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Other interactions with the community got a little more heavy. The local KKK would come and attack our community by firing off their rifles and even burning crosses. Many of the people living in the community were monks from India. The racists would shout \"sand niggers\" before firing off their guns or lighting fires. That is a racist term for Arabs but what does a hick know? For them, \"if it ain´t white then it ain´t right.\" I was put in charge of security at the community. Talking to the police came to no avail and so I decided to fight back. Some people thought we should get a gun but I was against it. It was all good fun on my part. I would climb a giant oak tree and throw rocks at their trucks when they arrived. They did not see me and thought a gun was fired at their truck. I even put giant spikes in a log that dropped across the road when they entered. I once jumped out of the woods at night with a broom stick to pound the side of their car. I was almost naked, just wearing a yogi loincloth, kind of like Tarzan. I was called to duty in the middle of the night when they arrived. It was so funny to see that some poor neo-Nazi with a bald tattooed head screaming like a baby out of poor terror from some skinny, almost naked vegan who was \"attacking\" him.
Yet there was also a lighter, friendlier side to the local people. It relieved me that untamed human nature free from modern civilization could also have a good side as well. I became friends with a hillbilly family. They thought I was so nice that I must be a Christian. I was just a free thinker who practiced yoga and hung out with some monks on vacations. However, I liked some passages from the bible and I shared this with them. They began to defend me from the prejudices of their church. One day, while visiting them, their preacher arrived. He had a really bad vibration, full of hatred and prejudice. They said \"this is our friend Bill and he is a good Christian.
My friends back at the community began to joke with me and call me Bill, the Christian hill billy.
A few years ago I visited a remote community in Chiapas with a psychiatrist who was working with local communities. We were discussing the nobility of humans when they are free of modern civilization but were also recognizing the obvious dark sides of humanity. I told her about the Ozark hill billys and we recognized that things were not so different here. As a Texan who has lived in Missouri and now in Chiapas I can say that the redneck is a universal human phenomenon. They come in all forms and colors. Wherever there is xenophobia, fear of outsiders and a desire to defend oneself from imaginary threats, then there are rednecks. Yet here in Chiapas there does seem to be a little more friendliness.. I think there is a little more inclusion in their communities and a little less intentional cruelty than with the Ozark hicks. However, I have also heard of some pretty savage communities here as well. My friend and I both agreed that it was very important to treat these people well so that their innocence does not convert into crude, divisive ignorance.
She told me about a very friendly local man named Hitler. He had no idea who Hitler actually was. His parents just knew he was some famous, powerful man and they liked the sound of his name. Hitler had a dog named Killer, who was actually a nice dog. He did not speak English but heard it was a good name for a guard dog. It was very ironic that a friendly man and a friendly dog had such names.
Most people I know around here relate to me as another person, not as somebody from the U.S. However, some people idealize me because I must be some white and rich foreigner. Their inferiority complexes make them think that foreigners have these really beautiful lives. If they only understood how really terrible it is to have lived in Nazi Germany or the U.S. in current times! In the end the quality of life in racist dictatorships is not much better than in the impoverished, corrupt narco states like Mexico. It is all so absurd that it seems unreal. Yes it is absurd, yet so dangerous that ignorant minds have no idea of what these \"good\" forces are actually doing to the world.
I always thought that North Korea had the most absurd political mythology. The semi-divine Kim Jong-il even went so far to say that he never had to defecate. Now Trump´s AI diarrhea depicting himself as a Christ figure pushes the U.S. into first place. I always wondered if any North Koreans really believed any of the ridiculous state propaganda or if they were just too scared not to. Yet Trump is an elected leader in a Christian democracy, making it all the more absurd. He maybe one of the wealthiest and powerful men in the world, but he is really just another red-neck.
Der Biermiester Des Reiches
\nA few years ago I received a gag Christmas gift, a Christmas sweater with Trump's face and words that read \"Make X-mas Great Again.\" I put the sweater on, grabbed an empty beer bottle from a cousin next to me and started to pretend to be so drunk and idiotic that I believed not just in Santa but in the good Christian nature of Donald Trump. I was the perfect MAGA idiot. Everybody had a good laugh. It felt strange to hold a beer in my hand. Within my family in Mexico people make jokes about how I drink all of the alcohol and don't get drunk. I am the beer master. I play with that title because I helped people master beer. I taught meditation to people who drank alcohol and many never drank again. I always felt a little heavy and mentally confused for a while after teaching meditation to people who drink alcohol, but we worked through it. I understand the negative effects of alcohol because I feel what happens to people when they drink alcohol. I never hang around too long around environments where people drink. After the first few drinks they have the vibe gets heavy, and I leave before the fatal assault on their neurons begins. A photo was taken and I even shared it on Facebook the last few years at every Christmas. But then there was Trump 2.0 and the beginning of the 4th Reich. Now I feel using the photo as a joke is becoming as inappropriate as wearing a shirt with the bust of Hitler and classic German font that reads \"Deutschland Uber Alles.\" I hear people say the comparison with Trump and Hitler is exaggerated. Regardless, even the vice president referred to Trump as \"America's Hitler\" before he joined his cult. It was easy to make jokes about the USA and Trump. I was not anti-American but was always more interested in being a citizen of the world than being an American. This detachment made it easy to make light of the situation with jokes, but now I am afraid I could hurt my good friends who are trapped within the Reich. I did not leave the US because of some intense existential clash that made me want to renounce my citizenship or identity as an American. Good and evil are relative and are present everywhere. One one may plug into their channels everywhere. Life just lead me elsewhere, changing with other selves in other places along the way. It is good to flow along with so many different others and come together. One can be here or there, yet ever still, oneself. Coalescence is the eternal game of hide and seek within creation. Playing through desire, the infinite hides and resides within the finite. We desire it everywhere, in all forms, times and places. It is temporarily found and there is joy, and then it escapes through all forms, times and places. It eternally hides, then again calls us ever onward toward the new. \"Don't look out too far. Behind every face I am you. \"
\nI stopped drinking alcohol when I was a student. I never drank to the point of getting sick but I began to feel depressed after drinking. Instead of drinking more to cover the depression (which is what I saw so many people doing) I simply quit. Meditation helped with that. Later I helped other people stop drinking by teaching yoga and meditation to them. I used to see light social drinking as pretty harmless but have seen friends and family fall into heavier drinking problems. I now avoid social situations when people drink alcohol; not so much out of prejudice but because the energetic vibration is dense. The bottles open and people`s auras go dark. They seem happy because they escape into a stupor of unconsciousness. I perceive this on the subjective mental-energetic level but there is tangible scientific evidence of its destructiveness as well. A recent study I read in The Guardian reveals how any amount of alcohol consumed reduced brain gray matter density.
