Atta-dipa, thank you. Be Schofield is an excellent journalist and would be a good fit to write about Moo.
Zizlz, yes, I agree. I think transcendent experiences are very common and no big deal. I used to have them myself- spontaneously -and I still do, occasionally. While these expansive, peaceful and some might say 'enlightening' experiences are very beautiful, they are not enlightenment. They are just experiences.
Whether or not you can get them from listening to new age mumbo-jumbo - I really don't know! I suppose some people can.
But as I have said before, there is a lot more to spirituality than obtaining a blissed-out state. People are primarily attracted to Neo-Advaita because it looks like an easy path and offers some kind of pay-off without any effort. People really, desperately want some kind of 'enlightenment' without needing to bother with ethics and morality, which is a huge problem, too.
Every major world religion teaches us right from wrong. Even traditional Advaita Vendanta. Once you abandon morality, you are pretty much doomed.
Hence what we now see with old Moo.
Zizlz, yes, I agree. I think transcendent experiences are very common and no big deal. I used to have them myself- spontaneously -and I still do, occasionally. While these expansive, peaceful and some might say 'enlightening' experiences are very beautiful, they are not enlightenment. They are just experiences.
Whether or not you can get them from listening to new age mumbo-jumbo - I really don't know! I suppose some people can.
But as I have said before, there is a lot more to spirituality than obtaining a blissed-out state. People are primarily attracted to Neo-Advaita because it looks like an easy path and offers some kind of pay-off without any effort. People really, desperately want some kind of 'enlightenment' without needing to bother with ethics and morality, which is a huge problem, too.
Every major world religion teaches us right from wrong. Even traditional Advaita Vendanta. Once you abandon morality, you are pretty much doomed.
Hence what we now see with old Moo.