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150: Spiritual Influencer Theory

Conspirituality

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The Tension Between Grandiosity and Gliding Attitude

There's a way in which there's some kind of weird tension between the grandiosity of the outrageous claims and the kind of glide attitude that people in the know already are hip to, right? Well, don't they? Isn't there also a certain type of modesty involved too? Because if you're too grandiose about that claim, then somebody will... We'll check it. Somebody will challenge you on it. And so like we've got some examples here. So somebody like BKS Iyengar, probably the most, the central sort of evangelist of the modern yoga global movement, he publishes light on yoga. The photographs are laid out as if in a medical encyclopedia

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