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Thanks for your kind words. My ventures into gurubusting have been small compared to yours but yes, previously the only place for questioning the merits of individual gurus was in the condemn-em-all anti-cult sites.

About the self-help near-gurus, the reasons you stated for their being off your radar make good sense, and there's the question of allocating your energies. They do have enormous influence though and their endorsements and associations with these guys are worth a lot.

Still, best to wait rather than chase after them and root through their garbage cans.

Sarlo

[Amusing aside: I just did a bit of searching and found Wayne Dyer on your David Hawkins page. Not only was he not supporting the Hawk, but the Google-supplied ad for the page was one FOR Hawkins. Ha ha!]

They're big but are they interesting enough? And are they cult-like enough to qualify?

I'm thinking of the big-timey quasi-gurus of self-improvement, such as "personal growth expert Brandon Bays, Chief Trainer to uber-guru Anthony Robbins for many years, appearing on stage with the likes of Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer," who all appeared in the same Google hit.

Sarlo

Has a new book out, more to add to his oeuvre of somewhat well-received books, but the catch: still relying on the bankrupt device of muscle-testing (Applied Kinesiology) to make pronouncements on the absolute truth of everything, eg that Geo W is an honourable and intelligent man. More at http://www.globalserve.net/~sarlo/Yhawkins.htm

Sarlo