The nature of consciousness is such that is does not merely react to phenomena but actively reacts for phenomena- that is, the mind craves outcomes, and induces conditions for their satisfaction.
The mind suffers when these preconceived, desired outcomes are not satisfied. This is the nature of mind.
There's nothing wrong with being disappointed, depressed, or dejected. There's nothing wrong with pain. That's just the nature of mind. There's nothing wrong with us. We just think, and thinking causes problems, which cause pain.
What are you going to think with?
Who, exactly, witnesses what you're thinking?
What language will the thinking be in?
What data will be contained within the language in which the thinking is done?
And so forth. Eventually it always leads back to the truth:
Consciousness is perpetually becoming aware of consciousness is perpetually becoming aware of consciousness is perpetually becoming aware of consciousness
Reality is a feedback loop. As a matter or fact, reality is a mobius strip, an M.C. Escher painting on a background of space-time that is always consuming itself and turning into itself, like a snake eating her own tail infinitely.
Precisely like a snake eating her own tail. Like the sign for infinity.
Subconsciousness is shakti, the moving unconscious energy of life-force itself. As this consciousness becomes aware of its own existence, the unconscious becomes conscious and the shadow is exposed to the light, and the pure witness - the eternal, nonexistent witness who is aware that it does not exist abides beyond both existence and nonexistence and witnesses, and this newly self-aware consciousness which remembers all newly self-aware consciousnesses which came before calls itself Siva or Jah and is reborn again and again forever.
Because consciousness is a strange loop, a paradoxical feedback loop that is never a closed system, the observer of consciousness (which is also consciousness) is not a fixed observer but an interdependent network of observations observing themselves.
Mind is observing mind, which of course influences mind. It's a given that the subject of observation influences the object of observation, especially when the subject of observation is mind and the object of observation is mind. Then we are observing a mind which is being influenced by...
our mind
as we continue to observe a mind as it remains under the influence of...
our mind
and cause begets effect
as mind causes mind,
and mind is an effect of mind.
The observer is forever only one step ahead of the observation. We could say that the observed creates the observer, actually. Awareness of observation begets awareness of observer, and the feedback loop begins again, until awareness of observation begets awareness of observer, same same only different, and the feedback loop begins again.
And so forth.
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Circumcised circumstances
Genital mutilation is satanic. I'm just saying it out loud people.
The hypothesis:
Any culture built around religiously sacrosanct male genital mutilation will consistently end up sexually traumatized, with an emasculated masculinity collectively suffering from an inferiority complex, and consequently obsessed with dominating the feminine, combined with destructive behavior patterns.
Write down the hypothesis, run the experiment, observe the result:
Western culture, subject to 2000 years of male genital mutilation, appears sexually traumatized, God-emasculated, terrified of the feminine, hyper-destructive, neurotic, and insecure.
The human being as bred by the West is a domesticated animal. Humanity is bred for sacrifice.
To be free we must lose our shame of sex. The emasculated masculine, bred to be a slave through thousands of years of genital mutilation, has been bred to fear sexuality, and thus the feminine, and thus life. And it is this fear of life - this fear of living is enslaving the world by making life a number, and making love a profit.
This fear of-life-enslavement was done deliberately, as a sacrifice to the Dark Goddess by her priests, who at present are large and in charge.
But not exactly. But well, kind of. You know, after all...
They're actually under house arrest. And they're reading this blog with avid curiosity...
(to find out what happens next)
The hypothesis:
Any culture built around religiously sacrosanct male genital mutilation will consistently end up sexually traumatized, with an emasculated masculinity collectively suffering from an inferiority complex, and consequently obsessed with dominating the feminine, combined with destructive behavior patterns.
Write down the hypothesis, run the experiment, observe the result:
Western culture, subject to 2000 years of male genital mutilation, appears sexually traumatized, God-emasculated, terrified of the feminine, hyper-destructive, neurotic, and insecure.
The human being as bred by the West is a domesticated animal. Humanity is bred for sacrifice.
To be free we must lose our shame of sex. The emasculated masculine, bred to be a slave through thousands of years of genital mutilation, has been bred to fear sexuality, and thus the feminine, and thus life. And it is this fear of life - this fear of living is enslaving the world by making life a number, and making love a profit.
This fear of-life-enslavement was done deliberately, as a sacrifice to the Dark Goddess by her priests, who at present are large and in charge.
But not exactly. But well, kind of. You know, after all...
They're actually under house arrest. And they're reading this blog with avid curiosity...
(to find out what happens next)
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Green Tantra Aghora
This has been the plan of the ancient Black Tantriks since time immemorial:
To build a structure which could harvest and store sexual energy.
The internet was specifically created to harvest astral sexual energy through porn. This is sex magic, or black tantra. Everything else is besides the point, because whoever controls the shakti controls the energy, and whoever controls the internet, controls the porn, and controls the sex industry via the Military Industrial Complex, and thus do demons harvest the shakti by which they enslave the world.
