Matri

08/10/2026

In 1904, a Chicago lawyer named William Walker Atkinson — writing under the pen name Yogi Ramacharaka — published the first plain-English manual of prāṇāyāma. Seventy-one pages, still in print. A doorway into the breath-discipline at the heart of yoga, and an early bridge between an ancient science and a Western reader.

The Science of Breath — Yogi Ramacharaka (William Walker Atkinson, 1904)

A Chicago lawyer, writing under the name Yogi Ramacharaka, laid down in 1904 the first plain-English manual of prāṇāyāma — the breath-discipline at the heart of yoga.

04/10/2026

Every institution that has owned the gate to the knowledge has a reason to wish these books had not been written. No one writes about Joan of Arc to entertain.
Fiction on the outside. Explosive truth on the inside.
MYST · MEGHA · MYTH — Bliss Is Your Birthright.

A historical novel churning through fifty centuries, for the one who left institutions looking for an altar.
Jehanne d'Arc did not lose on fire. And she did not come alone.

He had been insatiable the whole of his life, and was finally fed his demands.

The operation the trilogy traces is as old as time, it documents fifty centuries of records. Tiamat, Inanna and Marduk to touch on where the most recent split went: the young god slays the old mother of the waters, splits her, and builds the world from the halves — and the crown dates its legitimacy from the killing. Time-jump to (almost) present, and Jehanne, burned for her vision on pretence of putting men's clothes on. It works by not being named. Naming it is the undoing, and the records have to continue being set straight to account for delta of deviation and fog of smoke-and-mirrors.

Underneath it is an argument the reader will recognise: Greek and Roman hegemony is a colonial frame, and it erased the corridor's own knowledge. Every conqueror since has walked through a world already made and called it founding. This book argues that the imprint they left is what brought the civilisations down.

And it was never a war on women. It is a war on people who have it directly. Jehanne held a direct vision — and never surrendered. In the wilder steppes that never cower, Tomyris had Cyrus’ head gulp the blood he was insatiable for, when he had come to marry the Queen, holding her offspring a hostage. Put a crown on the sieve and hand it the treasury of the world. Alexandria - Catherine and Hypatia. And a woman nineteen years into a research-funding body in the Sydney C*D, whose job is checking that the record is clean.
And Alexander the Great returns — as the man who has spent twenty years assembling the register of every woman who ever stood against a predator.

Christian, Muslim, Buddhist: the book does not spare whoever was holding the ledger. Challenges are welcome — the author puts her own tradition in the reckoning alongside everyone else's.

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30/09/2026

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You are wholeheartedly invited into my world of writing. Yoga in simple language for all ages and genders....

You are wholeheartedly invited into my world of writing. Yoga in simple language for all ages and genders. Enjoy reading THE SPINE, MYST MEGHA MYTH Trilogy (also available as one omnibus of some 70…

30/09/2026

Kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, mātsarya — the six enemies of the mind are not six diseases but six branches of one root: the fixation on 'I' and 'mine.' And the same root that grows the inner enemies grows the outer crisis: the greed that strips a forest, the delusion that we're separate from the river we poison.

The Six Enemies of the Mind — Ariṣaḍvarga, and the Two Small Words They Grow From

Arjuna asks: by what force is a man driven to harm even against his will? Kṛṣṇa answers — it is desire, it is anger; know this to be the enemy here. The six thieves that rob us of our own peace.…

26/09/2026

Parigraha is built from pari, around, and √grah, to seize. It contains no reference to quantity at all — it describes a manner of holding. The test is not the inventory. It is what happens when a thing is threatened, and how fast.

Aparigraha — Enough, Held Well

A boy at the door of Death is offered everything, and refuses. Not because wealth is bad — because he has noticed the substitution. A person is not to be satisfied by wealth.

24/09/2026

The name is gentler than the practice it carries. Śivāmbu — the water of Śiva — is what the ta***ic texts call amaroli, and the Ḍāmara Ta**ra traces it to Śiva himself. Set out here as the tradition sets it out, without apology and without a claim.

Shivambu Shastra — The Water of Śiva: An Ancient Practice

Śivāmbu — the water of Śiva — is the traditional name for amaroli, the ta***ic practice the Ḍāmara Ta**ra traces to Śiva himself. A window onto the tradition.

22/09/2026

Steya is the taking of what has not been given — and the remedy is not to stop receiving. It is to convert takings into givings by the simplest method there is, which takes about four seconds and changes the other person's face.

Asteya — The End of Skimming

Ninety minutes, six people, a decision that needed eleven. Nothing was taken in any sense a ledger would record — and nine hours of human life are gone.