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Shamanism, Tantra, Dzogchen, Transpersonal Psychology - Professor Elias Capriles

Pentru limba română activați - Subtitrări Elias Capriles studied Philosophy at the graduate level at the Central University of Venezuela (Caracas), and at the postgraduate level at the University of The Andes (Merida, Venezuela). He carried out his studies on Buddhist and in general Asian spirituality, philosophy and psychology outside academic institutions, with Tibetan teachers and through his own reading and research. The same applies to his studies on psychology, which were carried out through extensive readings and his own practice at the spiritual emergency refuges he ran in India and Nepal in the mid 1970s. He also carried out his own independent psychedelic research in the 1960s and 1970s in Venezuela, India and Nepal. He teaches philosophy, Buddhism, Asian art and elective subjects at the University of The Andes in Merida, Venezuela (formerly as Chairman of Eastern Studies, currently in the Research Center on Africa and Asia), and is an instructor in the Santi Maha Sangha training in Buddhism and Dzogchen in the International Dzogchen Community presided by Dzogchen Master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. From 1977 through December 1982 he spent most of his time in retreat, intensively practicing Dzogchen in caves and cabins in the Himalayas. He has authored fourteen books in Spanish a:nd English, of which 11 were published in Nepal, Spain and/or Venezuela; he has posted provisional versions of another five books in English on his website; and has had over forty articles and several book chapters (English and Spanish) published in the US, Spain, France, Italy, India, Russia, Venezuela and El Salvador (these deal with comparative philosophy, transpersonal psychology, political philosophy, philosophy of history, political ecology, Buddhism, Dzogchen, Asian and Latin American history, Asian religions and mysticism, the history of Asian religions, sociology, etc.). His work has been discussed in books on Latin American philosophy in France, Spain, Mexico and Venezuela; in papers in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology and several other academic journals; and in various encyclopedia entries. He is a member of the Board of the recently re-founded International Transpersonal Association; on the Boards of Editors of the International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, the Journal of Transpersonal Research, the Revista de Derechos Humanos y Estudios Sociales (Journal of Human Rights and Social Studies: REDHES: Mexico), and of various Venezuelan academic journals on philosophy, cultural studies, etc.; and is Associate Editor of two academic journals in Venezuela (Utopfa y Praxis Latinoamericana, on philosophy, and Humania del Sur, on South-South relations). He has lectured in Universities in Spain, Korea, India, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica and Venezuela, and presented papers in Conferences in Spain, India, Korea, Russia, Peru and Venezuela.