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Jhanananda's Jhana/Gnosis Dialogs

Last updated 06-08-06


10-day Jhana/Samadhi retreat in Gold Hill, near Boulder, CO (download PDF poster from retreat). These dialogs are free to download, or they can be purchased in CD format.

May 23, 2006, evening Introduction and a description of the first three stages of meditative absorption (jhana/samadhi), the language of gnosis. Understand vitakka and vicára. Grip on the meditation subject using the dancing and riding metaphors. Version • Quicktime.MP4

May 24, 2006, morning Understanding the difference between the contemplative practice (magga) verses the attainment (phala) of gnosis. Understanding mindfulness and concentration. The Four Foundations of the Mindfulness (satipatthana). • Quicktime.MP4

May 24, 2006, evening Charismatic phenomena (jhana-nimitta), a description of the fourth stage of meditative absorption (jhana/samadhi), a "road map" from one jhana to the next. Grip on the meditation subject using the dancing and riding metaphors. When to let go of the meditation object. Savoring the signs of absorption (jhana-nimitta). Hypersensitivity and the transitional phase between 2nd and 3rd stage of absorption and the dark night of the soul. (This file is damaged due to a recording software error and is not available at this time.)

May 25, 2006, morning The postures of meditation, The ideal disciple has all of the good questions. Field meditation.(This file is damaged due to a recording software error and is not available at this time.)

May 25, 2006, evening Anapanasati Sutta (MN 118); Nama-Rupa, abstract verses concrete, neurophysiology, psychophysiology, psycho-soma; Mindfulness leads to great fruits (Mahaphala) Samaññaphala Sutta (DN 2); Seven Factors of Enlightenment; Satipatthana; Viriya, energy, kundalini-calm and active phases; defining insight (vipassana). • Quicktime.MP4

May 26, 2006, morning Dark night of the soul, decent into hell; transitional phase from 2nd to 3rd stage of absorption, meditation induced neuroses. • Quicktime.MP4

May 26, 2006, evening Kayagatisati Sutta (MN 119) definition of terms, consciousness, cognition, concentration, absorption, self verses no-self and non-dualism, hunter-gatherers and shamanism. • Quicktime.MP4

May 27, 2006, morning Satipatthana Sutta (MN 110), examining evidence for a two-path verses one-path model. • Quicktime.MP4

May 27, 2006, evening Maha-satipatthana Sutta (DN 22) • Quicktime.MP4

May 28, 2006, morning The Buddha's night of enlightenment, Ariyapariyesana Sutta (MN 26.28) and Mahaasaccaka sutta (MN 36) • Quicktime.MP4

May 28, 2006, evening Both-ways liberated (DN 6, MN 70, AN II.30); communion with the angelic order/deva realm; a cross cultural view on the charismatic phenomena of meditative absorption (jhana-nimitta); omniscience; mystic, shaman, Buddha • Quicktime.MP4

May 29, 2006, morning Various key quotes from the suttas in support of the jhana construct. • Quicktime.MP4

May 30, 2006, morning Aseka, the five aggregates of one who is beyond training, Samyutta Nikaya Ch 3 Sagathvagga 3 Kosalasamyutta 24 (4) Archer Book 1 with verses page 190; Early Buddhist monastic personal hygiene; An early history of Buddhism and its literature; The oral tradition as a meditation practice; the flaw of insisting upon the meditation object; the apparent despondency of the Buddha in his last days; Advaita satsang circuit; lucid dreams, OOBs and recovery of previous lifetimes. • Quicktime.MP4

May 31, 2006, morning The Unconditioned (asankhata), understanding cognition in a Buddhist context, Sankhára and mental projection verses the saturation and permanence of the self arising nature of the phenomena of meditative absorption; noise in the circuit and the spectrum analyzer metaphors. • Quicktime.MP4

May 31, 2006, evening The Deathless, Amata, not losing consciousness during the sleep cycle; misogyny in Buddhism; the apparent despondency of the Buddha in his last days; omniscience. • Quicktime.MP4

