Created: October 03, 2021
Modified: October 04, 2021
Modified: October 04, 2021
Ram Dass
This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.- Fell victim to (or helped commit) a spiritual fraud, Joya Santanya.
- If Ram Dass can't tell if spiritual teachings are legit, does that contradict the thesis that an objective spiritual path exists?
- For the objective path to be a useful thesis, we'd need to be able to discern that path by reading the consensus of experts---the consensus itself is the thing that makes the path objective rather than subjective. But in his case, that consensus was faked---Joya pretended to be Maharani-ji (his dead guru), Jesus, Jethro, Athena, and many other spiritual figures, creating the impression that the things he was 'learning' came from diverse sources. She was running a sybil attack on his epistemology.
- If Ram Dass can't tell if spiritual teachings are legit, does that contradict the thesis that an objective spiritual path exists?
- An argument that he ended up ultimately disappointed and disillusioned: http://www.american-buddha.com/rudeawakening.htm