Mirror of consciousness
Subtitle: art, creativity, and Veda
By: Anna Bonshek.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Vedic literature -- History and criticism.; Creative ability.; Art and religion.
Notes: Includes passages in Sanskrit.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [462]-469) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: ART AS A LANGUAGE GAME: LAMENTING THE LOSS; title: OF UNIVERSAL VALUE; title: 1 Modern Art and Theory: Created by a Genius, Art Evokes; title: Universal Aesthetic Emotion; title: 2 Indian Theory: Art and Santa; title: 3 Postmodern Art as a Pluralist Language Game: Pointing to the; title: Unnamable; title: 4 Beyond Postmodernism: Universal Value in Art and a New Sense; title: of Self; title: PART II: ACCESSING AND ENLIVENING A UNIVERSAL FIELD OF; title: PURE CONSCIOUSNESS; title: 5 Pure Consciousness: The Universal Self-Referral Source of; title: Creation; title: 6 Developing Higher States of Consciousness through the Practice; title: of the Transcendental Meditation Technique, the TM-Sidhi; title: Program and Yogic Flying; title: 7 Scientific Research on Maharishi's Technologies of Consciousness; title: PART III:THE VEDA AND THE VEDIC LITERATURE: THE; title: COMPLETE DISCLOSURE OF NATURE'S CREATIVE; title: MECHANICS; title: 8 Self-Referral Consciousness as the Structure of Rk Veda: The; title: Holistic Value of Natural Law at the Basis of Creation; title: 9 The Mandala Structure of Rk Veda; title: 10 The Forty Aspects of the Veda and the Vedic Literature and their; title: Qualities of Intelligence: Impulses of Consciousness as the; title: Structuring Mechanics of Rk Veda; title: 11 The Absolute Values of Each of the Four Vedas: Rk, Sama, Yajur,; title: and Atharva Veda; title: 12 The Vedinga and the Darsana: The Expansion and Submergence; title: of Self-Referral Consciousness and the Phenomenon of Cognition; title: 13 Upa-Veda: The Subordinate Veda or Third Cluster of the Vedic; title: Literature; title: 14 Ayur-Veda, Brahmana and Pratiiskhya: The Final Three Clusters; title: of Natural Law; title: PART IV: NATURAL LAW: THE UNIVERSAL FOUNDATION OF; title: HISTORY, TRADITIONS, CULTURE AND LANGUAGE; title: 15 The Purpose and Dynamic of History: The Rise and Fall of Natural; title: Law in the Cyclical Unfoldment of Consciousness; title: 16 Traditions: Different Modes of Activity Governed by Dharmas; title: 17 Culture as the Expression of Specific Laws of Nature: Governing; title: Geography, Climate, Mannerisms, Language and Accents of; title: Different Peoples; title: PART V: THE ARTIST AS A UNIVERSAL HUMAN BEING CREATING; title: UNIVERSAL VALUE IN ART AND AESTHETICS; title: 18 The Role of the Artist: Spontaneously Functioning from the Level; title: of Natural Law; title: 19 The Creative Process: Operating from the Level of Nature's Creative; title: Mechanics; title: 20 Universal Art and Its Effects; title: 21 Aesthetic Value and Aesthetic Response: Leading the Viewer; title: Toward Bliss and a Unified Self; title: PART VI: UNCOVERING THE DETAILS OF THE NATURE AND; title: STRUCTURE OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE; title: VASTUSUTRA UPANISAD; title: 22 Re-Contextualizing the Vistusiitra Upanisad: Uncovering Wholeness; title: 23 The First and Last Sftras: Containing the Wholeness of the Text; title: in Seed Form; title: 24 The Artist and Creative Process: Knowing What Consciousness is; title: and What It is Made of; title: 25 Form or Rupa: Unmanifest to Manifest; title: 26 Point, Line, Grid, Triangle, Square, Circle and Number as Values; title: of Consciousness; title: 27 Transformative Futures; title: NOTES; title: APPENDIX; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY; title: INDEX.