The Source

Vedic, Tantra & Yoga

Kashmir Śaivism, Vedānta, Sāṃkhya, the Gītā and the yogic path. Open the shelf →

Study editions of other teachers

• Consciousness Knows ItselfSelf-manifest awareness, reflexive power and freedom
• How the One Becomes ManyManifestation, articulation and a return that preserves real difference
• I Am That: The OmnibusThe teaching of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• Recognition and the Logic of KnowingCognition, recognition, memory, error and transformative reason
• The Fact of AppearingA first-principles entrance into manifestness
• The Making of a Limited SubjectHow limitation organises sourcehood, difference and action
• The Making of a MasterHow a valley, a household, many teachers and an exacting life of study produced a thinker who could join worlds without blurring them
• The Wei Wu Wei OmnibusEight books, one inquiry
• Who Am I? The Ramana OmnibusThe teaching of Sri Ramana Maharshi from first principles

Research papers

7 papers from the research programmes.

• Advaita Vedānta and the observer problemWhy recursive self-models can establish access and control without establishing the non-objective presence in which anything appears, and ho
• Kashmir Shaivism I: recognition and reflexivityA first-principles account of prakāśa, vimarśa and recognition, with a causal instrument for testing machine self-access without mistaking s
• Kashmir Shaivism II: contraction and the thirty-six tattvasA first-principles account of māyā, the five kañcukas and the thirty-six tattvas, with an executable instrument for testing where machine co
• Pramāṇa and many ways of knowingA first-principles account of how perception, inference, testimony, introspection and contemplative inquiry can constrain one another withou
• Training attention across Yoga and Buddhist practiceA first-principles account of why withdrawal, concentration, mindfulness, absorption and open monitoring belong in a practice state-space ra
• Yoga I: vṛttis, knowledge and error
• Yoga II: attention training and the kleśasA first-principles account of how Patañjali's eight limbs address recurrent attentional capture, with a safe capture-rebound experiment and

Insight Editions

13 study editions with covers, PDFs and EPUBs. All editions →

• Colony Earth and the Rig VedaV. Susan Ferguson
• Paths to TranscendenceReza Shah-Kazemi
• Dreams, Illusion, and Other RealitiesWendy Doniger O'Flaherty
• The HindusWendy Doniger
• The Implied SpiderWendy Doniger
• On HinduismWendy Doniger
• The Rig VedaVarious Vedic poets · Translated by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
• The Ring of TruthWendy Doniger
• Winged Stallions and Wicked MaresWendy Doniger
• Against DharmaWendy Doniger
• KamasutraVatsyayana · Translated by Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar
• MahabharataCarole Satyamurti
• Redeeming the KamasutraWendy Doniger