The transmission
The Teachers
1,020 who carried the discovery — across Hermetic, Vedic, Sufi, mystic, scientific, and modern streams. Start with the essential few, or browse by family and tradition.
1,020 teachers · 42 traditions
4 teachers
Kashmir Shaivism
Utpaladeva
Recognition; consciousness as active I
c.900-950 CE
Kashmir Shaivism
Abhinavagupta
Spanda (vibration of consciousness) and recognition (pratyabhijna)
c.950-1020

Kashmir Shaivism
Christopher Wallis
Recognition (pratyabhijna) of one's own nature as the free, blissful Light of Consciousness
contemporary

Kashmir Shaivism
Vasugupta / Kashmir Shaivism
Consciousness self-expresses as reality
c. 8th-11th century CE (classical period)