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330 STRIPPING THE GURUS
• In related matters, the nearly functionally illiterate ashram
administrator, possessing a mere sixth-grade reading
level, once opined in a satsanga that “scientists who use
their intelligence to ‘get famous,’ rather than for seeking
God, are misusing that intelligence.” A former administrator
had similarly asserted that “Einstein’s intuition failed
him in his later years,” in that the great scientist allegedly
“wasn’t able to see” that the accepted indeterministic quantum
theory was right. (That formulation is indeed not “the
last word,” as David Bohm’s Nobel-caliber work has shown.
Thus, “Einstein’s intuition” was right, where these ochrerobed
administrators, and many of today’s physicists, are
confidently wrong.)
The certainty in that regard presumably stemmed
from the purported “wholistic” correspondences between
indeterministic quantum theory and Eastern religion/meditation.
Those have been espoused only since the mid-’70s by
misled authors such as Fritjof Capra and Amit Goswami,
and quoted approvingly in some of SRF’s publications.
Goswami in turn once wrote a complimentary letter to SRF,
praising Yogananda’s writings. Amit’s non-fiction musings
on “quantum consciousness,” though, would have been better
published as explicit science fiction. For, in reality, such
“correspondences” are at best fortuitous, and can more reasonably
be regarded as arising from mere wishful thinking,
on the part of individuals having next to no understanding
of metaphysics.
In any case, how does one best use one’s intelligence
“for God”? By entering the ashrams and willingly doing
what one is told to do by one’s spiritual superiors, of course
• At a “monks only” gathering at the SRF headquarters
around Christmas of 1998, one of the maternal members of
the Board of Directors was said to have favored those assembled
with a joke: “What is an atheist? A member of a
non-prophet religion.” The clever riddle was proudly retold
in the ashram at a satsanga, as a “Christmas gift” from
those holy, wise and “spiritually advanced” mother-figures.
And all gathered there laughed dutifully, not realizing that
the line itself is simply a bastardization of a classic George
Carlin observation, i.e., that “atheism is a non-prophet organization”