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Post subject: Dr Dave Evans on The Role of the Fabricated Guru
 Posted: Sep 16, 2008 - 10:51 PM
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Dr Dave Evans will be talking on the subject of:
Baraka, Magical Memories and The Role of the Fabricated Guru: Amado Crowley, Castaneda, Lobsang Rampa and Co
The modern-day occultist Amado Crowley has published extensive memoirs of his 'time with father', Aleister Crowley, over the last 20 years. However from extensive research, these accounts have been found to be hugely at odds to verifiable facts. Even though Amado inhabits the same thin ice as Carlos Castaneda, Lobsang Rampa and others, these false-memory constructions still have a power to influence (Amado maintains a student-base after 40 years in the business) and to enchant (since there is a 'talismanic' appeal to students in believing they are being taught by a direct lineal descendant of such a famous figure in occult circles). The discussion also moves to the broader nature of relative and competing truths in a magical guru 'industry' where selective abstraction of history, out of context quotation and blatant fabrication are almost a given in the rush to claim any kind of magical pedigree, and thus attract followers. Of interest to anyone who follows a teacher, or who is a teacher themselves
At the Halloween Bash, 18th and 19th October at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square Holborn, London
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Post subject: RE: Dr Dave Evans on The Role of the Fabricated Guru
Posted: Sep 18, 2008 - 06:48 AM
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| ha, my son just made mincemeat of Carlos's 'A Seperate Reality' in his latest raid of my bookshelves. I wonder how much kinder operate from pure intuition?!? |
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Post subject: RE: Dr Dave Evans on The Role of the Fabricated Guru
Posted: Sep 18, 2008 - 03:03 PM
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I wonder how much kinder operate from pure intuition?!?
Sometimes it's pure chaos.
My dog ate the cover off of Lon Milo DuQuette's Chicken Qabala. Between a hungry pup and a toddler brandishing a crayon like a sword, I learned quickly to keep the best stuff UP HIGH!
(Too bad the same approach doesn't work for the walls...!) |
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Post subject: Re: RE: Dr Dave Evans on The Role of the Fabricated Guru
Posted: Sep 18, 2008 - 05:52 PM
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| [quote="kidneyhawk"] Quote: ›
My dog ate the cover off of Lon Milo DuQuette's Chicken Qabala.
Probably smelled the chicken...  |
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Dr Dave Evans on The Role of the Fabricated Guru
Posted: Sep 19, 2008 - 01:16 AM
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Probably smelled the chicken...
But...it wasn't the Scratch N' Sniff version! |
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