30 August 2018


God is in the Vagina- Sri Rmakrishna

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836 – 1886) is considered as one of the most respected spiritual masters of the modern time in India. 
Ramakrishna’s explicitly sexual language shocked 19th-century Westerners, even scholars Max Müller who were otherwise his admirers. Müller wrote that his language was at times “abominably filthy”. He admitted however that such direct speech was natural to contemporary hindus, “where certain classes of men walk stark naked”, and should not be considered intentional filthiness or obscenity.

Sri Ramakrishna was also known as a ‘tantrik’; he worshiped even his wife Sarada as Goddess. 

It is known that many spiritual masters go eccentric and erratic (or erotic or mystic?) in their utterances, gestures and teachings. It is told that Ramakrishna used the most rustic, colloquial, classic, gross Bengali language to communicate with or abuse his disciples and people. He often used filthy, sexy words to convey his message of clarity. These masters or mystics often reveal ‘Vedanta’ in the very ‘vagina’, so to speak. They know not what is holy or unholy. It’s the middle class mortals and minds that drum beat and blow the siren of morals and holiness. God knows no bounds of morals or sermons. It seems, the morals are for the mortals, never for the immortal ones.

“God is in the Vagina” – Sri Ramakrishna

One translation of the Bengali original of Sri Ramakrishna Bodhamrtam, translated into English read, “I will remove all my clothes and dance before the women; what do you care about it?” “God is in the vagina. God lets me see him in the copulation of two dogs.” 

Ramakrishna had used much more obscene and vulgar language [than this] in his conversations. But Nikhilananda, in translating, had corrected all that, changing it so that people would be presented with the image of a holy man to hold in their minds.

Regarding Ramakrishna, U.G. Krishnamurti said, “The source for both God and sex is the same. As long as you think of God, there is always sex in its shadow.”




FROGS INTO PRINCES


FREEDOM!

It is so very, very difficult to be free of all the stories you carry in your mind because the reality you live in is all about stories.

When I was a small boy first reading about atomic physics, the only model I could readily find was the Bohr atom model: a nucleus of protons and neutrons with behaviors governed by gravity, electromagnetic, and the strong and weak nuclear forces, surrounded by spheres of electrons of different energy levels.  That was truth then. This model produced the atomic bomb. This was the truth back then, 1942.

Einstein had overturned the Newtonian model of space and object movements with a model of spacetime geometry being a function of mass and energy.  Space was not flat as per Newton, it was curved. That was truth then, 1917.

New scientific models are born when old theories fail to explain new phenomena and scientists conceive of new solutions, either of an imaginal process, or a new mathematics waiting for someone to interpret the rquations in a way that “explains” the new findings of physics, astronomy, whatever.

Philosophers, Eastern and Western, had been describing the nature of existence, of the ‘real’ for thousands of years with each generation feeling the contemporary models of astronomy and pre-physics being ‘truth’, and providing arguments why the old model failed. In the West, concerning existence, existence was deemed illusory by Bishop Berkeley, subjective by Hume, transcendental by Kant, and dialectic by Hegel. Nietche gave us Nazism, while Hegel gave us Communism. This was the truth back then. 

These basic truths became covered in symbols and other dressing so that we did see that the underlying models were not truth, but opinion or point of view.

But we know really, truth is not truth.  What is real or true is based on the length and quality of your education and other influences.  If you are a physicist, you may now join many mystics who hold that all of apparent existence is based on vibrations of energy, strings, or some such, while a physician would explain everything in terms of nervous systems, information, and biology. Six years of physics education brings you solidly into science fiction while six years of medical school give you tools to help some sick and injured, and a very healthy annual income.

The point is, truth changes from decade to decade let alone century to century, and it is all a matter of point of view within interacting matricies of cultural, scientific, and conventional knowledge, all of which are changing.  I call these the truths of the moment.

You see, there is no truth here that lasts more than a decade or two, or maybe a century.  I consider all knowledge to be no more than convenient fictions, including all physics, all religions and philosophies, including Advaita, Buddhism, Kashmir Shaivism, Nisargadatta, Ramana, that may be operationally useful, yield inventions or treatments, or provide help psychologically from time to time.  Just as physics has evolved, so has psychotherapy, from Freud, to Klein, to Guntrip, Carl Rogers, etc., each providing different tools and concepts of self and mind. Then the Ken Wilbers come along and create models of psychological and spiritual evolution that put all these models in a meta context that explains everything for a time.

