| The new Spanda Karikas Contributor(s): Wilberg, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1463741006 ISBN-13: 9781463741006 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $13.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Religious |
| Physical Information: 0.19" H x 5.24" W x 7.99" (0.23 lbs) 90 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The New Spanda Karikas are not a work of academic scholarship but a result of meditation in the form of an original metaphysical treatise on Spanda. They 'approach anew' (abhi-nava) the whole notion of Spanda - showing its relation to the nature of consciousness, space and time, using it to challenge the foundations of quantum physics and the much distorted concept of 'energy' - whose roots lie not in Indian but in Greek thought. As a result, these new karikas are also able to offers a radically new understanding of the nature of 'matter', the modern scientific 'mystery' of so-called 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' and - last but not least - to the true essence of music. Spanda is understood for the first time as primordial creative tension between a dark and inexhaustible womb of unmanifest potentialities of awareness or 'non-being' - symbolised by the blackness of the great goddess Kali - and the realm of actuality or 'being' illuminated by the invisible light of awareness identical with the great god Shiva. Through a primordial awareness of the realm of potentiality, the autonomous powers of actualisation or Shaktis latent within it are released - giving rise to a constant process of creative manifestation of all possible actualities and all possible consciousnesses or 'beings'. |