On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:00:59PM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote: > > > > Practioners of yoga should have a ball. Just another yogic > >meditation > >exercize. > > Neither of you appear to understand what psychological torture is. > > Read some of the reports on the web about what happens. > > These techniques are employed by governments the world over to break > fanatical and trained terrorists. > > It's not some New Age weekend camp when you imprisoned and beaten by > your captors. >
Having been beaten by the pigs more than once, and one of those times so severly that onlookers thought I was dead -- if you've seen the videos of Rodney King's beating, I can only say that I thought that furor a real joke -- and also being a practioner of yoga, I can assure you that I don't think of it as "some New Age weekend camp". I've also worked with self hypnosis quite a bit, and it's useful, but I'll say again, anyone fairly adept at yogic meditation would not have much problem with sensory or sleep deprevation torture techniques. Of course, beatings, electric shock, burning, etc are a different story. -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com "War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933 "Our overriding purpose, from the beginning through to the present day, has been world domination - that is, to build and maintain the capacity to coerce everybody else on the planet: nonviolently, if possible, and violently, if necessary. But the purpose of US foreign policy of domination is not just to make the rest of the world jump through hoops; the purpose is to faciliate our exploitation of resources." - Ramsey Clark, former US Attorney General http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html
