i think philosophy, in the sense of careful deliberation on duty and purpose, is now undervalued, and embodied primal screaming therapy, trusting impulses and instincts, and thinking less, while all great and helpful at times, are now overvalued.

i don’t really understand the five koshas, but it seems that the intellect is upstream of the emotions, despite what lots of new age stuff says. the new age stuff seems to confound thinking with Plato’s ‘logos’.

or the capacity of enlightened reasoning, which seems, at least to me, to reliably align the body and emotion. whereas often times tons of yoga without deliberation on ‘what must be done’ is way less effective.

a while ago i tried very earnestly to understand how photo-voltaic cells (i am not smart so it was hard), and when i felt i understood, my whole body felt massaged, and i felt joy, more so than from yoga