Biography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda and the Origins of Modern Yoga
180 Epilogue The man driving the motorbike is Biswanath Ghosh, nephew of Paramahansa Yogananda and son of Bishnu Ghosh. This you ...
Epilogue 181 weights, and reportedly engaged in all manner of superhuman exploits until, sometime between age seventeen and twen ...
182 Epilogue It is a well- known fact that in the twenty- first century, yoga has become big business.^10 While the previous cha ...
Epilogue 183 Taking part in a pseudo- Bikram class is like having a nurse perform brain surgery. The only way to avoid unnecessa ...
184 Epilogue tantric guru ritually possesses the neophyte sādhaka as a mechanism of initia- tion, Choudhury infuses the minds of ...
Epilogue 185 And yet when we see Choudhury criticized for routinely comparing himself to Jesus Christ and the Buddha, we must re ...
186 Epilogue the subsequent rise of the Yogi mystic, the Yogi became an embodiment of uni- versal human potential based on a com ...
Epilogue 187 his attempts to thwart the attempts of Roxor (who is himself an Eg yptian mystic) to destroy the earth with a death ...
188 Epilogue supervillain and member of the Headmen in Marvel’s Defenders series in 1975 and subsequently reprises this role in ...
Epilogue 189 The Yogi mystic of the prewar era became increasingly abstracted in his popu- lar instantiations. Universalization ...
190 Epilogue It is not common to hear modern Yogis promise their followers superpow- ers, as Yogananda had once done. Bikram Cho ...
Notes Preface De Michelis 2004: 2. Introduction Yogananda 1926c: 15. I use the currently accepted form of Yogananda’s name an ...
192 Notes Siegel 2014: 28– 35. Siegel particularly distinguishes between the powers of vaśitva, or mastery over one’s own mind ...
Notes 193 Alter 2011a: 127 See O’Flaherty 1981. Lee 1999: 85. See De Michelis 2004. See Love 2010; Laycock 2013; Jain 2014b. St ...
194 Notes It is worth pointing out that Yogananda refers to just such a Yogi in his Autobiography when he recounts the story of ...
Notes 195 Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Some Points in the History of Indian Buddhism (1881). ...
196 Notes For an analysis of the intersection of tantra and Western Esotericism, see Urban 2003. Quoted in Syman 2010: 97. Los ...
Notes 197 This might seem like a tempting premise for the models of ākāśa as the all- pervading and eternal ground of materiali ...
198 Notes James Clerk Maxwell’s famous set of equations, which form the basis of modern electrodynamics, demonstrated in 1862 t ...
Notes 199 Most studies of Spiritualism make at least brief mention of ways in which medium- ship was instrumental in creating a ...
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