Thursday, June 16, 2011

Eco-yoga

Yoga is a Sanscrit word meaning 'yoking'. I keep thinking of that word 'yoke': "We need a practice to yoke the chaotic human to the Way of Edhli-frith (Ecology)." In Eormanz, 'yoga' is 'yokoth'. Eco-yoga is Edhlifrith-yokoth. Eco-yoga would be a means to fit the human psyche (ferth) to the Edhli (Biosphere), a total form of training (drawning) similar to what Hindu and Buddhist yogas are meant to do, but with a completely different aim: to produce the functional Edhli-self through a process of Ecological-Self-Realization (Edhli-self Santhning). What that might be and how it might be reached are interesting questions, which I am unaware that anyone has answered yet.

Seekers for such self-realization could be called Eco-nauts (Edhlimind Kannadhers (explorers). They would be like the early forest sages (Wald-wisers) who practiced the way of yoga in the midst of Nature, but seeking the Ecological God Within, so as to "Be as God" (i.e., ecological). Eco-yoga would re-engineer the psyche, yoking the deep mind to the real, biological world (Santh-- reality, truth), an opposite result, in fact, to the aim of traditional yoga. I'm beginning to think that humans can't really be "one with Nature," though. We are different to other animals, we don't fit. Maybe it is a mistake, trying to commune with them as persons like ourselves, and to be true animals ourselves. But part of any eco-yogic quest to yoke ourselves to Nature would be to find a niche in the Ecosphere where we could fit, as culture-bearing animals with a rather intractable, unruly nature that is a threat to the Biosphere-- if that is possible in humans no longer shaped-to-fit by natural selection . Let's see if it is.

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