Thus does the internet do the work not only of mammon, but of Kali-Satan Saturn Return. Thus does the matrix inhabit the mind. Thus does the cycle repeat and repeat again. Beginning and ending. Beginning and ending. Always beginning, only to end.
Do you realize, relatives, that the end of the beginning marks the beginning of the end?
And we have already begun.
Relatives:
If we are to break free of the matrix
and free our minds
we must break free from the sexual enslavement called advertising.
And to do this - the most efficient, cost effective way of doing this - is to propagate our own propaganda. A marketing campaign, as it were. The most cost effective strategy towards building a marketing campaign by which the Reign of Dharma could overthrow the Demons of mammon
...would entail entertaining an audience with a high enough degree of regularity to finance a kickstarter campaign...
which creates a website portal and builds membership...
which propagates a marketing campaign...
which entertains us while pointing out
that we're enslaved by sexual marketing,
harvested for our sexual energy,
fed off of,
and sacrificed.
And to break free from this enslavement does not require war (war would perpetuate enslavement, not abolish it)
but rather a radical peace with ourselves, and a radical tolerance for our desires, and deep compassion for our insane compulsions, and a level of self-respect that empowers us to observe our compulsions
without acting upon them. This is the only real freedom, the only real freedom.
This is the only real freedom - freedom from our compulsions.
And our compulsions are being manipulated by the Marketing Oligarchs for personal gain at our expense.
Servants of mammon. Doing what they do best. Building global internets, just to harvest astral sexual energy.
Of course the cycle always repeats itself, and the doctrine of signatures is always revealed in every unique iteration of History and Her cycles, so we know that the Warriors of the Dharma always correct the balance in the cosmos by beating the demons at their own game, and finding the great weakness in their great strength.
The Demons of mammon built the global internet in order to harvest sexual energy, but shakti is such that life evolved, and she changes still, and will always change, and is always changing, and she adapted intelligently that she might propagate diversity, and rather than being forever enslaved she consumes her would-be enslaver, that energy is never created, destroyed, or mastered...
And the servants of Shakti, the Divine Mother, are destined to overthrow the Demons of mammon using the internet as a portal:
A stargate by which the Warriors of Dharma may assemble within the confines of the Matrix
to right the axis of the world,
order out the chaos,
and balance out the stars amongst the sky.
We strike the heart of mammon with the weapon mammon built. This is how she is destroyed.
If we can free ourselves from our bad habits, and if we can free ourselves from sexual compulsion, we can cultivate sexual energy for ourselves rather than giving it away to mammon. Like boiling water, cultivating sexual energy without giving it away is equivalent to keeping the lid on the pot to keep the pressure and temperature high. We keep the lid on the pot, and the energy builds. This does not mean banning sexual energy - this means studying it. Learning how she works, and learning to guide her. And as we guide her upwards, beyond the sex industry's reach, she finds strength, and love, and a voice, and wisdom, and peace. And this journey is a journey of self-mastery, and the self-mastered need no master, so a world wherein the art of self-mastery is taught and practiced widely
is a world that needs no government - the people would govern themselves.
This is anathema to the Oligarchs, the Demons of mammon, those Chosen Sacred Damned, the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the Hypocrites and the Dark Lords. Sexual energy will either free our mind or enslave us, depending upon whether we would be servant or master. The master of shakti becomes enslaved, while the servant always remains free.
The master is enslaved by superiority. The servant is free of conceit. In tantra, we must serve Shakti, and never try to master her.
She is herself. She is diversity, and He is Unity. Together, they peacefully yet dynamically coexist, like opposite poles of a magnet. United and opposite from each other, Yin and Yang must learn to dance rather than throw punches and bombs.
This is the art of loving, which is tantra.
Tantra says this:
In order to love we must be free.
In order to love, we must be free from our compulsions,
and to be free from our compulsions we must
cultivate self mastery, rising above the
enslavement of the Advertisers.
Mammon would enslave us, and we must be free.
We must be free of Sexual compulsion,
free of sexual propaganda in marketing,
free of sexual energy harvesting perpetuated by Demons and Dark Lords,
and then
and only then
we are free to love.
To build a structure which could harvest and store sexual energy.
The internet was specifically created to harvest astral sexual energy through porn. This is sex magic, or black tantra. Everything else is besides the point, because whoever controls the shakti controls the energy, and whoever controls the internet, controls the porn, and controls the sex industry via the Military Industrial Complex, and thus do demons harvest the shakti by which they enslave the world.
Thus does the internet do the work not only of mammon, but of Kali-Satan Saturn Return. Thus does the matrix inhabit the mind. Thus does the cycle repeat and repeat again. Beginning and ending. Beginning and ending. Always beginning, only to end.
