Whither Modern Yoga in the West?
A Student's Guide to the History and Philosophy of Yoga - Revised edition - Peter Connolly
Peter Connolly [+ ]
The Open University
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Peter Connolly (PhD) was, for many years, senior lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Chichester, England, where he taught courses on Ethics, Indian Religion and Psychology of Religion. He has also worked as an associate lecturer in both Psychology and Religious Studies with the Open University and has delivered many courses on the history and philosophy of yoga for a number of yoga training institutions. He is fascinated by all forms of altered states of consciousness, has trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and hypnosis, and experimented with psychedelic chemicals and a variety of meditation techniques, including Divine Light, Lam Rim, Sant Mat, Transcendental Meditation and Buddhist Vipassana, all of which offer interesting perspectives on the psychology of religious experience.
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If the arguments set out in the previous chapter have any force then modern practitioners of yoga will need to think carefully about the broad framework within which they locate their practice and which provides the goals or ultimate aims of that practice.