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Richard Hil's avatar

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for your post. I read your posts quite often and find them heartwarming and insightful. I’m just wondering about a couple of things, though. The travel – celebrated as a marker of ones CV. Don’t get me wrong, I travel too, but feel increasingly uneasy about doing so. Climate catastrophe, tourist invasions, environmental harms etc. How much travel is yet another form of consumption? Also, not everyone can travel. The places many of us visit, many, perhaps most people who live there, can’t afford to travel.

I have no doubt that Radha’s retreats are excellent. But is there a need to travel to India? Also, I suspect the cost is prohibitive for many people. I think there’s a class dimension to all this, is there not? Perhaps I’m wrong.

I have other, let’s call them concerns, but my current gripes will do for now. The more I peer into what has been described as the ‘spiritual industrial complex’ the more questions I have.

Thankyou,

Richard

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Andy Leader's avatar

Hi Christopher. How about a little compassion for the many people living with Long Covid and it's relative ME ? So many people stuck indoors or in bed suffering. Dharma has been a lifeline for me personally with this illness. Sad to see such an awful illness being made light of. Would you use cancer or MS in a sales pitch? Maybe?

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