Harbhajan Singh Khalsa

What can be said is that Baker entered the role of spiritual leader with a public persona already shaped by physical discipline, business experience, theatricality, and a sense of personal myth.

He studied spiritual practices, including contact with the world of Yogi Bhajan, then developed his own synthesis.

The precise stages are reconstructed mostly from later accounts.

His teachings drew from multiple esoteric currents rather than from one orthodox tradition.

But to understand what a ghost is, we...

Let's look at this through the lens of kundalini yoga, and specifically the teachings of the, the great master Yogi Bhajan, who explained that a ghost is simply an earthbound soul.

Yeah.

It's a soul that dropped its physical vessel at death, but whose desires, fears, unfulfilled neuroses, emotional attachments were so heavy that they couldn't break free of the Earth's electromagnetic field and all the attachment that they had here in that experience of Earth's magnetic field.

And so I was going to do whatever I wanted that summer.

And I actually found a garage to rent, and I skipped Yogi Bhajan's lectures, and I was wearing black and doing martial arts.

So couldn't have been more flying in the face of what is considered proper protocol.

And so I got a message that he demanded that I be at his lecture that day in full bana, which means the full 3HO dress.

But at any rate, he said, "Come at me.

Tell me I'm the worst person on the earth.

Come at me however you want, but you have to be the most graceful woman, smiling and pleasant." And so I was sitting there just with a burn going, because women were trying to do it, but they were tee hee heeing, and they were too shy, and it was too outrageous to really take Yogi Bhajan on.

So I finally just had my arm up as high as I could shoot it in the air, and I'm like, "I want to take this mother down.

That's a very important moment, as you know, for reasons that we explored last week and for reasons that we bring up again and again and again, 'cause it's our conviction that there would not be a single yoga studio in the United States or in the UK or arguably anywhere else in the world.

It's probably the case that the only reason there are yoga studios anywhere, I mean like postural yoga studios, and what to say of like the Kundalini yoga scene, Yogi Bhajan scene, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Self-Realization Fellowship.

The whole reason there is any of that arguably is because of that speech in 1893.

You'll recall that Swami Vivekananda is the first representative of Indic spiritual civilization here in the West, and his transmission was something like that we're gonna take the next maybe 100 or 200 years to unpack to understand its full significance.

But you're free to do so, and then comment and tell me I'm wrong, if you want to.

I'll pr- I'll block you if you're an asshole about it, but if you're cool about it, if you're like, "Hey, I did that, uh, thing where I asked ChatGPT, and at least according to ChatGPT, it says this." But if it says, you know, ChatGPT quoting Yogi Bhajan says it's 5,000 years old, no.

I wanna know the fucking text.

What's the text? Where can you point to the, the text that mentions it? Not the guy in the '70s who says that he channeled something that says that it's thousands of years old.

I mean, we want to talk about that era was ripe for, for gurus and spiritual teachers.

And, and, you know, it was the era of like Ram Dass and Swami Muktananda and Swami, there's all these Swamis and all that, you know, Yogi Bhajan and all this stuff going on pretty much.

I was barely, barely a child.

And this woman named Ma, who was back then Joya, had an awakening.

So yeah, it's, it's fascinating.

Did, do you know if he studied with Yogi Bhajan?

I don't.

No, I don't know.

A longtime Kundalini yoga instructor, Jai developed quantum healing yoga, an approach incorporating breathwork, movement, mantra, conscious awareness, and trauma-informed practices.

She's also the writer and producer of Kundalini Quantum Healing Yoga, The Bridge from Victim to Victory, a documentary exploring her response to the revelations surrounding Yogi Bhajan and her search for a more ethical, trauma-informed approach to yoga.

The film follows her exploration of sacred feminine wisdom and neuroscience, embodied practice, and personal and collective healing.

Archai, just a little bit about you.

visceral.

It was an undeniable feeling that something's elevating in me.

So bring us to the situation with the film and Yogi Bhajan.

How did all this come about?