{"id":24129,"date":"2020-06-29T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T15:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=24129"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:38:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T23:38:41","slug":"save-the-bleach-yudhi%e1%b9%a3%e1%b9%adhiras-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=24129","title":{"rendered":"Save the Bleach: Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira\u2019s Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Save the Bleach: Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira\u2019s Insight

\u201cYou don\u2019t need to be in no hurry
You ain\u2019t never really got to worry.
You don\u2019t need to check on how you feel
Just keep repeating:\u201cNone of this is real.\u201c

And if you\u2019re sensing there\u2019s something wrong
Well just remember\u00a0It won\u2019t be too long\u00a0
Before the Director cuts the scene

This ain\u2019t really your life\u00a0
ain\u2019t \u00a0really your life
ain\u2019t \u00a0really your life…\u201d

\u2014 Gil Scott Heron \u2014


The New Age is an Old Lie

Old Colonial strategies neither die nor fade away
They are just rebranded and sent into virtually reality
And sold online to people too young\u00a0
To remember snake oil salesmen.

Or, broadcast out over Zoom\u00a0
To create\u00a0
Family of choice simulacra\u00a0
Resembling the opening of The Brady Bunch
A celebrated family\u00a0
That didn\u2019t actually really exists either.

This Neo-Divide and conquer

If America becomes a Towering Inferno\u00a0
Don\u2019t you realize\u00a0That there are no ladders long enough to reach you\u00a0
On the 108th floor.
To save you from the burning\u00a0
If the lower floors are alight.

Will you sit in a circle and sing Kum ba yah?
(\u2018cause that\u2019s not your song either)
Or perhaps chant the lyrics from Maureen McGovern disaster movie songs\u00a0
And hope it extinguishes the flames?

There\u2019s Got to be A Morning After
And We Will Never Love this Way Again
But will we be here to love\u00a0
When the sun rises on America tomorrow?

The Ku Klux Klan no longer wears sheets\u00a0
1000 thread count Egyptian cotton is just too expensive
And it so much easier to just run for office.

Or cluster at seminars that teach the art of Hap-why-ness
Selling crystals\u00a0
Yoni eggs\u00a0
And exorbitantly priced aroma therapy bath salts\u00a0
To wash the stress away\u00a0

Take me away Calgon bath oil beads no longer strong enough\u00a0
To wash away the day
Something stronger is now needed
As America convulses.

\u201cStand as far away from me as you can and ask me why
Hold on to your m\u0101l\u0101 beads\u00a0
Close your eyes\u00a0And watch me die\u201d.

If you\u2019re not angry\u00a0
Then you\u2019re just not paying attention.

As \u201cMind-less-ness Meditation\u201c exhorts us to \u00a0
Watch our breath
And become comfortable in our seats
Presumably so that our meat won\u2019t be too tough
When they slaughter us\u00a0
Just before they make us into Soylent Green

Or send us out into the world prematurely like cannon fodder\u00a0
To see if COVID-19\u00a0
Is really as deadly as they think it is

As they KNOW it is.
New opiates for a New Age
Being \u201cspiritual\u201d does not mean being clueless
In the tradition of:
Day\u0101nanda Sarasv\u0101ti,Ram Mohan Roy
Mohandas K. Gandhi,\u00a0
Sr\u012b Aurobindo,\u00a0
Sr\u012b Yukteswar [in his younger days];\u00a0
Arundati Roy
Malcom X,
Rosa Parks\u00a0
Fannie Lou Hamer
Martin Luther [Mike] King Jr.
Nelson Mandela;\u00a0
Alice Walker;\u00a0
Ruth [Ruthie] Wilson Gilmore;\u00a0
Angela Y. Davis
and Barak Hussein Obama

To name ONE \u2014 as a Ved\u0101ntan would say.

Great ONES who knew how to work through their relative selves\u00a0
To help\u00a0To change\u00a0
Our ONE world.

The face of yoga is that of a Dravidian sage.

Save the bleach for COVID-19
But don\u2019t use it to denature the Ideas and Ideals of Brown skinned people
For memes
Twitter and Facebook quotes
Or monuments designed to rewrite history.

Embodied ideas are more confrontational and problematic to consider
Then New Age tapioca and flavorless tofu teachings

If that wasn\u2019t true
Barak Obama\u2019s presidential portrait would be unveiled\u00a0
And Harriet Tubman would be on the $20 dollar bill.

But instead of celebrating the Queen of Freedom\u00a0
And the Underground Railroad
We build fences around\u00a0
And fortify a statue of\u00a0
The President who drove the Trail of Tears.

\u201cWe think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding\u00a0
But find our expressions of faith sowing division
We believe ourselves to be a tolerant people
Even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape
And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts
Our politics fans them
Exploits them
And drives us further apart.\u201d

Now who said that?

I think we may have forgotten in these past four years
That have felt like a century.
He famously carried a token of Hanum\u0101n with him\u00a0
Where ever he went
And lifted the mountain of healing herbs on his Demi-Nubian shoulders\u00a0
And for eight years\u00a0
The fragrance of HOPE
Filled our nostrils.

It started as a whisper in Springfield Illinois
And now we are shouting in the streets again
And hope again seems audacious.

Because of social distancing\u00a0
And sheltering in place
The night sky is becoming visible again in India
The Himalayan Mountains are visible \u00a0in the distance
Even from cities whose air was once gray with pollution.
Wild animals are encroaching upon urban environments\u00a0

Are we the HOPE or the PROBLEM?

Is there a Goop product that cures stupidity?
And if there is, where would you rub it?
If I rub it on a Confederate Statue will it Melt away and disappear?

Is there a Goop repellant we could spray on the White House
To keep Trump away from it?
We could call that fragrance \u201cMelania\u2019s Hand Slap\u201dBecause it works for her.

Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira knew the truth:
If they ever open a gate\u00a0for you
And invite you in saying:

\u201cThis is heaven;
But, you just can\u2019t bring your dog.\u201d

It\u2019s a trap!
Be steady in war
Know that place to be hell
And walk on.

The God of Small Things would let you into heaven
Especially with your dog.

Will America have a breakdown\u00a0
Before it has a breakthrough?

Oh God of Small Things!
Convey me into a heaven where\u00a0
Even my family and my dog is welcome
Grant Us Wholeness.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Save the Bleach: Yudhi\u1e63\u1e6dhira\u2019s Insight \u201cYou don\u2019t need to be in no hurryYou ain\u2019t never really got to worry.You don\u2019t need to check on how you feelJust keep repeating:\u201cNone of this is real.\u201c And if you\u2019re sensing there\u2019s something wrongWell just remember\u00a0It won\u2019t be too long\u00a0Before the Director cuts the scene This ain\u2019t really your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4738,6336,6337],"class_list":["post-24129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-blacklivesmatter","tag-heidi-lindemann","tag-michael-perry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26256,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24129\/revisions\/26256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}