Georg Feuerstein

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Georg Feuerstein (born May 27, 1947 in Würzburg , † August 25, 2012 in Saskatchewan , Canada ) was a German Indologist and author with the main subjects of yoga , tantra and Hinduism .

Life

Georg Feuerstein was born on May 27, 1947 in Würzburg as the son of the lawyer Erwin Feuerstein and his wife Dorothea. In 1965 he met an Indian swami in the Black Forest who introduced him to yoga .

In 1967 he emigrated to England and studied Sanskrit and Indology at the University of Durham . In 1969 he published his first book with the title: Yoga - Sein Wesen und Werden .

He moved to the United States in 1981 and became a follower of Da Free John ( Franklin Jones ) the following year and deepened his spiritual practice. In 1985 he married his first wife, Patricia Lamb.

In 1993 he turned to Tibetan Buddhism , but later resumed his yoga practice. In 1996, he founded the Yoga Research and Education Center in Lower Lake, California .

In 2004 he moved to Canada with his second wife Brenda to protest against US world politics.

He died on August 25, 2012 in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Original yoga thesis

Georg Feuerstein is a representative of the so-called original yoga thesis, according to which the first forerunners of yoga were known to the early Aryans . In his version of the Out-of-India theory , the Indus culture , which he developed from his own considerations in the period between 4000 and 2000 BC. BC or earlier, bearer of Vedic culture; In contrast to current university research in the fields of religion and linguistics, he also dates the Rigveda to this early period. It refers u. a. on "strong morphological cross-connections between the Harappa glyphs and the later Brahmi script".

Publications (selection)

  • Yoga. His being and becoming. Schwab, Schopfheim 1969
  • (Ed.): Six stanzas about the source of all things. Schwab, Schopfheim 1969, ISBN 3-7964-0085-X
  • The Essence of Yoga: A Contribution to the Psychohistory of Indian Civilization. Rider, London 1973
    • The yoga. In the light of the history of consciousness of Indian culture. Novalis-Verlag, Schaffhausen 1981, ISBN 3-7214-0120-4
  • Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation and Commentary. Dawson, Folkestone 1979
  • The Philosophy of Classical Yoga. Manchester University, Press 1980
  • The Bhagavad Gita: Its Philosophy and Cultural Setting. Quest, Wheaton 1983
  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Yoga. Paragon House, 1990, ISBN 1-55778-245-8
  • Holy Madness: The Shock Tactics and Radical Teachings of Crazy-Wise Adepts, Holy Fools, and Rascal Gurus. Paragon House, 1991, ISBN 1557782504
    • Holy fools. About the wisdom of unusual teachers. Krüger, Frankfurt 1996, ISBN 3-8105-0632-X
  • Sacred Sexuality. JP Tarcher, 1992, ISBN 087477683X
    • God and the erotic. Spiritual dimensions of sexuality. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-426-77047-4
  • The Mystery of Light: The Life and Teachings of Omraam Michael Aivanhov. Passage Press, 1992
    • The secret of light. The life and teaching of Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov. Prosveta-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-89515-020-7
  • with Subhash Kak & David Frawley: In search of the cradle of civilization: new light on ancient India. 1995, ISBN 0-8356-0720-8
  • Lucid Waking: Mindfulness and the Spiritual Potential of Humanity. Inner Traditions, 1997, ISBN 0892816139
    • To be awake. Mental clarity, insight and self-determination. Barth, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-502-61018-5
  • Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy. Shambhala, London 1998, ISBN 1-57062-304-X .
  • The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice. Hohm Press, Prescott 1998, ISBN 0-934252-83-1 .
  • with Larry Payne: Yoga For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons, 1999, ISBN 0764551175

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak & David Frawley: In search of the cradle of civilization. Quest Books, 1995, p. 159
personal data
SURNAME Feuerstein, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German indologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2012
Place of death Saskatchewan , Canada