Actually, I was sort of playing the devil's advocate re: Master. If he was prone to 'magick tricks,' they were probably pretty rarely used. At worse, maybe he was a little like Arthur Ford, whose admirers wrote about his extensive stash of obituaries & other research. At best, I think he was genuinely a saint who had to put up w/ egotistical, sexual predators like Kriyananda (Donald Walters). To be fair, Kriyananda was an outstanding speaker, singer, composer, & leader, but he was also human & had his flaws. I was never so shocked as the time a visitor to Ananda asked him to tell a story about Master's life. He suddenly got this frustrated or exasperated look on his face & blurted out, "But don't you want to hear a story about my life?" I imagine he was pretty tired of recounting Master's exploits by the late 1980s.do you have and ref for yoganada trickery? I looked but could only find:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/srfblacklist/yogananda-s-pulse-trick-t236.html
on the other hand, there are lot of eye witness accounts by reliable folks... it wasn't that long ago.
Yes, I believed most of all of the astounding tales in Autobio. of a Yogi, especially since I was raised w/ tales like J.C. raising the dead & walking on water. Why couldn't Sri Yukteswar Giri hold his crumbling school together w/ his divine powers if J.C. could be tortured, murdered & rise from the dead to walk around w/ his disciples? I have personally experienced Master Li's fashun or his tulpa creations, however you wish to conceive them. His fashun are described 'as intelligent beings that help him do the work of supporting & protecting his millions of devotees which he is bound to honor for their efforts to cultivate themselves.' Like Master, Li cannot abuse his divine gifts by misusing them or engaging in immoral behavior, such as lying. To do so would drop his level & deprive him of his gifts, plus force him to start the formidable process of spiritual cultivation all over again from the very beginning.
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