Talk:"God Is Not Great" is not great

Doofus, kudos for this page, this deconstructs Hitchens slight of hand even more. Some thoughts.

What came up for me reading it is how central "catharsis" is in Osho's work. Question: could we do that even more justice by mentioning Dynamic meditation as an ongoing individual cathartic therapy / meditation.

Might it be stronger, to change

... that all expressions of sex and violence are just fodder ...

into

... that all these forms of catharsis are just fodder ...

Then at the end of that cell could be added something like:

Incidentally catharsis did play an important role in Osho's work from the very early days, when he designed "Dynamic meditation", an active, cathartic meditation that is done completely individually, and that is still arguably his most important active meditation technique. These days, it is used all over the world, also outside the world of sannyasins. See e.g. this website about Dynamic meditation.

All this to stress the essence of the cathartic element. Feel entirely free to do something with it or leave it.

I also like your idea to have a page Groups. It would be great to also make pages Meditations and Dynamic Meditation etc.

Coming to think of Groups, would it not be better to have your whole piece on Therapy Groups moved there? Reading it again now, I wonder if this piece (I mean the piece outside the table) adds anything essential to your critique of Hitchens. It feels a bit overdone, or pearls before swine.

Then about that dharshan: Hitchens, in his book, actually talks about "early-morning dharshan". Those meetings, at 8 am, afaik, were never called darshan, but locally known as 'discourse' or 'morning lecture'. "Darshan" was certainly happening, often daily, and that was at 7 pm. --Sugit (talk) 19:02, 31 May 2018 (UTC)