Everything emanates from the centre of their beingвЂ¦ and what emanates is Kundalini yoga (as taught by Yogi Bhajan), and she will colonize the world with it. No one else - and obviously not survivors - will be referenced. With Joy she will cancel BhajanвЂ™s critics. No other emotion or perspective has the right to exist. The hidden-in-plain-sight message here is domination, albeit disguised in an emotive language of emotion that is coded maternal, receptive, and surrendering.Д¬ome what may, this faithful practitioner will exert their will to Joy over all reality.

Look past the white saviourism of the journey, the conflation of a virus for institutional abuse, the bypassing. In my choice I choose to teach Kundalini Yoga throughout the world, God willing, until my last breath.вЂќ вЂњBetween the flu and the allegations, from the center of my being I choose Joy.

Many have noted this quote in particular: IвЂ™m familiar with these themes from studying cult leaders.Д«ut the possibility that they are baked into the very content and method of Kundalini yoga itself was made much more clear by GurmukhвЂ™s post yesterday. It would feel like a mortal threat.Дominate in order to control, and do it completely, passionately, sleeplessly - or else you will die. His erudite psychoanalytic appraisal of the Bhajan-like figure - in his case Gurumayi of SYDA - shows a person who is terrified of anyone around them asserting their own agency, for then the world and and others in it would no longer be theirs to control. Daniel Shaw details the granular level of how this might work in his masterful work Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation. One of the hardest parts of DysonвЂ™s book for me to read was where she quotes Bhajan repeatedly saying things like: вЂњYou must be like me,вЂќ followed by pages on pages of Dyson discovering that her own identity had been suppressed, supplanted, negated, and that she had to find it again.Дomination was the root of the religion. вЂњDominatedвЂќ in the sense that no one else had time or space to have their own life, their own reality, their own feelings. This thought began to form in response to reading DysonвЂ™s book and some testimonies on the Premka page about how Bhajan dominated everyoneвЂ™s lives through a grandiose ideology that required constant material attention: a thousand different tasks, rituals, protocols, attitudes, gestures. Maybe Kundalini Yoga Works Because It Carries the Domination Affect of Yogi Bhajan | a note on GurmukhвЂ™s Abuse Crisis Statement And who knows? Practicing euphoria from a place of real freedom may well be possible. But I believe that everyone deserves to practice without the additional burden of cognitive dissonance. This is definitely not to say that the practices if they are still felt to be beneficial, should be abandoned.

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