SUNS'S OUT

Yogi (levitating six inches off the ground): Meditation is the key to levitation
Tourist: That’s very enlightening

What’s so funny about this? I was very naïve and gullible as both a kid and a young adult. It was hard for me to be cynical, I guess, because I really wanted to believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Carlos Castenada books where he morphs into a crow and flies away. I loved sci-fi and fantasy and still do to some extent. But by the time I was in my thirties I had mostly outgrown it until I met a certain teacher at a workshop who told me she was married to a Yogi, one who practiced Yoga. Yoga is very popular these days, mostly as a form of exercise but it definitely has a spiritual side and mediation has always been a part of the routine. There are many different kinds of Yoga and this teacher’s husband was into Kundalini Yogi, mentally trying to raise the “life force” up through his spine to come out the top of his head. She told me that after many years of pract