I like this term self-diagnosed omniscient because not only does it sound good but it also has wide applicability. The number of people proclaiming their omniscience from soap boxes on the internet is increasing rapidly.
There are a number of logical implications:
It is impossible to teach or otherwise advise meaningfully anyone who is a self-diagnosed omniscient.
It follows that some of these diagnoses must at best be premature if not wholly inaccurate.
The number of the self-diagnosed omniscient over estimates the true omniscient population at large. The frequency of occurrence of self-diagnosis is high. One suspects that true omniscience is much rarer than that which is self-diagnosed.
What do you reckon?
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Over the years many people have told me what I am thinking according to them. They have speculated and perhaps gossiped about my motivations. Without exception {almost} nobody has checked their speculations and deep omniscient insight into me, with me. Many have felt that they need to offer me the benefit of their extensive, comprehensive and profound wisdom. Clearly they have noted a gaping vacuum in my knowledge which I myself have been totally unaware of. I have been fortunate to have free access to very many willing vocal and erudite teachers, just waiting to teach me, to learn me. I must have a special personal magnetism for opinions which at a magic high field strength draws these out of others in an irresistible way.
I have said this before:
I have never appointed a spokesperson or any kind of port-parole. If anyone, without exception, is claiming to speak on my behalf or have insight into my thinking, they are a liar and a charlatan. I have never asked anyone to speak on my behalf and if anyone claims to be doing this they are a lying bastard. If anyone claims to know where I am coming from they are a deluded lunatic.
Boys will be boys; they will gather round the campfire and make shit up. After a while they may even believe it…
Quack quack…
Dreamyoga 