HIGHER PSYCHICAL DEVELOPMENT (YOGA PHILOSOPHY): AN OUTLINE OF HINDU TEACHINGS
Book Details + Condition: Kegan Paul, French Trubner and Co. Ltd (London). Uncommon First Edition, 1920. Hardcover with dark blue boards; gilt to spine. 289 pages with Index. Illustrated with b&w images and photographs. Famous occult / metaphysical author Hereward Carrington outlines the secret Hindu teachings, providing an overview of yoga philosophy and its practices for spiritual growth and self-realization. Chapters include:
- An Outline of Yoga Philosophy
- Asana (Bodily Posture)
Pranyama (Breathing Exercises)
- Mantrayoga (Chants) and Pratayarhara (Meditation)
- Dharana (Concentration)
- Dhyana (Concentration)
- The Kundalini (Continued); and How It is Aroused
- The Kundalini (Continued); "The Fourth Dimension," Etc.
- "The Guardians of the Threshold"
- The Relation of Yoga to Occultism
- The Relation of Yoga to "Psychics"
- The Projection of the Astral Body
Interior hinges are cracked, but binding remains firm; slight lean to book; rubbed corners and edges; rubbing to spine and spine ends; wear to boards, with areas of discoloration and warping to small area of cloth cover; heavy toning to endpapers; toning to interior pages; yoga penned notes to ffep and 4 pages with minor inked underlining. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
