the curse of the yoga of the west is it is caught up in it's own splendid ego and power trip, yoga is of the mind, the body is a small fraction of it, but of course in the superficial west the mind is attached to ego, it's a banal thing really but a point i wish to make due to my interactions with the so called 'spiritual yoga teachers' i encounter along the path. while they have beautiful bodies, compared to my own declining vessel, they are poisoned with the fifth circuit trap that ac, wilson and leary speak about.
it's well known in the eastern disciplines but now people can more or less buy diplomas or do a short course over the net at the down town yoga factory they can assert their spiritual supremacy like a badly wielded sword. because i don't overtly give much about myself away (except in here) i'm prone to come across this type quite a lot, avalon is filled with them, that's why the beautiful little village turned into babylon, unfortunately sydney has gone this way, but it is ultimately of little consequence. i'm just writing about it, having a bitch.
in destructing the ego one is left in shock, it usually happens by accident, in spiritual tradition it's dismantled by process which is why it takes many years maybe a lifetime or seven, either way the ego becomes a costume. a construct, you can undress it or dismantle it at will, and that is real deal.