Saturday, October 30, 2021

New Age Gurus: Dispensers of Nonsense / Gad Saad Ph.D.

The prescription for being a New Age guru is the following: 1) Create verbiage that appears profound but that is otherwise meaningless. People will attribute their inability to understand your sentences to their own failings rather than to your charlatanism; 2) Be charismatic and self-confident in your delivery, and perhaps deceive yourself as to the veracity of your words. In the immortal words of George Costanza, one of the central characters of the classic sitcom Seinfeld: “Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it.”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/homo-consumericus/201410/new-age-gurus-dispensers-nonsense

Chuck Spezzano is called a "guru" numerous times by his followers:

http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2016/09/guru-chuck.html

3 comments:

Connie Cezon said...

"Charlatan" in Wiktionary:

From Middle French charlatan, from Old Italian ciarlatano ‎(“quack”), a blend of ciarlatore ‎(“chatterer”) + cerretano ‎(“hawker, quack”, literally “native of Cerreto”) (Cerrato being a village in Umbria, known for its quacks).

Anonymous said...

Charlatan Lee Spezzano

Year of the Cat said...

The more modern term "Master" has eclipsed the former term "Guru." But it remains the same nonsense.

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