TRAVELS WITH A YOGI
This is not a spiritual memoir. It is a record of impact.
Between 1999-2013, informal conversations, unrecorded lectures, and meditative encounters with a roaming teacher known as Baba Yage were transcribed and assembled. No audio exists. Symbolic accuracy is approximate. Contradictions remain intact. That is the point.
Who Is Baba Yage?
A toucher. A puncher. A philosopher. A prankster.
He gives meditations like "Find the source of breath." Then gives you an Indian burn. He answers metaphysical questions about consciousness, karma, God, enlightenment - then steals your hat.
He is serious. He is ruthless. He is laughing.
What’s Inside
Short, sharp encounters across airports and fund-raisers, Grand Canyon cliffs, soup kitchens, yoga studios, thrift stores, train platforms, meditation halls, and hospitals in Bengal.
Every exchange follows the same rhythm: Question. Unexpected answer. Meditation assignment. Physical disruption.
"Look inside. Find the Self." "Strike down your thoughts." "Become stone." "Pray until words collapse." "Stop believing your stories." And occasionally: "Snap out of it."
Tone
Direct. Unpolished. Unmarketed. This is not Instagram spirituality.
This is neti-neti, mental discipline, yogic cosmology, seven-fold bodies, third-eye relocation, karma dismantled, ego punctured, bliss dismissed as a sideshow.
It is playful. It is destabilizing. It is oddly affectionate.
Why This Book Is Different
It does not try to convince you. It assumes meditation is real, consciousness is investigable, self is questionable, experience is illusion, and awareness can be trained. And then it throws peanuts at your head.
The structure is fragmentary because transmission is fragmentary. It reads like a wandering Upanishad, a Zen koan series, a cross-country spiritual road movie, and a teacher who refuses to behave.
Who It’s For
- Practitioners tired of polished gurus
- Readers of Osho, Krishnamurti, Patanjali, Spencer-Brown
- Anyone suspicious of enlightenment marketing
- Anyone who wants the humor left in
If you want doctrine, read a manual. If you want friction, read this.
A Note on Authenticity
The document openly admits its instability: Classification: Distributed Signal Fragment - Non-Certified Transmission (zmz4dke_interior).
This is not certification. It is preservation. The field is messy. So is the book.
Why Own the Physical Copy
These are dialogues. They read differently on paper. The pauses land harder. The humor breathes. The meditations feel assignable.
This is a book you dog-ear. Underline. Argue with. Or get smacked by.
Specs
| Format | A5 (148 × 210 mm) |
| Length | ~80 pages (varies by edition) |
| Binding | Perfect bound |
| License | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
| SKU | TWAY-A5 |