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A yogi once said that worldly pleasures are like a dog chewing on a sharp bone. The poor dog doesn't even understand that he is enjoying his own blood. I believe that there are some worldly pleasures that one can enjoy in a balanced manner . Being very aware of the senses makes the senses more alive and one feels that the spirit is enjoying through one, that it is enjoying being embodied in the human form with all the colors, smells, tastes and sounds of the sensory world. It is not the same as the compulsion where one loses consciousness in sheer and desperate sensation.
Alcohol is the most deceitful of desires. It kills your brain while you think you are feeling pleasure, just like the dog chewing on his bone. At least when you eat too much and gain weight you can change your diet and exercise and return to a normal state of health, for example. It is not the same with alcohol. Any amount kills the gray matter of the brain that doesn't regenerate. One is left more foolish and unable to distinguish between what is healthy and not what is healthy.
According to the practice and philosophy of yoga, the brain, organs and glands must be balanced and healthy to develop spiritual awareness. Alcohol kills the brain and liver and is therefore a poison. A little alcohol is a little poison and a lot of alcohol is a lot of poison. But is it more destructive than political-religious dogma that also kills finer ideas?
Here is an article that I wrote about how to transmute addictions into healthier desires with meditation and yoga.
Pleasures, Habits, Addictions, and the “5M” Of Tantra
A friend writes to me the other day and asks how he can leave behind some worldly habits that prevent him from being able to dedicate himself to meditation. They are common habits that many people enjoy but that serious meditators have left behind. So, if many other people have overcome habits of enjoying alcohol, tobacco, meat, and drugs then it is certainly possible that any other person of similar determination may also transcend these habits. If only we can understand the methods of which these meditators successfully used to leave behind their habits and commit themselves to the practice of meditation then we may detect a pattern that can be taught to others really struggling to break these habits.
I will speak not just from my own experience but from the experience of many friends and students who have become dedicated meditators. Most of us stopped drinking and smoking in the like in a very gradual manner. While at the same time we started practicing a little mediation and yoga. By getting some positive feelings and natural highs we became convinced that it is possible to feel really good and even better than drinking alcohol or smoking something, however the habits were still present. Furthermore, these habits were almost always socially enforced by our friends and family. I always told my students that they never had to break their habits abruptly and that in fact this could have adverse consequences. Stopping a habit requires a lot of repression and this repression may bounce back with a fury that creates so much tension that one decides to leave meditation altogether because it simply creates too much stress. Instead, one should gradually reduce habits. At the same time one becomes just a little more disciplined, one should concurrently gradually reduce the amount or frequency of alcohol, cigarettes, etc. consumed. This approach is called “systematic withdrawal.” If one notices that one is just a little less bound to one´s addictions and is also beginning to feel the benefits of meditation, then some confidence is inspired.
Really, what we need is confidence in ourselves, in our will to change. Perhaps, it is lack of confidence and firm determination that one can succeed, cope, or overcome that leads one into addictions to begin with. Sometimes addictions are simple social and personal habits but so often we develop addictive habits so as to cover up some tension, neurosis, or complex. This is another important reason to gradually reduce habits, because we may be opening a Pandora´s box, a door into something unconscious that the ego is not yet ready to see, accept, and integrate. So confidence must develop gradually. It is important to spend time with people who foster this confidence. It gives one an example of successful integration and the good counsel of such teachers helps one onward. If one remains alone with one´s habits trying to overcome them without these examples then the task is so much more difficult.
Once one begins to have confidence and a strong will then one is able to fully leave the habit. With this freedom one feels that your mind belongs to you, that nothing can bind it. However this is where we must be careful because there is always some other habit, some other hidden tendency waiting to disturb the newly found peace. A tantric meditator should understand this principle, that there is no peace without struggle, and every victory gained should be an accumulation of strength for the next battle. Maybe one has overcome alcohol and meat and the sexual urge is somewhat placated, but what next? Later we move into psychological habits, perhaps mental patterns and defenses for the ego. Now we have to deal with the roots of anger, fear, and insecurity. Now the habits are no longer physical, but psychological. And so the drama continues passing through lower psychological complexes toward resolving more subtle psychological complexes until our meditation leads us into a more spiritual state of existence.
In tantra there is a concept called the 5 M. The “Ms” are sanskrit words that begin with M: Madya, Mamsa, Matsya, Mudra, and Maithuna. The words are for the habits of wine, meat, fish, social company, and sexuality. The idea is that the practitioner may begin practice with these habits but gradually understand the true meaning of why one is attached to such things. There is a crude as well as subtle interpretation of each M. By gradually understanding the subtle longing of a desire one can let go of the crude habit and find what one is truly desiring.
Madya is wine. The spiritual connotation is divine nectar, or amrta. It is easy to understand the desire for alcohol. Alcohol is something that some people enjoy with moderation but at the same time it is a great disease that destroys not just the lives of individuals and their families but entire societies as well. Here in Mexico the vast majority of men are alcoholics. It is amazing for me to consider this and has far reaching disastrous effects into family and cultural life. What one seeks in the bottle is Spirit, and the more one seeks it the less Spirit is actually there. Meditation gives us a true enebriation and we feel that some bio-chemical process is also trigerred, however it does not leave us in a state of stupor and a compulsive desire to continue looking for such a passing, destructive pleasure. When the mind becomes purified through yoga and meditation the pineal gland becomes more active and gives one a sweet state of spiritual “intoxication.” This feeling is lasting and does not damage the liver like alcohol. The emotions are not suppressed like in drunkenness where one escapes into a temporary state of pleasure. Instead one begins to see the mind and heart from this sweet state of spiritual intoxication. The complexes and problems of life are accepted and integrated with such clarity and the state of happiness or bliss only continues to increase until it becomes infinite, or “ananda.”
A student recently wrote to me to tell me that he now often experiences states of bliss after his meditation that he likens to LSD. He has never even tried LSD but he always imagined such a state as the closest approximation to his current experiences. So many times I have had other students who said they felt like they were on mushrooms, stoned, or enebriated with alcohol. Many of them have tried these substances but after the practice of yoga left them and found higher joys. They used the analogies of tripping or being enebriated because these states are the best way to explain these “altered” states of awareness to those who cannot understand the pure and balanced joys of spiritual ideation.
When one uses an external, or “exogenous” substance to activate one’s inner neurochemistry, one is really only stimulating one’s internal “endogenous” substances like neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and hormones. Did nature evolve the human brain over billions of years so that people could only discover their internal neurochemical states through psychedelics and alcohol? After so many centuries of materialstic thought it has become so rare that humans naturally discover these states through mysticism, aesthetics and natural, balanced living. Ignorant people argue that one should not worry about spiritual discipline when it is much easier and quicker to use a substance to achieve a mystical state of consciousness. Only superficially does this appear to be true. There are always side effects to quickly attained states of awareness. Instead of gradually fine-tuning the nervous system to cultivate these states as second nature, one instead blasts the mind with an experience that is very much different that one’s normal state of awareness. A yogi slowly accustoms the mind and body to spiritual ecstacy and so therefore maintains this state in balance and experiences it regularly. As such, the mystical state of awareness becomes permanent knowlege instead of a temporary experience. I always hear that one´s first ayahuascar or mushroom experiences are the strongest. Later, one cannot have the same depth of experience even with higher doses.
