WHAT IS THE ULTIMATE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS?
It’s
funny but I had my first non dual samadhi experience .. well it’s 21
years ago now ... and the thing about these experiences is that you
think the rest of the world has them along with you but alas this is
never the case.... I tried to explain to my gf at the time and her
attitude was :
’Could you please change the subject? ‘
So over time I learnt to merge back into the dualistic world because frankly I could not integrate the experience into a dualistic world which had no categories to describe the non dual realm.
And soon many questions posed themselves such as - had I experienced merely level one samadhi?
What about experience of the absolute unmanifest- what the Kabbalahists called the Ain Soph - the state most often reported by toad medicine afficiandos - was THIS the most complete state of absorption, or was there something beyond?
I remember walking into a khrishna ashram and trying to explain to the head devotee that I had had a non dual experience of source but he just chortled and told me that Lord Chaitanya (and his modern equivalent- Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda) had also experienced the nirvikalpa samadhic state but during a kirtan in Praise of Khrishna he learnt that there was an even greater state to be experienced which was knowledge of the supreme personality of the God head or Lord Khrishna and that ritual devotion or Bhakti and pujas performed offering love to this being constituted a higher state.
God, they insisted , was a person- and worship of this person was a higher duty than obtaining the non dual state or union with source.
Well maybe I said but why is it that many of your devotees have developed throat cancer from endlessly repeating the mantra in praise of him?
I gave up but it hit me , in thinking about the Bhagavad Gita... how unusual that it was set on a battlefield!
What if the experience of Christ (Khrishna) Consciousness was hijacked by the ruling class of the time to invoke mindless obedience ?
What if Arjuna had been given some drug (Soma) to Quell the moral restraints mobilized by the imminent slaughter of members of his own family?
What if the Gita is in fact a hymn to a blood thirsty entity fooling the devoted into committing atrocities?
What if 5 MeO DMT could be likewise misused to invoke a feeling that all was perfect and right no matter what appearance implied?
What if the current military industrial establishment misused this compound to produce an army of compliant warriors convinced that they were doing god’s work?
This would save a lot of MK Ultra type conditioning which tends to get rather messy.
Why is this so familiar and how is it non different to the exhortations Yahweh makes in the OT to render burnt offerings so that the smell of flesh fills his nostrils?
Oh sure, Khrishna is prettier and better dressed yet the underlying message is the same- go get em killer!
The reverence everyone gives the Gita as a spiritual text distracts from the hidden -in-plain-sight contagion - Khrishna states that of all flowers , He is the rose, but as I read this , I thought of William Blake’s famous poem the sick rose-
‘Ah rose thou art sick - the invisible worm that flies in the night has found out thy bed of crimson joy and with his dark secret love doth thy life destroy ‘
Is there a supreme personality of God Head as the Khrishnavites proclaim, or is this just another version of the program designed to keep humans enslaved to a creator/ subjects dualistic paradigm of separation ?
Can Love - even the highest form of divine love of the supreme - be perverted into submersion of the true self into the sea of the manifest?
Is the experience of the absolute unmanifest REALLY the highest state one can achieve?
Or is it rather love of the Divine Personality?
Is the Gita a manual for producing mindlessly devoted slaves or is it a guide to personal mastery?
Has anyone encountered divine beings in their 5 MeO DMT journeys, or have they merely touched the perimeter of the Ain Soph?
Can this amazing compound be weaponised like everything else under the moon(Gurdjieff)?
’Could you please change the subject? ‘
So over time I learnt to merge back into the dualistic world because frankly I could not integrate the experience into a dualistic world which had no categories to describe the non dual realm.
And soon many questions posed themselves such as - had I experienced merely level one samadhi?
What about experience of the absolute unmanifest- what the Kabbalahists called the Ain Soph - the state most often reported by toad medicine afficiandos - was THIS the most complete state of absorption, or was there something beyond?
I remember walking into a khrishna ashram and trying to explain to the head devotee that I had had a non dual experience of source but he just chortled and told me that Lord Chaitanya (and his modern equivalent- Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda) had also experienced the nirvikalpa samadhic state but during a kirtan in Praise of Khrishna he learnt that there was an even greater state to be experienced which was knowledge of the supreme personality of the God head or Lord Khrishna and that ritual devotion or Bhakti and pujas performed offering love to this being constituted a higher state.
