WHAT IS HINDUISM?
been not just to share his own embodied spiritual
awareness or ‘inner knowing’ but to crystallise it into a
comprehensive new body of spiritual knowledge – one relevant
not just to the life of the individual, but to our whole
understanding of society, the sciences, religion and the
future of human civilisation.
‘The New Yoga of Awareness’ is a body of refined
‘yogic’ knowledge built on the foundation of ‘The
Awareness Principle’ and ‘The Practice of Awareness’. It
offers a wealth of new spiritual-scientific insights to all
types of readers, whether familiar with traditional yogic and
tantric practices or not, whether practitioners or teachers,
scholars or philosophers, Hindus or Buddhists, Christians,
Jews or Muslims. That is because Acharya Peter Wilberg,
who understands himself as a “Tantric Hindu Gnostic
Christian Socialist Jew”, has reinterpreted the inner
meaning of Eastern religious terminology, thought and
practices in the broadest possible global and historical
context. In particular however, he saw how his own unique
inner experiences found their reflection in the different
schools of Tantric religious philosophy known collectively
as ‘Kashmir Shaivism’ or ‘Shaivist Tantrism’. As a result he
has been able to reinterpret this highly refined spiritual
tradition on a new experiential basis and within a wholly
new conceptual and terminological framework, one which
he calls simply ‘The Awareness Principle’. ‘The Awareness
Principle’ and ‘The Practice of Awareness’ constitute the