07.30.07

Dogberry comment on Shah

Posted in Evolution at 6:32 pm by nemo

Dogberry on Shah:

Thanks for the input. It would be nice if we had a full history of Shah, his circle, and some indication of the circle of people connected with him, if only to put together a dossier of this period piece. The immense promise of Shah’s sincere (on the surface) exposition of Sufism (I recall reading reading dozens of his books when they came out) was actually a kind of front for something else.
My concern is the immense number of people left in the lurch as they embarked on a sufi path, only to be led on a wild goose chase as the ‘food’ types in the phoney front.
The dynamics of this were crystal clear in the pseudo-’school’ of Gold whose deceptions were a complete of time ( a whole life time!) of most of those who were dumb enough to trust him.
I suspect a more refined or clever version of that in the Shah gang, but don’t have the data.
We need literature warning the next generation of these tactics, but unfortunately the whole thing already has an ‘established’ reputation based on lies, disinformation, and just enough come on for nervous seekers to bite on the hook.
How is it that such creeps have a monopoly of spiritual/esoteric reputation?
Small wonder the Islamic world is in a state of paranoia after centuries of these mind-control operators.
I am vaguely aware of the Lessing connection and–thanks for the reminder about the Canopus series (I had forgotten the name). There is a post here on the New Age myth/rumor of Sirian (the star Sirius!) aliens, and the connection with sci-fi, people like e.j.gold. etc…
These people have an unpublic circle of the ‘in crowd’, whom you never see, while all the public stuff is an exploitation of the average seeker who hasn’t a clue, and doesn’t grasp what he is involved in.
Thanks again for input. Keep it up! We need some way to organize the data on this blog.

(Be sure to do a Search on Shah, there is another discussion trying to defend Shah, a while back)

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