Welcome to the new web home of the Yoga Science Project (YSP) documenting the exploration of what I’ve called “yoga science” since 2007. Svamd.com content is all still here, just migrated to WordPress and a new URL. Technically, we have a more contemporary look, advanced ease-of-use and functionality, an enhanced search tool that looks within …
11/23/16
New Yoga Science Foundation Website: In the first of two website migrations, we’ve launched a completely new and streamlined WordPress site for the Yoga Science Foundation. See the announcement there for details on the new site.
A Yoga Science Memoir
This is a telling of the full story behind the yoga science described on this website in ~50,000 words. Subtitled: How yoga science appeared as the unexpected fruit of a life lived in both yoga and science. A Yoga Science Memoir 1st online ed
Reflections on Terrence Deacon
In the form of a letter to Terry Patten, these are my reflections on his Beyond Awakening interview of Terrence Deacon and my reading of Deacon’s book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter, 2013. Reflections_on_Deacon.pdf
10/28/16
It’s taken this long for the “update” begun in March to near fruition: I’ve since written a book that is now available here consisting of a narrative telling of how yoga science emerged gradually in my life starting from around age 21 — “A Yoga Science Memoir.” I’ve also been working to totally revise the …
4/27/11
I’ve just posted a blog that outlines how the action has shifted to the Yoga Science Foundation and what I’ve been doing since the last news item below.
Big Shift in the Action
I’m writing to point my readers to the website for the Yoga Science Foundation that we launched 10/1/10. This personal website – the one you are visiting now – was devoted primarily to the early stages in the development of the “Yoga Science Project” which took a big turn last year toward becoming a Yoga …
The Central Axis of AQAL Space–ITC 10 Poster
Poster presentation for the Integral Theory Conference, July 29 – Aug 1, 2010 in Pleasanton, CA. This poster presents a proposal for how the All Time Spectrum (aka SummaTime Scale and Anthropic Cosmological Timeline) might relate to the AQAL diagram and become the basis for “3D AQAL.” Post-conference: I’ve added five pages to help flesh …
Science of Subtle Energy Poster
This poster was presented at ISSSEEM 2009. It gives an overview of how what I’m now calling the All Time Spectrum (technically a backward-looking logarithmic timeline spanning from Planck to Hubble times) provides a novel framework for a scientific consideration of the classical esoteric categories “gross, subtle, and causal.” Final Phi Sci of SE Poster.pdf
7/26/10
On this “most auspicious day of the year”—the full moon day of July, aka “Guru Poornima”—I’ve posted two posters for the upcoming Integral Theory Conference, “The Science of Subtle Energies” I presented last year at ISSSEEM, and the poster for the upcoming ITC, “The Central Axis of AQAL Space.” The former is incorporated into the …
7/9/10
I’ve posted an updated version of an old blog post with a new fun graphic: Topoloptics
Topoloptics
Here, in three pages, I update a blog post of 5/31/07 with more current language and a fun graphic I did several months ago for my Yoga Science talks at the Mayacamas Symposium. Topoloptics.pdf
Garvin’s Report on ISSSEEM 2009
In these three pages Garvin artfully summarizes the importance of ISSSEEM’s 2009 Conference for our deliberations in the TF-IEG. He will be delivering this summary at the 2010 Conference in the Member’s Choice Forum. Report on ISSSEEM 2009.pdf
The Emerging Science of Subtle Energy
This three page article summarizes my view of the current “state-of-the-art” in subtle energy science. Communications Manager for the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Matthew Gilbert contacted me in March, asking about the topic and whether I might be willing to write a short article about it–which I did with his expert editorial assistance. It …
Update #3
A long overdue update with lots of exciting news for the Science of Subtle Energies (SSE). TF-IEG Update 3.pdf
4/19/10
I’ve added an “About” section to the top menu–gives a bit of background on me, my “two lives,” and the projects I’m currently involved with.
Science Background
Science has been my first love from the time I was a boy, encouraged directly by my father with chemistry set, rocks and minerals, Indian arrow heads, microscope, and telescope. He had hoped to be a man of science himself, but was thwarted by the Great Depression, and Sputnik 1, launched when I was eleven, …
Yoga Background
I was in my final year as a science undergraduate at Harvard when I first met His Holiness Sri Swami Satchidananda in the Fall of 1967. I was profoundly impressed by the man and most especially by a number of striking experiences I had in his company. My initial response was a deep sense that …
Overview—My Life as “Hybrid” Prototype
I’ve led a rather strange life over the past forty plus years—moving daily between two worlds: science and yoga. In each world I found precious few individuals with any familiarity with the other. Virtually none of my scientific colleagues over the years has known a thing about yoga—except perhaps here and there in recent decades …
3/25/10
After a long hiatus (details to follow) I’ve just entered a blog post, “For Every Science there is a Time Scale” re a fundamental feature of what I think will be needed for us to begin to forge a genuine “science of subtle energies.”