Looking through my journal from the yoga retreat I found some sweet gems uttered by other yogis. Do I hear bumper stickers? Do I hear slogans for the new millennium?

Perry said:

“psycho-degradable”

to infer discarding mental and emotional clutter in order to make space for supportive mental and emotional states. The released psycho-degradable clutter goes out into the universe, breaks down into its component parts and then is free to re-combine into new forms.

Now that I’m back online after aforementioned yoga retreat, I’ve done a comprehensive search (assuming that perusing page 1 of Google search constitutes a “comprehensive search”) to see if the term has already been widely used in circulation.

There was one web reference of the words used in this order including hyphen attributed to Julien Cracq (there was a pdf document also attributed to Julien which I may check out later–no promises):

Contradiction d’un systeme qui n’est ja- mais clos, ouI le film, selon Julien Cracq, est “non psycho-degradable” (117), mais ouI le critique “encercle” le …

roughly translated by yours truly to mean: “Contradiction of a system that’s never closed, whereas the film, according to Julien Cracq, is “not psycho-degradable”, but whereas the critique “encircles” the …”

which I take to mean the same thing as I wrote above. Sadly, I couldn’t get more of the context of the writer’s meaning because I don’t have 5 cyber-bucks available to pay JSTOR to access the full article. This was my first visit to JSTOR and wondered what the name stood for. The closest I could find was:

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible.

Interesting resource. Though the explanation of the name could be more clear, in my humble opinion. I’ll guess that JSTOR stands for “Journal Store”. Maybe I’ll submit my yoga retreat journal to them to add to their scholarly submissions on psycho-degradable contemplations.