Lotan Baba

booklet titled The Eye of Revelation, published in 1939. Few people bothered to read it; fewer believed it. Kelder’s yarn was likely fabricated, or at minimum grossly exaggerated. However, the lung-expanding stretches he described are rooted in actual exercises that date back to 500 BCE. Tibetans had used these methods for millennia to improve phys

also watched a documentary about Ram Dass on Netflix. Ram Dass, whose real name was Richard Alpert, was an apostle of LSD in the 1960s, along with Timothy Leary. Later

His name was Lao Tzu. He left a record of his teaching in the form of one of the most profound spiritual books ever written, the Tao Te Ching.

and a philosophy of living that he called “Stotan,” which he explained as a combination of Stoic and Spartan. He wrote that an athlete needed “hardness, toughness, and unswerving devotion to an ideal,” but he also needed to embrace “diet, philosophy, cultivation of the intellect, and openness to artistic endeavors.” According to Cerutty, “You only

Khotanese monk’s name was Shikshananda,

He travelled as a homeless vagabond throughout northern India, searching for a way out of suffering.

It was a museau télescopique, or extendable snout. At one end was an abbreviated mask that covered the nose and mouth, with a wide elastic band to secure it to the head. The mask was attached to a canvas tube, pleated like the bellows of a concertina, and at the far end was the artificial nostril, an aluminum funnel. Using this ingenious extension