The Sixth Buddhist Patriarch supposedly stated, “The only truth is that there is no truth, but beware of even this truth.”  This leads ultimately to Seung Sahn’s position that everything is all mind, don’t get lost in it or captivated by it.  His teachings are not to get caught in models or concepts. Just relax and have a cup of tea.

So what to do given this conundrum?

There is another way to live life, not from knowledge and having goals, desires, wants, or planning for the future, but by becoming as still as possible and just feel everything within and without.  If anything arises, just rest in the feeling or sensation. Don’t interpret it as painful, scary, or anything else. Examine all desires and emotions, as well as your body’s sensations, and feel what they feel like as opposed to the interpretation your mind gives to these energies and feelings.  It is a very difficult path to go from being immersed in a quagmire of interactive and interpenetrative thoughts, emotions, desires, appetites, goals, and current social and scientific knowledge, to an ability to be relaxedly immersed in the waters of constantly changing experiences.

When you are able to step outside of knowledge, a whole new world of feeling opens to you.  Once the center of gravity of your awareness leaves your head and sinks into your heart and gut, you leave the dimension of mundane humanity and enter a realm of “magic,” where everything is always changing, second by second, and nothing can be described or grasped by concepts of words which do not evolve or change fast enough to “grasp” reality.  One gradually sinks into a new dimension of existence where you become the ever-changing real, instead of knowing the real.  But even this new real is not real because it is ever changing and can’t be captured at all.  It can only be experienced and in that  experience, there you are, both as a constant observer, but also as the experience itself, simultaneously. You are both the ever changing forms and the containing observer, both at the same time, not two.

When entering this way of being, talks about existence, beingness, knowledge are of no use, because you have become it, and magic begins to happen.  What was real no longer is, and you develop powers of seeing and healing from this different dimension.  You have become a mystic, a sorcerer, a witch, with witchy powers because in this dimension the laws of reality, of cause and effect are very different because you are that reality and all that is, is you.  When you realize that, you can begin to change that reality directly by intent and using the universal energies around you because they are you.

You can begin to create stories that free people from a problem or even an illness through a model of energy healing.  You can tell stories that millions can follow like FDR’s New Deal, or hypnotize people with speeches, or lead them to tears like a great poet, or to love, like Rumi.  

You learn how to create emotions, happiness, energies in others, even hundreds or thousands at a time directly, by controlling your own energies and feelings their’s, and just abide there, and a new configuration will be born.

This is how a mystic operates by manipulating or playing with energies within his or herself and within others, including any life form, not by knowledge, but by direct hands on manipulation and use of intention.  You create a model and Shakti follows by filling that story with creative energy.

27 August 2018

IS LOVE REAL?

