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In this much-anticipated follow-up to his first book, Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy, Gregor Maehle offers a detailed and multifaceted guide to Ashtanga Yoga's Intermediate Series. An expert yogi and teacher, Maehle will guide you to your next level with an unprecedented quality of anatomical explanation and unparalleled attention to the practice's philosophical and mythological heritage. You will learn: The background and applications of each of the three forms of yoga: Karma, Bhakti, and Jnana How to use Indian myth and cosmology to deepen your practice The importance of the Sanskrit language to the yogic tradition The mythology behind the names of the Intermediate Series postures The functions and limitations of body parts integral to the Intermediate Series, including the spine, the sacroiliac joint, the shoulder joint, and the hip joint How to reap the full benefits of practicing the Intermediate Series Maehle meticulously explores all twenty-seven postures of the Intermediate Series through photos, anatomical line drawings, and practical, informative sidebars. He also discusses the philosophical and spiritual background of Ashtanga Yoga and places the practice within the context of Indian cultural history. With passionate erudition, Maehle will prepare you to reap physical, spiritual, and mental fulfillment from your evolving practice.

In this ground-breaking book, Gregor Maehle shows how the chakras offer a blueprint for the natural evolution of life via single-cell organisms, reptiles, mammals and humans. He draws on his experiences with mind-altering plant agents and chemicals during the late 70's and early 80's, as well as extensive research, to objectively describe how drugs influence each chakra, including their potential but also spiritual setbacks and dangers. The author further explores whether psychoactive substances are a useful supplement, shortcut or accelerator of spiritual evolution. The book culminates in a complete map of transformative and mystical states, including their potential accessibility through psychedelics versus traditional yogic methods.Have you ever wondered how the feeling of pure love for another is connected to divine love? Have you ever asked yourself how the experience of pure consciousness is connected to that of an indigenous shaman? Have you ever been confused by the fact that the spiritual experiences of Buddha, Jesus, Krishna or Moses led to such different traditions? Gregor discusses how natural and spiritual evolution are interlinked and how experiences of divine revelation, cosmic consciousness and shamanistic trances are interlinked.Concluding, the author shows how yogic methods can help lift humanity out of its current destructive tendency, risking its own demise via ecocide, environmental holocaust and the 6th mass extinction of life. With yogic methods we can not only safely and effectively arrive at the same states accessible through psychedelics, but can also use them to integrate both negative and positive drug experiences.

This book will not only give a precise step-by-step description of the meditation technique at the heart of yoga but also put it into context with all other yogic techniques and how they contribute to the breakthrough to spiritual freedom. Yogic meditation derives its power from the fact that it systematically suspends the entire processing capacity of the subconscious mind and diverts it towards meditation. The processing power of the subconscious mind is a multiple of that of the conscious mind. Simply watching breath or watching awareness involves only your conscious mind. For quick and effective concentration the entire power of the subconscious mind has to be harnessed. This is the secret of yogic meditation. You will also find information on the importance of Kundalini as support for meditation and the factors that make it rise, such as chakra and Sushumna visualization, mantra and breath. The text then explains how the chakras represent evolutionary stages of brain and mind development. Chakra meditation, if done in a sophisticated, high-powered way, will propel the evolution of the brain and mind of the practitioner and the awakening of higher intelligence.

In his fifth book, Gregor Maehle shows how all yogic techniques and methods collaborate to bring about its pinnacle - the state of samadhi. The book culminates in a detailed description of the eight classical samadhis as listed in the Yoga Sutra, both from the practical view of content and experience and from the techniques to access them. The author also shows the importance that these states have for a new enchantment with our world, nature, and all beings. On the way to that climax, Maehle dissolves misconceptions about samadhi, shows the importance of both objectless and the much-neglected objective samadhi, what exactly stands in the way of their arising, how obstacles are removed and dissolved, the role of the teacher, and the role of grace and devotion. He also shows how many other yogic techniques contribute to samadhi. Also covered are:ΓÇó The future possible spiritual evolution of humanityΓÇ¿ΓÇó The difference between yoga/mysticism and religionΓÇ¿ΓÇó The one underlying truth and essence in all sacred traditionsΓÇ¿ΓÇó Integration of the mystical stateΓÇ¿ΓÇó Samadhi, enlightenment, situationism, and developing the center ΓÇó Why ecstasy is importantΓÇ¿ΓÇó Whether it is possible to experience the world as it truly is?ΓÇ¿ΓÇó Conditioning and its historical aspectΓÇ¿ΓÇó The process of deconditioningΓÇ¿ΓÇó Converting mind into intelligenceΓÇ¿ΓÇó Types of karmaΓÇ¿ΓÇó Asking, guidance, and consecrationΓÇ¿ΓÇó The Divine in the Yoga SutraΓÇ¿ΓÇó Withdrawing the guru projectionΓÇ¿ΓÇó A new way of looking at the teacherΓÇ¿ΓÇó The two inner sheaths and their statesΓÇ¿ΓÇó Wrong objectless samadhis: videha and prakrtilayaΓÇ¿ΓÇó Samadhi and the breathless stateΓÇ¿ΓÇó Samadhi and chakrasΓÇ¿ΓÇó Samadhi and mudras