I am aware of the fact that I upset some people by very clearly suggesting that most things practiced under the collective umbrella term of spirituality are, in no unclear terms, delusion and fakery, while others are genuine but modest achievements.

Yes; when I was a beginner myself, I thought every person with a spiritual-sounding title and an orange robe is enlightened, everybody talking about spiritual experiences is genuine, every “spiritual book” is genuinely inspired or at least useful, and so on. That was before 1997, when I started experiencing things that were completely unexpected and for which I had no theoretical framework in anything I’ve read or experienced before.

Before, it seemed logical that all the enlightened people are basically saying the same things, in essentially the same terms, and that their experiences confirm what they were taught. It seemed logical – if it’s true, of course it’s confirmed by experience. Since my own experiences confirmed the same things, I considered myself one of them – one of people who experienced the truth.

But as my experiences started to diverge wildly from anything others talked about, I became cautious. It took me a long time to actually change the theoretical framework, because I wanted to be sure it’s true, and that takes time, especially when you’re not copying anyone’s homework.

Now, I am very skeptical of people whose spiritual experiences confirm what they were taught, word by word; the entire dogma. That’s just not how things work when you’re based in reality, like I was. It took me decades to even interpret some experiences properly, that’s how radically they departed from everything I thought I knew.

That answers the next question people have: how come I’m the only one talking about certain things, such as Sanat Kumar, or this world being a weaponised VR, God manifesting as multiple persons, manifestation as a person of God being the goal of personal evolution, and so on? The answer is as simple as it is uncomfortable. No, in fact I’m not the only one talking about those things. There were others before me who figured it out. It’s just that there were so few of us throughout history. All the “spiritual authorities” you know of? Yeah, they are saying the same things I was saying for the first few years into my sadhana. That’s because they are where I was for the first few years of practice. However, I moved on; they haven’t. They didn’t transcend the first phases of understanding, and are basically regurgitating what they were taught and copy-pasting traditional teachings. They had some spiritual experiences. That’s all fine. But there’s more; much more.

The true meaning of the question isn’t that what I’m saying is surprising; it’s that people underestimate who I am by multiple orders of magnitude, and then their questions make sense. If you know who I am, the reason why I’m the only one who managed to understand certain things here becomes blatantly obvious.

I got some things because I remembered them, and that was possible because I was there. Why others didn’t? Obviously, they weren’t there. They couldn’t remember the cat in their lap playing with the pendant around their neck, or that special tone of consciousness of their friends; they weren’t there. Those people aren’t their friends. They were probably born eons later. I can remember how Sanat Kumar got the Jewel, because I was there, and it’s my fault, in a way. There are, let’s see, five people that I know of who have those events in personal experience, one of them being Sanat Kumar and he’s dead, the other being the Sentinel, who is also dead. Six, if I count the Jewel, and I should. That’s why I know those things, and all kinds of “spiritual people” don’t. I was there. I participated in cooking up this mess, and I am here to clean it up. I’m not some phase in spiritual evolution, the way people imagine those things. I’m not some guy who practiced yoga a lot. It just took a lot of effort to remember some of these things here, in this mud, and to repeat initiations from below, in the body.

Why was Buddha the first one to ever figure out Sanat Kumar down here? Because he seems to have been the first one to actually do anything Sanat Kumar minded enough to try to interfere. Why all kinds of “great teachers” completely failed to figure him out? Because they never did anything he had a problem with, probably. It’s interesting how Jesus had all kinds of issues with him, and “great saints” like Ramakrishna and his disciples had none. It kind of tells you something. Why did Satan interfere with me so much? It kind of tells you something, doesn’t it? If a dog is growling at the woods, you tend to wonder what is it that he’s seeing there that you aren’t.