If you had that relaxation experience with Moo's videos, and found yourself wanting to isolate with them to the exclusion of outside friendships and tasks, be careful.
If just his videos had that effect on you, living in his ashram, with higher doses of this stuff, the days arranged around Moo, people obsessed with Moo -- you'd likely be yet more affected.
And, here is a selection bias at work.
Who is likely to spend the money to go to Moo's ashram if only for a brief visit?
Those persons who felt affected by Moo's videos. Persons skeptical, disgusted or not interested after watching his videos are less likely to go to his ashram.
Result: the crowd which assembles at the Moo ashram is not neurologically diverse. That crowd is a self selected assembly of persons less likely to be skeptical, more likely to be biased to adore.
Perhaps some in the crowd are skeptical but I suspect far fewer than for a crowd
at a Moo satsang in London.
Think too of the situation in Tiruvannamalai (Tiru) where Moo grew his fame.
He was playing to a pre selected audience.
For who is likely to spend money to go to India, then spend more money and take the time to go to Tiru when they could go to all the other places in India?
The ones likely to go to Tiru are persons with some curiosity about Ramana Maharshi, or who are in the company of travelers with an interest in Ramana Maharshi, which means they are persons who are not bored or annoyed with
non dual chit chat.
So this means that persons likely to check out the satsang scene in Tiru would have been persons interested or at least curious.
A safe audience for any ambitious person seeking to grow a circle of disciples. They're already there because of Ramana Maharshi. They hear chatter about other
satsang teachers in the vicinity.
Persons bored or skeptical of that sort of thing are less likely to attend satsangs.
Those predisposed for recruitment are likely to go to satsangs.
Also there's a small set of stories that are used in guru talk and have
been used for centuries.
Now these are routinely used by the Western born commercial teachers.
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If just his videos had that effect on you, living in his ashram, with higher doses of this stuff, the days arranged around Moo, people obsessed with Moo -- you'd likely be yet more affected.
And, here is a selection bias at work.
Who is likely to spend the money to go to Moo's ashram if only for a brief visit?
Those persons who felt affected by Moo's videos. Persons skeptical, disgusted or not interested after watching his videos are less likely to go to his ashram.
Result: the crowd which assembles at the Moo ashram is not neurologically diverse. That crowd is a self selected assembly of persons less likely to be skeptical, more likely to be biased to adore.
Perhaps some in the crowd are skeptical but I suspect far fewer than for a crowd
at a Moo satsang in London.
Think too of the situation in Tiruvannamalai (Tiru) where Moo grew his fame.
He was playing to a pre selected audience.
For who is likely to spend money to go to India, then spend more money and take the time to go to Tiru when they could go to all the other places in India?
The ones likely to go to Tiru are persons with some curiosity about Ramana Maharshi, or who are in the company of travelers with an interest in Ramana Maharshi, which means they are persons who are not bored or annoyed with
non dual chit chat.
So this means that persons likely to check out the satsang scene in Tiru would have been persons interested or at least curious.
A safe audience for any ambitious person seeking to grow a circle of disciples. They're already there because of Ramana Maharshi. They hear chatter about other
satsang teachers in the vicinity.
Persons bored or skeptical of that sort of thing are less likely to attend satsangs.
Those predisposed for recruitment are likely to go to satsangs.
Also there's a small set of stories that are used in guru talk and have
been used for centuries.
Now these are routinely used by the Western born commercial teachers.
[forum.culteducation.com]