Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prodigious Detour. Koestler dwells lovingly on some of the more incongruous (to Westerners) aspects of Yoga, including the "painful [Hindu] obsession with the bowel functions, which permeates religious observances and social custom." Like many a Westerner before him, he was impressed with such yogi feats as reversing peristalsis to take in fluids through the anus and urethra, but was depressed by the far-out theories that went with them-such as that the sperm (bindu) is stored in the head and should be prevented from leaving the body at all costs. The result, says Koestler, is that a large number...
...himself has been dominated only twice in his life: first by his father-in-law, later by the Nazis. Son of a provincial schoolteacher, he studied art in Paris, married the daughter of an aging sign painter. While Camus listened, the old man spun out his wisdom drawn from yoga, Greek philosophy and less classified sources-and the young man soon called him "my master...
...Edith Nourse Rogers, descendant of a Salem witch, who has served 35 years in the House, a record surpassed by no other woman and only nine men; and Ohio's Frances Bolton, a wealthy Clevelander, expert on African affairs (the pages call her "the African Queen"), a yoga devotee (she stands on her head every day) and an anti-feminist ("I'm not particularly anxious to be equal to a lot of things men think are so important"). Gracie Pfost, a freckle-faced Congresswoman from Idaho, represents a rugged district almost as large as New England, regularly birls...
...teacher of yoga for the past 21 years, I was greatly pleased to learn that a Benedictine monk has written a book on the merits of yoga, which has so often been mistaken for a religion, especially by Catholics and hence rejected by them...
...Yoga originated in India thousands of years ago, and it clearly states that its practice can be successfully taken up by a Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Hebrew, et al., as well as by an atheist...