It seems from the beginning of its widespread recognition as a movement, the major criticism of Occupy Wall Street and its worldwide partner movements has been that the message isn't clear or cohesive. For me, that has been its biggest selling point.

Mainly because, if someone asked me to explain in five sentences why I love yoga, what it does for me and why I keep coming back to it, not only could I never articulate the true essence of its significance in my life, but I would also be quite lucky if I could even find five statements that would resonate with more than a small percentage of those who also love and believe in the yoga philosophy. Yes, 100% of yogis love yoga, but could we all say why in the exact same way? Could any one of us say it in a sound bite, or sum it up on a sign?

So, while statements like "End corporate greed" or "we are the 99%" do little in the way of demands or concrete details, they work very well in their own way by reaching out to the points of consensus among us and articulating people's discontent, at the same time encouraging them to explore the reasons for that discontent and possible solutions to that discontent for themselves.

Instead of dividing us all with empty sound bites, this movement encourages dialog, and that is what is so beautiful about what is happening all over the country and all over the world right now. The questions it poses have led me to a deeper exploration of my own feelings. Why am I discontent with the current state of America and the world? What would have to change for me to feel good about it again?

For myself, and myself only, not necessarily for others who are supporting or a part of this movement, and certainly not on behalf of those who own this website, one of the best answers to my discontent is, simply, corporatism.

This word is defined as the control of the state or organization by large interest groups, but a better definition is the control of the state by large, monied interest groups.

I feel, innately, that my country and the world is becoming more and more in the hands of a few; a few who drive policy, fund elections, and promote wars, poverty, and environmental degradation for profit. Money, a rather cold and unreasonable master, is becoming the only source of power. It is becoming the means and the ends for our entire lives.

The results, just in terms of most human beings, are devastating to say the least. In the United States, we have people dying from lack of proper health care, as well as people being kicked out of their homes, or denied the possibility of ever owning a home at all. We are a nation of debt. Our citizens have personal debt, and our country has a growing national debt. And things haven't even gotten that bad here, yet.

If we look at other nations, Greece, for instance, and it's soaring debt, we see a good picture of what may eventually happen to us, or what is, on a smaller scale, happening to us, already. People are losing their benefits, their living standards and their shared natural resources in the name of national debt. Despite protests and calls for a new way forward, the people are being silenced with tear gas in their own streets.

And this is in a first world nation. What about places like Haiti, or any other poor nation whose massive national debt is being held over its head as a way to drive down or freeze wages, strip the people of their power, and install a cheap corporate labor force? We have to stop this from happening to the United States, and keep it from continuing in other countries, and the only way to do it is to make sweeping changes to our entire society which reorganize our most basic priorities.

Certainly, this is nothing that could be said on a Wall Street sign and resonate with everyone, but, for me, it is the truth. We can't believe that electing a new president is going to do it. We have to go back to our constitution, we have to strip corporations of personhood, increase the rights and privacy of real people, and install a government that will protect those rights and defend the people. We have to change our economy, overturn our banking systems and declare all people and nations debt free.

Why debt free? Because debt is slavery. Debt for a nation means it sells its own richness and natural resources to pay interest on something that is too big to ever pay down. It means people can be collectively made poor, marginalized and exploited, simply for the crime of being born into a debt-ridden society. Debt is a vice used by those who want power, and, without it, and only without it, can all human beings finally be free.

For me, a truly free world is the only world that could really be compatible with Yogic Philosophy or any humane philosophy, religious or otherwise, because it is on the side of human justice.

You see, as a yogi, I know that money and profit are themselves illusions, and that money is only real as long as we as a society choose to believe in its value. The same can be said for debt or any societal norm.

So, when I think of the way my country and my fellow human beings all over the world suffer, die, fight, kill, and lie for money, I can't help but feel I am living in an insane society, driven by insane collective delusions, and perpetuating its own demise. This is a nightmare, I think, and I just want to wake up.

We can wake up, or rather, we can choose our illusions. We can change the story we tell ourselves about all things; money, debt, what our country stands for or should stand for, and even what it means to be human and what rights inherently come with that.

Yes, we can also keep the illusion that corporations are people, that holding other nations hostage, or being held hostage ourselves, to debt is okay, that money is all-important and there is no other system than the one we have, but, it seems to me, more and more people are rejecting that old lie.

We want a new story, a new way to define ourselves, live, and relate to our world, one which resonates with the budding awareness that we are interconnected, powerful beings, collectively shaping our realities, and that, more than cheap goods and corporate jobs, all of us long for the same, fundamental things: the freedom, peace, love, and justice which constitute a good life for all.

We know, really, that family, connection, and feeling a part of our natural world are the true mechanisms of human happiness. We are weary of war, dogma, pollution, exploitation, and the futile seeking of stuff in the pursuit of our elusive "self." We are beginning to find ourselves in the stillness instead, and, as we do, our collective voices call louder and louder for a new, better chapter in human existence.

This is why I stand with those occupying all over the world against corporatism, because, as a yogi, as a human, as an American, I realize that I cannot in good conscience support a way of life for myself that I don't wish for all people, everywhere, or which harms other life, destroys the air or water, or which silences the majority for the benefit of a few.

Nor can I watch my fellow citizens be stripped of benefits, wages, and bargaining rights, or ejected from houses that then sit empty, or stand in lines at the unemployment offices and soup kitchens of the nation, and say nothing. I know that whatever I allow to happen to them, I declare good enough for myself, also.

I want a good life, and I want others to have the same, and I believe, no matter how it is articulated, or whether or not it can be put into a media-friendly catch phrase, that the same simple hope for the world is at the core of this amazing movement.