stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

AFTER THE ORDEAL 445
Walsh actually teaches philosophy (among sundry other subjects)
at the University of California at Irvine, and might therefore
claim some measure of informed expertise in voicing the above
opinion. Still, such puffery surely reminds one far too much of Wilber’s
own pontifications as to whom he imagines the top shabd
yogis, Realizers, or “strongest dinosaurs” to be. And, given Walsh’s
evident complete unawareness of the radical shortcomings in Wilber’s
work (and character), and simultaneous touting of the wonderfulness
of all that, it would appear that kw’s imperial hyperbole
and radically unfounded confidence in his own opinions may be
contagious.
And lest we forget Aurobindo in that pestilence: Wilber’s own
personal assistant—the “Mini KW”—has him (mini-oracularly)
designated as “the world’s greatest philosopher-sage” on the Integral
Naked (2005) website. Ya want some syrup to go with that
devotion, kid? Or some mature perspective on top of your three
semesters of undergraduate philosophy? (Yes, three semesters.) Not
that your inflated hero hasn’t declared far more on the basis of far
less knowledge and research. But still, a little less mirroring
around “the fairest theorist of them all” would surely serve the integral
kingdom far better.
Frances Vaughan, incidentally, is Roger Walsh’s wife. Both
are close friends of Ken Wilber—and founding members of the Integral
Institute—to the point of having introduced him to his second
wife. Together, Walsh and Vaughan (1988) edited a book of
selections from Helen Schucman’s A Course in Miracles (ACIM)—
attempted pithy sermons which were purportedly channeled from
Lord Jesus Christ in 1965.
‘Cause evidently the leprechauns were all out.
Wilber, interestingly, had this to say (in Klimo, 1998) about
the Course:
I’m not saying that there was not some transcendental insight
involved and that Helen probably felt that it was certainly
beyond her day-to-day self. I think that’s true [italics
added]. But there’s much more of Helen in the Course than I
first thought.... It’s not all pure information, there’s a lot of
noise that gets in. I also found that if you look at Helen’s own
poetry, you’re initially very hard pressed to find any difference
between that and the Course.
Yes. No doubt. As they say, “No shit, Sherlock.”