Donald J Degracia: 4 books

Samadhi compiles in one volume the articles written by Donald J. DeGracia, Ph.D. about the practical aspects of yoga, including the mysterious technique of samadhi. Samadhi is the most important method of Patanjali’s Raja Yoga. But it is also the most obscure and cryptic aspect of the Yoga Sutras....

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras are mysterious and cryptic and exert hypnotic fascination on all whose minds they touch. In The Yogic View of Consciousness, Don DeGracia unfolds the theory of consciousness enshrined in the obtuse aphorisms of the Yoga Sutras. Yoga describes the mind as a multi-leveled system...

In spite of the amazing technological marvels of the modern world that have stemmed from science, there is no agreed upon definition of what science is. In this lively, colorful, and engaging work, Don DeGracia contends that science is a very weak form of what has been described for thousands of years...

With his usual blending of Western and Eastern thought, Don DeGracia considers the ancient question of the nature of our experience. Unlike most accounts, this one begins with the fact of altered states of consciousness. The curtain is pulled back to reveal the infinity of dynamic patterns found under...