Asked about yoga and magic my yoga Guru Selvarajan Yesudian stated, that yoga is white magic. This is certainly true, like every kind of magic yoga too operates on the material and sublte realms of existence. It is white magic, because it works towards peoples enlightenment, in nonviolent ways.
From the perspective of the highest steps of the yoga path, when one enters meditation, many of the presteps of the yoga path can be seen as childrens games.
As a fact Selvarajan was very sick during his childhood and nobody could cure him. His own parents were doctors. He ran away from home and found his Guru, who then cured him.
He used a lot of affirmations for health in deep relaxation (shavasana) in Selvarajans case, which he then adapted in his own teaching style. So there is nothing wrong in playing with matter at the early stages to help to invoke the healing process.
In traditions like Yoga and Buddhism healing is in general often said to be spiritual healing, as the highest form of healing. Mind rules matter and not only modern psychology or anthroposophy, esoteric traditions around the world or the psychosomatic teaching knew this fact. Yogis and Buddhists knew it as well, in fact they are the ones they all knew it from.
Osho too stated, that true tantra is no technique, that can be learned. Talking about neo tantra and neo vipassana, here too presteps in the form of active meditations are seen to be helpful to get into vipassana. Even in vipassana, there are three steps that can be practised. They are observation of the body (and breath), the thougth process and the emotions, as a nonjudgemental and uninvolved witness. Then one day the fourth step will happen by itself.
"If you only knew who you are"
Rumi
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