Praise for Measuring Sky Without Ground "No one can write as you do without it being forged in the bliss of Her divine fire, no one comes to Her knowledge without being prepared to offer themselves in the flames... only they know the passion of this surrender! Beautiful poet, i salute you, for you are doing the work, the great work of preparing the vessel so She may flow through... oh how i too ardently long for there to be nothing left of me but the Goddess! I appreciated DRAGON SIGHT deeply... i have absorbed it and pay homage to you for not only attempting but actually executing such a work. Thank goodness, thank Goddess , for beings like you. --Penny Slinger, author of THE PATH OF THE MYSTIC LOVER The Mirage and the Mirror: Thoughts on the Nature of Anomalies in Consciousness and The Goddess and the Godman: An Explorative Study of the Intimate Relationship of the Goddess Kali with Sri Ramakrishna of Dakshineswar have already been published as one book by 1st Books. This text, Measuring Sky Without Ground: Essays on the Goddess Kali, Sri Ramakrishna and Human Potential is the compilation of the remaining six texts in that series. Please see The Mirage and the Mirror for a description of the eight texts. The topics of this present book on Tantra and Vedanta are as follows. Kalee and the Sacred Feminine: An Initial Blessing of Her Direct Reality. Groundwork for New Edition of 'Measuring Sky Without Ground' is on the Self as Atma and the Divine Mother. The Goddess' Primordial Formula is on the Primal Principles of the Waking, Dreaming, Deep Sleep, Self Paradigm. Clear Consciousness is on Waveless Thought. The Creatrix Kalee. The Goddess' Tantra. Kalee Kunda. Kalee Bhava I: The Heroic Moods of Friendship, Wisdom and Oneness in the Goddess Kali. What Ego Might Be (A Quick Journey of Discovery). The Source of All Ideas (On Bhavamukha: The Divine Mood of The Goddess Kali). The Unqualified Power of The Divine Mother as Pure Being (On the Apparent Dualism Of Bhavamukha and Nirvikalpa). Measuring Sky Without Ground (A Pragmatic Psychology Of Non-Duality). The Lucid and the Elucidation (The Non-Dualism of Light and Emanation in the Three States of Consciousness). Inextinguishable Feeling: Goddess Centered Poetics On Love As The Central Emotion. Defining the Groundwork On The Skills of Kalee. Clearing Consciousness and Creating an Opening to Happiness. Absolute Self Bliss is Primordial Power. Kalee Bhava IV: The Causeless Jewel Of Happiness. Rendering the Indefinable: Primary Emotion and Its Conscious Connection in Spiritual Feeling. The Deathless Self and the Dramatics of the Psyche is on Consciousness as Just Consciousness, Kali's Image and Kali's Play, Kali's Nose Ring and Her Symbols, Kali as Kha, Kali as Kama, Kali as Radha and Krishna, and Kali as Her Self Uniquely Free, Ishta: The Chosen Ideal and the Revolution or Turnabout in One's Own Consciousness, Imagination and Reality, and The Threshold of Response. Because of Atma is on being nourished, staked out, caused, and fulfilled in the Self as expressed in waking, dreaming, deep sleep and the Transcendent. Soaring Thoughts: A Reconveyance of Non-Dual Goddess Consciousness. Sahaja Sakti: Immediate Power in the Direct State of the Goddess Purely Unfettered by the Four Conditions of Consciousness. Wisdom, Self Balance and the Great Sentiment: Vijnana Bhava: A Particle of Bhavamukha. Ignorance, Knowledge and Perfect Wisdom. Fear, Love and the Great Sentiment. Phenomena, Noumenon and Self Balance. Existence, Pure Existence and Self Existence. Nitya Mukha and Lila Bhava. Neti Neti, Brahmajnana and Iti Iti. Wisdom, Self Balance and the Great Sentiment. Sublime Emotion and the Face of the Goddess. The Day and Night of Kali (The Lila, the Nitya and Vijnana). Turiya Bhava: In The Mood Of The Fourth State. Her Footprints Through Time: The Old Goddess Tradition in the Far East, origins, the ten Wisdom Goddesses, the Goddess and Narada and the Transcendent Function. Goddesses of the Rigveda: A Questioning of Origins comparing Tantra and Veda. Bursting the Sharp Mid Point of the World Mind Cultus: On the Subject of the Cultic Mind Set. The Guru Problem: Spiritual Trauma and Abuse in the Causal Dynamic of the Guru Dilemma. Spiritual Solutions to Psychological Equations. Spiritual Moments in High Sakti and the Problem of Return to Complex Cognition. Living Sakti: Attempting Quick Knowing in Perpetual Perception and Continuous Becoming. Living Sakti Within Physics, Psychology, and Spirituality. Kali: The Allayer of Sorrows: On the Spontaneous Experience of Innate Non-Dualistic Subjective Consciousness. The Empress Kali: The Pure Power of Her Sakti In Independent Natural Spirituality. Moving, Feeling, Being with the Mystic Sage of Kali's Dakshineswar. The Radical View of Kali: A Study in Religious Distortion. Great Delight: On the Primary Emotion of Love and Its Paradoxical Relation to Our Spiritual and Sexual Nature. Defining The Groundwork for Kalee Kunda: The Goddess' Flower (Poetics On Rapture And Ecstasy In Goddess Consciousness, Within The Symbols Of The Sacred Feminine). Free Thoughts: Tremendous Love, Kalee Lovers, Primary Spirituality, Consciousness and Neural Activity, Ineffability.