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Book: Yoga Studies in Five Minutes

Chapter: 19. Does Yoga Give you Extraordinary Powers?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.46361

Blurb:

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.

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