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Books by Loriliai Biernacki
Oxford University Press, 2023
Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex and Speech in Tantra, 2007
Papers by Loriliai Biernacki
English Language Notes, 2012
Transformations and Transfer of Tantra in Asia and Beyond, 2012
... Guralnick, David White, Nina Molinaro, Bob Lester, Barbara Fox, Faye Kleeman, Michelene Pe-sa... more ... Guralnick, David White, Nina Molinaro, Bob Lester, Barbara Fox, Faye Kleeman, Michelene Pe-santubbee; also especially Nicole Castillo and Matt Swoveland who ... Delhi, and As-sam; the Das family, including Baiti Das, Jiten and Jyoti Das, Minu, and Mithu, and Riju, Pinky and ...
Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2018
Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 2011
Renowned Goddess of Desire, 2008
This chapter looks at the links between “female” speech and the female body, arguing that female ... more This chapter looks at the links between “female” speech and the female body, arguing that female speech is frequently stereotypically coded as performative speech. A consequence of this stereotype of female speech is that it undermines the validity of women's speech. This chapter explores these stereotypes through comparing a myth in the Great Blue Tantra that tells the story of the birth of the feminine word, the feminine mantra, with two other examples of women's speech as connected to the body and as performative speech, within both an Indian context and in the contemporary U. S. This chapter suggests with the comparison an instance of recoding the stereotype, and with it, a recoding of the value attached to the body, matter, materiality, and Nature.
Routledge Handbook on Religion and the Body, 2023
The Matter of Wonder
This chapter addresses a key element of Abhinavagupta’s panentheism: the question of how we get s... more This chapter addresses a key element of Abhinavagupta’s panentheism: the question of how we get sentience, through looking at the possibilities for computer sentience, machine AI, and specifically Nick Bostrom’s discussion of a paperclip apocalypse. Abhinavagupta locates the essence of sentience in the term vimarśa. I suggest Abhinavagupta’s use of the term vimarśa more closely approximates what contemporary neuroscientists and philosophers, such as Anil Seth and John Searle, understand as consciousness, rather than the terms that are ubiquitously used to translate the notion of consciousness from Indian languages to English, like cit, citi, or saṃvid. This chapter argues that Abhinavagupta affords priority to vimarśa precisely because of its links to activity, a capacity to do things in our material reality. Employing a dual-aspect monism, his formulation parses out a key distinction for his panentheism, but also for a contemporary panpsychism and for New Materialism: the idea of c...
Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions, 2019
This article proposes that transcendent experiences in sports follow a model of mystical experien... more This article proposes that transcendent experiences in sports follow a model of mystical experience aligned with Tantric practices. Using the writings of 20th century scholar Gopinath Kaviraj, the mechanisms for special sports abilities operates in terms of what Kaviraj calls parakAya praveA›a, entering another body. This article explores these practices in relation to sports and cognitive science.
beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and beyond physicalism toward reconciliation ... more beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and something higher lessons from beyond physicalism beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and mystical experience and metaphysics esalen institute edward f. kelly toward reconciliation of science and and the varieties of religious experience: a study in jse 294 online brian martin loriliai biernacki curriculum vitae home | university of 0051 study guide browserfame free download beyond physicalism book bookfeeder manual solutions of ugural advanced strength ebook international accounting and multinational enterprises 6th is it floating trupin the library innovation toolkit ideas strategies and friends worship today comtemporary concepts and practices manual for powerhouse mpex browserfame guided reading activity 7 1 demand answers mrvisa imagining the new britain jbacs democratic deficitdemocratic accountability and the brothers the hidden history of kennedy years david talbot journal of the society for psychical research spr berlitz chinese mandarin cassette pack wlets dark dont catch me lxnews free download acgih industrial ventilation manual 2004 cellular respiration guide answers xciii lamb v bowen haruns review chemical equilibrium answers section 2 vaelid kessler v united states draxit the varieties of religious experience a mentor book ebook geometry final exam semester 2 answer sheet ricuk department of institutions v kinchen pugcit erg ver and psychophysics tomig stihl 029 039 chain saw service repair manual trupin hyundai galloper parts manual catalog 1991 2003 die einsamen by hkan nesser sqlman monster manual 1st edition freshu
Renowned Goddess of Desire, 2008
This chapter addresses the problem of violence toward women and the silencing of women through vi... more This chapter addresses the problem of violence toward women and the silencing of women through violence. Through a myth in the Great Blue Tantra (Bṭhannīla Tantra) this chapter examines a metaphorical enactment of violence towards women where the Blue Goddess of Speech is abducted by two demons. In this myth a metaphorical rape occurs where the Goddess of Speech is silenced and metaphorically defiled, registered through her loss of fair white skin. That it is the Goddess of Speech who loses her voice in the face of violence records a psychological acuity on the part of this text's author. This myth narratively makes transparent the links between violence and the loss of speech. How do men and women respond to violence towards women? In this case the myth's calm compassionate response offers a refiguring of the ability and stategies for speech for women as victims of male violence.