Although power plants may give one some initial insight into mysticism, these states are simply not sustainable. However, such experiences are far better than using alcohol. One who intoxicates with alcohol is in spiritual darkness. Alcohol is the crudest and most deceptive substance that human beings have discovered.
While there is always a drinker who surprises one with a degree of spiritual insight, however, I believe this speaks more to a strong character resistant to poison. How many such strong souls are there? How many have enough reserve vitality to resist the slow but certain pull into deadened consciousness, damaged organs and ruined families? Having seen so many fall, I suppose my point of view has evolved into something similar to a person who has passed through Alcoholics Anonymous and views the use of alcohol as a personal, social and spiritual disease. And living in Mexico where at least half of the men are alcoholics has only strengthened this view.</
Mamsa is meat. The animal mind craves intense sensual pleasure. When we know not of subtle desires then the tongue is also crude and desires flesh. Carnivorous habits keep us bound to other compulsions as well. Vegetarians begin to feel a certain lightness in their existence and can more easily understand spiritual ideas. Mamsa´s subtle interpretation is control of speech. From a calmer and more introverted state of existence one sees more clearly the mental habits and their expressions and is able to regulate their expressions, not just with how one speaks but with how one thinks and feels.
Matsya means fish. Eating fish is the same as eating meat. However, the subtle interpretation of Matsya refers to controlling the Ida and pingula energetic currents through yoga and more specifically pranayama, the control of breath. The Ida current is the lunar, centripetal, calm and inward current of the mind. Ida controls inner thoughts and feelings. The Pingala is the solar, centrifugal, vigorous and external current of the mind. It is more related to external actions and movements. Ida and Pingala are states for the brain and nervous system. By regulating the inward and outward currents, the vigorous and calm, the introverted and extroverted, one finds stillness. The Ida and Pingala are said to be two subtle energetic currents that twist around the central current of the Shushumna, in the very center of the spinal column. The image of the Cadaceus is a western image for the Ida, Pingala, and Shushumna. Pranayama is the yogic breathing practice of alternating the respiration through the left and right nostrils. The right nostril controls the Pingala solar current while the left nostril controls the Ida lunar current. By concentrating the respiration on a point in the center of the spinal column, both Ida an Pingala merge into the central current of the Shushumna. The breathing becomes very slow and steady through Pranayama breath control until eventually it stops. One enters a state of breathlessness where the mind is completely stilled. The body enters a state of stasis with full vitality but the mind stops and one sees Spirit in a pure and calm state, like the reflection of the moon on placid waters.
Mudra means posture. In this context of the 5 Ms it refers to social company. One may remain in the company of people who enforce worldly habits or one may seek spiritual company. I have received tremendous help from the company of spiritual people. Not only does one see an example of spirituality and ask questions and receive counsel but there is also a subtle energy emanated into the environment where spiritual people gather. Regular, collective meditation helps generate such a mind field and really helps people to concentrate. For a beginner this is very important because it is so difficult to concentrate. It is as if each individual mind gets focused and together each mind is a ray of a laser that helps to break through mental barriers.
Maithuna means sexual intercourse. One does not have to renounce sexuality in order to meditate. However, the more energy that is used in sexuality the less energy one has for meditation. Therefore one should gradually reduce sexual intercourse so as to have more stamina for meditation. The so called “tantric sex” practices really do not help people with this. In most cases it is just kinkiness and wild novelty that makes people even more sexually compulsive. Meditation is about finding inner love and sexuality is deepened by meditation. Instead of desperately seeking pleasure through compulsive sexuality, one enjoys deeper, more loving experiences with sexual intercourse and simply does not have to go at it all of the time in desperate efforts for love, happiness, and meaning. When one becomes truly in love with Spirit one may even transcend sexuality. Entering into union with Spirit is spiritual intercourse and is the greatest form of ecstasy that a human being may experience.
Love is something that unites us and makes two different people feel the same, to see things with equal understanding, and even progenate a new being made in their image. If that is not mysticism, I do not know what it is. It is natural mysticism, human mysticism, the mysticism of nature (Shakti) and its creative expressions. Perhaps it is expressed in the relative plane but the love that expresses itself here on earth comes from the same source as the love that attracts us to the absolute mysticism of the infinite consciousness, Shiva. In this relative world everything is distinct and diverse and human or natural mysticism unites everything that is separated by time, space, and person. There is more variety in this mysticism. However, in the end I find it difficult to say that it is something other than transcendental mysticism because finally it is the same source of love that pulls everyone and everything towards Itself. Human mysticism is a shared spirituality. Instead of a solitary mind seeking eternal refuge in its own solitary process, one seeks eternal union while being unified with others, and not necessarily through romantic love but with love for friends, animals, and nature.
While it is possible to express pure love and reach mystical states through maithuna, or spiritual sexuality, the most free form of maithuna union is through pure mysticism. A developed yogi expresses sexuality for producing very spiritual children or out of the most sacred connection with one´s soul mate. After the evolution and full experience of this process one may become a celibate. This is quite a different process than a forced vow of celibacy. Instead of renouncing sexuality through spiritual discipline one traverses through the whole gamut of sexual evolution from physical, to emotional, to spiritual forms of union with one´s sacred partner until one´s only desire is to merge with pure Spirit.
Conserving the semen and seminal fluid redirects the tremendous vitality that normally goes into the biological activity of reproduction toward spiritual reproduction. Instead of being wasted through excessive sexuality the vitality nourishes the nervous and endocrine systems. A strong nervous system with all of the proper nutrients to produce adequate hormones makes the will firm. Furthermore, there is a subtle alchemical process of converting the reproductive intelligence of the organism into spiritual reproduction. The brain that is fully functional actually transmutes physical energy from the material, biological level into mental energy. In other words, the spiritual mind and brain actually has the capacity to transmute energy from one plane to another. In ayurveda and yoga this refined, transmuted energy is called “ojas.” Cosmologically, this is a conversion of energy from the solid, or material, factor into the liquid, or bio-energetic, factor. “Liquid” energy is not liquid in the physical sense, but a finer form of matter similar to the concept of “chi” or “qui” in Chinese medicine. Liquid energy is a step above the physical material level as an intelligent flow of information that organizes matter into meaningful activity. With more liquid ojas one´s bio-energetic field, or aura, begins to magnify. One begins to feel subtle energies more within one´s body as well as perceive this energy in others and in nature.
