Tap your inner shadow for courage, your inner trickster for audacity.
Dance a jig over God’s grave.
Laugh into the abyss.
Bridge the gap between opposites.
Life is short.
You only have so much time.
No fear.
Ride like lightning, crash like thunder.
Live on purpose, with purpose.
Gary Z McGee (Self-inflicted Philosophy)
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Laughter is a gift. Especially at those who take their ideas too seriously.
Such laughter helps you go Meta with humor.
You're free to tap the Overman, to mock the gods, to leverage holy shrines into monkeyshines.
You trump small picture beliefs with big picture imagination.
Now enter God’s Gangster...
Infinity’s bullhorn: declaring God as Infinity itself, the interconnectedness of all things.
God’s gangster consistently redefines God, rebirths God, and allows God to be truly infinite, thus destroying all religious gods that came before it.
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VICTORY OF LIGHT!!!
The Power to control national life through national representatives is called politial power.
Representatives will become unnecessary if the national life becomes so perfect as to be self-controlled.
It will then be a state of enlightened anarchy in which each person will become his own ruler.
(MK Gandhi)
Disaster Shamanism (or Apocalyptic Shamanism) in a nutshell:
The Disaster Shaman recipe combines aspects of The Shadow with aspects of The Hero and then mixes in a little Trickster humility. The combination of these archetypes creates a particular flavor of nontraditional shamanism that spearheads healthy Cosmic Law into the unhealthy lawfulness that surrounds us.
A Disaster Shaman is a force of nature first, a person second. They sow radical revolution in order to reap progressive evolution. Healthy balance is primary. Even if it comes at the expense of comfort and security. Disaster Shamanism (or Apocalyptic Shamanism) is the interdependent shamanic response to apocalyptic times.
The primary tasks of a Disaster Shaman:
–Heal disaster situations through shamanic cosmology and ecopsychology.
–Listen to Universal Laws to discern the difference between healthy and unhealthy.
–Live moderately so that others may moderately live.
–Diagnose and heal Nature Deprivation.
–Transform weaponry into livingry.
–Bring “water” to the Wasteland.
–Rewild the overly domesticated.
The Four Pillars of Disaster Shamanism:
–Eco-consciousness (The 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse)
–High humor (The Sacred Clown)
–Hero expiation (The New Hero)
–Self-overcoming (The New Oracle)
6 Signs You May Be a Disaster Shaman
1.) You heal disaster situations through shamanic cosmology and ecopsychology:
You empower the disempowered and lift the downtrodden through shamanic reengineering. Your philanthropy is not money, necessarily, but sacred energy. You realize as Henry David Thoreau did: “To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” But you do not preach.
You teach by eco-conscious example, using ecopsychology as a direct method to reintroduce the afflicted to the healing properties of the greater cosmos, using a post-modern shamanic cosmology as a medium for safe passage into higher realms of thinking about the human soul.
2.) You listen to nature in order to learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy:
You use a nature first culture second approach to life. You are a space that the cosmos fashioned to feel its own grandeur, and you are not afraid to feel the double-edged sword of that grandeur. You are a custodian of interconnection, attuned to the paradoxical reality of the human condition as being both god-like and animal-like, and so you operate outside the cultural framework of right & wrong.
3.) You live moderately so that others may moderately live:
Living moderately is challenging, but you embrace the challenge, knowing that the liberation of the soul is worth going through any amount of hardship. Living this way upturns convention and undermines tradition, creating a sacred space for new world-building. And because your load is so light and you are so adept at practicing moderation, you tend to exist on the periphery.
4.) You are skilled in diagnosing and healing nature deprivation:
You teach people how to live sustainably within their immediate environments. You even take the concept of re-wilding to the next level, applying it to human beings as well as non-human animals, so that they can rediscover a sacred spirituality by getting back in touch with Nature and the human soul.
5.) You are adept at transforming weaponry into livingry:
You realize that if moderation isn’t taught as an imperative for a healthier world, then the volition of people will become immoderate and militarized, and the world will therefore be unhealthy. As a disaster shaman, you realize that times of crisis are the best times to teach, and that teaching by non-violent, demilitarized example, is the best method of teaching.
It will be your creative vision that will transform the destruction inflicted by the weapons of unsustainable men into the creative force for progressive technologies created by sustainable men.
6.) You are willing to die in order to bring water to the Wasteland:
You have the courage to rise up out of the mass-destruction of unsustainable men and dare to become a sustainable force of nature. Art is your medium. Creativity is your vehicle. Sacred play is your power, and not even death can prevent your message from being translated.
As a disaster shaman, your creative play is your power. You are neither scientist nor priest, but artist. You are Artist incarnate. Your sacred art is like water for parched souls. And you have the audacity to bring it to them, despite the powers-that-be. You have no fear. For you realize that safety is an illusion and security is a prison in an ever-changing, ever-evolving cosmos.
“Elevate yourself above the battlefield.” ~Robert Greene.
Life is a battle. It’s a battle against bewitchment. It’s a battle against sloth. It’s a battle against the pollution of the mind, body, and soul. Most of all, it’s a battle against entropy.
