tices for conscious parenting. For Lee Lozowick
and his students, spiritual maturity is expressed in
and through all aspects of life, and service to the
divine is expressed through service of humanity.
Further reading: Georg Feuerstein, Holy Madness:
The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise
Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus (New York:
Arkana, 1990); Lee Lozowick, Alchemy of Transforma-
tion (Prescott, Ariz.: Hohm Press, 1996); ———, The
Book of Unenlightenment/The Yoga of Enlightenment
(Prescott Valley, Ariz.: Hohm Press, 1980); ———, In
the Fire (Tabor, N.J.: Hohm Press, 1978); ———, Spiri-
tual Slavery (Tabor, N.J.: Hohm Press, 1975).
Lust, Benedict (1872–1945) founder of
naturopathy
Benedict Lust was a pioneer in what has come
to be called holistic medicine and a facilitator of
the dissemination of YOGA in the United States.
Lust was born in Michelbach, Baden, Germany.
As a youth, he became ill and was cured by Fr.
Sebastian Kneipp, a famous advocate of the water
cure, a popular form of healing in the 19th cen-
tury. He eventually traveled to the United States
as Kneipp’s official representative and in the late
1890s organized the water cure movement, espe-
cially among the many first generation German
Americans.
Meanwhile, Lust studied osteopathy and vari-
ous schools of healing that eschewed the use of
drugs and surgery. By 1900, Lust was looking
toward a new synthesis of nonintrusive healing
arts, which he termed naturopathy (a name he
actually purchased from a colleague).
In 1919, by which time Lust had launched
his long-term battle to have the government
recognize naturopathy, Lust met Sri YOGENDRA, a
yogi who had traveled to New York from Bombay
(Mumbai). Yogendra was a pioneer in reviving
HATHA YOGA as a discipline for body and mind in
India and had gone to the United States to con-
duct a set of scientific tests with the Life Exten-
sion Institute in New York. Lust quickly saw the
value that hatha yoga might have in his repertoire
of healing tools.
In 1924, Yogendra returned to Bombay. The
restrictive, discriminatory immigration laws that
went into effect at the time prevented him from
making any return visits. Thus, Lust, through
his naturopathy, was to become the major dis-
seminating force for yoga in the next generation.
Only after World War II did Asian teachers arrive
in the United States once more to help popularize
hatha yoga.
Lust died in 1945. Subsequently yoga has
been deemphasized by naturopaths, and Lust’s
role in introducing yoga in America largely for-
gotten. The Benedict Lust Publication Company
still offers books on naturopathy, health, and
healing.Further reading: Benedict Lust, The Fountain of Youth
(New York: MacFadden, 1923); Paul Wendall, Standard-
ized Naturopathy (Brooklyn, N.Y.: The Author, 1951).Lust, Benedict 263 J