05.24.13
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I was asked to comment on Hindutva, but as I said, my knowledge of Indian issues here is not adequate to the task. Anyone with useful information put links in the comments, and I will post them, if appropriate.
One problem is playing off Hinduism against Hindutva. But to me both are problematical.
That said, I am critical only of the superficial culture confusion called ‘Hinduism’, not the great legacy of Indian religion.
The issue to me is the way in which the tradition of primordial Indian become entrwined, and ensnared, in the period after the entry of the Indo-Europeans. The hopeless confusion introduced on this issue is not, to my knowledge, the exclusive fault of Hindutva, but it appears to have contributed. I don’t know. The cultural details are not known to me.
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05.18.13
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Dalai Lama Decries Buddhist Attacks On Muslims In Myanmar
Reuters | Posted: 05/07/2013 1:37 pm EDT | Updated: 05/07/2013 6:16 pm EDT
By Ian Simpson
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05.16.13
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at 10:56 am
Sujay rao mandavilli
Submitted on 2013/05/15 at 9:33 am
http://www.gurdjieff-con.net/2013/04/22/the-aitoit-question-and-sujay-rao-mandavillis-book/comment-page-1/#comment-40622
for those who have trouble reading part two in the above link use the link below: part one http://www.docstoc.com/docs/25880426/Sujay-NPAP-Part-One part two (very important) http://www.docstoc.com/docs/25865304/SUJAY-NPAP-Part-Two Literacy in pre-Buddhist India (before 600 BC)
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/156763259/Sujay-NDNVNP-104
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/156763018/Sujay-Indus-reintroducing-lost-manuscipt-hypothesis
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/156762954/Sujay-Indus-script-FINAL-VERSION-FINAL-FINAL
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/156763890/Sujay-Post-Harappan-literacy-final-final-final
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Socissues/hindutva.html
Hinduism Versus Hindutva
The Inevitability Of A Confrontation
Taken from:
Times of India, February 18, 1991.
By ASHIS NANDY
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05.12.13
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at 9:52 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva
Hindutva
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search For Veer Savarkar’s book, see Hindutva (book).Hindutva (Devanagari: हिन्दुत्व, “Hinduness”, a word coined by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his 1923 pamphlet entitled Hindutva: Who is a Hindu? ) is the set of movements advocating Hindu nationalism. Members of the movement are called Hindutvavadis.[1] According to a 1995 Supreme Court of India judgement the word Hindutva could be used to mean “the way of life of the Indian people and the Indian culture or ethos”.[2]
In India, an umbrella organization called the Sangh Parivar champions the concept of Hindutva. The sangh comprises organizations such as the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bajrang Dal, and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad.
This ideology has existed since the early 20th century, forged by Savarkar, but came to prominence in Indian politics in the late 1980s, when two deliberately managed events attracted a large number of Hindus to the sectarian movement. The first of these events was the Rajiv Gandhi government’s use of its large Parliamentary Majority to overturn a Supreme Court verdict granting alimony to an old woman, a verdict that had angered many Muslims (see the Shah Bano case). The second was the dispute over the 16th century Mughal Babri Mosque in Ayodhya—claimed to had been built by Babur after destruction of a Hindu temple and claomed in nineteenth century to be birthplace of Shri Ram, one of main Indian Vaishanavait Gods. The Supreme Court of India refused to take up the case in the early 1990s, as Supreme Court did not considered itself competent and trained to weigh historical evidence. Shri Lalkrishna Adwani together with Shri Pramod Mahajan, Ms. Uma Bharati and Bhartiya Janata Party, Rashtriya Swayansevak Sangha Vishva Hindu Parishad members illegally and violating all norms of decency in public life openly demolished the 6 years old Babri Mosque taking law into their hands. Causing nationwide communal riots. The razing of the Mosque lifted the BJP and Hindutva to international shame.
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You are absolutely right, but my knowledge of India is limited. I have tried via scanned text from a book from Bazaz to consider one issue, very controversial: I tried to use an Indian writer. I am not clear who Prem Nath Bazaz was, or how he fits into the picture. Nor am I completely confident of his interpretation. But his basic perspective clarifiews things considerably. But the contrast of Buddhism with the complexity of Indian religious history tends to backfire.
