Cult Leader Sarah Landry and the U-Turn Theory in Action
Westerners appropriate Indic ideas through a process which Rajiv Malhotra has called the U-Turn. In its basic form the U-Turn Theory states that 1) PHASE 1: A member of the dominant Western culture first whole-heartedly learns the Indic tradition. 2) PHASE 2: He or she, for a variety of reasons, then repackages it and projects the knowledge gained from India from within his/her own culture. 3) PHASE 3: The next thing you know is that s/he claims these ideas were always an integral part of Western culture.
4) PHASE 4: Then they start demonizing the source Indic traditions using a lot of pretexts, such as calling them “world negating” or accusing them of “human rights” abuses. Source: https://deeshaa.org/2006/02/16/rajiv-malhotras-u-turn-theory/ As an example, Malhotra has examined on how Jung appropriated much from Indic thought – including key ideas of collective unconscious, archetypes, and synchronicity – but did the classical U-Tu...
