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Abhinavagupta 231, 258, 259n4, 265
Adams, Vincanne 164–65
Alpert, Richard (Ram Dass) 280
Alphonse Louis Constant see Lévi, Éliphas
Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe 78, 229
Arnold, Johanna 111–14
Arundale, George S. 74n3, 85n19, 212–13, 215, 220n37, 222
Apte, Vaman Shivaram 80
Abrams, Albert 40, 134–39
Altschüller, David Charles 122
Apollonius of Tyana 213
Aristotle 9, 197
Atkinson, William Walker 48–50, 81, 85, 87, 129, 331 Ramacharaka, Yogi
Augustine 9
Avalon, Arthur (b. John George Woodroffe) 259–60 Woodroffe, John George
Bailey, Alice Ann 45, 50–53, 56
Baudin, Louise 294, 297
Becker, William 215
Behrend, Michael 215
Bell, Alexander G. 42
Bengtsson, Otelia 154–55
Bensimon, Léon 128
Benson, Herbert 171
Bergier, Jacques 340
Besant, Annie 44n35, 45, 49, 366
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (b. Chandra Mohan Jain) 77, 257, 263–64 Osho
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna 38n23, 40–43, 48, 51, 56–57, 72, 74, 84, 154, 156, 212, 230, 251, 261, 339, 341–45, 348, 352, 375n20
Blondlot, René 346
Bonnier, Pierre 134–35
Bourdieu, Pierre 171
Braid, James 36
Brandler-Pracht, Karl 348–49
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 7, 47n40, 339–45, 347–50, 352–53
Burroughs, William 188
Campbell, Joseph 77
Carnegie, Andrew 123
Carton, Paul 130, 132
Chaitow, Boris 128
Chantereine, Jacqueline 139
Cheung Seng Kann 163–66, 172–78, 180–82
Chodkiewicz, Kazimierz 212–13, 222
Choa Kok Sui 53
Colebrooke, Henry Thomas 9
Coon, Robert 215, 218, 221
Craddock, Ida 362–64, 365n9, 366–377
Crookes, William 42, 57
Crowley, Aleister 230, 261–62
Davidson, John 24n4
Davis, Andrew Jackson 50n43, 229
Davson, Cyril W. 355
de la Ferrière, Serge Raynaud 294–314
Delville, Jean 124
Demarquette, Jacques 132
Derrida, Jacques 193
Desai, Amrit 78
Desai, Manibhai Haribhai see Sri Yogendra
Descartes, René 9, 33, 40n29, 302
Devi, Savitri 357
Devī, Shrī Mātājī Nirmalā (b. Nirmalā Srivastava) 77
du Bois-Reymond, Emil 37, 79
du Potet de Sennevoy, Jean (Baron du Potet) 41–43, 47n40, 57
du Prel, Carl 38–39, 346–47
Dumesnil, Marius Albert 130
Durville, André 130, 135
Durville, Hector 130, 135
Edison, Thomas A. 42
Einstein, Albert 1, 44, 81
Eitel, Ernst Johann 83–84
Ellis, Havelock 373
Eschenmayer, Carl August von 229
Estebany, Oskar 155
Estep, William 230
Estrada, José Manuel 298
Evans, Warren Felt 46–48, 222
Evola, Julius 357
Faraday, Michael 42, 156, 342
Ferriz Olivares, David 302
Firth, Violet M see Fortune, Dion
Flaus, Charles 124
Fortune, Dion 212, 257
Gadamer, Hans-Georg 193
Galton, Francis 365
García, Manuel 325
Garnier, Pierre 374
Gaßner, Johann Joseph 32, 106n9
Gendre, Victor 124
Georg, Eugen 353–356
Georgievitz-Weitzer, Demeter see Surya, G. W.
