Sinister Yogis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sinister Yogis write by David Gordon White. This book was released on 2010-07-15. Sinister Yogis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize. To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga’s practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia’s vast and diverse literature, he discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural abilities—which can include raising the dead, possession, and levitation—to acquire power, wealth, and sexual gratification. As White shows, even those yogis who aren’t downright villainous bear little resemblance to Western assumptions about them. At turns rollicking and sophisticated, Sinister Yogis tears down the image of yogis as detached, contemplative teachers, finally placing them in their proper context.
The Awakening Storm: A Graphic Novel (City of Dragons #1)
The Awakening Storm: A Graphic Novel (City of Dragons #1) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Awakening Storm: A Graphic Novel (City of Dragons #1) write by Jaimal Yogis. This book was released on 2021-09-21. The Awakening Storm: A Graphic Novel (City of Dragons #1) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grace and her friends must protect a newly hatched dragon from mysterious evildoers. When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches overnight. The dragon has immense powers that Grace has yet to understand. And that puts them both in danger from mysterious forces intent on abusing the dragon's power. And now it's up to Grace and her school friends to uncover the sinister plot threatening the entire city!
The Science of Yoga
The Science of Yoga - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Science of Yoga write by William J Broad. This book was released on 2012-02-07. The Science of Yoga available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Science of Yoga draws on a hidden wealth of science, history, and surprising facts to cut through the fog that surrounds contemporary yoga and to show - for the first time - what is uplifting and beneficial and what is delusional, flaky, and dangerous. At heart, it illuminates the risks and rewards. The book takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of undiscovered yoga that goes from old libraries in Calcutta to the world capitals of medical research, from little-known archives to spotless laboratories, from sweaty yoga classes with master teachers to the cosy offices of yoga healers. In the process, it shatters myths, lays out unexpected benefits, and offers a compelling vision of how to improve the discipline.
Yoga in Practice
Yoga in Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yoga in Practice write by David Gordon White. This book was released on 2012. Yoga in Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An anthology of primary texts drawn from the diverse yoga traditions of India, greater Asia, and the West. Focuses on the lived experiences in the many world of yoga.
Kiss of the Yogini
Kiss of the Yogini - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kiss of the Yogini write by David Gordon White. This book was released on 2006-07-07. Kiss of the Yogini available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period to the present day. Kiss of the Yogini focuses on what White identifies as the sole truly distinctive feature of South Asian Tantra: sexualized ritual practices, especially as expressed in the medieval Kaula rites. Such practices centered on the exchange of powerful, transformative sexual fluids between male practitioners and wild female bird and animal spirits known as Yoginis. It was only by "drinking" the sexual fluids of the Yoginis that men could enter the family of the supreme godhead and thereby obtain supernatural powers and transform themselves into gods. By focusing on sexual rituals, White resituates South Asian Tantra, in its precolonial form, at the center of religious, social, and political life, arguing that Tantra was the mainstream, and that in many ways it continues to influence contemporary Hinduism, even if reformist misunderstandings relegate it to a marginal position. Kiss of the Yogini contains White's own translations from over a dozen Tantras that have never before been translated into any European language. It will prove to be the definitive work for persons seeking to understand Tantra and the crucial role it has played in South Asian history, society, culture, and religion.
