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alt.yoga
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Introduction to alt.yogaA scholarly introduction to alt.yoga, the Usenet newsgroup for yoga practitioners from 2003 to 2014 — a community buried under catastrophic spam but containing genuine practitioner voices writing original philosophy at the intersection of yoga, Western science, and metaphysics.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.