02.16.11

Finding a spiritual path

Posted in General at 1:46 pm by nemo

http://magazine.enlightennext.org/2010/12/09/a-spiritually-inspired-future-video/
Note: I am a fan of naturalistic Samkhya and don’t like the word ‘spiritual’,but it does have a limited use. As here.

For the life of me I can’t see why Deepak Chopra, who has an entire tradition of Indic religion under his belt, whatever his understanding or lack of it, hangs around that creepy asshole Andrew Cohen, who is an artificially manufactured fake put there to keep anyone from going astray from establshment (monotheistic) ideology.
Cohen is totally incapable of even writing a book explaining what he is up to in relation to Indian religious history. Actually, it doesn’t matter if his only purpose is to smear jargon around, and hobnob with the usual celebrities.

Indian religion is a great resource, but the odds are against you in a place like America. Find something simple, like meditation, and quietly proceed with that,hoping against hope for the best. The religious establishment, and invisible spirits of Christian domination will destroy your efforts, and figures like E.J. Gold don’t even bother to deny or hide it (he is on record saying he will put very obstacle he can in the way of a spiritual path, presumably to reduce you to a passive idiot ‘under one god’. You would think these nihilist Nietzschean Crowley imitators would see the problem in being fanatic monotheists).

Cohen is ambiguous here, but he is obviously a semi-clone of Da Free John (who also was in the business of destroying spiritual paths, ‘undermining the search’ he called it, the more to make you a passive entity), and a quickie job at the hands of the really vulgar guru who declared him ‘enlightened’ to serve his own agenda (only to withdraw the claim). He will waste your time, and he has dickered around for twenty years, with no result, except to confuse the idea of evolution.
A spiritual path requires stealth and honest cunning, and some decent resources (Raneesh produced hundreds of books as starting material). Stay away from celebrities, assholes like Cohen, and gangsters like E.J. Gold and the Gurdjieff sufies,… The list goes on and on. Buddhism would be your best bet, but there again the Tibetans have destroyed it, and in any case, the Buddhist game is controlled by Bodhissatwas, who aren’t enlightened, and don’t know anything on the subject (try reading the Dalai Lama’s book on enlightenment…a waste of paper?). It is not clear if Cohen, like Da Free John, is a ‘satsang’ fanatic who allows no development and undermines all paths. He is a sneaky bugger, you should be wary of him.

Be humble, lie low, and you can get a lot done anonymously, away from gurus, celebrities, sufi vultures, god cops on the lookout for just such anonymous saddhanas. Like Frodo and the Dark Lord, you have Big Problems once you are detected by the ‘spritual establishment’.

Another option is to go to Indian, and drop dead, hopefully reincarnating as a tantric and/or yogic fakir. Your chances in the West are not good.
You don’t need a guru to proceed spiritually. The whole game is so corrupt you are better off alone.
Indian spiritual psychology is rife with confusion. Schopenhauer is actually much better IF you can disregard his metaphysics of will ( even as you give it some respect, and which may or may not have any truth to it): the issue is to see how Upanishadic thinking is too often a decayed version of the noumenal/phenomenal distinction. (You can also use the Upanishads to understand Schopenhauer)

It is worth watching The Bourne Identity, a movie about a CIA assassin who tried to repent and escape. Despite its sophmoric adolescent thriller framework it is a strange symbolism of rebirth (‘bourne’), attempted self-remembering, and a chilling portrait of the hidden mafia and demonology out to kill you (keep you asleep) as you try to remember. It is not accident that Gurdjieff hinted at all this, and adopted a name of a devil.
You won’t reach enlightenment in this kind of environment. But then again Gautama spoke of the devil(s) who tried to thwart his efforts. He was too rational to believe in devils, but the moments of paranoia at the last stages of his path left their mark.

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