The more one is given over to the expression of energy into the physical, sensual plane of reality, the less this conversion takes place. Therefore, excessive sexuality is dangerous in that it locks the mind into the error of seeing only the physical world and the pleasures of the physical body. The higher levels of energy are not perceivable for the sensualist and the process of physical-mental-spiritual evolution is hampered. There are so many levels of matter beyond even the “liquid.” In yoga, there are 5 levels of matter. Beyond matter is the mind and beyond mind is the spirit. The materialist and sensualist lives in the greatest illusion in that they really only perceive the “solid” material of reality without even understanding the “liquid” and other levels of subtle matter, not to mention understanding the pure mind and Spirit.
The latter part of this writing was a past writing about my past experience confronting injustices with an international socio-spiritual organization. Reviewing it made me recall another, more recent experience with an international organization of medical doctors that I am close to. The story I relate about them is in stark contrast with the story I tell about my experience confronting injustice in that socio-spiritual organization. I like the idea of pairing this quite positive example with my rather dismal and disappointing personal experience with that other organization. It helps things end on a lighter note and gives a little more hope for the prospect of justice within more responsible and intelligent human social organizations.
A few years ago my wife and her colleagues were involved in a situation to resolve a case of sexual harassment within their organization. She was on a panel with some other people given the duties of reviewing and resolving cases of professional misconduct within the organization. It was a very difficult situation because the accused party was generally well liked and even a personal friend to a few of the people on the review panel. However, the proofs against him that revealed his misconduct were all too clear and they were forced to act with impartiality and follow professional protocol which required firing him from his job. It was very difficult for them but nobody really felt guilty because the situation was very clear. Not only was it considered a professional transgression but it was just felt to be a wrong situation according to people´s personal sense of correctness as well.
I had no involvement in this whatsoever, nor had any involvement with their organization. I could sit back and simply respect how really balanced they were while handling the situation and how they achieved very effective results without scandal and ugly arguments. These people worked for an NGO providing medical services to people who had very little or no access to medical services in the most rural areas of Chiapas. Most people were Mexicans but there were also people from the U.S. and Europe. As the worked in global health, they had many connections with people from all over the planet as well. Many were very well educated and could easily have been pursuing more financially rewarding medical careers instead of working in the poorest areas of Chiapas. They are sincere people with very progressive ideas that are being put into practice. Also, the non-medical staff working with them really seemed to have the same spirit for caring for others as part of their professional work. In short, I would say that they were a very good group of people. I do not say they were perfect and would hate to idealize anybody or any society but I say that they really are congruent with their ideals and really do good things. Given the current state of the planet and human institutions involved in the madness, these friends have given a very good example of human conduct and ethics at the personal and professional levels. The world would certainly be a better place with more of such examples.
The more I thought about it the more I was forced to think about how contrary this case was compared to my own past situations with Ananda Marga. My friends in Chiapas not all like these pure examples of spiritually disciplined vegetarian yogis who promote the narrative of sacrificing their personal lives to manifest some spiritual mission to enlighten the planet that I encountered in Ananda Marga. Ananda Marga simply had the tall talk of universal ethics and an ideal society but really did nothing to achieve such a society. They achieved exactly the opposite. My doctor friends, while not having the comprehensive all embracing spiritual ideology of the yogis, at least had a desire to help others without putting their own egos first and really have had tangible results. In Ananda Marga I encountered situations much more extreme ethical transgressions. However, there was nothing achieved in these inquiries. Anybody who even tried to talk about it was silenced and slandered. They even went so far as to try to accuse the victims. Anybody with a sense of basic human decency left what they saw was a cult. People who left were right in doing so because since those terrible scandals that society has had absolutely no progress nor evolution, just degeneration and decay. I wrote about these situations in my work, Light And Dark Tantra.
I still get some correspondence from people in Ananda Marga who came across these old writings. For me Ananda Marga is something that has already come and gone. Of course it took years to reach this state of detachment in my mind. After all I was arrested with terrorism charges against me because of the dirty arms deals of the monastics that put them on the FBI´s top ten terrorists list. I defended them on the BBC only to later realize that they were truly guilty of arms smuggling and the organization was using my ignorance and innocence to put me in front of the cameras to create a believable story for the world. This confusion in my mind; believing and saying one thing to myself and the world and then learning that I was being deceived by them, took a while to process and reach some clarity. One wants to believe what one says because it has already been said, yet the story begins to fall to pieces with too many contradictions and one has to use a lot of mental energy to be truthful with oneself and how one tells the story to others. It is hard to admit that what you once got inspiration from is actually something really harmful, and that one has been used and as a consequence has also participated in their huge lies.
\nThe need to be congruent in thought word and deed is paramount to insightful spiritual practice. Tantra Yoga is too intense of a practice for a mind twisted and confused with unoriginal and deceptive ideas. Tantric meditation vigorously pushes the mind into union with the Infinite. The mind flows into vast ideas and has no choice but to be consumed with the flow toward union. The mind turned toward the finite world can willfully move in so many directions and with so many desires. The mind directed toward the Infinite moves only toward the infinite and is guided by spiritual intuition. All disparate tendencies are surrendered to the witnessing consciousness, the Atman.
\nThe mind must be purified of all false ideas in order to resonate with the conscious truth that consumes all the limitations of the finite mind. The force of the practice will cause the distorted mind to fall with exponential intensity. Instead of heightened mental energy used in the pursuit of self-realization, the very same energy is used to make the mind move towards its limited desires. In this process there is also truth, but very dark and hard truths. The mind merges into its delusions and suffers the consequences with much intensity. Hopefully, this fall awakens one with a desire to be more sincere. If not, then the mind falls even further into darkness.
\nDuring this personal process of redefinition after the Arms Drop scandal the organization was unraveling and all of the dirt hidden beneath the surface was becoming so painfully evident with all of their hidden mafia activities: drug and gun smuggling, sexual crimes, political infighting and even assassinations. My closest friends in Ananda Marga all left out of a sense of shame of being associated with such a deceptive cult. We were in a swamp of cognitive dissonance and existential confusion. How is it possible to be a sincere human being while being associated with people who propagate such lies? Instead of being in an enlightened spiritual society we felt we were in a dangerous cult.
\nI feel I was as honest and impartial as possible when writing about my subjective experiences with that organization some decades ago. My critiques were two-sided in that I wrote about some very positive aspects with certain people in that society yet I did not try and cover up any of their scandals.
Some people are affected by the negative information I shared. While it is true that the negativity is substantial enough to invalidate the whole movement and make people think they are in a cult, I can say at least your practices and philosophy have truth in them. In Light And Dark Tantra I did write that I believe that the corruption entered Ananda Marga even before Anandamurti had died. I never stated that he himself was corrupt, but argued that at the end of his life the organization slipped out of his control and that the fall of his disciples took its toll on his health. He was a spiritual guide and healer that took on the negative karma of his disciples. In the early years the society around him flourished. Later, he was bogged down by a larger movement, with more people and more minds to heal. And then many of the minds around him began to fall into hypocrisy. I think it was too much for him to digest and he reached his limit. In short, their waywardness crucified him.
