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It makes sense

Posted on 05/01/09, 11:46 pm

So many of the best talent in psychiatry in the USA are Hindi. Now that's not fair, because I am a North American and it's not within my powers to understand all the ethnic cultures from Ghandinagar, Kerala, Madras and all the different ethnics in the United States of India. Many languages, many cultures and many ways of looking at psyche and psychology. From 1970 to the current day, these people have saved my life. I have Autism. That's like being born on LSD, without taking LSD.

Everyone in the USA has had the opportunity to read Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda. Before you all expound on what you think you know about psyche and spirituality, go read Yogananda, then address me with your critique.

Please comment me.

• Reply #1 06/10/09  7:27pm
  
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• Reply #2 06/29/09  11:06pm
  
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  Some of Yogananda's descriptions of Hindu saints materializing objects and houses that last for days and then vanish -- well -- I never seriously considered such things. But I have never seen Hindu saints walk barefoot on hot coals without getting burned, but I knew a girl in high school that had seen it. Autobiograhy of a Yogi is surely a trip; what I know of Hinduism is that book and the Bhagavadh-Gita, which I have three versions of.

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