Hi Mihiki won't welcome you yet due to the woo content of your posts;I'm hoping you're a Poe.
There is no evidence for existence of the spiritual.
There is no evidence of reincarnation, of any kind of survival after death, nor any evidence of any personality transferring into the body of another person.
The man calling himself Tuesday Lobsang Rampa (all of whose books I've read,beginning in 1963) was a fraud,with limited knowledge of Tibetian Buddhism. In real life Dr Rampa was an Englishman, Cyril Henry Hoskin,who died in 1981. Most tellingly, Cyril spoke no Tibetian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Rampa
Paramahansa Yogananda was fascinating figure and either a gullible fool or a or charlatan. I'm pretty much convinced he was a harmless nutter after reading his amazing "Autobiography Of A Yogi" several times. The book makes some pretty startling claims but presents no evidence: EG the bi-location of his guru, Shi Yukteswar,swami Prabanana,"the saint with two bodies",Nagendra Nath Bhaduri."the levitating saint" and he also breathlessly recounts the story Therese Neuman, the Christian 'mysti'c and stigmatic who claimed to survive on communion wafers. It's woo.
PS: I also studied Kriya Yoga with a teacher,and can meditate in using Kriya or Hatha Yoga. Meditation is not evidence of the spiritual. The techniques I was taught can be learned in an hour.Then it's practice.
There is no evidence for existence of the spiritual.
There is no evidence of reincarnation, of any kind of survival after death, nor any evidence of any personality transferring into the body of another person.
The man calling himself Tuesday Lobsang Rampa (all of whose books I've read,beginning in 1963) was a fraud,with limited knowledge of Tibetian Buddhism. In real life Dr Rampa was an Englishman, Cyril Henry Hoskin,who died in 1981. Most tellingly, Cyril spoke no Tibetian.
Quote:The explorer and Tibetologist Heinrich Harrer was unconvinced about the book's origins and hired a private detective from Liverpool named Clifford Burgess to investigate Rampa. The findings of Burgess' investigation were published in the Daily Mail in February 1958. It was reported that the author of the book was a man named Cyril Henry Hoskin, who had been born in Plympton in Devon in 1910 and was the son of a plumber. Hoskin had never been to Tibet and spoke no Tibetan. In 1948, he had legally changed his name to Carl Kuon Suo before adopting the name Lobsang Rampa. An obituary of Fra Andrew Bertie, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, claims that he was involved in unmasking Lobsang Rampa as a West Country plumber.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobsang_Rampa
Paramahansa Yogananda was fascinating figure and either a gullible fool or a or charlatan. I'm pretty much convinced he was a harmless nutter after reading his amazing "Autobiography Of A Yogi" several times. The book makes some pretty startling claims but presents no evidence: EG the bi-location of his guru, Shi Yukteswar,swami Prabanana,"the saint with two bodies",Nagendra Nath Bhaduri."the levitating saint" and he also breathlessly recounts the story Therese Neuman, the Christian 'mysti'c and stigmatic who claimed to survive on communion wafers. It's woo.
PS: I also studied Kriya Yoga with a teacher,and can meditate in using Kriya or Hatha Yoga. Meditation is not evidence of the spiritual. The techniques I was taught can be learned in an hour.Then it's practice.