You are going to die. There’s no wiggling out of this absolute fact. In the meantime, you have your life. But everything in your life is at war against you. Entropy is ever present, eating away at what you think you own, slowly taking away what you think is yours.
As James Salter said, “There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.”
You turn away from entropy, again and again. You distract yourself with this or that task. You go on an adventure. You fall in love. You start a business. You start a family. You erect fortified comfort zones. But entropy will always be there, looming like a moth attracted to your fire. It smashes itself against all the shields you’ve erected. It outflanks you, an abyss you dare not stare into.
In the slow war with entropy, it will steal your adventure. It will eat away at your love. It will dismantle your business. It will separate your family. It will topple your walls. Death is always there, a looming specter. It whispers into your ear, “Live!” it says, “I am coming.”
“Live!” it says. But how best to do that on a battlefield? Is it better to ignore it and curl up in a ball at the center of your comfort zone? Is it better to cling to what you know, to pacify yourself, and lean on outdated religions? Is it better to escape through drugs or other addictions?
Or is it better to rise above it all and transcend your attachments with a good sense of humor?
The battlefield doesn’t have to be a warzone filled with dead bodies and hyperviolence. It can just as easily be your life. It can just as easily be you against death, you against your own mortal angst, you against God.
On a long enough timeline there is no timeline, at least regarding your own. Which is why it behooves you to live your best life. To utilize a sound strategy, especially in the face of tragedy. And the soundest strategy is elevated nonattachment.
As Seneca said, “It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.”
On any battlefield, it is always wise to elevate yourself above it. To gain a bird’s-eye-view. To go big picture to see how all the small pictures clash. To go Meta to see how everything connects to everything else. To gain perspective despite your fallible perception.
You elevate to prioritize what matters and what doesn’t. To figure out what to give a fuck about and what to let slide. As Rumi said, “The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
The great part is that what’s important and fulfilling is entirely up to you. But there will always be consequences for your choices. There will always be the greater law of the universe to contend with. Better to align what you give a fuck about with the healthy dictates of the cosmos so as to avoid the unhealthy consequences of ignoring them.
You elevate to understand the difference between healthy and unhealthy. To distinguish between written manmade laws and unwritten universal laws. To discover why written laws shrivel into nothingness beneath the primacy of the unwritten law of the interconnected cosmos. As Hermann Hesse said, “As anywhere else in the world, the unwritten law defeated the written one.”
You elevate to discover your own conscience as pure law. To become the personification of checks and balances. You see how the answer is teaching people how to become bigger than the law, how to gain the capacity to have their own conscience as pure law, and how to become a more valuable human.
As Niels Bohr said, “Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.”
Because only elevated people with their own conscience as pure law will have the courage and humor needed to make things better than they are. Only elevated people with their own conscience as pure law will have the audacity to paint the universe red with their insouciant curiosity, to mock the sinister self-seriousness that outflanks them, and to create their own meaning.
You elevate to get ahead of the curve. Above the battlefield, you see how everything is on the curve. No exceptions. You’re able to develop a good sense of humor. You use it to level the battlefield. Bias is squashed. Circular reasoning is straightened. Cognitive dissonance is curtailed. Ideologies are flattened. Your mind opens wide to the vital difference between possibility and probability.
Self-as-world and world-as-self becomes the supreme perspective. Egocentrism is trumped by eco-centrism. One-dimensional independence is subsumed by multidimensional interdependence. You see how it’s okay to shed outdated skin. To cut the dead weight. To burn off the dross. Life is too short to waste precious energy on outdated concepts or living in regret. The past is the past. Elevated above the battlefield, you see how it’s okay to forgive yourself and forgive your ancestors for their ignorance. It’s okay to move on.
When you elevate yourself above the battlefield, the world opens, the fountainhead overflows, the Philosopher’s Stone reveals itself. It launches you past cultural conditioning, indoctrination, and brainwashing. And as the world opens up, so do you. Your mind opens. Your heart swells. Your soul unlocks. You become a sponge for higher knowledge, hungry and hopeful for novelty. Adaptable and improvisational, you become a dancing Lao Tzu Master.
Elevated above it all, your radical sense of humor transforms the battlefield into a daisy field. Hardheartedness is transformed into lightheartedness. Seriousness is transformed into sincerity. Nihilism is transformed into adaptability. Hubris is transformed into humility. Fear is transformed into fuel.
The absurdity of the cosmic joke is a blackhole sun? So be it. Elevated above the battlefield, you’re able to turn the tables on your existential angst and have a laugh.
About the Author:
Gary Z McGee, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide-awake view of the modern world.
This article (Everything is a Battlefield) was originally created and published by Self-inflicted Philosophy and is printed here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Gary Z McGee and self-inflictedphilosophy.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this statement of copyright.
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Could alien life exist in a parallel
universe? Computer simulations from two new studies suggest the idea
might not be out of this world.
Should the search for alien life in our universe come up empty-handed, it might be worth checking in on a neighboring universe instead.
According to a new pair of studies in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, there’s a decent chance that life-fostering planets could exist in a parallel universe — even if that universe were being torn apart by dark energy.
