The thing about being a guru is that gurus can, through the guru role itself and their own social skills, and business savvy, assemble large numbers of obedient persons to gather in one locale focus all attention on the guru and behave cooperatively in ways that liberate large quantities of emotional energy into the atmosphere, an energy donation the guru claims to own but has
merely elicited and then bounced back toward the audience.
Only war leaders, sports teams, successful political organizers and rock stars are capable of assembling similar pools of human energy donors. Ditto for organizers of the hooligan mobs.
Guruing is a business model and it is similataneously a social technique for creating scenarios designed to recruit and assemble energy donors, then get them to discharde their emotional and physicial energy in a coordinated manner. It is not for nothing that athletes refer to the home field advantage.
Uncanny and remarkable emotional events and even visions are unleased in these types of social environments.
Rock stars have told many a time how they themselves go into a special zone when they pick up an audience's energy, such as AngusYoung of AC/DC. He's full of aches and pains, been so for years. But when he encounters that energy pool created by his fans massed in a stadium, Angus becomes the Viking Berzerker, dancing in ways beyond what most teenagers can do.
But, Angus and the men of AC/DC do not tell us they have a pathway to the divine. AC/DC does not tell you that that you're needy, inferior to them.
They leave us invigorated and we go home with that extra energy from them, while AC DC has earned a living and gained new insights from us.
It is a fair exchange. No one is drained white and thrown away.
To the energy gurus out there:
You want energy donation from us, you need to give a fair mutually recognized exchange. You need us.
That is how the world wags.
(Somber) Thirty years ago, a nurse told me that many patients with leukemias
and chronic anemias looked to be in glowing health, with rosy complexions.
The truth was, those patients would have been ghastly pale but were kept going because received frequent transfusions of blood from healthy donors
The roses in their cheeks were not their own but borrowed from their blood donors.
It was a balanced exchange. The blood was donated consensually, one pint at a time. A multitude of donors provided what was needed. The blood was paid for by NHS or privately, or given by family and friends who were volunteers. The donation process was designed so that no one donor was debilitated.
Donors were given aftercare - replenishing drinks and food and monitored
to ensure they could get home safely - rather than being bled white then kicked
off the table, left to struggle home alone and forbidden to whinge.
Will a shakti or tantric guru treat you with the same candor and care as blood donors are given, eh?
How do we know that a shakti guru is actually in blooming health that is his or her own?
The recruiters are usually bubbly and happy. They'd scare people away if they were traumatized wrecks. We trust people who are energized, happy and give a guru the credit for it.
But what if a guru is just an ordinary bloke who blazes with vitality not because that guru is adept at energy cultivation but expert at energy appropriation?
It is like seeing someone in peers robes and coronet. Does the person actually own the garb free and clear, own his or her estates free and clear? Or has the person merely rented all this plumage from Moss Bros costumers?
Expert at recruitment of others who believe the eager reports that the guru will teach them energy cultivation but actually wants them as mere donors.
And, what if the guru who claims to teach energy cultivation, who glows as he or she says so, is actually secretly a chronic invalid who needs vast quantities of vitality from very many donors -- and has kicked a multitude of previous donors to the curb after they've been scared and depleted.
How many would keep company with such a guru if they knew how many others
had been sent away, pale, shaking, chilled to the bone? The recruiters who sing the guru's praises will look happy and healthy. You trust them because you're not paranoid and because you have not yet been scammed by life.
Your recruiter does not know that he or she may later join the ranks of those whom the guru has blend and discarded.
Soooo....when deciding whether to entrust ourselves to an energy guru, we need to keep in mind that we are energy donors and **already have something of value.**
We have love, trust, and if young, the freshness that comes with curiosity and innocence. These are precious. And, sad to say, many of us when young do not realize the extent to which we are wealthy. We are so easily scammed by jaded, greedy types who have cultivated charisma and social charm so as to conceal an inner wretchedness.
Types like this need our energy, need it in such proportions that they cannot
pay for it. Instead they trick us to believe that we are lacking and they have what we need.
Based on what your disciples tell us when we are newly arrived, we see their vitality and trust that you will energize us -- that we will be SHARING our surplus energy with what you claim as your surplus energy.
We trust, based on what you look like, based on your energy display, that you yourself are eager to share your surplus with our surplus.
