Lesson 36 - Book Update and an Important Notice

From: Yogani
Date: Tue Oct 5, 2004 1:26pm

As mentioned in a previous posting, attention here has shifted to
publishing a book of these lessons. That project is well underway
now, and I wanted to give you a brief update.

Many issues have had to be addressed relating to formatting, editing,
and the practical aspects of publishing. Most of that is pretty well
in hand now, and work is in progress on getting the manuscript done.
The book will be the original online lessons, plus significant
additions in the form of clarifications of the knowledge, more
revealing Q&As, several new components of practice, and a Sanskrit
glossary.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: As you know, many of the online AYP lessons
are in the form of Q&As. If you do not wish to have inquiries you have
submitted published anonymously in a Q&A or testimonial in the AYP
book, please let me know within the next 30 days, so any necessary
adjustments can be made to the manuscript. This applies to both
inquiries that have been posted in the online lessons and those that
have not. Be specific in identifying any inquiry you do not wish have
included in the book. If you have previously advised me of the
privacy of a submitted email, that will continue to be honored, and
no further notification is necessary. Keep in mind that inquiries not
currently posted in the online lessons could end up in the book,
unless you advise otherwise. Please review the Copyright Notice at
the bottom of the home page of the AYP web site.

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The Q&As are a vital part of the lessons, and the generosity of
hundreds of you writing in over the past year has brought huge
benefits to the thousands who have been studying here. I will be most
appreciative if you will support the smooth flow of these interactive
lessons out into the published book medium, so that many more around
the world can be exposed to the knowledge of advanced yoga
practices.

I am working to have the book published in the first quarter of 2005.
It will be available in both hard copy and eBook formats. Printing
and distribution of the hard copy book (a hefty volume of well over
500 pages) will initially be in the USA and UK. The eBook will be
available on computers worldwide, of course, and will have the same
handy internal linking and searchability that exists on the AYP
web site.

I am very interested in publishing and distributing the hard copy
book locally in India, where the cost can be brought down
dramatically by publishing and distributing it in-country. There are
many AYP members located in India, so finding a local
publisher/distributor is a high priority. A "print on demand" (POD)
publisher/distributor would be preferred, but any viable arrangement
that will work in India will be considered. Any suggestions on who
can assist with publishing and distributing the book in India will be
much appreciated. The same goes for Australia, New Zealand, Hong
Kong/China, Japan, South Africa, and other English-reading countries
where it might make economic sense to publish locally rather than
rely on shipping from the USA or UK (or India, if we can get that set
up). With the currently planned publishing arrangement, there is the
flexibility to print the book anywhere that makes economic sense.

If anyone is interested in doing a translation of the lessons into
another language, please contact me. A strategy is evolving for this
involving free translated online AYP lessons that can lead to
eventual book publication with shared authorship. There are currently
early efforts going on for translations into Indonesian and French.
Anyone interested in reading the lessons in those languages should
contact me, so I can refer you directly to the translator. Quite a
few inquiries have been received regarding a Spanish translation, but
no one has stepped forward to do it yet. Any volunteers?

Once the AYP lessons have been published, the next step will be to
finish a spiritual novel that has been sitting here in draft form for
over a year. It was written before the AYP lessons were started on
Yahoo, and I am looking forward to finishing and publishing it. It is
an adventure/romance story with the actual AYP practices built into
it. Yes, a novel with real spiritual practices in it. It is written
for a modern audience, and contains no Sanskrit terminology. It is
called "The Secrets of Wilder." In addition to the practices, the
story takes the reader through the travails and triumphs of our
hometown hero and heroine on their epic journey of human spiritual
transformation -- sometimes humorous, often dangerous, definitely
erotic, and ultimately overflowing with world-transforming ecstatic
bliss and divine love.

The guru is in you.

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