Hatha Yoga Pradipika

Yoga Swami Svatmarama HATHA YOGA PRADIPIKA Foreword by B K S Iyengar Commentary by Hans Ulrich Rieker Translated by Elsy Becherer Aquarian/Thorsons An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers   The Aquarian Press An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 77-85 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8JB First published in Great Britain by George Alien & Unwin 1972 This edition […]

Yoga Sutras

YOGA SUTRAS SAMADHI PADA BOOK I AUM atha yoganushasanam OM. Now begins instruction in yoga. (1) yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah Yoga is the restraint of the modifications of the mind. (2) tada drashtuh svarupe ‘vasthanam Then the Seer is established in his own essential nature. (3) vritti-sarupyam itaratra Otherwise, there is self-identification with the mental modifications. (4) […]

Shiva Sanhita

THE ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY OF THE TANTRAS SHIVA SANHITA, TRANSLATED BY SRISCHANDRA BASU, B. A., F. T. S., VAKIL, HIGH COURT, N. W. P. CALCUTTA HEERALAL DHOLE, 127,   M U S J I D B A R I    S T R E E T ____ 1887. .       Dedication ____ TO MAHARSI H.S. OLCOTT, […]

Icarus & Daphne

This is a story of two modern people whose stories parallel those of two character’s from Greek Mythology. Icarus is an anachronistic poet bard dreaming of true love. In the original myth of Icarus, he was the boy who didn’t heed the warnings of his father and flew too close to the sun, burned his wings, […]

The Number of God is 26

In Kabbalah they believe that God is from A to Z. Or in another word, God is word.  And in Christianity it is exactly the same. Old tenement declares; At the beginning there was word, word was with God , word was God. Same story, God is word. In Hebrew, the number of God is […]

Hawaiki

Hawaiki is the place where Io, the supreme being, created the world and its first people. It is the place from which each person comes, and it is where each will return after death. Full story by Te Ahukaramū Charles Royal Main image: ‘Hawaiki’, by Wilhelm Dittmer

The Huang Di Neijing, Timeless Taoist Wisdom

The Huang Di Neijing describes correspondence between the articulations of the body and the cosmos, specifically between heaven and earth and the upper and lower parts of the body: Heaven is round, earth is square; people’s heads are round, their feet are square and thereby correspond to them. Heaven has the sun and moon, people […]

“I am heir to all the ages, at the foremost files of time.”

If we consider the shortness of human life, and our limited knowledge, even of what passes in our own time, we must be sensible that we should be forever children in understanding, were it not for this invention, which extends our experience to all past ages, and to the most distant nations; making them contribute […]

Quantum Awakening

The brain is a quantum computer that processes sensual input with remarkable acuity, visual sensitivity to 1 photon, skin feeling the difference in 1 billionth of an atmospheric pressure variation and the fingers can feel object as small as 3 nanometers. Our comprehension of Quantum physics is now at the same point that our understanding of electromagnetism was two hundred years ago.  Quantum computers […]