--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Geezer, > > This is one of the most dubious of the grandiose claims made by > MMY. I would have thought that by now his "I am number one" > bravado would have soured a bit for the adults in the movement. > It was more understandable when we were all very young. It implies > a lot of knowledge about other spiritual movements and the states > of consciousness they are achieving that would be impossible. For > all we know any one of the many spiritual movements around the > world could be popping out people in UC like a Chinese sweatshop > filling a Wallmart order. This kind of spiritual oneupmanship > certainly isn't restricted to MMY's tiny group. Think of the > spiritual arrogance at the basis of huge factions of Christianity > believing that they alone will go to heaven while people believing > a slightly different version of the same myth will suffer in hell > for their lack of growing up in the "right" version. > > But they all fall in the category of pretending to "know" things > that you couldn't possibly know. It is a self inflation of value > relegating poor Yogananda to fluffer status in this spiritual > regeneration skin flick.
Not to mention relegating those who believe it to the level of a guy sitting in a porn theater jacking off to a porn movie, when it would have been so much easier just to get laid.
