Transmission:
Journal of the Awareness Field
Essays listed in chronological order starting with most recent. For archives, please see previous volumes below.

Mind As Knower of Forms, And Awareness as The Knower of Being: A Phenomenological View
We have two ways of knowing. Our mind knows forms, things, both subtle and gross. Faces, hands, buildings, trees, math formulas, mind...

Phenomenology of The Sublime Vibration as Word and Language
By becoming aware of awareness we can experience the innermost sense or the felt sense of spaciousness and self-illumination. Within this...

Timeless Awareness as Dzogchen: A Phenomenological View
Timeless awareness is the essence of Dzogchen. Time experienced within timeless awareness is also an expression of the essence of...

A Phenomenology: Being Beyond Good and Evil and Living within The Realm of Good And Evil
This paper is an ethical discussion about how action emerges from and out of timeless awareness through us into time. Our understanding...

Phenomenology of Respiration and the Sense of Whoness within Tantra as Personhood
The felt sense of whoness is not a me-ness…me is self-fixation and in fact the sense of whoness can free us from objectified...

Phenomenology of Dualistic and Non-Dual Knowing: Dzogchen and Kashmir Shaivism
One Knower: Different Modes of Knowing In all philosophical and psychological traditions knowing has many different meanings. In Tibetan...

The Conversation Within Astrology
By Peter Matthew Bauer Contemporary understandings of astrology as well as those of other forms of divination will often focus on...

The ‘Alam al-Mithal: Henry Corbin & the Sufi Ibn ‘Arabi
By Peter Matthew Bauer This essay serves as a first step in a longer survey on archetypal cosmology and the archetypal field, one drawn...

The Trans-Lucidity of the Gaze of Awareness: A Phenomenology
The lucidity of awareness is experienced directly through the doorway of our subjectivity as our own innermost awareness. As we gaze into...

Archetypal Cosmology & The Writing of Richard Tarnas
By Peter Matthew Bauer Archetypal Cosmology & The Writing of Richard Tarnas Astrology, Synchronicity, & Two Paradoxical Narratives of...

The Phenomenology of Language Unfolding within the Awareness Field
Language is not simply about signs and signification. There is a tension between wording and word signs. Â Language is not simply the...

Dzogchen As Gnosticism: A Phenomenological View
Transmission of Light In the summer of 2013 at the Tibetan Center in Poolesville, Maryland the great Lama YangThang Rinpoche gave...

Self-Illumination as a Co-Emergent Process
Being within awareness as awareness and being with another who is within awareness is a most powerful skillful means to bring forth...

Mingling Minds
There is a word and an instruction that a most wonderful Lama gave in a meditation seminar that I would like to describe. The...

Embodiment of Awareness as Light
In this practice of becoming aware of our own awareness, the qualities of this awareness, of this field become more and more...

The Essential Distinction between Mind and Awareness: Within the View of Dzogchen
As David Higgs so clearly shows in his dissertation, between the 8th and 14th centuries there were illuminating phenomenological...

Ingathering into Awareness
By Sharon Bauer, MSN Often the question is asked how do I integrate this experience of the light into my everyday life? Some would say we...
