Thursday Satsang via Zoom – October 29, 2020
“Thinning of the Veils: The Dream State and Yoga”
with Paul Emerson, Ph.D.
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m
7:00 p.m. – Meditation with Swami Radha Bharati
7:30 p.m. – Talk with Paul Emerson, Ph.D.
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During fall we traditionally think of the ending of things and in the Christian calendar there are all saints and all souls days to act as a reminder. Esoteric tradition also talks about the “thinning of the veils” when the ‘other world’ is especially close to this one. However, outside of spiritualism there are many such veils–the present and future being an obvious one. Another veil familiar to us is the demarcation between sleep and dream. Dream (swapna) is one of the basic states of consciousness but one we don’t always talk about in yoga. In this talk we’ll endeavor to make the dream veil slightly more transparent.
Paul Emerson is a biomedical engineer with a Ph.D. He is the authority on the physiology of breathing for The Meditation Center and has been teaching yoga for over 30 years. Paul has worked as a research scientist, has been a manager of clinical research with a major biomedical company and a university instructor. In addition, he holds eight patents in the areas of dialysis and sleep therapy. he is a scholar of ancient yoga texts. Paul was certified by the Rockford School of Yoga and began teaching in 1975.
