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Different Perspectives on the Yogic Body: Kundalini’s Thousand Guises
A workshop by Dr. hab. Bernd-Christian Otto, Permanent Fellow, CAS-E, and Dr. Monika Hirmer, Postdoc Research Coordinator, CAS-E In this…
Different Perspectives on the Yogic Body: Kundalini's Thousand Guises
A workshop by Dr. hab. Bernd-Christian Otto, Permanent Fellow, CAS-E, and Dr. Monika Hirmer, Postdoc Research Coordinator, CAS-E Poster_Kundalini_WSDownload
Interstices - Center for Transversal Thinking
For two consecutive semesters a number of CAS-E team members, and visiting and permanent fellows were invited to participate in…
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- by Farish A. Noor On May 2, 2023 I gave a lecture entitled ‘The Uses of Magic,” in which I looked at the works of the British colonial-era scholar Walter William...
- by Knut Graw At the end of a long and intricate divination session in a small, secluded room located against the back wall of a larger family compound in Serekunda, one...
- by Keith Edward Cantú I remember the first time walking up to Sri Sabapathy Lingeshwarar Koil, the temple of Sabapathy as Lord of the Lingam (Sanskrit: Śivaliṅga), or phallic stone that...
- By Flaminia Pischedda Imagine stumbling upon a collection of ancient texts hidden from the world for centuries, only to be surrounded by controversy upon their discovery. This is the essence of...
- By Kelly E. Hayes In May 2023, King Charles III was crowned with all the pomp and circumstance that the shrunken British Empire can still muster in the way of symbolic...
- by Dendup Chophel As an anthropologist studying my own country while being situated, enriched, and limited by the structures and discourses of Western academia in various countries around the world, I...
- By Anna Ozhiganova A variety of esoteric practices around the world aim at spiritual self-transformation and unlocking a person’s hidden or supernatural abilities. In contrast, practices that target infants or even...
- By Aleksandrs Simons My research and deep interest into the religion of the Yi minority in China started in the spring of 2014, simply after reading a single word “Bimoism”when deciding...
- By Michael Lackner The term “esoteric” has no real equivalent in Chinese. For “esoteric Buddhism” and Tantrism, the term mijiao 密教, roughly: “secret doctrine” has become common. Outside of the Buddhist...
- By Bernd-Christian Otto I see the traces of my dance on the soil before me, as if my feet have painted a brownish lane across the grassland. The ‘tree of life’...
