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Did New Age destroyed the possibility of a westerner experiencing true initiation into a eastern religion? It seems like boomers destroyed it with greedy fake gurus

>> No.19898680

>>19898620
Read the Traditionalists and actually travel to the East and contact an actual spiritual guide.
Do your fucking research beforehand too.

>> No.19898721

>>19898620
if there were no new agers then people wouldn’t have any interest in eastern philosophy at all. you have to have the mcdojo spring up before you get the real mma gym

>> No.19898729

>>19898620
>greedy fake gurus
spoiler: the "real" ones are grifters to... just saved you a lot of time

>> No.19898764

>>19898620
>Did New Age destroyed the possibility of a westerner experiencing true initiation into a eastern religion?
No, Charles Martel routing the Muslim conquest of Europe did.

>> No.19898772

>>19898620
Duuude you just gotta like feel the energies bro
and buy my 12 course workshop and books

>> No.19898781

>>19898680
No.

>> No.19898948

>>19898729
Yeah but when did it started? Was it always that way? And where to find true initiation?

>> No.19898956
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19898956

Start with the 'Jeets, not the Californians

>> No.19898971

>>19898956
Meh, buddhism doesnt have any metaphysical basis like hinduism or islam. They dont believe in God either. Also its a shudra heresy. Not interested.

>> No.19898983

>>19898971
Lol what

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>>19898971
what

>> No.19899010

What do I do after Guenon bros?
>I don’t want to become a Muslim
>Catholicism is cucked beyond recovery
>Hinduism would alienate family members, and that’s not trad either
I’ve been reading about Chan/Zen and they seem to have a legit initiation, as they stress lineages and all. Moreover Buddhism seems to be more easily available and palatable in Western society, as I don’t have to have many idols of Hindu deities around the home or do pooja.

>> No.19899020

>oh no, I can't engage with eastern religious practices because icky boomers made it uncool!

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>>19898971
Ask me how I know you've read at most two books/authors on the topic, /pol/troon

>> No.19899113

It was a Jewish op to channel white people's alienation into non material goals and actions.

> 30 percent of Americans practicing Buddhism come from Jewish backgrounds.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/a-bu-jews-guide-to-passov_b_96737
>Though flourishing in the 1950s and ’60s, the Jewish affinity for Buddhism goes back quite far. In her dissertation turned book, American JUBU: Jews, Buddhists, and Religious Change in the United States, sociologist and Duke University postdoctoral fellow Emily Sigalow writes that the first non-Asian person in the U.S. to convert to Buddhism was Charles T. Straus – a Jewish hat maker – in 1893.
>Indeed, a striking number of the teachers who popularized variants of Buddhism in the U.S. came from Jewish families. They were among the swarm of young Westerners travelling to Asia after the Second World War, looking for immersive spiritual training.
https://thecjn.ca/perspectives/jews-become-buddhist/