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hailed as the genesis:
Sara Corbett, “The Holy Grail of the Unconscious,”
New York Times Magazine
, September 20, 2009, Section MM, p. 34.

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“I was frequently”:
Jung and Jaffé,
Memories
, p. 177.

198
became a confirmed health enthusiast:
William Ander Smith,
The Mystery of Leopold Stokowski
(Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990), p. 105.

198
would meditate to clear his mind:
William A. Smith, “Leopold Stokowski: A Re-Evaluation,”
American Music
, vol. 1, no. 3 (Autumn 1983), pp. 23–37.

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taught her yoga:
Frederick Sands and Sven Broman,
The Divine Garbo
(New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1979), pp. 188–91; Antoni Gronowicz,
Garbo: Her Story
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), p. 353.

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recounted how Garbo taught him:
Gayelord Hauser,
Gayelord Hauser’s Treasury of Secrets
(New York: Fawcett World Library, 1967), p. 198.

198
performed hundreds of times:
Hunphrey Burton,
Yehudi Menuhin: A Life
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001), pp. 223–53.

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a courageous act of reconciliation:
Ibid., pp. 282–86.

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he met Iyengar:
Ibid., pp. 331–32; Iyengar,
Iyengar
, pp. 59–64.

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wrote a foreword of considerable grace:
Yehudi Menuhin, “Foreword,” in Iyengar,
Light on Yoga
, pp. 11–12.

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told an interviewer that it can:
Ganga White, “Every Breath You Take: Sting on Yoga,”
Yoga Journal
, November–December 1995, pp. 64–69. For more on the musician’s views about yoga, see Sting, “Foreword: The Yogi and the Shower Singer,” in Ganga White,
Yoga Beyond Belief: Insights to Awaken and Deepen Your Practice
(Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2007), pp. xiii–xvi.

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A cottage industry has sprung up:
Debra Bokur, “Spiritual Retreats: The Inside Story,”
Yoga Journal
, December 2003, pp. 46–48.

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“Yoga won’t make writing easy”:
Quoted in Anonymous, “The Next Wave of Yoga Research: Creativity?” October 19, 2007,
www.prleap.com/pr/98937.

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Novick’s book:
Linda Novick,
The Painting Path: Embodying Spiritual Discovery through Yoga, Brush and Color
(Woodstock, VT: SkyLight Paths, 2007).

200
“The students,” she recalled:
Mia Olson,
Musician’s Yoga
(Boston: Berklee Press, 2009), p. 125.

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not unusual for a beginning student:
Robin,
A Physiological Handbook
, p. 150.

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bursts of long-suppressed emotion:
It turns out that many practices that seek to promote serenity—meditation, yoga, massage, to name a few—can spark emotional flare-ups. See Amy Eden Jollymore, “Emotional Ambush,”
Natural Health
, November–December 1999, pp. 87–89.

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examined the roots of creative reverie:
Green and Green,
Beyond Biofeedback
, pp. 118–52, 255–56.

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“a quick way to calm”:
Jeff Davis,
The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices as Muse for Authentic Writing
(Rhinebeck, NY: Monkfish Book Publishing, 2008), p. 41.

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details the favorite drinks:
Mark Bailey,
Hemingway & Bailey’s Bartending Guide to Great American Writers
(Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2006).

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does the trick indirectly:
Bear et al.,
Neuroscience
, pp. 156–57, 670–71.

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the investigations of Roger Sperry:
Stanley Finger,
Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 281–300. For a profile of one of Sperry’s students and his role in the discoveries, see Benedict Carey, “Michael S. Gazzaniga: Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony,”
New York Times
, November 1, 2011, Section D, p. 1.

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basic difference between the two halves:
Jill Bolte Taylor,
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
(New York: Viking, 2006), pp. 27–36, 137–45.

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inconspicuous type of sensory activity:
Faith Hickman Brynie,
Brain Sense: The Science of the Senses and How We Process the World Around Us
(New York: AMACOM, 2009), pp. 18–19.

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Jill Bolte Taylor:
For a profile, see Leslie Kaufman, “A Superhighway to Bliss,”
New York Times
, May 25, 2008, Style section, p. 1.

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“I felt like a genie”:
Taylor,
My Stroke
, p. 67.

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learning how to empower:
Ibid., pp. 159–74.

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In 2001, he and his colleagues reported:
Andrew B. Newberg, Abass Alavi, Michael J. Baime, et al., “The Measurement of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow During the Complex Cognitive Task of Meditation: A Preliminary SPECT Study,”
Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
, vol. 106, no. 2 (April 2001), pp. 113–22.

