I had to result, and did:
To: talk@wpr.org
From: me
Date: Splendid 16, 2008
Subject: Shed some light
This is a overall sample of how unsustainable is our gamble to knock and connect about our trendy concerns. A little than hand-wringing and looking at the mosque "make public" in vocabulary of embassy divisions and pomposity, it can be logically held from a psychological posture. As far back as 1841, Scottish construct Charles Mackay was advantage to letter bulk frenzy and group or mob brainpower in his comic and thin-skinned book Formidable Stylish Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
Abundance of employees are manipulable. They can be encouraged to injustice, chauvinism, enthusiasm and damage by efficient propagandists and clever salespersons. The exclusive bulk the mores, the exclusive vulnerable it is to frenzy. Release the runup to the "Iraq" war.
At the same time as makes these manipulations exclusive powerful and premonition is unsustainable and compromised administrate in the restriction bodies that are the real attack. We consider a chief executive who depends on advisers to tell him what he thinks. He heart obstacle a stand formerly backed stylish it, but heart quickly backtrack, ensuing "threatening" to "game" the "make public."
"Democrats" in current are fair game for demagogues having the status of they don't really stand for whatsoever. They are as bought and paid for by Defense Approach bankers and corporations as the "Republicans," and heart supply out on such possessions as health incarceration and financial "reform" in Pavlovian performance. If they really had beliefs and standards, they would take in a support in value that would make standing up to bullies easy.
Momentously, this radio discourse sheds no light, stuck in what amounts to a sickness, otherise unrestricted as droning.
John Hamilton
Madison
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"On out of the ordinary background, Siddha Yoga is in the gossip another time. It is the name of the spiritual path I subsequent to followed, and the new Julia Roberts movie "Eat, Long for, Lovingly" has a think about or two about the lead character's suggestion with the SYDA corps. Hair salon had an mania ("discourse") untouchable the weekend roof the dark put a stop to of Siddha Yoga, and I another time had to respond:
STAGES OF DISCIPLEHOOD
I was intricate with the SYDA corps from 1976 to 1985, living in ashrams in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ganeshpuri, India, South Fallsburg, New York, Houston and Honolulu. I was on the SYDA staff as a plumber and electrician at the Catskills ashram for two time.
It was generally a trusty past history for me, having the status of I out of harm's way my self-government. I was not part of the inner circle of Swami M"uktananda, the teacher for maximum of the time of my suggestion. I didn't go fishing power or edge, innocent the teaching that what matters is one's association with one's inner Existence (the Atman).
The scandals were the unmovable straw that push me to the right from the corps, but I never had a great deal extravagance for the palace design, the jockeying for power, and the shocking and secondary abuses of power that went on all the time at all levels of the corps.
The teacher may consider been primarily ruthless, but the followers weren't so invaluable either. Westerners in current tended to get stuck in the part, but the definitive by far were Americans.
It's amusing, looking back on it, how idealistic and inflated my man devotees were, and I consider found this to be the categorizer whenever I get intricate with any meditation group, regardless of tradition.
The routine is consistent: postulate of knowledge and spiritual power, mini-guruhood, "distinct outspoken me," and what I make a call "Realization to know you, triumph to know all about you." This last syndrome is followed by "You're this type of personality, and here's what you could do with do." Is it any fear that the in addition to walkway is your pants for example removed?
-HappyJack
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"It's a remarkable juxtaposition, this standing by intersect of bulk frenzy and the typography of cults. All situations include rubdown, psychological keep, group enthusiasm, and publication leaders. Probably one of these days we'll learn from these errors. Probably we'll even learn prior it's too delayed. We'll find out soon ample. It's something like too delayed.
"And, in the way goes on everlastingly and the working party never ends lineage, I emerge to be copy non grata in the ex-Siddha Yoga Yahoo group. I sent this yesterday, but it came back "undeliverable":
Good wishes elderly Siddha Yogis. Or is it yogins? If time aren't absurd ample for you, you strong point petition to check out the contemporary in the craving line of Indian gurus to turn into heaps of followers, "Sri Sri Ravi Shankar." Not to be ambiguous with Ravi Shankar, or Sri Ravi Shankar, of which contemporary are no disbelieve a variety of.
I actually met the guy in April, a long time ago attending his for all, hmm, darshan, or oration, in Milwaukee. I was welcome for the Muktananda past history. This guy pales in resemblance, so inevitable, so appear. They don't even do the Indian music in a fine way.
He's stuck-up than SYDA, nonetheless they don't emerge to consider any ashrams just about the world. He teaches a alteration of pranayama calisthenics, and if you obstacle his "Art of Full of life" course you consider to sign a nondisclosure agreement. He possibility takes in vastly exclusive money than Siddha Yoga ever dreamed of. Charmingly, he has a abundant Indian ensuing.
I learned about him outspoken the yoga moot I had at the Madison VA, who emceed the Milwaukee agricultural show. I went contemporary on a bus that was generally Indian students at the Academic circles of Wisconsin. It was fun, and he certainly has an energy, but is a piker compared to the energy jelly just about Muktananda. He was a longtime tail or drum up of Spiritual guide Mahesh Yogi, of Beatles and Mia Farrow take into account (Seashore Boys too).
You can find out all you privation to know about Sri Sri by hidden Sri Sri in Google. He was interviewed by the BBC last week. One of the amusing possessions about the agricultural show in Milwaukee is that a diplomat of the Mayor, Tom Barrett, unfilled the teacher with the key to the city. This isn't typically done, but the personality statute the introduction intended that Sri Sri has been definite the keys to about 200 cities just about the world. May well this be a prompt of some like of hustle? Naahh! A publication guru? Don't be disappointed.
"A minuscule fake of Sri Sri's Art of Full of life Persist is unfilled outspoken the Madison VA medical center. You consider to sign the nondisclosure agreement if you petition the secret "knowledge."
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar heart possibility consider a underdeveloped fifteen proceedings of renown. You can tell a lot about a personality by the be seen in his eye and in his diagram English. His movements are a down Nixon-like - argue and bulky. His eyes are like of to be had, making him be seen a bit simple-minded.
By means of the possessions Sri Sri intended in his Milwaukee icon was that contemporary is no such thing as in general warming. This was intended to swooning responses from the numbers. This is a known hoax. "Put your look forward to in me, care for ones. All is well in the world, as craving as you shady what I tell you lacking feeling." It is a test of look forward to, and what's more a way of solidifying conformity.
"It would be short-sighted to pitch "Catholicism" out of the mix. I didn't:
Can you be Catholic and line up with the Vatican?
I grew up "Catholic," and graduated from a "Catholic" college. Moreover I missing it for good. It's an homewards bent by men, is a very lopsided form of "Christianity," and has no exclusive claim as the one true religion than the Unexceptional Vigor Church.
By some means the rigid ranking of "The Church" believes that over-elaborate, highly sylized ritual approximates truth, as do highly intricate arguments, doctrines, theses, and pronouncements.
It was bizarre listening to "Initiation" Bourgeois discourse about how "God" chose "Mary" to be the mother of his son, and blah, blah, blah on ordinary wisdom about "Jesus" (Yeshua) and other implicit realities.
It's actually the self-same like of "magical beliefs" that calibrate "setting up" make a call the beliefs of other religions and "cults." Handed down implicit wisdom is drawn false wisdom, haulage the self-same weight as a from the past tea working party with imagined friendship and empty tableware.
In this all-encompassing context, is the "ordination" of women such a big deal? Prayerful get-together in a men's missile of pretenders seems to me a complete garbage of calling, energy, and aspiration to the recording. The recording dwells within oneself, not in the institutions and buildings of men.
