'I remember him visiting a foreign scam artist who claimed he could cure blindness.'That was the Bronnikovs, a Russian? father and son team.
Some clips from that are here:
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Truly appalling to see this pair scamming desperate blind people and promising to make them well. The mumbo jumbo method was a similar scam to the idea of kundalini, moving energy around the body at will, using hypnotically induced sensation.
Pure tosh.