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a more detailed portrait in 2007:
Andrew Newberg, Mark Waldman, Nancy Wintering, et al., “Cerebral blood flow effects in long-term meditators,”
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
, vol. 48, supplement 2 (2007), p. 111P.

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“We found greater overall activations”:
Debbie L. Cohen, Nancy Wintering, Victoria Tolles, et al., “Cerebral Blood Flow Effects of Yoga Training: Preliminary Evaluation of 4 Cases,”
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
, vol. 15, no. 1 (2009), pp. 9–14.

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suggests that the right hemisphere orchestrates:
George J. Demakis, “Sex and the Brain,” in Richard D. McAnulty and M. Michele Burnette, eds.,
Sex and Sexuality
, vol. 2,
Sexual Function and Dysfunction
(Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006), pp. 28–34.

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linked sexual excitement to the lighting:
See, for instance, Jari Tiihonen, Jyrki Kuikka, Jukka Kupila, et al., “Increase in Cerebral Blood Flow of Right Prefrontal Cortex in Man During Orgasm,”
Neuroscience Letters
, vol. 170, no. 2 (April 11, 1994), pp. 241–43.

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a study of four hundred and twenty-five:
Daniel Nettle and Helen Clegg, “Schizotypy, Creativity and Mating Success in Humans,”
Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences
, vol. 273, no. 1586 (March 7, 2006), pp. 611–15.

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An astonishing case:
Oliver Sacks,
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
(New York: Knopf, 2008), pp. 3–17.

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all smiles and applause:
The PBS science show
Nova
devoted a segment to Sacks’s book and Cicoria. See “Musical Minds,”
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/musicminds/about.html.

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a CD of classical piano solos:
Tony Cicoria,
Notes from an Accidental Pianist and Composer
,
www.cdbaby.com/cd/drtonycicoria.

209
an unending flow of poetry:
Gopi Krishna,
Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man
(Boston: Shambhala, 1997), pp. 200–202, 206–13.

209
“I had never learned German”:
Ibid., p. 212.

210
“It is, if one may say so”:
Carl von Weizsäcker, “Introduction,” in Krishna,
The Biological Basis
, pp. 20–21.

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a diverse body of artwork:
Adi Da up close, “Art and Photography,”
www.adidaupclose.org/Art_and_Photography/index.html.

210
His 2007 book:
Adi Da Samraj (Franklin Jones),
The Spectra Suites
(New York: Welcome Books, 2007).

210
a page devoted to her paintings:
Jana Dixon, “Artwork,” biologyofkundal ini.com/article.php?story=Artwork.

211
“We’re everyday people”:
Interview, Dale Pond, August 1, 2009.

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profiled by Degler in a book:
Degler,
Fiery Muse
, pp. 44–50, 186.

213
Beneath the surface:
Neil Bethell Sinclair,
The Spirit Flies Free: The Kundalini Poems
(Bayside, CA.: Life Force Books, 2008), p. 2.

Epilogue

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arrived at a turning point:
My approach here was year: robertmor inspired by Fishman and Saltonstall, “Authors’ Note,”
Yoga for Arthritis
, pp. 15–17.

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more than $2
trillion
a year:
Robert Pear, “Health Spending Exceeded Record $2 Trillion in 2006,”
New York Times
, January 8, 2008, Section A, p. 20.

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In his book:
Dalai Lama,
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
(New York: Morgan Road, 2005), pp. 3, 13.

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a new cycle of studies:
For a list of yoga studies that the NIH funds, enter the search term “yoga” at its Reporter site:
www.projectreporter.nih.gov/re porter.cfm
.

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ridiculed yoga studies:
Terence P. Jeffrey, “WASTE: Federal ‘Gurus’ Funding Yoga,”
Human Events
, July 20, 2005,
www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=8165
.

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amounted to about $7 million:
Author search of the NIH Reporter site,
www.projectreporter.nih.gov
, October 31, 2011. I used the word
yoga
but—to focus on major efforts and eliminate ones in which the discipline played a minor role—limited the categories to projects in which the word appeared in project titles, project terms, and abstracts. In fiscal 2011, the result was 26 research projects that had a total funding of $6,563,721.

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devoted its last chapter:
William J. Broad,
The Orcenter1e: The Lost Secrets and Hidden Message of Ancient Delphi
(New York: Penguin, 2006), pp. 227–50.

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