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.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cspiritual book\u201d 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\u2019ve read or experienced before.<\/p>\n
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 \u2013 if it\u2019s true, of course it\u2019s confirmed by experience. Since my own experiences confirmed the same things, I considered myself one of them \u2013 one of people who experienced the truth.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s true, and that takes time, especially when you\u2019re not copying anyone\u2019s homework.<\/p>\n
Now, I am very skeptical of people whose spiritual experiences confirm what they were taught, word by word; the entire dogma. That\u2019s just not how things work when you\u2019re based in reality, like I was. It took me decades to even interpret some experiences properly, that\u2019s how radically they departed from everything I thought I knew.<\/p>\n
That answers the next question people have: how come I\u2019m 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\u2019m not the only one talking about those things. There were others before me who figured it out. It\u2019s just that there were so few of us throughout history. All the \u201cspiritual authorities\u201d you know of? Yeah, they are saying the same things I was saying for the first few years into my sadhana<\/i>. That\u2019s because they are where I was for the first few years of practice. However, I moved on; they haven\u2019t. They didn\u2019t 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\u2019s all fine. But there\u2019s more; much more.<\/p>\n
The true meaning of the question isn\u2019t that what I\u2019m saying is surprising; it\u2019s 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\u2019m the only one who managed to understand certain things here becomes blatantly obvious.<\/p>\n
I got some things because I remembered them, and that was possible because I was there. Why others didn\u2019t? Obviously, they weren\u2019t there. They couldn\u2019t remember the cat in their lap playing with the pendant around their neck, or that special tone of consciousness of their friends; they weren\u2019t there. Those people aren\u2019t their friends. They were probably born eons later. I can remember how Sanat Kumar got the Jewel, because I was there, and it\u2019s my fault, in a way. There are, let\u2019s see, five people that I know of who have those events in personal experience, one of them being Sanat Kumar and he\u2019s dead, the other being the Sentinel, who is also dead. Six, if I count the Jewel, and I should. That\u2019s why I know those things, and all kinds of \u201cspiritual people\u201d don\u2019t. I was there. I participated in cooking up this mess, and I am here to clean it up. I\u2019m not some phase in spiritual evolution, the way people imagine those things. I\u2019m 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.<\/p>\n
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 \u201cgreat teachers\u201d completely failed to figure him out? Because they never did anything he had a problem with, probably. It\u2019s interesting how Jesus had all kinds of issues with him, and \u201cgreat saints\u201d 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\u2019t it? If a dog is growling at the woods, you tend to wonder what is it that he\u2019s seeing there that you aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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