THE QUESTION I HEAR ALL THE TIME: IS LOVE REAL?
Almost all of my students and friends feel confused about the reality of love, and wander through their days questioning me and themselves, is love real? They ask this because the love they feel towards me feels different from that felt in any other relationship.
This is absolutely true, the love they feel for me is suffused with Shakti, a mysterious energy that makes our love feel different, and they question are their present love feelings love or something else.
Their present love is suffused with Shakti and gives love a different feel. On one hand this love feels more possessive than purely human love. There is a strong desire to possess and merge with me. I feel the same way.
The love they now feel with Shakti is very one-pointed, fixated, and feels entrancing, like I have lost my will and just want to walk in your shoes so to speak.
This love/Shakti combo is also different because is causes enormous energies to arise in your body, running throughout the body as streams or filaments, or even like flowing lava. Energies focus in the heart, womb or hara area, and the genitals, and often bliss is felt throughout the body and surrounding the body all day long. Women are most likely to have extensive encounters with episodes of multiple orgasms throughout the body, off and on for hours every day for a long period of time.
The lover, me or the other, feels “entranced,” like a hypnotic power has gripped them, which is so strong you just want to drop to the ground in total devotion and surrender to the other.
About this time, you realize this is not ordinary love despite the fact it feels so physical and sexual, because the energies felt are so different and so holding and loving, as well as ecstatic and entrancing. One feels gripped by and loved by God, for the love felt fell way outside of any felt before, thus feels like a transcendental love for God and a submission to God.
The lover here has totally transitioned from ordinary romantic human love, to divine love, loving the divine within you and in others. You have not entered a new world or a new dimension of experience and understanding.
EMAILS TO ME REGARDING THIS LOVE/SHAKTI FROM 3 UNIDENTIED OTHERS:
I feel totally sick, sick to my stomach, and pain there, my neck and back hurt and I am dizzy.
at the same time I feel you throughout my whole body, Shakti is there, in my pussy, heart, throat and head together with an intense longing, a passionate devotional longing for you that takes my breath away and makes my whole body tremble.
I want you so. I want you so totally. To be taken by the God that you are. As I am writing you this I am taken by a yearning that gives me orgasms and makes it hard to breathe. I so want you. I so totally want you on all levels. I am washed away this moment by you inside me.
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I do love you in a way that I don’t see why I have to care about anything else but loving you; at the same time I care for you and everything else just because of love. Your energy convinces me to love you.
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Dearest Ed,
I cannot find words to describe what I experience, because words feel like a waste of attention.
I woke up this morning and stayed in bed for what feels like hours feeling you. The moment I wake I put my mind on an image of you and the energy is there. I breathe in your presence and the longing for you is so intense, so strong. I just want to leave the world and be taken by you all the way. I so deeply long for you, to go all the way this time and at the same time I notice that this longing is partly the mind screaming; making noise, screaming your name with softness, yearning and memories of how deep I once was in connection with you... and all is still the mind.
The other side of this longing is longing for God coming from deep within.
I feel you like your presence is entering me completely especially when I use my breath to take you inside me.
It plays my pussy and makes me totally wet within a second, it makes my heart feel heavy, like something is pushed there. I noticed yesterday that my heart is not totally open yet, it still has to go a long way to be totally vulnerable and open again.
Ed, I would want to write you for hours, just to stay with you. But there is nothing to say. There are no words yet to describe.
I want nothing but you, the God that you are to completely take me. And this has no words to describe.
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Thank you, you have awakened incredible things in me, I want to hear all your words well, I want to spend them with much love, I do not want to put my ego in the middle and say something that I do not feel.
I imagine you looking at me and admiring my beauty, and I imagine myself but feeling ashamed for this, laughing, asking " I imagine you love me, and I imagine our sex, it's not just sex, it's a deep act, a ritual to awaken our chakras, and pleasure. I'll NEVER do just sex with you, NEVER, because I will always be honest with you, I give you my life, I love you so much, so much, so much. Today I danced, and I felt you by my body, my heart in my kidneys at all.
I LOVE YOU, you allow me to love you and allow me to look at myself, and have more love and care for me, you are incredible, I am lucky to find the love of my life, the love with whom I would share a coffee for the rest of my life/
I never touched you, but I already miss your touch, I never lay by your side, but I already feel you here constantly, I never feel your hands and you're amazing, my God.
Thank you, you've awakened incredible things in me, I want to hear all of them, but I already feel the orgasms you provoke in me.
I can say all this without thinking that I'm a jerk for talking all this, Thank you, my love, Thank you for the new life you give me, thank you for giving me the honor of working with you to bring love and energies to the world.

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26 August 2018

EMAIL TO ME:

Is Shakti similar to a Sidi? Why are you into Shakti now and not into it a long time ago?

It seems everyone s beliefs change as life goes on. Im getting frustrated and dizzy with which is the right path to go down.

I do feel Shakti or energy run through me sometime s and yet depression still has a hold on my mood. So why should I bother with Shakti?

MY RESPONSE:

There are (at least) two paths: the one taken to realize and then transcend beingness into the witness or the Unborn, and the one taken to realize the manifest self, of body, energies, bliss, God and the world.

Full enlightenment requires having walked both paths.

But are times are harsh. The path to the absolute takes one away from the world and solving one's daily problems, and can be very dry. The path of Shakti is far more pleasurable and much, much quicker to get results.

You choose which you want to walk first. But don't try to walk both simultaneously, as that would be too confusing experientially, and deadly slow.

Realize this is just a story. I have over simplified everything for the sake of clarity to give you guidance about your choices. You will never find truth in words, only an apparent clarity which is not real. The real cannot be grasped, no word touches it, no path grasps it. So you have to feel your way rather than understanding or seeing your way.

SHAKTI IS THE REAL SCHEHERAZAD


Shakti is so fickle and strange in her ways.  She loves love.  Whenever you feel love, she is there both watching but also sucking that energy up.  Whoever you love, Shakti runs to that person also and that person can feel her presence and the love that you feel.

