6/23/2023 0 Comments Barbara ehrenreich deirdre englishWhy mention this here? Well, as I read this book, my eyes were opened to the fact that the so-called "experts" in the USA had survived for two centuries peddling similar type of bovine excrement, albeit without the spiritual tag. She even cited visiting temples during their monthly periods (a strict no-no in Hindu culture) as one of the reasons for endometriosis among women! Of course, anyone with a modicum of common sense would understand that this was nothing but pure, unadulterated gobbledygook - but the "doctor" label of the speaker, and the mixture of New Age claptrap and "Hindu" spirituality, resulted in she being taken seriously by a lot of people. This estimable person said, in a highly convincing way, that some temples were centres of "positive cosmic energy" which would play hell with menstrual cycles. Among all the brouhaha, a video started doing the rounds, from a lady doctor of Indian origin from the US. In January 2019, all hell broke loose in the state of Kerala in India because the Supreme Court allowed women of menstruating age to enter the Sabarimala Temple, which is supposedly a "men-only" club due to the fact that the deity is supposed to be ritually celibate.
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