But, by all means help with the issue here if you link. You can post links and commentary and I will upgrade them to post level, as I have done here.
I recall the sage/gure Rajneesh criticizint the Hindutva already in the seventies/eighties. They seem to have gotten stronger. I have of course tried to get clear on the AIT/OIT questions, and your book is helpful here.
So by all means post any data you have here.
Sujay Rao Mandavilli said,
05.08.13 at 3:25 am · Edit
People like you must spend more efforts tackling the hindutva menace- create awareness among the public on what exacly they are upto . you are well-positioned to do this. I can help ypu if you like
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05.02.13
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at 11:47 am
Abandoning sufism, and entering the path of enlightenment…
http://www.gurdjieff-con.net/2013/05/01/sufism-and-the-way-of-blame/
This material is from a new book on the history of sufism. But it makes depressing reading: it is almost impossible to figure out a rational strategy for sufism. Everything is confused, disinfo, and the whole subject is plagued by con men, and insidious figures. In a way Gurdjieff gave the game away: a field of devils.
Anyway I recomment staying away from sufism. It is a trap for non-Moslems especially. As this article shows, after forty years of New Age sufism, the subject is as obscure as before.
And figures like EJ Gold (and many others) are lying in wait to rip you off. The path of enlightenment is no guarantee: rogue sufis (like Gold) have fun invultuating the unwary. You can fail to find out, but one thing is clear, if you reach enlightenment you will find out first who is trying to program your unconscious.
The problem with sufism is that there is too much spiritual energy mongering, the barack game. But the vultures sufism and the thievesw of baraka make the game pointless.
The path of enlightenment is not about spiritual energy: it is condition of transformation via understanding that can’t be ripped off.
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05.01.13
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at 10:58 am
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
sujayrao2012@gmail.com
Submitted on 2013/04/29 at 2:43 pm
some people complained that some links were troublesome.. i have provided alternative links (as applicable)
Yes.. the “aryan problem” isn’t complex .. just break it down into its logical components! please do study the papers -they will prove to be a fascinating voyage of understanding
The Demise of the Dravidian, Vedic and Paramunda Indus myths
I am publishing my sixth research paper directly online as it is an extension of my previous papers. Kindly read pages 4 to 18 as it contains a detailed discussion of the term ‘Aryan’. This paper shows why the Dravidian, Vedic and Paramunda Indus theories are not tenable.
www.scribd.com/doc/136268397/The-demise-of-the-Dravidian-Vedic-and-Paramunda-Indus-myths
Methods to reconstruct the languages of the Harappans were presented in the present and previous papers. We hope other scholars take up the exercise of reconstructing the languages of the Indus Valley civilization!
The older papers were written taking the assumptions of the 19th century school of Indology as a base and working backwards. These may appear to be outdated now (at the end of our very long journey). However, the fundamentals are still correct.
Part one
http://
Part Two very,very important!
www.scribd.com/doc/27105677/Sujay-Npap-Part-Two
(These comprise the complete and comprehensive solution to the Aryan problem)
for those who have trouble reading part two in the above link use the link below: part one http://www.docstoc.com/docs/25880426/Sujay-NPAP-Part-One part two (very important) http://www.docstoc.com/docs/25865304/SUJAY-NPAP-Part-Two Literacy in pre-Buddhist India (before 600 BC)
Literacy in pre-Buddhist India (before 600 BC)
Please find my collection of papers on literacy in Pre-Buddhist India
Before mature phase of Indus valley civilization (before 2600 BC)
- There are some potters marks but none qualify as full writing
Indus valley civilization (2600 BC to 1900 BC)
1. The reconfirmation and reinforcement of the Indus script thesis (very logical and self explanatory paper)
www.scribd.com/doc/46387240/Sujay-Indus-Script-Final-Version-Final-Final
2. The reintroduction of the lost manuscript hypothesis (the case for this thesis has obviously become much stronger in the recent past)
www.scribd.com/doc/111707419/Sujay-Indus-Reintroducing-Lost-Manuscript-Hypothesis
Post-Harappan India (1600 BC to 600 BC)
1. Literacy in post-Harappan india (obviously literacy in post-Harappan India existed in certain pockets & were limited to very small sections of society- alphabetic scripts were brought from West Asia and the Indus script also continued – this a very logical and self-explanatory paper and anyone can cross-verify the conclusions)
www.scribd.com/doc/127306265/Sujay-Post-Harappan-Literacy-and-origin-of-Brahmi
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
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This arrived at my email box.
