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Without a doubt the most intense and incisive book about Patanjali's Sutras. The author's approach is unexpected and almost unbelievable, yet the first few pages reveal an undeniable truthfulness; a view of the siddhis so brightly illuminated that there can be no doubt as to the authenticity of the author's viewpoint.

If you want to have your world turned upside down, then I highly recommend this little book. If you want to continue the sameness of your existence, then avoid it at all costs.

I've been studying yoga and meditation for nearly 20 years and this is the first book about Patanjali's Sutras that makes spiritual sense that I have read. McAfee describes, step by step, the way to inner knowledge by using the sutras as a vehicle. His insight is amazing. He shows us what we truly are and intimately links the siddhis to our everyday life in a way that knowledge of death, invisibility or mastery of time becomes a true power in a sense far beyond the traditional "supernormal powers" interpretation of the siddhis.

This is an amazing book with astonishing implications. A must read for every Yogi.

As other reviewers have already pointed out the author makes a vain attempt to reduce the siddhis to nothing more than shifts in our everyday perception; no more than cryptic word games. The Author's conclusions are utterly ludicrous and are reached through no reasonable amount of logic whatsoever. He tries to explain away and pronounce dead wrong things that 2500 years of Indian scholars and Yogic Ascetics know to be fact. This is by far and away the most ignorant, westernized interpretation of any area of Yoga I have ever seen. I wouldn't be speaking so harshly if it weren't entirely warranted. Trust me. If you want to learn about The Eight-Fold Path and the Siddhis I highly suggest you look elsewhere.