Dr. Georg Feuerstein (born 1947) is a well-known German-Canadian Indologist, and a Western authority on Yoga. Feuerstein moved to England to do his postgraduate research at Durham University [1] and subsequently lived for 23 years in the United States. Today, he is a resident of Canada and lives in Saskatchewan. Feuerstein is very prolific, having authored over 30 books on mysticism, Yoga, Tantra, and Hinduism. He has translated, among other traditional texts, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita. This article is about integral thought in philosophy and psychology. ... Haridas Chaudhuri (1913-1975), Bengali integral philosopher, was a correspondant with Sri Aurobindo and the founder of the California Institute of Integral Studies. ... Jean Gebser Jean Gebser (August 20, 1905 – May 14, 1973) was a prodigy, a student of the transformations of human consciousness, a linguist, and a poet. ... 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Ken Wilber has called him both "probably Gebser's foremost American interpreter"[2] as well as "...a scholar-practitioner of the first magnitude, an extremely important and valuable voice for the perennial philosophy, and arguably the foremost authority on Yoga today."[3] Famed historian of religions Mircea Eliade called Feuerstein's translation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali "one of the most profound and original contributions to the understanding of classical yoga". Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl Wilber Jr. ... Jean Gebser Jean Gebser (August 20, 1905 – May 14, 1973) was a prodigy, a student of the transformations of human consciousness, a linguist, and a poet. ... Mircea Eliade Mircea Eliade (March 13, 1907 – April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian, theorist of religion, and novelist notably in the fantasy and autobiographical genres. ... This is an article about the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. ...

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• The Deeper Dimension of Yoga, Shambhala (2003), ISBN 1-57062-935-8
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• Humor Suddenly Returns: Essays on the Spiritual Teaching of Master Da Free John: A Scholarly Tribute (Editor)
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Buddhism is a dharmic, non-theistic religion, a philosophy, and a life-enhancing system of psychology. ... Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ... Psychohistory is the study of the psychological motivations of historical events. ... A guru (गुरू Sanskrit) is a Hindu religious teacher. ... Adi Da Samraj (born Franklin Albert Jones, at 11:21 A.M., on November 3, 1939 in Jamaica, New York) is a modern spiritual teacher and religious guru and the founder of the new religious movement known as Adidam. ... In Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient India is a 1995 book by Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak, and David Frawley that argues against the theories that Indo-European peoples only arrived in India in the middle of the second millennium BC (the Aryan invasion theory and... Subhash Kak (सुभाष काक) (born March 26, 1947, Srinagar, Kashmir) is Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor in the Asian Studies and Cognitive Science Programs at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. ... Dr. David Frawley (born 1950 in Wisconsin, U.S.A.) is currently one of the worlds leading authors on Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma), Yoga, Ayurveda, and contemporary Indian politics. ... Jean Gebser Jean Gebser (August 20, 1905 – May 14, 1973) was a prodigy, a student of the transformations of human consciousness, a linguist, and a poet. ... Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (January 31, 1900, Serbtzi, Bulgaria - December 25, 1986, Fréjus, France) was a French philosopher, pedagogue, alchemist, mystic, magus, astrologer with Macedonian roots. ... In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Shambhala (also spelled Shambala or Shamballa) is a mystical kingdom hidden somewhere beyond the snowpeaks of the Himalayas. ... Tantra (Sanskrit: weave), tantric yoga or tantrism is any of several esoteric traditions rooted in the religions of India. ... In philosophy, transcendental/transcendence, has three different but related primary meanings, all of them derived from the words literal meaning (from Latin), of climbing or going beyond: one that originated in Ancient philosophy, one in Medieval philosophy and one in modern philosophy. ... Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl Wilber Jr. ...

External links

• Online center for Traditional Yoga Studies
• Structures of Consciousness: The Genius of Jean Gebser, an Introduction and Critique
• The Divine Mother: A Philosophical and Personal Quest