The idea of a subtle body within the gross human body, described in different ways across different ages and cultures, offers a rare alternative to mainstream views of the psyche as either disembodied mind or mindless brain. This webinar unpacks the model of the subtle body used in the Buddhist Tantric tradition developed in ancient India and preserved in Tibet.

While often seen as an otherworldly spiritual essence, the subtle body is revealed in this talk as an embodied neural network linking the coarse body-mind to the extremely subtle fabric of neurochemical energy, genetic information and lucid intuition which is the quantum matrix out of which all embodied minds along with their social and natural environments emerge.

After reviewing the baseline structure and function of the subtle body in ordinary life, the webinar goes on to map the contemplative alchemy by which its subtle energies and chemistry is accessed and harnessed to transform the trauma bound body-mind into a fully awakened, liberated and integrated embodiment of lucid intuition and the dream-like spirit of blissful altruism.