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Sexuelle Kraft und Yoga
Sexual Energy and Yoga, by Haich, Elisabeth
247 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1968
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December 19, 2018
Disappointing and to be honest quite a baffling book. I actually thought I had accidentally purchased some church book encouraging abstinence. There are several ideas in this book I agree with, why they put yoga in the title when there is about three pages out of 160 that refer to anything about yoga I have no idea. There are more bible quotes and references than yoga philosophy. This book might be helpful to people who are new to the ideas of energy and harnessing energy, however there is nothing practical in this book and the three yoga postures that are suggested for this I would not recommend a beginner attempting by themselves unless they are with someone experienced or a yoga instructor. Especially headstand! Very irresponsible. For me, most of the book was a drawn out explanation of the same concept littered with bible references and opinions presented as facts. I've read a lot of yoga philosophy and I found this book very random and a waste of my time.
May 26, 2012
Fantastic book. think of it as Hermes Trismegistus gurdijeff and Jesus go on a camping trip.
it has Incorporated Christianity , hermetical thought. the brother hood of the rosy cross, and yoga. this is the rel deal folks. a gem of a book. on how to understand sexual energy and how people waste it in the ever search for quick orgasmic feelings. and shallow love. we waste our life begging others to give us love yet we offer none to anyone but
as the author points out we have a sexual partner inside us. the word hermaphrodite is the combination of two words
hermes and aphroditie we have them both inside of us only when we realise " i am" or to qoute the old testment " i am who am"
this book is pretty rare get one while you can
it has Incorporated Christianity , hermetical thought. the brother hood of the rosy cross, and yoga. this is the rel deal folks. a gem of a book. on how to understand sexual energy and how people waste it in the ever search for quick orgasmic feelings. and shallow love. we waste our life begging others to give us love yet we offer none to anyone but
as the author points out we have a sexual partner inside us. the word hermaphrodite is the combination of two words
hermes and aphroditie we have them both inside of us only when we realise " i am" or to qoute the old testment " i am who am"
this book is pretty rare get one while you can
June 10, 2013
I read this book several years ago. I agree with every single statement in it and it describes my position on sexuality. It was like coming home..
October 26, 2024
An excellent manual and guide to understanding, learning, and transmuting Logos (sexual energy) into creative energy through the Chakra system. As a practitioner of Yoga and SR, and as someone who interests lie within self-actualization, manifestation, magic, and Tantra, this was an excellent read.
March 25, 2015
It's been a few years, but I remember it was very heavy for an 18 year old!
August 3, 2021
OK, I'm going to go a little against the grain and give this book a better rating than it probably deserves, factoring in its age and the author's commitment to her thesis. It doesn't have much to do with yoga, or sex for that matter, as most people understand the concepts.
Let me state before anything else that I agree that the headstand and shoulderstand hatha yoga postures she recommends towards the end of the book really should not be attempted without a qualified teacher. It's sort of shocking that she presents that so cavalierly.
Basically, Haich believes that if a person can suppress their normal sexual urges, their inherent sexual energy will transmute into spiritual growth. This is a very old and pervasive theory throughout religious history. She uses a lot of quotations and examples from the Bible, but interpreted in what you might call a new age spiritual perspective. From a surface level, Isaiah and St Paul are just crazy fanatics, but Haich (among others) use their initiated understanding to tease out concepts of spiritual energetics that without doubt were never even imagined when those books were written. After reading her book long enough you can actually start to make some sense of her theories.
Basically, "God" (the universal life force) has imbued all things with its own creative force, which is normally used for reproduction and diversification of the universe. It might be equated with kundalini energy or the Tao. In human beings, the capability exists to use this force for spiritual growth as well as reproduction.
However, in human beings, this energy is also a "trap", as she frequently calls it. It is the spiritual seeker's goal to escape and transcend this "trap". It seems to position God as sort of a malevolent trickster that we need to outsmart.
She does recognize the problems that arise from sexual repression but she seems to think they would be easily cleared up when the person derives the spiritual energy benefit from their "abstemious" live style. I think incarcerated people are probably not people she is addressing with this message.
