Sometimes I think we forget that a good portion of the world is 'new' comparatively to the east and especially to their philosophies. I wish had the means when I was younger to learn more about these practices. The impact it would have had on me would have been substantial. Yet, because I am a woman that would be unheard of. The world I live in, they fear everything they do not know or understand. They bully a spiritual minded person because he simply lets them be. They bully those that don't think like they do, because they cannot understand that some could possible be different from them.

Thank you for sharing your time at the ashram @julianhorack it is very enlightening.