Yoga and the Sacred Fire : Self Realization and Planetary Transformation

Contents: Foreword by Subbhash Kak. Author\'s Preface. Prologue: discovering the sacred fire. I. The soul and the sacred fire: 1. The soul and the sacred fire: ancient remembrances. 2. Light as consciousness. 3. The purusha principle of Yoga: the cosmic person of light. 4. Transformations of the cosmic fire. II. The journey of the soul through the kingdoms of nature: 5. Fire in the rock: the soul in the mineral kingdom. 6. Fire in the waters: the seed of life. 7. Absorbing the light: the soul in the plant kingdom. 8. Fire roaming the earth: the soul in the animal kingdom. III. Human evolution and the fire of Yoga: 9. The fire of intelligence: the soul in the human realm. 10. The fire of Yoga and higher human  evolution. 11. Ayurveda, Yogic fire medicine. 12. Yoga psychology and the fire of the mind. IV. A call for a new sacred fire: 13. Our current evolutionary crisis: a call for new sacred fire. 14. Healing the planetary soul: towards a Yogic ecology. 15. Sacred communities and our collective flame. V. Planetary Yoga and the planetary flame: 16. Planetary fire Yoga. 17. Our five internal fires. 18. Yoga fire practices. VI. Appendices: 1. List of fires mentioned in the book. 2. Glossary of terms. 3. Bibliography. 4. Footnotes. Biodata. Resources. Index.