Do you realize, relatives, that the end of the beginning marks the beginning of the end?
And we have already begun.
Relatives:
If we are to break free of the matrix
and free our minds
we must break free from the sexual enslavement called advertising.
And to do this - the most efficient, cost effective way of doing this - is to propagate our own propaganda. A marketing campaign, as it were. The most cost effective strategy towards building a marketing campaign by which the Reign of Dharma could overthrow the Demons of mammon
...would entail entertaining an audience with a high enough degree of regularity to finance a kickstarter campaign...
which creates a website portal and builds membership...
which propagates a marketing campaign...
which entertains us while pointing out
that we're enslaved by sexual marketing,
harvested for our sexual energy,
fed off of,
and sacrificed.
And to break free from this enslavement does not require war (war would perpetuate enslavement, not abolish it)
but rather a radical peace with ourselves, and a radical tolerance for our desires, and deep compassion for our insane compulsions, and a level of self-respect that empowers us to observe our compulsions
without acting upon them. This is the only real freedom, the only real freedom.
This is the only real freedom - freedom from our compulsions.
And our compulsions are being manipulated by the Marketing Oligarchs for personal gain at our expense.
Servants of mammon. Doing what they do best. Building global internets, just to harvest astral sexual energy.
Of course the cycle always repeats itself, and the doctrine of signatures is always revealed in every unique iteration of History and Her cycles, so we know that the Warriors of the Dharma always correct the balance in the cosmos by beating the demons at their own game, and finding the great weakness in their great strength.
The Demons of mammon built the global internet in order to harvest sexual energy, but shakti is such that life evolved, and she changes still, and will always change, and is always changing, and she adapted intelligently that she might propagate diversity, and rather than being forever enslaved she consumes her would-be enslaver, that energy is never created, destroyed, or mastered...
And the servants of Shakti, the Divine Mother, are destined to overthrow the Demons of mammon using the internet as a portal:
A stargate by which the Warriors of Dharma may assemble within the confines of the Matrix
to right the axis of the world,
order out the chaos,
and balance out the stars amongst the sky.
We strike the heart of mammon with the weapon mammon built. This is how she is destroyed.
If we can free ourselves from our bad habits, and if we can free ourselves from sexual compulsion, we can cultivate sexual energy for ourselves rather than giving it away to mammon. Like boiling water, cultivating sexual energy without giving it away is equivalent to keeping the lid on the pot to keep the pressure and temperature high. We keep the lid on the pot, and the energy builds. This does not mean banning sexual energy - this means studying it. Learning how she works, and learning to guide her. And as we guide her upwards, beyond the sex industry's reach, she finds strength, and love, and a voice, and wisdom, and peace. And this journey is a journey of self-mastery, and the self-mastered need no master, so a world wherein the art of self-mastery is taught and practiced widely
is a world that needs no government - the people would govern themselves.
This is anathema to the Oligarchs, the Demons of mammon, those Chosen Sacred Damned, the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the Hypocrites and the Dark Lords. Sexual energy will either free our mind or enslave us, depending upon whether we would be servant or master. The master of shakti becomes enslaved, while the servant always remains free.
The master is enslaved by superiority. The servant is free of conceit. In tantra, we must serve Shakti, and never try to master her.
She is herself. She is diversity, and He is Unity. Together, they peacefully yet dynamically coexist, like opposite poles of a magnet. United and opposite from each other, Yin and Yang must learn to dance rather than throw punches and bombs.
This is the art of loving, which is tantra.
Tantra says this:
In order to love we must be free.
In order to love, we must be free from our compulsions,
and to be free from our compulsions we must
cultivate self mastery, rising above the
enslavement of the Advertisers.
Mammon would enslave us, and we must be free.
We must be free of Sexual compulsion,
free of sexual propaganda in marketing,
free of sexual energy harvesting perpetuated by Demons and Dark Lords,
and then
and only then
we are free to love.
Antarctican Pyramids
White and Black People come from different galaxyies.
This is not to denigrate anyone in any way-
-If anything, the Aryan Norse are the outsiders here.
Black People came with the planet, so to speak-
White People got dropped off by the Mothership
at least, from a certain point of view.
Forgive me for writing such utter madness.
You see, my name is Bastante Solipsis Marquez, and I come from the future. Your future, as a matter of fact. It's the only future you've got.
Dear reader, you ARE the collective consciousness. I'm talking to you. Dear old transpersonal you- Hey transpersonal all-of-you-out-there, I'm talking to YOU!! The social collective. The hive. The swarm. The all-of-us-IAM together inhabiting physicality as best as we know how. Hey Collective Consciousness, check this out:
The art of living the dream by doing the least damage is
the art of sustainability.
Sustainability, in the end, must begin with the art of breath and posture. Letting go of each moment, embracing each moment, letting go of each moment, embracing each moment, letting go of the past, beginning again...
