http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/24/how-things-begin-conference-call-classes-about-indian-philosophies/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:38:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/24/how-things-begin-conference-call-classes-about-indian-philosophies/#comment-156692 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:22:25 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/04/24/how-things-begin-conference-call-classes-about-indian-philosophies/#comment-156692 [...] Motivational speaker as the American equivalent of Indian guru! Seth on conference calls on Indian philosophy: Kashyap himself recently stopped teaching classes so that he would have more time to learn. He is now taking classes with a teacher named K. S. Varadachar. He dials his number in India at a particular time. Other people can dial in as well. They listen and ask questions. “I got isolated from my community when I came to this country 20 years ago,” Kashya said. “Reading books is not enough. There wasn’t any other way to communicate [besides the conference calls]. When I wanted to learn I had to get teachers from India.” [...] […] Motivational speaker as the American equivalent of Indian guru! Seth on conference calls on Indian philosophy: Kashyap himself recently stopped teaching classes so that he would have more time to learn. He is now taking classes with a teacher named K. S. Varadachar. He dials his number in India at a particular time. Other people can dial in as well. They listen and ask questions. “I got isolated from my community when I came to this country 20 years ago,” Kashya said. “Reading books is not enough. There wasn’t any other way to communicate [besides the conference calls]. When I wanted to learn I had to get teachers from India.” […]

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