Pantheism and animism are compatible, aren't they? You just have to posit a grand Divine behind/within everything and have it manifest in a variety of forms, I don't see how that would invalidate animism.
do you feel like it can be adapted to other cultural contexts? I'm relatively ignorant of esoteric forms of yoga but my impression is that it is heavily devotional and therefore more or less unsuitable for people who aren't devout hindus.
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So this was my impression as well before I got to India, especially if you look at something like the Gita where devotion to Krishna is emphasized but it turns out that, at least with the yogis I met, their philosophy tends to circumvent the specific forms of god...
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And look to the undifferentiated Divine. So in reality it can bolt into other systems relatively easy. There is a rough energy model that is conserved from school to school but otherwise the specifics aren't that important.
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What I was told was, if you need a specific form, if Krishna or Shiva (and they're usually who it will be) or whoever speaks to you as an ideal you'd like to emulate, no problem, but at the higher levels of consciousness it's irrelevant. That might not be true everywhere tho.
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so it sounds like syncretism basically works but full transplant maybe not.
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Very syncretizable, depends on who you study in terms of full import or not, I think. It turns out Ken Wilber is an Aurobindo fan and I think you can take Aurobindo's yoga whole-cloth but I get the impression he was a bit of an iconoclast.
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(I've not read Wilber but I know some chaotes dig him)
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