Brian blessed autobiography of a yogi
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I was dropping a lot of acid in the mid-1960s and getting increasingly distanced from reality. One of the acid gurus of Venice Beach, CA suggested the path of “turn on, tune in, drop out” was not for me. He suggested I read the AY – “I think that’s the path for you.”
I continued to do drugs until I bombed out and spent nine weeks at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI). It was known as the “Brill Hilton” because Dr. Brill was the head, and movie stars with frazzled brains would check in there – I saw one or two.
After graduating from NPI, I read AY. I’d realized that God was the only answer. Being a Stanford grad, I decided I would make an objective study of religion. I liked that the AY (and the Bible) challenged me to test the spirits. And that’s exactly what I did.
The AY appealed to me because it made religion completely scientific. Every day, whenever I had some question about something that Master said in the AY, or a general question about the spiritual life, I prayed with fierce energy for the answer. I thought, “If religion is real, and Yogananda is right, then I will receive an answer.”
And I did – every single time. Here’s a good example. At one point, I wanted to know if
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Autobiography of a Naked Yogi
byYogi Aaron
There are moments in our lives that stick--the image, the feeling, the very essence of what happened leaving an indelible imprint on our minds.
What occurred near Tapovan, India, at an altitude of 4463 meters (14,640 feet) in the Himalayas, is one of those moments--and not only because this is one of the most majestic places I've visited during a lifetime of travel.
Descending on foot toward Gangotri in 2007, some 24 kilometers (approximately 15 miles) from Tapovan, everything I had practiced as a Tantrik was tested in the instant after I heard my group's cries, "look up!" And that was it--a boulder twice the size of a basketball flattened me, my leg in pieces.
My leg was shattered. Genuinely, painfully, dangerously broken.
So many times throughout my life until this very second, I had been beaten down--physically, emotionally. But here in what's known as the "Abode of the Gods," I found myself truly fractured, and realized it would take all I knew about the will, the spirit, the mind and the breath to put the pieces together again.
Chapter 1. The Early Years
"You cannot force the creative process--life unfolds in its own time, in its own way."
Most kids come from plain old copulation.
I, on the other hand, am the
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Autobiography of a Yogi
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