Author: Hosshin Ananda
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If All Human Activity Stopped Tomorrow
A Reflection on Sovereignty, Power and the Return to True Nature Consider, for a moment, the Highland Clearances. Between 1750 and 1860, across the mountains and glens of Scotland, an entire people were removed from land they had inhabited for thousands of years. Not by conquest in the battlefield sense. Not by plague or famine…
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Consciousness, Self, and the Wisdom of Not Knowing: A Comparative Essay on Kashmir Shaivism and Dzogchen
Two of the world’s most sophisticated non-dual philosophical traditions, Kashmir Shaivism and Tibetan Dzogchen, arrive at strikingly similar descriptions of ultimate reality while diverging sharply on one fundamental question: whether that reality can be described as a self. Kashmir Shaivism, emerging in ninth-century Kashmir through thinkers such as Vasugupta and Abhinavagupta, posits that the ground…
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The Ocean of Heartmind
Some realisations arrive quietly, through years of practice and study. Others arrive in a single moment, written in red on your forehead.I was in Hampi, India — an ancient sacred site of extraordinary power, where vast boulders rise from the earth like the bones of some primordial world. Walking through one of the temples, I…
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The Geometry and Sacred Pulsation of the Heartmind
Spanda, the Flower of Life, and the Śrī Yantra There are two sacred diagrams that have travelled across civilisations, each holding, in the silent language of geometry, something that language can only approach obliquely. The Flower of Life and the Śrī Yantra are not merely symbols. They are enactments. To look at them with genuine…
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Psilocybin as Psychological Medicine for Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, and the Evidence for Transformation
The slender, bell-shaped fruiting bodies pictured here are Psilocybe semilanceata, commonly known as the Liberty Cap, and among the most potent psilocybin-containing fungi found anywhere in the world. Native to cool, damp upland pastures across Northern Europe, they fruit from late summer through to early winter, emerging in clusters from the soil of ungrazed or…
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Psilocybin, Neuroplasticity, Stroke Recovery, Nerve Regeneration and the Science of Dosing
IntroductionPsilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in certain species of fungi, has moved from the margins of counterculture into some of the most prestigious research institutions in the world. What was once dismissed as a recreational curiosity is now the subject of trials at Johns Hopkins, Imperial College London, and the University of Miami, among others.…
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