It goes on about how they are not in a position to "endorse" any guests and encourage people to "discriminate carefully". What a load of horseshit.
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @Kalieezchild and
As a general rule, if you host a "spiritual" podcast and don't take careful steps to only promote genuine and qualified meditation teachers, you're not just spreading the dharma - you're also destroying it from the inside.
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @Kalieezchild and
How many spiritually naive people have stumbled across the podcast, looking for reliable and safe information about a practice that can dramatically transform the way their mind works, and how they perceive the world?
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @Kalieezchild and
These are a lot of the people that are likely to join a cult, or engage in harmful practices without proper guidance, or get seriously abused. Not everyone with a spiritual bent has the skepticism and critical thinking skills required to navigate the marketplace.
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @Kalieezchild and
To promote someone who claims to be able to hand out enlightenment if you become enslaved to his crazy new religion (one that somehow perfectly encapsulates the worst aspects of both eastern and western religions) is not just irresponsible but actively dangerous. What's going on?
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @Kalieezchild and
It’s also the case that teachers change. 10 years ago Bentinho seemed a relatively harmless neo-advaita teacher. His cultishness has escalated over the years. This isn’t a defense of Batgap it’s just a fact that people change and we have to evaluate things with time awareness.
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Replying to @VincentHorn @Failed_Buddhist and
there are really common recurring "red flags" though, aren't there? A pattern that I've noticed is that the more aggressively someone pushes an "I was a special child"/"I had a spiritual awakening at 14 years old" story the more likely they are to be a cult leader.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Failed_Buddhist and
Not sure. I hear that all the time. My first breakthrough was at 13 and I know several friends who had similar experiences, including my 1st teacher, Dan Ingram. That just seems like a normal time to get interested in deeper questions for many folks.
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Replying to @VincentHorn @Failed_Buddhist and
In a sense I can say mine was too, except the proximate result was about 12 years of hard atheism. It's not the presence of a spiritual event that's the red flag, it's the emphasizing of it as a sign of specialness.
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Replying to @danlistensto @Failed_Buddhist and
Gotcha, makes sense. I think you’re right. Sorry for jumping the gun on your post before fully groking your point.
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I'm glad you said what you did. It's very easy to slip into extremes, even when our intentions are moderate and well-meaning. Balance through open conversation is the only corrective mechanism for that.
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