If all the earth’s mass were concentrated at a point in the center, the intensity of the gravitational force coming from that center would increase at an ever accelerating rate, far beyond the perceived surface gravity, as one dug steadily deeper and deeper toward that center. But in the real earth, if one would think about it more carefully, one would dig in some distance, and begin to find that the net pull toward the center had measureably decreased. Extrapolating ahead, and placing oneself in the center in the mind’s eye (in defiance of ambient pressures around 3,000,000 atmospheres and probaby hellish temperatures), one finds that at the very center region of the “Source” there is no gravity at all.

Wasn’t there a certain Asian person-of-wisdom who, in ancient or even actually prehistoric times, opined that becoming truly “centered” within the ambience of the Creator would seem, for some, that such devotions had made God appear to exist no longer? I forgot which one said that, or words to that effect…

I was actually baptised Catholic, but my mother was horrified at the diabolical implications of the words of the ceremony, as spoken in behalf of her baby. She was a natural abstract thinker, and brought up short by the intrusion of a God associated with the stark dichomomy of good and evil. My folks then tried to bring me up as a positive-thinking middle-class US protestant. But besides the baptism, which was never annulled, there was a peculiar cluster of other diabolic-seeming events and symbols that also cropped up in my babyhood. The facts of history are hard to undo, whichever way our memories of them might be skewed.

Actually, when we shot the video, my producer Lee expressed concern about this too. What I mean to say is that the union of body, mind and spirit is literally what yoga means, but that doesn’t mean I personally believe in a spiritual realm. I explain how I interpret it in my next sentence, in that I feel yoga is beneficial for both the body and the mind, so isn’t just physical exercise. I hope that’s clear!