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William Broad, the NYT journalist who has stirred such controversy in the yoga world, is a scientist (or, perhaps more accurately, a science journalist). He is a researcher and a writer. As someone who finds comfort in science, I imagine that, in his 30 year practice of yoga, perhaps Broad has come a little too close to spirituality for his own comfort? Obviously, I’m guessing here. But in my experience with scientists, they like their experiences to be verified so that they deny all that is subtle in existence. (Okay, huge generalizations going on here, I admit). This isn’t to say that scientists, as a whole, don’t have a sense of the Infinite, of the Universe, but they do have a desperate need to explain it (i.e., “I’m not in love, she just spikes my serotonin”).
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