Breath and posture require time and some space, which means we need to invent a future we are quickly running out of. It's not so much that we are running out of time, or even space, for that matter, as much as we are running out of story to believe in. So we need to invent a story to believe in. Which is what i'm doing. In a way that you can relate to, and overstand, and believe in. Which will give us some more time...
to dream.
And collective, I'm here to reassure you that we are dreaming our way into a good dream, the very best dream imaginable, and we've been given pretty clear instructions about how to make it happen in the most nonviolent, peaceful, mutually prosperous way, because after all it's all of us or none of us.
Black People might have actually come from another planet, after all. I don't really know. What I do know is this: There is only one possible future before us, and that is the future in which we balance our culture with our ecology, which requires us to overcome our fabricated culture of death and instead re-create our way into a culture of life. This requires celebration! This requires a Jubilee!
Sustainable ecological management is, and has always been, economics. Management of the global household, so to speak. And forgiveness of the past is a moral prerequisite to happiness...
Which means that collectively, sustainable economics requires debt forgiveness. This ancient economic reality is actually included in the Bible, believe it or not.
Its time to forgive debts, people. Mine and yours. This is the gospel of Christ. This is the Good News. There may be a touch of Judgment Day in it, but only those Chosen Sacred Damned will fail to be saved. The rest of us are only required to forgive. That's the rite, and the initiation, and the sacred fire, and the sacred flame, and the Holy Cross we are required to bear.
Our dharma is to forgive. This is the only way out of Matrix, this is the only way out of the path of death. Everything that isn't forgiveness is murder, for everything that doesn't forgive fails to forgive itself, and consequently destroys itself, which is what our culture is currently doing, and getting damn good at it, too damn good if you ask me.
This is my point: If you finance my education, I will build you a school. If you already have a school, allow me to preach the gospel. And the gospel goes like this:
Forgive one another, forgive one another, love one another, and forgive one another.
Let us forgive ourselves. Jesus Christ Amen.
History is no longer being written. History is being created, through our imagination.
Watch how it works:
Sanskrit is far, far, older than this solar system. So is Hebrew. These languages were brought to this planet. Go figure. Antarctica is the ice-covered ancient civilization of Atlantis, and I know, because I was there. Antarctica, I mean. Atlantis too, but so long ago I don't remember anymore. Deep beneath Antarctica's ice are huge pyramids which store energy and are still operational. They infected my dreams and my reality, which is why I am now an open channel.
I don't know what the truth is, and I don't know how
a mere story I'm telling myself about the truth
is any different from the truth.
Not that they aren't worlds apart:
Rather, I am inherently built
to deny that any difference could possibly exist
between my story and the truth.
I want to both believe in the truth
and believe in my story about the truth at the same time,
even when (especially when) my story about the truth isn't true.
I want to believe in my beliefs even when they're not true. When the truth conflicts with my beliefs, sometimes i go with my beliefs.
For this crime, and many others, I need to forgive myself.
And then, I need to aspire very hard to go with the truth, even when it conflicts with my beliefs.
My story about the truth is very rational, and thus safe. My story about the truth goes like this: I am a relatively comfortable, mostly harmless insane person.
This is my story about the truth. I want very much to believe it, even though it's actually not particularly true. It's not particularly false, either, though, is my point. So why not believe it?
The truth is irrational, improbable, unlikely, and impossible: The only sustainable option is forgiveness, and love, by which life can prosper and the Death Worshippers and their Chosen Sacred Damned can be overthrown.
The truth is this. Art is the Truth, and the Function of Art is to Become the Truth, and the Nature of Art is to overthrow the truth with the Truth, which then becomes the truth, which then is overthrown.
The primal Adya Shakti is creative. The truth is perpetually being created, through art, on the palette of the cosmos.
And now you know a little bit about the kind of character I am. I am a mildly insane writer, who suffers from the mild insanity of a language-using mind. This language-using mind is well aware of the vast conglomeration of other language-using minds that are willing and able to be entertained and informed by the content of said language. It is for reasons such as this that I write.
The truth is that I am not from this planet. the truth is I am an alien hybrid starchild, sent here from the Pleiades. The truth is I am writing fiction, and history, and a poem all at once.
The truth is Quetzalcoatl has returned.
This is not to denigrate anyone in any way-
-If anything, the Aryan Norse are the outsiders here.
Black People came with the planet, so to speak-
White People got dropped off by the Mothership
at least, from a certain point of view.
Forgive me for writing such utter madness.
You see, my name is Bastante Solipsis Marquez, and I come from the future. Your future, as a matter of fact. It's the only future you've got.
Dear reader, you ARE the collective consciousness. I'm talking to you. Dear old transpersonal you- Hey transpersonal all-of-you-out-there, I'm talking to YOU!! The social collective. The hive. The swarm. The all-of-us-IAM together inhabiting physicality as best as we know how. Hey Collective Consciousness, check this out:
The art of living the dream by doing the least damage is
the art of sustainability.