At the beginning, she says "This book, like every book on yoga [which as I mentioned, it's not], only has genuine value if we put into practice what as been written and try it out for ourselves." On p. 155, right after repeating the importance of putting these concepts into practice, she states flatly that she's not going to tell the reader exactly HOW to do it. Basically: hatha yoga, mental concentration and meditation, abstinence and work! "That is all that really needs to be said."
That seems like a weird copout.
A word about her style: there's a lot of repetitiveness, large swaths of what I would characterize as exhortation/preaching (with lots! of! exclamation points! -- maybe the translator's choice there). For some reason, towards the end she occasionally refers to "sexual energy" ("sexuelle kraft" in the original German edition) as "dragon fire" which sounds very much like what we would think of as "kundalini".
She also makes an odd point in the introduction that since her mother tongue (Hungarian) is an "Asiatic primitive language", "many words had to be paraphrased" (such as "love").
Apparently, Haich (and her collaborator Selvarajan Yesudian) operated a Yoga school in Switzerland and lectured on the Vedanta philosophy. This book is probably, in essence, a textbook for students of theirs.
Let me state before anything else that I agree that the headstand and shoulderstand hatha yoga postures she recommends towards the end of the book really should not be attempted without a qualified teacher. It's sort of shocking that she presents that so cavalierly.
Basically, Haich believes that if a person can suppress their normal sexual urges, their inherent sexual energy will transmute into spiritual growth. This is a very old and pervasive theory throughout religious history. She uses a lot of quotations and examples from the Bible, but interpreted in what you might call a new age spiritual perspective. From a surface level, Isaiah and St Paul are just crazy fanatics, but Haich (among others) use their initiated understanding to tease out concepts of spiritual energetics that without doubt were never even imagined when those books were written. After reading her book long enough you can actually start to make some sense of her theories.
Basically, "God" (the universal life force) has imbued all things with its own creative force, which is normally used for reproduction and diversification of the universe. It might be equated with kundalini energy or the Tao. In human beings, the capability exists to use this force for spiritual growth as well as reproduction.
However, in human beings, this energy is also a "trap", as she frequently calls it. It is the spiritual seeker's goal to escape and transcend this "trap". It seems to position God as sort of a malevolent trickster that we need to outsmart.
She does recognize the problems that arise from sexual repression but she seems to think they would be easily cleared up when the person derives the spiritual energy benefit from their "abstemious" live style. I think incarcerated people are probably not people she is addressing with this message.
At the beginning, she says "This book, like every book on yoga [which as I mentioned, it's not], only has genuine value if we put into practice what as been written and try it out for ourselves." On p. 155, right after repeating the importance of putting these concepts into practice, she states flatly that she's not going to tell the reader exactly HOW to do it. Basically: hatha yoga, mental concentration and meditation, abstinence and work! "That is all that really needs to be said."
That seems like a weird copout.
A word about her style: there's a lot of repetitiveness, large swaths of what I would characterize as exhortation/preaching (with lots! of! exclamation points! -- maybe the translator's choice there). For some reason, towards the end she occasionally refers to "sexual energy" ("sexuelle kraft" in the original German edition) as "dragon fire" which sounds very much like what we would think of as "kundalini".
She also makes an odd point in the introduction that since her mother tongue (Hungarian) is an "Asiatic primitive language", "many words had to be paraphrased" (such as "love").
Apparently, Haich (and her collaborator Selvarajan Yesudian) operated a Yoga school in Switzerland and lectured on the Vedanta philosophy. This book is probably, in essence, a textbook for students of theirs.
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May 21, 2018
I read this book without knowing anything about the author - I found this book in a second hand shop and bought it out of curiosity, but having the basic knowledge (at least) on the matter, having had read previously books by oa Mantak Chia or C.G. Jung.
The book tells you about alchemy, chakra's and the symbolism of christianity or for that matter religion or/and mythology.
I guess it's not easy to grasp it if you are not 'initiated' on the subject, but for those interested and searching could be a true treasure. For those people I would highly recommend reading this book.
The book tells you about alchemy, chakra's and the symbolism of christianity or for that matter religion or/and mythology.
I guess it's not easy to grasp it if you are not 'initiated' on the subject, but for those interested and searching could be a true treasure. For those people I would highly recommend reading this book.
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