Raja Yoga and Buddhism’s still-sitting, long meditation periods seek the same awakening of mind and heart centers, but restrain the body in hopes of channeling all energies directly into the erect spine (instead of outward into the muscles and glands, via the spinal and cranial nerves) but thus bypassing the cultivation of numerous expressive and emotional potentials within the mobility of the body. Mortifications, severe vigils and flagellation are the most desperate of the unnatural methods. Even Elvis Presley’s charismatic gyrations and his teenaged fans’ pubescent screams can be located at the beginning of this far more profound continuum.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:24:51 +0000