APART from the fact that that they all hold, and propagate, strong views about metaphysical matters, what connects the following people? The Dalai Lama; Pope Francis; the Egyptian Muslim preacher Amr Khaled; Joyce Meyer, a charismatic Christian preacher from the American Middle West; Deepak Chopra, best-selling writer on the generically spiritual, and Richard Dawkins, the British atheist intellectual. Answer: they are all stars of the Twitter-sphere; as of this morning, their respective followings were 11.1m, 6.16m, 4.28m, 3.45m, 2.45m and 1.16m.
