“For most, destiny is determined by hidden desires and other baggage of the subconscious mind. For the highly-evolved, those who have obtained super-conscious awareness, destiny is self-directed, and is always in harmony with the natural order.”
– Jost Turner, The Path of Wotan (1994)
Updated: December 9th 2025
Jost Turner. Click all images to enlarge
Jost Turner: In Memorium (1946-1996)
Jost Turner (pronounced Yost, rhyming with “host”) was born Josef Lee “Joseph” Turner on September 24th 1946 in San Diego County, California, and died of a heart attack at the age of 50 on October 9th 1996 in Yuba County, California.
Buried in Cherokee Township Cemetery (Memorial ID: 66211941), Cherokee, Nevada County, California, he was the son of Joseph E. Turner (April 28th 1916 – January 4th 1991) and Mary Lee Tanner Turner (December 4th 1917 – October 11th 1991).
Jost was a writer, folk community builder, Vietnam veteran, musician, philosopher, mystic, pro-White activist, Odinist, Nationalsocialist, founder of the NS Kindred and the Volksberg back to the land movement in Nevada County, California.
Amongst other writings, Jost was the author of ‘Arya Kriya’, ‘The Path of Wotan: Our Spiritual Heritage’, ‘Folk Communities: Life Blood of Our Folkish Movement’, ‘Folkish Observations From Volksberg’, ‘The Essentials of Wotanism’, and ‘National Socialism: Adolf Hitler’s Revelations of the Eternal Laws of Nature for Family and Folk’. At the end of the article, Who Was Jost Turner? below you can find the PDFs to many of these documents.
In the June 2024 issue of Runestone: Voice of the Asatru Folk Assembly, the journal of the Asatru Folk Assembly, Gothi Stephen A Mcnallen writes,
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke writes about Jost Turner in his 2002 book, ‘BLACK SUN: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity’ (pp. 264-269). PDF here. Mattias Gardell writes about him in his 2003 book, ‘Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism’ (pp. 165-190). Viewable here.
On February 20th 2010, Robert Campbell posted biographical article ‘Who Was Jost Turner?‘ that Jost had written himself and which featured on pages 25-28 of his booklet, ‘The Aryan Science of Accelerated Evolution‘ (N. San Juan, Calif., 1995) which also features in his Arya Kriya (2025, older document here). This can be found below.
Autobiographical details, ‘About the Author’ from ‘The Aryan Science of Accelerated Evolution’ (pp. 25.28)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (WHO WAS JOST TURNER?)
I was born in California in 1946. My first real spiritual training was at the age of 16, when I received training in Shotokan Karate (which was far less commercialized at that time) under the great master, Hiditaka Nishiyama. This gave me an understanding of the necessity of, and some good training in, discipline and will – something which I would soon sorely need just to survive.
After the completion of high school I joined the Army and was assigned to a reconnaissance platoon of the 101st Airborne Division. Within a year, my unit was sent to Vietnam where I spent two years in combat. My experience there were pretty traumatic, and to this day I recognize the great effect which they had on me. My view of life went through a sobering transition in those steaming, insect-ridden jungles of Vietnam. All around me was pain, disease, death and disfigurment. More fortunate than many, I left Vietnam with only minor damage. I returned embittered, confused, and thirsting for truth.
The transition back into American society of the late 1960s was not an easy one for me. I had no interest in the status quo, and with some exasperation I watched the flowering of the drugculture. The djungles had taught me the specioousness of politics and politicians. I knew that truth must be sought elsewhere. I began a spiritual search. Having rejected Christianity long ago, I browsed through occult and new age literature, but found little of interest or value. I first focused on Edgar Cayce, an astounding American psychic famous for his psychially prescribed medical treatments which were tried and proven. But what fascinated me most was his assertion that in the prehistoric past there were civilizations on the earth that were far more advanced than those of today. The details he gave me on this went far to explain a great many historical mysteries, and I began to perceive the reasons for the chaos around the world.
