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This master of spiritual bodybuilding describes his extraordinary experience of physical transformation as a path to higher consciousness.

The founding father of the American physical fitness movement—eighty-four years young and not slowing down a bit—shares his infectious positivity and passion for living, and explains why self-mastery is “the key to everything.”

“'Mastery' implies that there's something under you-usually a slave. It's the mastery of the world that's gotten us into the mess we're in.” An outrageous, outspoken evangelist of health and fitness speaks out on enlightenment, women's empowerment and having the guts to tell the truth.

At a time when the gospel of self-acceptance is leading to ever-lowering expectations, an audacious martial arts training program strives to replace mediocrity with mastery.