19. Does Yoga Give you Extraordinary Powers?
Yoga Studies in Five Minutes - Theodora Wildcroft
Lubomír Ondračka [+]
Charles University
Lubomír Ondračka is a publisher, independent researcher and occasional lecturer at the
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in
Prague. Currently, he is a research fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford. His
research is focused on the history of yoga, death, and dying in India, and on religions and
culture of Bengal.
Description
The diversity of premodern yoga is so great that it is often difficult to say what all these yoga lineages have in common. Extraordinary powers are the best candidate for such a common denominator because they are present in the vast majority of yoga traditions. On the other hand, yoga practice is not the only traditional way to acquire these powers.