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TOPICS (introduced below, with links to further web pages):
Mental Health
Meditation
Tantra
Books
In memoriam: Robert C. Solomon
About Jinavamsa (Mitchell Ginsberg)
General Links Information
Mental Health:
For an orientation in the world of psychotherapy, along with a number of links to various on-line articles and further perspectives in this field, please see on mental health, a brief description of my orientation related to Buddhist Mindfulness Practice, found listed at San Diego Buddhism (scrolling down to the listings of "Buddhist Therapists"), Reflections for Couples, and also video on Survivors of Torture, International: SOTI.
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For an orientation in the world of psychotherapy, along with a number of links to various on-line articles and further perspectives in this field, please see on mental health, a brief description of my orientation related to Buddhist Mindfulness Practice, found listed at San Diego Buddhism (scrolling down to the listings of "Buddhist Therapists"), Reflections for Couples, and also video on Survivors of Torture, International: SOTI.
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Meditation:
For visitors to this web page who may be interested in or curious about an approach to heart-felt mindfulness as taught under the name of insight (vipassana) meditation, please see the page on insight meditation, with various further links. There are also some chapters available online from my book The Far Shore. There is also more on The Far Shore, below. On meditation and mental health (psychotherapy), see the essays found at Dayamati on therapy.
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For visitors to this web page who may be interested in or curious about an approach to heart-felt mindfulness as taught under the name of insight (vipassana) meditation, please see the page on insight meditation, with various further links. There are also some chapters available online from my book The Far Shore. There is also more on The Far Shore, below. On meditation and mental health (psychotherapy), see the essays found at Dayamati on therapy.
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Tantra:
For more on respectful and intimate teachings in the world of tantra, see Tantra Pujas and links there, with more at sites listed at tantra index.
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For more on respectful and intimate teachings in the world of tantra, see Tantra Pujas and links there, with more at sites listed at tantra index.
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About Mitchell Ginsberg (Jinavamsa):
For more on my background in academic (university-level) teaching, at the Universities of Michigan, Yale, Antioch, at the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, etc., as well as a variety of Post-doctoral and Visiting Scholar appointments through the decades, please see IUPS Faculty: Mitchell Ginsberg, Ph.D., as well as the following link (about the author). For more on my background in the world of psychotherapy and psychotherapy research as well, please see professional links. For more of my background in the context of research and writing, please see About The Author (in pdf format) or About The Author (in html format).
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For more on my background in academic (university-level) teaching, at the Universities of Michigan, Yale, Antioch, at the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, etc., as well as a variety of Post-doctoral and Visiting Scholar appointments through the decades, please see IUPS Faculty: Mitchell Ginsberg, Ph.D., as well as the following link (about the author). For more on my background in the world of psychotherapy and psychotherapy research as well, please see professional links. For more of my background in the context of research and writing, please see About The Author (in pdf format) or About The Author (in html format).
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General Links Information:
Preliminary areas I will touch upon here include: meditation practice, Buddhism, Sufism, Hasidism, wisdom teachings, poetry, as well as psychology and psychotherapy, philosophy, and linguistics (adding a dash of serendipity here and there). A variety of links are provided as a menu offering a smorgasbord of snacks in these and other domains.
These links are now presented in two groupings. Those in the first group lead to other pages I have prepared; those in the second lead to a variety of other sites on the web, including links to the sites for subscribing to three discussion groups that might be of interest: theCreative Solutions for Peace , Insight Practice , and Chishtiyya discussion groups .
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Preliminary areas I will touch upon here include: meditation practice, Buddhism, Sufism, Hasidism, wisdom teachings, poetry, as well as psychology and psychotherapy, philosophy, and linguistics (adding a dash of serendipity here and there). A variety of links are provided as a menu offering a smorgasbord of snacks in these and other domains.
These links are now presented in two groupings. Those in the first group lead to other pages I have prepared; those in the second lead to a variety of other sites on the web, including links to the sites for subscribing to three discussion groups that might be of interest: the
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Books:
On new books, continue reading here, just below: For books already in print -- The Far Shore (1980; fourth edition, 2009) and The Inner Palace (2002; revised fifth edition, 2008) -- more on these (including some selections) see the books directory or index listing these (specific files are listed by clicking on each of these titles listed there).
Click here to return above to the passage on meditation. And click here for other books recently published and in preparation, below.