The idea that our universe is just one of many, perhaps infinite, other universes is known as the multiverse theory. Scientists have previously thought that such parallel universes, if they exist, would have to meet an extremely strict set of criteria to allow for the formation of stars, galaxies and life-fostering planets like those seen in our own universe. [5 Reasons We May Live in a Multiverse]
Dark energy is a mysterious, invisible force thought to exist in the empty spaces of our universe. You could think about it as the archnemesis of gravity; while gravity pulls matter closer together, dark energy flings it apart — and dark energy is winning this cosmic tug-of-war handily.
Not only is our universe expanding, thanks to the constant, invisible push of dark energy, but the rate of that expansion is also getting faster and faster every day. It's thought that, as more empty space appears in the universe, even more dark energy appears to fill it. (Dark energy is not the same as dark matter, which is an abundant, invisible form of matter thought to be responsible for some very weird gravitational phenomena around space.)
Scientists don't know exactly what dark energy is or how it works; some think it's an intrinsic property of space — what Einstein called the cosmological constant — while others attribute it to a fundamental force called quintessence, with dynamic rules all its own. Others don't even agree that it exists. But whatever it is, everyone can agree that there's a whole lot of it: According to the best current estimates, nearly 70 percent of the mass-energy of our universe may be made of dark energy.
This quantity, for whatever reason, is in the right range to allow galaxies to grow and foster life. It is thought that if we lived in a universe with too much dark energy, space might expand faster than galaxies could possibly form. Too little dark energy, and runaway gravity could cause every galaxy to collapse in on itself before life ever had a chance to appear.
But the question of how much dark energy is "too much" or "too little" is a topic for debate — and it's this issue of quantity that the authors of the new studies hoped to narrow down.
Across several experiments, an international team of researchers from England, Australia and the Netherlands used a program called Evolution and Assembly of Galaxies and their Environmentsto simulate the birth, life and eventual death of various hypothetical universes. In each simulation, the researchers adjusted the amount of dark energy present in that universe, ranging from none to several hundred times the amount in our own universe.
The good news: Even in universes with 300 times as much dark energy as ours, life found a way.
"Our simulations showed that the accelerated expansion driven by dark energy has hardly any impact on the birth of stars, and hence places for life to arise," study co-author Pascal Elahi, a research fellow at the University of Western Australia, said in a statement. "Even increasing dark energy many hundreds of times might not be enough to make a dead universe."
That's good news for fans of extraterrestrial life and the multiverse theory. But a bigger question remains: If galaxies could still thrive on so much dark energy, why did our universe get handed such a seemingly small amount?
"I think we should be looking for a new law of physics to explain this strange property of our Universe," co-author Richard Bower, a professor at Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology, said in the statement.
Of course, finding new laws of physics is easier said than done. Scientists won't give up easily — but perhaps, to hedge their bets, they should also look for a parallel universe where some intelligent life has already done it for them.
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None of us have seen actual soul(spirt) that lives in our body with our naked eye.
The Svetasvatara Upanishad (श्वेताश्वतरनोपनिषद् or Śvetāśvataropaniṣad) explains the actual dimension or size of soul.
Śvetāśvataropaniṣad is associated with the Krishna Yajurveda and contains 113 mantras in 6 chapters. It is estimated to have been composed around 4th century BCE.
Most of this Upanishad is attributed to Sage Svetasvatara (Sveta-Asvatara i.e the one owing a white mule).
Other commentators are Adi Sankaracharya, Vijnanatma, Shankarananda and Narayana Tirtha.
Śvetāśvataropaniṣad is the earliest textual exposition of a systematic philosophy of Saivism, for the first time elevating Rudra to the status of Īśa (Lord), a god with cosmological functions such as those later attributed to Siva.
balagra sata bhagasya
satadha kalpitasya ca
bhago jivah sa vijneyah
sa canantyaya kalpate || Svetasvatara Upanishad (5.9)
Translation : When the upper tip of a hair follicle is divided into one hundred parts and again each of such parts is further divided into one hundred parts, each such part is the measurement of the dimension of the spirit soul.
Similar description has been made in Chaitanya Charitamrita by Swami Prabhupada.
keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya
śatāṁśa-sadṛśātmakaḥ
jīvaḥ sūkṣma-svarūpo ‘yaṁ
saṅkhyātīto hi cit-kaṇaḥ || Chaitanya Charitamrita; Madhya Lila; 19.140
That means, a hair tip has to be divided into ten thousand parts and one such part is Cit-Kana (particle of spirit).
Which means that the individual particle of spirit soul is a spiritual atom smaller than the material atoms, and such atoms are innumerable.
Bhagavad Gita also mentions size of soul.
It states that soul is imperishable and cannot be seen with naked eye.
avinasi tu tad viddhi
yena sarvam idam tatam
vinasam avyayasyasya
na kascit kartum arhati || Bhagavad Gita 2.17
Translation : That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.
Mundakopanishad further explains the places where soul resides in human body.
eso ’nur atma cetasa veditavyo
yasmin pranah pancadha samvivesa
pranais cittam sarvam otam prajanam
yasmin visuddhe vibhavaty esa atma || Mundaka Upanishad (3.1.9)
Translation : The soul is atomic in size and can be perceived by perfect intelligence. This atomic soul is floating in the five kinds of air (prana, apana, vyana, samana and udana), is situated within the heart, and spreads its influence all over the body of the embodied living entities. When the soul is purified from the contamination of the five kinds of material air, its spiritual influence is exhibited.
