2
Aleister Crowley, Eight Lectures on Yoga (Las Vegas: New Falcon Publications, 1992), 48.
3
“Chakras within the Vedas: Stopping Scholarly Distortion of Vedic Texts,” Hindu Human Rights Worldwide, July 13, 2020, https://www.hinduhumanrights.info/chakras-within-the-vedas-stopping-scholarly-distortion-of-vedic-teachings/.
4
Mark Stephens, Teaching Yoga: Essential Foundations and Techniques (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2010), 1–2.
5
B. K. S. Iyengar, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (United Kingdom: HarperCollins UK, 2002).
6
Kurt Leland, “The Rainbow Body: How the Western Chakra System Came to Be,” Quest, Spring 2017, 25–29.
7
“New Age movement: religious movement,” Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed July 13, 2020, https://www.britannica.com/topic/New-Age-movement.
8
Stephens, Teaching Yoga, 2.
9
“A Beginner’s Guide to the History of Yoga,” Yoga Journal, accessed May 13, 2020, https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/the-roots-of-yoga.
10
“Vyasa comments on Yoga: Section 1 (aphorisms 1-13),” Sanskrit & Trika Shaivism, accessed May 13, 2020, https://www.sanskrit-trikashaivism.com/en/vyasa-comments-on-patanjali-yoga-sutras-I-1-13/632#VyaasaI1.
11
Mukunda Stiles, ed., Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (San Francisco: Weiser Books, 2002), 41 (III, 38).
12
Stiles, Yoga Sutras, 32 (III, 4).
13
Stiles, Yoga Sutras, 33 (III, 9).
14
Stiles, Yoga Sutras, 33 (III, 11).
15
Stiles, Yoga Sutras, 34 (III, 12).
16
Stiles, Yoga Sutras, 35 (III, 16).
17
Stiles, Yoga Sutras, 40 (III, 36).
18
Stiles, Yoga Sutras, 2–3 (I, 4).
19
Stiles, Yoga Sutras, 3 (I, 6).
20
Stiles, Yoga Sutras, 2 (I, 2).
21
Arin Murphy-Hiscock, The Way of the Hedge Witch (Massachusetts: Provenance Press, 2009), vii – viii.
22
Stiles, Yoga Sutras, 47 (IV, 2).
23
Franz Bardon, Initiation Into Hermetics (Salt Lake City, UT: Merkur Publishing, Inc.: 2001), 17.