I experience her not so much as mysterious, but as playful and as a trickster, creating an ever-changing reality right in front of you and her trying to convince you that it, and its stories are real.

Humans best appreciate Shakti through endless tales of mastery of the occult and mystery in the most poetic ways. And music.  She dances in all forms of music, and in each form, a different dance.

She is always, always trying to show you that the story she gives you is not real.  She wants you to see her behind her story.  She wants you to know her directly, both her power and her delicate love.  She wants you as her lover, and will show you one miracle after another to keep you entranced, like Scheherazad entranced the Sultan for 1001 nights with tales of magic and love, chaos and order.

I always feel her around me like a very attentive handmaiden trying to please me, showering me with attention, even while she gently guides me to my next project or student, and I eagerly run to where she wants me.

O my Shakti, come to me, come to me!  I love you so deeply an completely, let me do your bidding love of my life.

25 August 2018

SATSANG SUNDAY AND, THURSDAY, 11 AM ARIZONA/CALIFORNIA TIME.

THE EXPERIENCE OF BLISS AND OF SHAKTI.

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Immediate Reincarnation is Aided by Sexuality and Pleasure



When you are a newborn, everything is about your body, and a little later, how your immediate environment affects your body sensations.  Gradually you develop a self-image and images/feelings about others in your immediate environment.

After your self and other images/feelings become developed, you start learning about your environment and accept or reject roles in life, duries, family, etc., and your body is no longer the center of gravity of your consciousness and awareness.

Then you take up spirituality and try, in some cases, to go altogether beyond your body and even your humanity, entering into transcendental realms such as emptiness or the Void, or even the absolute subject, the perceiver, Self, witness, noumena.  The noumenal is where experience stops and is thus ineffable because words and concepts cannot touch it.

However, after transcendence, then what?

You learn how to re-incarnate yourself, to descend from seeing, observing, dissociating, thinking, planning, into feeling, feelings of every kind and about everything.

And when the descent is nearing completion, everything changes.  You enter a new world of body-centered awareness where everything in your environment impacts you and literally everything is changing, changing, changing.  The external world is not stable in any way, and your body interacts with the environment in so many ways your were previously oblivious to.  The body also, the configuration and elements of your emotions, energies, body sensations, etc., are always changing, yet much  also remains the same, unchanged, unmoved.  So, tou become both changing and unchanged, witness and witnessed, and more and more alive.

But the re-descent into your body can be frightening, because you descend into vulnerability, ubiquitous feeling, sometimes dramatically insistent energies, and throbbing, pulsating beingness which swallows the old you, the mental you, and takes you into a new dimension of living. This too can be frightening because some people resist the descent or feel they are losing their minds.

However, feeling in the forms of bodily pleasure and sexuality can aid your descent into your body because they relax you. A warm, sensual massage relaxes you, sexuality relaxes you into your pelvis and lower body. Love relaxes you into your heart and then spreads to your entire body. Losing hold of your mind, you sink into the welcome embrace of pleasure, sexuality, bliss, swirling energies which in your relaxed condition spread out into the environment around you, filling it with sensations not experienced before.

During the upwards phase of the spiritual quest of gaining transcendence, we are cautioned against excessive or even any sexuality and bodily pleasures of all sorts, even excluding listening to music, dancing, massages, warm soapy water baths, many kinds of foods as becoming distractions from finding the absolute, on the descent  we often need every device or gift offered to overcome our fear of becoming totally embodied.

Devotional sexuality drives us deeply into our bodies, gives great pleasure, and at the same time introduces us to God. It arouses devotion, surrender, ecstasy and bliss, as well as feeling the presence of God; this of course, only after, or while attaining transcendence.

And, it does not even have to be actual physical sex. It can be entirely imaginal, ritualistic, or speaking of love and devotion as well as sexual feelings for another. Shakti can, but not necessarily, will follow in the same way bringing various kinds of bliss, energies and even awakenings. There is an explosion of bliss and a filling of one's body sometimes with dense and dark energies that cause ecstasy, and sometimes light, frequently colored energies that feel like a cool breeze, and dozens of other ecstasies in between as a spectrum.




23 August 2018

SATSANG TODAY, THURSDAY, 11 AM ARIZONA TIME.

