Archive of Mystical Experiences

Buddhism provides many tools to aid the practitioner negotiating the relationship between self and world. The Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition of Tantra emphasizes the power of ritual to make such connections in the process of advancing toward enlightenment...

Originally distributed as a free pamphlet, Be Here Now (1971) went on to sell over two million copies and become a countercultural spiritual classic.[ 1] Illustrated with mandalas, labyrinths, serpents, and bodhisattvas, the book describes the author’s...

Gopi Krishna (1903–1984) was a South Asian author who gained international recognition in 1967 with his book Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man. This was Krishna’s second book out of a total of seventeen, all of which stemmed from an extraordinary...

This entry explores the Sanskrit term ahiṃsā , meaning the absence of any intent to cause harm. It finds its earliest expression in the classical literature of the Hindu tradition, including the Vedas, the Upaniṣads, the Mahābhārata , the Bhagavad Gītā...

Since his death in 1900, Friedrich Nietzsche has become one of the most influential, most cited, and most mythologized figures in the Western philosophical tradition. Nietzsche was born in Röcken, in modern-day Saxon-Anhalt, in 1844. His father and...

The dream is visible to the man who is worth five hundred medimni , and equally to the possessor of three hundred, to the teamster no less than to the peasant who tills the boundary land for a livelihood, to the galley slave and the common laborer alike...