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This combination of pseudoscience and profoundly reductionist anti-psychological messaging

would come to dominate the yoga and wellness sphere for at least the next decade.

And make no mistake, this is spiritual bypass in a nutshell.

In the dictionary, next to the term spiritual bypass, you will see a picture of this particular

nutshell with the ideas from what the bleep contained in it. Because what they're saying is that

your painful emotions are really just an addictive chemical process that you can be free of

when you realize you have a choice. And this is because of the higher scientific truth

of quantum physics. Now in seeking out clips to share, I thought it was just fascinating that

in this particular discussion that you've just heard about the neuroendocrine aspect of emotions,

the animation on the screen with those funny voices that you could hear in the background

is about hunger. It's kind of this weird mismatch.

So we're yelling up to the brain saying, we haven't gotten our fix today and it's going to start

sending impressions to the brain and the brain is going to start to formulate imagery.

It's going to sound like voices in our head.

To think of a reason why we should be depressed.

Think of a reason why we should be confused. Think of a reason for our own suffering.

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