Index
Abhedananda, Swami, 45, 127,
131, 132
ākāśa, 59– 62, 70, 76– 78, 81, 85– 86,
196n9, 196n10, 200n76. See also
astral and ether
Akashic Record, 60, 79, 85
Albanese, Catherine A., 10, 58,
83, 206n41
Alexander, Gross Mrs., 53, 196n99
Alter, Joseph S., 4, 5, 16, 130, 186
Ananda Church of Self Realization, 18,
142, 207n6
animal magnetism, 64– 69, 84, 198n20
Aristotle, 62
Arnold, Edwin, 36, 38, 40, 75, 194n41
Ārya Samāj, 71, 201n23
āsana
demonstrations of, 46, 113, 127, 133
and Kriya Yoga, 134, 135
and the Vedanta Society, 130, 131
and Vivekananda, 41
and Yogananda, 17, 113, 129, 133,
141– 144, 147, 158, 207n8
astral, 72– 73, 85– 87, 98, 122, 162,
170–175, 208n40, 209n43
astral planet. See Hiranyaloka
Atkinson, William Walker, 39– 40, 49,
88, 131, 174, 198n25. See also
Ramacharaka, Yogi
avatāra, 88, 92, 171, 175– 177
Babaji, Mahavatar, 19, 88, 91– 93, 95,
119– 120, 134, 168, 170, 173,
175–176, 210n52, 210n54
Bagchi, Basu Kumar. See
Dhirananda, Swami
battery, body as, 81, 84, 135, 136, 140,
146, 149, 151, 161
The Beatles, 19
bed of nails, 8, 22, 29, 31, 33, 116,
179, 180
Bernard, Pierre Arnold, 17, 48– 49, 52,
54, 127– 128, 130, 132, 148, 184
Bernier, François, 26– 29, 32
Bey, Hamid, 12, 114– 119, 146, 155
Bhagavad Gītā, 26, 35, 40, 42, 92, 146
bhūta- śuddhi, 134, 204n24
Bikram Yoga, 141, 180, 182, 184, 185.
See also Choudhury, Bikram
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, 14,
66, 69–78, 82, 95, 146,
208n40, 209n43
Boston
Dhirananda in, 106
and metaphysical religion, 67,
144, 206n41
Vivekananda in, 43– 44
Yogananda in, 90, 102– 103, 110,
126, 141
brahmayoni mudrā, 134
Brahmo Samāj, 38, 40, 45, 74, 99, 102