I recently attended a workshop on the history of yoga and the evolution of Tantric thought, led by Sanskrit scholar Christopher Hareesh Wallis (http://mattamayura.org/). As I listened to stories about The Buddha, and anecdotes from enlightened beings, as we chanted mantras with Hareesh whose radiance amplified perceptibly while he sang, I found myself desperately seeking that inner voice that would silence my skeptical leanings. Part of me accepts that, as Hareesh pointed out, the limited self that we are conditioned to believe in is simply that: conditioning. In fact, many of our deepest experiences, centuries of yogic revelation...