Georg Feuerstein, Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus (New York: Paragon House, 1991).
Georg Feuerstein, Sacred Sexuality: Living the Vision of the Erotic Spirit (Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1992).
Georg Feuerstein, Yoga Morality: Ancient Teachings at a Time of Global Crisis (Prescott, AZ: Hohn Press, 2007) ("The average Westerner today has little or no interest in sacred rituals. The daily routine chores along with watching or reading the news, TV entertainment, regular physical fitness sessions, scheduled visits to the hairdresser, and the weekend spectator game have become substitute rituals. Even many of those who have won through to a spiritual way of life find rituals tedious and outmoded. [T]hey fail to see the advantage of involving the body in the spiritual process. Be that as it may, the discipline of self-transcendence does not inevitably involve ritual. But it demands that we in fact commit to consistent acts of self-sacrifice. Metaphorically, we must be willing to ascend our own funeral pyre or, to put it differently in traditional terms, sever our own head with the sword of wisdom as did the goddess Chinnamasta." Id. at 71-72. "Yoga is inner sacrifice or self-sacrifice par excellence. No longer did the Upanishadic yogins require external rituals to concentrate the wandering mind, though many continued to avail themselves of this useful medium. They learned to appreciate that the mind itself was sufficient to work the miracle of deep self-transformation. The central object of all such self-sacrificing practices like Yoga is to transcend the human condition and therefore also transcend the cosmos itself." Id. at 76. "Turning to the contemporary 'Yoga scene,' we find little evidence of the virtue of chastity either in the married or unmarried state. Sexy outfits for women and men are common in so-called Yoga classes. Modesty, once a highly valued yogic virtue, is considered old-fashioned. There are even public classes in 'nude yoga,' and a fashionable coterie of Yoga practitioners indulge in sexual free-for-alls under the pretext of practicing Tantra-Yoga. Centuries ago, the Tantric tradition fell into ill-repute in India owing to the same erroneous interpretation. Today, this kind of distorted Tantra is an underground movement in India and part of the New Age movement in the Western hemisphere. As an authentic tradition, however, Tantra thrives largely only in the sophisticated form of Tibetan and Vajrayana Buddhism. Here the emphasis is on ritualism, insight, renunciation, and compassion rather than sensual or sexual practices." Id. at 167.).
Georg Feuerstein, The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice, 3rd Ed., with a foreword by Subhash Kak (Prescott, AZ: Hohn Press, 2008) (a reference work surveying the 5,000-year history of Hindu, Buddhist, Jaina, and Sikh Yoga) .
Georg Feuerstein, Stephan Bodian, & Staff of Yoga Journal, Living Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide for Daly Life (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee Books, 1993).
Georg Feuerstein, Stephan Bodian, & Staff of Yoga Journal, Living Yoga: A Comprehensive Guide for Daly Life (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee Books, 1993).
