Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the most literate practitioners of the English language have written about yoga. Several of them have even sweetened their message with some of their best sex-novel tricks. But despite the literary followers of Indian philosophy -Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, John (Voice of the Turtle) Van Druten and Gerald Heard-yoga is still as mystifying as Sanskrit to the average American...
Dragging the audience along in his search for spiritual peace, Tyrone eventually goes on a pilgrimage to deepest India, where he picks up an interesting yoga trick that will cure headaches. Against an improbable Himalayan backdrop, he also receives from a holy man a number of fine platitudes, including the one that gives the story its title ("The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path of Salvation is hard...
Madame & the Masters. It was in India-eventually she set up Theosophy's permanent international headquarters at Adyar, Madras-that the pattern of the Society began to crystallize. Here she accumulated Theosophy's assorted bag of borrowings from Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, the cabala. Here she incorporated the key Theosophist doctrine of reincarnation and developed to the full her hierarchy of "Masters"-Tibetan superbeings who guide mankind through Theosophy...
...provoked her in many ways, said she. First, he had caused her great mental anguish by insisting on living alone with his father in the "penthouse of the gods" (which she had bought for him), then he had tried to force money out of her by1) invoking Yoga powers, 2) "well-nigh choking and strangling me," 3) suing for separate maintenance because of a rheumatic heart which kept him from working (but not, thanks to the life-giving powers of Kundalini, from standing on his head for three hours at a time...
...With a friend she went to see "Doctor" Pierre A. Bernard, formerly Oom the Omnipotent, at his handsome Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack, N.Y. He is an ex-barber who found there was money in "sex worship" and later took up Yoga, the Hindu art of controlling mind through muscle-(he trained Prize Fighter Lou Nova for his bout with Joe Louis). Oom said he could help Junior for a "membership fee" of $125. His method: "We kid people out of being grouchy...