The ripping away of the “sacred canopy” is what has happened to Western culture during my lifetime. “Canopy” is an image used by the sociologist Peter Berger to describe a culture’s “state of predictable order,” an order assumed by all, that makes human culture work. Thus we all get along. [Berger, Peter L. The Sacred […]
Namaste, Satan
Namaste, Satan! These are surely shocking words to the ears of most yoga enthusiasts, who find the association of yoga with Satan to be both disturbing and incongruous with their own understanding and experience of yoga. Yet, so begins an article announcing yoga classes to be held in the Satanic Temple of Salem, Massachusetts. How […]
Episode 10: Labyrinth Walking and Meditating
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9: A Discussion About Yoga and Christianity
The meaning behind yoga has often been so downplayed that many view yoga as merely physical exercise. But when we look carefully at the postures and techniques of yoga, we find that each element is designed to facilitate evolution of consciousness toward realization of union in universal divinity.
Episode 9: A Discussion About Yoga and Christianity
The meaning behind yoga has often been so downplayed that many view yoga as merely physical exercise. But when we look carefully at the postures and techniques of yoga, we find that each element is designed to facilitate evolution of consciousness toward realization of union in universal divinity.
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