On Dec 30, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Buck wrote:
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> people remain
> mired in a view of the world that is deeply irrational and
> objectively false.
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> Nanda Meera
> Prophets Facing Backward
>
Well, that's certainly a point of view from Nanda'a simple lack of
spiritual experience, just arguing with the progress of the new
age. He and intellectuals like him should come and sit in Fairfield
for a while now, then they'd know.
She. Sorry I mis-pasted that, it's actually "Meera Nanda". Meera is
already very familiar with both the TM movement, Indian traditions
and New Age movements.
Jai the SatGurus, who have come forward as prophets,
Since sat gurus would generally believe in sanatana-dharma, eternal
dharma, they would be considered "prophets who look backwards" in
Nanda's formulation as they fall for the lie of permanence:
permanent, eternal laws of nature; the laws of Manu.
Marshy himself would be an almost archetypal instance of a prophet
who looked backwards, but we saw it as a "looking forward". And until
that spell is broken, we continue to "believe the lie". It's only
typically when we step into the larger context of Hindutva that we
can see that Maharishi Vedic Science is simply Vedic Creationism and
really not that different from fundamentalist beliefs seen in our own
country.
