When Elon Musk transformed the 14 year old verification program into a paid service he broke a fundamental trust between users and the service. Now Twitter Blue is using the likeness of the famous people it's branded over the years to sell promotional services to paid subscribers who seem to trend towards the conspiratorially minded. As far as I can tell, there's no way for me to give my badge back. Subscribe to my newsletter https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h1g1p6 https://linktr.ee/sgcarney Remember to subscribe, like and leave comments! I read them all. #twitterblue #elonmusk #verification ©PokeyBear LLC (2023) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayW9yCsZqD4

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In 2012, thirty-eight-year-old Ian Thorson's search for spiritual transcendence ended in tragedy on a remote Arizona mountaintop. His wife, a woman anointed as a goddess by an eccentric Buddhist community, held him in her arms as he slowly died from dehydration and dysentery. For Carney, a journalist and anthropologist who lived in India for six years, Thorson's death was just the most recent iteration of an unspoken epidemic that connected intensive meditation and mental instability. The Enlightenment Trap explores how Tibetan Buddhism in the West morphed from its roots in the Himalayan foothills into a fundamentally new American religion. For Thorson the entry point into this new faith was Geshe Michael Roach, the supreme spiritual leader of Diamond Mountain University. Carney unravels the cult-like practices of Diamond Mountain to illuminate the uniquely American tendency to mix and match Eastern religious traditions like LEGO pieces. The result is that for some, enlightenment is a synonym for almost god-like powers and achieving it can become more important than life itself. Aided by Thorson’s private papers and cutting-edge neurological research, the book reveals the profound impact of intensive meditation on the brain. Carney exposes stories of miracles and black magic, sexualized rituals, and tantric rites from former Diamond Mountain acolytes. The Enlightenment Trap is a gripping work of investigative journalism that reveals how the path to enlightenment can be riddled with danger. Download the audiobook (or get the print book) for The Enlightenment Trap at https://www.scottcarney.com/the-enlightenment-trap Subscribe to my newsletter https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h1g1p6 https://linktr.ee/sgcarney Remember to subscribe, like and leave comments! I read them all. ©PokeyBear LLC (2023) #enlightenment #spirituality #wimhof ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO38oZfQrfU

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