23/06/2026
In our previous Substack essay we explored embodiment through the lens of non-dual Śaiva Ta**ra.
For some readers, the ideas no doubt felt intuitive.
For others, terms such as Śiva, Śakti, spanda, and pratyabhijñā may have seemed beautiful but difficult to grasp.
This is completely understandable. The Tantrikas were attempting to describe something that ultimately resists language: the nature of consciousness itself.
No metaphor is perfect. Every comparison breaks down eventually. Yet metaphors can help us approach ideas that are difficult to understand conceptually by pointing towards something we already know through experience.
What follows in this next essay are several different ways of approaching the same insight.
Not different truths.
Different windows looking into the same room:
whatonyogaearth.substack.com/p/when-philosophy-becomes-experience
Five Ways of Understanding Śiva, Śakti, Spanda and Recognition in Everyday Life