This YouTube channel constantly comes up in my feed. Jason Gregory is a spiritual teacher from Australia. Many of his videos have titles which sound like click bait about "the most DANGEROUS book in the world". Eventually, I decided to give it a go. The first video linked above is a good introduction. Peruse the others at your leisure. There is much more on the channel itself.
The most dangerous book ever turns out to be the "Avadhuta Gita". I admit I never heard about it before! It´s apparently an important text within the Nath Panth, a Shaiva tradition in India associated with Gorakh or Gorakhnath. The "Avadhuta Gita" is attributed to Dattatreya, a divine figure often depicted as a three-headed wandering ascetic. Yes, we are dealing with an antinomian and "Tantric" movement. The Naths seem to be pretty close to the Western stereotype of fakirs!
How dangerous Gregory might be is less clear. He seems to emphasize the "safe" aspects of the message (the ones that sound like Advaita Vedanta) and combines this with Taoist teachings about cosmic harmony and so on. However, here and there, we get tantalizing glimpses that perhaps there is more to realize. For instance, moving pictures of "avadhutas" (liberated souls) covered in ashes from the funeral pyre.
Make of this content what you wish.
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