By (author) Pierce Salguero
Your experience may be real, significant, and unfolding intelligently, even if it does not match the map, language, or expectations you were given. What happens when awakening does not unfold the way your tradition says it should?
Rather than treating spiritual development as a single path or sequence of stages, Multidharma identifies four interwoven threads: Emptiness, Oneness, Energy, and Psyche. Embracing Asian, Western, Shamanic, and contemporary approaches, the model helps practitioners and teachers understand how diverse and even apparently contradictory experiences may belong to one uniquely braided unfolding process.
By (author) Pierce Salguero
Pierce Salguero has studied religion and spirituality for most of his life through texts, travel, and deep immersion into practice. As a practitioner, Pierce is most familiar with hathayoga, meditation, shamanic ancestral rituals, spirit healing, Thai medicine, and Buddhist philosophy, all of which he has studied for many decades. He is also an avid scholar of religions, having earned a BA in anthropology and cognitive science (U.Va., 1996), an MA in East Asian studies (U.Va., 2005), and a PhD specialising in Buddhist medicine (Johns Hopkins, 2010). Since earning his doctorate, Pierce has been a professor of Asian history, religions, and healing traditions, and he continues to actively conduct research and publish in all of these areas.
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"Pierce's Multidharma, based on his many years of deep practice, interviews, and teaching, approaches awakening from a rather novel approach, considering various threads of development — emptiness, oneness, energy, and psyche, as well as daily life and integration — braiding together in unique, individual, yet timeless patterns. This may be very useful to those who still wish for something phenomenal and map-esque but do not like traditional maps or wish to augment their work with traditional maps through a different and more flexible set of lenses. Recommended. Enjoy!"
Daniel Ingram, author of Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
“After interviewing hundreds of spiritual teachers and practitioners, I’ve seen how radically varied authentic awakening can be. Multidharma offers a timely, lucid, and refreshingly non-dogmatic map for that diversity. Pierce Salguero honours the wisdom of traditions while making room for the complex, nonlinear, deeply individual ways realisation actually unfolds. A valuable guide for serious contemporary explorers.”
Rick Archer, host of Buddha at the Gas Pump
