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, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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
Jun 26, 20232 min read
What changes in spiritual awakening?
In a conversation with my friend about "what is the basic experiential / conscious / existential element that changes when one awakens...
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Amir Freimann
Mar 19, 20232 min read
What mystics value most
I'm ploughing ahead with the writing of a paper on "the experiential characteristics of the spiritual high plateau" and would like to...
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Amir Freimann
Mar 19, 20232 min read
Maslow on the Spiritual High Plateau
As I'm starting to write the introduction to my second PhD paper on the phenomenological characteristics of the "spiritual high plateau",...
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Amir Freimann
Mar 19, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20232 min read
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
Aug 10, 20221 min read
Being out of words
Recently I had some Zoom calls with people who are "living transcendence" without making any song and dance about it - "hidden mystics" I...
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Amir Freimann
Jul 28, 20222 min read
Your brain on fMRI
A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an old friend - I'll call her O - who is a very experienced meditator and yoga practitioner. I...
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Amir Freimann
Jul 16, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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
Mar 19, 20221 min read
Existential Exemplars
In a paper called "Learning from Exemplars" by Pieter Vos (2018) I found a beautifully clarifying sentence about the effect of spiritual...
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Amir Freimann
Mar 18, 20221 min read
Interview with Mooji, October 2016
In October 2016, while travelling in Spain and Portugal, Ruti and I were generously hosted by Neo-Advaita teacher Mooji at his ashram in...
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Amir Freimann
Mar 16, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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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