The Movement that Prepared the way for Yogi Bhajan

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It's fascinating and kinda cool how the 60s made it easier for Yogi

Bhajan to jumpstart his movement to democratize kundalini yoga -

spreading it publicly for all humankind. A favorite philosopher of

mine has a classic piece about this period, which I invite all to read

below. It's by Rothbard. Ironically, Rothbard's biographer, Justin

Ramaindo, is editor of www.AntiWar.com, today's equivalent of the 60s

Peace Movement. In today's age of Perpetual War and a growing Police

State, it's useful to remind ourselves of events in the past that can

give ideas on how to deal with the strife of today:

 

http://www.mises.org/story/2762

 

(exerpt):

 

The New Left Was Great (Before It Collapsed)

 

By Murray N. Rothbard

 

For years now, Leonard Liggio and I had been looking for a " left, " for

an antiwar movement, with which we could ally ourselves. Then

suddenly, as if by magic, the New Left emerged in American life,

particularly in two great events: the Berkeley Free Speech Movement

(FSM) of the fall of 1964, which inaugurated the campus movement of

the 1960s; and the March on Washington of April 17, 1965, organized by

the Students for a Democratic Society to protest the dramatic

escalation of our war in Vietnam in February.

 

The SDS march inaugurated the great anti–Vietnam War movement, which

undoubtedly constituted the deepest and most widespread opposition in

the midst of war since the conflict with Mexico in the 1840s. The

opposition during World War I was strong, but isolated and brutally

suppressed by the government; the isolationist movement of World War

II collapsed completely as soon as we entered the war; and the Korean

War never generated a powerful mass opposition. But here at last was

an exciting, massive opposition to the war proceeding during the war

itself!

 

.....

 

But more than that: the passion for justice and moral principle that

is infusing more and more people can only move them in the same

direction; morality and practical utility are fusing ever more clearly

to greater numbers of people in one great call: for the liberty of

people — of individuals and voluntary groups — to work out their own

destiny, to take control over their own lives. We have it in our power

to reclaim the American Dream.

 

click here for entire history of 60s: http://www.mises.org/story/2762

 

Sat nam,

Amar Atma