Sufism and the Way of Blame
Yannis
Toussulis PhD
The following is excerpted from Sufism and the Way of Blame: The Hidden Sources
of a Sacred Psychology, available from Quest Books.
http://www.realitysandwich.com/sufism_and_way_blame
J. G. Bennett was convinced that Gurdjieff’s greatest influence came from a group of proto-Naqshbandis in Central Asia, a brotherhood later verified by HasanŞuşud as the Khwajagan, or Masters. Idries Shah implied that his own perspective was influenced by the Khwajagan-Naqshbandiyya. Moreover, the father of Idries, Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, was also known to have contacts among Afghan Sufis, some of whom (according to Robert Darr) were still active members of the Khwajagan.
HasanŞuşud, a rather enigmatic Sufi in Istanbul, had disguised his former affiliation with the Naqshbandiyya and with another group that referred to itself as the Nuriyya-Malamatiyya (in Turkish, Nuriyye-Melamiyye). He had revealed that he had a rather low opinion of Gurdjieff as a “thief of the tradition.” It is hard to tell which tradition Şuşud was referring to, although he probably meant the Khwajagan or the malamatiyya, or both of them comingled together.
A common element that tied together Gurdjieff, the Shah family, Bennett, and Şuşud was that all of them referred to the Masters of Central Asia. All of them also posited that the Khwajagan had functioned as a rather elite group within greater Sufism; yet all of them, with the exception of Şuşud, seem to have deviated from the central teachings of Sufism, which emphasized the nothingness of human beings next to God. Instead, the followers of Gurdjieff, Bennett, and Idries Shah would all continue to promote a form of occult elitism that emphasized a hidden hierarchy in Sufism composed of superhumans who operated beyond, behind, or outside of normative Sufism and Islam. And this idea was inimical to the original teachings of the Khwajagan.
Ibn al-Arabi had also referred to a hierarchy among saints, at the pinnacle of which were the blameworthy (malamiyya, or malamatis). But rather than promoting a form of elitism, he and other classical Sufis claimed that malamatis hid themselves among the common people. A question that remains is whether or not the Khwajagan and the people of blame were somehow associated with each other, and if so whether or not they shared common characteristics. To attempt to answer this question requires a less fantastical examination of the early malamatis and the Khwajagan, who appear to be separate. So, to begin with, what was the original “path of blame”?
From recent research, it seems that Islamic mysticism originally included two distinct lines of spiritual development: one centered in Mesopotamia, principally in Baghdad, and the other in Khurasan, a province that once included northeastern Iran, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia. These two trends have been referred to as the Mesopotamian and the Khurasanian: the malamati and Sufi schools respectively. Hasan Şuşud called these two approaches the Northern and Southern branches of Islamic mysticism, but these descriptors are a bit too vague to be useful. We shall now attempt to distinguish between Sufism and malamatism while acknowledging how they became intermingled over time.
The first reference to the way of blame can be found in the Qur’an, which refers to those who “struggle in God’s path, fearing not the blame of any blamer” (5:54). In one tradition, the Prophet Muhammad (sa) is reported as saying, “Poverty is my pride,” to which he added (in another tradition), “Poverty is to be disgraced in this world and the next.” Turning to a current encyclopedia of Islam, we find that the malamatiyya (way of blame) is described as “the designation of a tendency, or of a psychological category, of people who attract blame to themselves despite their being innocent.”
But why were the malamatis reproached and by whom; moreover, how were they held to be innocent? From the example of the Prophet Muhammad, we can deduce that the malamatis were held to be innocent by God and not by human beings. As we know, Muhammad was initially reproached for being a false prophet, as well as a social deviant who provoked his Meccan kinsman by opposing their well-established social conventions.
