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Newsletter Nr. 741
Amsterdam, November 9th, 2018


REDUCING TRUMP'S DESTRUCTION, RETHINKING IMPEACHMENT - A More Integrative Perspective - ELLIOT BENJAMIN

Things are happening rapidly in the aftermath of the midterm elections, as a little while ago it was announced that Trump fired attorney general Jeff Sessions, and there is widespread concern that the new acting attorney general. Matthew Whitaker, who now replaces Rod Rosenstein as Robert Mueller's boss, may in effect shut down the Trump-Russia collusion investigations. There are nationwide protest demonstrations happening all over the country tomorrow, and I plan on taking part in one in Bangor, Maine. I also plan on taking part in a special Need to Impeach conference call with Need to Impeach founder Tom Steyer tomorrow, as well as in a national Indivisible conference call next week to discuss the second phase (the post-midterm elections phase) of the Indivisible.

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THE YOGA OF BODYSURFING - An Illustrated Guide to Water Pranayama - DAVID LANE

Hatha yoga has a long history and is deeply embedded in Indian culture which is replete with all sort of religious and mythological ideas about the practice's ultimate significance. Despite variations among differing schools of hatha yoga, several core elements have emerged and become widely adopted worldwide. These include: mastery of body postures known as asanas; mastery of hand positions known as mudras; mastery of breath control known as pranayama; and mastery of concentration known as dhyan. The combinatorial aim of this four-fold methodology was to achieve liberation during one's lifetime from the sufferings of human existence. Achieving such an enlightened state is known by various names including moksha or nirvana.

What is much less known is how yoga, shorn of its theological overlays and spiritual ultimacies, is similar in many ways to the art of bodysurfing. At first glance this may seem like a gross exaggeration, but on closer inspection it is clear that a bodysurfer adept at riding waves actually employs yoga's four-fold technique. 

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