Weinberg on Buddhism, from Darwiniana

As we expose the Gurdjieff game it is also true that we ought to be wary of reductionist explanations of people’s ’spiritual’ experiences, granting that the term ’spiritual’ is highly problematic. (Actually the irony is that the disguised and purloined Samkhya in the Ouspensky system is a classic solution to the problem as it avers strict ‘materialism from low to high). The experience that Ouspensky describes of ’self-remembering’ seems ... more

Wikipedia on Twitchell , note the criticisms of David Lane. ... more

I am putting this comment up for a post, since I would certainly toss in the towel on the accuracy of Rawlinson./nemo/nemini Willow: Hello Nemo, All very interesting but not accurate as with many sholarly type texts, they are often copied from other inaccurate sources but accepted as gospel by accademia or whoever. I will give you an example of how grossly inaccurate part of this text is. An example of this is the text mentions Paul Twitchell the founder of Eckankar as passing someone ... more

I need to upgrade the /gmancon series, which I wrote in one day just to get it on paper, and one aspect of that set of essays that might be of interest is the treatment of the eonic effect. Here’s a short selection from World History And The Eonic Effect from Darwiniana. Rhyme and Reason One of the great confusions of the modern New Age movement is the quest for the ‘New Age’ beyond mdoernity, an age that doesn’t exist. The arrogance of the many gurus is consid... more