Of course, the Arabic word malamati was never directly attributed to Muhammad by pious Muslims. By the second century of Islam (ninth century ce), however, this term was applied to Abu Yazid al-Bistami (804-74), who broke with convention by speaking openly about the state of “essential union (ayn al-jam). By doing so, Bistami expressed an aspect of unitarian (wujudi) belief that some Muslims found acceptable and others would not. At the same time, Bistami acted in ways that challenged parochial understandings of the Shari’a quite openly.
In one example, it is said that Bistami one day was entering a city when its people, who had heard of his renown, ran out to meet him. He noticed that their ministrations were distracting him from his thoughts of God. Arriving at a bazaar, Bistami took out a loaf of bread and began to eat. All of these people fled, for it was the month of Ramadan. Bistami turned to a disciple traveling with him and said, “You see! As soon as I enact a single article of the law they all reject me!”
Bistami’s point was that it is incumbent upon Muslims to fast during Ramadan, but one of the exceptions is when one is traveling; thus, Bayazid (as he was also known) was actually following the Shari’a, and the people surrounding him were both ignorant of sacred law and more concerned about following their own conventions. Bayazid knew the finer points of the law, but his adherence to the internal meaning of the Shari’a marked him as a malamati.
By appearing not to excel in the formal obligations of Islam, malamatis like Bistami would incur the criticism of those who judged them strictly from outward appearances. In addition, those who practiced this way were especially critical of their own egoism and pietism, finding that the existence of these traits, in themselves, were blameworthy.
By extension, malamatis avoided all forms of religious ostentation and displays of self-righteousness, but, conversely, they never engaged in rebellion as a merely egocentric form of assertion. If they appeared to be acting in unethical ways, it was in order to instruct others in the deeper meaning of the Shari’a and its essential ethics.
Those who most perfectly incurred blame were those who relinquished outward appearances and focused instead on a path of relentless self-inquiry (muhasibi). As noted by Hamid Algar (one of the foremost authorities on the history of the Naqshbandiyya), these attributes would also become associated with the Khwajagan, who became identified as such by the twelfth century. This was long after the death of the ninth-century Bistami, who was listed as one of their most illustrious forbearers.
Trimingham summarizes: “The true malamati conceal[ed] his progress in the spiritual life . . . [and he aspired] to free himself from the world and its passions whilst living in the world.” While the malamatis were inwardly driven to eradicate all traces of self-conceit they were compelled, above all, to eliminate the hypocrisy inherent in having a separate sense of selfhood. Both Schimmel and Trimingham claim that the malamatis stressed the ideal of ikhlas, “perfect sincerity,” as well as “the nothingness of men before God.” According to Hamid Algar, almost all of these traits could also be attributed to the Khwajagan.
Central to Qur’anic teaching was the notion that Allah would forgive all but two sins: that of associating any partners with himself (shirk) and that of hypocrisy (nifaq). The malamati focused on eliminating the latter, especially when it was disguised as false piety. This diminishment of shirk, self-idolatry, would then lead to a greater proximity to God that, at times, would approach, but not reach, complete unification.
Such states of unification, however, were not to be expressed outwardly as endowing the mystic with a special form of charisma. Abu `Abd al-Rahman Sulami (d. 1021) wrote that the malamatiyya “consider it idolatrous to make a display of their acts of devotion; to parade ecstasy is apostasy. . . . They believe that signs and wonders should not be divulged; [instead] they are to be looked upon as possible traps.”
A precedent was found in the Prophet Muhammad, who indicated that the most pernicious form of idolatry was the worship of one’s self. Sufis of all forms were concerned with the eradication of self-conceit, but the malamatiyya, in particular, became renowned for accenting the efficacy of “blame,” or relentless self-inquiry, in eradicating all vestiges of egoism. Such inquiry often exposed the subtler form of narcissism that attached itself to formalistic religious observances, including those of the Sufis.
