Introduction to Yoga is not a "How-To" Yoga book. With insightful prose, Bragdon offers an introduction (first published in 1933), to the philosophy of yoga as an aid to expanding the human consciousness. From mastering the art of concentration to finding new depth in sexuality, this is a frank, perceptive call to rethink how we live our lives in the modern world. Still relevant today it explores the true search for "meaning" in the spiritualism of Yoga. From An Introduction to Yoga"This I discovered to be Yoga's "secret". ...
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Introduction to Yoga is not a "How-To" Yoga book. With insightful prose, Bragdon offers an introduction (first published in 1933), to the philosophy of yoga as an aid to expanding the human consciousness. From mastering the art of concentration to finding new depth in sexuality, this is a frank, perceptive call to rethink how we live our lives in the modern world. Still relevant today it explores the true search for "meaning" in the spiritualism of Yoga. From An Introduction to Yoga"This I discovered to be Yoga's "secret". . . a secret which is incommunicable: each must discover it for himself. But the process is communicable...................................For there are many in the world today who find themselves at an impasse. Materialistic science, having destroyed in them the faith which sustained their forefathers, and the inspiration by which they were fired, gives nothing in its place.They long to experience the inner life of the spirit, but mere vague aspiration gets them nowhere; what they need is something in the nature of a technique. Yoga supplies that need."
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Fair Poor jacket. Third printing, 1949. Jacket in Poor condition. Book in Poor condition. No markings. Tight binding. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.
