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alt.yoga
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Introduction to alt.yogaA source-critical introduction to the Good Works Library shelf for the Usenet newsgroup alt.yoga: two original practitioner essays on yoga, metaphysics, science, Plotinus, Vedanta, and the problem of preserving serious thought from a damaged public internet archive.Metaphysics vs. Physics and the Structure of KnowledgeA 2003 philosophical essay from alt.yoga arguing that science has no greater epistemic authority than yoga or metaphysics — that all knowledge is conventional, perception is never objective, and the Western dismissal of metaphysics rested on a 300-year-old epistemological error now dismantled.Plotinus, the World Soul, and the Holographic MindA 2003 cross-traditional essay from alt.yoga connecting Plotinus's Neoplatonic cosmology to Vedantic metaphysics, David Bohm's holographic universe theory, Carl Jung's collective unconscious, and mantra-yantra — arguing that the Enneads describe the same layered reality that yoga practitioners experience directly.