Common Lies of the Phony World of Mystics

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Common Lies of the Phony World of Mystics

" There is no one there to tell you you are enlightened. " U.G.

Krishnamurti

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The ancient religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism,

Christianity, and Islam, all started as campfire religions. The

initial spark of the religion may have been a remarkable human being

having an insight or a vision, but the religions themselves were

formed much later by unenlightened disciples of the original teacher.

All of the ancient religious myths, which strict fundamentalists

accept as fact, began with disciples sitting around a fire at night

and telling stories about the glory days of their long dead spiritual

heroes.

 

Imagine the world before the printing press and electricity. In

ancient times nights were long, dark, and potentially very scary, with

no television or radio for entertainment. Huddled around a fire,

afraid of thieves, wild animals, disease, or starvation, story tellers

would gain recognition by fabricating heroic tales of perfect saintly

beings in order to entertain and comfort. Over the centuries

religious myths became wildly grandiose and fact was lost in a sea of

invention.

 

Modern day gurus often try to market themselves as being

reincarnations of ancient religious super-heroes, or at least being in

a direct lineage of some infallible ancient knowledge. As in The

Wizard of Oz, if you pull away the curtain of falsehood surrounding

many gurus you will find an ordinary human being trying to make a

dishonest living off the sincere spiritual aspirations of their

followers. Below are some of the common big lies told by religious

mystics to watch out for. Hold on to your wallet and your sanity and

be aware that it is easiest to pick your pocket as you are being

hugged by a guru selling cosmic love and compassion.

Lie #1) " Surrender to me because I am enlightened and thus more

intelligent and wiser than you. "

 

The Eastern esoteric definition of 'enlightenment' has nothing to do

with intelligence or wisdom. The Western definition of

'enlightenment' is intellectual and artistic, as in the " enlightened

age " of the great artists and thinkers. The Eastern esoteric meaning

of the word has nothing to do with mind, talent, art, or wisdom. The

true occult definition means to have no boundaries, thus you feel the

infinite emptiness of the cosmic Void.

There is no wisdom in the Void: no art, no love, no hate, no

compassion, and no good or evil. The Void simply is! All of the

emotional and intellectual content is in the mind, and the

enlightenment is far beyond the ordinary mental level. Enlightenment

is the consciousness of raw nature, formless and empty of definable

content.

 

Superconsciousness has subjective experiential benefit in that it

makes you feel truly magnificent. Unfortunately, cosmic consciousness

has no functional benefit and does not increase IQ or practical wisdom

(see The Ridiculous Teachings of Wrong Way Rajneesh). Intelligence

and pragmatic wisdom come from a complex interaction of genetics,

education, and life experience. The opinion of the " enlightened ones "

on politics, science, or economics is of no inherently greater value

than the opinion of an unenlightened person of equal education and

genetically derived higher brain function. Thus, the undemocratic

theocracies of the enlightened elite have always failed disastrously

in the past and will always fail in the future. The violent history

of planet earth proves beyond doubt that religion and politics should

never be mixed.

 

People who reach the Void can become corrupt, but the corruption is in

their human minds and brains, not in the total Void itself. The total

Void is not human and thus has no mind or potential for corruption.

That is why Zen Buddhists say you should live in a state of " no-mind. "

A more accurate term would be no-thought, as the human mind-brain has

other basic autonomic survival functions that continue even if the

conscious thought process stops. Interrupting the constant stream of

thoughts is enough, however, to allow cosmic consciousness to enter

your body. You do not enter it. It is more accurate to say that the

ultimate consciousness, the Atman, enters you. You can never own the

Atman or put your personal brand on it, but it can save you from the

pettiness and misery inherent to the limited human mind.

 

The world of gurus and religion is a world of big business, politics,

and lust for power. The more disciples a guru attracts, the more

power and income they can generate. Teachers often say " stick with

one guru " (themselves) because when a guru loses a disciple he loses a

potential source of power and income. As the dishonest propaganda

surrounding the teacher grows more fantastic, the quality of the

guru's disciples always becomes more and more immature and corrupt.

People who grow up mentally know there are no perfect human beings.

Children can be fooled by incredible claims of divine infallibility.

Adults who have lived a long life with alertness cannot be hoodwinked

by such old tricks.

Lie #2) " I am enlightened and I have no ego. "

 

Some humans do become 'enlightened,' but no living human being is

without ego. If you lost your ego you would physically die within two

weeks, because you could not eat, drink, or have any activity other

than basic involuntary movements, such as breathing and heart beat.

It is the same neurological mechanism that talks, walks, eats, and

accomplishes tasks that we also call the 'ego.' You can have a

centralized ego, as most people do, or you can have a decentralized

ego, as enlightened people attain. In the end, as far as behavior is

concerned, it makes little difference.

