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Softcover | 14.8 x 1.1 x 21 | 156 pp
The Everyday Press | 2017 | 9780993372858
The Egyptian Postures is a guide to the most advanced Mazdaznan exercises that Johannes Itten taught his students at the Bauhaus. Often performed while singing or humming the postures were intended to activate glands and re-channel internal energies, stirring the blood in ways that contributed to the perpetual evolution of humanity. They were also said to induce auto-illumination, the participants body generating an intense light from within.
This edition ofDr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Hanishs original instructions has been newly edited and illustrated byIan Whittlesea with images ofactor Ery Nzaramba demonstrating the postures and anin-depth essay byPdraic E. Moore that explores the relationships between esoteric movements, their racial theories and early modernism’sembrace and eventual dismissal ofthe occult, Mazdaznan and Itten.
Ian Whittlesea is an artist whose work explores the relationships between language, light, image and diagram both on the page and in the world. His translation of Yves Kleins Les Fondements du Judo was published in 2009, Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture in 2012, Becoming Invisible in 2014, On Colour… in 2019 and Trataka in 2020. These texts have been collectively described as instruction manuals for transcendental exercise.
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