SRF Notes

Discussing the beliefs and teachings of Self-Realization Fellowship and Paramahansa Yogananda with historical context and critical thinking.

Christianity

  • Was reincarnation removed from the Bible? Yet another inaccurate footnote.

    Was reincarnation removed from the Bible? Yet another inaccurate footnote.

    In Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda says: “The early Christian church accepted the doctrine of reincarnation, which was expounded by the Gnostics and by numerous church fathers, including Clement of Alexandria, the celebrated Origen (both 3rd Century), and St Jerome (5th Century). The doctrine was first declared a heresy in A.D. 553 by the…

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  • Another Inaccurate Footnote – “The Primacy of India”

    Another Inaccurate Footnote – “The Primacy of India”

    In the Introduction to The Second Coming of Christ by Paramahansa Yogananda, on page xxix of the hardcover version, there is a footnote that says: “A wealth of evidence for the primacy of India’s spiritual culture in the ancient world is presented by George Feuerstein, Ph.D., Subhash Kak, Ph.D., and David Frawley, O.M.D., in In…

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