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On new books, continue reading here, just below: For books already in print -- The Far Shore (1980; fourth edition, 2009) and The Inner Palace (2002; revised fifth edition, 2008) -- more on these (including some selections) see the books directory or index listing these (specific files are listed by clicking on each of these titles listed there).
Click here to return above to the passage on meditation. And click here for other books recently published and in preparation, below.
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The fifth edition (2008) of The Inner Palace: Mirrors of Psychospirituality in Divine and Sacred Wisdom-Traditions,
dedicated to the memory of my friend
Robert C. Solomon,
has now been published.
This
book
investigates the phenomenology (that is, the experiential basis and consciousness states) of personal transformation as addressed by the various psycho-spiritual Wisdom Traditions of the world,
a book which Bob described as "mercifully undogmatic, despite its theme which has often become the most 'dogmatic' of subjects" (quoting from his Foreword to the book, at p. iv).
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Covers of the fifth edition:
This fifth edition was published in 2008. Please note that the ISBN of all editions of this book are identical. It is perhaps best simply to confirm which edition is being offered, before making the purchase. (The year of the printing is identified on the copyright page of each volume.) For more specifics, please see the Introduction to The Inner Palace. Please note that The Inner Palace is sold as a two-volume set. The covers of these two volumes have remained the same since the second edition of the book. These newer covers are slightly different from those of the first edition (2002), shown just below.
This fifth edition was published in 2008. Please note that the ISBN of all editions of this book are identical. It is perhaps best simply to confirm which edition is being offered, before making the purchase. (The year of the printing is identified on the copyright page of each volume.) For more specifics, please see the Introduction to The Inner Palace. Please note that The Inner Palace is sold as a two-volume set. The covers of these two volumes have remained the same since the second edition of the book. These newer covers are slightly different from those of the first edition (2002), shown just below.
Covers of the first edition:
At
are sites for The Inner Palace in particular:
For an overview of the book, see Blue Dolphin Publishing: The Inner Palace. For reviews and appreciations of the book, see Sketch and Reviews of The Inner Palace. For the publisher's presentation and full listings (ask for the 20% discount ), see
the Home Page of Blue Dolphin Publishing.
For comparisons of pricing of these texts (please be sure to notice which edition of any title is being quoted), see sites given at Web page introducing The Inner Palace.
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For an overview of the book, see Blue Dolphin Publishing: The Inner Palace. For reviews and appreciations of the book, see Sketch and Reviews of The Inner Palace. For the publisher's presentation and full listings (Return to top of page.
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There are several further books that are recently published (immediately below) or
are being prepared at this time.
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Recently published: the 2009 edition of The Far Shore
This 2009 edition is the fourth edition (the third Indian edition, published by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi) of The Far Shore: Vipassana, The Practice of Insight. There are selections from this book that are available to be read online. .
The Revised Edition (2009) is now available for purchase. It can be distinguished from the earlier editions by its new ISBN 13: 978-81-208-1348-9, which is found on the copyright page of the book. The earlier ISBN 10 found in the first two editions by Motilal Banarsidass was 81-208-1348-0.
ISBN 10 refers to the ten digits of that number; ISBN 13 has thirteen digits. Both numbers are considered to refer to the book in any of its editions (even though the copyright pages differ as described here.)
More information is available from the publisher, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, at its site The Far Shore, Third Edition.
For your convenience, for orders within the USA, you may order directly by going to Ordering The Far Shore.
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. Of books being prepared, their tentative titles are:
(1) Tango Tantras: The Embrace of Yearning and Love
(2) Peace and War and Peace, and Other Poems
and especially,
(3) Calm, Clear and Loving, now submitted for publication.
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This last-mentioned book -- Calm, Clear, and Loving, whose subtitle is Soothing the Distressed Mind, Healing the Wounded Heart. Reflections on Nietzsche, Janet, Freud; Psychotherapy, Love, and Mindfulness -- presently includes the following contents:
"The Passionate RCS Memorial Conference"
"Foreword by Kathleen Higgins" (see also Wiki)
"Foreword by Claudio Naranjo" (see also Wiki)
"Foreword by Chloe Alana Ashby"
"The Concept of Love and its Logic" (on the logic and structure of love, 1964)
"Action and Communication & Schizophrenogenesis" (a discussion of the double-bind theory of schizophrenia and of psychiatric staff-patient interactions and misunderstandings, published in London in 1974)
"Nietzschean Psychiatry Revisited" (2009 update of a chapter in Robert C. Solomon, editor, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1973)
"Individual Therapy and Family Therapy (à la française)" rendering into English an article published in Paris in 1983 (This title may perhaps be read more clearly using View, Character Encoding, User Defined; or Western Windows 1252, Western ISO Latin 1, or Western Mac OS Roman.)