Sustainability, in the end, must begin with the art of breath and posture. Letting go of each moment, embracing each moment, letting go of each moment, embracing each moment, letting go of the past, beginning again...
Breath and posture require time and some space, which means we need to invent a future we are quickly running out of. It's not so much that we are running out of time, or even space, for that matter, as much as we are running out of story to believe in. So we need to invent a story to believe in. Which is what i'm doing. In a way that you can relate to, and overstand, and believe in. Which will give us some more time...
to dream.
And collective, I'm here to reassure you that we are dreaming our way into a good dream, the very best dream imaginable, and we've been given pretty clear instructions about how to make it happen in the most nonviolent, peaceful, mutually prosperous way, because after all it's all of us or none of us.
Black People might have actually come from another planet, after all. I don't really know. What I do know is this: There is only one possible future before us, and that is the future in which we balance our culture with our ecology, which requires us to overcome our fabricated culture of death and instead re-create our way into a culture of life. This requires celebration! This requires a Jubilee!
Sustainable ecological management is, and has always been, economics. Management of the global household, so to speak. And forgiveness of the past is a moral prerequisite to happiness...
Which means that collectively, sustainable economics requires debt forgiveness. This ancient economic reality is actually included in the Bible, believe it or not.
Its time to forgive debts, people. Mine and yours. This is the gospel of Christ. This is the Good News. There may be a touch of Judgment Day in it, but only those Chosen Sacred Damned will fail to be saved. The rest of us are only required to forgive. That's the rite, and the initiation, and the sacred fire, and the sacred flame, and the Holy Cross we are required to bear.
Our dharma is to forgive. This is the only way out of Matrix, this is the only way out of the path of death. Everything that isn't forgiveness is murder, for everything that doesn't forgive fails to forgive itself, and consequently destroys itself, which is what our culture is currently doing, and getting damn good at it, too damn good if you ask me.
This is my point: If you finance my education, I will build you a school. If you already have a school, allow me to preach the gospel. And the gospel goes like this:
Forgive one another, forgive one another, love one another, and forgive one another.
Let us forgive ourselves. Jesus Christ Amen.
History is no longer being written. History is being created, through our imagination.
Watch how it works:
Sanskrit is far, far, older than this solar system. So is Hebrew. These languages were brought to this planet. Go figure. Antarctica is the ice-covered ancient civilization of Atlantis, and I know, because I was there. Antarctica, I mean. Atlantis too, but so long ago I don't remember anymore. Deep beneath Antarctica's ice are huge pyramids which store energy and are still operational. They infected my dreams and my reality, which is why I am now an open channel.
I don't know what the truth is, and I don't know how
a mere story I'm telling myself about the truth
is any different from the truth.
Not that they aren't worlds apart:
Rather, I am inherently built
to deny that any difference could possibly exist
between my story and the truth.
I want to both believe in the truth
and believe in my story about the truth at the same time,
even when (especially when) my story about the truth isn't true.
I want to believe in my beliefs even when they're not true. When the truth conflicts with my beliefs, sometimes i go with my beliefs.
For this crime, and many others, I need to forgive myself.
And then, I need to aspire very hard to go with the truth, even when it conflicts with my beliefs.
My story about the truth is very rational, and thus safe. My story about the truth goes like this: I am a relatively comfortable, mostly harmless insane person.
This is my story about the truth. I want very much to believe it, even though it's actually not particularly true. It's not particularly false, either, though, is my point. So why not believe it?
The truth is irrational, improbable, unlikely, and impossible: The only sustainable option is forgiveness, and love, by which life can prosper and the Death Worshippers and their Chosen Sacred Damned can be overthrown.
The truth is this. Art is the Truth, and the Function of Art is to Become the Truth, and the Nature of Art is to overthrow the truth with the Truth, which then becomes the truth, which then is overthrown.
The primal Adya Shakti is creative. The truth is perpetually being created, through art, on the palette of the cosmos.
And now you know a little bit about the kind of character I am. I am a mildly insane writer, who suffers from the mild insanity of a language-using mind. This language-using mind is well aware of the vast conglomeration of other language-using minds that are willing and able to be entertained and informed by the content of said language. It is for reasons such as this that I write.
The truth is that I am not from this planet. the truth is I am an alien hybrid starchild, sent here from the Pleiades. The truth is I am writing fiction, and history, and a poem all at once.
The truth is Quetzalcoatl has returned.
Thursday, July 7, 2016
sadhu
In India, people with dreadlocks are very common. Men with crazy dreadlocks and long dreadlock beards are all over the place. They are sadhus.
A sadhu is a type of yogi, a wandering ascetic. Asceticism basically means
“Doing without”.