Also Prana (Life) moves between Eye, Heart and Throat while we are awake, sleeping and dreaming (3 states of mind explained as Tri-Puras).
I have repeatedly said that the mullahs ruling Iran are not Iranians. They truly despise Iran and its glorious past. Genetically, they are mostly Arabs. They even hate its name. There were never any questions about the Islamists denigrating Iran and exalting Muhammad. These creatures owe their very livelihood to the lucrative business that Muhammad launched for their parasitic, shameful existence. It is vital for these leeches to continue trumpeting the sainthood of the founder of their business and driving all the competition out of business.
Just recently, Sayyid Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami became a senior Iranian cleric, as well as a senior member of the Assembly of Experts, also Tehran’s Friday prayer leader. He once proved me right. Give this worm credit for paying homage to the source of his shameful livelihood.
“How dare the people of Iran even think of having a revolution or a referendum!! This government belongs to Imam Zaman (The Lord of the Age), and if anyone considers himself an Iranian, he needs to get the hell out of here. This soil belongs to us, the followers of Imam Zaman and his tribe. Iran’s name was created by ignorant people, and incidentally, this name is very provocative. This ignorant name (Iran) must be changed to something like “Velayat” lest it provoke our enemies (Iranian people).”
The battle against these inhuman (subhuman) oppressors in Iran has been arduous and long. It is the battle of Iran’s true sons and daughters and the rest of mankind. It remains our duty to work our hardest to remove these leeches from power.
We recognize that the dysfunctional Islamic software is deeply ingrained in the minds of many Muslims, who opt to remain in mental bondage rather than purge their minds of this software and join the rest of the human family with a new emancipating program for life: liberty.
Islamic clergy, the parasitic prime beneficiaries of Islam, are master practitioners of the carrot-and-stick strategy. By drawing heavily from the Quran and the Hadith, the conniving mullahs and imams have assembled a potent arsenal of threats and promises to keep the faithful in line. They had little trouble in so doing since Islamic scripture is replete with descriptions of the graphic horrific punishment awaiting the wayward and the unbelievers, while the rewards for the obedient and docile if they are male, are described as an endless variety of sensual pleasures. Anyone daring to leave the corral of Islam is apostate and automatically condemned to death. And that’s just for starters. The punishment awaiting the ungrateful deserter of the one and only true path, Islam, is horrific eternal torment in Allah’s hell.
The Islamic Republic of Iran, which holds in great contempt any non-Islamic belief or heritage, has embarked on destroying many pre-Islamic archeological sites in Iran, such as Pasargad and Persepolis — some of humanity’s most prized cultural heritage — on the pretext of building a dam. The heinous destruction of the two Bamiyan Buddha statues by Afghanistan’s Taliban pales in comparison to the present barbaric designs of the Islamic Republic. Pasargad and Persepolis are more than a mere collection of ancient structures. They are an embodiment of humanity’s historical respect for liberty and tolerance of diversity.
But the high clergy of Iran is not exactly living up to its brand. The mullah Mafia has a great scam going. They promise the ignorant Islamic devotees the phony “paradise” of the afterlife while they themselves enjoy their paradise of women, wealth, and wine on this earth. They are unrivaled in duplicity and heartlessness. So, in nearly perfect emulation of Muhammad and his leadership 1400 years ago, the pious mullahs go about plotting earthly destruction as they enrich themselves and enjoy earthly pleasures on the backs of their people.
Many Iranians are praying that help is on its way and that the ongoing protests now will not result in a repeat of 2009, when Obama threw a lifeline to the mullahs’ regime by not supporting the Iranian people, in effect siding with the genocidal mullahs. The turbaned thugs were taking their final breath, being completely broke, and the good old USA came to the rescue, releasing billions of dollars and easing other sanctions. I will never understand this.
Being Iranian is defined by a state of mind, not by a place of residence. The barbaric Islamist mullahs and their mercenaries presently ruling Iran are not Iranians. They are Islamofascists who have betrayed their magnificent heritage and have enlisted themselves in the service of a most oppressive, discriminating, and demeaning ideology.
Iranians are proud spiritual descendants of King Cyrus the Great, the author of the first charter of human rights. Some of Cyrus’ children live in the patch of land called Iran. The overwhelming majority—free humans with human beliefs—live in every country, city, and village of the earth.
These world-wide people, one and all, irrespective of nationality, color, or creed are Iranians because they all adhere to the Cyrus Charter; they practice and defend its lofty tenets; and, transfer this precious humanity’s treasure to the next generation.
Unequivocal genetic findings have clearly established that biologically there is only one human race; that the genetic variation within a single troop of chimpanzees, for instance, is greater than that of any two human groupings, no matter how different they may appear physically.
