Journey With Yoga estimated publication date: Jun 2026

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Remissive Index; Annotated Bibliography

Remissive Index

  1. 16personalities.com website with personality testing: mentioned in Chapter 6. These are the same personality types that Dr. Dario Nardi (editor of Journey with Yoga) works with.
  2. Mahamudra Chod Buddhist practice: mentioned in Chapter 8; appendix B; and other.
  3. Silence of the lambs. Movie. Mentioned in Chapter 6.
  4. Sopara ancient trading harbour next to Elephanta Caves in India. Mentioned in Chapter 9 and appendix D.
  5. “The Circle of Iron” movie. Mentioned in Chapter 8. It is a movie after the life story of Bruce Lee.
    1. Regarding facing our shadows. I quote a dialogue between Cord and his teacher that takes place in the Zen Movie called “The Silent Flute” when they fight some dark shadowy monkeys.
    2. Mentioned in Chapter 10 regarding a second birth and Cord coming from himself in the movie (not having a father or mother).
  6. “The Matrix” movie. Mentioned in Chapter 3 regarding an escape from the matrix; and in Chapter 6 as a vision on perhaps future forms of yogic mind training.
  7. The Orpheus Mosaic Identified by Segal: https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2020/04/remembering-long-returned-orpheus.html; Also on Segals own book about Edessa.