It is important to note that while the way of blame was generally understood to be a form of spiritual disposition or temperament (mashrab), it also became known as an organized school of mystics. In Nishapur, the capital of Khurasan, a particular group beginning with Hamdun al-Qassar (d. 883/4) began to define its salient characteristics. “Hamdun al-Qassar was once asked ‘What is the Path of Blame?’ ‘It is to abandon in every situation the desire to smarten up in front of people,’ he said, ‘to renounce in all one’s states and actions the need to please people, and to be at all times beyond blame in fulfilling one’s duties to God.’” Here, we find one of the basics of the malamati way: to be continuously mindful of God while forgoing one’s attachment to praise or blame. But there are other equally important aspects.
Abu Uthman al-Hiri, another renowned Khurasanian malamati stressed, “No action or state can become perfect unless God brings it about without any wish on the doer’s part and without any awareness of the doing of the action, and without awareness of another’s awareness of the doing of the action.” Herein, Abu Uthman emphasized the importance of self-abandonment in a single-minded devotion that leads to a closer proximity to God.
Above all, according to Schimmel, the original malamatis sought to overcome all vestiges of self-division or hypocrisy through an applied psychology which could be termed a “science of the self” (al-ilm bi’l-nafs). This spiritual approach, as we shall see, would later lead to a more thoroughgoing psychology of states (ahwal) and stations (maqamat).
Trimingham notes that members of the school of Nishapur exhibited the following characteristics: they rejected all outward show of ritual piety; they worked for their living instead of accepting alms; they wore no distinctive robes that would set them apart from others; they did not submit entirely to spiritual masters, although they did seek guidance; they also did not profess speculative theories of mysticism, but strived, instead, to eradicate all aspects of limiting self-consciousness; and, finally, they sought to live in the world while pursuing the mystical path with the least degree of notability.
As part of their practice, and in order to disguise their interior pursuits, most malamatis — as well as the later Khwajagan — belonged to guilds (akhiyya). Sviri notes that “many of the malamati teachers and disciples bore epithets indicating crafts and professions.” Thus, rather than secreting themselves away in retreat, the malamatis were usually to be found among the artisans of the bazaar. Along with pursuing normal work, malamatis also espoused a tradition of generosity to strangers, or “spiritual chivalry,” called futuwwa and a chivalrous form of adab (etiquette), best described by Sulami. This mode of behavior was wedded to daily life, whose conduct was considered by the malamatiyya to be the proving ground of spiritual realization.
The Khwajagan, who also arose in Khurasan, exhibited the same characteristics, although their way spread more extensively throughout Transoxiana in Turkic Central Asia. They became identifiable Sufis while absorbing most of the traits of the Nishapuri malamatis.
Sviri notes that only after the second half of the tenth century did the term Sufi come to be used as a comprehensive term identifying all Islamic mystics. Before that, according to Sviri, the term was applied only to mystics schooled in the Baghdadian approach attributed to Junayd al-Baghdadi (830-910). Since the Khwajagan were known as Central Asians who took after the Persian malamatis, how did they come to be known as Sufis?
Although Junayd’s teacher, Sari as-Saqati, is attributed with establishing the school of Baghdad, it was Junayd who became renowned as its greatest expositor. The members of this school, known as Masters of Unification, were most concerned with the inculcation of sobriety (sahw). Much like the Nishapuri malamatiyya, with whom they had contact, the Baghdadian Sufis saw sobriety as a necessary balance to mystical “intoxication” (sukr) — and also as a way of balancing a mystical gnosis (ma’rifa) with strict observance of the Shari’a, the ethical norms of Islam.
Junayd’s emphasis on sobriety came from his distaste of Khurasanian mystics such as Bayazid Bistami who openly expressed divine intoxication. A story about the mystic Shibli illustrates Junayd’s attitude: Overpowered by ecstasy, Shibli began to preach out loud the “secret.” Junayd, as an exponent of lawful restraint, reproached him. “We whisper these words in backrooms,” he said. “Now you come out and declare them in public.” Shibli replied, “Only I am speaking and only I am listening — in both worlds who exists but I? These words only proceed from God to God. Shibli doesn’t exist at all.” Upon hearing this answer Junayd relented: “If that is the case, you have my dispensation.”
From this story we might deduce the following: the unification of self and God (ittihad) in Sufism is considered to be a secret; in official Islam such a position might be considered heretical; the utterance of ecstatic utterances (shathiyat) in public might be considered unlawful; only the absence of oneself in speaking such words would insure one’s innocence through the evident absence of egoistic drives.