What makes people different is not their biology, but the “software” that runs them. There is ample proof to support the above assertion. A case in point is the present menace posed by the people whose life is programmed by the software of Islam: an ideology anathema to the Cyrus Charter. And the results are self-evident. Hate, superstition, violence, and a raft of other inhuman beliefs drives these religious fascists. These captive followers of the primitive Islamic Charter are both the perpetrators and the victims of much suffering. The result is backward Islamic societies that are intent at dragging the rest of the world into the same sorry state. Misery likes company, it is said.
And for the true faithful—the mindless robot—the promised rewards, all physical pleasures, are infinite and eternal.
In spite of these horrid threats and empty promises, more and more people are beginning to recognize Islam for what it is. It is difficult, but not impossible to leave the fraudulent Islam’s captivity. Hundreds of thousands have done so successfully and have enjoyed the blessings of liberty.
A great threat facing free people is the recently petrodollar energized Islam embarking on a campaign of recruiting more people under its dark banner. Millions of disenfranchised underclass in the non-Islamic world, and millions more mentally under-developed may flock to Islam, deluded by its empty promises.
Islam is no longer in its own self-made cage. It has broken out and has established powerful presence in much of the non-Islamic world. Islam is a charter of submission. It is a sworn enemy of freedom and views the Cyrus Charter as heresy. Freedom and tyranny are incompatible. Free people must do all they can to preserve their birthright of liberty and assist others to break from the bondage of Islamic captivity.
The interdependent world community faces great challenges that demand a united effort, uncompromisingly based on justice, to meet the various ills it faces. We can no longer be complacent about events in distant world affecting alien people. Distances are bridged and alien people are now diverse members of the human family.
We honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for proclaiming from a Birmingham jail, “Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere.” To demand justice for others, he risked his life, left his native Georgia, and ended in jail of the-then-bigoted south—Birmingham, Alabama. We “Iranians” of the world—free humans—must do no less. We must demand justice for our belief-kin who are suffering under the yoke of Islamofascism in Iran or anywhere in the world.
We also do well to recall the example of an
Irish-American President—John F. Kennedy—looking at the Communists’
Wall of Shame in Berlin, proclaiming, “Ich bin ein Berliner”—“I am a
Berliner.” By so claiming, he helped rally free people of the world that
brought down the wall and created a momentum that eventually swept the
totalitarian Communist wall-builders into the dustbin of history.
Now the world is facing wall-builders of a different kind: the Islamofascists who have been at their shameless work for centuries. As their walls built with superstition, discrimination and blood are crumbling; they are intent at building walls in new territories.
But once again, human decency is rising to the challenge. This time in the voice and actions of billions of free people who proclaim: we are also children of Iran in the spirit of Cyrus the Great; “we meet any challenge and pay any price” to defeat Islamofascism; and, we will not rest until humanity is completely free of the despotic rule of Islam.
We Iranians in spirit—free people of the world–greatly cherish liberty, where the mind is imbued with enlightenment, and every individual by the virtue of being born human is afforded measured freedom. It is within the open expanse of liberty that each and every person can be at his or her best. And when the individual person is at his best, humanity is at its best.
By: Amil Imani
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Amil Imani is an Iranian-American writer, poet, satirist, novelist, essayist, literary translator, public speaker and political analyst who has been writing and speaking out about the danger of radical Islam both in America and internationally. He has become a formidable voice in the United States against the danger of global jihad and Islamization of America. He maintains a website at www.amilimani.com. Imani is the author of the riveting book Obama Meets Ahmadinejad and the thriller Operation Persian Gulf.
Amil Imani is the author of a new book "Operation Persian Gulf."
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“In the supramental creation, there will no longer be any religions.
The whole life will be the expression, the flowering into forms of the divine Unity manifesting in the world.” – The Mother
Let All The Religions Perish.
Let It All Go.
All the dogma, institutions, and organizations with their hierarchies, titles, silly hats, turbans, and costumes.
All the churches, temples, mosques, and synagogues.
All the mechanical rituals, ceremonies, holidays, and superstitions that are based on a nostalgic, outdated past, corruption of spiritual truths, and distortions of scripture.
Religion has been used for social control for thousands of years via projecting human morality and characteristics on a judging external God. The biggest deception of all.
Even now, we see the resurrection (pardon the pun) of an exoteric dogmatic medieval wetiko-infused fundamentalist Christianity [trad movement] that is far removed from the deeper esoteric Christian teachings.
It will all perish anyway, and no one can stop it as we enter a new cycle in this cosmic unfolding and descent of the supra-mental divine consciousness—beyond the mind’s grasp.
It’s the end of the age of Pisces, the end of all belief systems, and the end of religion.
Once you stop calling yourself a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, or whatever Faith, Scripture, or Religion you identify yourself with, then the path to the Divine of full embodied Self-Realization is completely open without external man-made distortions, mental images, ideas, and savior projections.
Divine Truth cannot be organized or compiled in a “written word by God.” Scriptures can serve as a guide to an extent, but distortions and dogma are inevitable, especially if one is very identified with a certain teaching and Faith.
Whenever there is an attempt to organize it, the anti-divine forces succeed in manipulating humans through a grain of Truth and vector them to seek salvation outside themselves, like the Jesus savior program – the most cunning traps of all distorted spiritual truths.
Remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street when they saw ahead of them a man bend down, pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket?
The friend said to the devil, “What did that man pick up?”
