Of Ganesh Baba: Psychedelic Sa... — The Crazy Wisdom

He viewed substances like ganja as a form of Gyana Yoga (the path of knowledge), arguing they provide "room to move your psyche about" and abstract one's self from basic sensory experience.

He lived to be 102, embodying his philosophy of vitality and "orgasmic consciousness"—a state of blissful, unified awareness. The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba: Psychedelic Sa...

Mindful control of the physical body and "limb-limbering". He viewed substances like ganja as a form

Conscious breathing and eating to regulate life energy. Practice: Conscious action in daily life. Presence: Constant awareness of one's own consciousness. Psychedelic Sadhana (Spiritual Practice) Conscious breathing and eating to regulate life energy

Ganesh Baba developed a modernized version of Kriya Yoga he called (for "creative" yoga). This system was designed to help Westerners, whose attention spans he felt were fragmented by modern distractions, reach "cosmification"—an expansion of awareness to the farthest reaches of the cosmos.

Ganesh Baba's teaching style was iconoclastic, humorous, and often confrontational—a hallmark of the tradition. He aimed to "shred beliefs to pieces" to force students into a direct, unmediated experience of reality.