June 1, 2006, morning The 8 liberations (attha vimokkha), kundalini, signs of absorption (jhana-nimitta), the jhana “jungle-gym,” volition verses submission. • Quicktime.MP4

Religious oppression in Buddhism, a three-part interview of Jhananda by John Brown, Tucson, AZ, 07-06-07 Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,

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October 28, 2009 6:46 PM
A discussion of bliss, joy and ecstasy within an Ecstatic Buddhist context. Jhana is not a practice, but an attainment. What then is the practice of meditation and concentration? Pali term definitions for jhana, Samadhi, piiti and sukha.
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November 1, 2009 5:30 PM
A description of the 4 jhanas, which are Bliss, joy and ecstasy in a Buddhist context. Jhana is not a practice (magga), but an attainment (phala). What then is the practice (magga) of meditation and concentration (sati)? Pali term definitions for jhana, Samadhi, piiti and sukha.
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February 28, 2010 1:42 PM
A Meditation Teacher's Qualifications. An interview with Jhananda at the Great Western Vehicle (GWV) Winter Retreat, 2008, by David Whitehouse, regarding: (Ram Bahadur Bamjan, AKA Palden Dorje, AKA Buddha Boy Prahlad Jani: Dalai Lama: pretentiousness of priests; how do we know a real spiritual teacher? HR the sun-gazer.
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March 7, 2010 11:32 AM
A Meditation Teacher's Qualifications. An interview with Jhananda at the Great Western Vehicle (GWV) Winter Retreat, 2008, by David Whitehouse, regarding: Pretentiousness of priests or how do we know a real spiritual teacher? Ram Bahadur Bamjan, AKA Palden Dorje, AKA Buddha Boy Prahlad Jani; Dalai Lama; HR the sun-gazer.
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April 10, 2010 3:11 PM
a Great Western Vehicle video on an Ecstatic Buddhist meditation method that produces ecstatic altered states of consciousness known in the earliest Buddhist literature as 'jhana' or 'samadhi.'
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April 16, 2010 12:04 PM
There is a remarkable similarity of religious experiences between the mystics of the various religions. Christian mystics; Sufi and Hindu mystics, Rumi, Kabir and Patanjali; and Buddhist mystics as represented by Siddhartha Gautama. Jhana defined as ecstasy, or absorption into an altered state of consciousness that is based upon bliss, joy and ecstasy. Samma-samadhi
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April 23, 2010 3:33 PM
Fruit (Phala) of the contemplative life of Buddhism and the Yoga Sutras, is similar to the Fruit of the Holy Spirit of Christianity, which is also referred to as sign gifts, gifts of the spirit and/or charisms. In Buddhism they are known as phala or nimmitta: Equanimity (upekkha), Fearlessness (nibbhaya), No suffering (Asukhacaadukkha), Absorption (jhana/samadhi), Out-of-Body Experience (OOB, Manomaya "Mind-made body."), Clairaudience (dibba-sota Divine hearing, charismatic hearing), Mental telepathy (ceto-pariya-ñána), Clairvoyance (Divine seeing, dibba-cakkhu), Insight (nanadassana), superior fruit (maha-phala)
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April 29, 2010 4:21 PM
Kriya are automatic bodily movements during meditative absorption, which is known as jhana or samadhi in Ecstatic Buddhism, and ecstasy in Christian mysticism. They are a fruit (Phala) of the contemplative life.
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May 5, 2010 12:24 PM
Kundalini is a charismatic experience that is the product of leading a contemplative life. In Christian mysticism it is called Holy Spirit. In early Buddhism it was known as viriya, and in the Yoga sutras of Patanjali it was known as vîrya. In both cases it was one of the "Fruit (Phala) of the contemplative life."
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May 12, 2010 2:39 PM
The Out-of-BodyExperience (OOB, Manomaya "Mind-made body."), akasha. OOBE, Astral traveling. It is one of the fruit of the contemplative life. It is lucid and hyper-real. Once Out-of-Body one can travel anywhere, even into space and into the heavens and beyond. Over coming the fears of the OOBE. Getting back to the body. Encountering other beings when Out-of-Body in the collective unconscious. The hellish domains. Heaven and Akasha, Angels and Devas. The fifth samadhi is akasha, or the astral plane.
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May 19, 2010 4:24 PM
According to the suttas Vipassana is not a meditation technique, it is a fruit (phala) of the contemplative life. Vipassana means intuitive, revelatory, insight. There is no place in the Discourses of the Buddha (suttas), where the term Vipassana refers to a meditation technique. The Buddha called the practice of meditation Sati not Vipassana.
