This second article contains information about Madi Nolan.

The topic is a good one with lots of curves and twists: how to find and recognize a genuine teacher?

Used to be anyone wearing a simple red string around their neck created instant recognition with anyone else wearing the same. It was a kind of brotherhood.
This was in the time when teachers were so rare, only a few individuals outside of India would ever be wearing such a string. The string meant you had attended Wong.

Now, with Madi Nolan putting strings on people's toes so they can lose weight, or tying red string around their waist so they will find their soul mates, red strings abound.

The knot they create is large, but easily undone.

A valid teacher will speak to questions about where he or she gained their knowledge. Just as in the western cultures, people who have legitimately "graduated" from eastern schools of learning can respond to who their teacher was and where their school is located.

Flee from anyone who cloaks such information in a secret cloud of nameless monasteries and foggy elders.

Question the teacher also on their own background. Some teachers I know for example have children, whom they have abandoned in order to seek the "higher" paths.

I have never been able to understand how if you abandon your own child you are in a position of authority to help others. Just defies this girl's sense of common sense!

And these teachers carefully avoid letting it be known they have offspring. Instead they want to discuss the "higher" aspects of life.

That's a split in their consciousness. Recognize it for what it is and move on!

I'll be tapping more about this topic in weeks to come but for now go to strippingtheguru.com or
americanbuddha.com for more on who is a false teacher in the North American scene.

Enjoy your day!