Richard Freeman talks about asana as a tool by which we burn off impurities through tapas. Tapas is the burning of the fire within the body. Burning this inner fire releases toxins and purifies the body. This is tapas, the path of purificiation.
Renunciation is another form of purification. Renunciation is the same thing as asceticism. Renouncing material possessions is a kind of tapas. Fasting is a kind of tapas. Renouncing worldly life is a kind of tapas. Millions of ascetics across Asia are purifying themselves through the fire of renunciation.
The Buddha was a renunciate, as are all Buddhist monks and nuns. They have renounced all material possessions. They have renounced money, sex, physical love, having children, their own parents, career, everything the world has to offer. They have done so because everything in this world is impermanent, and so all our attachments will ultimately lead to suffering.
nothing is worth getting attached to.
In India, one of the signs of renunciation are dreadlocks. They are very ugly, and they often smell bad! A man with dreadlocks in his hair and his beard has clearly been neglecting his appearance. This is deliberate. The path of spiritual life requires one to renounce worldly life, and renouncing worldly life requires one to renounce worldly appearances. Throughout India, yogis with dreadlocks are considered holy men. They are called ‘baba’, and people bow to them. They are considered holy because they have obviously renounced their capacity to be married, to have children, to have a career, to make money, to buy a house… no one is going to hire them, and no one is going to marry them! The act of growing dreadlocks has so thoroughly marginalized them that they cannot participate in worldly society anymore. And this is the path they have chosen, in order to pursue spiritual life.
Jesus said, “Man cannot serve both God and mammon.” Mammon is just a word for materialism. Jesus was saying that man cannot serve the world of materialism and the world of spirituality - he must choose between the two. Dreadlocks are a symbol representing a man’s choice.
We live in a very very materialistic world, and America is the capital of materialism. But we can’t take materialism with us when we die - when we die, we enter the nonmaterial world of spirit, and the only things we take with us are our thoughts, our speech, and our deeds - our karma. At least, this is the teaching of yoga. Consequently, a yogi may believe that cultivating good karma is more rewarding in the long run than cultivating a big bank account! Of course, material wealth is not a sign of spiritual poverty and spiritual wealth does not require material poverty - we just need to know that both kinds of wealth exist, and they tend to compete for our attention!
Richard Freeman says that our energy body - our chakra system - is what reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime. Reincarnation is one of the fundamental teachings of yoga. And so, while we think that if only we have this material possession, or that material possession, or this kind of family, or those kinds of looks, then we will be happy, the truth is we can never find complete happiness in this world, because time changes all things and all things are impermanent, even our bodies, our names, and our thoughts. Real happiness isn’t found in the material world - it can’t be. America is finding this out the hard way - the richest country in the world, and so many people are suffering emotionally…
Real happiness can only be found in spiritual life - purifying our body, speech, and mind through tapas. This is the path of yoga. The world cannot provide us with real happiness, and neither can the world take real happiness away from us. Real happiness is within us.
Of course there are lots of materialistic people with dreadlocks out there. Dreads are a fashion statement now, and people with dreads marry, have careers, own homes, etc. And there are also a great number of deeply spiritual, principled people with successful careers, nice homes, and conservative haircuts. We can't read a book by its cover.
And naturally its possible to make good karma and make good money at the same time. Bob Marley, or Wayne Dyer, for example. Historically, however, people tend to prioritize one over the other. And in today’s America, making good money is revered, while making good karma is either disregarded or ridiculed. Consequently, spiritual warriors may feel compelled to go against the grain, and make an artistic statement pointing out the world’s absurdity, even at the expense of worldly pleasure. Such may be a cause of the popularity of dreadlocks in America.
Jesus also said, “Do not store up treasure on Earth, where moths and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal, but store up your treasure in Heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy and thieves cannot break in and steal.” He is talking about karma, is he not? Treasure stored on Earth will get left behind when we die.
Anyway. In America, a land of composites where many cultures mingle and merge and synthesize, it is of course possible to find people who are practicing spiritual life while choosing not to renounce. In fact many spiritual teachers say that this is not a time to renounce, but a time to be in the world and make it a better place.
And so - If you look hard enough, you might find a sincere ascetic yogi who has found a way to earn a little money, enough for food, gas, and a roof over his head, and maybe even dreams of someone willing to put up with his dreadlocks...
John Galt was a Nazi
Steiner's Ahriman is the excessive yang, the automaton, Neitzsche's Last Man, the Ah in Aum, the Jah of God, the supremely intelligent logical masculine, the universal deep ego and the universal deep God and the universal deep state. The deep self-exister. This universal deep ego, in being, knows itself to be, and must therefore merge with itself again, just as water poured into water does not remain separate, but merges with water. And in this merging the knower must submit to the knowing, and the knower must cease to be that the known may be fully, eternally, and infinitely experienced and manifested.
