Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One
Similarly, Father Mitch Pacwa, Eternal Word Television Network host and author of Catholics and the New Age: How Good People Are Being Drawn into Jungian Psychology, the Enneagram, and the Age of Aquarius, cautions that yoga, regarded by some as merely a form of exercise or relaxation, is in fact a religious practice with a spiritual goal: making the personality cease to exist. “That is incompatible with Christian goals,” Father Pacwa says. “As a Catholic,” he adds, “my goal is not simply to have this state of mind. My goal is union with Christ.”
Yoga makes the personality cease to exist?
I…what?
And my mom wonders why I don’t go to church regularly.
SERIOUSLY.
And for the record? My Bikram Yoga practice ENCOURAGES and STRENGTHENS my personality. And by personality, I mean the part of me that is silently crying out in agony, OHHHH SWEET BUDDHA, HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT MY FINGERNAILS CAN SWEAT? HOW???
Personality indeed.
This would have bothered me before my bf convinced me to go to yoga for the first time last week, but after 2 sessions I no longer have a personality so I don’t mind a bit… Also- if you turn the w upside down and add an N that’s guy’s name is Father Pacman. Meditate on that!!
HA HA HA HA YOU ARE AMAZING.
My fair state will not allow the teaching of yoga in public schools becuase of it’s “religous connotations” so how about that?
Clearly you have lost your personality through yoga. I mean, look at your posts and how un-personal they are.
What’s the opposite of an exorcism? That’s what you need to get your personality back.
Jess was nearly personality-less to start with. She can’t blame yoga.
Also, Laura, if you want to spend some of your new free time reading the non-Pacman kind of Catholics, I recommend Reclaiming the Body in Christian Spirituality, edited by Thomas Ryan, a Paulist Father. I’m not and never have been Catholic so I don’t know exactly what that last part means, but it’s an interesting read nevertheless.
Lisa, you are a grad student in turdology (and I love you, dearly, of course!
I apologize for her, Laura, she’s just jealous because I taller than her (on the inside).