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medic8ed
Yep. He's a charlatan, alright. But you have to admire the guy at least a little for having the [fill in your synonym for "guts" here] to post pictures of himself [i:bedec33d5f]with wax statues[/i:bedec33d5f] while claiming they are the real thing.
It's very sad that folks are desparate and lonely enough to fall victim to this spiritual predator -- but the sheer audacity of this guy posting those pics is just plain laughable!
Several years ago I shared a house in the "hippie part" of Atlanta (Little Five Points, if you happen to know the area). Among my housemates was a [i:bedec33d5f]strikingly beautiful and charismatic[/i:bedec33d5f] Indian graduate student. There also happened to be a spectacular wrap-around porch on the house, shaded by several venerable Oaks.
We (that is, the group of five or so housemates) came up with a plan whereby we would tout our lovely Indian friend as a guru -- a silent one who would be presented in a meditative prose on the shaded porch, surrounded by flowers that we planned to plunder from the dumpsters of florists around town. Meanwhile, we, her housemates acting as mediaries, would keep the patchouli incense lit and spout platitudes and non-sequitirs plagiarized from various new-age books while claiming to be at one with our beautiful guru's goddess-consciousness.
Our intent was simply to see how far we could take it, sort of a social prank/experiment -- we had no designs for collecting money, for example -- and our faux-goddess was willing to play her part (she was a very devout Hindu interestingly enough, but still agreed to go along with the prank, reasonably figuring that Ganesha and Hanuman would be amused).
But, even though we had gotten so far as printing up fliers to post and had gathered a porchload of just-expired flowers, our collective consciences kicked in and we abandoned the project at the last moment -- our hearts would simply not allow us be that deceptive, to play on that sort of human gullibility, even though it was only to be an exercise in social hacking.
Now, seeing this guy pushing his product with the endorsements of a waxen Pope, Lama, and some of Hollywood's finest, I wish we had gone through with it. This gut is utterly ridiculous. I can only hope he does not cause too much harm to the sad and lonely seekers who might fall for his ruse.
medic8ed
Really too bad you didn't follow through with this plan!
Marjoe made a fantasitc movie exposing fake Christian evangelists. I think it came out in the 70's. He was the son of a real charletan pastor named after Mary + Joseph = Marjoe! LOL! :lol:
Perhaps the laughing yogi must know that these photos are obviously fakes - and are meant to make people laugh.