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May 26, 2010 7:22 PM
Did the Buddha teach meditation techniques that he called 'vipassana' and 'samatha?'
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June 2, 2010 4:58 PM
Making a distinction between the practice of leading a contemplative life and where it leads, which is the attainment various fruit.
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June 9, 2010 9:06 AM
If the Buddha did not teach meditation that he called 'shamata' and 'vipassana,' then what did he call his meditation techniques? The practice of Meditation (Sati) as described in the Discourses of the Buddha is presented in four suttas (sutras).
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June 16, 2010 11:11 AM
The difference between a single experience of jhana, and experiencing jhana every day. When one experiences the ecstatic states of jhana every day in meditation, then one finds it to be a profoundly transformative experience
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June 23, 2010 12:48 PM
The Language of Gnosis in English, Pali and Sanskrit. Dialog with Adam Murray linking mystic Christian terms with Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu terminology at the GWV Wilderness Retreat on the Verde River at Perkinsville, AZ during the summer of 2010 with Jhananda (Jeffrey S. Brooks), covering the terms: Ekaggatha, one-pointedness, samadhi, concentration, jhana, ecstasy. Why Wisdom Publishing chose to published the translators they chose. The emergence of Mahayana Buddhism and the translation of the Pali Canon into Sanskrit, which produced translation errors
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June 30, 2010 12:04 PM
The Language of Gnosis in English, Pali and Sanskrit 3. Dialog with Adam Murray linking mystic Christian terms with Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu terminology at the 2010 GWV summer wilderness retreat with Jhananda (Jeffrey S. Brooks)
Ekagatta-one pointedness; vihara and viharati-to reside; ayatana-domains; samana, sramana-mendicant, ascetic, recluse; merit and good karma; dhukkha-suffering; nirodha-liberation; sukha-joy.
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July 7, 2010 3:22 PM
The Language of Gnosis in English, Pali and Sanskrit.4. Dialog with Adam Murray linking mystic Christian terms with Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu terminology at the GWV Wilderness Retreat on the Verde River at Perkinsville, AZ during the summer of 2010 with Jhananda (Jeffrey S. Brooks), covering the terms: Piiti, bliss; manomaya, Rapture, OOBE; somanassadomanassànaü-manic depression; sukha-joy, upekkhàsatipàrisuddhiü-purity of mindful equanimity
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July 14, 2010 1:08 PM
The experience of the four jhanas, piiti-bliss; void state, nirodha-liberation, samasamadhi-ecstasy. Dialog between Jhananda and Adam Murray discussing the connection between mystic Christian terms and Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu terms at the GWV Wilderness Retreat on the Verde River at Perkinsville, AZ during the summer of 2010.
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July 21, 2010 2:04 PM
What is: piiti (bliss), sukha (joy), and jhana (ecstasy); charismatic, charisms, only a mystic is going to understand a mystic, ecstasy is something you have to experience; charismatic, the charisms, Christian iconography that reveals auras and charkas. Only a mystic is going to understand the utterances of a mystic. Dialog between Jhananda and Adam Murray discussing the connection between mystic Christian terms and Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu terms at the GWV Wilderness Retreat on the Verde River at Perkinsville, AZ during the summer of 2010.
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July 28, 2010 1:16 PM
using the Sutta Pitaka and the Yoga Sutras to understand whether the physical senses present during the lower stages of samadhi, known as 'jhana' and 'Savikalpa samadhi' respectively. Dialog between Jhananda and Adam Murray discussing the connection between mystic Christian terms and Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu terms at the GWV Wilderness Retreat on the Verde River at Perkinsville, AZ during the summer of 2010.
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August 4, 2010 3:39 PM
The second Jhana is Tranquility, and it is the stilling of the mind. How still is still? Vitakka and viccara, sustained and applied attention, what is tranquility. Dialog between Jhananda and Adam Murray discussing the connection between mystic Christian terms and Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu terms at the GWV Wilderness Retreat on the Verde River at Perkinsville, AZ during the summer of 2010.
