Not really ancient; yoga, tarot, Satanism, Quija, Friday the 13th, Nordic gods..

http://www.cracked.com/article_19283_7-ancient-forms-mysticism-that-are-recent-inventions.html

thoughts?

 

Very, very interesting. I'm surprised at the yoga one as I'm not educated in yoga yet still thought it was ancient. I always though tarot decks were nifty, so that was nice to know. Glad you posted this.

 

This surely must break Dhalsim's heart.

 

2 or 3 k yers is recent. there have been people making doing building creating things thousands of thousands of times longer then that. and that's just on this world.

 

Yoga is a great discipline. But, not the Hathayoga, principally meditations of Chakrayoga.
In chakras are hidden great abilities, you can awake through meditation.
In current westërn texts is strictly recommended meditate about all chakras. But, in eastern countrees are two ways. There about all chakras do a meditation only yogis, who want to awake the Serpent power, kundalini and terminate the cycle of lifes, to that calculated lives in a spiritual worlds too.
Yogis who wish to obtain a supernatural powers, and another life in a spiritual worlds do meditation only on a one chakra. Mostly the chakra Anahata for a many years. Only this way awaken in the chakra hidden powers and powers of the lower chakras are then assigned themselves.
Powers of Anahata accordin eastern texts are for example levitation and healing abilities.
Several texts recomended concentartion about the chakra Ajna only. But, there is a great danger of self-destruction the yogi, who done it.
For the awakening the Anahata chakra may be used the follow the breath before a bedtime. Very accelerate the achievement of this
The best meditation are in books about eastern alchemy.
The secret of the Golden flower, Translantion by R. Willhelm.
http://www.awakening-intuition.com/S...den-Flower.pdf
An old Alchemy book from China, taoistic alchemy. Concentration of about three months to the space between the eyebrows and then focus the mind to places in the middle of the chest, the best is the breath monitoring.
The same way use a yogis, who wont to obtain a supernatural powers. The Heaven heart in The secret of the Golden Flower is the Ajna Chakra in Yoga and a Fleshly heart in The secret of the Golden Flower is the Anahata chakra in Yoga.
Good Yoga texts are Shiva samhita, Sat chakra nirupana, by A. Avalon ( John Woodroffe), The serepent power.....and others.
Many texts is freely on the net in pdf.