This article is fascinating for a multitude of reasons.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/health/nutrition/yoga-fans-sexual-flames-and-predictably-plenty-of-scandal.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
A couple for starters:
- "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." If you remove the limits which constrain a man living in community with peers, the man will behave like a power mad sonovabitch be he politician, guru or just a man with too much power generally. The reason we hate the Weiners and JFKs of the world is that they tell us they do what they do for our benefit, and then get to work serving their own benefit - well, those who actually notice what these lying SOBs do tend to hate them. No one cares that Trump or Hefner were "misbehaving"; anyone fooled by them had it coming.
- Interesting that researchers are seeing these connections to yoga poses and hormonal change/improvement, and other markers of increased reproductive health.
- There was a similar scandle some years ago regarding Budhist monstaries and the leaders therein. Back to point number one above.
It is interesting to see the origin of yoga compared with its image today. It makes perfect sense to me that a practice designed to benefit the spirit would also benefit the reproductive system and its imperatives on behavior. In another blog, I write about the Paleolithic model of nutrtion and health. A certain indicator of health for any animal is reproductive capacity; from the biological perspective, that's why we are here. In short, anything that improves health should be expected to improve reproductive function and the supporting hormonal mileu. Likewise, anything that punishes your reproductive health could be expected to be health decreasing over all. In short - biologically speaking, spiritual health and reproductive health shouldn't be viewed as separate entities, they should be thought of as two sides of a single coin, that being a healthy thriving human.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/health/nutrition/yoga-fans-sexual-flames-and-predictably-plenty-of-scandal.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
A couple for starters:
- "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." If you remove the limits which constrain a man living in community with peers, the man will behave like a power mad sonovabitch be he politician, guru or just a man with too much power generally. The reason we hate the Weiners and JFKs of the world is that they tell us they do what they do for our benefit, and then get to work serving their own benefit - well, those who actually notice what these lying SOBs do tend to hate them. No one cares that Trump or Hefner were "misbehaving"; anyone fooled by them had it coming.
- Interesting that researchers are seeing these connections to yoga poses and hormonal change/improvement, and other markers of increased reproductive health.
- There was a similar scandle some years ago regarding Budhist monstaries and the leaders therein. Back to point number one above.
It is interesting to see the origin of yoga compared with its image today. It makes perfect sense to me that a practice designed to benefit the spirit would also benefit the reproductive system and its imperatives on behavior. In another blog, I write about the Paleolithic model of nutrtion and health. A certain indicator of health for any animal is reproductive capacity; from the biological perspective, that's why we are here. In short, anything that improves health should be expected to improve reproductive function and the supporting hormonal mileu. Likewise, anything that punishes your reproductive health could be expected to be health decreasing over all. In short - biologically speaking, spiritual health and reproductive health shouldn't be viewed as separate entities, they should be thought of as two sides of a single coin, that being a healthy thriving human.
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