Fascist Yoga

Stewart Home is a legend of counterculture. He is an artist, filmmaker, pamphleteer, art historian and activist, and the author of countless pulp fictions, including most recently Art School Orgy and She’s My Witch. He regularly performs to audiences across the world and recently started making headstand paintings with the canvas placed above him and brushes held in his toes. He was born and lives in London.

• IntroductionPART I. HAPPY BABY: A GRUBBY GURU TAKES US ALL TO THE CLEANERS 1. Did Pierre Bernard Invent Yoga in California at the Start of the Twentieth Century? 2. The Great Oom & White PowerPART II. WARRIOR ONE, TWO AND THREE: FACISM + YOGA = FASCIST YOGA (THE 1920s TO THE 1940s) 3. Guido Keller And The Rijeka Yoga Group 4. Military Theorist Major J. F. C. Fuller, Whose Concept of Blitzkrieg Became Standard Practice in Nazi Warfare 5. Bengal Lancer and Hitler Aficionado Francis Yeats-Brown6. Jakob Wilhelm Hauer and His Influence on the Architect of the Nazi Holocaust Heinrich Himmler 7. Mircea Eliade, Julius Evola, Savitri Devi - National Socialism as a Religion and the Yoga af PowerPART III. DOWNWARD DOG: OCCULT MADNESS AND YOGIC TELEVANGELISM (MODERN POSTURAL PRACTICE IN THE POST-WAR ERA) 8. Paul Dukes, Francis Yeats-Brown (Again) and Theos Bernard, Spreading the Great Om’s Gospel in the Post-War Years 9. Indra Devi and Her Editors At Prentice Hall 10. Harvey Day, a Hack Who Found Success with Books on Yoga 11. Desmond Dunne AKA Occultist James Lee-Richardson and His Mail Order Yoga Course12. Richard Hittleman and Yogic Televangelism13. Pull The Wool Over Your Own Eyes With Frank Rudolph Young, The ‘Einstein’ Of Occult YogaConclusionBibliography

'Fascist Yoga is a serious treatise on a zeitgeisty topic. To the man who may be Britain’s most avant-garde writer and artist, yoga is a swindle that dupes the well-meaning middle classes. It’s also a breeding ground for fascists. It isn’t even particularly good for you'