Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, I know, Wikipedia) says Baba's teaching can be condensed as follows:
Swami Muktananda's teaching can be summarized in two quotations:
* Honor your Self, Worship your Self, Meditate on your Self, God dwells within you as you.
* See God in Each Other.
Called third strike. This is NOT what the Holy Spirit calls Christians to.
As G.K. Chesterton says, "Students of popular science, like Mr. Blatchford, are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism."
Seems like you're applying for the franchise rights for Hinduism.
Incidentally, Quix, Brian -- if you're interested, the Wikipedia article also mentions that
"Muktananda described his initiation by Nityananda and his subsequent remarkable experiences with kundalini energy and its manifestation in various chakras or psychic centers of the body, accompanied by strange visions and enhanced consciousness in his book Guru (1971)."
Two points: there's that damned kundalini again.
And also, ...chakras?
Sounds like Al Gore and his crazed sex poodle routine.
Makes me suspicious that all this green environmental stuff...which is tied to Gaia...is underneath tied to Hinduism and seducing spirits. A spiritual pincer movement, between the twin subversion of the Charismatic movement by megachurches/Oprah-ization and secret Hinduism on the one hand, and in the secular realm, the "Goddess Earth"/Environmental movement.
Cheers! Cheers!
More than plausible, to me.
Globalism is certainly one reason for it. 3 Popes endorsed it so that the dying traditionalist church could compete globally