And also:
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A sad replay of the whole Rajneesh shtick (and that of many others of course). For me this has to do with the wish to be in a state of hypnosis, to adorn teaching with ritual which induces and maintains a state outside of ordinary consciousness. The trouble is that this state really has nothing to do with clarity. Trance is not clarity, indeed it is usually the opposite; it is feel-good, entertainment. You may not like the normal state of the world, but that is what we have to work with. Dodging it, whether with drugs, drink, sex, gambling, spirituality or any other thing, is ultimately neither growth nor movement toward growth."
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A sad replay of the whole Rajneesh shtick (and that of many others of course). For me this has to do with the wish to be in a state of hypnosis, to adorn teaching with ritual which induces and maintains a state outside of ordinary consciousness. The trouble is that this state really has nothing to do with clarity. Trance is not clarity, indeed it is usually the opposite; it is feel-good, entertainment. You may not like the normal state of the world, but that is what we have to work with. Dodging it, whether with drugs, drink, sex, gambling, spirituality or any other thing, is ultimately neither growth nor movement toward growth."