Introduction to alt.yoga — A 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 Knowledge — A 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 Mind — A 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.