Annotated Bibliography

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  1. Adriene: “Head Stand Yoga Pose, How to Do a Headstand for Beginners” from youtube Yoga With Adriene. Mentioned in Chapter 14.
  2. Aesop (Greek story teller):
    1. “Be careful you wish for, it may come true.” Aesop Fables. Mentioned in Chapter 2.
    2. The tale from Aesop where a lion finds a way to split and weaken three strong and united bulls in order to eat them one by one. Mentioned in Chapter 11.
  3. Ajahn Brahm:
    1. His story about the man; the tiger; the snake and the mice is mentioned in Chapter 12.
  4. Albert Einstein:
    1. “I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” - Albert Einstein. Quoted in Chapter 2, motivation.
    2. “The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.” - Albert Einstein. Mentioned in Chapter 9, twice.
  5. Amélie Nothomb:
    1. Book: “The Character of Rain” - Amélie Nothomb (French: Métaphysique des tubes; Spanish: La Metafisica de los tubos). Mentioned in Chapters 2 and 13.
    2. Mention in Chapter 13: The above description about chocolate and ego was adapted from the book by Amélie Nothomb entitled “The Character of Rain”. The book is a fascinating account of such development in the child’s mind.
  6. Ananda Marga (school of thought)
    1. Mentioned in Chapter 3 regarding Ananda Marga’s practices such as visiting a cemetery at night.
    2. Mentioned in Chapter 9 regarding the practice of visualizing the face of the guru[.
  7. Aniela Jaffé. Mentioned as author of the Chapter: “Symbolism in art” on the book “Man and his symbols” – C. G. Jung.
  8. Anne Frank.
    1. Author’s museum in Amsterdam.
    2. Quotes in the book: Chapter 2: “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”.
  9. Anne-Marie Wegh:
    1. Mentioned in Chapter 11 regarding her interpretation of the Genesis story in relation to Kundalini.
    2. Mentioned in Chapter 11 regarding her interpretations of the book of Revelations from the Bible.
  10. Anthony S. Zanetti; Kevin S. Saroka; Blake T. Dotta:
    1. Article mentioned: “Electromagnetic field enhanced flow state...”. Mentioned in Chapter 6.
  11. Antoine de Saint Exupéry:
    1. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes”. Mentioned in Chapter 8, Yoga and Psychology.
    2. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”. Mentioned in Chapter 2 and 9.
  12. Aristotle:
    1. “Happiness depends upon ourselves”. That is quite a locus of control statement.
  13. Assaji (Disciple of The Buddha):
    1. Mentioned in Chapter 2: My master teaches of “that which has causes; their cause and their cessation”.
  14. Atma Okan:
    1. Teacher’s webpage and social media links.
  15. Benjamin Franklin:
    1. Chapter 2, 3: “Well done is better than well said” – Benjamin Franklin. Related to the Buddhist eightfold path where right action follows right speech.
  16. Bertrand Russel:
    1. “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves...”. Quoted in Chapter 2 motivation.
  17. B. K. S. Iyengar:
    1. Book: “The Tree of yoga”, mentioned in Chapter 6.
    2. Chapter 7: Consistent with the advice that one should practice all four paths of yoga: Bhakti, Jnana, Raja, and Karma yoga.
    3. Chapter 12: “Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured”.
  18. Bodhidharma:
    1. Chapter 2: “And not engaging in ignorance is wisdom” – The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma.
    2. Chapter 2: “The sutras say, ‘To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.’ When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path”.
    3. Chapter 5: “The essence of the way is detachment”.
    4. Chapter 9: “Not thinking about anything is zen...”.
    5. Chapter 11: “If you don’t see your nature, and run around all day looking somewhere else, you’ll never find a Buddha”.
  19. Bob Marley:
    1. “You can’t run away from yourself”.
  20. Boban Dedović’s. Mentioned in Chapter 9 during the introduction to the story of Ulysses and the Cyclops.
  21. Burillo (Mª Pilar Burillo-Cuadrado, Francisco Burillo-Mozota): Article mentioned in Chapter 11: “The Swastika as a representation of the sun of Helios and Mithra”.
  22. (The) Buddha:
    1. Chapter 2: “Your mind can be your worst enemy” – Buddha
    2. Chapter 2: “One verse of the Dhamma, well understood and practiced, is worth more than a hundred verses memorized but not practiced.” – Buddha
      1. Chapter 2: “it is worth more a single verse read and applied than 1000 verses read and not applied.” – Buddha
    3. Chapter 2: “54. The fragrance of flowers drifts with the wind as sandalwood, jasmine or lavender. The fragrance of virtue o’ersweeps the wind, all pervasive is virtue of the good.”
    4. Chapter 2: “55. Sandalwood or lavender, lotus or the jasmine great, of these many fragrances virtue’s fragrance is supreme.”
    5. Chapter 2: “Your mind can be your worst enemy”; “All that we are is the result of what we have thought”.
    6. Chapter 2: “Swimming downstream is easy, but this dharma is about swimming upstream” – Adapted from Buddhist dharma.
    7. Chapter 3: “your own mind can be your worst enemy”
    8. Chapter 3: a paraphrased version of the four noble truths.
    9. Chapter 3: a mention to the eightfold path.