Shathiyat were most often expressed in states of divine intoxication. Perhaps the most famous of these is that of Bayazid, himself: “He took me up and set me before Him. He said, ‘Bayazid! My creatures desire to see You.’ I said, ‘Array me in Your oneness and clothe me with Your selfhood, and bring me to Your unity, so that when Your creatures see me, they will see You. There will be You, and I will not be there.’ . . . I shed my self as a snake sheds its skin, then I looked at myself, and behold! I was He.”
The radical submergence of individual identity in Allah and the outpouring of shathiyat was not only a Khurasanian phenomenon but also occurred among Baghdadian Sufis such as Shibli (d. 846) and Nuri (executed in 907). These outpourings caused the ulama to become extremely suspicious of Sufis, a vexing issue for Junayd, who warned that momentary states of divine intoxication must be followed by sobriety. Only in this condition, according to Junayd, could a Sufi return to the worshipful (and lawful) position of a servant of Allah. Here, again, the Baghdadian Sufis mirrored the attitudes of the Nishapuri malamatis, although Junayd also acted out of a sense of political expediency.
As opposed to the Baghdadian orders of Sufism, which were centered closest to the caliphate, Khurasanian Sufis could afford to yield to shathiyat without operating under the immediate threat of official censure by the legalists (fuqaha).
Terry Graham notes, “Socio-politically, Baghdad represented a continuation of the authoritarian character [of the earlier Persian Shahs] with an etiquette based on courtly behavior, hierarchy, command and obedience, whereas Khurasan was a region which had constituted the marches of the [Persian] empire.” After Muslim conquest, continues Graham, Khurasan “had served as the seedbed for revolt against both Arabic influence and [Persian-style] despotism, that is, whatever was imposed from the capital in distant Mesopotamia.”
Apart from political expediency, both the Nishapuri malamatis and Sufis agreed that only in the stage of sobriety could a mystic become a full adept, mentally balanced, and therefore capable of providing a good example to others. It should not be thought, however, that Bistami failed to arrive at the state of sobriety or that Junayd bypassed the experience of intoxication. Instead, Junayd insisted:
I have realized that which is within me
And my tongue has conversed with Thee in secret
And we are united in one respect,
But we are separate in another.
The message of psychological stability and societal adjustment, best elaborated by Junayd, informed all of the orthodox Sufi orders thereafter, and while ecstatic utterances were normally tolerated within the inner confines of Sufism these expressions were generally discouraged outside such circles. This was not necessarily the case in Khurasan.
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04.29.13
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at 11:46 am
I am reposting this here from Darwiniana, with a reminder that Ouspensky’s chauvinistic idiocy based on Nietzsche and the Hindu Law of Caste (which even Gurdjieff was critical of) indicates the false understanding of evolution in much of the New Age movement.
http://last-and-first-men.com/
We need a new version of the commuist legacy. Last and First Men can be a small step in that direction with
1. a new philosophy of history
2. a critique of the Darwinian paradigm used to promote class warfare
3. a collation of the exposes of neo-classical economics
4. new models of post-capitalist economies
5. a critique of marxist dogmatism, and its cliche syndrome
6. a new definition of what a ‘(new) communism would mean
7. a social communism able to be a foundation for the future evolution of man
beyond the idiocy of the Darwinian road to species degeneration.
The list continues…Part of the problem, and frustration, for leftist groups is the unrevised legacy fo marxism and leninism that is simply recycled without change. The public is automatically turned off by that.
Nietzsche’s Last Man is a grotesque distortion of what is needed: a species level evolutionary program based on the achievement of a new form of cooperative society beyond class. The idea that fascist eugenics of Social Darwinist superman parodies will advance the future of homo sapiens is a sick joke. The future evolution of man is an immensely more difficult task, not unlike the path of the Boddhissatwas who make a species level commitment. That Buddhist framework may not be viable as the Axial Age religions attempt to enter a new age, but the reality pointed to by some brands of buddhism is a warning that Darwinist ideologies are likely to produce a grotesque new form of human.
