Mirror of consciousness : art, creativity, and Veda /
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| Language: | English |
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Motilal Banarsidass Publishers,
2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001292691.html |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART I: ART AS A LANGUAGE GAME: LAMENTING THE LOSS -- OF UNIVERSAL VALUE -- 1 Modern Art and Theory: Created by a Genius, Art Evokes -- Universal Aesthetic Emotion -- 2 Indian Theory: Art and Santa -- 3 Postmodern Art as a Pluralist Language Game: Pointing to the -- Unnamable -- 4 Beyond Postmodernism: Universal Value in Art and a New Sense -- of Self -- PART II: ACCESSING AND ENLIVENING A UNIVERSAL FIELD OF -- PURE CONSCIOUSNESS -- 5 Pure Consciousness: The Universal Self-Referral Source of -- Creation -- 6 Developing Higher States of Consciousness through the Practice -- of the Transcendental Meditation Technique, the TM-Sidhi -- Program and Yogic Flying -- 7 Scientific Research on Maharishi's Technologies of Consciousness -- PART III:THE VEDA AND THE VEDIC LITERATURE: THE -- COMPLETE DISCLOSURE OF NATURE'S CREATIVE -- MECHANICS -- 8 Self-Referral Consciousness as the Structure of Rk Veda: The -- Holistic Value of Natural Law at the Basis of Creation -- 9 The Mandala Structure of Rk Veda -- 10 The Forty Aspects of the Veda and the Vedic Literature and their -- Qualities of Intelligence: Impulses of Consciousness as the -- Structuring Mechanics of Rk Veda -- 11 The Absolute Values of Each of the Four Vedas: Rk, Sama, Yajur, -- and Atharva Veda -- 12 The Vedinga and the Darsana: The Expansion and Submergence -- of Self-Referral Consciousness and the Phenomenon of Cognition -- 13 Upa-Veda: The Subordinate Veda or Third Cluster of the Vedic -- Literature -- 14 Ayur-Veda, Brahmana and Pratiiskhya: The Final Three Clusters -- of Natural Law -- PART IV: NATURAL LAW: THE UNIVERSAL FOUNDATION OF -- HISTORY, TRADITIONS, CULTURE AND LANGUAGE -- 15 The Purpose and Dynamic of History: The Rise and Fall of Natural -- Law in the Cyclical Unfoldment of Consciousness -- 16 Traditions: Different Modes of Activity Governed by Dharmas -- 17 Culture as the Expression of Specific Laws of Nature: Governing -- Geography, Climate, Mannerisms, Language and Accents of -- Different Peoples -- PART V: THE ARTIST AS A UNIVERSAL HUMAN BEING CREATING -- UNIVERSAL VALUE IN ART AND AESTHETICS -- 18 The Role of the Artist: Spontaneously Functioning from the Level -- of Natural Law -- 19 The Creative Process: Operating from the Level of Nature's Creative -- Mechanics -- 20 Universal Art and Its Effects -- 21 Aesthetic Value and Aesthetic Response: Leading the Viewer -- Toward Bliss and a Unified Self -- PART VI: UNCOVERING THE DETAILS OF THE NATURE AND -- STRUCTURE OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE -- VASTUSUTRA UPANISAD -- 22 Re-Contextualizing the Vistusiitra Upanisad: Uncovering Wholeness -- 23 The First and Last Sftras: Containing the Wholeness of the Text -- in Seed Form -- 24 The Artist and Creative Process: Knowing What Consciousness is -- and What It is Made of -- 25 Form or Rupa: Unmanifest to Manifest -- 26 Point, Line, Grid, Triangle, Square, Circle and Number as Values -- of Consciousness -- 27 Transformative Futures -- NOTES -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.