\nHis name has been sullied by the organization he left behind. Anybody who still has any connection to his ideas or philosophy or sees him as their personal spiritual guide eventually has to reconcile the fact that he was alive when his organization became a mafia. My take on it is that Anandamurti in the end had an energetic fall. Despite all of his ethical intentions, he simply could not keep it all under his control. He was older and his health was poor and the organization kept growing and he simply did not have the energy to keep everybody in line. By the time he died A.M. was an international mafia. Karunananda was a monastic leader who provided prostitutes to some of the more desperate monks working under him. He counterfeited dollars in Brazil with Devashish and even sold drugs in Denmark! This was all in the 70s and 80s, not after Anandamurti died. I heard Karunananda talk about the prostitution personally and the author Devashish also told me he went to federal prison because of his crimes while working with Karunananda. There are so many other immoral scandals out there as well. I mentioned these because I could personally verify them and were not mere rumors. Why did not the perfect and wholly divine guru put an end to this? I think the waywardness of the dirty monkees crucified him. We live in the shadow of the guru who could not control all of this madness.
\nCertainly, most people ignore these dissonant facts and prefer to remain in a safe space with a concept of an absolutely divine guru. Divine incarnations and absolute, perfect divinity are totalitarian fantasies used by priests the world wide. It is the oldest trick in the book used to keep a flock together.
\nA meditator is a bold truth seeker and if one truly seeks the truth then whatever incongruity in one´s mental framework will eventually cause disturbances. One gets disturbed by the idea that if he was so vigilant at guiding his disciples on the right path, then why did he not put an end to all of the mafia around him? This is why I say that in the end it all slipped out of his control. Yet I think it is safe to say that Anandamurti was a viable teacher and even his social movement had a great beginning and endured for several decades before it all imploded. At least his ideas and teachings remained congruent.
\nTantra is a vast spiritual science based on the spiritual laws of the universe that cannot be negated by the downfall of any single social organization or person. The organization may collapse into dogma and religion but tantra yoga will live on. I no longer have any strong opinions on the current state of affairs. I ended my connection with them several years ago and only hear things from old friends who are still on the fringes of A.M. Every once in a while I hear rumors of good things happening, however. For example, I heard that the family acharyas, or lay teachers somewhere in Europe prohibited the monastics from their society. I have always thought that if A.M. were to ever have a chance of survival, then it would have to be with the elimination of the monastics from the movement. This would not be nearly as difficult as removing the priests from the Catholic Church. Ananda Marga does not have an influence over the ages like the Catholic Church. Although it is dominated by priests it is still a relatively new institution with a clear and rational philosophy. Actual spiritual practice instead of established dogmas is the ideological base. Also, it was founded by lay spiritual teachers. The monastics came later, as did the corruption. The good monastics have already come and gone. A monk or nun in uniform nowadays is either a hardened criminal, a weakling who lies to oneself and others, or just completely naive. There may be some younger monastics who came into the order that were attracted by the ideals and did not really understand what they were getting into. I would hope that they were respected and be allowed to mingle freely with a new and open society, although without any official status as monks or nuns.
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Anahata - Mystical dynamics of the Anahata Chakra or Spiritual Heart.
Microvita And Tantra Maya - Part II of A Name To The Nameless. Experimental subjects of Tantra Yoga and the Mesoamerican practice of Tantra Maya.
Light And Dark Tantra - Memoirs of the Ananda Marga experience and a personal history of mystical experience.
The Mayan tour guide at Chichenitza told us that it was true that the Mayans sacrificed humans by chopping off their heads or tearing out their hearts. Many Mayan people I met or people who praised their culture told me that the Mayans never, or rarely, performed human sacrifices and that human sacrifice was as Aztec thing. The tour guide explained the religious reasons for the sacrifices to the god, Kulkulkan (the plumed serpent). He said that there was a strong drought and famine and the ruling class became even more obsessed with sacrifices that the common people got fed up and revolted against the entire ruling class: the royal families, their friends and allies, and priests, mathematicians and astronomers who calculated the propitious times to commit these atrocities in the name of Kulkulkan. They got a taste of their own obsidian guillotine and were thrown into the sacred spring, or cenote, where they had been dumping the sacrificed victims for centuries, thereby putrefying the pure waters of their most sacred natural world. Nature abhors atrocity and eventually creates terror for the terrible. Power to the people. The corrupt state had no idea who or what Kulkulkan really was. Its essence was lost in dogma and violent rituals manipulated by priests and kings. The guide told us that his people, the present Mayan population, were descendants not of the priests and kings but of the common people. I immediately thought of how this is probably a historical precedent for the Zapatista revolution of 1994, which was for the most part undertaken by modern, indigenous Mayan warriors.
\nIt is interesting history. I have not really studied it personally, but rather have had many friends who did.
\nAfter a society passes through the violence of conquests or imperial expansion and eventually tyranny against its own population by despotic rulers there is a collapse. Perhaps the collective conscience of the people goes through a grinding process of reflection and awareness and they become a little more peaceful and more truly human. The Romans were terrible but now the Italians have quite a nice culture. The Vikings were beasts but now the Scandanavian countries have the most humane governments and social systems on the planet. In recent history we can look at the Germans. Although there is currently a rise of fascism with far-right (nazi saluted by Elon Musk), there is a lot more resistance as most people remember what happened in the last century. The Mayans now seem to be very friendly people with an innate spirituality. What would happen if they remembered their true heritage, and perhaps what Kulkulkan really is?
\nThe first time that I have ever knew anything of Kulkulkan was when I was 21 year old university student, although it was not in some history or anthropology class. It was a strange spiritual vision that I had after waking up in the middle of the night. I wrote about it in A Name To The Nameless: \"I was initiated into a Tantra Yoga tradition when I was a student in Austin in 1993. I adopted a very healthy vegetarian lifestyle without drugs and alcohol. Within a few months the kundalini began with what would be a very long and intense awakening. As a student of psychology and world literature, I had heard of kundalini and other mystical energies but I had never thought they were real, live forces. I thought it was just interesting archaic symbolism, and not an actual force within the human body that rises up through the spinal column to awaken higher states of awareness. The universal symbol for this force is the serpent. It is said to be a covert, spiritual force beneath the surface of conscious awareness, like a coiled snake. Kundalini is the fundamental intelligence behind life and evolution, waiting to be awakened when the mind finally desires liberation from finite mental bondages. As this divine “serpent power” rises through the spinal column, one experiences states of deep spiritual realization. For the yogi, kundalini is the force that unites the human with the divine.
