Multi-logue (samvâda) between India and world culture through prism of postmodern thought: ethnogenesis ('Âryan' identity), knowledge management (taxonomies), cognitive science (phenomenology), aesthetics (humor theory), philosophy (Foucault's archaeology of knowledge), ethics (purushârtha), feminism (thealogy), psychoanalysis (transgression), trance (shamanism), eschatology (Egyptian mysteries), religion (conversion), by focusing on contemporary relevance of Abhinava's legacy from 11 C.

Complementing collaborative project Abhinavagupta Synthesis of Indian Culture, focus is exploring cross-civilizational significance of specific conceptual insights, value systems, cultural sensibilities, privileged experiences, historical choices, semiotic processes: very genesis of tradition.

Anyone interested in India is welcome: Hindu-Buddhist debate (Dharmakîrti's logic), language philosophy (Bhartrhari), non-dual realization (Shankara), Sanskrit theater (hermeneutics of clown), anthropology of religion (Bhairava), Muslim-Shaiva osmosis (Lalla Nûr-ud-Din), etc., to clarify how these influences have (been) informed (by) Abhinava's outlook.

Also those, esp children of Abraham (messianism, monotheism), grappling with Western thinkers, both ancient (Plotinus) and modern (Heidegger), proponents of esoteric tradition (Guénon) or evolutionary consciousness (Gurdjieff), cross-cultural approaches to literature, inter-religious dialogue, spiritually motivated global politics, and even merely curious, to share in interactive experience that alone can lay the viable basis for communities of future. Collective exercise in pedagogy worthy of universal Hierophant - read Guidelines before posting!