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August 11, 2010 1:20 PM
Enlightened in this very lifetime. What is enlightenment? Who got enlightened? Dialog between Jhananda and Adam Murray discussing the connection between mystic Christian terms and Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist and Hindu terms at the GWV Wilderness Retreat on the Verde River at Perkinsville, AZ during the summer of 2010.
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August 18, 2010 4:33 PM
We can conclude that the attainment of jhana was a central theme to the Buddha. However, there are a lot of people claiming they know something about what the Buddha taught, but, unless they understand: jhana was the Buddha's definition for the eighth fold of his Noble Eightfold path, jhana was his very vehicle to insight and liberation, and his definition for enlightenment, then they do not understand the dhamma of the Buddha.
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August 25, 2010 5:50 PM
Are there Mundane verses Supra-mundane Jhanas? Is there a Vipassana Jhana?
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September 4, 2010 4:14 PM
Jhana and Contemplative Nondualism verses point of view Nondualism.
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September 9, 2010 12:19 PM
sounds of silence in meditation, Clairaudience, Charismatic hearing, the Divine Ear, Dibba-sota or meditation-induced tinnitus, Taos hum, sound and light
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September 16, 2010 11:44 AM
How does Jhana help one overcome addiction?
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September 22, 2010 5:51 PM
Can we become addicted to Jhana?
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September 29, 2010 3:42 PM
The language of the sacred is the charisms, so we must commune with the sacred in its language, which is the charisms.
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October 6, 2010 3:17 PM
The Ecstasies (jhana, samadhi) are not a case of mental projection, because the mind is still and ecstasy is self-arising spontaneous phenomena.
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October 13, 2010 2:17 PM
Did the Buddha coin the term 'samadhi?'
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October 20, 2010 2:37 PM
Guided meditation through the four jhanas at sunset over Skull Valley
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October 27, 2010 1:18 PM
A guided meditation to the first jhana at sunrise over Copper Basin, near Prescott, AZ
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November 3, 2010 1:22 PM
Jhana and shedding the layers of the self, neuroses, internal dialog, the Spiritual Crisis, Meditation induced psychosis, the Dark Night of the Soul, Descent into hell, spiritual emergency; existential crisis; near-death experiences; Kundalini syndrome; mystical psychosis; Religious or Spiritual Problems; Acute and transient psychotic disorder; and Qi-gong, psychosis.
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November 10, 2010 2:50 PM
The Dark Night of the Soul is the second stage of the Spiritual Crisis. It is characterized by hypersensitivity and saturation in the first two jhanas
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November 17, 2010 7:07 AM
The Third Stage of the Spiritual Crisis, the emergence of charisms, stigmata, jhana-nimitta
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November 24, 2010 9:32 AM
The Fourth Stage of the Spiritual Crisis is collapsing the myths that constructed our delusions.
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December 1, 2010 11:32 AM
The Existential Crisis is the first Spiritual Crisis, and it typically puts us onto a spiritual journey.
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December 8, 2010 4:55 PM
Does the spiritual crisis have a purpose?
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December 15, 2010 3:01 PM
Using contemplation (jhana) to overcome the spiritual crisis
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December 22, 2010 1:34 PM
A guided meditation through the four jhanas at sunrise over Copper Basin, AZ
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January 6, 2011 12:38 PM
Contemplation and the religious experience in the major religions. Contemplation, fanna, loc, loca, samadhi, jhana
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January 12, 2011 5:40 AM
How long should one remain in a religious experience, contemplation, jhana, samadhi?
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January 19, 2011 5:03 PM
An introduction to the participant observer research method into mystics and shaman of Jeffrey Brooks
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January 26, 2011 3:22 PM
A discussion that shows how Shamanism and Mysticism are alike
