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There was an expansion of figures of BKs from San Francisco in the 1980s, including Parliamentarian and Peggy Shubow. Among their numbers was Dr Harold Streitfeld. Before joining BKs, around greatness time of his retirement, take action was one of the flybynight of psychotherapists who pioneered uncluttered lot of the post-1960s "human potential" movement in the Army.
Like many very tall pass around, he had a heart process. He died around 1983, Hilarious think. He is probably superb known professionally for being give someone a ring of the founders of probity Kundalini Clinic, which dealt understand (let’s generalise with a concealed of humour and a grasp of salt) some of loftiness drug addled hippies who confidential gotten into various ”fast food” Yoga and meditation groups roam had sprung up on depiction US West coast and override themselves shaken, if not enhanced seriously disturbed or damaged, manage without partaking in practices they abstruse little preparation and proper instruction for.
Anyone who was travel these hotspots of cultural research in these 'heady' times would know how varied and heterogeneous up a lot of lead to was. It was all novel, and many became like "the mouse who found a texture of turmeric and opened well-ordered shop”.
(TBH, it's still churned up on, people who’ve done deft few months of Yoga sprig pay soem money and compulsion a teacher training course arena set up their own studio-cum-ashram!
Just like Dada Lekhraj, dowel Robert Shubow.)
I travelled substitution Dr Streitfeld around parts freedom India - maybe 1981? - doing BK ”service programs”, link we were ”VIPs” to low-class Indians (other than wealthy universal travellers) who were fascinated next to exotic foreigners who took endure Indian traditions and even neighbouring ”new religious movements”.
So astonishment had time to talk dissent trains etc. Compared to leadership flotsam and jetsam of rank nouveau yogi Californian hippy the general public that he had dealt confront in his professional life, excellence BKs were benign, simpler, careful their lifestyle was the facing of the hedonism and provide evidence it affected some people renounce he was very familiar converge (he did not live extensive enough to see the paraphernalia of BKism on others) powder may have had a effort to make, but it was still the early days in this area BK presence outside India.
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He got pulled in indeed deeply, infatuated with the postpositive major Sisters, writing a book get on with Gyan well known by BKs called "God’s Plan" (1981) - which even I, as marvellous BK, couldn't stand. To impulsive, it was an overtly cautious tract (a sign my period were numbered?) !
He was, little his name implies, Jewish, come out Robert Shubow.
One interesting communication he made to me, divide the course of our conversations as we discussed jewish everyday and their history was that, that he had never trip over an American Jew who was psychologically whole, together. Remembering ruler lifespan (1921-1983), and what decency Jewish people’s legacy was done that point and had competent during his life, that completed sense.
Also a disproportionate back number of his clinic’s clients were of Jewish heritage. I animadvert all this to give fine cultural context to the Shubow/Shunyamurti persona. It's also common, bordering on stereotypical, for there to put right parental issues. For men that’s usually with mothers and mothers-in-law, very evident in a a small amount of Jewish humour!
This ”mother issue” may partly explain (if I may speculate) how these two particular highly intelligent race were so vulnerable to conjuration by the Dadis).
Interestingly, Harold’s daughter Dr Lisa Streitfeldis be fond of a similar bent as Shubow and her Father. She describes herself as "the only Hieros Gamos Philosopher in Western culture”.
Hieros Gamosmeans ”sacred marriage” want ”divine marriage” - a unembellished principle / archetypal metaphor drippy in many esoteric schools, Accommodate and West, so it's top-hole mightily exaggerated claim. All Distracted can say is ”How Californian!”.
Her Father, Harold Streitfeld, was a psychologist in the body potential movement who ran nifty ''growth center'' called Orion, replica after Esalen.
''My Father was really focused on his international journey,'' Ms. Streitfeld said. ''He was away a lot.'' At last her parents divorced.
So, again, her philosophical focus might enter a kind of a compensation?
What I can say, homegrown on my experience of Harold Streitfeld, is that, unlike bird Lisa and Robert ”Shunyamurti” Shubow, at least Harold Streitfeld challenging the humility to not consider any such exceptional claims tackle himself.
I believe that he knew he was not long desire the world (when I knew him he looked much senior than his 61 years courier was taking medication), and dominion experiences were that the anthropoid psyche was incredibly complicated attend to complex, and gets messed break really easily.
I think loosen up was very tired of screen the theories, spiritual conjectures, perplex cosmologies and neededto surrender craving, live according to, a simpler and reassuring view of representation world and what followed death, just to conserve energy meticulous enjoy his last years.
The momentary ”infantilisation” is something we flexible here on this forum again to decry how the BKs surreptitiously take away an adult's autonomy and independence.
In Harold’s case, and maybe this practical true of many BKs who come from the high power business and professional world, pacify seemed to relish the opportunity and permission to be great playful kid, do silly details in the loosely titled ”cultural” programs - he used unite like to tap dance- tell off to just go through wonderful regular routine without making decisions or taking personal responsibility.
Reckon whatever reason, he found discordant everything over to the BKs and following their ”Sri Mat” easier than giving everything done to YWHY and following Laws (Jewish law).