    10. Chapter 3: Paraphrased four noble truths and eightfold path; meditation on death.
    11. Chapter 3: “The lust-ridden masses, shrouded in darkness, do not see this Dhamma/Dharma/teachings which goes against the stream, which is not easy to understand, profound, difficult to perceive and subtle” – Buddha
    12. Chapter 3: I adapted a quote from the Dhamampada: “the yoga path is not about going downstream with other dead stuff in the river”.
    13. Chapter 5: Mention of the paramitas; “The little streams are noisy, but silent flow the great rivers”.
    14. Chapter 6: “those in silence progress quickly”.
    15. Chapter 7: You are the lotus flower; handled as a precious vehicle.
    16. Chapter 8 Yoga and Psychology: Lama Zeupa paraphrase regarding holding onto anger being like grasping a hot coal.
    17. Chapter 11: “The string that produces a tuneful sound is not too tight and not too loose”; correct livelihood.
    18. Chapter 12: “swimming up the stream” when speaking about the doctrine.
  23. Carl Gustav Jung:
    1. Quotes: Chapter 3: Loneliness and communication; Dissociation as a cause of neurosis.
    2. Mentions: Chapter 6, 7: Understanding ourselves through what irritates us in others.
    3. Chapter 8: Entirely dedicated to Jung; royal road to the unconscious through dreams, symbols, and shadow work.
    4. Chapter 12: Archetype of “angels in hell and demons in heaven”.
  24. (Dr.) Celso Charuri
    1. Preface: “He who feels offended deserves to be so”; Chapter 3: Grandiosity of the world vs. suffering; Chapter 8: Dreams and the unconscious.
    2. Preface: “He who feels offended deserves to be so” – Dr. Celso Charuri.
    3. Chapter 3: “Suffering is inversely proportional to how much you truly see from the grandiosity of this amazing world”. – Dr. Celso Charuri.
    4. Chapter 3: “Many beings want to live forever, yet they cling to ephemeral things” – Dr. Celso Charuri
    5. Chapter 3: “don’t live a life pre-occupied; live a life occupied” – Dr. Celso Charuri
    6. Chapter 3: “dreams are useful to sort-out repressed desires”. For instance, “a girl goes to the market with her mother and the mother does not let her eat cherries. Later she goes to sleep, and dreams she is having a bucket of cherries” – Dr. C. Charuri.
    7. Chapter 7: “dreams, the royal way to the unconscious”.
  25. Chan Kowk Wai: Mentions in Preface and Chapter 3.
  26. Charles Darwin: Mentioned in Chapter 3 regarding shopping for useless products moving us back evolutionarily.
  27. Damaskios: Mentioned in Chapter 9 regarding Orphic theogony.
  28. Dan and Scott from propulsionswimming.co.uk: Mentioned in Chapter 7 regarding swim injury prevention exercises.
  29. (Dr.) Dario Nardi:
    1. Editor and author of “Jung on Yoga”.
    2. Mentions: Chapter 2 (spirituality); Chapter 5 (EEGs/MRIs); Chapter 8 (Yoga and Psychology).
  30. Desmond Tutu: “we are because we belong” (Ubuntu); bridge from the divine to pure consciousness in Chapters 8 and 9.
  31. Diogenes from Sinope: Chapter 2 motivation regarding truth and plainness of living.
  32. Elizabeth Gilbert: Her book “Eat, pray, love” is mentioned in Chapter 9.
  33. Epictetus: Chapter 7 regarding judgments about events; Chapter 11 regarding locus of control and acceptance.
  34. Eckhart Tolle: Chapter 8: “dark night of the soul” video; Chapter 9 regarding who gets enlightened.
  35. Friedrich Nietzsche: Mentioned in Chapter 9 first page: “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman...”.
  36. Gaudapada: Mentioned in Chapter 4 regarding The Mandukya Upanishad.
  37. Geraldo Pedrosa de Araujo Dias: “The wise makes the moment; he does not wait for it to happen”.
  38. Homer: Chapter 3 (sirens); Chapter 9 (Ulysses and the Cyclops).
  39. Hermes Trimegistus: “As within, so without” mentioned in Chapter 6 and in the Emerald Tablet.
  40. (Saint) Jerome: Chapter 5 (ignorance); Chapter 6 (speed vs brain); Appendix A (fat stomach).
  41. Jesus Christ:
    1. Chapter 2: “Alpha and omega”; Chapter 3: Desert fasting/meditation and internal bliss.
    2. Chapter 3: “He who has known the world has found a corpse; and he who has found a corpse, the world is not worthy of him.” – Christ on Gospel of Thomas Saying 56.
    3. Chapter 9: “Tell me who you hang out with...”; Chapter 10: “Who is my mother?”.
    4. Chapter 12: Figurative language and Father; John 16:33.
    5. Chapter 13: Little ones nursing and entering the kingdom (Gospel of Thomas).
  42. Jiddu Krishnamurti: Chapter 2: “Truth is a pathless land...”.
  43. Joseph Campbell:
    1. Preface/Ch 2: Get lost to find himself; hero archetype.
    2. Chapter 3: Scholars vs practice; interviews with Bill Moyers; paradox of desire.
    3. Chapter 9: Leaving the realm of light; monsters at the threshold.
    4. Chapter 10: Hero as someone giving life to something bigger; trial of losing yourself.
    5. Chapter 13: Getting lost to find oneself.
  44. Karla Kaun: Mentioned in Chapter 7 regarding alcohol changing brain gene function.
  45. Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Chapter 11 regarding escaping harassment by becoming a different person.
  46. Linda Dieckmann & Darina Czamara: Chapter 3 regarding epigenetics of prenatal stress.
  47. Mark Travers: Chapter 7 regarding the neuroscience of gratitude practice.
