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Phenomena 15-10-2004

By Gregon

A summary of the updates to the Phenomena website over the past week. Always interesting reads, so pop in over the weekend sometime:

  • Nick Redfern interviews the author of The Beast of Bray Road.
  • Richard Freeman continues his cryptozoological search, this time looking for dragons in Australia.
  • Randall Fitzgerald continues on from his previous essay, this time going into the guru’s lair. I need to get myself a nice lair…

Also on site are the daily news briefs and assorted other articles, so plenty to browse through.

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  1. Darshan
    I suggest that the darshan experience was the the result of this guys subconscious, and had very little to do with the supposed “guru”. It is amazing what the mind will do to our bodies and emotions when we are in a new, unfamliar situation, esp one that has an element of mysticism.

    This is often a self fulfilling and reinforcing dynamic, shared by a group, just as he described. The heart longs to attach some secret, sacred, spiritual cause for such experiences, and perhaps indeed there truly was one, but not in the way he presumed. A convicted criminal could have gotten up there on that silver platter and done the same thing, as long as the group believed he was “the real thing”

    My experience is that the real Gurus, the truly advanced souls, are secretive, and ordinary in every outward way. They have no ashrams. They don’t dole out special names, allow students to sit beneath them and worship their feet. They do not dress in special clothes, and they don’t give “darshan”. Not even in India. (despite the fact that the conventional spiritual culture there supports this sort of thing.)

    Some of these “gurus” do indeed have a deep understanding of metaphysics, are well read, and can spin a good tale. Many have a great deal of charm and charisma. But deeply mysterious powerful beings they are not. Not if they allow themselves to be worshiped, advertised, or treated as special in any way.

    I speak not from skeptic western cynicism, but from 30 years of experience as a student of mysticism. I have been deeply and seriously involved in both Eastern and Western spiritual traditions and paths, have met and studied with several “gurus”. In every case, in the end, these people proved to be far less “enlightened” than their “disciples” longed for them to be, and said disciples would have gone much further down the road to higher consciousness if they had relied on the only spiritual path that works:

    Self confidence.

    Love to you all.

    2. Yet, what is respect…indeed not worship…but are you worthy?
      The old texts of the Hindu indicate that reality was a love-act of “seeing” the gods (Devas) or “bright ones,” and to be mirrored by that power with an observation or feedback. The process of “seeing” the deity was the sacred part of life called “Dar-san.” The believer was consecrated by just the act of Dar-san and thus became all knowing, or worthy of being. Seeing was a form of touching or quantifying (measuring for value). The eye that comprehended the All was the third eye, which went beyond five-sensory perception into the realm of intuition and hyperphysics. The world of the ancient Hindu was many faceted and many godded — what some would term “Holospirited.”

      The act of worship for one god was termed “kathenotheism.” In this process the devotee’s Dar-san activated and energized the god focused upon. The god became a reality in the life of the beholder, and was no longer a wave, but a particle or part of god, once observed. This many faceted holomovement of “be-ness or being-ness” came to be a part of the religion of Hinduism, the oldest surviving religion of modern man. The very purpose of living to a Hindu is to get out of the feedback loop, and to get off the wheel of existence — to escape the cycle of manifestation. The goal is to merge into the ultimate and absolute ONCE once again — to return to the dream or creative element that is timeless. When outside the mega-holographic field of the universe, the being returns to the realm we visit when we release consciousness from the quantifiable form.

      Quantum Physics is today’s great measuring devise for all mathematics that make up this, the greatest of all virtual realities. We live in, on and through the greatest assemblage computer of all in a broadcast. It is in an overwhelming movement of quantum reality seeming to comprehend itself through constant feedback-looping to calculate and recalculate at blinding speed, its very becoming known prior.

      One wonders if we are only discovering the same old reality via the new technology…apparently so!

      To become worthy…one must have a goal…we are on a journey…ride the light…pass on the flame.

      Oscar

  2. Oscar…..
    Hey Oscar, cool letter. I have been deeply involved in Yoga philosophy and theoretical physics (serious laymans interest) for a few decades now. You have a very good understanding of both, it seems. When my friends wryly make “navel gazing” jokes about the large amounts of time I spend on this, I counter not with conventional spiritual platitudes, but quotes from Physicists, and results of their experiments.

    I presume that in addition to a firm intellectual grasp of this you also follow some disciplined program of consciousness exploration. But just in case you don’t, you sure are a good candidate…..

    1. The Grand Artificer…is my guide.
      I have for years been contemplating the great stone work of the ancient people of Peru. In meditation upon this highly advanced accomplishment of engineering and physics, I have been joined by an addition to my sleeping moments. He calls himself the Artificer. I think this being is myself…but he tells me things about the ancient humanity and prior…the Archeons. I am trying to compile a new paper on all of the material that is coming to me via these dreams…He indicates it is highly important to pull this data to the physical realms. I am working on it. Yes, I do think on a very deep level. Meditation is the key…If one seeks, one finds that it has been here all the time and out of time.

      Dwelling in this realm is our primary mission…one we all have forgotten.

      Cheers,

      Oscar.

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