the liminoid, and flow, rhythm, expresses the liminal. A rhythm becomes liminoid when we can trace patterns in it, that is, when we can construct masks of identities. Mathematics has spoken of flow using the Latin word “continuum”, the continuous. All modern science, since Leibni...

  La Existencia es Encuentro. Encuentro en el limen. En el limen, desaparecen las máscaras, es decir, las intuiciones básicas de identidades, como la identidad que siento y pienso en relación al árbol que veo frente a mi. La identidad del árbol es proyección de la mía: la unidad de mi proceso de percepción del árbol genera una máscara en mí, el fantasma de una unidad limitada separada de todo lo demás. La forma más simple de comprensión intuitiva de las máscaras y el limen nos la dan los números. Los números expresan de manera intuitiva la tensión liminal que es la Existencia. Una pequeña nota etimológica. Rythmos en griego queire decir flujo. Arythmos (número), es lo que no fluye, lo que se queda solidificado. Los números expresan lo liminoide, por su parte, el flujo, el ritmo, expresa lo liminal. Un ritmo se vuelve liminoide cuando podemos trazar patrones en él, es decir, cuando podemos construir máscaras de identidades. La matemática ha hablado del flujo utilizand...

  Open door, threshold, the limen is what is in between, neither one thing nor the other, the place of fuzzy psychological identities. We continually cross thresholds in our life experience: when we go to sleep and when we wake up, in interpersonal relationships and in our jobs. Some of these thresholds, especially those related to transitions from one period of life to another (from childhood to adolescence, from adolescence to early maturity, etc.) have a special psychological intensity, these are moments of profound transformation that occur to us spontaneously, and do not depend on our conscious desire to change. We find ourselves in full change, driven by the volition that directs our physical and physiological organism, and we then realize that the change is happening to us, and we think that it is an egoic act, the one directing it, we think that it is my will to personal power the one who wants the change, but that is a reactive thought, an af...

  Liminality. Liminal : Adjective for social and individual actions or processes with fuzzy principles of identity. Something is liminal when is neither this nor that. If a social action is liminal it is dangerous and unstable. It is stabilised in the process of its repetition, in its incorporation into rituals and social dramas, becoming liminoid by this repetition. A liminoid action, has traits of the liminal action but it has been deprived of the dangerous and unstable components. The purpose or final cause of a Community is to maintain its homeostasis, its equilibrium in self-development, and it does it through those social actions (economic or narrative) that transform liminal social actions into liminoid actions. Those actions incorporate the unfamiliar into the familiar, the danger of existence into the safety of social values. It is done by religion, by science, by art, but also by the safe repetition of the scenarios of everyday life. Liminal Times: ...