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Continuing in the same vein (or artery...your call), have you ever noticed that when people say with a straight face on this forum that bouncing around on their butts using muscle power is "flying," and that doing so controls the weather and causes world peace, and that doing it makes their thoughts "10,000 X more powerful than lesser people's thoughts," and that people are shirking their cosmic, dharmic duties by NOT doing it, no one bats an eyelash? But suggest -- as I have recently -- that this is all batshit crazy ego-bullshit, and people scream as if I had committed high heresy. Suggest that someone spending 100 MILLION DOLLARS to perpetuate the myth of this craziness is even crazier, and some get downright nasty. It IS crazy stuff. You people who believe it do so because that's easier than dealing with the alternative, that you were sold (for many thousands of dollars) all of this claptrap by a clever con man wearing a sheet. He sold you a bunch of English-language paraphrases of some words from a $2.00 paperback of the Yoga Sutras and told you that you were practicing techniques taught by Patanjali...and you believed it. He told you *that* practicing it would bring about world peace, and usher in Heaven On Earth...and you believed it. He told you that you were oh, oh, OH so special to be fortunate enough *to* practice it, and that it made you oh, oh, OH so much more special than other people...and you believed it. If you were to tell people on the street the things you believe -- and accept as not only true but as some cosmic Truth -- they'd back away from you the way they do when encountering other crazy people. But most people who believe this stuff talk about it only with people who believe the same crazy things, so there is a kind of "folie à many" thang going on, and no one ever notices that they're talking all talking crazy talk. I point it out, and the merde hits the fan. Go figure... Every so often I think it's a good thing to step back and look at the things you take for granted and try to imagine what someone who had never heard any of them would think of them -- and you, for believing them. Doing so can be good for your overall sanity.