We see that the connection between a new communism and future evolution is direct, and a challenge to the crypto-fascist class warfare parodies of the neo-liberal regime.
http://last-and-first-men.com/
We need a new version of the commuist legacy. Last and First Men can be a small step in that direction with
1. a new philosophy of history
2. a critique of the Darwinian paradigm used to promote class warfare
3. a collation of the exposes of neo-classical economics
4. new models of post-capitalist economies
5. a critique of marxist dogmatism, and its cliche syndrome
6. a new definition of what a ‘(new) communism would mean
7. a social communism able to be a foundation for the future evolution of man
beyond the idiocy of the Darwinian road to species degeneration.
The list continues…Part of the problem, and frustration, for leftist groups is the unrevised legacy fo marxism and leninism that is simply recycled without change. The public is automatically turned off by that. The left has to do better than the new atheism, and needs to generate enlightened figures beyond buddhism and Xtianit/Islam
Nietzsche’s Last Man is a grotesque distortion of what is needed: a species level evolutionary program based on the achievement of a new form of cooperative society beyond class. The idea that fascist eugenics of Social Darwinist superman parodies will advance the future of homo sapiens is a sick joke. The future evolution of man is an immensely more difficult task, not unlike the path of the Boddhissatwas who make a species level commitment. That Buddhist framework may not be viable as the Axial Age religions attempt to enter a new age, but the reality pointed to by some brands of buddhism is a warning that Darwinist ideologies are likely to produce a grotesque new form of human.
We see that the connection between a new communism and future evolution is direct, and a challenge to the crypto-fascist class warfare parodies of the neo-liberal regime.
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04.25.13
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at 10:40 am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/dalai-lama-woman_n_3146425.html?utm_hp_ref=religion
That is a great idea, in one way. But one should also suggest caution here: don’t try to take over a sinking ship, the honor is not even symbolic. Further, if the motive is ‘women’s lib urgency’ it is the wrong motive, which should be to advance buddhism. Next, women need to find out if they can reach enlightenment. Mahayana is the wrong vehicle (I have a suspicion they might be superior to men here, given the context, we have a very vague reference to a woman teertanker in the tradition of Jain gurus leading up to Mahavir). I think there have been dozens of female buddhas we don’t know about. Patriarchal religion was an artifact of the Axial Age, and is misleading. It may have been in part a reaction to the decay of Neolithic matriarchy. And Tibetan buddhism has a huge dirty secret, I suspect, why preside over the cover story for that.
I am not sure I understand this issue, as did Rajneesh who virtually gave away his ashram to women, making it hard for men, but his motive wasn’t the same as that of the women’s lib movement. His reasons were intrinsic to the issues of religion, tantra, and the rest of it….
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04.24.13
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at 10:19 am
http://www.gurdjieff-con.net/2013/04/23/more-from-sujay-rao-mandvilli/
I removed the reference to Gurdjieff in your comment turned post: you may not have realized this is a blog for Gurdjieff critique.
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at 10:09 am
I wrote this at Darwiniana, but decided to post it here.
Boston bombing: requirements for a false-flag theory…http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/tamerlan-tsarnaev-was-alex-jones-fan
In a bizarre twist befitting a Hollywood conspiracy theory movie, the AP reports today that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was influenced by conspiracy theories, including Alex Jones’ website InfoWars, which has been pushing a narrative that the Tsarnaev brothers were patsies set up by a government cabal to take the fall for the bombing.
As a follower of the convincing false-flag interpretations pf 9/11, I nonetheless was wary of the Boston bombing data. This situation was entirely different from 9/11 with its exploitation of advanced technology. The simple elements of the technology used, being available on the Internet (but why then have so few ever used them?), make it hard to interpret the data as false-flagged. BUT…
The important question is always, who stands to benefit….
The Boston bombing was clearly of immense benefit to the American authorities who landed a windfall in the form of actual terrorists caught red-handed, case close, etc… After the blunders of 9/11 they needed a foolproof cover….
Having heard a first false-flag story on the net, I told myself immediately that the only way it could work is if occult mindcontral was known to the covert agencies, and was used via, say, sufi intermediaries to program patsies by the Method.
