James Tunney, LLM, is an Irish Barrister who has lectured on legal matters throughout the world. He is a poet, a visual artist, and author of The Mystery of the Trapped Light: Mystical Thoughts in the Dark Age of Scientism plus The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution. His website is http://www.jamestunney.com.
Here he discusses the history of western and eastern traditions concerning the right and left hand spiritual paths, particularly tantra as practiced by the Aghori sect. He relates this to the left and right divisions in politics, as well as the cultural distinction between conservative/classical and romantic. The discussion also encompasses unarmed, martial arts combat.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. He is Co-Director of Parapsychology Education at the California Institute for Human Science.
(Recorded on November 13, 2020)
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LINKS TO SOME BOOKS SHOWN IN THIS INTERVIEW:
James Tunney, The Mystical Accord: Sutras to Suit Our Times, Lines for Spiritual Evolution – https://amzn.to/2ugamVh
M. Ellsberg (Ed.), The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins – https://amzn.to/3nxsiRI
R. Svoboda, Aghora: At the Left Hand of God – https://amzn.to/2IUkp9K
F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil – https://amzn.to/3lZzup6
G. I. Gurdjieff, Struggle of the Magicians – https://amzn.to/2Hl3LQo
C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength – https://amzn.to/3kKmi67
A. Strindberg, Inferno – https://amzn.to/35JJlK6
R. Gallagher, Demonic Foes – https://amzn.to/2UJyTfm
P. Sorokin, The Ways and Power of Love – https://amzn.to/30VY3e6
E. Underhill, The Column of Dust – https://amzn.to/353kpMc
W. Godwin, Lives of Necromancers – https://amzn.to/38Tzwvg
S. Grof, The Cosmic Game – https://amzn.to/2Hl5mFS
J. Krishnamurti, Action – https://amzn.to/2IVgZ73
Franz Bardon, The Practice of Magical Evocation – https://amzn.to/36QOShh