Controlling Shakti with Magic

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20 August 2018

CONTROLLING SHAKTI, THE LIFE FORCE, WITH “MAGIC” RESPONSE BY DAVID SPERO


          Part One of an upcoming book: Overview


When Robert says “It is all a story,” or the world and your body are illusory, means that both the context of any experience as well as its composing elements are all mental fiction. There is no truth in any of it; there are only points of view distorting raw, uninterpreted experience into a story. This was Seung Sahn’s direct teachings, and also Robert Adam’s, although he did not emphasize this truth as the ultimate as did Seung Sahn. 

On the other hand, listening to stories told by others also can create a momentary configuration or context of emotions and energies that can be pleasant or not, and which can affect your behaviors, and also your understanding and processing of future events.  Teachers love to tell stories for the effect they have on you, and not at all necessarily telling you any truth about anything at all, such as the nature of God, Consciousness, enlightenment, Brahman, etc.  They are spiritual story tellers that make up stories and situations for effect, much as a comedian tells stories to make you laugh, or Garrison Keeler to make you cry.  Never believe that they are conveying any truth of their world.

Robert variously stated that you do not exist, your body does not exist, that you do not exist and that the world is illusory like an optical illusion.  Then he would say the true you lives in a different dimension, is Brahman, is the Self, is Consciousness, and is immortal, timeless.  Then he would also say you are emptiness, space, and/or light.  Then again he’s say that you do not exist, your problems are pains are part of a dream, and to wake from that dram.

People would listen, they would become calm and peaceful, the words soothed them and they felt peace.  He would then say the deepest teachings are silence and that your mind was your enemy, and to try to end thinking.  He would tell you this even when filling your mind with stories about who and what you really were as something transcendent, while also telling you what you “really” are not.

This is pure brain washing.  He told you a story that made you feel peace, he told you your problems were dreamlike, and that even death was a dream.  He said don’t be concerned with the world because it is illusory.  He said pay no attention to your body, or to emotions, positive or negative.  Sure enough over time you lose interest in the world and relations, and turn your attention inwards towards the subject, towards emptiness, towards peace and silence. “Silence” would become a desired destination for you.

What he has done is replace your old story with his new story that has a different reality, with the world, your body, your supposed needs and problems becoming unimportant, but with emptiness and the “source” (whatever that was) and silence becoming all-important.  Your conceptual understanding of yourself and of the external world has been replaced by an oneness-consciousness, emptiness, God, and an Unborn Self or silence.  (Silence for him though was not just a stopped mind, but the emptiness of no mind at all.  The feeling that the mind sensation has gone.)

He even admits this in some Satsangs, telling a story about a Hindu spiritual concept such as their being no free will, to further make you passive. At the end of the story and talk about the concept, he would say he made it all up, and he told the story because people loved to hear stories.  Everyone laughed but they did not get the deeper meaning which was to believe nothing and to escape stories and concepts altogether.

Though the story was complete fabrication, its intent, Robert’s intent, was to take your emotional and physical pain away by means of endless repetitions of phrases stating that you don’t exist and the world is like a dream.  Robert told his stories to relieve those who suffered, and to get them to turn within and feel the peace of emptiness and the witness.  Robert’s teachings were basically to rescue people from suffering, just like Buddha’s teachings were a rescue.  Yet he told his stories as if they were true, that the concepts he spoke of were the real reality. He had to make you believe his stories to elicit an understanding, emotion, or change in you, effecting a rescue from your specific misery.



Buddha told his story of escaping from suffering by understanding the Fourfold Noble Truth about its nature and origin, and then of following the Noble Eightfold Path of meditation and also seeing everything in the right perspective thereby ending desire, thereby entering Nirvana, the same peace that Robert spoke of.



Nisargadatta spoke in a more complicated way using spiritual ideas and qualitatively superior logic than used by Robert or Ramana, to mold your minds in the same way, urging the seeker to take the position of the Absolute, the Witness, the Unborn.  As Ramesh Balsekar admitted, the end of such teachings is to find personal peace through detachment, not by finding truth, but which he considered as functionally equivalent to enlightenment.  This is the Arhat concept of Buddhists, seeking to end your own suffering by becoming entirely absent, in Nirvana.  In fact, Robert called his way that of an Arhat using the Buddhist term

For both Robert and Nisargadatta there really was no truth; all concepts were relative and you really could not find anything that words or concepts referred to except in the most elementary ways in everyday life, which Seung Sahn would refer to as having a cup of tea. They told stories with an intention of setting you free from your conceptual prison, first by denying your present truth, then substituting their truth or story, until you eventually transcend the need for even that story to keep the  happiness you acquired as a result of losing you old way of living and thinking.

