08.11.09
Rajneesh again
The Rajneesh question has become obliviated by his critics and the disconbobulation of his movement. Since I lived in parallel to that I am still somewhat partial (tho never a member) to what it aspired to before everything got shot to hell: the point was that a guru in the Jain tradition was an appropriate way to bypass the confusions of ‘hinduism’ which has no objective future except as confused proliferation. He was clearly attempting to found a new tradition. Perhaps he is the first a new sequence of twenty-four Jains in a new tradition that will simply bypass the Hindu morass.
What exactly happened to destroy everything he tried to create is unclear, and puzzling. But as an outsider it still seems to me that many of the elements were correct, before the cult effect took hold.
My point here is that the attempted resourcing of the great tradition by a Jain appearing out of nowhere has been missed by many commentators. Why the whole thing nosedived and self-destructed is not clear.
But watch, a continuation will suddenly appear, just as it did in ancient times.
Many Indian gurus are naive and a bit overconfident. Having met and fought for years with a Jewish occultist like E. J. Gold it is obvious to me what happened: these hidden Jews (and a few gentiles) are far more potent than most gurus, who are usually enlightened but impotent and not savvy occultists. Every one who set foot in the West was demolished, usually with a sex scandal.
A crowleyite black magician like Gold was expert in sex scandals. So you have to wonder if the hidden traditions behind monotheism aren’t screwing everything up as they try to maintaint their control.
Perhaps that is one reason a figure like Andrew Cohen got set up to operate: the occult gangs may leave him alone. so far he has had no sex scandal to speak of.
Moral: don’t presume to play guru until you know the territory.
mybrainisafleamarket said,
10.11.09 at 11:20 am
Nemo wrote:
“Moral: don’t presume to play guru until you know the territory”
There is a bumper sticker proverb that may apply:
“Meddle not in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with hot sauce”
Most of us lack the humility to imagine that to some quite dangerous people and very charming people, we are not unique and loveable persons, we are just one more chunk of snackfood in a large sack of other nuggets waiting to be devoured.
The best way is to face that there is a foil lined bag that looks very spiritual on the outside, but that if we are lured inside, it will be zipped shut, and our screams will not escape.
The best con artists trick us into believing that anyone who warns us we are exploitable is someone who doesnt want us to have fun, someone who thinks we are so pathetic and childish and stupid that we need to be warned, and that the con artist is actually our only true friend and only true agent of empowerment.
The best con artists get us to hate our real friends trying to warn us away from that zip lock trap. They con us into thinking that being warned is not a gift from a friend, but an insult to be resented.
Its a very haunting thing to face that in some eyes, we are food, waiting to be trapped and devoured. Its a real come down to live with this.
(Frankly we are all gonna die at some point and become food anyway. And right now we have bacteria and viruses and mites living in our eyebrows. And if we live in some parts of the world, add in some fungi, worms and protozoa.)
Face it that we are already snack food for various cooties.
Then, figure out which fake spiritual teachers consider us snack food and avoid the bastards. Knowing you are potentially someones dinner is the best way to avoid becoming that persons dinner.
However…not everyone is like this. Just a few creeps. But it is important to avoid those few creeps. Nemo and others give us some good travel advisories on where many creeps are likely to go fishing; those are the ponds to avoid swimming in.
jamiah c. benson said,
10.11.09 at 11:47 am
hi. enjoyed reading this. a hunter thompson flavor.