Yoga and The Natural World - New Edition

Updated: 31 July 2012, 15:30 +01:00 GMT.

Yoga and The Natural World (AAAP36N).
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Dear reader, above is a new link to the pdf on the philosophy of yoga referred to in many of my posts below (thus, in those posts, please disregard older links to various versions of this my main document on the yoga). Perhaps some other links in earlier posts will also malfunction (as time goes by I look forward to having updated them all).

At present I am reediting this manuscript, "Yoga and The Natural World", which collects pieces I've written on the yoga and on our understanding of nature. I have tried to organize those texts into some semblance of stringency of development of context which is: paradigm, metaphor, and wholity of yoga (well, the yogic method is my particular stance, and yet I hold a naturalistic worldview and have therefore added a few thoughts on Science, and some other odds an' ends). I keep updating the main document now and then and everytime I open it up I find there is something in need of correction, or something to add (or delete), but, somehow, seemingly, it's all nearing completion.

So, here again, is the latest link straight to the new version:

Yoga and The Natural World (AAAP36M).
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This link will open a pdf (16 MB) in your browser (at least it does so in my IE, in my Chrome it don't, with Chrome I have to download it first. Hm?). For some other writings of mine have a look in my 'Books' folder at my Windows Live SkyDrive (you'll find download links there for all the books I am working on).

More on Yoga

Hi there,

Been a while since I posted here but having written a bit on yoga here an' there all over the cyber and having directed any potential, click-fingery reader here I'd like to take the opportunity to direct any reader with a deeper interest in the things I write about to one of my other blogs, "Another Albatross Goes Arundo".

On that blog I have collected some of my writings and engagments in the field of yoga. Have a look at the post: A few Pointers to some of my Yoga Stuff here in Cyberspace. You'll also find an animated Powerpoint slide show there, of about an half hours length, that discusses the nature of yoga and provides an heuristic metaphor I've dubbed "The Tree of Life" with which to understand and grasp the wholity of yoga. See this link: The Nature of Yoga.

For a bit 'a completness here I will again plug my (yet unpublished, first unrevised edition—a second revised edition is in the works) book on the paradigmatic nature of yoga (which I mention in the posting below). The Paradigm of Yoga: Rest & Activity.

For now,

Enjoy

The Paradigm of Yoga

Rest & Activity

(Updated: 10 December 2008, 17:30 GMT+01:00.)

So, I wrote a book on yoga.

Open publication

The Paradigm of Yoga: Rest & Activity

... and an heuristic metaphoric tool, "The Tree of Life", to understand the paradigm with. This document is still undergoing revision, this is version 17:3, 19 Nov 2008.

The cover painting here, 'Lilies', was done by Lithuanian Poet/Painter Diana Janavičiené. Inside this li'l book there are four more of Dianas paintings to help enhance my design. These were all painted in concert with my depelopment of the ideas on the paradigm of yoga, rest & activity. And a great thank you goes to Diana for the concord to the use of these wonderful works.

Now, above, in a mini viewer, you should see the on-line publication of this work on yoga. When you've activated the Flash display (by clickin' the book) you may page the book by the additional clickin' at the appropriate left/right button at the top of the display or by clickin' the paging tools on the right and left side of the book (they appear as the mouse points there), or you have the option to see this book in a full size view by clickin' at the book again (a new window will open). When you are in that mode do then choose the full screen view and (if you have a 19" screen or upwards) this book will display at almost original size, 19.1 x 18.9 cm. (If you page forward here, in the mini-viewer, to the page you wish to read and if you then click that page here the full size book will open to that page, if you click the link 'Open publication', below the flash thingy, the full size view will open up to the cover page (with that fine painting for all to enjoy).

Ain't this a beautiful way to present a book? Thank you Issuu for making these kind 'a things possible.

My little piece on Single Cell Consciousness (of my former post here) is to be found, somewhat edited, in the appendix to this book (p. 83).

I shall return here in a day or two to present a short resumé as to the contents of this, well, much informal, 'thesis' on the paradigm of yoga.

Albatross