This book is the republication of the original twenty-one journal volumes entitled Disturbing Delights.  They were written between 1992 and 1994 in various stages.  Each volume was thirty or so pages.  I am glad to offer them now through 1st Books.  The essay "Quantum Kamakala: Seeking the Mysterious in Hidden Tantric Superstructures and Quantum Superstring Theory," was written in this year of 2000.  So I have added it here.  Some of the individual essays have been published in Prabuddha Bharata, The New Times, Vital Signs, Transformation Times and Global Vedanta, during the process of making Disturbing Delights: Waves of the Great Goddess, or there after.  That was always a pleasure to know those essays were printed for a somewhat wider audience.  "Narendra: The Thread Bearer" was originally published in Eternal Platform.  It is also included here.  Disturbing Delights evolved out of Three Waves, The Imperishable, A Little Book For Kalee: A Few Flowers for the Great Goddess and A Few Waves of Delight on the Precious Sea of the Goddess Kalee.  Also, one or two essays and pieces came from Years of Wonder, Dream Appearances, Remembrance, Recognition and Return, The Dark Deitess, and Dragon Sight: A Cremation Poem, Dragon Thoughts and Dragon Maker.

"The Sentiment of Empathy," "The Heart Sentiment," "The Heroic Value of Embodiment" and "Cognitive Forces" were published in The New Times.  "Cognitive Forces" was also published in Prabuddha Bharata.  "Sri Ramakrishna as Personal Companion" was published in Global Vedanta.  "The East Indian Idea of Death" was published in Vital Signs.  "Ego and Reality" in Transformation Times, "The Bhava Lilas of Sri Ramakrishna," "Sri Ramakrishna’s Gong," "Spiritual Experiences in the Dream" (Taijasa Svapna Siddha), "The Process of Awareness," "The Scientist, The Philosopher and The Vedantin," and "Narendra: The Man Lion" were published in Prabuddha Bharata.

It may appear somewhat curious that much of the writing in Disturbing Delights has an erotic and romantic quality to it when most of the influence on me has been from my Swami friends who are absolute monks that have given up kama and kanchana (desire and gold) in the divine fire of Viraja Homa (a symbolic sacrificial cremation of the former life now given entirely to the Spiritual).  A death before death.  One thing is that Tantra uses erotic attraction to attract us to the Spiritual.  Another reason is that as a married person I have sought to explain to myself the mystery of feeling, through Tantra, so that I may also find what so many of the Swamis have found in their lives.  Peace of Mind and Spirit.  A kind of coming to terms with worldly pleasure or worldly dilemma as one may perceive it.  Really, at the core, it is not just the lust for pleasures and wealth that is the culprit here, but the ego’s consciousness that lusts to identify with the body alone when we are so much more than that, mind, and even more!  Nevertheless, it is a spiritual question we all share and must find the answer to.  I hope Disturbing Delights will be of some help in that solution.

Richard Chambers Prescott is a writer and publisher of twenty books of poetry.  He has had five plays published by Aran Press in Kentucky and over seventy essays and articles published from the U.S.A. to India.  His essay, "The Lamp of the Turiya," has been translated into Dutch and published in the Amsterdam journal, Vedanta.  Over the last several years, some articles and essays have been printed in Prabuddha Bharata and The New Times.   The intent of his writing is to join the spiritual and psychological aspects of human nature.  He has donated to the publication of a text on the woman saint, Gauri Ma. Grascott Publishing has published two books of humor by Swami Bhaskarananda, The Danger of Walking on Water and One Eyed Vision.  Some of his collected essays have been published in the texts, such as, "Because of Atma: Essays on Self and Empathy" and the work entitled "Measuring Sky Without Ground: On the Goddess Kali, Sri Ramakrishna and Human Potential."   His manuscript, The Goddess and The God Man: An Explorative Study of the Intimate Relationship of the Goddess Kali with Sri Ramakrishna of Dakshineswar came later and is perhaps the crown of those creations.  Then, The Mirage and the Mirror was born out of continuous pondering on the Goddess.  His most recent text, Inherent Solutions to Spiritual Obscurations which is a comparison of Tibetan Dzogchen and Indian Advaita in four parts: The Wonder of the Dakini Mind, Letting Go and Soaring On, Resolution in Pure Mind and the Ancient Method, is now available through 1st Books and as a perfect bound text through Ingram Book Co.  The Mirage and the Mirror (including The Goddess and the Godman) and Measuring Sky Without Ground (including the other five texts in that series: Kalee Bhava, The Skills of Kalee, Kalee: The Allayer of Sorrows, Living Sakti and Because of Atma) are also available from the same sources.  And of course, Disturbing Delights: Waves of the Great Goddess (with Quantum Kamakala: Seeking the Mysterious in Hidden Tantric Superstructures and Quantum Superstring Theory) may now be acquired through 1st Books and Ingram.

