By Louise Child
This e-book explores the position of altered states of awareness within the conversation of social and emotional energies, either on a societal point and among person folks. Drawing from an unique interpreting of Durkheimian social theorists (including Mauss, Hertz, and Hubert) and Jungian psychology, Louise baby applies this research to tantric Buddhist ritual and biographical fabric. She indicates ways that desires and visionary reviews (including these regarding the 'subtle body') play a massive and formerly under-explored position in tantric understandings of the consort relationship.
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