Tibetan yoga

W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (New York and London Oxford University Press, 1958), p. 44. 

L. Cohen, et al., Psychological Adjustment and Sleep Quality in a Randomized Trial of the Effects of a Tibetan Yoga Intervention in Patients with Lymphoma, Cancer 100, no. 10 (2004) 2253-2260. 

My purpose in comparing Alchemy and Tibetan Buddhist Yoga is twofold. First, the old European alchemists refered to their melancholia, meaning the depression that besets till spiritual practitioners from time to time. In Alchemy this depression is pronounced and common, because its practitioners, more often than not, work in isolation and in a nonsupportive culture. Tibetan Buddhism on the other hand, has a continuous lineage of practitioners who have attained signs of accomplishment, thereby giving assurance to others that the Goal is attainable. Tibet also has a culture where the fruits of the spirit are valued above all else. 

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