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Part One: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

Behind the Bastards

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The Pros and Cons of Gertrude's Statements

While he is definitely a sex pest, what got him damned by the press in his day are statements that were just too pro sex and even sometimes pro woman for the era. One passage from the Vira said, Hannah was particularly outrageous to to people in 1910 New York. Sex worship has a religion represents a stage in the development of the human mind; it constitutes the basis of all that is sacred, holy and beautiful. The whole world is embodied in the woman. Now, yeah, that's heteronormative, but to most people in 2023, that's not what you'd call like a particularly offensive statement, even if it is a bit reductive and, you know,

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