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When the woman who would become Indra Devi was created in Russia in 1899, yoga exercises was virtually unfamiliar outside of India. By the time of her fatality in 2002, it had been practiced everywhere, from Brooklyn to Berlin to Ulaanbaatar. Born in to the modest aristocracy (as Eugenia Peterson), Devi grew up amid one of the very most turbulent times in history. Obligated to flee the Russian Trend as a teenager, she signed up with a famous Berlin cabaret troupe, dove in to the vivid prewar spiritualist movements, and, at a time when it was nearly unthinkable for a European woman to travel alone, used the charismatic theosophical innovator Jiddu Krishnamurti to India. Once on the subcontinent, she performed in Indian silent movie theater and hobnobbed with the leaders of the self-reliance movements. But her best coup was convincing a recalcitrant master yogi to train her in the secrets of his art work. Written with vivid clearness, The Goddess Cause brings Devi's amazing story - as an actress, yogi, and globe-trotting adventuress - alive.
