Thanks again, Corboy.
What you say: "the crowd assembled around Moo are not neurologically diverse." That gave me a good giggle.... Because, no, most of these people are as mad as hatters! But they are very sincere, genuine people who earnestly seek some kind of meaning in life. This makes them vulnerable to exploitation.
I was one of these people! I was slightly mad, I guess, at the time I got into Sri Moo Baba Poo-Head.
The metaphorical stories that you mentioned:
Yep, Old Moo uses one of these... a variation of the dog and bone story. He talks about suffering being the ceasation of desire. He even says he got the story from his own teacher- Papaji.
It's interesting that there are a lot of metaphors in the bible, too. So people can read whatever they like into these stories. These stories are "user friendly" and so they have survived all this time.
Critical thinking:
Yeah, any kind of mystical tradition side-swipes critical thinking in a big way. Then they present this as a good thing.... like its special or something. But it isn't special, it's just a fast track to lunacy.... if you don't also engage critical thinking in your regular life, 98% of the time.
What you say: "the crowd assembled around Moo are not neurologically diverse." That gave me a good giggle.... Because, no, most of these people are as mad as hatters! But they are very sincere, genuine people who earnestly seek some kind of meaning in life. This makes them vulnerable to exploitation.
I was one of these people! I was slightly mad, I guess, at the time I got into Sri Moo Baba Poo-Head.
The metaphorical stories that you mentioned:
Yep, Old Moo uses one of these... a variation of the dog and bone story. He talks about suffering being the ceasation of desire. He even says he got the story from his own teacher- Papaji.
It's interesting that there are a lot of metaphors in the bible, too. So people can read whatever they like into these stories. These stories are "user friendly" and so they have survived all this time.
Critical thinking:
Yeah, any kind of mystical tradition side-swipes critical thinking in a big way. Then they present this as a good thing.... like its special or something. But it isn't special, it's just a fast track to lunacy.... if you don't also engage critical thinking in your regular life, 98% of the time.