So, yesterday, I was writing about how in the introduction to "Pathways to Bliss," Joseph says that you can really crack up if you hear that siren song. So, what do you do when you hear it?

Follow it. Duh.

In olden days (which are the days with which the book is primarily concerned) people had shamans to enact rituals and rites that would release the tension of the calling. Nowadays, we're not lucky enough to have traditions like those simply handed to us. But fortunately, we have the sum of all human knowledge at our fingertips, so when we're feeling tugged, we can go out and explore and find someone else's rituals that work for us.

Next time, I'll write a bit about the five sheaths of the atman, the body, as described in the Taittiriya Upanisad. Joseph felt it significant enough to mention in the introduction, so it must be really important.