ABOUT PAUL MULLER-ORTEGA

Professor Paul Muller-Ortega, Ph.D., is recognized internationally as one of the world's most highly respected and renowned academic scholars in the field of Indian Religion and Hindu Tantra. He is the founder of Blue Throat Yoga, which teaches the elegant Svatantra philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism along with the practice of Neelakantha Meditation.
For more than forty years, Professor Muller-Ortega has been a pioneer in the technology of consciousness, lecturing and teaching about meditation and Indian philosophy to hundreds of thousands of people in North and South America, Europe, and India. Through his books, articles, essays, commentaries, and translations, he has earned a reputation for his unparalleled scholarly authenticity, as well as being a charismatic teacher with a remarkable capacity to convey esoteric truths and teachings in ways that are fully accessible, relevant, and comprehensible to the western mind.
Professor Muller-Ortega is the author of the highly acclaimed book, THE TRIADIC HEART OF SHIVA: KAULA TANTRICISM OF ABHINAVAGUPTA ON THE NON-DUAL SHAIVISM OF KASHMIR,(State University of New York Press, 1989) in which he examines the "heart" as the mystical core of consciousness. He is also one of the co-authors of MEDITATION REVOLUTION as well as numerous scholarly articles on aspects of Tantric Studies. For the past thirty-five years, Professor Muller-Ortega has been a Professor of Religion at Michigan State and then the University of Rochester, known for his passionate and i nnovative teaching style and enrolled-to-capacity classes.
Professor Muller-Ortega has been a practitioner and teacher of meditation for over forty years. He has formally studied with several of the greatest meditation masters of our time, and subsequently has organized and taught hundreds of meditation seminars disseminating potent practices of meditation to thousands of individuals. It is this rare combination of training, experience, skill, spiritual practice, and profound insight that makes Paul Muller-Ortega unique in his field.
For the past several years, Paul has developed his own highly successful year-long study program called ENTERING THE HEART OF SHIVA, as well as teaching Neelakantha Meditation Initiation Classes throughout North America. He has also been invited to teach with and for some of the most renowned yoga teachers of our time such as John Friend, Shiva Rea, Sianna Sherman and others.
Paul is known for taking his students on a profound guided tour of consciousness that is inspiring, life changing and enlightening.
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