“He picked up a piece of Truth,” said the devil.
“That is a very bad business for you, then,” said his friend.
“Oh, not at all,” the devil replied, “I am going to let him organize it.”
Or, as Satprem noted:
“The real mischief of the devil is not to sow falsehood and hatred in the world, such as Attila or the Nazis have done – he is far too clever for that – but to lay hands on a grain of Truth and then to twist it ever so slightly. Nothing is more intractable than a perverted truth because the falsehood is made that much stronger by the power of Truth it contains.”
Yet, we still have a long way to go, for humans are very attached to their beliefs and identification, and we are still like kindergarten children regarding the evolution of consciousness.
We are still distracted by external progress and technological gadgets. We look for god in letters in a book but never sincerely go deep within ourselves.
We neglect our inner lives while identifying with the outer superficial ego-personality, the false persona with all its identifications and attachments.
Nor do we need a one-world religion, a “unification” of all the core ideas of all religions. That is still limited, distorted, and is already being hijacked by the anti-divine forces who bring forth falsehood as “Truth” to introduce a new world [New Age] religion, just as dogmatic Christianity has been hijacked to sell the “savior” program and divert people from Truth.
Atheism, along with Communism, neo-Marxism, and the Religion of Transhumanism, will also eventually perish. Materialistic Science and Darwinism will be an archaic relic of a kindergarten past. None of them can stand in the presence of the Divine Truth and Divine Will.
We don’t need merely a shift in consciousness but a complete transmutation – the divinization of matter and life. It’s not about escaping life, being raptured in “heaven,” escaping “Maya,” or entering “paradise” in the afterlife. All these ideas are religious distortions of the old world.
The supramental Divine Truth outshining all religions is not a teaching, not moral conduct of rules and principles; it’s not an idea or idealogy, a system, a dogma, or an -ism.
It can’t be organized, controlled, imposed, or taught.
It is nothing the mind can even begin to comprehend. It’s the end of the mind [hence supra-mental] and the beginning of the Divine Gnostic Being [not to be mistaken for Gnosticism], embodying the supramental consciousness – the aim of the evolutionary process of humans embodying God’s Will, fully and integral.
It can only be realized.
This is what this Time of Transition is about.
All the dark shadows, errors, imperfections, pathologies, ignorance, secrets, evil, and lies in the world, AND WITHIN YOU, need to come to light and be purified and transmuted in the fire of Agni.
As long as you see only dark, imperfections, and evil in the world and others but don’t face yourself, the anti-divine matrix forces have you in their hidden hands while you “dream of being awake,” but you are still asleep.
This process requires tremendous humility and courage at the same time.
Everything will be “forced” to come to light in the presence of the Divine Truth. Nothing can stop it in the long run. This process manifests “externally” in the world and within you, for all is ONE.
But the process will take many more lifetimes and cycles, and it takes conscious Alignment and Work.
It requires the descent into the proverbial “underworld,” battling demons within and without including your “dark persona,” the shadow that you project externally on others—all of which are your teachers, for all is the play of the Divine. Nothing can exist outside the Mind of God.
But be careful now. The higher Truth of “All is One” can be easily abused for spiritual bypassing, as it’s common in New Age circles.
We didn’t come here for vacation, mindless indulgence, and just manifestations of our “desires.” Your ego may want certain things and experiences – tempted by the matrix forces, but your soul has a different plan, trajectory, and purpose.
For some people, the soul is already ripe enough to engage in this Work consciously, no longer driven by conditioned desires; for others, it may take a few more lifetimes to “grow the soul” until it “comes to the front” and takes charge and answers the call of the Divine.
Yet, you signed up to be here right now, and it’s your call to embrace this adventure of consciousness into the unknown and the Great Work we are called to participate in. The outcome still depends on YOU, even though it is guaranteed.
Welcome to the paradox of it all, which the mind won’t be able to reconcile.
“When the time comes that man no longer wishes to remain a child but wants to grow up and become an adult, then he must understand and neither deceive himself nor others.
Then he will see that God is to be found not in any particular form but in all forms, not in any particular place, but everywhere, not through any single vehicle, faith, cult, religion, building, or man, but in the Infinite.
You will never find God anywhere else but in those conditions; the rest is merely your idea of God, your mental picture. These are purely intellectual things, they are not God or Reality.
So if man wishes to awaken, if he wants to understand himself, he must face the fact that the real avenue to contact with God is not outside himself but within, directly inside. He must find his own way to God through and within himself.
That is, if he seeks God there is no other way, but if he is looking for ideas, concepts, or mental images, then he can take what orthodox religions and cults offer him.
And because most people have been content to let others do their thinking and their questing for them, they have been satisfied with those conditions.”
– Paul Brunton, The Inner Reality
Growing up in Europe, I visited several famous churches and cathedrals in France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. Despite their amazing architecture, art, and esoteric symbolism, I’ve always felt something off in those places of worship. Perhaps it was a different energy and intention when they were first built.
However, I couldn’t ignore a very dark life-force-sucking energy in virtually all of those places. It became even more apparent a few years ago when I revisited some of those old churches and cathedrals.
