The ATMAN Federation is a non-profit organization uniting all international yoga schools that are teaching the curricula of the Integral Esoteric Yoga Course and follow the Gupta Maha Siddha Yoga lineage of its author, Gregorian Bivolaru. Since the beginning of his activity in Romania, Mr. Bivolaru and the yoga school he founded, MISA (the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute), have been and still are target of great defamations and severe abuses of human rights. While the mass media in Romania, and later on also in other countries, has contributed through their superficial journalism immensely to the unjust persecutions, the sincere evaluations of neutral experts like Massimo Introvigne, J. Gordon Melton and Gabriel Andreescu, show a very different picture, unfortunately little known.
We present in the following a collection of articles and videos about MISA and Gregorian Bivolaru. Some of the articles are not yet available as links, but we aim to publish them here for easy access with kind permission of their authors.
Article “Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute”, by Massimo Introvigne, published on 1 June 2017 in the World Religions & Spirituality Project (WRSP) – which was established in 2010 at Virginia Commonwealth University.
https://wrldrels.org/2017/05/31/movement-for-spiritual-integration-into-the-absolute/
Krakow University Journal, including the presentations of Massimo Introvigne, Raffaella Di Mazio, PierLuigi Zoccatelli – http://journals.bg.agh.edu.pl/STUDIA/2017.16.4/human.2017.16.4.21.pdf
Esotericism and the Visual Arts in MISA, by Massimo Introvigne, A paper presented at the International conference “Imagination in Esoteric Traditions – Imaginatio et Actio” – Kraków, October 21, 2016)
https://cesnur.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tjoc_1_1_full_issue.pdf The Journal of CESNUR, vol. 1, n. 1, September-October 2017 includes besides the paper of Massimo Introvigne, the papers of Raffaella Di Marzio and PierLuigi Zoccatelli presented at the International conference “Imagination in Esoteric Traditions – Imaginatio et Actio” – Kraków, October 21, 2016) // same as the Journal of the Krakow University. Also the CESNUR Journal includes the article of Gordon Melton.
Newest article from Massimo Introvigne about Netflix: https://bitterwinter.org/is-netflix-a-threat-to-religious-liberty/
Introduction: The Radical Aesthetics of a Romanian Esoteric Movement, by Massimo Introvigne, – A paper presented at Erfurt conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) July 2017 and also published in The Journal of CESNUR, vol. 1, n. 1, September-October 2017, pp. 3-9.
Sex, Erotic Art, and the Repression of Alternative Movements: The Strange Case of an Esoteric Movie Director, by Massimo Introvigne, A paper presented at Erfurt conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) July 2017 and published in The Journal of CESNUR, vol. 1, n. 1, September-October 2017, pp. 32-42.
Yoga in the Courts: the Legal Battles about MISA, by Gabriel Andreescu. See also the Presentation- A paper presented at “The 2016 International Conference”, Pocheon City, Republic of Korea, 5-10 July 2016
The Movement for the Spiritual Integration into the Absolute. Facets of an identity: minority of conscience, minority of sexual practice, and minority born of repression, by Gabriel Andreescu – A paper presented at “CESNUR 2013 Conference”, Falun, Sweden, 21-24 June 2013.
MISA and the Esoteric Tradition of Sacred Sexuality. A Modern Appropriation of Tantra, Taoism, and Western Esotericism, by J. Gordon Melton – A PPT presented at “The 2016 International Conference”, Pocheon City, Republic of Korea, 5-10 July 2016
MISA, an Overview, by Massimo Introvigne – A material (PPT) presented at “The 2016 International Conference”, Pocheon City, Republic of Korea, 5-10 July 2016