Why would chanting not go over well in Smallville? Why did the Coke commercial during the 2014 Superbowl get a bad reaction? Why did people say that they wanted to start a boycott of Coca-Cola, #SpeakAmerican. The idea that a sacred song could be song in any other language other than English. It brings back a memory of my favourite teacher in my first year of University. She told us a story of riding in an elevator with her friend, both of whom spoke French fluently with someone who did not. They got on to the elevator speaking French and continued the conversation. The other person got made at them because he could not understand what they were saying and that they were being rude. The implication was that he thought they were talking about him. He did not know what they were saying therefore it was about him. The Coke Commercial? Did the Americans who hear the song thought they were changing the words to make fun of America?
My point is that small minds assume that if they don't understand what is being said, it must be bad. That is why chanting in yoga might not be right for Smallville. I call this town Smallville, because it is small, isolated and small minded. I was told when I first got here, the second time, that someone who was getting into yoga a few years before I got there was told by her religious leader that the Animal Poses in yoga let animal spirits into their soul and she had to stop. Not everyone in Smallville is small minded, and I would hope that people who are into yoga are open to other things. And they are, just not good things.
I heard two comments yesterday after class first hand and I heard one comment secondhand. The last comment was a criticism that I could not let anything pass and that when a woman made a comment I should have just let it slide. And I won't, and I told her why. The comment was a spontaneous spouting of astrology mumbo jumbo. She stated that a person might be off, because, "Mercury was just entering retrograde.". I jumped on the comment. Retrograde actually means something, it is when the apparent motion of that planet on the background of the stars appears to reverse and go the opposite direction. This apparent motion reversal confused early astronomers because they thought the paths of the planets were circles. That is why Ptolemy figured out, briefly, that adding an additional wheel to to motion of some planets would account for this reverse motion, retrograde motion. And it was only a few planets, the ones outside our orbit, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, the other planets were not visible. The inner planets appear to move normally in the sky, because their year is shorter than our year, so they appear to move around the Sun faster to us, so we never catch up to them and make them appear to move backwards.
I told the woman, that only the planets outside our orbit, go into retrograde, the inner planets don't, so Mercury in retrograde is baloney. I did not tell her that astrology was garbage. It is garbage. Take three never been seen horoscopes read them to the person tell them that one of them is their horoscope, they have to pick the one it is. Probably should use all of them, twelve, but I am being kind to both people. Statistics say that they should be able to pick out the right one, one third the time.
Here are my proofs that horoscopes are garbage:
1. The zodiac constellations are different sizes and the sun stays in them for different times, giving each one the same length of time is not a true reflection of how long The sun is in any given constellation.
2. There are thirteen constellations that the sun passes through in a year, but there are only twelve zodiac signs. So what about those people born under Ophiuchus, do they not get a horoscope?
3. The mechanism that has been proposed that influences people on Earth by the position of planets is Gravity. They say that the gravity of Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and the Constellations has a subtle effect on the person and their personality. Gravity is dependent on mass and distance here are the four greatest Gravitational fields that might be affecting you, in order: the Earth, it is close by and heavy and it keeps us from flying away. The Moon, it is the closest celestial body and it is pretty massive, it causes tides on the Earth but only with the water, because it flows. The Sun, it is very massive, 99+% of the mass of the solar system is in the Sun, but it is very far away so it modifies tides, makes them taller or shorter, but only marginally so. The fourth largest gravitational field, drum roll please, is, is … the closest person next to you. Low in mass but really close to you, if you are close enough to touch them, they are having a bigger gravitational pull on you than Venus or Mars, certainly Jupiter, Mercury or Saturn. Most definitely more affect than a constellation of stars that may have stares further away from each other than to us, but still have no pull on us what so ever.
The third comment that I heard was second hand and from an unreliable source, and is thus here-say.
OM
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