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bearable, subtle, continuous anguish, and disasters will pursue you
like furies” (cf. Trungpa), etc. Nor are they generally involved in
the alleged creation of pornographic films. And when was the last
time a doctor bedded your spouse or partner, on the completely untenable
pretense of enlightening both him/her and you?
As the Mill Valley Record (Colin, et al., 1985) further reported:
One woman says that repeated group lesbian sexual acts, involving
dildos, took place under [Adi Da’s] command as late
as 1982. Another woman says she has sustained permanent
cervical damage as a result of participation in similar incidents.
“Concerned physicians.” And note again how, incredibly, Wilber’s
assertion that “‘crazy wisdom’ occurs in a very strict ethical
atmosphere” was made in 1996, a full decade after news of Da’s
“problematic” (Wilber’s word) alleged activities had become public!
It also came well after Osel Tendzin’s transmission of AIDS to his
followers, knowing full well that he was infected with HIV but refraining
from informing his sexual partners of that.
“Strict ethical atmosphere,” indeed. If “denial is more than
just a river in Egypt,” Wilber should start walking like an Egyptian
any day now.
Of course, with regard to “concerned physicians,” there is always
the remote possibility that Wilber’s medical and scholastic
experiences might have been of such a horrific (or orgiastic) nature
as to leave even the likes of Stephen King (or Hugh Hefner) frozen
with fear (or envy). Short of that unlikelihood, however, his attempts
at relating ashram life to “concerned physicians” and
“graduate-school stress” need not (and should not) be taken the
least bit seriously. For, in no way do those ingenuous claims even
come close to matching the readily available, relevant information.
One may embark on any series of short-term “intensive retreats,”
experiencing grand spiritual realizations during those periods.
That, however, again does not even begin to count, as far as
perceiving the real pressures put on long-term, non-celebrity members
of spiritual communities. To put it more flippantly: You may
spend a couple of weeks in India, but that doesn’t make you an
East Indian. For, in Jung’s terms, all the time you were there, you
were “breathing bottled air,” or seeing everything from within a
pre-existing Western, rational perspective. Such a “vacation” can-