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around him—seems to think he demonstrates any elevated
spiritual wisdom” (Schell, 2000).
Such apparent dearth of spirituality, however, has evidently
not dampened Seagal’s enthusiasm for the numerous daft superstitions
inherent in the Tibetan Buddhist path:
[A]ctor Steven Segal [sic] declared, “My chakras began spinning
and then went into balance after putting on my [Shaolin]
Wheel [of Life pendant]” (Randi, 2003).
In any case, the aforementioned Penor Rinpoche is the same
one who has expressed deep appreciation for Andrew Cohen’s
work. It is also the same Penor Rinpoche—now head of the Nyingma
lineage—of whom Ken Wilber himself (2000a) has spoken approvingly:
Although I have been meditating for around twenty-five
years—and have tried dozens of different spiritual practices
—most of those that I do at this time were received at the
Longchen Nyingthig given by His Holiness Pema Norbu (Penor)
Rinpoche.
Further, this is also the very same Penor Rinpoche who, in
1986, recognized one Catharine Burroughs as the first female
American tulku, saying that “the very fabric of her mind was the
Dharma” (Sherrill, 2000). Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche later confirmed
that reincarnation, i.e., of a sixteenth-century Tibetan saint, Genyenma
Ahkön Lhamo—co-founder of the Palyul tradition of Tibetan
Buddhism within the Nyingma School—as Burroughs. (Khyentse
was the Dzogchen teacher of the Dalai Lama. He was also, of
course, the same sage who reassured Trungpa’s and Tendzin’s followers
that those gurus had given them authentic dharma, after
Tendzin had already given some of them AIDS.) Burroughs herself,
renamed as Jetsunma Ahkön Norbu Lhamo, went on to accumulate
around a hundred followers—well short of the fifteen hundred
which Penor Rinpoche had predicted would come. She also founded
the largest Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the United States, located
outside Washington, DC.
The great, recognized female tulku had reportedly earlier
claimed to be the reincarnation of one of Jesus’ female disciples,
entrusted in those earlier times with the passing-down of Gnostic
texts. She had further apparently told her future third husband, in