/lit/ - Literature

I had a weird experience reading Autobiography of a Yogi as a highschooler. I had this very strong feeling where you'd expect my third eye to be started freaking out. Its hard to describe but it was like the 'noise' you hear when you forcefully close your eyes (especially when you are extremely sleepy). I felt like if I 'gave in' something would happen to me, like an out of body experience. But I was scared so I just let the feeling pass.

I read the book again a few years later but nothing like that ever happened again. Now I'm revisiting it again (another decade later almost) and I started reading up about the Self Realization Fellowship. It seems many people consider it to be sort of a cult, which is unfortunate. There are also rumors that Paramahansa had kids with one of his disciples there in California.