I wrote this unlikely essay on Simone Weil for the final issue of Canadian spiritual journal Ascent.  The essay tries to join the dots between Weil's little-known interest in yoga and Classical Indian philosophy, the idea of "decreation" which she developed around the same time, and the bursting of the current economic bubble.  Ascent was a unique magazine which supported a lot of interesting writing about spirituality in a contemporary context, and it will be greatly missed.