Critique here of M is not run of the mill "hatchet job"
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Bryn ®

10/14/2005, 06:34:12
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Below, the highly-selective-in-his-responses "Reporter" declares to the effect:

 Criticism of PR on EPO  is just another example of millions of other daily hatchet jobs perpetrated on the famous. by frustrated losers.

This opinion imo lacks insight.

The famous people who's images fill for example Hello magazine are in no way comparable to His Lordship.  Neither are the motives and preoccupations of the people who show negative interest in their ex master comparable either.. The difference is easy to spot. (unless your thinking is  limited by cult obligations)

No one, famous by the grace of the popular media, has ever as far as I know attempted consciously to weld their personal image with the organic functions of another individual's body.

 My respiratory system, the afterimages of my optical system, my sense of sound, my sensation of taste: All these, the reckless Mr Rawat has made a bid for, and done so with great determination and persistance, over many years. He assosciates himself  with meditation..

The intensity of the criticism he eventually receives is exactly proportional to the intimicy he exploited to insinuate  his message into the less conscious parts of his devotee. Whether or not he was sincere, beneficial, inspiring or whatever  counts for nothing in this.. His methods are penetrating in the extreme and attract a correspondingly virulent reaction on exit. None of this can.be said about the common celebrity and their relationship with their admirers.

M has taken a risk with thousands of western psyches at a very pointed, and personal psychological level. Even today, as a bland "inspirational speaker" he asks you to watch  60 hours of video image of him before he will let you in to be his friend/ share his secret/practice his self knowledge! That is interactive TV at a very intimate level is it not?. Consequences? I don't think he cares about them. 

Guru Ji is still playing with fire imo. Its not his celebrity that arouses his bad press here, its what he has done with his charisma and what he specifically unites it it with in his fellow humans that brings him his reciprocal stinging backlash.

Hoist by his own petard I would say. Let it roll.

Bryn

 

 







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