 

We feel a centralized ego vividly, so its suffering becomes a

tremendous burden to us. Some may go on a spiritual path to get rid

of ego, but in truth we can only push ego to the periphery of the

mind. The human brain is vast, with many hiding places in its neural

web where the ego function can hide without notice.

 

21st century science knows that the brain is highly adaptive. If one

portion of the brain is damaged, it is often possible for another area

of the brain to adapt itself to take over the lost function. If a

centralized ego comes under fire from the brilliant light of

meditation, it can simply shift its location to an area of the brain

unaffected by the torch of consciousness. In fact, a hidden back-up

peripheral ego center already exists, and this is because the ego

function is essential to human survival. There is no such thing as

total self-knowledge of the human brain. Even fully enlightened human

beings have blind spots where they cannot see.

 

Just because you do not feel an ego does not mean that you do not have

an ego! The East deluded itself into thinking ego could be destroyed,

but the entire East was wrong. The East has never been good at

combining subjective feeling with objective provable fact, and thus

the East was not the birthplace of real science and the scientific

method.

 

" Part of the guru is " enlightened, " wise, knowledgeable, and he's

mentally living in this enlightened part of himself. He believes that

he *is* that part exclusively, ignoring the other parts which have

been cut off and dissociated from his conscious awareness. He becomes

identified with the guru aspect of himself exclusively. The other

parts, however, do not disappear. They still exist, but are simply

disowned and regulated to the unconscious. " - Charles Morrison

 

Objectively, by any measurement, enlightened people are as egocentric

as anyone else. Quite often they become even more egoistic if they

allow themselves to be put on a pedestal. Totally enlightened humans

have become corrupt, self-indulgent liars, murders, and thieves. Do

not accept the big lie of the egoless master. They do not exist now

and they have never existed in the past. There was no " Lord Buddha, "

only an enlightened Siddhartha Gautama. There was no " Lord Jesus, "

only a carpenter who made extravagant claims. The only way to be

egoless is to physically die and not come back into this world. If

you are here, you have an ego. Do not fool yourself or allow yourself

to be fooled by others.

Lie/scam #3) " Do not judge the great masters. They are on such a

high level of consciousness that they cannot be measured by normal

standards of good behavior. "

 

This is a convenient old lie used by gurus to cover up lie #1 and lie

#2 and to turn naive disciples into mental eunuchs, thus making them

more useful as slaves. Of course gurus do not want to be judged by

normal standards, because that will destroy their business. The

corrupt spiritual teacher always wants a blank check. If he seduces

your wife, it is for your own spiritual benefit. If he robs your bank

account, it is a test of your state of spiritual surrender. If the

guru murders someone, it is for the victim's own good and the guru

should not be prosecuted. When spiritual teachers start acting like

pharaohs, " enlightened " or not, they have crossed a line into the

world of criminals.

Lie #4) " Read my new book and it will help you find enlightenment. "

 

The German and Austrian Nazis of the 1930s were wrong to burn books.

Books are a great way to learn about history, science, and art.

Unfortunately books can also be an obstacle when it comes to matters

of existential truth. Books often turn the search for truth into

dogma and give people the false impression that by reading them you

can know something about meditation without actually meditating

yourself. In my opinion, the world would be better off if most of the

books written by the famous mystics were used for fuel to keep us all

warm at night.

 

Meditation is basic good-clean-fun. It can make you feel filled with

light and highly euphoric, but it will never turn you into a pedantic

reservoir of borrowed intellectual knowledge. Reading and religion

are both polar opposites of meditation. In meditation you clear

yourself of thoughts and become more detached. Reading and religion

fill your head with other people's thoughts, which are often more

idiotic than your own thoughts, and you become attached to dead

teachers, dead philosophies, dead shrines, and dead rituals.

Meditation, by contrast, is thrilling real life, right here and right

now.

Meditation, like gardening, is a relatively simple affair that

requires honest effort and patience. It is not a highly complex

intellectual task, as the study of DNA or astrophysics. You can read

all you need to know about meditation in just one hour. A few simple

pointers are enough to get students meditating and on a path to

growing awareness. You cannot read your way to enlightenment, but you

can read your way to the loony-bin. Books stimulate the thinking

function of the brain, making your mind spew out more thoughts at an

even faster pace. Meditation means transcending the conflict and

limitations of the world of thought and entering the naturally serene

state of no-thought.

 

Christopher Calder - E-mail - my home page

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[Guest guest]

Thank you so much for this post . I would have to say that i resonated

well with nearly the entire post . My beliefs coincide so much with

this post , it even leaves a sweet taste in my mouth as i reread it

again . Deceivers are out on the prowl and we must use our intuitive

discernment to see through the deceptions .