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Re: energy practices, hinayana, the super psychic model of enlightenmentFrom: Michael Winn
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-04-10 21:56:57
Remote IP: 207.69.2.102
MessageThe 2nd cen. ad date on patanjali is the earliest date posited by some scholars, and of course yogu enthusiasts tend to go for the earliest date possible as if antiquity validated something. The range of dating is all the way up to the 9th century AD.
What is perhaps more interesting is that the Aryans - who invaded India and brought in a full blown high religion and culture from an unknown location - do not make use of chakras in the tantric science way in any of the Vedas or the Upanishads.
I agree that all these methods are tens of thousands of years older (hence my reference to them being "remembered") - but that also means that they disappears for long periods. I don't think there is much evidence that this type of spiritual science was common in 600 BC India during the time of Buddha, otherwise we would have more references in the spiritual literature. But we don't. That doesn't mean they weren't being passed down by oral tradition. But it reduces the probability that they were mainstream or widely known.
These esoteric sciences do show up in the Chinese literarture much earlier, withthe school of Zou Yan integrating yin-yang theory and five phase theoryin 360 BC.
My own opinion is that yoga and Vedic spiritual sciences came from Atlantis; that the Aryans were part of the Atlantean diaspora that moved into so many other parts of the world - Egypt, central America, coast of europe,
where they spread their spiritual technology.
michael
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