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CHAPTER XXX<br />

MAKE IT<br />

BETTER<br />

Nothing was true of all that she had believed, but <strong>the</strong> falsest<br />

thing of all was what she had mistaken for revealed truth.<br />

—François Mauriac, Maltaverne<br />

WHERE THEN DOES ALL OF THIS leave spirituality and enlightenment?<br />

First, one of Yogi Bhajan’s former followers has rightly noted,<br />

of that guru’s restrictive community environment:<br />

Certainly all those brainwashing hours of chanting and<br />

meditation hadn’t been a worse way to spend my time than<br />

watching TV (K. Khalsa, 1994).<br />

Likewise, <strong>the</strong> fact that most ashrams provide only vegetarian<br />

food need not be brought up with any raised eyebrows. The present<br />

author, for one, has been vegetarian since age twenty. (See<br />

www.newveg.av.org, www.vegdining.com, www.foodrevolution.org,<br />

www.veg.ca, Lane [1993] and John Robbins’ [1987] Diet for a New<br />

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