In these interviews, Burroughs tells the gripping story of his drug addiction and cure, and voices his often barbed views on youth, sex, drugs, writing, politics, revolution, the family, silence, organ therapy, money, and prayer.

The author reveals his passionate experiences with a female Tantric master who taught him the suppressed practices of her ancient order.
In 1968 Daniel Odier left Europe for the Himalayas, searching for a master who could help him go where texts and intellectual searching could no longer take him. He wanted everything: the wisdom and spirituality gained from the life of an ascetic and the beauty, love, and sensuality of a life of passion. He found both in Shivaic Tantrism, the secret spiritual path that seeks to transcend ego and rediscover the divine by embracing the passions. In an...

- Explains how the primal energy generated by physical desire can be used to achieve enlightenment

- Reveals the techniques used by Tantric adepts to attain mastery over breath, thought, and all physical processes

Nothing can match the explosive energy created in the body by pure desire. For millennia, Tantric adepts have harnessed this force as a means of attaining the summits of the mystical life. The energies fueled by passion are used to nourish the inner flame that burns away the egotistical perception of the mind.

Desire explores the subtle techniques of Tantra that...

Translation and commentary of one of the most important texts of the Kashmirian Shivaism tradition of Tantra

- Author was a student of the late Kalu Rinpoche

- Explores the transmission of Mahamudra, the Great Cosmic Gesture

- Includes the Vijnanabhairava Tantra, which contains the totality of the oldest source text on Yoga

The Spandakarika, the "Tantric Song of the Divine Pulsation," is said to have been transmitted directly to the sage Vasugupta from the hands of Shiva on Mount Kailas. In his commentary on these fifty-two stanzas, the sage Ksemaraja described them as the...

Der tantrische Weg ist in seiner innersten Essenz ein Pfad der Übereignung an das Göttliche Selbst. Von seiner Meisterin geschult, ging Daniel Odier selbst diesen Weg bis zur Großen Erfahrung. Aufbauend auf dieser inneren Transformation, lässt er mit diesem Buch seine Leser teilhaben an seinem spirituellen Wissen, um ihnen so die Gestaltung ihres eigenen Weges zur "Ekstase des Herzens" zu ermöglichen. Er schildert in allen Einzelheiten die Verwandlung des Herzens und die Entfaltung eines neuen, kosmischen Bewusstseins. Dabei geht er auch auf die Schwierigkeiten des tantrischen Pfades und...

Wie viele an stlicher Spiritualitt interessierte Abendlnder bricht Daniel Odier zu einer Reise nach Indien auf, um die Geheimnisse der Weisen des Himalaya zu erkunden. Odier war kein Anfnger, sondern durch frhere Studienreisen bereits mit der indischen Philosophie vertraut. Doch diesmal sollte seine Reise mehr sein als nur eine Studienreise. Daniel Odier schildert in diesem bewegenden Buch seinen dramatischen Bewusstwerdungsprozess, der ihn ber seine ngste, Vorurteile und Begrenzungen hinausfhrt und zu einem erwachten Menschen werden lsst. Mit Sicherheit eines der besten und vor allem...

The mythology, rituals, meditations, and practices used in Tantric worship of the goddess Kali in the tradition of Kashmiri Shaivism

- Reveals the practices of Vamachara, known as the Left-hand Path but more accurately translated as the Path of Shakti

- Includes a Kali ritual from the Nirrutara Tantra, translated here for the first time

- Presents devotional chants, meditations, and mudras specific to Tantric worship of Kali

According to traditions going back to pre-Vedic times, Kali sprang from the third eye of the Goddess Durga as a destructive and terrifying...

Die geheimnisvollen Texte der bedeutendsten Sufi-Mystikerin des 14. Jahrhunderts!