Mythos S02E05 · The Experience of God: Tibetan Buddhism and the spiritual journey that is death

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Campbell demonstrates how Tibetan Buddhists turn the ritual experience of death into a spiritual exercise. Trace with him the stages of the Tibetan Book of the Dead in which the Llama prepares a dying man and his family for the final moments of life. This passage, in fact, is a journey downward through the chakras, the centers of energy of Kundalini Yoga. Campbell reveals how the Eastern tradition reaches its most sophisticated expression in the art, philosophy and mysticism in the Buddhism of Tibet.

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1. 1 1. The Inward Path: The core myths of the great Asian religionsCampbell introduces us to the core ideas at the heart of the Eastern traditions and explores what Aldous Huxley called the Perennial Philosophy and how it is realize in Hinduism an
2. 2 2. The Enlightend One: The Buddha and enlightenment, East and WestCampbell uses stories of the Buddha's life and enlightenment to reflect the essence of the Buddhist religion. He explains the difference between the two principal types of Buddhism
3. 3 3. Our Eternal Selves: Yoga and transcendenceOur Eternal Selves introduces us to the systems of yoga that grew out of the mainstream of India spiritually. Campbell demonstrates how the Eastern way of perceiving consciousness
4. 4 4. The Way to Illumination: Kundalini yoga and the seven chakrasPerhaps the most sophisticated form of yoga, Kundalini Yoga, concentrates on the seven chakras or symbolic centers of our psychic energy. Campbell explains the full chakra system o
5. 5 5. The Experience of God: Tibetan Buddhism and the spiritual journey that is deathCampbell demonstrates how Tibetan Buddhists turn the ritual experience of death into a spiritual exercise. Trace with him the stages of the Tibetan Book of the Dead in which the Ll