One day after classes and a short meditation, at which I was merely a beginner, I laid down on my back due to exhaustion. I felt a soothing force begin to rise up my spine. As this point of white, soft energy rose up into the thoracic region of the spine, I began to hear the sacred Om sound. It became frightening because there was only Om and nothing else. I opened my eyes but could not see anything. My faculties of sight and hearing were unified and there only existed Om. I knew I was being dissolved in a force that was vibrating within every particle of the universe. It was ecstatic and exhilarating but terrifying. I felt my whole identity would disappear and never return. The kundalini was entering the medulla. I began to repeat my mantra for meditation but it only made the experience more intense. Instead, I began to repeat my name, William, over and over and trying to remember that I was a student in Austin, Texas on the physical plane of reality. The kundalini began to go back down as Om diminished. I couldn’t take any more.
After that experience I became very confident but experienced a lot of mental turmoil. It was very productive turmoil in that all negative memories from my past were being quickly purged and purified. I began to feel completely whole and that I had already lived a very complete life.
The second time the kundalini (serpent power) rose was a few months later. I saw the same light in my spine although this time it was an infinitesimally small point. Physical reality disappeared and I began to “see” from Om and nothing else. I opened my eyes but could not see anything. My faculties of sight and hearing were unified and there only existed Om. Physical reality disappeared and I began to “see” from the crown of my head a turquoise bird flying closer and closer as the point rose higher and higher. The bird landed on the crown of my head at the same time the point rose to the same place. Heaven (the turquoise bird) and earth (the serpent) had met and I was lost in an infinite web of sound vibration where I could no longer see even this beautiful vision.
I was dissolving in a force that was vibrating within every particle of the universe. It was ecstatic and exhilarating but terrifying. I felt my whole identity would disappear and never return. The kundalini was entering the medulla. I began to repeat my mantra for meditation but it only made the experience more intense. Instead, I began to repeat my name, William, over and over and trying to remember that I was a student in Austin, Texas on the physical plane of reality. The kundalini began to go back down as Om diminished. I couldn’t take any more.
My last thought before losing awareness of not just the outer world, but also the inner world of vision, was that the forms looked Meso-American. Only years later would I learn of the Mesoamerican concept of kundalini, what they call Quetzalcoatl, the “Plumed Serpent.” The quetzal is a colorful bird of Chiapas and the mayan symbol for the kundalini, the spiritual energy of evolution and enlightenment that resides dormant within the mind.
(The kundalini was named Quetzalcoatl by the Toltecs and Kukulkan by the Mayas. A version of the image of Quetzalcoatl is on the Mexican national flag to this day. )
After this experience I lost all interest in a career and marriage and a “normal” life. I barely graduated the university and went to India seeking more understanding.\"
an extract from A Name To The Nameless:
Bliss is achieved when the life of the microcosm merges into the life of the macrocosm, the conscious universe. Happiness in this world only exists when it is connected to an infinite flow that guides one out of the relative labyrinths of finite desires. When our finite desires flow with this unified intelligence then all things lead toward the good. The whole story of the microcosmic existence gets merged into the story of the universe. The entire narrative of \"me\" with all of my efforts and struggles full of hope and fear is taken over by a greater story that tells me the Consciousness of the macrocosm has always been with me here, in the eternal now. I have been guided by the macrocosm throughout the entire march of evolution, trapped into the gravity of stars and later exploding into solar systems and born into the form of an amoeba and bound by the relative forces of this universe that made me forget my origin. I pass through countless life forms and experiences until I become aware of myself. It is difficult for the microcosm so bound to the relative and ever changing elements to ponder where where its awareness actually comes from. Consciousness arising out of the elements and into plant and animal life is timid but nature´s given instincts always guide us onward. Being human, somewhere between the animals and the gods, is where this project almost seems hopeless, but there is clash and cohesion and full redemption. Consciousness always seeks its essence and the design of the universe evolves us towards awareness. When just a little self awareness manifests the conscious mind asks “where has all of this come from and where is it going?” The eternal friend replies \"Here, I have awaited you through your entire evolution to return to me. I wait Here for all of my incarnated minds to return to me.\"
People say that it is difficult to find the path to bliss, the path to the infinite. I say it is far harder, impossible really, to live apart from the whole. People and societies try and try but what is ever achieved? Has anybody ever satisfied the infinite cache of desires in this finite world, achieved the great and everlasting happiness? At least the infinite is attainable if we make sincere efforts. Any other individual or collective narrative other than the one that leads us to the whole are but temporary footings for a mind that is in constant change and evolution. Some of our stories really are true and function in a healthy manner while other stories are just concoctions used to serve the ends of the fearful and separate consciousness estranged from the infinite.
While I was a student at The University of Texas at Austin, there was a story passing through the psychology department of how a group of drunken fraternity boys pushed a piano through a window that fell 10 floors and killed 2 people in the street below. All of these bone-heads got together and decided they were not responsible. They collectively blamed the victims. “Why were those stupid people walking the streets at 3 am?” they argued.
We marveled at this phenomenon of “cognitive dissonance.” Cognitive dissonance is a mental state that occurs when there is a major contradiction in the habitual thought structures of the ego. The ego seeks consistency with its thoughts and projections so that there is a centered and consistent self-concept. A powerful event that is different and contradicts the projections of its habitual reality creates a state of dissonance and inner tension in the mind. Instead of being only superficial and frivolous boys, they are now guilty of killing innocent people. They thought they were good people, perhaps the best, and now they are seen as criminals. To neutralize this cognitive dissonance, this state of tension induced by a great contradiction and confusion to the ego’s reality, one has to invent excuses that serve the confused ego and create an acceptable story so that one can continue thinking in the same way as before so that one’s projections about oneself and one’s “reality” are not contradicted and interrupted. The defensive and guilty psyche must avoid at all costs this painful state of cognitive dissonance. We are all cognitive misers and always look for easy excuses and pretexts rather than the complex truth. If you can not find an excuse, then you live in torment. In the case of frat boys, they can not bear the social censure and personal guilt and simply pass the blame on some “other”. This is, of course, much easier when each individual has the rest of the “team” supporting him.
These superficial socialites with the Greek letters were often conformist white, nationalistic and patriotic types that become model citizens and leaders in capitalist society. Very few individuals on our planet are given the privileges and liberties of these fraternity boys. Although this is an extreme example of selfishness and a complex and contradictory self-serving bias, the irresponsibility and selfishness of these students really reflect the mentality and biases of materialistic, capitalist society in general. Western capitalist countries have committed mass genocide all over the world and have interfered in the natural evolution of so many cultures and still continue to subjugate and exploit them. Within those imperialist societies there is also so much exploitation, inequality, and injustice. The frat boys tried to blame their victims to justify their own irresponsibility. Similarly, the the entire collective mentality of a society can be manipulated by the media spin-doctors, priests and politicians to become bigoted or racist and blame social problems on the poor, the blacks, latinos, or some other people in another country. And if we are about to invade another country for their natural resources we can generate a nationalistic and xenophobic sentiment to justify ourselves and thereby placate our cognitive dissonance.
