Posted by on April 05, 2010 at 17:06:02
In Reply to: Re: Prof. M.M.Ninan Emergence-of-Hinduism-from-Christianity posted by Peace on April 03, 2010 at 22:24:28:
Peace:
I'm an idiot--my apologies--I actually had a "brain fart" ("A SUDDEN PUBLIC RELEASE OF IGNORANCE--usually unintentional! :-) ) about Paramhansa Yogananda--he came to the US in 1920, wrote a VERY influential book, "Autobiography of a Yogi" (hugely instrumental in my experimentation with his "Kriya Yoga" (like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's--the "Beatles guru", he put together a "modern rehash" of plain ole yoga--a form that marketed better--Yogananda'a was really hardcore, and Mahesh's was copmparably lightweight).
Yogananda started the Self Realization Fellowshgip, and claimed a Christian could also take part in his system of Yoga without violating Christian principles; back in the 'twenties and later.
You were right and I was wrong.
I experieneced the "Pranhic heat energy" phenomenon he wrote about in his book--very powerful, convincinng to a non-Christian, and VERY demonic.
School's out--gotta go--more later, if you can stabd it.
OT2