Maybe the over-simplifications (Good/Evil and such) she deemed about all the traffic would bear ~ the last '01 in America, but that doesn't excuse the er 'Indian culture' artifacts.

I suspect that those whose 'search' ended with Mme. B. weren't looking for much.. except party conversation.

BTW - any honest 'Sages' from thereabouts echo the same observation re the 'religious' practices tacked-on to the base ideas, and the omnipresent stealing. (which is hardly anything to do with any Important stuff - just homo-sap being normal)

Seen One Corp-Religion on any compass point: seen 'em -


Ashton

PS - Sometimes the $ part is.. mainly about supporting the 'project'. (Or even about, demonstrating our conditioned $-fascination via a brief experience of umm disdain?)

Gurdjieff (and Ouspensky) appeared here on a similar mission in '20s. There are still such schools around, but emphasis from the outset is about 'verifying' not memorizing stuff. I see those as a step some have found to be worth going through, depending.. but as Ever! caveat emptor
There Is No Free Truth\ufffd

[That's actually not far from one of Mr. G's main Points re "free" stuff]

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