“Inhale up to your heart. Exhale up to the atmosphere. Love away the carbon dioxide.”

Yes, you read that right! That’s just one part of the yogic meditation exercise prescribed by an anonymous blogger for healing the earth by stopping global warming.

Too crazy to be real?

Not in the mystical world of deep ecology and yoga meditation.

On the blog “Loving the Earth: Reflections on Yogaecology, Climate Change, Permaculture and Community,” an anonymous blogger  has a “Meditation for Climate Change.”

You have to know how this blogger describes himself:

Born in families of not-so-long-ago-farmers, and raised at a socialist cooperative kindergarten, I went to see the world and universities and worked as an environmental activist and educator. Honestly, it was stressful and I missed to sing and dream and be enough.

One day, I went on a pilgrimage from Sweden to BC, Canada and met my love. Here I seek my dreams about yoga and deep ecology, to be a farmer-poet overfilling with peace.

Here’s the core of his Meditation for Climate Change:

Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, eyes closed and your attention on your breath. Sitting or lying down works too, but standing is the easiest way to start.

Inhale slowly and bring your awareness to your heart.

Exhale slowly and imagine your breath is traveling the front of your body and entering to the center of the Earth.

Inhale slowly and imagine you are drawing up energy from the center of the Earth, up the back of your body, and into your heart.

Exhale slowly and imagine that your breath is going from your heart up the front of your body as high as it can go – to the stars, heaven, the sun – whatever works for you.

Inhale slowly and imagine you are drawing energy down from the sky, down the back of your body and into your heart.

Continue breathing the same shape. Next time you exhale, imagine your breath is travelling down to the earth, to the reserves of oil and coal and gas. Imagine a protective sheet of shimmering light around them so they stay in the ground. See all the wells and pumps disappear from the reserves.

It doesn’t stop there. First round, stop the drilling. Next round, heal the atmosphere! This blogger not only figures he can stop our adding CO2 to the atmosphere by stopping coal mining and oil and gas drilling by his yogic breathing and meditation. He also figures he can get rid of the CO2 we’ve already added to it!

Inhale slowly and imagine you are drawing energy up from the Earth, into your heart.

Exhale slowly and imagine your breath is going from your heart up towards the sky, to the atmosphere. Visualize that you can see the carbon dioxide molecules (one carbon, 2 oxygen) and you are touching them gently, loving them and letting them transform into oxygen and carbon.

Inhale back to your heart, bringing the carbon atoms with you.

Exhale and imagine you are bringing your breath and the carbon atoms down down to the center of the Earth. Return the carbon. Smoothly pet tight the mines, the drilling holes.

Inhale up to your heart. Exhale up to the atmosphere. Love away the carbon dioxide.

There you go. That’ll do it! (Frankly, this method of stopping global warming will probably be almost as effective as trying to cut our CO2 emissions, since natural causes of global warming far outweigh CO2.)

I suppose it wouldn’t be fair to point out that CO2 is about 40,000 parts per million in the air he exhales—100 times as concentrated as the surrounding air. Such inconvenient truths are irrelevant in the world of yoga and deep ecology.

Four centuries ago, Sweden—this blogger’s home country—was permeated by the gospel Luther preached, and so also by the Biblical worldview. About a century and a half ago, Sweden began turning from that gospel and that worldview, and by the early 1900s it was among the most secularized countries in the world.

But secularism doesn’t bring rationality. In the end, because it denies that the rational God of the Bible designed a rational universe to be understood by rational people made in His image, it leads to irrationality.

 

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