25.09.08
Indian skeptics
Here’s a post at Darwiniana that might be of interest: Indian sceptics
Myers going global, Free Thought In India, with an Indian ‘Freethought’ site, http://nirmukta.com/, the sutbtitle ‘Breaking The Spell’ gives it away, Dennett & Ananda Meera. There is a lot of commentary here on that subject, check the search function. The question of Indian religion is complex, but the attack on the whole of the Indian tradition in the context of attacking right-wing Hinduism, is, as usual, the wrong approach. A figure such as Ananda Meera should have known better.
I should say that the Indian site might well be of interest here on this blog, as its intent resembles ours. But my viewpoint is very different from that represented by people such as Myers who will be totally unhelpful to anyone trying to sort out his New Age confusions. Such scientists want to lock us in a box of total ignorance. And that is precisely why we are vulnerable to the Gurdjieff types.