'
We trust based on what you and your disciples tell us, that you are healthy, not that you are secretly suffering from a chronic anemia and that we will be drained to debilitation so that you can be given the appearance
superior health and attract yet more healthy donors after we have been sent away, pale tottering.
merely elicited and then bounced back toward the audience.
Only war leaders, sports teams, successful political organizers and rock stars are capable of assembling similar pools of human energy donors. Ditto for organizers of the hooligan mobs.
Guruing is a business model and it is similataneously a social technique for creating scenarios designed to recruit and assemble energy donors, then get them to discharde their emotional and physicial energy in a coordinated manner. It is not for nothing that athletes refer to the home field advantage.
Uncanny and remarkable emotional events and even visions are unleased in these types of social environments.
Rock stars have told many a time how they themselves go into a special zone when they pick up an audience's energy, such as AngusYoung of AC/DC. He's full of aches and pains, been so for years. But when he encounters that energy pool created by his fans massed in a stadium, Angus becomes the Viking Berzerker, dancing in ways beyond what most teenagers can do.
But, Angus and the men of AC/DC do not tell us they have a pathway to the divine. AC/DC does not tell you that that you're needy, inferior to them.
They leave us invigorated and we go home with that extra energy from them, while AC DC has earned a living and gained new insights from us.
It is a fair exchange. No one is drained white and thrown away.
To the energy gurus out there:
You want energy donation from us, you need to give a fair mutually recognized exchange. You need us.
That is how the world wags.
(Somber) Thirty years ago, a nurse told me that many patients with leukemias
and chronic anemias looked to be in glowing health, with rosy complexions.
The truth was, those patients would have been ghastly pale but were kept going because received frequent transfusions of blood from healthy donors
The roses in their cheeks were not their own but borrowed from their blood donors.
It was a balanced exchange. The blood was donated consensually, one pint at a time. A multitude of donors provided what was needed. The blood was paid for by NHS or privately, or given by family and friends who were volunteers. The donation process was designed so that no one donor was debilitated.
Donors were given aftercare - replenishing drinks and food and monitored
to ensure they could get home safely - rather than being bled white then kicked
off the table, left to struggle home alone and forbidden to whinge.
Will a shakti or tantric guru treat you with the same candor and care as blood donors are given, eh?
How do we know that a shakti guru is actually in blooming health that is his or her own?
The recruiters are usually bubbly and happy. They'd scare people away if they were traumatized wrecks. We trust people who are energized, happy and give a guru the credit for it.
But what if a guru is just an ordinary bloke who blazes with vitality not because that guru is adept at energy cultivation but expert at energy appropriation?
It is like seeing someone in peers robes and coronet. Does the person actually own the garb free and clear, own his or her estates free and clear? Or has the person merely rented all this plumage from Moss Bros costumers?
Expert at recruitment of others who believe the eager reports that the guru will teach them energy cultivation but actually wants them as mere donors.
And, what if the guru who claims to teach energy cultivation, who glows as he or she says so, is actually secretly a chronic invalid who needs vast quantities of vitality from very many donors -- and has kicked a multitude of previous donors to the curb after they've been scared and depleted.
How many would keep company with such a guru if they knew how many others
had been sent away, pale, shaking, chilled to the bone? The recruiters who sing the guru's praises will look happy and healthy. You trust them because you're not paranoid and because you have not yet been scammed by life.
Your recruiter does not know that he or she may later join the ranks of those whom the guru has blend and discarded.
Soooo....when deciding whether to entrust ourselves to an energy guru, we need to keep in mind that we are energy donors and **already have something of value.**
We have love, trust, and if young, the freshness that comes with curiosity and innocence. These are precious. And, sad to say, many of us when young do not realize the extent to which we are wealthy. We are so easily scammed by jaded, greedy types who have cultivated charisma and social charm so as to conceal an inner wretchedness.
Types like this need our energy, need it in such proportions that they cannot
pay for it. Instead they trick us to believe that we are lacking and they have what we need.
Based on what your disciples tell us when we are newly arrived, we see their vitality and trust that you will energize us -- that we will be SHARING our surplus energy with what you claim as your surplus energy.
We trust, based on what you look like, based on your energy display, that you yourself are eager to share your surplus with our surplus.
'
We trust based on what you and your disciples tell us, that you are healthy, not that you are secretly suffering from a chronic anemia and that we will be drained to debilitation so that you can be given the appearance
superior health and attract yet more healthy donors after we have been sent away, pale tottering.