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Interview with Manvir Singh on Gurus & Shamans
Decoding the Gurus
The Power of Conspiracy
Guru: invoking conspiracy and invoking that the other sources of knowledge are corrupted, that tends to be a recurrent pattern that we observe. And also telling your followers that if they agree and if they can perceive the corruption and go along that they are kind of uniquely, critically minded and special, you know, people as well,. That kind of flattering approach, it's really effective. I think I get the appeal because there's been lots of times of my life where I've got this insight from reading these things or studying the stuff that other people like. So if someone else can offer you that, it's definitely really appealing.
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