The Seventh Life: What I Learned Editing, Researching, and Republishing Yogananda's Praecepta

by Donald Castellano-hoyt

Overview

The author has moved the extensive reference section to a separate web page in order to increase readability and to make it available for download for research purposes. The reference section includes many original documents, handwritten letters, and eye witness accounts of Yogananda's non-public behavior.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987056235
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	03/24/2019
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

During his years as a social worker specializing in mental health mobile crisis intervention in San Antonio and in training law enforcement officers throughout Texas, the author also practiced daily meditation techniques as practice for preparation for each day's work.
These techniques were taught by the Self-Realization Fellowship, based in Los Angeles.
The author credits the impact of these meditation techniques for the safe and effective intervention that he and his mobile team members provided; he estimates that over a 17 year period he handled at least 200 such crises. He describes these in his first book "Enhancing Police Response to Persons in Mental Health Crisis," 2003, Charles C. Thomas, publisher.
The author's second book is a collection of saints' written descriptions of their glimpses of glory, "The Eternal Religion: Glimpses of Divine Glory," CreateSpace publishing platform, 2013.
The current book is the result of the author's indepth research in republishing the seven volumes of Swami Yogananda's early techings, "The Praecepta."

Editorial Reviews

To write that ("some of it is difficult to accept because of the patina of holiness that continues to surround Yogananda to this day") seems an understatement.
You write, "Whatever else I learned of Yogananda . . . I learned more about myself than about him.
Candor like this is rare. Only those who want to know the truth in themselves figure out the truth of their posits, holy or otherwise.

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Thank you for this well thought out book. This book will be reviled by TRUE BELIEVERS and will be informative for others. Expect it to be trashed by the former...

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