It has been nearly two months since my book about yoga appeared on the World Wide Web. February 8 is the date close to my heart. Together with all my books, it has been available on my Ca’ Bon Gallery website (www.cabongallery.org). And yet, it cannot be found on Google to this day. All my other books, which are also available in Portable Document Format, can be found by the best browser in the world, but the book about yoga is apparently in a special category. It has mysteriously gone astray.

I have written to Google several times already. Each and every time, I pointed out all the facts and I asked pertinent questions. But I have never received a word of reply. More important, searching for my book is still in vain. Is Google management aware of the shenanigans? Are they part of it? Chances are that I will never learn, but the fact remains that I cannot find my book about yoga when I search for it by its very title: Who Is Yoga? The Will to Ignorance. I can add my name or the name of my site, but to no avail. When I put the title in quotation marks, indicating that I am searching for this precise sequence of words, all I get from Google is a piece of mine in which the book is listed together with all the other books of mine (“Ten Selections from my Residua,” December 18, 2015). And that is all. The book has been buried into some black hole of the vaunted information age.

Yoga is a business nowadays, and especially in the so-called west. A big business, as a matter of fact. Billions upon billions of dollars, euros, or pounds sterling are involved. All of a sudden, my book about yoga is coming out of nowhere to spoil the fun, for it offers no-bullshit guidance on the path to liberation. And for free. Whence the troubles with Google, I am pretty sure by now. Someone in the thriving business has found a way of blocking access to the book, as well as to so much else that is conceived as a threat. As ever, the best I can do is write about it and post it on my Residua website. Whether or not this particular piece of writing will appear on Google searches remains to be seen.

Addendum I (April 13, 2016)

My faith in Google gradually ebbing, I slowed down with searches for my book about yoga on the World Wide Web. After a while, it got kind of boring. But I just returned to the browser and tried one more time. What the heck, I thought. And I got my last book in a jiffy. Wow! To my surprise, it pops up with a wide variety of keywords, too. After a bit more than two months, it is alive, as it were. And I am over the moon. Whatever the reason for the long wait, I could not care less at this stage. Alleluia!

Addendum II (April 14, 2016)

As it turned out, I was overenthusiastic about Google yesterday. My book about yoga was available for a while, and both on my laptop and desktop computers, but then it disappeared again. No matter what keywords I used, it would not come up among search results. At this very moment, the situation is rather perplexing, as I can get my book without any problem on my desktop, but I cannot come even close to it on my laptop. Earlier today, the situation was reversed, and I could get it just on my laptop. These changes in search results only add substance to my suspicion that the browser is being tampered with. My book is not welcome by someone in the yoga establishment, and that someone has a way of playing with the World Wide Web. The only reason for all these troubles that comes to my mind is that the book is too radical in its approach to many things, and especially in its approach to enlightenment. Abandoning thought at will and for as long as one wishes is too much for many a yogi. Even more, it is playing with fire.

Addendum III (May 7, 2016)

I am happy to report that my book about yoga has been available on Google for a couple of weeks now. Better late than never, as the old adage goes. But my piece about enlightenment as I understand it now is still beyond the mighty browser (“No-Bullshit Enlightenment,” January 18, 2016). What is going on? How is it possible that something posted on the World Wide Web nearly four months ago is still unreachable by Google? And the piece in question is no less than central to my understanding of enlightenment. Or liberation, as I like to call it nowadays. At any rate, I am not interested in the answers to these questions any longer. If anyone is fooling around with search results, so be it. One way or another, though, my understanding of enlightenment will come forth sooner or later. And that is all that I care about at this juncture. Rum-tum-tiddle-um-tum…

Addendum IV (July 29, 2016)

Lo and behold, my piece about no-bullshit enlightenment finally comes up in Google searches. And on top of the search results, no less. It took it half a year for the vaunted browser to nail it down, but the agony is over at last. Liberation is here without remainder. Alleluia!