The Autistic Yogi Reflects on Love and its Challenge...

Love.

What a profound and confusing feeling.

How mythologies have shaped our view of love and for many, that has made the feeling intangible, even mystical. Escaping so many, it becomes a view as a sensation for things. Like loving coffee, sleep, cars, or any other object or thing.

Love seems to convey a consistent feeling about a person, place or thing, a sensation that hardly changes, and if it does change, it is but a mere moment in the movement of time.

Love produces the most immense actions and without a sense of its depths and capacity, it can incite people to act on what appears to be anything but love.

How many people unable to escape the clutches of love have felt the tinge of insanity and a cascading rage move through them, only to realize those actions work counter to love and set up a feeling of unworthiness and self-hatred. Such feelings lead people to act contrary to their good nature and is the foundation for such sayings as 'The road to hell is pathed in good deeds'.

The biggest challenge that love faces in the human race is that of adult psychological centration. The human mind is limited in its capacity to intake and output information so it will consistently fall short and if a person is not careful it can rob them of their sensibility and lead them to act on a limited centrated point of view.

Love combined with adult psychological centration is the leading cause of faulty points of view and condemnation where it does not belong. The saying 'love is blind' is born from the experience of acting on love that has been narrowly viewed and acted upon in that narrow viewpoint. Without the capacity to pause in the moment and deeply question whether psychological centration is happening than we are likely to act in a manner that a 2 or 3-year-old would act, and when we put those types of actions into an adult body there is a destructive force, a lack of good decisions based on knowledge and an abundance of decisions made irrationally and spontaneously like a rattlesnake biting a branch of a tree that moves from the wind. Maybe even like throwing gasoline on a fire in an attempt to dose it.

When there is an attempt to walk with another in love it can be the most fantastic of feelings yet can lead to one of the most terrible feelings we could possibly experience.

Change of direction of my blog

It's been a year since I posted. And some aspects of my life have changed drastically and some have stayed the same.

None the less I want to change the direction of my blog so that its not just about the journey of yoga practice that I am on, rather to make it a charting of my different thoughts. Especially the ones that I have come back to over and over.

1. Welfare or Universal living wages and why its likely the best course of action for our human progression and best for the economy as a whole.
2. Psychology in practice from the point of view of a client/consumer of the psychological resources in my community, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
3. Mythology and the religiosity of humans. How narrative has influenced core thoughts of human nature through time.
4. Propaganda and the Social Media network. How easy it is to influence the masses through the new form of communication.
5. Autistic Narrow interests through my lens and experience: Story Telling, Chainmaille armor and jewelry, Yoga, Human movement, Rope, Sexuality. 
6. Suicide
7. This list will expand.
   

I hope to do more contributions to this blog throughout this next while to get out my thoughts that I have developed over a lifetime and continue to do so before it's too late.