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February 3, 2011 10:18 AM
As contemplatives we are engaged in self-inquiry, which requires that we unpacking our religion, faith, beliefs and philosophies
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February 10, 2011 12:29 PM
Unpacking popular writing on shamanism, such as Carlos Castañeda's work.
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February 18, 2011 9:28 AM
Naïve verses mature Shamanism revealed in unpacking the use of drugs for stimulating spiritual experiences.
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February 23, 2011 1:37 PM
Were the origins of religion in the consumption of psychedelics?
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March 2, 2011 2:22 PM
Naïve verses mature Shamanism and mysticism revealed in unpacking the use of ritual for stimulating spiritual experiences.
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March 9, 2011 3:43 PM
Power and Control in religion, mysticism and shamanism revealed in an exploration of the "power of prayer," "positive thinking," "think and grow rich" and creative visualization verses how the mystics expressed themselves.
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March 17, 2011 9:35 AM
Naïve verses mature Shamanism revealed in unpacking the fantastic claims to the spiritual experience.
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April 27, 2011 1:46 PM
If the existence of miracles, fantastic claims in mysticism and shamanism; and the "power of prayer," positive thinking and "think and grow rich" are all a myth, then why should we believe that there is any super natural power in the curse, sorcery, or witchcraft?
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May 4, 2011 4:03 PM
Comparing mainstream religions to contemplative religions, to mystical traditions
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May 17, 2011 12:02 PM
Comparing the four mainstream religions of the world: Mainstream Christianity, Vaishnava Hinduism, PureLand Buddhism, and mainstream Islam; to the study of mysticism, Sufism and shamanism.
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May 25, 2011 1:43 PM
We find greater understanding of shamanism, mysticism and Buddhism by using Linguistic Anthropology to examine the etymological origins of the term 'shaman'.
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June 1, 2011 12:57 PM
Practicing meditation for the recollection of previous lifetimes (pubbenivàsànussati)
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June 8, 2011 12:53 PM
Euphoria is a fruit of the contemplative life and is the kinesthetic charism
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June 16, 2011 2:12 PM
Charismatic, spontaneous, involuntary, automatic utterances, vocalizations and speaking in tongues during meditation
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June 22, 2011 9:58 AM
Charismatic, apostolic and evangelical religious movements that manifest hysterical religious behavior, verses mysticism.
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June 29, 2011 11:19 AM
Contemplative religious movements and meditation groups that seek peace and equanimity, verses mysticism,
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July 10, 2011 4:09 PM
Ethics are a charism and apply to the contemplative life and enlightenment; verses addictive behavior, the 7 Deadly Sins of Christianity, and the 10 Fetters and Hindrances of Buddhism.
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July 21, 2011 4:40 PM
Priests are pretentiousness, while mystics are authentic
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July 28, 2011 4:48 PM
Making the life choices to become a rigorous contemplative on the way to becoming a mystic
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August 3, 2011 5:40 AM
Overcoming the dysfunctional family system while leading a self-aware contemplative life
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August 9, 2011 11:46 AM
Unpacking life in monasteries, convents, tarikas, ashrams, viharas, and zendos.
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August 17, 2011 3:22 PM
The energy phenomena of mysticism
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August 24, 2011 3:20 PM
Overcoming the confusion between mystics and the occult
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August 31, 2011 6:51 AM
The cloak of the Holy Spirit is a charism that is consistent with the aura
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September 29, 2011 5:53 AM
Case History with the third stage of the Religious Experience, the third stage of contemplation (3rd jhana) with more details: stillness of the mind, heightened sensory awareness, and charismatic sounds; with subject "Nick," at the GWV summer mystic's retreat in Prescott, AZ, 2011
