stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

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world are obsequious ass kissers. Ah, gimme me [sic] a
break.
Again with the ass fixation....
But “finest scholars in the world”? Hundreds of them?
Where??
(Granted, there are many names among the nearly two hundred
founding members of the Integral Institute and its affiliated
Integral University which I do not recognize. Of those which I do,
however....)
The spine-lengthening (i.e., Ramakrishna-believing) Murphy?
The ayurvedic Chopra? (See Wheeler [1997]; van Biema [1996];
Ross [2005b].) The near-messianic Cohen? The “seduced-byluscious-blondes,”
Disneyland-visiting Baker?
Or, speaking of “fine scholars,” how about Joe Firmage, the
software expert and UFO aficionado (Klass [2000]; Phipps [2001])
who first endowed the nonprofit Integral Institute in 1997, to the
tune of one million dollars (Integral, 2004)? Or the astral-voyaging,
remote-viewing Marilyn Schlitz (Atwood [2003]; Gorski [2001])? Or
Larry Dossey, wishful-thinking promoter of faith-based healing
and misapplied “quantum nonlocality” in medicine?
Yes, all are founding members of the Integral Institute, whose
belief systems relate directly to their participation in that forum.
Indeed, all but the software entrepreneur Firmage have their areas
of “professional expertise” overlapping significantly with their
roles in the integral community.
Or how about Gary Schwartz, the University of Arizona researcher
who sincerely believes that the claimed mediums he has
tested are talking to the dead? That is, he takes them as genuine
psychics rather than as persons who, it has been reasonably suggested,
could much more likely simply be doing “twenty questions”like
“cold reading,” or having other sources of bias seep into the
results. (See Carroll [2004a], [2005]; Wiseman and O’Keeffe [2001];
Randi [2001], [2001a], [2001b]; and Schwartz [2001], for his response
to Randi.)
Also from Schwartz’s (2002) Afterlife Experiments book—with
a foreword by Deepak Chopra—detailing the same research:
[What] I affectionately call spirit-assisted medicine ... could
also be true. As health care providers become better skilled
at communication with the other side, medical practices