Embodied Consciousness in Tantric Yoga and the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12445487
AutoresJames Morley (0000-0003-2380-6747, 1Ramapo College of New Jersey)
Año2008
Volumen12
Número1-3
Páginas144-163
Fecha de publicación2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion and the Arts (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1079-9265 • E-ISSN: 1568-5292
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/156852908x270980
OpenAlexW2022198000
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas3

Yoga, the ancient inter-religious thread running through all Indian Spirituality, shares a remarkable congruence with twentieth-century phenomenology. But this conjuncture is not based on a common aspiration of "transcendence from the world," as argued by previous comparisons. Instead, by applying the more advanced Existential Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to the more indigenous Tantric stream of yoga, it will be shown that this congruence occurs in just the opposite direction of immersion into the very "flesh of the world"—the lived human body as homology of the cosmos. Yoga may offer phenomenology a much-needed somatic contemplative praxis, as much as phenomenology may offer yoga the basis for an appropriate theoretical articulation

Aesthetics · Consciousness · Contemplation · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Flesh · Mysticism · Phenomenology (philosophy · Psychoanalysis · Spirituality · Theology · Medicine · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology