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I haven't looked at this link, but I have followed Jaggi Vasudev (A sadhguru, not the sadhguru) for several years now, including being a participant in a study as an experienced Yoga practitioner, most specifically in reference to having completed the Isha Inner Engineering Program that ended this past October (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04498442). Vasudev is a very brilliant man, he is also quite misinformed when it comes to his own traditions, particularly in understanding nonduality (he frequently bashes Advaitists in a way that shows he doesn't understand the school of thought), and frankly he is quite narcissistic. I am not against Vasudev, but he is not who he claims to be. He is very good at making straw man arguments, which is how he has somehow managed to isolate himself from the rest of the Hindu schools of thought. He has made outlandish claims about things from having meditated for several hours to heal a compound fracture to pronouncing that in a visit with nobel laureates that he was able to relay shockingly advanced and novel concepts in math and physics which was "nobel prize winning stuff" only to go on to say that he did not care for such prizes. The man is more a salesman than a guru, and I strongly caution vigilance and scrutiny in analyzing his work.

Regards,

Nicholas G. Lattanzio, Psy.D.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 5:09 PM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Folks,

  Gien shared a talk about Sadhguru at Harvard that I thought it was helpful.

I then found this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-19RK9VkE

I found deep resonance with this and my path through psychology into psychological mindfulness and wisdom energy. I also see huge amounts of neurosis in the US precisely because we almost universally fail to comprehend this wisdom from 15,000 years ago…

Best,

Gregg

 

 

 

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