Impossible I thought, but now we see an unbelievable morass of suspect elements, a virtual gold mine of possible leads and bum steers: Chechnya rebels/politics/false flag ops, yes, Islamic Jihadists, but also mysterious guides, and contacts most probably with fringe occult sufism.
None of that proves anything, and I have always doubted the potential for this in the knumbskulls in the Intelligence agencies.
The question remains, given the known evidence of Mind Control research by the CIA whether anyone passed over into the dark zone, in gandalfian-speak. The answer is probably yes, given the charges against a known half-and-half like the occultist EJ Gold, charged by some as having worked for the agency (????, don’t know). Sufism is entirely ambiguous (and a big favorite now of the state Department, who seem to think it is pure and free of jihadis), and american sufis who praise Allah and salute the flag are real, and….so what?
None of this proves anything, and I remain in the default mode here. But the data coming in is so rich in possibilities for conspiracists that I would consider the remarks above as raising the stakes. It would be hard to pull off!
But we see very little of what’s going on. I reviewed an ‘idiot’ text at Amazon, which unwitting gives away the probable fact that rightists are using Crowlean methods. The author has no idea what he is talking about, but must have picked some rumor or other.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Most-Dangerous-Book-World/dp/1937584178/ref=cm_cr-mr-title
But people who study Crowley are people who never discover anything, so we hardly know. But the use of the Method to create a false flag suddenly rised from initial disbelief by me to, well maybe maybe…
No, I won’t explain what I am talking about. For an idiot amateur to get this close means we are all in trouble, and the dot.gov madmen are giving themselves away…but not yet. The 9/11 fraud is still holding as propaganda…
There are a dozen times a dozen other ways to infer a false-flag op here, and the potential action of half-and-half sufies doesn’t require knowledge of the occult issues.
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04.23.13
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at 9:55 am
Let me reiterate my ultra simple view of the AIT/OIT question, which is loose enough to include Sujay Rao’s material, which has to speak for itself.
The idea that the there was no IE migration whatever, that classic Indian religion is IE in source, etc… has been consistently rejected by me, to considerable hostility on the net. Two issues have helped me: Danielou’s material from Indian sources about the antiquity of Indian religion, pegged by him in several broad categories, a sort of ‘primordial Shaivism’, and a long line of ‘proto-Jainism’, this being related to primordial yoga/tantra, etc… Buddhism is a descendant in this recurrent stream, timed to the Axial Age. These are tricky questions, but in broad strokes it makes no sense to assign the origins of Indian religion to the IE and then backdate that to the Neolithic. Indian traditions clearly predate the IE presence.
The question of the IE is fixed by its larger context. A valuable analog is the IE entry into Greece, well after 2500BCE (probably later), with the subsequent creation of culture and literature in that vein. This case is different, however, in that it displaces to a greater degree the prior culture. In India we see the appropriation of the legacy after 1500 BCE or earlier, but not much. That said, there are many echoes of pre-Hellenic culture in the case of Classical Greece. Danielou even suggested a connection between Shiva and Dionysus, but this is hard to be sure of.
I have stayed clear of the Harappan question (for reasons Sujay Rao’s essay makes clear), and my stance here is neutral on that.
I think the view about is right because it is deliberately vague, and some of the details given by Sujay may well be able to fill in the picture.
Again, the idea of IE emanating from India makes no sense, and is a recent view that has produced protest from many Indian scholars.
The Indian religious tradition is still mysterious, and it is easy to infer various gaps, but the results are speculative.
Readers should study my book World History and The Eonic Effect, chapter five, and its section on India: history-and-evolution.com.
It is hard to understand Indian (religious) history without and understanding of the Axial Age. The sudden appearance of Buddhism as a baton transfer from ‘Jainism’ in the Axial Age is incomprehensible without the Axial Age model.
India after 2400+ years is entering a New Age of religion, and it will be of great moment to see how the chaos of new age groups resolves to a new development. It may be that the great ‘turning of the wheel’ in Rajneesh/Osho will see a new grand sequence, like that we see before Mahavir, of twenty-four teertankers. That obscure history could replay for the future. The confusion over ‘Hinduism’ is hampering understanding. The core Indian legacy is not ‘Hindu’. The archives have lots of posts on this.
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