Forms of Vitality within Embodied Awareness: A Phenomenology of Invocation

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https://doi.org/10.32351/rca.v4.1.62
Política de Crossmark DOI: https://doi.org/10.32351/politica-crossmark

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Awareness, samadhi, epoché, vitality, otherness, duality, non-duality, tantra, bodhichitta, self-realization, vajrayana

Abstract

Embodiment or embodied awareness is a way of understanding the body. The body is not simply the external body, the body is the lived body. Both the 10th century Kashmir philosopher Abhinavagupta and the contemporary French phenomenologist Merleau Ponty have a similar view of the lived body, or better "lived embodiment". This paper elaborates phenomenologically the embodiment of awakened awareness as it pulsates in resonance with and within Being itself. This experience of embodiment is a multidimensional experience. There is emphasis on invoking the different dimensions of embodied of the field of Being.

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Author Biography

  • Rudolph Bauer, Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies
    Rudolph Bauer, Ph.D is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, A.B.P.P. and Co-Director of The Washington Center for Consciousness Studies and Director of The Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Psychotherapy Studies. For a number of years He was Director of Psychology Training at The University of Maryland Medical School and also taught at Johns Hopkins University. He did post doctoral  studies in phenomenology at The Institute of Time Perspective at Leuven, Belgium. He has studied the Tantra of Kashmir Shavism with Swami Muktananda  and has studied   Dzogchen with many Tibetan Lama's including Lama Tharchen, Lama Norhla, and many others. He is an Existential Psychoanalyst in Washington,DC and is currently opening a Center for Consciousness Studies in Santa Monica, California. His website for published papers on tantra and phenomenology is  rudolphbauer.academia.edu. The website of The Washington Center is meditatelive.com. Through video streaming he consults and leads seminars with people in many different countries.

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2019-04-27

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Acta Tántrica

How to Cite

Bauer, R. (2019). Forms of Vitality within Embodied Awareness: A Phenomenology of Invocation. MenteClara Foundation’s Peer-Reviewed Journal, 4(1), 95-123. https://doi.org/10.32351/rca.v4.1.62

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