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- Kumare: The True Story of a False Prophet
Kumare: The True Story of a False Prophet
Kumare: The True Story of a False Prophet
Kenneth Folk posted something about it on his Facebook timeline, which reminded me to watch it. I first heard about it from one of Vince Horn's tweets. (Wow, lots of social media contact points going on here.)
I enjoyed the film quite a bit. The ethics of this experiment are questionable, but that's part of what makes it so interesting. I replied to Kenneth's post with the following:
I was able to rent the video as a streaming rental from Amazon.com for $3.99, and I thought it was worth it. I'm interested to know if anyone else has seen it, and also to know what your reactions were, good or bad or both.Thanks for the reminder, Kenneth. I watched it this morning. I was expecting humor (and I wasn't disappointed in that regard), but I didn't expect to be so touched. It's interesting that he gathered a small following of people while being in many ways an anti-cult leader; that is, he never claimed to be any better than his students. It's interesting how even when a teacher says, "I'm normal, just like you," some followers will remain insistent that the teacher is special in some way they themselves are not.
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ETA: Stayed up: interesting how hard a time he had revealing himself (though understandable) and a bit surprising how few of his students were offended. It reminded me of my own relationships with many teachers over the years, and how there always comes a point where ones initial over-adulation of the teacher runs into their human nature (ie you become disappointed in them) and you have to rework your relationship. Can be a major or minor thing, depending on your fantasy expectations and the nature of the teacher's human nature.
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The fact that there are those so desperate to encounter a 'holy person' that they refuse every disclaimer made by such a person-- is a strange and rather sad conundrum. Charles Tart had a very funny 'bit' on his blog about how every time he tried to pop the illusion for some of his students, they'd do this wise wink and nod thing about how he was so modest on top of enlightened, and refuse to believe a word he said. But he never set up the illusion in the first place, to 'teach them a lesson.' That seems fraught with hubris.
Still and all, I could be wrong; so I'll watch it when it comes around.
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