"Pierre Janet: Misleading Concepts and Integration"
"Commentary on Nietzsche's HAH 379: Survival of the Parents"
"Psychotherapy versus Psychospirituality"
"The Pivot of the Dao"
"The Transmission of Mind"
"After The Death of Mahāmāyā" (This title may perhaps be read more clearly using View, Character Encoding, User Defined; or Western Windows 1252, Western ISO Latin 1, or Western Mac OS Roman.)
"Remorse"
"Forgive and Remember"
"Life, Death, and Survival"
"Pathologizing Distress"
"Inter-Personal Mindfulness Practice (IPMP)"
"The Liberating Power of Mindfulness"
"Can't I Do Anything Right, Daddy?"
"Options When Overwhelmed"
"An Enigma No More"
"Full Circle Transformation"
among various contemplated chapters.
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This 2009 edition is the fourth edition (the third Indian edition, published by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi) of The Far Shore: Vipassana, The Practice of Insight. There are selections from this book that are available to be read online. .
The Revised Edition (2009) is now available for purchase. It can be distinguished from the earlier editions by its new ISBN 13: 978-81-208-1348-9, which is found on the copyright page of the book. The earlier ISBN 10 found in the first two editions by Motilal Banarsidass was 81-208-1348-0.
ISBN 10 refers to the ten digits of that number; ISBN 13 has thirteen digits. Both numbers are considered to refer to the book in any of its editions (even though the copyright pages differ as described here.)
More information is available from the publisher, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, at its site The Far Shore, Third Edition.
For your convenience, for orders within the USA, you may order directly by going to Ordering The Far Shore.
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. Of books being prepared, their tentative titles are:
(1) Tango Tantras: The Embrace of Yearning and Love
(2) Peace and War and Peace, and Other Poems
and especially,
(3) Calm, Clear and Loving, now submitted for publication.
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This last-mentioned book -- Calm, Clear, and Loving, whose subtitle is Soothing the Distressed Mind, Healing the Wounded Heart. Reflections on Nietzsche, Janet, Freud; Psychotherapy, Love, and Mindfulness -- presently includes the following contents:
"The Passionate RCS Memorial Conference"
"Foreword by Kathleen Higgins" (see also Wiki)
"Foreword by Claudio Naranjo" (see also Wiki)
"Foreword by Chloe Alana Ashby"
"The Concept of Love and its Logic" (on the logic and structure of love, 1964)
"Action and Communication & Schizophrenogenesis" (a discussion of the double-bind theory of schizophrenia and of psychiatric staff-patient interactions and misunderstandings, published in London in 1974)
"Nietzschean Psychiatry Revisited" (2009 update of a chapter in Robert C. Solomon, editor, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1973)
"Individual Therapy and Family Therapy (à la française)" rendering into English an article published in Paris in 1983 (This title may perhaps be read more clearly using View, Character Encoding, User Defined; or Western Windows 1252, Western ISO Latin 1, or Western Mac OS Roman.)
"Pierre Janet: Misleading Concepts and Integration"
"Commentary on Nietzsche's HAH 379: Survival of the Parents"
"Psychotherapy versus Psychospirituality"
"The Pivot of the Dao"
"The Transmission of Mind"
"After The Death of Mahāmāyā" (This title may perhaps be read more clearly using View, Character Encoding, User Defined; or Western Windows 1252, Western ISO Latin 1, or Western Mac OS Roman.)
"Remorse"
"Forgive and Remember"
"Life, Death, and Survival"
"Pathologizing Distress"
"Inter-Personal Mindfulness Practice (IPMP)"
"The Liberating Power of Mindfulness"
"Can't I Do Anything Right, Daddy?"
"Options When Overwhelmed"
"An Enigma No More"
"Full Circle Transformation"
among various contemplated chapters.
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Please come back soon and visit here, as I will be updating and adding to this home page as time permits.
Email: jinavamsa@yahoo.com
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More to be added.... visit when inspired.
Email: jinavamsa@yahoo.com
C 2010
last revised 9 February 2010
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