Les Jones: "The Hostile New Age Takeover of Yoga"

March 27, 2007

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And then there's what you might call "Yoga for Supermarket Checkout Line Goals." Or as the cover story of Rodale's downmarket magazine YogaLife put it, yoga to: "BURN FAT FASTER!" (Subsidiary stories bannered on the YogaLife cover: "4 WAYS TO LOSE 5 POUNDS"; "ZEN SECRETS TO: HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS ... INSTANT CALM.")
Gotta love "Zen Secrets to Instant Calm," right? It goes right along with other cover lines like "Double Your Flexibility Today!" and "Heal Winter Skin Now!"

Clearly what the ancient inventors of yogic wisdom had in mind: Now! Instant! Today! Very Eastern, calm, and meditative right?

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I've invented a device for empirically measuring the effectiveness of zen meditation. I call it the Aum Meter.

Posted by: Chris Range at March 28, 2007

Chris, that was s good I moved it to its own post.

Posted by: Les Jones at March 28, 2007