Ghose, Aurobindo 121
Ghosh, Mukunda Lal see Yogananda, Paramahamsa
Gillen, Alma 372–74
Graves, Robert 216
Gray, Martin 216–17
Green, Elmer E. 24n4
Grof, Christina 77
Grof, Stanislav 77
Hardy, Hippolyte L. 136
Hartmann, Franz 40, 230, 325, 329, 330, 348
Hauer, Jakob Wilhelm 260–61
Hayashi Chūjirō 148–49
Hébert, Georges 130
Heidegger, Martin 193
Hertz, Heinrich 345
Hillman, James 76
Hobbes, Thomas 9
Hume, David 1, 80
Huxley, Aldous 187
Iamblichus 9, 197
Iyer, Kuppuswami see Swami Sivananda
Jain, Chandra Mohan see Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
James, William 23, 159–60, 199n28
Jaworski, Hélan 134–36
Johnson, Mark 102–104, 114
Jubelin, André 126
Jung, Carl Gustav 60–61n53, 75–76, 256–257, 260–61
Kant, Immanuel 201
Kanungo, Hemchandra Das 121
Karagulla, Shafica 154
Keely, John Ernst Worrell 344–45
Kempton, Sally 274–91
Khalsa, Harbhajan Singh see Yogi Bhajan
Kiesewetter, Carl 346–47
Krieger, Dolores 151–152, 155–56
Krishna, Gopi 75–77, 82, 276
Kryžanowski, Špela 164
Kunz, Dora 151, 153–156, 158
Kunz, Fritz 154
Laidlaw, Robert 154–55
Lakhovsky, Georges 140–41
Lakoff, George 102–104, 114
Lanz, Adolf Joseph see Lanz von Liebenfels, Jörg
Lanz von Liebenfels, Jörg (b. Adolf Joseph Lanz) 329, 340, 354–55
Leadbeater, Charles W. 45, 49, 74n3, 153–54
Lévi, Éliphas (b. Alphonse Louis Constant) 41–43, 45, 56–57, 343
Liddell, Henry George 193–94
Lief, Stanley 128
Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph 44, 48, 57, 345
Lorber, Jakob 214–15
Louis XVI 105
Lovelock, James 216
Mac-Auliffe, Léon 125
Mager, Henri 139
Majumdār, Baradā Kānta 74–75
Maxim, Hiram Stevens 345
Maxwell, James Clerk 41
McKenna, Terence 188
Mereschkowski, Dmitri Sergejewitsch 353
Mesmer, Franz Anton 3, 31–33, 83, 102, 104–109, 211, 229, 343
Behrend, Michael 215
Michel, Aimé 211n12
Michell, John F. 211, 214, 222
Mikao, Usui 85, 146, 148
Monier-Williams, Monier 79
Morales, Francisco 303
Morant, George Soulié de 135
Mouézy-Eon, Albert 126, 135–36
Much, Hans 353
Murphy, Michael 77
Naranjo, Claudio 77
Nelson, Buck 211n12
Nityananda, Bhagawan 279–281
Olcott, Henry Steel 230, 251
Osho (b. Chandra Mohan Jain) 77–8, 257, 263–69 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Pauwels, Louis 340
Pearson, Karl 365
Plotinus 195
Price, Richard 77
Prozor, Marthe-Elza 124
Prozor, Maurice Eduardovich 124
Puységur, Amand Marc Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis de 33–35, 57, 60, 107, 114
Ramacharaka, Yogi 49, 81, 85, 129, 132, 331 Atkinson, William Walker
Ray, Barbara Weber 150
Raynaud de la Ferrière, Serge 296–300, 304
Regnault, Jules 139
Reich, Wilhelm 211, 264, 267–68
Rocke, Mary 153
Rolf, Ida 28
Röntgen, Wilhelm 245
Rudolph, Albert (Rudi) 280
Safranski, Nicolas 121
Sannella, Lee 77
Savoire, Camille 139
Schmid, Frenzolf 355
Schneider, Carol J. 24n4
Schultz, Albert Christian Georg see Shou, Peryt
Schwickert, Friedrich 349–50 Sindbad
Scott, Robert 193
Scott-Elliot, William 344–45, 348, 354
Sen, Keshab Chandra 50
Serra, Raimundo Ireneu 188n4
Shanon, Benny 189–92, 201
Shou, Peryt (b. Albert Christian Georg Schultz) 327, 331–34, 350–354
Shou, Peryt 331
Sindbad (b. Friedrich Schwickert) 348–49
Singh, Jagatjit 126
Soize, Marie-Charlotte 132–33
Spencer, Herbert 80, 369
Spiegelberg, Frederic 76–77
Sri Yogendra (b. Manibhai Haribhai Desai) 81
Srinivasan, T. M.
