Geez - A feminized, NewAge, society is producing severe anomie - and, somehow, thinks it's the guys who have a problem:

"My patient is not addicted; he’s a very lonely, unemployed young man who has gradually become socially isolated to the extent that the only thing available to him for comfort and entertainment is food. He has no friends, no money to buy other consumables, little education, no partner, no job. Some days he doesn’t leave his bed. The choice for him is to eat this food or experience no pleasure."

They're also into "choice" but get confused when it's anyone else's.

I've got some experience with this:

After my wife and a NewAge quack killed her mother, had an affair, and then killed two others, every NewAger told me - like the Nazi killers into yoga during WWII - I should "move on" to be "happy" (because, obviously, an investigation - and a chance at  justice - is, still, inadequate for the job in their new "non-judgemental" society,...). 

I highly suggest NewAgers write that on this young man's prescription so he can partake, of what's on offer, to make him feel "whole" again (or is it "hole"?) according to feminism.

It's the only NewAge answer for everything they've done.

Made Adolf the man he is today,...

"Yoga fanatics are almost always overachievers. Overachievers are fucking annoying anyway, so the ones who do Yoga are even worse. If you’re a 30-something year old with a high pressure, high paying job in a major capital city with a very active social life, an expensive apartment with your own espresso machine, an organic only diet, and you do yoga at 5am, you are the definition of a seriously annoying person."

"The reality is, most of us will struggle an entire lifetime to resolve one or two main issues. Yoga is the most effective way I know to aid that resolution, but it’s no magic spell (though there is plenty of magic)."

“If there’s one thing that’s been proven in all of this, it’s that it shouldn’t be surprising that a yoga mogul could so effortlessly put his foot in his mouth.”

“Parents who say yoga is inherently religious have appealed a judge's ruling that allowed yoga in a public school system near San Diego, saying it violates the constitutional separation of church and state.



'Our children are not religious guinea pigs and should never be subjected to such misguided religious experimentation,' said Dean Broyles, president of the National Center for Law and Policy, a nonprofit based in Escondido, Calif.,…”

“Let’s just say — hypothetically — that I just didn’t like yoga.

Would that be OK? How much of that yogic compassion and acceptance would people be willing to bring?”

A few weeks ago we published what turned out to be a controversial article, questioning the ethics of sexual relationships between yoga students and yoga teachers and presenting an alternative, yet respectful and well-argumented view on the subject.

  The feedback we received from many people in the yoga community, was to say the least, surprisingly angry, under often hateful, degrading and insulting comments, emails as well as other disrespectful and accusatory open responses published online that clearly misunderstood, in our opinion, the point being made by the author.

Here's the media's current "crazy" black Republican candidate:

  “When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana. … The purpose of such meditation is to empty oneself. … [Satan] is happy to invade the empty vacuum of your soul and possess it. That is why people serve Satan without ever knowing it or deciding to, but no one can be a child of God without making a decision to surrender to him. Beware of systems of spirituality which tell you to empty yourself. You will end up filled with something you probably do not want.”

But here's the media's knowledgable NewAge Master:

  “One often hears and reads about the dangers of Yoga, particularly of the ill-reputed Kundalini Yoga. The deliberately induced psychotic state, which in certain unstable individuals might easily lead to a real psychosis, is a danger that needs to be taken very seriously indeed. These things really are dangerous and ought not to be meddled with in our typically Western way. It is a meddling with Fate, which strikes at the very roots of human existence and can let loose a flood of sufferings of which no sane person ever dreamed. These sufferings correspond to the hellish torments of the chönyid state…”

And here's the man the media wants you to forget:

  “Those who become bored by conventional “Bible” religions, and seek “enlightenment” by way of the dissolution of their own critical faculties into nirvana in any form, had better take a warning. They may think they are leaving the realm of despised materialism, but they are still being asked to put their reason to sleep, and to discard their minds along with their sandals.”

So, I guess - when it comes to the media - "crazy" it is,...

 

 ADDED - H/T Althouse:

   

As Silicon Valley tech companies boom (with heady talk about paradigm shifts and disruption), the Bay Area's yogis, natural healers, therapists and philosophers want in.

"Five years ago I did think I would find that single yoga tradition. But yoga constantly transformed and developed over time. Although there are a couple of main goals, there's nothing that shows up in every single yoga path.

For some traditions it was heightened consciousness and an end to suffering, a way to get out of the cycle of birth, death and re-birth that is so painful. But for other yoga traditions some of the goals were things like supernatural powers and the ability to control other people."

Nobody ever joins a cult. One joins a nonprofit group that promotes green technology, animal rights, or transcendental meditation. One joins a yoga class or an entrepreneurial workshop. One begins practicing an Eastern religion that preaches peace and forbearance. The first rule of recruitment, writes Margaret Singer, the doyenne of cult scholarship, is that a recruit must never suspect he or she is being recruited. The second rule is that the cult must monopolize the recruit’s time. Therefore, in order to have any chance of rescuing a new acolyte, it is critical to act quickly. The problem is that family and friends, much like the new cult member, are often slow to admit the severity of the situation. “Clients usually don’t come to me until their daughter is already to-the-tits brainwashed,” says David Sullivan, a private investigator in San Francisco who specializes in cults. “By that point the success rate is very low.”

Private Investigator David Sullivan, who specialized in rescuing people out of cults, died October 11 in his San Francisco home at the age of 62, following a recurrence of cancer.