{"id":2435,"date":"2016-12-07T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2016-12-07T05:51:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:51:18","slug":"0-great-swami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"0 Great Swami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have much respect for many of the spiritual teachers, but I\u2019m aware there\u2019s a lot of flim-flam going on. This cartoon lay at my feet this morning and as I\u2019ve opened to Grace (or coincidence?) it occurred to me to post it and free associate:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ogreatswami.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ogreatswami\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ogreatswami\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ogreatswami_thumb.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"659\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These two characters pointedly comment on the verbiage that is going around. Since I\u2019ve taken a step toward deeper spirituality, I do not dismiss all such talk as intentional deception&#8212;as apparently Groening does&#8212;but there is a strong need for discrimination. The clich\u00e9s that pervade our culture reflect a widespread hunger for transcendence, but popular culture is, alas, too apt to choose unwisely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have much respect for many of the spiritual teachers, but I\u2019m aware there\u2019s a lot of flim-flam going on. This cartoon lay at my feet this morning and as I\u2019ve opened to Grace (or coincidence?) it occurred to me to post it and free associate: These two characters pointedly comment on the verbiage that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,25,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}