Samadhi The Great Freedom

In his fifth book, Gregor Maehle shows how all yogic techniques and methods collaborate to bring about its pinnacle - the state of samadhi. The book culminates in a detailed description of the eight classical samadhis as listed in the Yoga Sutra, both from the practical view of content and experience and from the techniques to access them. The author also shows the importance that these states have for a new enchantment with our world, nature, and all beings. On the way to that climax, Maehle dissolves misconceptions about samadhi, shows the importance of both objectless and the much-neglected objective samadhi, what exactly stands in the way of their arising, how obstacles are removed and dissolved, the role of the teacher, and the role of grace and devotion. He also shows how many other yogic techniques contribute to samadhi. Also covered are:ΓÇó The future possible spiritual evolution of humanityΓÇ¿ΓÇó The difference between yoga/mysticism and religionΓÇ¿ΓÇó The one underlying truth and essence in all sacred traditionsΓÇ¿ΓÇó Integration of the mystical stateΓÇ¿ΓÇó Samadhi, enlightenment, situationism, and developing the center ΓÇó Why ecstasy is importantΓÇ¿ΓÇó Whether it is possible to experience the world as it truly is?ΓÇ¿ΓÇó Conditioning and its historical aspectΓÇ¿ΓÇó The process of deconditioningΓÇ¿ΓÇó Converting mind into intelligenceΓÇ¿ΓÇó Types of karmaΓÇ¿ΓÇó Asking, guidance, and consecrationΓÇ¿ΓÇó The Divine in the Yoga SutraΓÇ¿ΓÇó Withdrawing the guru projectionΓÇ¿ΓÇó A new way of looking at the teacherΓÇ¿ΓÇó The two inner sheaths and their statesΓÇ¿ΓÇó Wrong objectless samadhis: videha and prakrtilayaΓÇ¿ΓÇó Samadhi and the breathless stateΓÇ¿ΓÇó Samadhi and chakrasΓÇ¿ΓÇó Samadhi and mudras