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| Nagarjuna | Buddhist saint and philosopher who lived in the first to second century C.E., famous for his doctrine of the “Middle Path” |
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| Namkhai Norbu | A Tibetan lama who is among the world’s foremost Dzogchen teacher’s. See “Dzogchen.” |
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| Narcissism | Excessive love or admiration for oneself. Psychological Condition in which a person is preoccupied with themselves, lacks empathy for others and an unconscious lack of self esteem. |
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| Natarajasana | Yoga posture that increases balance, focus and concentration. Used to deeply stretch hip, leg, back and shoulder. |
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| NBC Peacock | In 1956, John J. Graham created an abstraction of an eleven-feathered peacock to indicate richness in color. This brightly hued peacock was adopted due to the increase in color programming. NBC’s first color broadcasts showed only a still frame of the colorful peacock. On September 7, 1957 on Your Hit Parade the peacock was animated, and thereafter appeared at the beginning of every NBC color broadcast until a revamped animation appeared in 1961. Its musical backing was a gong while the peacock began its form up, then an announcer saying “The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC” while the music crescendoed, and after that a bombastic nine-note flourish while the peacock’s feathers changed color and finally filled-out. |
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| Neil Young | Neil Percival Young, OM (born November 12, 1945, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and film director. |
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| Network Spinal Analysis | Network Spinal Analysis (trademark) is an evidenced based approach to wellness and body awareness. Gentle precise touch to the spine cues the brain to create new wellness promoting strategies. Two unique healing waves develop with this work. They are associated with spontaneous release of spinal and life tensions, and the use of existing tension as fuel for spinal re-organization and enhanced wellness. Practitioners combine their clinical assessments of spinal refinements with patient’s self assessments of wellness and life changes. Greater self-awareness and conscious awakening of the relationships between the body, mind, emotion, and expression of the human spirit are realized through this popular healing work. NSA is exclusively practiced by Doctors of Chiropractic in relationship to the identification and self regulation of spinal tension and Subluxation patterns. |
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| New World Order | In new world order conspiracy theories, many things significant are caused by a powerful secret group. Historical and current events are seen as steps in an on-going plot to rule the world or implement an age of reason. The theory claims that virtually all important persons of the international world of banking, commerce, arts, entertainment, and mass media are involved. |
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| New York Radical Feminists | Group that organized Rape Speak-out in January 1971. During this event women told their stories of being raped by people they trusted, strangers, etc and when castration was said to be a good way to punish the rapists the crowd burst into applause of agreement. |
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| Niermann Weeks | Founded in 1978 by Joe Neirmann’s passion for antiques and enthusiasm for forest restoring and his wife Eleanor McKay’s historical knowledge. They create fine home furnishings and have become the industry leader. |
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Nirmanakaya, Sambhogaka,
Dharmakaya | Sanskrit terms for gross, subtle, and causal realms. See “Gross, Subtle, Causal.” |
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| Nirvana | The cessation of all suffering and the liberation from the cycles of existence. The opposite of Samsara. |
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| Nirvikalpa Samadhi | A state of pure empty awareness and Absolute Nothingness; the pinnacle of spiritual evolution. |
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| Nixon | Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. He was the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961, in the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nixon is the only person elected twice to the offices of vice president and president, and the only president to have resigned from the office of president. |
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| NLP | Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a set of techniques, axioms and beliefs that adherents use primarily as an approach to personal development. It is based on the idea that mind, body and language interact to create an individual’s perception of the world and that perceptions, and hence behaviors, can be changed by the application of a variety of techniques; in particular, “modeling” which involves the careful reproduction of the behaviors and beliefs of those who have achieved ‘excellence’. The early focus of NLP was the study of the underlying patterns in the language and techniques of noted and successful therapists in hypnotherapy, gestalt therapy and family therapy. The patterns discovered were adapted for general communication and effecting change. NLP was influenced by the ideas of the New Age era as well as beliefs in human potential. The basic ideas of NLP were developed around 1973 by Richard Bandler, a student, and John Grinder, a professor of linguistics. They focused on learning (modeling) the communication and influence patterns of successful people in various fields. |
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| Non-dual | A state of enlightened state of consciousness containing no dualities (e.g., the union of form and emptiness). Both the highest goal of all stages of consciousness and their ever-present ground. |
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| Noosphere | The noosphere can be seen as the “sphere of human thought”. In the original theory of Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Just as the emergence of life fundamentally transformed the geosphere, the emergence of human cognition fundamentally transforms the biosphere. In contrast to the conceptions of the Gaia theorists, or the promoters of cyberspace, Vernadsky’s noosphere emerges at the point where humankind, through the mastery of nuclear processes, begins to create resources through the transmutation of elements. |
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| Nostradamus | Michel de Notredame a French physician and astrologer who is said to have prophesized the rise of Adolph Hitler and assassination of John F. Kennedy. |