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October 5, 2011 5:38 AM
Case History with the fourth and fifth stages of the Religious Experience, the fourth stage of contemplation (4th jhana) with more details: release of kundalini energy which propels one into the immaterial domains; with subject "Nick," at the GWV summer mystic's retreat in Prescott, AZ, 2011
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October 11, 2011 5:49 AM
Conclusion of the Case History with the stages of the Religious Experience, with subject "Nick," at the GWV summer mystic's retreat in Prescott, AZ, 2011
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October 19, 2011 6:53 AM
Review of the methods of gathering the religious case history, the Scientific Method as applied to the study of Religion
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November 11, 2011 7:05 PM
Understanding Western Buddhism
a dialog between Jeffrey S. Brooks and Stuart B. Skadden at the GWV Fall Retreat 2011 in the Gila Box Wilderness
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November 16, 2011 7:30 AM
Jhana and Western Buddhism, a Dialog between Jeffrey S. Brooks and Stuart B. Skadden at the GWV Fall retreat 2011 in the Gila Box Wilderness
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November 24, 2011 5:48 AM
The true conspiracy is a conspiracy of greed, a dialog between Jeffrey S. Brooks and Stuart B. Skadden at the GWV Fall retreat 2011.
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December 1, 2011 9:09 AM
The Experience of Jhana is forbidden at a Goenka Retreat, a dialog between Jeffrey S. Brooks and Stuart B. Skadden at the GWV Fall retreat 2011.
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December 14, 2011 2:56 AM
An examination of the Dysfunctional Family System a dialog between Jeffrey S. Brooks and Sutart B. Skadden at the GWV Fall Retreat 2011 in the Gila Box Wilderness
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December 23, 2011 8:31 PM
The foundation of the Dysfunctional Family System is in Dysfunctional Cultural Systems
a dialog between Jeffrey S. Brooks and Stuart B Skadden
GWV Wilderness retreat in the Gila Box Wilderness, November, 2011
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January 4, 2012 7:05 PM
Pedophilia and alcoholism in the Catholic Church and Zen Buddhism, a Dialog between Jeffrey S. Brooks and Stuart B. Skadden at the GWV Fall Retreat, 2011, in the Gila Box Wilderness
GWV Wilderness retreat in the Gila Box Wilderness, November, 2011
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A Critique of How Jhana is interpreted in Therevadan Buddhism CC
January 16, 2012 11:17 AM
A Critique of How Jhana is interpreted in Theravadan Buddhism, a dialog between Jeffrey S. Brooks and Stuart B. Skadden at the Fall 2011 GWV Wilderness Retreat: Gunaratana, Brahmavamso, Brasington, Ayya Khema
GWV Wilderness retreat in the Gila Box Wilderness, November, 2011
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Science verses Religion
January 27, 2012 5:34 AM
Unpacking Christianity and its problems with scientific discoveries. Should we really be willing to throw out our hard earned and expensive education for religion, or can we make them fit together?
GWV Wilderness retreat in the Gila Box Wilderness, November, 2011

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February 7, 2012 5:34 AM
Dietary Systems, eating disorders, B-12 and Sigmund Freud
GWV Wilderness retreat in the Gila Box Wilderness, November, 2011
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Discipline in the contemplative life
February 29, 2012 11:38 AM
The need for Discipline in the contemplative life
GWV Wilderness retreat in the Gila Box Wilderness, November, 2011

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No mind
March 21, 2012 5:18 AM
No-mind is just the doorway to the mystery.
GWV Wilderness retreat in the Gila Box Wilderness, November, 2011

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October 25, 2012 9:06 PM
A dialog at the GWV Ecstatic Buddhist Wilderness Retreat, August 2012 Gila Wilderness, NM with Michael Hawkins, Karen Sattler, Stuart B. Skadden and Craig Anzelmo
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October 31, 2012 8:15 PM
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November 7, 2012 5:23 PM
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November 15, 2012 9:05 AM
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November 21, 2012 9:42 AM
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November 28, 2012 9:00 AM
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December 6, 2012 5:35 AM
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December 21, 2012 9:57 AM
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