{"id":197,"date":"2025-04-23T13:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/dangers-of-psychic-phenomena-on-the-spiritual-quest\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T13:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:23:30","slug":"dangers-of-psychic-phenomena-on-the-spiritual-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/dangers-of-psychic-phenomena-on-the-spiritual-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Psychic Phenomena on the Spiritual Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The thoughts of Paul Brunton well presented in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_KYFCpu_JNs&amp;list=PLfCXDleIQ9NbSaDCe_a9qoJMZ11HZjXGz&amp;index=6\">short video<\/a>. I have been reading him for years. Like Thomas Merton, the man is at his best in his journals. I have read and re-read all sixteen volumes. For some extracts see my <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/brunton\/\">Brunton category<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thoughts of Paul Brunton well presented in a short video. I have been reading him for years. Like Thomas Merton, the man is at his best in his journals. I have read and re-read all sixteen volumes. For some extracts see my Brunton category.&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,41,94,209,106,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brunton","category-mysticism","category-paranormal","category-spiritual-combat","category-spiritual-exercises","category-spiritual-hygiene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}