In the East, they would probably establish authority by slapping you when you’re out of line.
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That was tried that with me. Just annoyed me really.
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For some devotees, it makes them even more convicted in justifying their beliefs since they’re now investing more into it by enduring physical abuse. The more they get smacked around, the more they have to convince themselves their leaders are legit. The other option would be to admit to themselves that they have been fooled and all they invested was worth nothing. These charlatans are smart. They know what type of approach to take with different people, and who they should just let go when they can’t milk anymore out of them.
I’ll tell y’all how to spot scams. It’s really incredibly easy.
If someone tells you the East is “mystical”, and uses words like “spiritual”, it’s a scam. Asians aren’t spiritual people. We are superstitous people. Other than that, we are more or less like you. Never in my life have I met an Indian who does yoga other than in a fitness and recreational chain. The guys are probably just there to look at chicks in yoga pants.
It’s like a lot of things - the more you have invested, the less circumspect you are. It’s like Reiki. Pay $100, lay on a table with soothing music, soft candles, incense, and nap for an hour, you’re going to feel better, and since you paid $100, you’re going to justify it by saying how great it was.
FWIW, I do believe in Reiki (am trained in it as well).
So this actually confuses me because the Kundalini legend is that yoga was stripped of it’s spiritual component when it came to the west, it was made palatable to Americans as exercise rather than some woo woo shit. Of course, we have already established that Kundalini is a scam, so that point is bogus.
However, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda speaks a great deal about enlightenment - not necessarily spirituality - and he, of course, was from India. I think enlightenment may be different than what you refer to as spirituality.
Yogananda made a lot of sense to me, and correlates much of the Christian Bible to Hinduism. The seven churches in Revelations representing the seven chakras, the crown chakra representing Christ consciousness, which is the only way to heaven/enlightenment.
I have no doubt that your representations are accurate, but wonder how it squares with Yogananda’s ideas.
Come on, we’ve gone through this so many times. Asians worship deities to score points for the afterlife or get shit we want through divine intervention in this life. That’s it. We are no different from Christians in the West. No one gives a flying fuck about the metaphysical and philosophical shit.
How about some Sikh jokes instead?
What do you call a Sikh in a swimming pool?
Kuldip Singh!
What do you call a baby Sikh?
A Singh-let!
What do you call a Sikh who abuses his spouse?
Rotten to the Kaur!
What sound do you hear when a Sikh starts a motorcycle?
“Turban, Turban, Turban!”
Sikhs over here LOVE telling Sikh jokes.
Did you meet any hot womenz? Sounds like the odds were in your favor. All that chanting, staring, hand holding and vegan eating, should make them want some meat.
Do you believe in predicting the future?
My mom hired a Chinese psychic of sorts and he made some pretty creepily true preditions based only on my family members’ name and birthdays
- He specifically warned me to watch out for my kidney health- found out I had severe hydronephrosis a month later despite feeling no symptoms
- He predicted my dad’s company would do particularly well in June- his company just got approved to go public in 2020
- He predicted that I would go onto study a more “logical” field rather than the humanities- Despite applying and saying I’d major in Russian studies for the past 4 years, I’m going to study Behavioral Economics at CMU, the only school where I didn’t plan on taking a pure humanities path
What do you make of this?
Lol - sounds like some woo woo shit.
My ex mother-in-law hired a psychic for a party one time, set her up in a private room and whoever wanted could see her for $15 for ten minutes.
When I walked in she said I was a fireman (no), cop? Again no. Then, teacher (yes). I thought that was pretty good. Later I realized I live on Long Island and those three jobs cover about 90% of the population.
Then she told me I had a brother that had passed (true), and that his name was Jon (also true), and that he was still with me (I feel his presence). She told me some other stuff that I thought was pretty accurate at the time. So, I don’t know what to make of it.
Numbers two and three of your reading are pretty general and could be interpreted many ways, a classic trick of psychics. It’s either legit, or it’s a great parlor trick.
Some of the eastern mystics believe in a thing called Akashic records. I’mt writing this from memory so it is probably wildly inaccurate. Anyway, the concept is that time isn’t linear so everything that has happened to you and everything that is going to happen to you has already happened and that the records are stored on another plane. People that are enlightened and able to travel on other planes are supposedly able to access your akashic records on this other plane.
Ram Das wrote about yogis in India that were able to do this. I’m not sure if it was specifically akashic records, but they were able to know him without knowing him. But, he was also on a lot of acid at the time, so…
The easy answer is no, I don’t believe in the future because I don’t believe time is linear.
Pretty worthless answer, #amiright?
I suspect our resident realist @dt79 will weigh in and give you a better answer.
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Missed this, sorry. One hot womenz, all crazy womenz.
I can’t.
Chinese belief in psychics = too strong
My wife and mother engage a psychic once a year and a fengshui master every couple of years. They are first rate con men. I would love to employ one of them as a business development manager but I wouldn’t be able to afford them.
I told you. Asians aren’t spiritual. We are superstitious.
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Could these have been things gleaned from other previous readings that day?
Things that make you go hmmmm.
Yeah. When you have a family group like that it’s easy to assemble bits of info on each from the other.
Welcome to TMI corner.
I registered to go to Ananda Ashram in Monroe New York today. I’m going Monday through Saturday. There will be a lot of yoga, spiritual shit, and all vegan food.
I will be camping for the week, and volunteering for three hours per day. I’ll have some yoga sessions, some lectures/satsang, and a bunch of other spiritual shit. Pretty excited.
Because I am volunteering, my cost is about $30 per day for campsite, meals, and all of the yoga and other woo woo I can get.
I had to sign a bunch of forms, fill out an app, and when I registered today, they told me to bring bug spray…yikes.
I have a 7x6 tent that I think I will take, but am thinking about taking my 10x13. The 10x13 requires help to set up, but I am sure in an ashram I can find some help. The 10x13 easily fits a queen size mattress and has a separate room. Yeah, think I am bringing that too.
Will leave my golf clubs at home.
@thehebrewhero, any thoughts on ashram living?
Any one else, feel free to chime in.
I have no idea what it is
My apologies, thought you had experienced it.
Completely agree!
The psychic my mom hired told us what colours were “auspicious” and which ones to avoid. For me, it was blue and black (which most of my clothes are). I had to spend a good hour on multiple occasions to convince her not to throw away perfectly good (and expensive) clothes and “refurbish” my wardrobe.
She also stopped using a pink bag she bought literally a month before the reading because pink was a “bad” colour for her.
To put this into context, my mom is the type of person who squeezes the last drop of toothpaste and will drive 20 extra minutes for a good deal.
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Lol exactly. This is what I’ve been trying to tell our Western friends here about how religion is practiced in the East. My parents consulted a Chinese astrologer to pick our wedding dates based on our 8 characters.
https://ezinearticles.com/?Why-You-Should-Know-About-Your-Chinese-8-Characters&id=791217
My parents are Catholics.
My wife paid extra for “auspicious” numbers for my car licence plate and her cellphone. I went and pranked her by getting a licence plate with the numbers “9413” on it but she threw a fit lol.
No one here is meditating and trying to reach Nirvana. That’s what monks and Falungong members do. People are just trying to score points for the afterlife or get lottery numbers. I’d never met an Indian or Sikh who does yoga until fitness chains offering yoga classes started opening up.
Lots of superstition here lol.
I meant to reply to this months ago but life.
I saw Bessel speak a bit over a year ago while staying at an ashram. I actually thought his presentation and research was blessedly free of “woo-woo” considering the audience. There were a lot of people there who came specifically to see him and many shared some of the trauma they had experienced. I haven’t read his book but have heard many good things about it.
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