Tathagata

Dan Merkur is a psychoanalyst in private practice and a research reader in the study of religion at the University of Toronto. He is the author of several books, including The Ecstatic Imagination: Psychedelic Experiences and the Psychoanalysis of Self-Actualization, The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible, and The Psychedelic Sacrament: Manna, Meditation, and Mystic…

The Gyalwa Karmapas have been the spiritual heads of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism since the 12th century and have worked tirelessly for the benefit of all sentient beings. The 17th Karmapa was born in Tibet in May 6, 1983. In keeping with the tradition of the Karmapas recognizing themselves, as a very young child Thaye Dorje repeatedly proclaimed he was the Karmapa. On Marc…