Whole Life Times: Readers Remind Us: Yoga Means Union

March 2006 | Letters from Readers

Readers Remind Us: Yoga Means Union

Find Your New Business Partner in the Pages of WLT

Just wanted to share a story of how your magazine inspires and creates beyond your knowing. The article you had in your last edition about bio-diesel fuel... Well, my roommate read the magazine and she and her partner were planning on doing something big with bio-diesel but hadn’t started, so they called these people and went to see them. They all really liked and aligned with each other’s aims, visions and core beliefs, and lo and behold, they are becoming partners and have plans for quick expansion.

Yoga means union, so if we become more united with our planet and serve that consciousness that, too, is yoga. So bless you for being the catalyst for environmental yoga to go one step further. —Gurutej Kaur, LA

Politics of Spirituality

It is with dismay that I read, “To Buck Fush All You Need is a Dollar and a Dream” in your February issue, and to a lesser degree the article “Ethics Training for Congress,” which, under the guise of “ethics” displays a deep-seated bias and distaste more for Republicans than for ethics violations. Likewise, Abigail’s from the editor piece “Love The One You Are” displays this same kind of political bias. When referring to Arnold Schwarzenegger and George Bush, she comments: “Ewwww! Suddenly oneness seems a lot less appealing.”

In other sections of your paper, you promote the divine principles of yoga. But yoga means union. In its true sense, the purpose of yoga is union with God. I do not see how these articles promote union in our country and the world. Instead, they show a hateful and dark side, and support the far left agenda that neither works for nor promotes union among people. Your magazine, which was once a bright light of the spiritual side and nature of humanity, now leans dangerously close towards promoting a political agenda, rather than God’s agenda of peace, love and harmony among people.

If you really are intent on promoting the goals, the purposes and the ideals of spiritual enlightenment and yoga, your paper should return to its roots promoting true spiritual principles, rather than merely being an arm of the AFL-CIO. —Ila Devi Friend, Redondo Beach

ACLUnion

I enjoyed your (Lou Bendrick) article in the Whole Life Times titled “Not For the Faint of Heart” (February ’06). I was extremely disturbed, however, that you would use such a fine publication to promote your views on the ACLU. Your suggestion to make a donation to this anti-American political group is incomprehensible, unforgivable and a disservice to your readers. While you are entitled to your view of this organization, and I respect that, I must assume you know very little about who they are and what they truly represent. Unfortunately, many of your readers may also not be aware of the declared intent of the ACLU, and accept the folly that the ACLU is “protecting” their rights. If you were to look closely at this organization and what they are promoting and fighting for, you will find that they are eroding, a little at a time, the rights that our Founding Fathers intended all citizens of the United States to be entitled to. You also may find that they are doing their best to erode the “American Way” of life that has been enjoyed by so many generations before us. —Richard M Knorr, Redondo Beach

Ed. reply: WLT supports both the AFL-CIO’s mission “to improve the lives of working families—to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation,” and the ACLU’s mission: to preserve citizen protections guaranteed by the Consti- tution and Bill of Rights, and to extend rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights.

We remind readers of Gandhi’s philosophy: He said, “I could not lead a religious life unless I identified with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.”

Where Have Our Blue Skies Gone?

I’m deeply concerned as a citizen about the massive pollution being caused from the exhaust pipes of highflying unmarked jets (at least one every 10 minutes, 24/7) in the sky above Los Angeles.

Some have labeled the long streaks in the sky caused from these jets “chemtrails” that eventually form chemical clouds that then muck-up any blue sky into a pasty light blue by the end of the day. The official explanation is that these jet streaks are just typical contrails caused by ice crystals, and that they have always come out of any high flying jet… thus no big deal, so go back to sleep.

The only problem with that explanation is that contrails have never created the scenario I just described. And in fact, real contrails dissipate rather quickly.

In terms of the health consequence of [sprayed] chemicals (aluminum, barium, etc.) falling to the ground upon the people, there has been a dramatic increase in deaths due to respiratory diseases in the last few years. One can only deduct a correlation.

"We the people” deserve an explanation from our government, which never asked our consent. —Alan Crane, e-mail

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