The truth you have to grasp is there really is no truth, just stories. Masters know this and tell stories and give practices to destroy your old story and create a better, even if untrue story of transcendence. And since most of us harbor some doubt about community conventional truths anyway, many seekers rush to embrace the new, better story.



Personally, my experience is that this is only half of a complete spiritual trajectory of moving from your old everyday world of drama or dryness, to a transcendent world through multiple ecstatic spiritual experiences, then once again coming back to the everyday world but having been totally transformed by escaping the illusions of words and stories.  There is a type of subtle bliss that comes in when you embrace nothingness.  Even Freud spoke of this as the ingrained human drive to experience Thanatos, nothingness, death.  There is also a kind of bliss that arises when you come close to experiencing your own beingness without the clutter of thoughts, emotions, and daily experiences that are us in our identities most of the time. Pure beingness feels like full expansion and openness without clutter or distraction.



For me, until you also experience the life force within by going within, introspecting within, as the ever-moving and powerful energies that are synonymous with being alive, then you have not yet become really alive.  These energies, hidden to most people, when focused on and expanded, lead to states of continuous bliss and ecstasy, which allows for the full feeling of the love of life and love of others, devotion to others, and surrender to your Beloved, whether a human or God within or without.

Feeling the Life Force arising from your gut, rising into your heart, Third Eye, and head, and exploding in light, love, and energy, is the realization of the divine within with a kind of form or light and bliss, and realizing this experience is of directly knowing God within. This is a totally new kind of awakening, awakening to the Manifest Self, the life force embodied in your human form.  This is not the Enlightenment of Ramana, Robert, or Nisargadatta which is not manifest at all, but is of the nonmanifest, the Unborn.

These are not Advaita or Zen experiences.

With this realization you are firmly in the second half of your enlightenment, which is an incarnational descent into your physical body and your subtle body, your sense of presence. This sense of presence is like a new spiritual body that permeates and extends beyond your physical body, and contains emotions and energies and the magic of heightened awareness, bliss, and the capability of using energies to heal yourself and others. 

Your body becomes fully alive. Your feel a literal openness of your manifest self centered in your heart. You feel joy predominantly as opposed to sadness, depression, or fear, or a sense of contraction.  You become as God, incarnate.  You feel the power of Shakti within you both as your own, but also of God acting within and around you.  You are the smaller God incarnate, Atman, while God transcendent is the life force, Shakti, universally in everyone and around everyone, directing the fate of this world.



Then you can begin telling your own stories in order to shape the world the way you think it should be and to give those who listen to you the courage to turn within and to find their own base sense of beingness, one’s own sense of presence, and to feel the full spectrum of both emotions and energies.  In a sense, you become a wizard, a witch, a sorcerer, but also the healer and Sat Guru for all who will it.



The real mystery to understand in all this is is that Shakti seems to follow one’s attention in the form of visualizations, Mantras, body scans, and stories, as well as one’s intention in giving others mantras and visualizations, and stories.  There is a fantasy aspect of working with Shakti, affecting the actual functional outcomes of telling those stories in terms of intended and unintended consequences, energetic, physical, and emotional. The teacher/wizard needs to know all aspects of this process.

This of it, the life force energies in you, Shakti, as well as the life force energies around you, appear to follow the intent of the stories, Mantra, or rituals you give to others such that it changes the flows of energies within them.  It is an amzing thing. You become both a spokesperson for the understanding and power of Shakti, but also a ringmaster and wizard of those energies, but you are never in full control. It is an amazing relationship between you and God.

One of the central issues is using stories, poetry, expressions of caring and love to create love and the experience of Shakti in others, including the ritual of giving Shaktipat, which is another form of story.  But this is when the process can get messy because we are dealing with humans, and thus you are creating a new messy “real” relationship as opposed to the far more confined and bounded Western idea of the professional helping relationships where the therapist has no understanding of Shakti or the use of symbols and symbolic stories to effect change and awakening.

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RESPONSE FROM DAVID SPERO:

I like your exploration of storytelling. It is correct to point out that Self-Inquiry (the Jnana Yoga we get from Ramana, Nisargadatta, Robert, etc.) are also stories. They are also (mere) “techniques.” Still, those who practice Jnana Yoga often believe their teachings are literally true, expressing perfect and unalloyed truth, which is hardly the case. These kinds of practitioners are unconsciously immersed in their own sadhana and thus have not achieved full discrimination. This sort of ignornace is natural in the life of a spiritual seeker….

