By Michael Shermer — 2017
Memories, points of view and the self.
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CLEAR ALL
Joseph Campbell called Sanskrit “the great spiritual language of the world.
Shamanism, yoga and alchemy are historically the three great traditions of transformation - physical, psychological and spiritual - with shamanism, yoga and alchemy the Eastern and Western extensions.
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Much of the Western world was completely unaware of the profound impact of the breath on the body and mind until the 1970's.
Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a heart-wrenching moment of opening.