Amir Freimann
Why are we so shy about spiritual experiences?
In a public lecture that Abraham Maslow gave in 1961 he spoke about spiritual / mystical / peak experiences in exalted terms, saying that...
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Amir Freimann
- Jun 26, 2023
- 1 min
Paradoxical Perennialism
Perennialism is a perspective that views all spiritual/religious experiences, paths and traditions as different expressions of a single...
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Amir Freimann
- Jun 26, 2023
- 2 min
Knowledge of Truth Requires Transformation of the Subject
In one of his talks in The Hermeneutics of the Subject, Michel Foucault explores the question of truth from the perspective of...
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Amir Freimann
- Mar 19, 2023
- 2 min
The mystic's renunciation
We can easily dismiss the mystic's attraction to asceticism, abstinence and renunciation as originating from backward life- and...
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Amir Freimann
- Jan 5, 2023
- 1 min
A request from myself to myself
Part of my morning practice (which includes physical excercises, chanting mantras I formulated for myself, prostrations and meditation)...
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Amir Freimann
- Jan 5, 2023
- 2 min
Two approaches to spirit and me
In the first chapter of my "spiritual journey", from when I was 16 to 29, I was moved, with growing determination and urgency, to break...
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Amir Freimann
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
Academic researcher among spiritual teachers
A very interesting online conference with the title The End of Seeking started today, with over thirty spiritual teachers and authors...
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Amir Freimann
- Aug 10, 2022
- 2 min
The researcher and the spiritual teacher
Since I started my PhD research on Living Transcendence a couple of years ago, I was contacted by several people who had undergone a...
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Amir Freimann
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
Awareness of the sacred in times of crisis
I the interviews I conducted with spiritual exemplars as part of my PhD research, one of the questions I asked was: Did you have in your...
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Amir Freimann
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
The best place to start from
Recently I had conversations with a few dear dharma friends, who nowadays are putting much of their time, energy and comfort into trying...
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Amir Freimann
- Apr 24, 2022
- 1 min
A comment that made a difference
Years ago I published in an Israeli newspaper an article about meditation, and in it I wrote that, when I sit in meditation, I connect...
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Amir Freimann
- Mar 27, 2022
- 4 min
From Beirut to Burma
Some years ago I created a short (5 minute) video clip, about my experience as a soldier in the 1982 Israel-Lebanon War, after which I...
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Amir Freimann
- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
Enlightenment and Newton's Apple
One of the main paradoxes of enlightenment or awakening is that one awakens to what had always been the case and what they had always...
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Amir Freimann
- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
Only When You Reach the Source
Years ago I visited, together with a friend, Father Marcel Dubois (an Israeli Dominican monk and philosopher), who was well-known, among...
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Amir Freimann
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
Psychedelics and Meditation
In a paper by Chris Letheby with the above title, he suggests that psychedelics and meditation can both (1) disrupt self-binding...
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Amir Freimann
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
My Morning Chant
A friend told me I should share my morning chant, so here it is. I chant the first part before meditating and the second as I come out of...
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Amir Freimann
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
A dangerous experiment in overcoming fear
During my morning hike it started raining and I suddenly remembered a pretty crazy adventure I had some 30 years ago on Mt. Tamalpais in...
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Amir Freimann
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
Being led by a suprapersonal wisdom
In "The Art of the Novel" Milan Kundera writes: "When Tolstoy sketched the first draft of Anna Karenina, Anna was a most unsympathetic...
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Amir Freimann
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
Mystics without mystical experiences
I'm writing a research proposal to study the state of consciousness of spiritual masters or exemplars. In that context I'm reviewing...
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