Srivastava, Nirmalā see Devī, Shrī Mātājī Nirmalā
Steiner, Rudolf 339, 353
Stone, Randolph 121, 128
Sturdy, Edward T. 61
Surya, G. W. (b. Demeter Georgievitz-Weitzer) 349–350, 352
Swami Durgananda (b. Sally Kempton) see Kempton, Sally
Swami Sivananda (b. Kuppuswami Iyer) 81
Swami Vivekananda (b. Narendranath Datta) 49, 71, 75, 80–81, 123, 129, 230
Swedenborg, Emanuel 43n33, 49n42, 50n43, 201
Tàixū 170
Takata, Hawayo 85, 146, 148–50, 158
Tart, Charles T. 200
Tesla, Nikola 81, 345
Teudt, Wilhelm 210n10
Thích Nhất Hạnh 170n8
Thomson, William 79
Thooris, Alfred 126
Tiller, William A. 24
Tirtha, Rama 123
Tison, Edouard 126
Tú Yōuyōu 178
Tyndall, John 42
Varma, Dewanchand 120–141
Viard, Marcel 130
von Brücke, Ernst Wilhelm 79
von Helmholtz, Hermann 27, 79, 324
von Reichenbach, Karl Ludwig Freiherr 3, 36–39, 58, 211
Weber, Max 198, 200
Wenzl, Aloys 28
Wilson, Horace H. 79
Wirth, Herman 329–30, 353
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 202
Woodroffe, Sir John George 75, 259 Avalon, Arthur
Worrall, Ambrose 155
Yogananda, Paramahamsa (b. Mukunda Lal Ghosh) 81, 230
Yogi Bhajan (b. Harbhajan Singh Khalsa) 77

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Subtle Energies in Therapy, Spirituality, Arts, and Politics

1800–Present

Series:  Numen Book Series, Volume: 182
Cover Subtle Energies in Therapy, Spirituality, Arts, and Politics
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9789004736221
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Brill
Print Publication Date:
17 Nov 2025
  • Subjects
    • Religious Studies
      • History of Religion
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Prelude
Chapter 1 Historical Roots of ‘Subtle Energies’: Occult Physicalism
Chapter 2 Historical Roots of ‘Subtle Energies’: Occult Orientalism
Part 2 Subtle Energies in Healing
Chapter 3 Animal Magnetism’s Conceptualization of Healing Energies: Comparing the Metaphors of Franz Anton Mesmer and Contemporary Practitioners
Chapter 4 Dewanchand Varma and Pranotherapy: Healing and Subtle Energies in the French Interwar Period
Chapter 5 Universalizing ‘Energy’ in Reiki and Therapeutic Touch: from Occult(ed) Roots to Medicalized Fruits
Chapter 6 Healing with Qì via Qìgōng, Acupuncture, and Fēngshuǐ: Code-Switching and the Case of a Chinese American Healer
Chapter 7 Subtle Energies in Ayahuasca Healing
Chapter 8 Gaia’s Energy Flows: the Interplay of Eco-Spirituality and Terrestrial Energy Healing
Part 3 Subtle Energies in Yoga, Tantra, and New Syntheses
Chapter 9 From Blessing Dīkṣā to Mesmerism: Sabhapati Swami’s Tamil ‘Shaktipat’
Chapter 10 The Paths of the Serpent: Kuṇḍalinī as Subtle Energy, from Tantra to Neo-Tantra
Chapter 11 Awakening Śakti: Kuṇḍalinī within the Nondual Tantric Teachings of Sally Kempton
Chapter 12 A Pilgrimage of Astral Energies and a French Yogi in the Americas
Part 4 Subtle Energies in the Arts and Politics
Chapter 13 Subtle Energies of Sound: Leser-Lasario’s Vowel Breathing and Mantra Chanting
Chapter 14 Subtle Energies and Blunt Politics: Occultism, Technology, and the Politics of Vril
Chapter 15 Sexual Education and Vital Forces to Heal the Race: Ida Craddock’s and Frances Swiney’s Use of Eugenics and Esotericism
Back Matter
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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