Yoga 'the work of the devil'

[jomifl]

According to the Vatican's highly successful 85 year old chief exorcist. My yoga classes were sadly lacking, too late for a refund...

[boxtops]

I don't see any correlation between yoga and exorcism - is there a link?

[Frank97]

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[yogasun]

I have been practising Yoga for over 35 years and teaching it for 30. I have not become a Hindu nor to my knowledge have the literally hundreds of people that I have taught. Whatever its origins we have 'Westernized' it, as happens, and my students come for the breathing exercises, stretching benefits and improvement in flexibility and help with relaxation. I now have people being sent by their GPs.
Heard all this before back in the 70's, thought we'd moved on, obviously not.

[China Doll]

That's just funny.... What a tit.

[B00]

Had to re-read that, thought it said "Yogi, the work of the devil", was gonna say it was a bit harsh, I mean, he has his moments, but still....

;-)

[ChuckFickens]

That is a classic!

"watch out for nightclubs because the path is always the same: alcohol, sex, drugs and Satanic sects."

Really.... Damn I missed out on 2 out of those 4, I must have been going to the wrong clubs...

[China Doll]

Sorry, off-topic question but I just seen yogasun's answer:

Yogasun - I have a hip impingment, I am due to have a cortisone injection. After I do that, do you think yoga could be a sensible exercise for me to take up? I need to so something but thus far have only mainly succeeded in aggrivating it further.

^^^ I could be on the road to hell :c)

[rojash]

I've been practising Satanism for years, and never been contacted by Boo-boo, let alone Yogi...

[beso]

I have been doing yoga for over twelve years. It is one of the best things I have done for my being. I don't do it as a religion but it has brought great me spiritual benefits.

One of the fascinating moments was duing the meditation where one imagines the energy passing up through the seven chakras. The seventh is in the top of the head and we were told to imagine a "white thousand petal lotus".

There I was imagining my very unambitious lotus and the whole top half of my head lit up inside. I finally understood what the teacher was talking about.

[naomi24]

I'm as bad as B00. I thought it read Yoda. :o)

[RATTER15]

Chuck, you went straight for the drugs and satanic sex didn't you!!

[jomifl]

I guess the post of chief exorcist will be vacant as the post holder must be beginning to think of considering ordering a new set of golf clubs..(solid silver of course ..just in case)

[naomi24]

//In Harry Potter the Devil is at work in a cunning and crafty way, he is using his extraordinary powers of magic and evil.//

He obviously doesn't realise that eventually Voldemort is utterly destroyed. Bet he's never read it.

//You thing[sic] you are doing it for stretching your mind ........//

Goodness! That will never do. Religion doesn't allow for stretched minds - just narrow ones.

[jomifl]

Naomi .. stretch them one way and they get narrower at right angles.

[Scylax]

Well said, Naomi24.
The fact that the Roman Catholic church has an official exorcist tells us much about that organisation. This deranged person has stated that possessed people vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron. Further, he opines that the sexual crimes of the RC clergy are evidence that the devil is trying to subvert the Holy See. Nothing to do with personal culpability.
How on earth do otherwise rational people believe this religious claptrap ?

[cathfromsaron]

i knew i enjoyed it for a reason x

[ludwig]

// He obviously doesn't realise that eventually Voldemort is utterly destroyed. Bet he's never read it. //

Great. I'm halfway through the last book and you've just told me the ending. Thanks a bunch.

[sandyRoe]

In the days before psychobabble came into vogue there would have been a place and a function for exorcists.
Yoga could well be the work of the devil. I was trying a difficult asana once, slipped, and did my back in. :-(

[beso]

So you thought the bad guy would ultimately prevail? Have you ever seen a book that ended like that?

[andy-hughes]

It's difficult to take seriously the opinions of a man who's entire life's work has been based on an unprovable concept - that of demonic possession.

Priests suffer with varying degrees from their removal from daily life, their veneration by their followers, and the encouraged notion that they can and should behave exactly as they please, provided that they bring in enough money to the church in doing so.

I would be happy to dismiss this old gentleman's ramblings as just that - the ramblings of an old gentleman. Anyone who can put 'exorcist' on their passport is not inhabiting the same plane of earth as the rest of us!