Under the shadow of materialism, we live more separated and isolated and care mostly about our own selfish well-being, or perhaps only our near and dear ones. The dominant stream of materialistic culture fosters desires that are based mostly in material comfort, and so often tend towards excess. Few think about the consequences of such a life-style; the environmental degradation, economic exploitation of other people on the planet, and widespread degeneration of the human soul trapped in this materialistic, deterministic cage that so much of our world has become. Not many people are concerned about economically motivated wars motivated by our military-industrial complex that undermine democracy by sabotaging the economies and governments of weaker nations. Such destructive acts against humanity create psycho-social illnesses. Our entire society has become mentally ill as we have distorted our most fundamental human values by accepting militant nationalism, multinational corporate domination, and lies like Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Irak. And now with Trump are constantly forced (at least if we are honest) to see how our society so often goes against democracy and humanism, while at the same time we try and maintain the idea that we are the most just and democratic.
Most of us are just like repressed frat boys on the inside. We ignore the reality of our immediate community, society and our planet and prefer to watch TV and buy strange things to fill our spiritual and existential emptiness. Nobody will criticize me if everyone is living in the same way, each in our own island. It can not be bad if everyone else is part of the scheme, if some narcissistic and selfishly biased ideals give one an opiate to filter anything that may create the cognitive dissonance when one realizes that all of this makes one really unhappy. One can buy something new to fill an inner void, seek some adventure to divert the ego when it is bored and empty. Or when Conscience begins to tell you that your world is destructive one may continue trying to raise the flag a little higher than one’s cognitive dissonance. Our selfishness, conformity, laziness and ignorance enables individuals and society to continue their impunity and irresponsibility while we remain existentially dazed and psychologically divided.
Our mundane and selfish mentality will not take responsibility for the damage that it is creating all around the world. Most people trapped in materialism do not care so much about what happens to people in other places, as long as they continue to live in material comfort. Their biased ideological distortions and selfishness hide the ugly truth that our imbalanced socio-economic system must steal the natural resources and brutally exploit the labor of others in far away lands, and even create wars to do so. This predatory lifestyle is responsible for so much destruction and suffering for the rest of the planet and its people. Under globalist capitalism, the first world is the parasite of the third.
Personally, I have received great benefits from being born in the first world: a good family, education and a safe environment in which to live. However, things change when one peers out of the false security bubble of a world that is really only sustained by perpetual violence, exploitation, and political subterfuge. One begins to look outside of the box to find true human culture and spirituality. With humane culture, art, literature and meditation one develops a natural, spiritual and universal consciousness. It is natural that one’s socio-spiritual awareness expands and one begins to see and understand the terrible things that the politicians, bankers and corporations are doing to the world. So that a few can live in wretched excess, the masses of humanity have to live in misery. And for what end? The modern materialistic society of the U.S. and Europe is so full of mental pathology that people often end up suffering more than the oppressed and exploited in the third world. Often I see more light in the eyes of the indigenous who live under tin roofs in the mountains than in the people of modern suburbs where I grew up. Though poor and forgotten, at least those people still have a piece of land and have not been forced into overcrowded urban slums to be devoured by the capitalist matrix. There are still people who are truly of this earth.
However, this situation is an absurd instability that can not last. The people whose profession is to lie and create war and destruction are in a deep part of their psyche actually well aware of the weaknesses in their networks of lies. No matter how sick and distorted their minds have become there is always a live witness that sees through their game of lies. They are not dumb beasts, but degenerate intellectuals ridden with extreme cognitive dissonance. There remains some portion of an inner awareness that makes them uneasy and restless within as they continue to trap themselves in exponentially greater lies without.
Whether we are speaking of the corruption and exploitation in our government, religion, or social group, the dynamics of power and mental manipulation within these distinct structures share a common psychological ground. We enter this world weak and ignorant and we require much struggle and effort to overcome these debilities, whether they be physical, mental, or spiritual weaknesses. Some people are more strong while others are weak, some are more sharp and others are dull. The strong lead or control the weak. Such is the law of nature at all levels: physical, mental, and spiritual. The only problem with this law is how we define “strength” and “weakness” and how people are treated in accordance with those definitions. When leaders become too empowered and selfish, they begin to exploit their followers economically, socially, and ideologically. Eventually their dogmas, prejudices, policies become completely corrupt and go against the common good. Then begins the process of manipulation that trick us into believing and following something we should not. And finally tyranny and repression toward all who resist their hypocrisy and impunity. This cycle causes untold harm to individuals and just as certainly as it brings death to empires. This is essentially the same pattern for all types of social manipulation and spin-doctoring whether we are speaking of the exploitation of the ignorant and weak by the shrewd and strong in the religious, economic, cultural, racial or class structures.
When rational and moral human beings are forced to believe in something irrational and immoral, we become existentially confused and psychologically fragmented. We are overcome by cognitive dissonance. We can never develop a clear picture of reality because the cognitive models we acquire about ourselves and our worlds are so often very contradictory. From the yogic point of view, the Aham or feeling of “I am” can never reconcile itself with the Mahat, the pure feeling of “I exist” which is eternal and pure and unconditioned by the external world. The “I-am” or ego is midway between the inner and outer worlds and so is in part socially conditioned. It is not really separated from the Mahat within, only limited definitions of the ego make it appear as such. Without progressive spiritual culture we are stuck in an imposed and warped definition of the “I am” that doesn’t permit us to see the true “I” within.
The victims of cognitive dissonance imposed by the priests or the politicians are always ready, in their confusion and dissonance, to accept some story that makes sense. Weak and separated from inner truth, we are all too ready to believe in some explanation. The trembling masses accept the stories prefabricated for them that only further sustain the mental exploitation and control over them. This is the perfect state of control over a social body: we fear them, yet we simultaneously seek their approval and protection. With such a fear complex imposed by institutions it is no wonder that few people ever find a way out of this web of maya, or cosmic delusion created by errant human minds.
Dogmatic ideology would have that or mental development remain in the lower rungs of the Aham or ego, far away from the self-reliant and vastly intelligent qualities of the Mahat or true “I” within. This is a natural human duality that dogmatic ideology tries to exploit by keeping us enslaved to matter and the market, to class and color, or perhaps within some church with some savior. We become neurotic individually and collectively as a result. Some people may not be strong enough to protest and take a stand. This is unfortunate because the exploiters and perpetrators usually continue in their downward fall into even more gross and perverse actions which require even more cover-ups. Such is the self-condemning path of the lie; one has to keep lying to cover up previous lies until eventually one is trapped in an inescapable quagmire of psychotic non-reality.
