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The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath
An influence portrait of the 1903 breath manual published under the pseudonym Yogi Ramacharaka and attributed in library records to William Walker Atkinson.
The book influenced Moses’s attention to breath as an observable bridge between bodily experience and attention; its historical physiological, psychic, and spiritual claims are not treated as contemporary clinical evidence.
Influence portrait
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Provenance
sourced factThe text appeared in Chicago in 1903 under the name Yogi Ramacharaka; Wellcome Collection attributes the pseudonymous work to William Walker Atkinson.
Core ideas
sourced factThe book combines breath mechanics and exercises with early-twentieth-century claims about vitality, mental development, psychic breathing, and spiritual development.
Moral themes
editorial interpretationIts durable influence for Moses is disciplined attention to breath and embodied experience, not acceptance of every physiological or metaphysical claim.
Defining influence
editorial interpretationThe text supplied an early vocabulary for treating breath as something that can be consciously observed and practiced.
Tensions and critique
editorial interpretationThe book is a historical, pseudonymous synthesis written outside contemporary clinical standards. Its medical, psychic, and spiritual assertions require independent evidence and must not be treated as established fact.
Relationship to the Internet of Value
editorial interpretationThe work is autobiographical influence, not health authority. IoV may discuss attention and lived experience but cannot infer respiratory health, prescribe breathwork, or validate historical medical claims.
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