Ethics

Jonathan is an activist and yoga scholar-practitioner.

JP is a comedian and author.

Marianne is a political organizer and activist.

Chris is an author and “no-bullshit” spiritual teacher.

Kelly is a Holistic Psychiatrist and integrative healing advocate.

The word “enlightenment” is a translation of the German aufklärung, literally “up-clearing.”  For scholars, these words (both German and English) are effectively synonymous with the 18th Century, the “Age of Reason.” The metaphor of clarification or aufklärung was used by intellectuals of that time to describe their own project, of clearing away superstition to make room for scientific liberal democracy.

When we do yoga, we move our bodies around, so are working with gesture, tone, and posture, to embed in the bones the understanding that we are one with the underlying principle of Universal Being – Consciousness, (Sat-Chit-Ananda), which yogic sages sometimes call the deathless Self.

Matthew is a cultural critic and journalist.