Dwapara Yuga Blog

This is a personal blog around the dawning of Dwapara Yuga, the age of energy. A good starting point to the subject is the post "New age of Dwapara Yuga?" The oldest post is the "Yuga Timeline," which led to a couple of books a generation ago in Dwapara 307 (2007). This site is associated with the domains DwaparaYuga.com, Gyanananda.com, and social media site Facebook.com/DwaparaYuga.

Video

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Video Killed the Radio Star
The video of this song was both the first shown at the launch of MTV in 1981 (Dwapara 281) and the last in 2025 (Dwapara 325).
Its co-writer, Trevor Horn, is considered to be one of the greatest music producers of the 1980s (Dwapara 280s), using a full spectrum of then new capabilities with synthesizers, sampling and sequencing.
The song describes the displacement of radio by video – it is an anthem both to technological progress and also the under tow of displacement, obsolescence, and the potential for dehumanization by technology.
The lyrics come from a 1959 (Dwapara 259) short story by Ballard, “The Sound Sweep,” itself dealing with the introduction of new media technology.
Both story, song, and video resonate with Marshall McLuhan’s 1958 (Dwapara 258) idea that a change in medium drives a change in the message itself.
 

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Special Forces

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Video Killed the Radio Star
The video of this song was both the first shown at the launch of MTV in 1981 (Dwapara 281) and the last in 2025 (Dwapara 325).
Its co-writer, Trevor Horn, is considered to be one of the greatest music producers of the 1980s (Dwapara 280s), using a full spectrum of then new capabilities with synthesizers, sampling and sequencing.
The song describes the displacement of radio by video – it is an anthem both to technological progress and also the under tow of displacement, obsolescence, and the potential for dehumanization by technology.
The lyrics come from a 1959 (Dwapara 259) short story by Ballard, “The Sound Sweep,” itself dealing with the introduction of new media technology.
Both story, song, and video resonate with Marshall McLuhan’s 1958 (Dwapara 258) idea that a change in medium drives a change in the message itself.
 

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takeaway

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It's been around 3-years since I first blogged here around AI. Today, generative, agentic, and ambient AI are all around us. I asked ChatGPT to summarize my 2007 book.

Top 5 Takeaways — Dwapara Yuga and Yogananda: Blueprint for a New Age

1 Humanity is in an ascending Dwapara Yuga (post-1700), fully expressed by ~1900. The book’s core claim is that modern scientific, technological, and social breakthroughs reflect a cyclical rise in human consciousness—specifically the Bronze (Dwapara) Age characterized by energy awareness and connectivity, not materialism.

2 Science and spirituality are converging around the concept of energy. Discoveries such as electromagnetism and relativity validate ancient teachings that matter is a form of energy—central to Dwapara Yuga thinking and predicted by Sri Yukteswar decades before modern physics confirmed it.

3 Paramhansa Yogananda is the key East–West integrator of this age. Yogananda’s mission translated ancient yogic science into a universal, non-sectarian framework, emphasizing direct personal experience of the divine, healthy living, and meditation—scaled through modern media consistent with Dwapara dynamics.

4 Dwapara Yuga undermines centralized, coercive power structures. The age favors individual empowerment, meritocracy, global networks, and the erosion of monopolies, authoritarianism, rigid hierarchies, and dogmatic institutions—political, economic, and religious alike.

5 Technology must be paired with inner development to avoid new forms of control. While the internet, media, and advanced technologies are natural tools of Dwapara Yuga, the book warns that without spiritual maturity they can replicate Kali-age domination patterns; inner discipline (e.g., meditation) is presented as the balancing force.



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Kriya Yoga

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Early picture of Yoganandaji in America

I just came across a Yoganandaji disciple I had never heard of before - Shelly Trimmer - in a 2017 book by Ray Grasse called "An Infinity of Gods."
I found the book to be very enjoyable and recommend reading it for folks with an open mind. There's a second book also, although I found the first to be more impactful.
It has been years since I last came across any new perspectives around Kriya Yoga and Yoganandaji that were not simply re-workings of older materials.
It was great to find those stories and more around the diversity of teachers that Yoganandaji collaborated with and encouraged in his lifetime.
Shelly wasn't a well known teacher by any means. He was a householder and avoided opening any type of big school.
He unsurprisingly advocates meditation and affiliation with whichever kriya yoga group you feel affinity with (or don't) at this time and place in your life.
I got a kick out of seeing some of the wider-scoped discussions that are not typically covered in group sessions. Yoganadaji himself had to be very careful of what he said, being followed by British agents and religious zealots looking to tear him down.
Reading those more unusual tidbits was like eating at a chef's restaurant with a lot of personality and a few rough edges rather than a national chain where everything is well done at scale but can sometimes feel cold and corporate in striving to offend no one.

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Free Trade Hall

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Sex Pistols at Lesser Free Trade Hall 1976 (BBC photo credit)

Manchester, England, was the world’s first industrial city, a beehive of canals, steam power, and mills from the late 1700s that drove global changes in economics, society, and music.

Manchester’s Free Trade Hall opened in 1856 as one of its leading venues. It has been the site of many Dwapara Yuga events and is today a hotel.

It was built on the site of the Peterloo massacre, 1848, the largest political demonstration of the first Industrial Revolution.

The massacre highlighted the plight of a then new category of people in society -- factory workers in mills, their poverty under the so-called Corn Laws, and lack of representation in Parliament.

The Mill workers were politically active, supported and corresponded with Abraham Lincoln over slavery, ushered in universal voting rights, and inspired the works of Marks and Engels.

The Hall itself celebrates the repeal of those Corn Laws.  It was there that classical music was made available to the general public as were speakers from Winston Churchill to the Suffragette Movement.

In 1966, Bob Dylan was famously heckled there as a "Judas" for playing an electric set.

In1976, the Sex Pistols (pictured) played the “gig that changed the world.” It was attended by a tiny audience, who went on not just to consume music but to make it.

Bands formed from that one gig included the Buzzcocks, the Smiths, the Fall, and Joy Division/New Order.  That last group formed Factory records and ushered in a new era of electronic dance music based on industrial sounds and rhythms that is heard around the world to this day.

Blue Monday (1980) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1GxjzHm5us&t=5s

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