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Part One: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

Behind the Bastards

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The Great Oom: A History of the Tantric Order

San Francisco was not at this point a willing mecca for the weird and Bernard was forced to flee with his few followers who called themselves the tantrics with a K in 1906. They move from San Francisco to Seattle, which was also not yet strange enough to host them. Three years later, after having picked up and they're picking up people, he's picking up followers. Like he's running like a little cult and he's getting some little cult. Now, by this point, Bernard's followers are calling themselves the tantric order and they, you know, with the kind of limited funds they have because they're not doing great. The best book on Bernard is called The Great O

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