But the most influential book I ever read was Yogonandas Autobiography of a Yogi. Altough also somewhat Christianized and from a Bengali perception, the information therein opened up vast new vistas for me. It all seemed strangely familiar to me, like something forgotten from ages long past. But the one thing in the book that most transfixed me was a drawing of one who, unlike the others illustrated, was clearly not a Bengali. This was the great master who Yogonanda called Mahavatar Babaji. I was drawn to him immediately.
I received training in Kriya Yoga from Yoganandas Self Realization Fellowship. I was fortunate to be living near one of their centers, and so I regulary attended group practice of the Kriya techniques. It wasn´t long before I noticed that the psycho-physiological techniques were having an effect on me. By this time I had entered college on the GI Bill. I had never been much of as scholar, which was amply reflected by my high school grades. But I found that after a year or more of Kriya practice my abilities had greatly increased. Unless required, I did little or no homework and rarely studied for a test. Yet I remained on the Dean´s List throughout college.
By the time I finished college, I was tired of the degeneracy and chaos of the city, and I longed for more training in the Kriyas. I moved to a small intentional community in northern California which was founded by one of Yoganandas direct disciples. He had not only received training directly from Yogananda, but had spent some time in India with disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya. He was a fountainhead of knowledge and information, and very articulate as well. He foresaw the importance of Yoganandas cooperative communities, and he realised that it was his mission to fulfill that vision. Today, his intentional community is probably the largest and most successfull in the world.
From this disciple, I learned a great deal more about Yogananda and Lahiri Mahasayas Kriya techniques, and I noticeably advanced on the path. However, I was somewhat disconcerted than even here, just as with Self Realization Fellowship, “Mahavatar Babaji” was kept in the background, as something of an enigma. No details of his life or mission, other than what was described in Autobiography of a Yogi, were known , and he was treated somewhat as a legend. I have since learned that the Great Siddha wished it to be this way, and had instructed Yogananda to keep him in the background. He wanted no religion built around him. Later on, he would come to his own.
After a while I moved to a remote, secluded spot in the forest, where I lived with my family for more than five years. This primitive life-style did much to strengthen my Kriya practice. More and more I attuned myself to the Great Siddha, and my awareness and perception increased. However, I was aware that something was missing. I was certainly not a Christian, but neither was I a Hindu nor an American Indian. Yogananda had said that he had not come here to make Hindus out of Americans, but that his Kriya Yoga would enable everyone to come to spiritual realization in their own native religion. Thinking in terms of Christianity being my native religion, Yoganandas assertion sent cold shivers down my spine.
But the truth is not hard to find. It took only a little research for me to discover that the originators of Kriya were of the same blood as myself. In ancient times, Aryans, men and women of fair skin and hair, had built a great civilization in what is now northern India, and it was they who developed the powerful Kriya techniques. Finally, I understood fully the truth of Yoganandas words.Kriya is actually our own heritage, and Yogananda had simply brought it back to us.
At about this time, I also became involved with the revival of the pre-Christian religion of northern Europe, Odinism or Asatru. I immediately recognized that the Kriya path of accelerated evolution was what was symbolized by the allegories of Wotan, Thor, Yggdrasil, etc. I realized that the hand of the Great Siddha had carefully guided me to an awakening undreamed of. Kriya was my own spiritual heritage from both the east and the west.
As my Kriya practice became stronger and more focused, I discerned that Babaji Nagaraj was drawing me nearer to him and guiding me to take part in the great struggle against the dark age forces. After I was initiated in the original form of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama, and into all of the other 144 Kriyas, he inspired me to open this new Kriya path, Arya Kriya.
