Author:
Patterson, William Patrick
This is the first book to explore one of the taboo subjects of our time - spiritual theft, distortion and appropriation.
Using the ancient teaching of the Fourth Way as a model, Patterson details and documents how a principal symbol of the teaching has been stolen and commercialized by the so-called enneagram community; how Robert Burton, founder of the Fellowship of Friends, has distorted the teaching; how the Russian esotericist Boris Mouravieff plagiarized it and then tried to appropriate it.