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Historian of religions David Gordon White's Daemons Are Forever leads the reader on a sweeping tour of Indo-European traditions by focusing on the fascinating and seemingly ubiquitous central figure of the "daemon." White's journey along the Eurasian Silk Roads undertakes a close examination of ritual and myth, connecting multiple traditions through their shared imagining of human-daemon encounters. Over the course of this rollicking study, Wh...

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White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra from its ancient origins to today, bringing to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations and misappropriations led to its revered place in contemporary popular culture.

Focuses on yoga's practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and diverse literature, this title discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural.

For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual practices to reconstruct the history of South Asian Tantra from the medieval period to the present day."Kiss of the Yogini" focuses...

Preface Note on Transliteration Abbreviations 1: Indian Paths to Immortality 2: Categories of Indian Thought: The Universe by Numbers 3: The Prehistory of Tantric Alchemy 4: Sources for the History of Tantric Alchemy in India 5: Tantric and Siddha Alchemical Literature 6: Tantra in the Rasarnava 7: Corresponding Hierarchies: The Substance of the Alchemical Body8: Homologous Structures of the Alchemical Body 9: The Dynamics of Transformation in...

This is a remarkable wide-ranging book, so grand in scope that it is hard to realize that it is the author's first full-length publication. It is remarkable not only for its style, which is a sheer joy to read, full of word-play and irony and passion and weird anecdotes, but for the brilliance of its central thesis and the erudition with which that thesis is developed. It is also an important book, for it deals with a subject that is of centra...

Focuses on yoga's practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia's vast and diverse literature, this title discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural.