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willy1080
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(3/18/02 8:57 am)
Reply 		Yogi Ramacharaka ?
This is going totally off topic, but has anyone read books by Yogi Ramacharaka here , these books are quite highly rated in Amazon , but there is a mysterious story here , nobody has any idea who Yogi Ramacharaka is ...
Check this link

users.pandora.be/ananda/ramach.htm

Edited by: willy1080 at: 3/18/02 9:01:50 am
kbmiller
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(3/18/02 11:45 am)
Reply 		Ramacharaka
Ramacharaka's real name was William Walker Anderson. There is a lot of speculation about him. His books were my introduction to Yoga.

Newboy
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(3/18/02 2:24 pm)
Reply 		Yogi Ramacharaka aka William Walker Atkinson
His real name was Atkinson not Anderson. He was a New Thought Metaphysical teacher who wrote under the pen name Ramacharaka when dealing with yoga or Eastern Philosophy. I, too, began my serious yoga study with his fine books. Atkinson lived until around the 1920s. He lived in Florida for a time when he was writing. He was either American or British. I am currently reading "Eastern Seeds, Western Soil: Three Gurus in America" by Polly Trout. She describes in some detail who Ramacharaka / Atkinson was. Her book is a comparative study of Swami Paramananda, Yogananda, and Krishnamurti. She teaches religious studies at San Diego State and takes a rather negative slant towards Master, but the rest of her book is interesting.

motlom
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(4/15/02 8:21 am)
Reply 		Re: Yogi Ramacharaka aka William Walker Atkinson
Your correct, his real name was Atkinson.

I've read nearly all of his books, some of them several times. One of his books actually contains a description of the Kriya technique, very closely resembling the technique as described in the Kriya lessons from SRF.

Most of Ramacharaka's books, including the one above, were published before Yogananda's coming to the West.

srflongago
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(12/7/02 7:57 am)
Reply 		Re: Yogi Ramacharaka aka William Walker Atkinson
See http://users.pandora.be/ananda/ramach.htm

for what is known about William Walker Atkinson, born in Baltimore in 1862, a lawyer practicing in Chicago at the time of the World Congress of Religions in 1893, who wrote under his own name and as Yogi Ramacharakara, many books, available in many places, including Yogi Publication Society: P.O. Box 600190 , Jacksonville, FL 32260.

Linni555
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(1/8/03 9:30 pm)
Reply 		Re: Yogi Ramacharaka aka William Walker Atkinson
I wanted to let people know that Yogi Ramacharaka channels books through people, in the past and still to this day. His great work was channelled through William Atkinson, and he also hangs around me occassionally writing through me. I didn't realise this at first, although I seemed to sound an awful lot like him when I wrote. It was a psychic who finally told me what was going on.

And yes, Yogi Rama is Indian, he has a long, white beard, a turban with healing jewels in it, and he can be rather fiesty to say the least. He is dedicated to the cause almost to the point of zealousness. He is also quite blunt to me when he decides he does not like what I am writing. It's not just me he picks on, he writes though others as well, although I am not sure if those others know. :)

He is a great teacher, but he is human too. He's not yet a Master, he gets angry, frustrated, etc. My question is, as I channel him, exactly who does he channel? Very interesting indeed.

Hope that clears some of the confusion up. :rolleyes :)

Love, Linnie

soulcircle
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(1/9/03 2:20 am)
Reply 		Linni555
Beautiful, thank you

GregsBrother
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(1/9/03 11:16 pm)
Reply 		Re: Linni555
Good golly miss molly!

chrisparis
Registered User
(1/14/03 8:11 am)
Reply 		Re: William Atkinson
He is a VERY curious character. He lived here in Chicago, and was associated with the western ceremonial magical organization the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. It is fairly certain that he was one of the "three initiates" who wrote the book "The Kybalion" the other being Paul Foster Case, founder of the Builders of the Adytum. (The third initiate is thought to be the Master whose voice Case heard dictating teachings to him). So the connection of Atkinson to any system of developement, eastern OR western, is not at all straightforward.

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