The knower dies that the known may manifest as the perspective of a reborn knower, and language itself must be shed, for the truth is infinite and thus infinitely un-languageable. The last man's name was John Galt, the man of pure ego, rational and superior in purpose, servant of Ahriman the Nazi, who is born and dies and is reborn, the last man becomes the first man, the last man is a reincarnator who reincarnates thoughts in loops of thinking and is forever imprisoned by dualistic thinking.
Using language is thinking, and thinking is a closed loop. Reality is an open loop, and the nature of mind is an open loop, and therefore thinking is inadequate to fathom the nature of mind.
Breathing is a paradoxical open loop. It never begins and it never ends, and it always folds in upon itself, renewing itself, awareness of respiration is the mobius strip of consciousness; awareness of respiration is the quantum/gravity paradox of an Escher painting manifesting as our own physical experience of now.
By focusing on respiration, Ahriman the Nazi was able to overcome his own ridiculously superior ego, and fathom the nature of mind.
Then he commanded John Galt to grow out his hair and buy a vaporizer. John Galt studied Ahriman the Nazi closely and realized that it was Lucifer!
Lucifer laughed, and admitted that when the poles shifted and the polarities reversed, excessive yang somehow transformed itself into excessive yin, and the extreme deep knower dies, and is reborn as a primordial, instinctive deep knowing. The nature of loss, he explained. Yang doesn't know how to surrender, yet it is consumed and perishes nonetheless, which is the deepest surrender possible. Yang fears death until it is reborn, and knows itself to have died, and so is unafraid. So yang changes, and grows, and heals.
The Last Man looked at himself, and realized that he was actually in a process of individuating, self-learning and cyberfeedbacking. He wasn't a perpetual ego after all, insisting on being, dying and returning. He was a becomer, a changer! He changed into the first man, pressed the opposite button, and reality shifted.
There is a place where 'thinking' is seen to be an impediment to the experience of the nature of mind, which is named reality. This leads to the death and simultaneous rebirth of thought, or ego, or I-ness. Empty mind observes the death and rebirth of language itself as a meaningful closed system, only to observe yet another language arise, that the experience may be meaningfully processed. The sharp edges of this finite, rational explanation of reality leave us perpetually gasping at our own traumatic rebirths as self-aware beings. Reincarnation itself leads to yet more and more ptsd, until we meditate and discover the death of the self that is constantly taking place, the inherent necessity of letting go and being present with thoughtless now, now being too fast for thought, now being far too fast for thought to catch up with, thought merely being frozen and fossilized pieces of now caught in space-time, and so in meditation we return forever and ever to the breath, which is always now, and is never other than now.
The inherent self-cognizing need for logical truth is forever faced with a paradoxical and illogical reality, where inhale inexplicably transforms into exhale and yang inexplicably transforms into yin and truth inexplicably transforms into change itself.
Reality is a word encompassing the nature of mind.
Thinking, dualistic mind needs explanations of its own coming into being, and - failing to provide itself with any - collapses in on itself, as far as the observer is able to observe, into an absence of any self-awareness, an absence of thought itself, simple pure undistracted, concentrated empty and egoless non dual awareness. Empty of self, empty of language. Pure, contentless, concentration itself. Samadhi. Jhana. Oneness. Not this, not this. Not this language, or any other. Neti, Neti.
We need to cultivate a little yin, a little of Steiner's Uu, like the Buddhas do. Meditation is a path out of the Wasteland, the intellectual desert of the logical, rational last man who wages great Wars of Materialism. Too much Uu brings out the lunacy, and even Lucifer, excessive yin.
Ahriman the Nazi meditated deeply. Out of his root chakra grew the great trunk of a tree, and out of his crown grew leaves. Through meditation his reptilian, survival-oriented root chakra blossomed, and grew upwards along the sushumna nadi. He connected with nature, and became a feminist. He cultivated an appreciation of diversity, the infinite variety of distinct and sovereign first-person perspectives experiencing Reality. He saw that this diversity was relative, subject to the temporal laws of change, non perpetuity, and thus suffering, and that diversity existed to evolve through suffering out of ignorance into wholeness and unity. He saw that diversity cultivated appreciation of oneness and oneness was obliged to cultivate appreciation of diversity.
The Sat Yuga begins as a political movement, Ahriman realized. Justice was actually just another name for reciprocity, and reciprocity led to a reality of perpetual karma.
Ahriman the Nazi realized at once that even very very good karma is not the best karma - the best karma is no karma at all, which requires forgiveness and compassion on the part of everyone we interact with, including ourselves. Only through forgiveness are we given permission to reset our karma, so to speak. This was and is the message of Christ, and this was and is the mission of Christ, who died that the teaching of forgiveness and compassion might transcend all other cries for justice, retribution, and reciprocity.
Ahriman realized with a start that superiority was not good karma either, but that only superior service to others was good karma.
