He’s Just Had Coffee

So many reasons to love Wikipedia when you’re an unreformed obscurantist like me. I start with an innocent enough question to answer about the key forms of Yoga.

That leads me to Agni Yoga, which leads me among other places to Oomoto (and on to Shinshukyo), Burkhanism, stuff about the Holy Grail, Akbar the Great. Burkhanism is a particularly fine find, how long do you reckon I could stay busy just trying to understand this, innocent-sounding passage:

The Altaian name for the religion is Ak Jang (”White Faith”). “White” refers to its emphasis on the upper world (in the three-world cosmology of the turkic and Mongolian Tengriism).

I’d also encourage fans of the non-dual mystic schools (you know who you are) to ponder this notion of the Grail legend:

In Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach, citing the authority of a certain (probably fictional) Kyot the Provençal, claimed the Grail was a stone that fell from Heaven, and had been the sanctuary of the Neutral Angels who took neither side during Lucifer’s rebellion.

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