Yoghurt Weaving in a Nutshell: Review

An enjoyable insight into the world of hippy dreamers

Review

Yoghurt Weaving in a Nutshell

Perhaps the title ought to be Yoghurt Weaving by Nuts. The author has revealed numerous weird concepts that apparently are commonplace among Yoghurt Weavers.
But what, you may well ask, is a Yoghurt Weaver? Basically it is one of those strange people who have what to the sensible folk among us, are very strange experiences that produce nothing of value and are frequently brought about by the imbibing of substances that the remainder of us have more sense than to try. These people have ‘otherwordly’ beliefs and practises.
Yet most of these folk are not generally harmful to others, unlike too many of the ‘normal types’ who manipulate lesser mortals for their own ends; no these are those who seemingly requires a belief in something even less grounded in logic than the major religions, at least these do preach care for others. Here we have the Galactic sources of goodness that will save the world and other such freakish notions. Too many variant concepts are mentioned in the book to be repeated here the sheer variety is mind boggling.
Ancient concepts from India get confused with ideas from American Indians and then mixed with elements form Egypt etc…I have seen some of this in my reading over the years and thought that such mindless wanderings were the province of a very small minority…now I am not so sure that the minority is as small as I previously imagined.
One is bound to query the lack of logic among one’s fellow humans, people in a modern scientific environment who ignore knowledge has taken, effectively, thousands of years to accumulate and develop. In many cases these same people ignore the traditional religions and belief systems and invent their own…but these are the more ‘normal’ variety and not just the followers because these have a goal in sight. While portraying themselves as spiritual beings these are those who subscribe to the free enterprise concept and peddle their wares to the other more susceptible of the Yoghurty folk. They are no different to the money making churchmen of a couple of hundred years ago. Then, as practised by the church in mediaeval times, the practise of healing via close proximity to the bones of a saint was a cure for those with the money to pay…not “Suffer little children to come unto me.” but “Suffer if you can’t pay.”..…and the church charged highly for the privilege. Of course in those days it was easier to cure a mad dog, merely stroke the poor animal with the key of a church and a miraculous cure would be manifested…little changes; if you cannot afford an overpriced amalgamation of pieces of copper pipe and few strings to purify your energy centres then chomp on a magic mushroom…same difference but cheaper, it all depends upon your financial situation…spiritual? Energy purifying?
As the Yorkshire saying relates, “There’s now’t as queer [and that is not sexual] as folks”. It seems that no matter how much we learn, there is always the need for something illogical, mind bending and downright silly…
Yoghurt Weaving in a Nutshell reveals many of these crazy practises and the attitudes of their purveyors and devotees. While written in a somewhat insulting and amusing manner it is an enlightening book…but what does that mean?…for a Yoghurty definition of light see page 76. Then try to evaluate ‘normal’.