Foreword

The meaning of Doctor Dr. Livergood's monograph, How To Become A Modern Guru, can easily be missed or misconstrued. The ideas in the book move rather quickly and pleasantly, and the reader may glide past the subtlety and deeper intention in his amusement and heedlessness.

If this book raises suspicions about what now passes for Knowledge and Teaching, it is not for the purpose of merely mollifying and discharging those suspicions. It would be well for the reader to consider what this means.

Readers should use the book to discover in themselves those particular elements that they allow to lead to their being complicitly duped or lured by the self-deceived charlatan. Quite likely many readers will be only amused by the book, ignoring its possible meaning for themselves. Others will see the book as rather unexceptional, the techniques and ideas of the well-intentioned obsessive having become an ingrained part of our culture.

By suggesting what is false teaching and knowledge, this book does not claim to know what is true. It is intended only as a preparatory primer for those who wish to de-condition their admittedly patterned minds. If such de-conditionng can be done in a somewhat pleasant way, all the better.

What an interesting thought that there might possibly be a real teacher who would have none of the motives of the Modern Guru - and who would actually possess a real source of knowledge.

Elmer W. Gantry
Higher Dimension, California