I’ve found the curation at @batgap to be atrocious. They got a few right, but many more—especially @BentinhoMassaro—have been disasters.
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Replying to @Kalieezchild @BuddhistGeeks and
Wow, I was not aware he was on there. That's a straight up cult leader. The episode appears to have been taken down, and the batgap website has a page stating that some interviews have been removed because someone pointed out that they were platforming some crazies.
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @Kalieezchild and
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 really not always so cut and dry, though basic discrimination goes a long way. As does avoiding the extreme of becoming a part of the righteous moral police, thinking we’re somehow above or beyond these things. People who believe that are usually in for a rude awakening IME.
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Replying to @VincentHorn @Kalieezchild and
You make some really good points. My intention wasn't to start an anti-guru crusade, and I wasn't specifically calling out batgap. I was just trying to point out the dangers of creating a spiritual circus without recognizing that this is very fragile territory.
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Replying to @Failed_Buddhist @Kalieezchild and
No, I don’t see you being an anti-guru at all. You’re just raising concerns.
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I created a thread to clarify that neither absolute anti-guruism nor absolute spiritual anarchy is the right way to go.https://twitter.com/Failed_Buddhist/status/976195867995713537 …
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