Flying Yogis and microwave cooking

Let’s start with the second part, microwave cooking and nutrient value of food…

I had this question (or doubt) in my mind since the time I’ve heard from people in one Yoga center that microwave cooking/heating is bad. When I asked for details, explanations – I didn’t get any, just that look people who know “the truth” have, like “it is just as I told you, I know”. – Do you know some details? Would you like to share in the comments?

Well, here is what I know and what I don’t:

• I don’t know for certain if there are different dimensions to our space or different measures of nutrient value – except dimensions modern science already found and measured and except nutrient value of food we already know about by now. I don’t say we know everything and there are no other possibilities. I just say, I don’t know about them, can not prove them as of today and therefore can not honestly operate with them.
• Back to “commonly known things”: heat does affect nutrient value of food, some of it’s component (vitamin C is the best known example).
• Microwave heat and “conventional” cooking heat do affect food (which is another story in itself) in basically the same way. On one of the forums when I was sharing this information – one person said: “but you know for sure that eggs explode in microwave, don’t you?” – He was almost implying that microwaves are evil! – Well, thing is that it is an elementary physics which is the reason for eggs to explode in microwave and not (most of the time) in boiling water. I can easily give you details if you would like to know.
• In fact, microwave maybe sometimes better, as it’s faster and food may be less affected.

That is it. Among scientists (I was reading Harvard Medical School materials on this) there seem to be a very clear position on the subject.

Here is a conclusion I would like to propose: Eat healthy for your body and “eat” healthy for you mind (=educate yourself from experts in their fields of knowledge). Sure, staying open minded is extremely important too.

Let’s move now to a more general, first part – about flying Yogis.

Have you heard time, after time, after time, after time… again and again from different “gurus” and “friends who read that latest book, a translation of oldest scriptures”? or “friends who heard from friends of friends who read that wonderful breakthrough-article on how to eat properly” how to do things in a “proper” way? Well, I did and I constantly do. We are bombarded by millions of such or similar “findings” all the time, we just don’t notice them – we are so used to get influenced – it’s already subconscious function of our minds, and we have this in modern society more than ever. Why? – We are not educated enough and others use it. We are not stupid, we just can not be experts in all possible areas, and modern world techniques of making money are trying to use it.

I am a real person from a real world…

• If what I’m saying contradicts with what I (or modern science) know already as facts, I can not seriously listen to such a “teacher”. And if he knows he is manipulating with truth, then he/she probably should feel bad as a liar should. (Sincere ignorance is not that sad of course.)
• On another hand, if I’m told something, which I can not check right away – I may at best take it “for my information”, with doubt, not with rejection, but without a blind trust too.

That is my approach to learning and teaching/sharing Yoga too:

• I learn,
• I see if things work and I learn why they do
• then I can pass the knowledge to others.

Here is an exaggerated example/demonstration of the point:

• Sure, I’ve read that Yogis could fly, but that is just a “bla-bla” (no offense) to me until I experience it myself or a least see it with my eyes.
• So, until I learn to fly myself, I would not bla-bla to you that if you “behave” and do Yoga “really a lot” you are going to fly…
• Although, if we are to talk seriously, I think, “flying” could have been used by good masters, Yoga teachers as a metaphor: flying = being free – free from ignorance, attachments, anger, fear, jealousy, etc. An enlightened person is free like a flying bird in a way… This kind of flying is quite clear, a clear and achievable goal…

Happy flying!

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