Panentheism across the World's Traditions, 2013
Divine Multiplicity, 2013
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2013
This paper proposes an example of mimicry as an instance of intertextuality across genres, reveal... more This paper proposes an example of mimicry as an instance of intertextuality across genres, revealing a complex social response to normative, orthodox attitudes towards women through a close analysis of two very different types of male-authored religious texts from India, Tantric texts and a particularly famous law book, Manava Dharma Śāstra. I argue that mimicry functions to undermine a normative stance towards women by appropriating and subverting the well-known verse from Manu's Law Book that states that women should not be permitted any independence from their male guardians. In this case, this verse is reformulated to reverse the meaning it originally had in Manu's Dharma Śāstra, communicating a very different attitude towards women. This Tantric subversion of Manu suggests not only that elements of legal texts impacted on non-dominant populations through imitation and circulation in circles outside of expected Brahmanical orthodoxy, but also that textual satire via appropriation of these verses may have at times offered resistance, contesting the political assertions of a normative view.
CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CONSCIOUSNESS MIND, NATURE AND ULTIMATE REALITY, 2023
Oxford University Press, 2023
Renowned Goddess of Desire: Women, Sex and Speech in Tantra, 2007
English Language Notes, 2012
Transformations and Transfer of Tantra in Asia and Beyond, 2012
... Guralnick, David White, Nina Molinaro, Bob Lester, Barbara Fox, Faye Kleeman, Michelene Pe-sa... more ... Guralnick, David White, Nina Molinaro, Bob Lester, Barbara Fox, Faye Kleeman, Michelene Pe-santubbee; also especially Nicole Castillo and Matt Swoveland who ... Delhi, and As-sam; the Das family, including Baiti Das, Jiten and Jyoti Das, Minu, and Mithu, and Riju, Pinky and ...
Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2018
Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 2011
Renowned Goddess of Desire, 2008
This chapter looks at the links between “female” speech and the female body, arguing that female ... more This chapter looks at the links between “female” speech and the female body, arguing that female speech is frequently stereotypically coded as performative speech. A consequence of this stereotype of female speech is that it undermines the validity of women's speech. This chapter explores these stereotypes through comparing a myth in the Great Blue Tantra that tells the story of the birth of the feminine word, the feminine mantra, with two other examples of women's speech as connected to the body and as performative speech, within both an Indian context and in the contemporary U. S. This chapter suggests with the comparison an instance of recoding the stereotype, and with it, a recoding of the value attached to the body, matter, materiality, and Nature.
Routledge Handbook on Religion and the Body, 2023
The Matter of Wonder
This chapter addresses a key element of Abhinavagupta’s panentheism: the question of how we get s... more This chapter addresses a key element of Abhinavagupta’s panentheism: the question of how we get sentience, through looking at the possibilities for computer sentience, machine AI, and specifically Nick Bostrom’s discussion of a paperclip apocalypse. Abhinavagupta locates the essence of sentience in the term vimarśa. I suggest Abhinavagupta’s use of the term vimarśa more closely approximates what contemporary neuroscientists and philosophers, such as Anil Seth and John Searle, understand as consciousness, rather than the terms that are ubiquitously used to translate the notion of consciousness from Indian languages to English, like cit, citi, or saṃvid. This chapter argues that Abhinavagupta affords priority to vimarśa precisely because of its links to activity, a capacity to do things in our material reality. Employing a dual-aspect monism, his formulation parses out a key distinction for his panentheism, but also for a contemporary panpsychism and for New Materialism: the idea of c...
Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions, 2019
This article proposes that transcendent experiences in sports follow a model of mystical experien... more This article proposes that transcendent experiences in sports follow a model of mystical experience aligned with Tantric practices. Using the writings of 20th century scholar Gopinath Kaviraj, the mechanisms for special sports abilities operates in terms of what Kaviraj calls parakAya praveA›a, entering another body. This article explores these practices in relation to sports and cognitive science.
beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and beyond physicalism toward reconciliation ... more beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and something higher lessons from beyond physicalism beyond physicalism toward reconciliation of science and mystical experience and metaphysics esalen institute edward f. kelly toward reconciliation of science and and the varieties of religious experience: a study in jse 294 online brian martin loriliai biernacki curriculum vitae home | university of 0051 study guide browserfame free download beyond physicalism book bookfeeder manual solutions of ugural advanced strength ebook international accounting and multinational enterprises 6th is it floating trupin the library innovation toolkit ideas strategies and friends worship today comtemporary concepts and practices manual for powerhouse mpex browserfame guided reading activity 7 1 demand answers mrvisa imagining the new britain jbacs democratic deficitdemocratic accountability and the brothers the hidden history of kennedy years david talbot journal of the society for psychical research spr berlitz chinese mandarin cassette pack wlets dark dont catch me lxnews free download acgih industrial ventilation manual 2004 cellular respiration guide answers xciii lamb v bowen haruns review chemical equilibrium answers section 2 vaelid kessler v united states draxit the varieties of religious experience a mentor book ebook geometry final exam semester 2 answer sheet ricuk department of institutions v kinchen pugcit erg ver and psychophysics tomig stihl 029 039 chain saw service repair manual trupin hyundai galloper parts manual catalog 1991 2003 die einsamen by hkan nesser sqlman monster manual 1st edition freshu
Renowned Goddess of Desire, 2008
This chapter addresses the problem of violence toward women and the silencing of women through vi... more This chapter addresses the problem of violence toward women and the silencing of women through violence. Through a myth in the Great Blue Tantra (Bṭhannīla Tantra) this chapter examines a metaphorical enactment of violence towards women where the Blue Goddess of Speech is abducted by two demons. In this myth a metaphorical rape occurs where the Goddess of Speech is silenced and metaphorically defiled, registered through her loss of fair white skin. That it is the Goddess of Speech who loses her voice in the face of violence records a psychological acuity on the part of this text's author. This myth narratively makes transparent the links between violence and the loss of speech. How do men and women respond to violence towards women? In this case the myth's calm compassionate response offers a refiguring of the ability and stategies for speech for women as victims of male violence.
Panentheism across the World's Traditions, 2013
Divine Multiplicity, 2013
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2013
This paper proposes an example of mimicry as an instance of intertextuality across genres, reveal... more This paper proposes an example of mimicry as an instance of intertextuality across genres, revealing a complex social response to normative, orthodox attitudes towards women through a close analysis of two very different types of male-authored religious texts from India, Tantric texts and a particularly famous law book, Manava Dharma Śāstra. I argue that mimicry functions to undermine a normative stance towards women by appropriating and subverting the well-known verse from Manu's Law Book that states that women should not be permitted any independence from their male guardians. In this case, this verse is reformulated to reverse the meaning it originally had in Manu's Dharma Śāstra, communicating a very different attitude towards women. This Tantric subversion of Manu suggests not only that elements of legal texts impacted on non-dominant populations through imitation and circulation in circles outside of expected Brahmanical orthodoxy, but also that textual satire via appropriation of these verses may have at times offered resistance, contesting the political assertions of a normative view.
CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CONSCIOUSNESS MIND, NATURE AND ULTIMATE REALITY, 2023
“Body and Mind in Medieval Hinduism” in Cultural History of Hinduism in the Post-Classical Age, 800-1500 CE. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2022 , 2022
“Subtle Body: Rethinking the body’s subjectivity through Abhinavagupta” in Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies. George Pati and Katherine Zubko, Eds., Routledge Press , 2019
