Some of you might know I am not, to say the very least, a fan of yoga. I feel the same way about hypnosis. Yoga is inextricably tied to Hinduism and altered states of spiritual consciousness. All Hindus are enjoined to practice yoga to achieve that very end. Hypnotism arrived to the scene much later than yoga and Hinduism, but is informed by it and it can be argued that the roots of hypnosis are in yoga and or yoga-like trance states (see here). There is no place for yoga in Christianity and no place for Christianity in yoga. Here is an article on the subject from one of the Hindu sects titled There is no Christian Yoga. The author of the article displays monumental ignorance on the subject of Christianity by erecting a Christian straw man against which to argue, but gets that one thing right: yoga is not Christian even if some left-wing churches try to co-opt it. Yoga belongs to Hinduism (and maybe Buddhism and Jainism). Hypnosis with its states of altered consciousness, like yoga, is neither benign nor Christian.
Betty Blonde #323 – 10/12/2009
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