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Free Will and Predestination – Yoga Style

What is free will? Does the idea even make sense? Taimni and van der Leeuw help us get a handle on the matter…

Yoga Grows on You

I’m sitting here listening to Cat Stevens. It makes me reflect on how ubiquitous the insights of yoga have become in my thinking.

You Are What You’re Not

What does it really mean that the nature of things is relative?

FREE EBOOK: Patanjali’s Ten Types of Samadhi and More!

Samadhi is a compilation of my writings on the practical aspects of yoga.  The contents are culled from PlaneTalk, What is Science? and The Yogic View of Consciousness.  The purpose of this book is to bring my discussions of the practical side of yoga together into a single volume for the Reader’s convenience.

FREE EBOOK: The Yogic View of Consciousness

What is the yogic view of consciousness? You can read my answer in this 370 page book on the PlaneTalk blog, or you can download it as a PDF and read it as a FREE EBOOK!

The Yogic View of Consciousness: Introduction

This is the Introduction to the book The Yogic View of Consciousness, by Donald J. DeGracia, Ph.D.

The Yogic View Of Consciousness 33: Conclusion

This is it! After 33 Chapters we conclude our presentation of the yogic view of consciousness.

The Yogic View of Consciousness 32: Reflections on Samadhi

Here we tie up loose ends.  The samadhi recipe is capped off by a discussion of how sabda, jnana, and artha fit in.  Leibniz was right that we perceive everything all the time. I throw in some snakes eating their tails for colorful effect.

The Yogic View of Consciousness 31: A Recipe for Samadhi

We use our ingredients list to construct an at least plausible recipe for samadhi. The recipe is not complete. There are missing ingredients. But in attempting to make a recipe, at least some holes in the recipe are revealed.