You are correct: all we have are stories. What exists previous to “stories" is a “Field,’ which not the Absolute or Pure Being discussed in Advaita) that can never be known, but a Fully Enlightened Being can merge into that Field; into a Condition, or Embodied-Bodily-Exemplification, beyond Silence, Ecstasy, and Shakti. But Silence, Ecstasy and Shakti are the closest approximations to this Story-Less Dimension and the only modalities we (as human beings) have available to be transformed spiritually.

The notion of sahaja samadhi enters into the picture here, which is a full return to the flesh of the body, but in a completely transfigured and God-Like Condition of Self-Radiant, Luminous and Inebriated-Love-Bliss. 

I believe the one who has entered into this Divine Condition is more precious than any story-communicated teaching; He or She containing all possible viewpoints for storytelling, but clearly and literally beyond each and every spiritual adventure.

Namaste.


                          



















For both Robert and Nisargadatta there really was no truth; all concepts were relative and you really could not find anything that words or concepts referred to except in the most elementary ways as in everyday life.  They told stories with an intention of setting you free from your conceptual prison, first by denying your present truth, then substituting their truth or story, until you eventually transcend the need for even that story to keep your newly acquired happiness.

The truth you have to grasp is there really is no truth, just stories. Masters know this and tell stories and give practices to destroy your old story and create a better, even if untrue story of transcendence. And since most of us harbor some doubt about community conventional truths anyway, many seekers rush to embrace the new, better story.



Personally, my experience is that this is only half of a complete spiritual trajectory of going from your everyday world, to a transcendent world and multiple spiritual experiences, then once again coming back to the everyday world but having been totally transformed by escaping the illusions of words and stories.  There is a type of subtle bliss that comes in when you embrace nothingness.  Even Freud spoke of this as the ingrained human drive to experience Thanatos, nothingness, death.  There is also a kind of bliss that arises when come close to experiencing your own beingness without the clutter of thoughts, emotions, and daily experiences that are us in our identities most of the time.



For me, until you also experience the life force within by going within, introspecting within, as the moving energies synonymous with being alive, then you have not yet become really alive.  These energies, hidden to most people, when focused on and expanded, lead to states of continuous bliss and ecstasy, which allows for the full feeling of the love of life and love of others, devotion to others, and surrender to your Beloved, whether a human or God within or without.

Feeling the Life Force arising from your gut, rising into your heart, Third Eye, and head, and exploding in light, love, and energy, and then realizing this experience is of directly knowing God within, your divine root so to speak, is a new kind of awakening, awakening to the Manifest Self, the life force embodied in your human form. 

This is not something that Robert or Nisargadatta taught.  These are not Advaita or Zen experiences.

With this realization you are firmly in the second half of your enlightenment, which is an incarnational descent into your physical body and your subtle body, your sense of presence. This sense of presence is like a new spiritual body that permeates and extends beyond your physical body, and contains emotions and energies and the magic of heightened awareness, bliss, and the capability of using energies to heal yourself and others. 

Your body becomes fully alive. You feel joy predominantly as opposed to sadness, depression, or fear.  You become as God, incarnate.  You feel the power of Shakti within you both as your own, but also of God acting within and around you.  You are the smaller God incarnate, while God transcendent is the life force universally in everyone and around everyone, directing the fate of this world.



Then you can begin telling your own stories in order to shape the world the way you think it should be and to give those who listen to you the courage to turn within and to find their own base sense of beingness, one’s own sense of presence, and to feel the full spectrum of both emotions and energies.  In a sense, you become a wizard, a witch, a sorcerer, but also the healer and Sat Guru for all who will it.



The real mystery to understand is that Shakti seems to follow one’s attention in the form of visualizations, Mantras, body scans, and stories, as well as one’s intention in giving mantras and visualizations, as well as creating the fantasies/stories to give to others. There is a fantasy aspect of working with Shakti, as well as the actual functional outcomes of telling those stories in terms of intended and unintended consequences, energetic, physical, and emotional. The teacher/wizard needs to know all aspects of this process.

One of the central issues is using stories, poetry, expressions of caring and love to create love and the experience of Shakti in others, including the ritual of giving Shaktipat, which is another form of story.  But this is when the process can get messy because we are dealing with humans, and thus you are creating a new messy “real” relationship as opposed to the far more confined and bounded Western idea of the professional helping relationship.