YOGA IN INDIAN CULTURE: SMITHSONIAN October 19, 2013 - January 26, 2014

Smithsonian Institute presents

Yoga:The Art of Transformation. 

The exhibit runs from October 19, 2013 - January 26, 2014 at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (before traveling.) 

1050 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC

Debra Diamond, curator of the exhibit: "Yoga constantly transforms and simultaneously gets imbedded in culture. The exhibit explores yoga’s goals and means of transforming body and consciousness, its profound philosophical foundations, its role within multiple religious and secular arenas, and the roles that yogis played in society, from divinized teachers to militant ascetics. That being said, the path of modern yoga is still being laid."
Included in the exhibit is the Thomas Edison film, Hindoo Fakir (1906)

quote from interview: http://yogacitynyc.com/articles/WeeklyDetails/717

Dwarka, India - 12,000 Year Old City Found - video

Our world is quite much more than mainstream education ever offers, even at many of the University levels. To me, the richer, generally untold, and various views of the past are interesting, and give one a fuller sense of what it means to be alive. I appreciate so much worlds past "mythology" as well as the  future to come.

Now, I am aware of the syncretizing of religions and cultures that is is being aimed for world-wide, so history is having her ongoing 

re-write...

" Now archaeologists and Indian Navy divers are investigating underwater ruins at Dwarka on India's western coast, said to be Krishna's city. The new efforts, it is hoped, will settle the debate currently raging over the age and authenticity of the site near the Samudranaraya temple. Divers have collected blocks and samples which will now be dated. Traditional Hindu scholars referencing ancient Hindu scriptures believe the location to be very ancient, originally built many thousands of years ago. Such notions are, of course, vehemently rejected by establishment scientists though they are willing to concede that there is evidence indicating an age of as much as 3500 years.

Of course the date when the city was destroyed would be long after the date of its inception, so a definitive maximum date has not been established. The new study is expected to resolve some of the issues. Archaeologists will now use the carbon dating technique to determine the exact age of the ruins."