Tuning into the energy of these places was truly disturbing and icky; literally made me physically nauseous in some instances. Very heavy and depleting. I couldn’t stay inside for long.
While I’m not a clairvoyant, I felt the same dark energy that Mirra Alfassa (The Mother) described in her experience, and what she describes helped me understand my visceral experience visiting these places of worship:
“I saw in one of the most beautiful cathedrals of France, which, from the artistic point of view, is one of the most magnificent monuments imaginable – in the most sacred spot I saw an enormous [non-physical] black, vital spider [occult hostile force] which had made its web and spread it over the whole place, and was catching in it and then absorbing all the forces emanating from people’s devotion, their prayers and all that.
It was not a very cheering sight; the people who were there and were praying, felt a divine touch, they received all kinds of boons from their prayers, and yet what was there was this, this thing. So, truly, if I had gone and told them “Do you think you are praying to God? It is an enormous vital spider that’s feeding upon all your forces!”, that would really not have been very charitable.
And that’s how it is most of the time, almost everywhere; it is a vital force that is there, for these [hyperdimensional] vital entities feed upon the vibration of human emotions. The majority of people [visit these places] only because of superstition, egoism, and self-interest and create an atmosphere of this kind, and that is what you breathe in when you go to a church or temple. And all these people believe this is something holy! But it is a web of the hostile vital forces which use all this to feed upon.
Besides, in the invisible world hardly any beings love to be worshipped, except those of the vital [lower astral world]. These, as I said, are quite pleased by it. And then, it gives them importance. They are puffed up with pride and feel very happy, and when they can get a herd of people to worship them, they are quite satisfied.
I know them, those entities. I know them very well, but they are vital beings, vital forms which, so to say, are given a form by human thought, and what forms! And to think that men worship such terrible and monstrous things.
From this point of view, it is good that for some time, men get out of this religious atmosphere, so full of fear and this sort of blind, superstitious submission of which the hostile forces have taken a dreadful advantage.
It is only when one comes out of that and the abject submission to monstrous vital forces that one can rise to truly spiritual heights, and there become the collaborator and true instrument of the forces of Truth, the real Consciousness, the true Power. One must leave all this far behind before one can climb higher.” – The Mother Mirra Alfassa, The Hidden Forces of Life
You don’t need any man-made building nor any dogmatic religion (with a hierarchy of priests, bishops, and popes) to connect to God, the Divine, or whatever you may want to call it. It’s nothing outside of yourself, either.
Do you know what the most magnificent and powerful “cathedral” that I visited brought me “closer to God” within me, seeing the Divine in all and everything? It was sitting at the edge of the Grand Canyon in silence. It was pure nature, nothing man-made. There were no crosses, deities, images, or any forms of symbols to worship and pray to.
It’s also fairly obvious that all dogmatic monotheistic religions have been created and used for social control and suppression for centuries. Organized dogmatic religion is an archonic creation designed to suck your life force, harness your energy, and give away your power out of your own “free will,” feeding on guilt and shame for the “sinner” you are based on the lie that God is outside yourself – some being in the sky and judging your every step.
“The old spirituality was an escape from life into the divine Reality, leaving the world just where it was, as it was, whereas our new vision, on the contrary, is a divinization of life, a transformation of the material world into a divine world.
It is not the old one transforming itself; it is a new world that is born. And we are right in the midst of this period of transition where the two are entangled — where the other still persists all-powerful and entirely dominating the ordinary consciousness, but where the new one is quietly slipping in, still very modest, unnoticed — unnoticed to the extent that outwardly it doesn’t disturb anything very much, for the time being, and that in the consciousness of most people, it is even altogether imperceptible. And yet it is working, growing — until it is strong enough to assert itself visibly
In any case, to simplify things, it could be said that characteristically, the old world, the creation of what Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind, was an age of the gods and, consequently, the age of religions.
As I said, the flower of human effort towards what is above it gave rise to innumerable religious forms, to a religious relationship between the best souls and the invisible world.
And at the very summit of all that, as an effort towards a higher realization, there has arisen the idea of the unity of religions, of this “one single thing” which is behind all these manifestations, and this idea has truly been, so to speak, the extreme limit of human aspiration.
Well, that is at the frontier; it is something that still belongs completely to the Overmind world, the Overmind creation, and which from there seems to be looking towards this “other thing,” which is a new creation it cannot grasp — which it tries to reach, feels coming, but cannot grasp. To grasp it, a reversal is needed. It is necessary to leave the Overmind creation. It was necessary that the new creation, the supramental creation, should take place.
And now, all these old things seem so old, so out-of-date, so arbitrary — such a travesty of the real truth.
In the supramental creation, there will no longer be any religions. The whole life will be the expression, the flowering into forms of the divine Unity manifesting in the world.
When the physical substance is supramentalised, to incarnate on earth will no longer be a cause of inferiority; quite the contrary. It will give a plenitude which cannot be obtained otherwise.
But all this is in the future; it is a future… which has begun but which will take some time to be realized integrally. Meanwhile, we are in a very special situation, extremely special, without precedent.
We are now witnessing the birth of a new world; it is very young, very weak — not in its essence but in its outer manifestation — not yet recognized, not even felt, denied by the majority. But it is here. It is here, making an effort to grow, absolutely sure of the result.
