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[YinYang]

Yin i understand and respect your approach. It's essential protect oneself and others.

Then why aren't you protecting yourself and others, GentleWanderer? If you consider it "essential"?

I doubt you've read any of the books or links I provided you with in the Gurdjieff thread. You might as well say "I don't care how many people he has brutally manipulated, abused and destroyed, I get a good vibe from him..." (same as the Castenada crowd)

Ra: The negative polarity is clever.

As for Castenada? Why don't you read Amy Wallace's book? It's that intellectual laziness I mentioned earlier, you open a thread asking about a particular individual, and when someone assists you, you reject it. That's what I find curious about your "enquiries", I get the impression only the rave reviews are welcome. It's easily one of the most disturbing cult memoirs I've ever read. George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones, gave the best review on the book:

Truth hurts … and so does Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Amy Wallace’s harrowing account of her years as Carlos Castaneda’s lover and disciple is a cautionary tale for our times, the story of a woman whose search for meaning took her to the brink, and damned near cost her everything. In this painfully honest memoir, she takes us deep inside the Castaneda cult and shows us the mind games, ego trips, and petty cruelties that wore the guise of wisdom. ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!’ the Wizard once tried to tell Dorothy. Amy Wallace has ripped the curtain down, and laid the wizard bare for all to see.

She's a hero in my eyes (she has passed away recently), and she has used her painful experience to help others. He was a psychopath, as was Gurdjieff, as was Bailey, if you haven't quite put two and two together yet... Are you familiar with abductive reasoning? "If it looks like a psychopath, swims like a psychopath, and quacks like a psychopath, then it probably is a psychopath."

And while we're on Castenada, read these too (if you are sincere in your enquiries):

Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory

The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies

The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda

You also haven't answered my initial question in this thread. Who holds Bailey in high regard? I want to know why you inserted that in your "question"? Rather say "I hold her in high regard", which rings closer to the truth, due to the pattern I have now observed with you.

I am kind of over these "truth crusades" of mine, people just detest seeing their gurus exposed... it results in major mud-slinging contests, as you've seen in the Gurdjieff thread, which I detest...