“Imagine the popularity of yoga colliding with the money of the yoga industry colliding with a population of people hungry for Spirit colliding with a generation of people longing for a strong father, colliding with an industry of shitty quality yoga classes, colliding with a very in-depth, complete method of physical yoga taught by a whole crowd of charismatic teachers and a very well-oiled business model and training system, colliding with a celebrity-crazed culture, colliding with a time in history where anything with enough money, PR and marketing can be presented as something significant.”

… your mind is your private sanctuary; do not allow the negative beliefs of others to occupy it.  Your skin is your barrier; do not allow others to get under it.  Take control of your boundaries and what you allow yourself to absorb from others.

Never let someone’s opinion become your reality.  Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it.  Love who you are inside and out.  No one else has the power to make you feel small unless you give them that power.  You are the only one who can create your happiness.

The choice is yours.  Choose happiness.

But now we are all waking up from the illusion of this ubiquitous belief. And as you become more conscious, you realize that time in 3D is actually a time loop. What you experience in “the past” is pretty much what you put your attention on now, and you project that reality into “the future,” and therefore you experience it over and over again.

So the structure of time is quite specific (and limiting) in the 3rd dimension, but your experience of time is quite different (and empowering) as you move into higher dimensions.

Everything in a 3D consciousness is also very conditional. The concept of, for example, ‘unconditional love,’ does not exist in the 3rd dimension. If you experience ‘unconditional love’ or ‘unconditional peace’ you have actually moved into a fourth dimensional (4D) consciousness.

You see, in the earth experience now, we have access to both 3rd and 4th dimensional consciousness, but most of us rarely step out of the well-grooved habits of 3D thinking and feeling.

The 3rd dimension also offers no possibility of choice. We don’t choose our thoughts, feelings, and actions in every moment (that’s a skill of 4D and 5D), instead we react from unconscious beliefs and training to the people and situations that pop up in our space.

Pretty trippy stuff, but eye-opening, if you dare to contemplate it.

Wait, there’s more!

The best part about this article is the phrase, “Zen-Nippon Chick Sexing School”.

Beginning in the 1930s, poultry breeders from around the world traveled to the Zen-Nippon Chick Sexing School in Japan to learn the technique.

The mystery was that no one could explain exactly how it was done. It was somehow based on very subtle visual cues, but the professional sexers could not say what those cues were. They would look at the chick’s rear (where the vent is) and simply seem to know the correct bin to throw it in.

And this is how the professionals taught the student sexers. The master would stand over the apprentice and watch. The student would pick up a chick, examine its rear, and toss it into one bin or the other. The master would give feedback: yes or no. After weeks on end of this activity, the student’s brain was trained to a masterful—albeit unconscious—level.

But biomedical science is not the same thing as health, and in a very important sense, our investment in the NIH is not fully paying off.

Within this new institute on fundamental systems, scientists could better coordinate and integrate efforts to investigate all the drivers of a problem like obesity, from genetics to psychology, from sedentary lifestyles to the economics of neighborhoods that lack enough fresh fruits and vegetables.

A second institute could be devoted to research on health outcomes — that is, measuring what improves people’s health. It would seek to determine what actually works in clinical practice. In diabetes, for example, it could examine whether behavioral changes are more important than drugs in the treatment of the disease, or vice-versa. It would track whether certain kinds of surgery really improve people’s lives. It would draw on behavioral sciences, economics, technology, communications, and education as well as fundamental biomedical research.

Emphasis added.

Turns out – truth matters, and truth is what is, regardless of what you believe you are manifesting with the power of your thoughts or the bogus “Law of Attraction.”

Don’t get me wrong. Dream. Dream big. Set goals. Transcend your FALSE perceptions of limitation, just don’t lie to yourself about the REAL limitations of being human.

This is my sincere wake-up call to teachers, healers, authors and therapists: encourage psychological honesty and critical thinking, encourage real embodied practices and a model of spirituality that moves beyond the infantile fantasy of omnipotence, magical powers and being invulnerable to reality. It matters.

- Julian Walker, “activist for reality-based spirituality”. He is currently completing a book to be entitled The Scientist & The Sage: A Future for Spirituality, which will explore the dynamics amongst “brain science, spiritual practice and embodied psychology”. Julian’s interests include “mythology, poetry, psychology, music, free-form dance and authentic communication”. And apparently, his LA yoga studio’s hot stuff. www.julianwalkeryoga.com