His early seven books of poetry, The Sage, Moonstar, Neuf Songes, The Carouse of Soma, Lions and Kings, Allah Wake Up, and Night Reaper, are on the passionate emergence, the coming forth of spiritual desire, Neuf Songes (Nine Dreams), being the crest wave of that time.   Kings and Sages is a poetic sojourn through discoveries in East Indian doctrines. Three Waves is a poetic text on the transformation of tragedy into the love of life that then becomes spirituality.  The Imperishable is a collection of Tantric and Vedantic essays. The Dark Deitess is a sensitive text on the enigmatic stages of Goddess worship.  Years of Wonder is a recounting of time spent in searching for the spiritual.  Dream Appearances is the one-fourth of a century study and examination of the spiritual connection within the dream state.  Remembrance Recognition and Return is a record of personal spiritual return to the Goddess. The seven Dragon books: Tales, Dreams, Prayers, Songs, Maker, Thoughts, and Dragon Sight: A Cremation Poem are an evolution of the creative mind culminating with the poetic affection for non-dualism and the composition of his own cremation poem.   Kalee Bhava: The Goddess and Her Moods, The Skills of Kalee, Kalee: The Allayer of Sorrows and Living Sakti: Attempting Quick Knowing in Perpetual Perception and Continuous Becoming are purely expressions for the Goddess, conveying states, emotions, methods, techniques, direct insights, fresh discoveries, and a few personal spiritual ideas.  Disturbing Delights: Waves of the Great Goddess are twenty-one journal volumes, which are written, illustrated, and published by Mr. Prescott.  Tales of Recognition is seven stories of spiritual journeys through the past and the future, death consciousness and return.  Spare Advice is a short novel on the tragic comedy of two souls searching for truth. Racopa and the Rooms of Light is a play taking place in the after death condition.  Hanging Baskets is a comedy about psychiatry.  Writer’s Block and Other Gray Matters, written with his marriage companion, S. Elisabeth Grace, is a collection of comedy drama one acts.  The Resurrection of Quantum Joe is a comedy on physics.  The Horse and The Carriage is a comedy on disparagement. Mr. Prescott has been published side by side with other journalists, some professors, and renunciate women and men in the text Eternal Platform by the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama in Ramharipur, India. He has also been published in the journal text Matriarch’s Way and Vitals Signs: The International Association for Near Death Studies.  He has just recently had an essay entitled "Sri Ramakrishna As Personal Companion" published in Global Vedanta.  His works are in some libraries, universities and spiritual sanctuaries in the U.S.A., Europe, Russia, South America, and India.  Writing has been his spiritual practice for thirty years.  Including all volumes, he has over eighty published manuscripts, most of which are privately distributed.  His works, of twenty-five years, are now mentioned in the International Poet’s Encyclopaedia and International Authors and Writers, Cambridge, England.  As of 2001, he is forty-nine years old and has been married for twenty years.

THE LUNAR DISK

When Amakala is called the Lunar Disk it is spoken of as having 16 digits or parts or phases within it.  This Chandra Loka or Region of the Goddess Moon is described as five of the digits being the tanmatras, five being the jnana indriyas, five being the karma indriyas, with Manas, the Mind being the Receptacle of Nectar, for in Mind is everything experienced.  Everything.  As the Chandra Bindu it is the Point where Mind experiences the Nada Thrill!  This is the 16th digit of Lunar Nectar and when it is pure, inherent and contained Nada Thrill, that is Vyapika.  When as Kala Sakti, She extends forth emanating the Rays of Time and Space, it is the Vyapini stage of the same Ama Kala.  This is the Creative Side of the Lunar Disk when the Unthinkable all absorbed is expressed in the Thinkable creative expression of Mind.  Vyapika is the Nimesa (Closed Eyes) state of Amakala and Vyapini is the Unmesa (Open Eyes) state of the same.

Beyond, just a step or so, the 16th digit of the Lunar Disk is the 17th Digit of the same named the Nirvana Kala.  We will speak more of it, but for now there is another interpretation to this Amakala.  Four of the digits are variations of the Waking State.  They are waking waking, waking dream, waking deep sleep and waking Turiya.  The next four are of the Dream State, which are dream waking, dream dream, dream deep sleep, and dream Turiya.  Then comes the four of Deep Sleep.  They are sleep waking, sleep dream, sleep sleep and sleeping Turiya.  The final four are of Turiya, and they are Turiya in waking, Turiya in dream, Turiya during deep sleep and the just Turiya or purely and nothing but Turiya which is the choicest of conditions being the 16th digit level of Amakala Consciousness.  Beyond that is the 17th Digit pointing the way to the Turiyatita or beyond even Turiya.

Along side and a little below the Chandra kala is given the Siva Bindu or Surya Mandala.  The Chandra Kala is said to be in the terms of the Universal Mind as Totality within all beings.  Where the Siva bindu is in respect of the manifestation of the individual Aham as the individual Atman.  Nevertheless, within the Receptacle of Nectar or Amakala’s Lap rests the 17th Digit of Nirvana Kala and within Her Lap rests Nirvana Sakti or Parama Nirvana Sakti.  These are High States of Goddess Consciousness resting within the Laps of each other as innermost essences of Tantric Superstructures.

Prakasa is the Parama Nirvana Sakti and the Unmani or Amanibhava.  Alone it is Nimesa, but then it floods over into Unmesa, opening the eyes of the Illumined Alone upon or as the Vimarsa itself which is Nirvana Kala, and the Samani.  This Vimarsa of Samani the Nirvana Kala in conjunction with Prakasa, Unmani Parama Nirvana Sakti, floods over to become the Amakala where the Aham Nada Thrill is experienced within this receptacle of Lunar Nectar flooding over from the inner Lunar Disk.  When Samani is not viewing Amakala it is Nimesa and when She is viewing this Amakala Nada Thrill then She is Unmesa, open eyed upon that tattva or principle.  Again, when in Vyapika, She is Nimesa, but when in Vyapini, or Anjani or Kala Sakti, then She is Unmesa having opened Her eyes on time, space, energy and creation.  This is how it is.  Again, the Flooding Over into the Three Laps is representative of the three apexes or mouths of the Great Triad of the Goddess.