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Final Hits and a Quiet End

The last chapters of The Great OOM by Robert Love highlight the last big enterprises that Bernard takes on to try and keep the Clarkstown Country Club alive. However, all…

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Elephants, Celebrities, and Yoga? Uh Oh…

Well, serves me right to be behind on writing and catching-up on reading possibly the most “busy” Chapters of The Great OOM. I am still slightly behind schedule, but will…

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The Sky Was the Limit

The Great OOM continues with the growing popularity of the CCC (Clarkstown Country Club) and its astounding offerings in entertainment and energy! Bernard was a master at moving with the…

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Breaking Ties and Tradition

What I have come to realize in this second reading of The Great OOM is that there really isn’t a lot of personal attention to the man himself. His story…

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Tradition,Character and Imagination

Chapter 13 and 14 of The Great OOM brings us back to the foundations and tradition of Bernard and the Tantriks, and moves us forward into a new era introducing…

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False Advertising and The Changing of Yoga for Social Norms

The next two chapters in The Great OOM really stand out to me as a turning point for the Tantriks, Bernard, and even yoga itself. As they move to Nyack…

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Millionaires, Marriages, Mansions and More

It seems that yoga has been tangled up with money and love/sex affairs since it hit the shores of America in the early 1900s – with some successful and some…

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On Track or Off the Rails?

In Chapter 7 of The Great OOM I find myself intrigued and frankly wanting to have a replica of Bernard’s “New York Sanskrit College” in operation today! So much of…

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The Many Morphs of Yoga in America

(image is the seal of the Theosophical Society) The next couple of chapters in The Great OOM are a great overview of how many forms yoga took even when it…

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Lodges, Loves, and Lasciviousness

To the outsider, the downfall of Pierre Bernard seems to be an inevitable end. Even though he might have taken advantage of the mystical curiosity of the age and approached…