Videos on the Fruit of the Contemplative Life

[Jhanananda]

What is Jhana?

the 4 jhanas

Finding an authentic spiritual teacher

Finding an authentic spiritual teacher part II

How to experience jhana

Jhana, and the ecstasies of the mystics

Fruit (Phala) of the contemplative life

Kriya, automatic body movements during meditation

Power, energy, virtue, Holy Spirit, kundalini

Out-of-Body Experience, OOBE, Astral Projection

Understanding Insight, Vipassana and Meditation

Samatha and Vipassana Meditation

Practice verses Attainment, Magga vs Phala

Sati, The practice of Meditation according to the Buddha

The Transformative Quality of Jhana

The significance of jhana and the ecstasies

Is Jhana the charismatic appearance of a …

Jhana and Nondualism

Charismatic hearing

Jhana and Contemplative Recovery

The Ecstasies (Jhanas) are not addictive

Can the Ecstasies (Jhana) cause neurological damage?

Are the Ecstasies (jhana, samadhi) just a case of mental projection?

The Buddha DID NOT make up the word Samadhi

Guided meditation through the four jhanas

Guided sunrise meditation to the first jhana

The First Stage of the Spiritual Crisis

Dark Night of the Soul

Descent into hell

Meditation induced psychosis

The Existential Crisis

What is the purpose of the spiritual crisis?

Overcoming the spiritual crisis

Guided meditation through the four jhanas

Understanding Contemplation

How long does one stay in a jhana?

Shamanism and Mysticism

dhamma-vicaya, unpacking our belief systems

Unpacking Shamanism

Psychedelics and Shamanism

Psychedelics and Religion

Ritual in Shamanism and mysticism

Power and Control in religion, mysticism and shamanism

Miracles, psychic powers and fantastic claims in mysticism and shamanism

Unpacking sorcery, shamanism, mysticism

A comparative religions approach to the study of mysticism and shamanism I

Mainstream Religion verses mysticism

The etymological origins of the term 'shaman'

Reincarnation and recollection of previous lifetimes (pubbenivàsànussati)

Meditation induced euphoria, vertigo and dizziness

Glossolalia, Spontaneous Utterance During Meditation

Charismatic religious movements verses mysticism

Contemplative religious movements verses mysticism

Ethics and the Mystic

Authenticity verses Pretentiousness

Contemplative life choices

The dysfunctional family and the contemplative life

the contemplative life and the spiritual community

Energy centers, chakras and tongues of fire

Mystics verses the occult

The Aura and the cloak of the Holy Spirit

Case History III with the third stage of the Religious Experience

Case History IV with the fourth and fifth stages of the Religious Experience

Case History V with the Religious Experience

A participant observer method of gathering the religious case history

[Jhanananda]

Here is a link to the first of the videos that came from this retreat

The Value of the Long Meditation Sit
GWV Ecstatic Buddhist Wilderness Retreat
August 2012 Gila Wilderness, NM

[Jhanananda]

Dialogs at the GWV Ecstatic Buddhist Wilderness Retreat, August 2012 Gila Wilderness, NM with Michael Hawkins, Karen Sattler, Stuart B. Skadden and Craig Anzelmo (continued)

Walking Meditation that leads to jhana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzN_ceUh_9Q

Bliss Bunnies and Jhana Junkies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z9UjSfUB3Q

Stilling of the mind can expose underlying emotions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olRgRkxw_nA

Saturation in the Charisms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkMqMzZZCS8

Jhana and the use of a Meditation Object
Jhana and the use of a Meditation Object to traverse the 8 stages of samadhi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5s5FNK6jX0

Kundalini and chakras
The religious experience is not the possession of a people or religion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEGrMcdikIw

Kundalini, chakras, the spiritual crisis and letting go
There are shades of gray in the religious experience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA7ph1uSons

We can all be messiahs, christs, buddhas, avatars on this bus
Enriching the Religious Experience
If we do not Enrich the Religious Experience, then it is just a bunch of tingles and weird sounds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lrotmQkPvI