08.02.10
Gurus
Andrew’s ‘good question’ has no simple answer, but a dozen suggestions, based on the facts on the ground in the generation(s) of the New Age movement(s).
The suggestion of this blog is to be wary of gurus, and refuse allegiance to all of them. Period. You can still study what people have to say, without the dangerous and now obsolete ‘surrender’ games that too often destroy the potential of normal people turned into abnormal people under the influence of the endless perverts thrown up by this New Age dynamic.
Da free john, Lozowick, Andrw Cohen, Ken Wilbur, full stop, you don’t need these perverted creeps trying to gain power over your psyche.
Would you were lucky enough to have never met them or interacted with them, but if you have say NO immediately.
Da free john, at least, was honest, almost, if you could read him for his veiled confessions: he said, I am a vampire who needs ‘disciples’ to gain sustenance for my future existence in the death state.
Frightening. And you will find the ‘small change in your pocket’ one day gone without a trace around such people.
Surrender the surrender game and hightail it our of guru land. Piss on it. It has gone on too long, and has been perverted by Aryan caste/Brahminism for over two thousand years. The whole game is corrupt.
Consider Rajneesh. He said very clearly: I NEVER had a guru.
It is a very sad question. The New Age milieu is littered with thousands of spent disciples.
Giving advice or teachings always gets into a snafu. Ouspensky is popular because he was good at transmitting what looked like simple techniques. But a close look shows the simple and good was mixed up with the lies of Gurdjieff, who covered his tracks well with phony teachings. Sorting out the two is impossible now, so that is lost.
But some of the things are obvious and ancient simple truths, like ‘self-observation’.
Everyone is obsessed and in a hurry to do something that will reach the ultimate in twenty four hours.
That was the point of meditation, stop doing anything, and wait for the answer to come while sitting. It probably won’t come but rushing around won’t help either.
In general, there is only one method: developing self-consciousness, and learning about your powers of attention.
It has always been that. But even that has been ruined by the gurus.
Modernity and secularism are the conditions of modern man. Their destruction in the name of some ‘New Age’ of postmodern spirituality is so stupid (Andrew Cohen’s favorite idiocy) as to be unbelievable. The new age is precisely that modernity, and it has already created an explosion of consciousness.
Lots to say on all this. But as to Gurdjieff, his reactionary authoritarian and corrupt vampiric entanglement of fake disciples is not a spiritual tradition, but an exploitation that arose in a culture of idiots who couldn’t defend themselves. So learn and move on.