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Science of Breath, by Yogi Ramacharaka, pseud. William Atkinson, [1904], at sacred-texts.com
Science of Breath
A Complete Manual of
THE ORIENTAL BREATHING PHILOSOPHY
OF
Physical, Mental, Psychic and Spiritual Development
By YOGI RAMACHARAKA
YOGI PUBLICATION SOCIETY
CHICAGO, U. S. A.
[1904]
Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, October 2008. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923.
Science of Breath, by Yogi Ramacharaka, pseud. William Atkinson, [1904], at sacred-texts.com
INDEX
Chapter I
Salaam
<page 5>
Chapter II
"Breath Is Life"
<page 8>
Chapter III
The Exoteric Theory of Breath
<page 12>
Chapter IV
The Esoteric Theory of Breath
<page 18>
Chapter V
The Nervous System
<page 23>
Chapter VI
Nostril Breathing vs. Mouth Breathing
<page 27>
Chapter VII
The Four Methods of Respiration
<page 32>
Chapter VIII
How to Acquire the Yogi Complete Breath
<page 39>
Chapter IX
Physiological Effect of the Complete Breath
<page 43>
Chapter X
A Few Bits of Yogi Lore
<page 48>
Chapter XI
The Seven Yogi Developing Exercises
<page 52>
Chapter XII
Seven Minor Yogi Exercises
<page 57>
Chapter XIII
Vibration and Yogi Rhythmic Breathing
<page 60>
Chapter XIV
Phenomena of Yogi Psychic Breathing
<page 65>
Chapter XV
More Phenomena of Yogi Psychic Breathing
<page 73>
Chapter XVI
Yogi Spiritual Breathing
<page 83>
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| cauz |
Oct. 28, 2018, 4:28 p.m. |
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| Stephen Baldwin |
I'm not going to fight in the physical with physical weapons, because it's not a physical fight. I'm going to fight with spiritual weapons, cause it's a spiritual fight. |
| Lucy Hale |
I overanalyze things way too much, to the point where it affects my life. Like, when I'm talking to a boy, I'll overanalyze a text message he sent. And I have to think to myself, 'Just chill out. Some guy sent me a text message. That's all. Don't read something into it that's not there. Just be glad he sent you a text message!' |
| Marina Abramovic |
To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing. |
| Henry Rollins |
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. |
| Kirk Cameron |
I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in the future. So guys like... William Bradford and William Wallace, the Bravehearts, the Patriots, the Pilgrims. There are so many of those people throughout history... whose stories have just never been told. |
| Willem Dafoe |
I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands. |
| Bob Balaban |
I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago. |
| Bruce Jackson |
Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are. |
| Deepak Chopra |
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers. |
| Deepak Chopra |
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. |
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NOSTRIL-BREATHING
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MOUTH-BREATHING
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‘Breathing is the physical part of thinking and thinking is the psychological part of breathing.” – Ayurveda
Pranayama is a part of Yoga system that teaches you the art of extending your breath in many different ways. When practicing pranayama the breath should be skillfully inhaled, exhaled and retained. It teaches you to change the depth, rate and pattern of breathing.
Pranayama is a Sanskrit word which literally translates into “extension of the prana or breath”. ‘Prana’ means life-force and it is the life-force or vital energy that pervades the body. Prana is the link between mind and ...
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There are few subjects relating to spiritual development so
critically important and yet so
incompletely understood as Yoga.
Although the interest in Yoga that started
in the West during the
1960’s has abated to some degree
, the teaching of the various
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"The conflict model of science and religion offered a mistaken view of the past and, when combined with expectations of secularisation, led to a flawed vision of the future. Secularisation theory failed at both description and prediction. The real question is why we continue to encounter proponents of science-religion conflict. Many are prominent scientists. It would be superfluous to rehearse Richard Dawkins’s musings on this topic, but he is by no means a solitary voice. Stephen Hawking thinks that ‘science will win because it works’; Sam Harris has declared that ‘science must destroy religion’; Stephen Weinberg thinks that science has weakened religious certitude; Colin Blakemore predicts that science will eventually make religion unnecessary. Historical evidence simply does not support such contentions. Indeed, it suggests that they are misguided."
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Some things in this article are poorly defined or supported. Overall, I think it's an obvious claim and that people's immense existential insecurity is what keeps religion alive. That and over-generalization and misattribution of observations and patterns.
"Its advocates would be well advised to stop fabricating an enemy out of religion, or insisting that the only path to a secure future lies in a marriage of science and secularism" - what is a "secure future"? Yeah, there are some famous people listed in the article, but I think most scientists stay out of this stuff. There are so many scientists that are religious. People compartmentalize.
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I think you may be overlooking just how wrong people can be about what interests them. The requirements of my undergrad are what made me even consider trying out computer science in the first place. I would probably be an elementary school teacher by now if it weren't for my lab science requirement. Also, college provides some small form of quality control for the instructors. Not a lot, but certainly more than a decentralized network.
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To traverse the path is to become one with it.
This life is nothing short of an unfolding spark of holistic insight. Today, science tells us that the essence of nature is manna.
We must learn how to lead non-local lives in the face of desire.
The multiverse is calling to you via pulses. Can you hear it? Although you may not realize it, you are psychic. If you have never experienced this vector...
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Cybernetics has been defined in a variety of ways, by a variety of people, from a variety of disciplines. Cybernetician Stuart Umpleby reports some notable definitions:[7]
"Science concerned with the study of systems of any nature which are capable of receiving, storing and processing information so as to use it for control."—A. N. Kolmogorov
"'The art of steersmanship': deals with all forms of behavior in so far as they are regular, or determinate, or reproducible: stands to the real machine -- electronic, mechanical, neural, or economic -- much as geometry stands to real object in our terrestrial space; offers a method for the scientific treatment of the system in which complexit...
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The black bear. Gingivitis is an asset (bad breath); poor self-esteem is a liability. I'm rooting for the underdog, though; his self-esteem could use the win.
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Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles (theguardian.com)
Early exposure to air pollution from vehicles increases the risk of children becoming obese, new research has found. From a report:
High levels of nitrogen dioxide, which is emitted by diesel engines, in the first year of life led to significantly faster weight gain later, the scientists found. Other pollutants produced by road traffic have also been linked to obesity in children by recent studies. Nitrogen dioxide pollution is at illegal levels in most urban areas in the UK and the government has lost three times in ...
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