If we combat these universal thought distortions of power and manipulation and understand how they work, then we will have taken at least a chunk out of the monstrous structures of power that we humans create and carry in our mind-body system, in our DNA. Only by finding discernment, the perfect balance of universal love and reason, will we be able to remedy our frailty and lack of true faith in our inherent power of reason and love. This fault has permitted us to accept the lies and manipulations of others. The infinite Consciousness is beyond name and form, freely available to all. It lies with our own “I-feeling” or Mahat. These warped beliefs were created in our weak egos by spiritual scheisters; they fermented there because we couldn’t see an alternative, we couldn’t conceive of something higher, or the belief gave a false sense of security. It is only in this confused mental space that the powers that be can impose their dogmas. Our pinnacled reason and moral responsibility must dissolve these false mental structures that only serve to make us all ill. As such we may begin to purify the collective consciousness of humanity.
To reflect and resound these lies back to them is the duty of all who love liberty and seek a better and more balanced world. Leaders play the game of psychological terror, as well as actual, aggressive terror. Should we not find a more subtle and intelligent way to return this package? Should we not rise above their petty little ideologies and feelings with the highest universal humanism and spiritual strength to reflect their hell back upon them? Make the mind a laser that penetrates through this darkness to send this mass of foul lies back to the perpetrators. This refined interior tantric light will protect you personally and help repel their attacks on our collective human society. We must tap our reserve forces in the deepest part of the mind to defend against this degeneration and impunity. Neurosis and psychosis is the natural result of most people who do not renounce the path of lies and destruction. Let them destroy themselves rather than others. The stronger you are as a universal human being, the more their own distortions fall back upon them. There is some good that torments this fragmented and sick state of existence. Their weakness is in the same point as their cognitive dissonance and false consciousness. What does the shrewd capitalist know of the greater forces in the universe, these brutes who exploit and kill for finite matter, poor ideology and petty ego? Perhaps some will change, but most eventually be devoured by their own psychopathology because of such internal distortion. They are cunning, but a deeper moral intelligence connects us to true power and knowledge in the universe. They do not know the power of Tao, of dharma, the universal moral order of the universe. A mind without spiritual awareness is like a ship lost at sea, full of holes, and sinks slowly.
The leaders and also their followers also carry the burden of truth through the lie. Those who accept the popular lies also pay the price in the end. Although most are not aware that they are ultimately working towards truth, even through their own degeneration. The materialistic and narcissistic example of existence with all its psychopathology has given proof to the world of its non-sustainability and its inevitable madness. This giant collapsing on itself is teaching many lessons to the world of how not to live. Do people still perceive the subtle, yet inviolable law of compensation? The collective “karma” of a society affects all of its members. The universe holds all individuals accountable, those who lives in conformity, pays taxes, and pledge allegiance to such a monster. Here I recall the stoic philosopher Diogenes who roamed about in broad daylight with a lantern saying he was looking for honest men.
There is very little moral order left in human society at this end of this capitalist era. The planet is being ravaged and is being coerced out of balance by human activity. The social order is descending into chaotic, brutal anarchy. The shrewd and powerful just do what they want and make laws to justify and implement their policies based on their exclusive interests. Corporations and governments become organized crime institutions under the hegemony of the global capitalist system. Multi-national corporations, federal reserve banks and their military industrial complex continue killing and/or controlling us all. Under the holocaust of globalization, the survivors are being forced to live off of the blood and sweat of others. Without great lies and psychological tricks of self-deception, very few people now live in good conscience. The first world is the parasite of the third world and the globalist legislation is but a low argument for parasitism. What is nature’s response to our civilizations downward slide? Will we be shrugged off of the planet by the protective forces of nature? If all is already brutal anarchy and the world only continues to slide into greater darkness and destruction, then why not consider a higher form of anarchy?
Advaita, the philosophy of Oneness, is pure freedom, spiritual anarchy. Not even the best ideas control the mind under this philosophy, much less governments or institutions. The idea of Oneness of spirit in all beings, an “Oversoul” behind all particular minds, reveals the greatest inner freedom and bliss. At the same time this vision inspires a sacred duty toward ethical action in harmony with this common spirit. Instead of promoting and projecting an immature and selfish bourgeois freedom, one’s conscience demands truth in all aspects of existence. Without the torch of conscience, lies and delusion distort one’s freedom and make mundane, dualistic existence a cage for the soul. Congruence with one’s deepest conscience and holding to it under all circumstances is the greatest defense against dualistic, separate thinking and all of its manifestations in our human world. Spiritual anarchy, the spontaneous, natural, and intuitive order and organization stemming from a state of social and existential chaos, has its roots in a profound respect for other beings that transcends name and form. Spirituality must be a truly unitive force instead of a divisive one. If it is true, then there are good fruits for all. If untrue, then it poisons the minds of individuals and creates disunity in the world. A newer, more conscious form of humanism may begin to evolve as Shakti, the divine force of nature, molds us into a higher form of being. Whatever doesn’t evolve toward this practical ideal of Advaita, of essential oneness with the Infinite, is ultimately crushed under the wheels of the gods as divine mother nature (Shakti) reclaims all of these errant expressions through her destructive and regenerative forces.
Dogmatism and religion have little to do with dharma, which is the “essential” purpose of a human being. They are static containers of dead ideas, like garbage bins. Dharma is an ideological flow of evolution through thought and action and really takes you somewhere and causes a stir of movement deep in the soul. Dharma refers to the state of spiritual freedom whereby one is only capable of following nature’s laws and a spiritual way of life. If one lives more by the laws of spirit than by customs, then religion, politics, and social conventions are mostly lies and weak prompts for desperate or blind mentalities that haven’t found their place here on earth. Existential and social alienation create a state of spiritual ignorance which make one vulnerable to the many snares of dualistic thinking.
Our lack of mindful awareness makes space for a whole host of foolish ideologies. Egoism is for infants. Materialism is for brutes and Barbies. Racism and imperialism are for Neanderthals. Nationalism is but a reunion of Cro-mags. Religion mostly just keeps people from having to face hard truths themselves, and thereby take a leap of faith by sheepishly following the established ideas of others. Spiritual anarchists like Thoreau, Aurobindu and Tolstoy could not be contained within the confines of social convention and corrupt substitutes for dharma. Instead, they sought a higher union with both Nature and society and offered something new and bold for humanity. In this day and age it is hard to have faith in “systems” that don’t sprout up from a natural order based on local necessity. Spiritual visionaries have always and will always respond to the needs of their local human and natural environments and offer a new vision for the world inspired by the genius of eternal dharma. These practical examples show how some great truths are implemented through the most practical and humane expressions.
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