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The Science and the Art of Gurometry

Decoding the Gurus

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The Discord Between Traditional Gurus and Shamanism

The appeal to the heart is in that old fashioned magical kind of sense revealed truth and rhetoric. A lot of them do lean into Wu for one of a better term. They're like Jordan Peterson. And I think like for me, I see it as like the scientific grounding. Well certainly there is a kind of rationalization. But also within the tradition, you have this dynamic where there's a constant push and pull between figures who lean more towards idiosyncratic, dramatic, charismatic interpretations and those which lean more towards orthodox, textual dogma.

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