May 17, 2023Liked by The Bio-Individual Newsletter
"A teacher with whom I once spoke about the transfer of Zen to the West told me of the optimism many Japanese monks brought when initially grafting this tradition into new soils."
Sounds like Vivekananda. I suspect for a universal effort the 'west must marry the east', alchemical marriage, but the christians insist it's satanic. While judeo-catholicism survives the west will continue to dig its own grave. Hermeticism is too buried.
"A drive to seek truth, and a real functional method to seek truth, has perhaps always been kept under wraps. It would reveal things about the world no one wishes to face. Or is equipped to face. I suspect there was a recognition at various times that only a few people had enough of "the stuff" to go the distance, and beyond that, there would be diminishing returns."
I cried a few tears when I read the first page of Secret Teachings of All Ages I was so happy to have found something that made sense. That was about 6years back. I'd spent my life searching that knowledge out and the methods I used were basically making myself disappear. The auld Monastery Method. Work relentlessly for others, not ask for anything, sacrifice 6pounds of flesh, starve to pay bills on time, whatever. I just wanted the freaking truth ffs. It shouldn't have been so hard. Realisation made it all worthwhile but the whole satchitananda business means it's all a cosmic joke anyway.
"The question I have pondered for many years is, why should such drives and potential towards transcendence exist in anyone?"
I can't speak for others of course but for my pov, I was born with a short visual memory of (pure consciousness) what it was like just before birth (of a real, external scene from a height- a friend said it was akin to the metaphysic 'Two Nights' chapter in Guénon's 'Initiation and Spiritual Degeneration'); because of it death never held any fear. I would goad God in church (before I abandoned religion) to show His face. He didn't which freed me to do literally anything except kill myself to prove God existed. "God" is an energy source. Religion is really annoying in how it describes it as a He. It's just annoying full stop. Annoying is a euphemism...
"If I may be so bold, the realisation of selflessness can be and should be adopted for a Western frame of being for marginal types - it is, in a way, a technology. It is a technology in self-overcoming. [...]
As a result, the pursuit of transcendence is widely maligned because, to everyone, it seems utopian or “airy fairy”. "
This is what I've recently started writing about. Religion isn't fit for purpose. The East is the closest to a metaphysic pathway, all due respect to Zen - I haven't finished Guénon's Great Triad yet - I'm only aware of the details of the Vedanta, and it really blew my mind because the Electric Universe plasma physics is the physical medium that is described in Vedanta. The good physicists 100 years ago knew of the parallels too.
I'm talking my head off to my husband most of the time about this- I had to get some writing down before I started banging on about it to others, but if one has a metaphysic bent then forgive me- I'll go on about it.
It's true- there is a connection, which means it is a SOLID, scientifically proven METAPHYSIC PATHWAY to Realisation. Rise and Shine is the introduction to this idea on my page.
"A teacher with whom I once spoke about the transfer of Zen to the West told me of the optimism many Japanese monks brought when initially grafting this tradition into new soils."
Sounds like Vivekananda. I suspect for a universal effort the 'west must marry the east', alchemical marriage, but the christians insist it's satanic. While judeo-catholicism survives the west will continue to dig its own grave. Hermeticism is too buried.
"A drive to seek truth, and a real functional method to seek truth, has perhaps always been kept under wraps. It would reveal things about the world no one wishes to face. Or is equipped to face. I suspect there was a recognition at various times that only a few people had enough of "the stuff" to go the distance, and beyond that, there would be diminishing returns."
I cried a few tears when I read the first page of Secret Teachings of All Ages I was so happy to have found something that made sense. That was about 6years back. I'd spent my life searching that knowledge out and the methods I used were basically making myself disappear. The auld Monastery Method. Work relentlessly for others, not ask for anything, sacrifice 6pounds of flesh, starve to pay bills on time, whatever. I just wanted the freaking truth ffs. It shouldn't have been so hard. Realisation made it all worthwhile but the whole satchitananda business means it's all a cosmic joke anyway.
"The question I have pondered for many years is, why should such drives and potential towards transcendence exist in anyone?"
I can't speak for others of course but for my pov, I was born with a short visual memory of (pure consciousness) what it was like just before birth (of a real, external scene from a height- a friend said it was akin to the metaphysic 'Two Nights' chapter in Guénon's 'Initiation and Spiritual Degeneration'); because of it death never held any fear. I would goad God in church (before I abandoned religion) to show His face. He didn't which freed me to do literally anything except kill myself to prove God existed. "God" is an energy source. Religion is really annoying in how it describes it as a He. It's just annoying full stop. Annoying is a euphemism...
"If I may be so bold, the realisation of selflessness can be and should be adopted for a Western frame of being for marginal types - it is, in a way, a technology. It is a technology in self-overcoming. [...]
As a result, the pursuit of transcendence is widely maligned because, to everyone, it seems utopian or “airy fairy”. "
This is what I've recently started writing about. Religion isn't fit for purpose. The East is the closest to a metaphysic pathway, all due respect to Zen - I haven't finished Guénon's Great Triad yet - I'm only aware of the details of the Vedanta, and it really blew my mind because the Electric Universe plasma physics is the physical medium that is described in Vedanta. The good physicists 100 years ago knew of the parallels too.
I'm talking my head off to my husband most of the time about this- I had to get some writing down before I started banging on about it to others, but if one has a metaphysic bent then forgive me- I'll go on about it.
It's true- there is a connection, which means it is a SOLID, scientifically proven METAPHYSIC PATHWAY to Realisation. Rise and Shine is the introduction to this idea on my page.
Righto, cheerio.