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Figures
1.1 “Bed of Thorns,” National Geographic 24 (1913) 30
1.2 “American Women Victims of Hindu Mysticism,”
Washington Post, February 12, 1912 50
1.3 Film advertisement for The Love Girl (1916) in The
Moving Picture World, July 1916 55
3.1 Yogananda’s audience in Los Angeles on February 22,
1925 in East- West 1(1) 104
3.2 Yogananda’s lecture advertisement in the Los Angeles
Times, October 13, 1925 114
3.3 Hamid Bey advertisement in the Los Angeles Times,
April 8, 1931 117
3.4 Hamid Bey advertisement in the Los Angeles Times,
April 11, 1931 117
4.1 Müller’s “Slow Trunk Circling Exercise” from his My
System (1904) 138
4.2 Yogananda’s “Exercise for Waist” from his Yogoda or
Tissue- Will System of Physical Perfection (1925) 139
E.1 Bela Lugosi as Roxor, the Eg yptian mystic turned
supervillain, with his death- ray machine in Chandu the
Magician (1932) 187