No explanation of HOW things came to be, whether through a God or Big Bang, diminishes in any way the mystery THAT anything exists at all - even that there 'is' a God or 'was' a Big Bang. Yet as soon as we allow ourselves to wonder at this ultimate mystery, we open ourselves also to an ultimate terror - the terror of conceiving, even for a moment, the possibility of nothing existing or ever having come to be at all. Once we approach the 'black hole' of this ultimate terror and mystery we have already slipped beyond the ultimate horizon of the space-time universe of physics. Recognising this,...

Semiotics is the study of 'signs' or 'signifiers' such as words. Psychotherapists seek to understand or interpret the verbal and behavioural signs of an individual's emotional dis-ease. Medical physicians and psychiatrists seek to diagnose both bodily and behavioural symptoms as signs of some organic 'disease' or 'disorder'. In doing so however, they make no semiotic distinction between the medically signified sense of an individual's symptoms and their directly felt or sensed significance - comparable to the felt sense or meaning of a word. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, Jakob von...

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...

What would it be like to know that you are indeed immortal - that your physical body is but an outward form taken by your own eternal inner form or 'soul body'? What would it be like to experience this soul body as an awareness that is not bounded by your skin but pervades the entire universe - and that can merge with the awareness or 'soul' of others? In this way you can come to experience the bliss of true 'tantra' and 'tantric sex'. This is no mere sensual or spiritual intensification of biological sex but something much deeper - a deeply sensual and sexual intercourse of soul of a sort...

This book, the oldest and first of several publications by Peter Wilberg on the ontological dimension of listening in both psychotherapy and somatic medicine, is dedicated to the fulfilment of Martin Heidegger's hope that his thinking would ..".escape the confines of the philosopher's study and become of benefit to wider circles, in particular to a large number of suffering human beings." The German word for listening (zuhoren) belongs to a family of words including 'to hear' (horen), to belong (gehoren) and 'belonging together' (Zugehorigkeit). The essential unity or 'belonging together' of...

... Peter Wilberg's application of timeless wisdom to ... different aspects and areas of living shines new light, and brings important new information and perspective, to the topic areas themselves, and this new book is no exception. This approach often supplants misunderstanding, and/or fills in gaps and blind spots which currently exist in these topic areas, per the incomplete approaches of so-called conventional wisdom." By Living Unbound about the 1st edition. What if 'the illness is the cure' - and not something to be cured? In a way that is clear and practically helpful to both lay...

"What the philosopher is, is hard to learn, because it cannot be taught: one has to 'know' it from experience." "A philosopher: that is a human being who constantly experiences, sees, hears ... dreams extraordinary things." Friedrich Nietzsche It is not often that an Oxford philosophy student spends his spare time flying over carefully tended college lawns. In this volume of selected memoirs, Peter Wilberg reveals himself as a philosopher in the Nietzschean spirit: one who has indeed experienced "extraordinary things." In it, he offers us a glimpse into the lifetime of 'metaphysical...