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Interview with Manvir Singh on Gurus & Shamans

Decoding the Gurus

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The Power of Different Perceptions of Authority

The gurus that you just mentioned also create authority or credibility by promoting perceptions of differing fundamentally or in interesting ways from normal humans. So there is the, like you say, there's the hard word, there's often these references to always thinking differently, right, that they just seen the world in a way that other people never could. But yeah, then the next, if we're thinking about the parallel, the next question I would askYou is, are there ways in which the gurus thatyou just mentioned also creating authority or credibility?

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