Eric Dwight Ben-Meir
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Eric Dwight Ben-Meir a.k.a. Sankara Saranam, founder of the Pranayama Institute, is an ex-monk, writer, pro-abortion activist, anti-government activist, and proponent of his own brand of pranayama.
He traveled in Israel and India, writing the book Yoga and Judaism (Astrologue, 1997), which argues that the Hebrew Prophets were practitioners of sense-introversion and asceticism. He is also the author of the book God Without Religion: Questioning Centuries of Accepted Truths (Pranayama Institute, 2005).
Eric Dwight Ben-Meir graduated from Columbia University, writing his thesis (Pranayama in Theory and Practice) as a student of religion. He has a master's degree in Eastern texts and Sanskrit from St. John's College.
He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Northern Georgia with his wife and son.
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- Is Abortion Murder? an intellectual justification and moralization of abortion
- How a Spiritual Government Might Have Responded to Katrina a critique of the United States Government