  48. Mark Twain: “Plan for the future because that’s where you are going to spend the rest of your life”.
  49. Marcus Aurelius: Mentioned in Chapters 3 and 7.
  50. Marty Rubin: Chapter 10: Travel as adventure when letting go of self; Chapter 11: Tourist vs traveler.
  51. Martin Luther King Jr.: Chapter 10: Higher view with detachment (Promised Land); Chapter 11: Measure of a man during challenge.
  52. Milarepa:
    1. Songs of Milarepa: “If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion will raise within your heart; If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be; And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me; And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood.” – Milarepa, Songs of Milarepa
    2. “Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion, I have forgotten all differences between myself and others.” – Milarepa. Quoted in Chapter 2: Motivation.
    3. “practice compassion and lose the sense of self” – adapted from Milarepa
    4. “What appears as a demon, what is called a demon, what is recognized as a demon, exists within a human being himself and disappears with him.” – Milarepa. Mentioned in Chapter 8 Yoga and Psychology, regarding the Jungian shadow.
    5. “Be like a lion. If somebody throws a stick at a lion, he does not chase it like a dog. Instead, he looks at the thrower.” Thus if your mind throws the stick of anger towards you. Look at where it comes from. Face the thrower. Journey with Yoga, Chapter 8 Yoga and Psychology.
    6. “And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me; And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood.” – The Yogi Milarepa in “Songs of Milarepa”. Mentioned in Chapter 10.
    7. “Even a strong wind is empty by nature. Even a great wave is just the ocean itself. Even thick southern clouds are insubstantial as sky. Even the dense mind is naturally birthless.” – The Yogi Milarepa. Mentioned in Chapter 12.
    8. “Since in the palace of mind which transcends duality I am waiting, waiting for spiritual experience as my bride, I have no time for setting up house.” – The Yogi Milarepa. Mentioned no Chapter 12.
    9. Milarepa says: be like a lion. If somebody throws a stick at a lion, he does not chase it like a dog. Instead, he looks at the thrower. Thus if your mind throws the stick of anger towards you. Look at where it comes from. Face the thrower.
  53. Orpheus: Chapters 2, 3, 5, 9, 11 (many mentions regarding enthusiasm, thronosis, and counterculture).
  54. Patanjali: Chapter 3 (eight-limb yoga); Chapter 4 (Yoga Sutras); Chapter 5 (readiness for meditation).
  55. Patrick O’Brien: Chapter 7 regarding psychosis risk, cannabis, and genetics.
  56. René Descartes: Chapter 2: Seeker of truth must doubt all things; Chapter 2 and 13: “I think therefore I am”.
  57. Richard Bach: Preface, Ch 2, 3, 7 regarding “starting by already arriving”.
  58. Robert Pirsig: Mentioned in Chapter 7.
  59. (King) Salomon: Preface and Chapter 11: “Nothing new under the sun”; “Chasing the wind”.
  60. Sarah Abedi: Chapter 2: Harmony and peace as motivations; Black Foot tribe example.
  61. Shantideva:
    1. Chapter 5: Taming the mind; Relative and absolute levels of violence.
    2. Chapter 9: Misery from thinking of oneself.
    3. Chapter 11: Analogies of the broken heart; money hill local maxima; shoes on the path.
  62. (Swami) Shantimurti Saraswati:
    1. Chapter 5: “Yoga is experimental”.
    2. Chapter 11: Letting go training for the Americas cup team.
    3. Chapter 12: Laya Yoga as dissolution of mind conditions.
  63. Socrates: Preface/Chapter 2: Reproving faults; knowing good leads to doing good; Chapter 8: The unexamined life.
  64. Sten Ekberg: Mentioned on Appendix A regarding eating eggs.
  65. Susan Krauss Whitbourne: Chapter 8 regarding posture, psychopathy, and manipulativeness.
  66. Ventuno Yoga: “Kapalabhati Breathing Technique” video mentioned.
  67. Vijay Kumar Malesu: Appendix A regarding milk and cheese microbiome effects.
  68. Warren Buffet: Mentioned in Chapter 3 as an example benefactor.
  69. William Shakespeare:
    1. Chapter 2: “The fool do not think he is wise...”.
    2. Chapter 11: “Cowards die many times...”.
    3. Chapter 12: “Art is to hold the mirror to nature”.
  70. (Lama) Zeupa:
    1. Chapter 2/3: Renouncing without becoming a loser; onion layers.
    2. Chapter 7: Compassion as a solution.
    3. Chapter 9: Safe home within yourself; consumption habits.
    4. Chapter 13: Removing the layers of an onion.

Common Wisdom Quotes With No Attributed Author

“Wisdom is only important in so forth it is useful, applicable” – Tibetan common wisdom.

“To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.” – Chinese proverb

“The ego is terrible master and a great servant, vehicle” – Common wisdom

“What does not kill you makes you stronger” – Common wisdom

“When tired sleep, when hungry eat” – Zen koan

“The unaimed arrow never misses the target” – Zen Koan. Mentioned in Chapter 2, 3.

“Do not waste your time” – Zen Koan, usually written at the entrance of temples.

“Tell the truth, there is less to remember”

“Travel is going back to the essence” – Tibetan proverb.

“stupidity is boundless, but intelligence has limits” – Common wisdom