Please not that I am not a Siddha. I am just a pilgrim on the Kriya path and my life is dedicated to the great struggle. But I have witnessed many awesome transformations and events, and I have directly experienced the great power of this ancient Aryan science. I would never, ever, even consider leaving the path. Moreover, I am not a wordsmith by any stretch of the imagination, and in fact, I do not even like to write. But for whatever reasons, I have been selected to write this information down and to distribute it to other sincere seekers. This I do as a sacred duty and as a serviceful work on the Kriya path. But I must point out that all credit should be given strictly to Babaji Nagaraj. Any errors or omissions are my responsibility.
Arya Kriya (2025 PDF: FULL CONTENTS, older document PDF here which includes National Socialism, poems and ‘The Stedinger’s: Fight for Freedom’ (separate document below))
The Path of Wotan: Our Spiritual Heritage – 1994 (Separate PDF here)
Purification of Body and Mind (N. San Juan, Calif.: National Socialist Kindred, 1995) (Separate PDF here)
The Aryan Science of Accelerated Evolution – (N. San Juan, Calif., 1995) (Separate PDF here)
Aryan Cosmology and the Science of Mantras – 1996 (Separate PDF here)
Arya Kriya
Kundalini Pranayama Kriya (N. San Juan, Calif.: National Socialist Kindred, 1995) (Separate PDF here)
Asana Kriya (N. San Juan, Calif.: National Socialist Kindred, 1995) (Separate PDF here)
The transition back into American society of the late 1960s was not an easy one for me. I had no interest in the status quo, and with some exasperation I watched the flowering of the drugculture. The djungles had taught me the specioousness of politics and politicians. I knew that truth must be sought elsewhere. I began a spiritual search. Having rejected Christianity long ago, I browsed through occult and new age literature, but found little of interest or value. I first focused on Edgar Cayce, an astounding American psychic famous for his psychially prescribed medical treatments which were tried and proven. But what fascinated me most was his assertion that in the prehistoric past there were civilizations on the earth that were far more advanced than those of today. The details he gave me on this went far to explain a great many historical mysteries, and I began to perceive the reasons for the chaos around the world.
But the most influential book I ever read was Yogonandas Autobiography of a Yogi. Altough also somewhat Christianized and from a Bengali perception, the information therein opened up vast new vistas for me. It all seemed strangely familiar to me, like something forgotten from ages long past. But the one thing in the book that most transfixed me was a drawing of one who, unlike the others illustrated, was clearly not a Bengali. This was the great master who Yogonanda called Mahavatar Babaji. I was drawn to him immediately.
By the time I finished college, I was tired of the degeneracy and chaos of the city, and I longed for more training in the Kriyas. I moved to a small intentional community in northern California which was founded by one of Yoganandas direct disciples. He had not only received training directly from Yogananda, but had spent some time in India with disciples of Lahiri Mahasaya. He was a fountainhead of knowledge and information, and very articulate as well. He foresaw the importance of Yoganandas cooperative communities, and he realised that it was his mission to fulfill that vision. Today, his intentional community is probably the largest and most successfull in the world.
After a while I moved to a remote, secluded spot in the forest, where I lived with my family for more than five years. This primitive life-style did much to strengthen my Kriya practice. More and more I attuned myself to the Great Siddha, and my awareness and perception increased. However, I was aware that something was missing. I was certainly not a Christian, but neither was I a Hindu nor an American Indian. Yogananda had said that he had not come here to make Hindus out of Americans, but that his Kriya Yoga would enable everyone to come to spiritual realization in their own native religion. Thinking in terms of Christianity being my native religion, Yoganandas assertion sent cold shivers down my spine.
At about this time, I also became involved with the revival of the pre-Christian religion of northern Europe, Odinism or Asatru. I immediately recognized that the Kriya path of accelerated evolution was what was symbolized by the allegories of Wotan, Thor, Yggdrasil, etc. I realized that the hand of the Great Siddha had carefully guided me to an awakening undreamed of. Kriya was my own spiritual heritage from both the east and the west.
Arya Kriya (2025 PDF: FULL CONTENTS, older document PDF here which includes National Socialism, poems and ‘The Stedinger’s: Fight for Freedom’ (separate document below))