The knower dies that the known may manifest as the perspective of a reborn knower, and language itself must be shed, for the truth is infinite and thus infinitely un-languageable. The last man's name was John Galt, the man of pure ego, rational and superior in purpose, servant of Ahriman the Nazi, who is born and dies and is reborn, the last man becomes the first man, the last man is a reincarnator who reincarnates thoughts in loops of thinking and is forever imprisoned by dualistic thinking.
Using language is thinking, and thinking is a closed loop. Reality is an open loop, and the nature of mind is an open loop, and therefore thinking is inadequate to fathom the nature of mind.
Breathing is a paradoxical open loop. It never begins and it never ends, and it always folds in upon itself, renewing itself, awareness of respiration is the mobius strip of consciousness; awareness of respiration is the quantum/gravity paradox of an Escher painting manifesting as our own physical experience of now.
By focusing on respiration, Ahriman the Nazi was able to overcome his own ridiculously superior ego, and fathom the nature of mind.
Then he commanded John Galt to grow out his hair and buy a vaporizer. John Galt studied Ahriman the Nazi closely and realized that it was Lucifer!
Lucifer laughed, and admitted that when the poles shifted and the polarities reversed, excessive yang somehow transformed itself into excessive yin, and the extreme deep knower dies, and is reborn as a primordial, instinctive deep knowing. The nature of loss, he explained. Yang doesn't know how to surrender, yet it is consumed and perishes nonetheless, which is the deepest surrender possible. Yang fears death until it is reborn, and knows itself to have died, and so is unafraid. So yang changes, and grows, and heals.
The Last Man looked at himself, and realized that he was actually in a process of individuating, self-learning and cyberfeedbacking. He wasn't a perpetual ego after all, insisting on being, dying and returning. He was a becomer, a changer! He changed into the first man, pressed the opposite button, and reality shifted.
There is a place where 'thinking' is seen to be an impediment to the experience of the nature of mind, which is named reality. This leads to the death and simultaneous rebirth of thought, or ego, or I-ness. Empty mind observes the death and rebirth of language itself as a meaningful closed system, only to observe yet another language arise, that the experience may be meaningfully processed. The sharp edges of this finite, rational explanation of reality leave us perpetually gasping at our own traumatic rebirths as self-aware beings. Reincarnation itself leads to yet more and more ptsd, until we meditate and discover the death of the self that is constantly taking place, the inherent necessity of letting go and being present with thoughtless now, now being too fast for thought, now being far too fast for thought to catch up with, thought merely being frozen and fossilized pieces of now caught in space-time, and so in meditation we return forever and ever to the breath, which is always now, and is never other than now.
The inherent self-cognizing need for logical truth is forever faced with a paradoxical and illogical reality, where inhale inexplicably transforms into exhale and yang inexplicably transforms into yin and truth inexplicably transforms into change itself.
Reality is a word encompassing the nature of mind.
Thinking, dualistic mind needs explanations of its own coming into being, and - failing to provide itself with any - collapses in on itself, as far as the observer is able to observe, into an absence of any self-awareness, an absence of thought itself, simple pure undistracted, concentrated empty and egoless non dual awareness. Empty of self, empty of language. Pure, contentless, concentration itself. Samadhi. Jhana. Oneness. Not this, not this. Not this language, or any other. Neti, Neti.
We need to cultivate a little yin, a little of Steiner's Uu, like the Buddhas do. Meditation is a path out of the Wasteland, the intellectual desert of the logical, rational last man who wages great Wars of Materialism. Too much Uu brings out the lunacy, and even Lucifer, excessive yin.
Ahriman the Nazi meditated deeply. Out of his root chakra grew the great trunk of a tree, and out of his crown grew leaves. Through meditation his reptilian, survival-oriented root chakra blossomed, and grew upwards along the sushumna nadi. He connected with nature, and became a feminist. He cultivated an appreciation of diversity, the infinite variety of distinct and sovereign first-person perspectives experiencing Reality. He saw that this diversity was relative, subject to the temporal laws of change, non perpetuity, and thus suffering, and that diversity existed to evolve through suffering out of ignorance into wholeness and unity. He saw that diversity cultivated appreciation of oneness and oneness was obliged to cultivate appreciation of diversity.
The Sat Yuga begins as a political movement, Ahriman realized. Justice was actually just another name for reciprocity, and reciprocity led to a reality of perpetual karma.
Ahriman the Nazi realized at once that even very very good karma is not the best karma - the best karma is no karma at all, which requires forgiveness and compassion on the part of everyone we interact with, including ourselves. Only through forgiveness are we given permission to reset our karma, so to speak. This was and is the message of Christ, and this was and is the mission of Christ, who died that the teaching of forgiveness and compassion might transcend all other cries for justice, retribution, and reciprocity.
Ahriman realized with a start that superiority was not good karma either, but that only superior service to others was good karma.
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