Founder and supreme voice

   Our Hierophant received his first formal instruction in Hatha Yoga at the age of thirteen from a Jewish yogi from Lebanon on the ship Shalom. Inclined to lecture on metaphysics -and nearly everything else- almost from infancy, he owes (and certainly, attributes) his background in physical and metaphysical sciences to an early insomnia, and an obsessive fear of oblivion (which the perceptive will recognize as the same thing) that drove him to investigate every form of esoteric science that might provide means of experimentally verifying and gaining experience of the nature and immortality of the spiritual self; and, at the same time, made him research every branch of physiology and of other fields of science that might provide means of the indefinite extension of human physical life, on the theory that in case he found that he "couldn’t take it (or at least himself) with him", he wasn’t going to go! In this light his study and practice of such esoteric psycho-physical doctrines as those of Ashtanga* yoga was inevitable, as in them both of these goals and their fulfillment are joined.