Stephen,.
Thanks for that. It’s been twenty-some years since I read The Inner Reaches of Outer Space. It must have stuck with me better than I know. I’ve been reading Eliot since I was a freshman English major in the late 60s and the odd phrase will pop into my head when least expected. The business about yoga came from something that registered from one of Campbell’s lectures in The Transformation of Myth Through Time when he was discussing the Yoga Sutra.