But the road to it is a completely new road which has never before been traced out — nobody has gone there, nobody has done that! It is a beginning, a universal beginning. So, it is an absolutely unexpected and unpredictable adventure.
There are people who love adventure. It is these I call, and I tell them this: “I invite you to the great adventure.”
It is not a question of repeating spiritually what others have done before us, for our adventure begins beyond that.
It is a question of a new creation, entirely new, with all the unforeseen events, the risks, the hazards it entails — a real adventure whose goal is certain victory, but the road to which is unknown and must be traced out step by step in the unexplored.
Something that has never been in this present universe and that will never be again in the same way. If that interests you… well, let us embark. What will happen to you tomorrow — I have no idea.
One must put aside all that has been foreseen, all that has been devised, all that has been constructed, and then… set off walking into the unknown. And — come what may! There.” – The Mother Mirra Alfassa
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.” ~Cheryl Strayed
Nobody is coming to save you from yourself. No God is coming to ease your death anxiety, no matter how much you want to be placated. No “authority” is coming to guide you through the brambles. Your suffering will always be a thing. It’s your responsibility alone to integrate it. You are the only hero you will ever know.
But the only way to get to know your inner hero is to sharpen yourself against the pain. Sharpen yourself against your suffering. Sharpen yourself against your existential dread. Then use this sharpness to pierce the veil between your cultural conditioning and your innermost darkness. Get down deep. Dig into the muck and mire of your humanness. Penetrate the blinding light. Get your “hands” dirty.
The key to integrating suffering is to give yourself an edge. Preferably a sharpened edge. If you have no edge, then you have no leverage. And leverage is the difference between suffering toward strength or just plain suffering for suffering’s sake.
If you have no leverage, then your suffering will tend to consume you. You will drown in bitterness and resentment. But if you have leverage, you’ll have the potential to subsume your suffering.
So, the question becomes: how do you give yourself an edge? That’s where the shadow comes in.
Look at the shadow like you would a speck of dirt in an oyster. The only way the speck becomes a pearl is through assimilation into the oyster’s environment. Similarly, the only way the shadow becomes an ally is through assimilation into the environment of the self.
In your youth it was necessary to repress the shadow to achieve discipline; in your maturity, it is vital that you integrate it to achieve individuation (enlightenment). The alternative is resentment and bitterness.
Shadow integration is facing the bitter truth within you and then being radically honest about what you discover. When you face the bitter truth within, your capacity for truth outside expands. Your once disoriented Self clicks together because the missing pieces become self-actualized. You become oriented to your suffering. Such orientation becomes a sieve that filters weakness from strength. It separates the wheat from the chaff.
Honoring the shadow births honesty, which gives birth to humility, which gives birth to humor. Such rebirth creates a sharpness, a razor’s edge. Bitterness, weakness, and pettiness fall away because a sense of sharpened wholeness cuts through it all.
You get ahead of the game. You gain a fierceness. You grow teeth. The ability to transform a negative into a positive becomes manifest. You’re able to transform pain into power, wounds into wisdom, setbacks into steppingstones, tragedy into transcendence, loss into laboratory, and shadow work into soul craft.
When you integrate your shadow, you begin the psychological process of individuation. Depth, rootedness, and stability is born. You become more grounded, more secure in your skin, more independent in your moral judgments, more courageous and self-reliant.
Your suffering becomes a wave you surf into greatness rather than a wave that pummels you into meekness. You surf over pain, tragedy, loss, and setbacks. You become the tip of the spear, spearheading adaptability despite mortality, integrating shadow work despite darkness, and transforming suffering into self-overcoming. You become the forerunner of the Truth Quest cutting through the “truth.”
The future opens wide. Your shadow guides you out of the shadows. You become integrated. You become whole. Plato’s Cave becomes nothing more than a shed cocoon behind you. You arrive. You come alive—darkness balanced by dawn; light sharpened by shadow—a force of nature to be reckoned with.
Integrating suffering is mastering the shadow aspect. It’s utilizing pain as a whetstone. As Rumi said, “The cure for the pain is in the pain.” Indeed.
The diamond in the rough is created by the rough. Great character is forged in the furnace of adversity. Pain is mere kindling. The pebble is a mistake to the oyster but a pearl to the master. Likewise, the shadow is a mistake to the uninitiated but gold to the initiated.
Initiate yourself. Strike gold by integrating your shadow. Allow your fortified foundations to crumble away. Dig into your innermost darkness. Discover what makes you tick, what makes you fall apart, what makes you crack. Then glue it all together into a stronger version of yourself.
Making your darkness conscious is self-mastery. Mine the gold from the abyss and then transform it into your magnum opus.
It’s in the fall from grace, in the broken pieces of shattered soul, where vivid, raw, wholesome wisdom lies. It’s where the shadow’s gold glimmers. Where wounds are transformed into wisdom. Where the heart is inverted into a womb. It’s where the ashes give birth to the Phoenix.
As Nikita Gill said, “Heroes are meant to be forged golden from the blaze.”
About the Author:
Gary Z McGee, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide-awake view of the modern world.