God, they insisted , was a person- and worship of this person was a higher duty than obtaining the non dual state or union with source.
Well maybe I said but why is it that many of your devotees have developed throat cancer from endlessly repeating the mantra in praise of him?
I gave up but it hit me , in thinking about the Bhagavad Gita... how unusual that it was set on a battlefield!
What if the experience of Christ (Khrishna) Consciousness was hijacked by the ruling class of the time to invoke mindless obedience ?
What if Arjuna had been given some drug (Soma) to Quell the moral restraints mobilized by the imminent slaughter of members of his own family?
What if the Gita is in fact a hymn to a blood thirsty entity fooling the devoted into committing atrocities?
What if 5 MeO DMT could be likewise misused to invoke a feeling that all was perfect and right no matter what appearance implied?
What if the current military industrial establishment misused this compound to produce an army of compliant warriors convinced that they were doing god’s work?
This would save a lot of MK Ultra type conditioning which tends to get rather messy.
Why is this so familiar and how is it non different to the exhortations Yahweh makes in the OT to render burnt offerings so that the smell of flesh fills his nostrils?
Oh sure, Khrishna is prettier and better dressed yet the underlying message is the same- go get em killer!
The reverence everyone gives the Gita as a spiritual text distracts from the hidden -in-plain-sight contagion - Khrishna states that of all flowers , He is the rose, but as I read this , I thought of William Blake’s famous poem the sick rose-
‘Ah rose thou art sick - the invisible worm that flies in the night has found out thy bed of crimson joy and with his dark secret love doth thy life destroy ‘
Is there a supreme personality of God Head as the Khrishnavites proclaim, or is this just another version of the program designed to keep humans enslaved to a creator/ subjects dualistic paradigm of separation ?
Can Love - even the highest form of divine love of the supreme - be perverted into submersion of the true self into the sea of the manifest?
Is the experience of the absolute unmanifest REALLY the highest state one can achieve?
Or is it rather love of the Divine Personality?
Is the Gita a manual for producing mindlessly devoted slaves or is it a guide to personal mastery?
Has anyone encountered divine beings in their 5 MeO DMT journeys, or have they merely touched the perimeter of the Ain Soph?
Can this amazing compound be weaponised like everything else under the moon(Gurdjieff)?
Of course DMT journeys can be hijacked, like everything else. According to William Blake, religion had been hijacked...which is why the rose was sick. The BG, IMHO, shows God telling mankind how to act but also that in certain circumstances, that you have to break the rules. It's like, you try to live your life correctly but sometimes something comes up and you have to just do something you don't want to do because it is best for the family or community or whatever. You fail to attain the proper level this time around, but you get to come back and try again later (reincarnation) so it's ok. Plus you get extra points for the sacrifice. The way I see it, in an infinite universe, you have infinite choices. Chances are you are going to make the wrong choices most of the time, or at least a choice that takes you away from the path you expected to be on. But there is no time limit, you have eternity to work things out, so it's ok on a personal level to mess up. It's like a computer game...you lose and lose until you learn how to make it through each level. Take as long as you like...enjoy the game. But forces exist which seek to keep you down, keep you from living a life full of joy. These forces create opportunities counter to the way things are supposed to be..temptations which sometimes seem more clear and useful than the choices you know in your heart are the right ones. You get pulled off center. You lose. And you get all hung up in trying to figure out why the bad guys are allowed to mess with you. Life is difficult enough without negative forces tempting you. But the point is, it doesn't matter who the bad guys are or why they are allowed to mess with you. It's all part of the game. You ask, is the experience of the absolute unmanifest really the highest state one can achieve? The truth is brutal...just like in any video game, there is ALWAYS another level, another challenge. The struggle to achieve perfection is endless. Climb one mountain, see before you a limitless range of mountains ahead with valleys inbetween. The goal is not to find the end but to enjoy the journey.
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ReplyDeleteJust be honest. You don't want to be alone. You remember it precisely because you have a memory of it. You have no other choice. Either you are alone or you play in duality and you pretend you are not alone. Duality looks like this because you invented it and you keep it that way. It is therefore a pity to criticize it. Just enjoy the game!
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