{"id":1091,"date":"2023-12-14T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T10:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/spiritual-mountebanks\/"},"modified":"2023-12-14T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T10:14:22","slug":"spiritual-mountebanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/spiritual-mountebanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Mountebanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/spiritual-mountebanks?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcome=true\">latest<\/a>. Hold onto your wallets, muchachos!<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The world is full of hustlers and charlatans who prey upon spiritual seekers. One ought to be suspicious of anyone who claims enlightenment or special powers. The acid test is whether they demand money or sex for their services. If they do, run away while holding onto your wallet. &#39;Bhagwan Shree&#39;&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2018\/03\/wild-wild-country-the-mindboggling-story-of-the-cult-next-door\/555791\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Rajneesh<\/a>&#0160; is a good example from the &#39;80s.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest. Hold onto your wallets, muchachos! The world is full of hustlers and charlatans who prey upon spiritual seekers. One ought to be suspicious of anyone who claims enlightenment or special powers. The acid test is whether they demand money or sex for their services. If they do, run away while holding onto your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/spiritual-mountebanks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spiritual Mountebanks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,55,246,155,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crackpottery","category-hustlers-frauds-mountebanks","category-scams","category-spiritual-hygiene","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}