Chapter One: Yoga's Effects on Mind and Body 1
The Purpose and Standpoint of Yoga 1
Eight Stages of Yoga 3
Moral Training 3
Bodily Training 6
Spiritual Training 14
A Summary of the Effects which Yoga Practice
Has on Body and Mind 28

Chapter Two: Approaching Concentration, Meditation, and Samadhi from Various Angles 33
On Concentration 33
Viewing Concentration Ontologically 33
The Synchronization of Consciousness 36
The Presence of Wandering Thoughts 39
Wandering Thoughts and the Hypnotic State 43
Partial ESP & PK in the Hypnotic State 46
A Physiological Interpretation of the State in which Wandering Thoughts Occur 47
From Concentration to Meditation 49
On Meditation 50
Meditation seen from an Ontological Standpoint 50

A Partial Union in the Astral Dimension Similarities and Differences in the Meaning of Things Astral and Things Physical 57
Psychological and Physiological Understanding 60
Of Meditative States 68
The Various Stages in Meditation Paranormal Ability and its World in Meditation 73
The Function of Kundalini in Meditation 77
On Samadhi 81
Examining Samadhi from an Ontological Perspective 81
The Individual as Topos 84
Being as Topos in the Astral Dimension 86
Encounter with Demons before Entering Samadhi
The Importance of Faith 87
The Differences between the Trance State and the Individual as Topos 88
Paranormal Phenomena that Occur in Samadhi
in both the Astral and Karana Dimensions 91
Physiological Differences that are observable in an
Individual Who Enters a State of Samadhi in
the Astral Dimension and He Who Enters the
State of Samadhi in the Karana Dimension 98
Karmas that must be fulfilled after Satori 101

Chapter Three: A Guideline for Concentration, Meditation, and Samadhi109
Preliminaries to Meditation 109
Concentration 109
The State 109
Wandering Thoughts 110
Dispelling These Wandering Thoughts 110
The Cause and Effects of Wandering Thoughts 111
Achieving a State of Concentration 112
Meditation 113
The State 113
Breathing 113
Posture 114
Wandering Thoughts 114
Mental Impressions of Previous Lives 115
The Demonic State 115
Techniques for Dispelling Wandering Thoughts and Demonic State 116
Astral Projection 117
Silent Voices 118
The Feeling of Expansion 118
Achieving Meditation 119
Samadhi 119
The Initial Stage of Samadhi 119
Continuing Samadhi 120
Deepening Samadhi120
Samadhi and Freedom 120
The Union with God and Ajna Chakra 121

Appendix One 123
Appendix Two 143
Appendix Three 145
Index 146

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Chapter IV

The Condition in which Unconsciousness
or Super-Consciousness is apt to appear and
What causes the Condition

Generally speaking, unconsciousness or super-consciousness is apt to appear in the conscious region, when various operations of consciousness have weakened or stopped. Next I will state each condition in which each unconsciousness or super-consciousness is apt to appear.

Individual unconsciousness is apt to make its Powerful and frequent appearance the moment various operations of consciousness weaken, not stopping. Or there are occasions when the moment individual unconsciousness exceeds consciousness in power in spite of the normal operations of consciousness, individual unconsciousness interrupts conscious operations or acts for them. (Such a condition is frequently seen in a nervous disease or hysteria). In consequence, various operations of consciousness need not stop and become empty and serene in order that individual unconsciousness appear in the conscious region. What is necessary is that individual unconsciousness exceeds the conscious region in power. On the contrary, individual unconsciousness which continues beyond time and space as long as the individual is reincarnated, super individual unconsciousness and super consciousness do not make their appearance until the conscious region stops its various operations and becomes empty and serene, and individual unconsciousness is also completely quieted.