First Letter to Enlightened Kundalini Spanish Girl Susu Ro

Dear Susu Ro,  

Yeah, wow!  That was a coincidence.  Meeting you.  Or, well, re-meeting you.   It seems that I had only gotten fascinated with going over the various Kundalini Awakening Videos in July, which is exactly when you released your first Video in English, and I remembered having watched it, but at the time I was reeling from the impression of all the other Videos out there, which are far more, well, manic than yours.  I suppose my impression at the time was that Kundalini would be excitatory, and so I had come to expect that genuine Kundalini Experiences would be accompanied by crazy eyes and a quick hysterical speech patterns.  Thinking back, I am quite amazed and embarrassed for myself for those assumptions.  When I brought your video up again last evening, my impression was entirely different.  You know, I really should have known better.  One of my favorite Historical Personages was Teresa of Avila (“Avila, Spain, Europe” as you would say.  Oh, and, I just looked it up and found that Avila is just only about 20 miles away from Madrid, so that makes you a Saint Teresa “Home Girls”.).  Well, her books and letters are not characterized by hysteria or clipped excited phrasing, and what is written about her in the 3^rd person indicates that as an Administrator she could project a calming influence on agitated people, including those who had been agitated against her personally in some way (I can imagine her walking into a room and saying “Please have a seat.  Should I send for tea?  I’ve been told that you have a problem with me.  Would you like to discuss it?) .  Well, I hate to resort to clichés, but… oh, it even hurts to have to use such a cliché… but ‘I suppose the time wasn’t right’ the first time I watched you.  This time I was able to sort of ‘tune in’.      

But in the intervening months I have put a lot more attention into my own spiritual-physio development.  I can’t say that I have any kind of a Kundalini Experience that would equate to your experience.  My acquaintanceship with Kundalini was acquired some 40 years ago when I was still in University where I got Shaktipat Initiations from a Guru whom the rest of his Devotees never really understood.  He had written a couple of pamphlets, and along with spreading his system of Shaktipat Kundalini, he was mostly a Socialist and didn’t seem to have  much of an intent for setting himself up as one of the other ‘Avatar’ Gurus who were making such a large splash at the time.  But that is the paradigm that the other devotees seemed to be pushing for him.  I would always be saying to the other Initiates (I did not think of myself as a “devotee”) “have you even read his books?”  “Have you talked to him?” “Your Guru and my Guru do not seem to be the same guy”. “He’s a retired entrepreneur from Madras who became an avid advocate for World Socialist and is only spreading this Kundalini Idea because “It Makes People Smarter” and I suppose he wanted to help deflate the rest of India’s humbug and predatory Guru Industry.  He is not just another rip-off ‘Maharishi’ or ‘Rajneesh’, but that seems to be what you all wish for”.  So I was marginalized among all the other followers but the Old Man himself got along with me well enough.   

But his System was mild.  The Kundalini Awakening presented only feelings of internal pressures at the location points of the various chakras, or even by raising the Power over one’s head  to swirl and spin it, well, it would only be a sensation, and not any experience of lights or anything approaching orgasmic intensity.   Now, over the years I found that Lights and a greater Intensity of bodily sensation do accompany my dream experiences with my Kundalini.  The closest I came to some orgasmic intensity was years ago in which I had a dream where the area on my body beneath and in front of my tail bone, between my ‘you know whats’ and my ‘you know what’, the Energy seemed to swirl, and became a bright orange color and the sensation was excruciatingly pleasurable – it was like being sweet but way too sweet at the same time.  Pleasurable but you would want it to stop.  Perhaps if it had kept coming up I would have had an Enlightenment Experience on approximately the same scale as yours, but no. Decades have passed and nothing close to that seismic intensity has occurred since.  

But, what the Old Man said about “Getting Smarter” seems to have panned out.  A pivotal Dream for me was a dream I had concerning “True Discernment”.  This woman in a dream had told me “the Faculty most worthy of cultivation is the Faculty of True Discernment”.  I would suppose that such Discernment would depend in part upon at least some energetic participation in the Ajna Chakra.  My own Faculty for Discernment is certainly not infallible and while it may seem to require a great deal of time and effort for me to arrive at any Truth, when left entirely to my own devices, still, I seem to have developed an intuition for distinguishing between Truth and all the various opportunistic fabrications when I see them arranged in front of me.   Oh, I could even see it professionally, now that I think about it.  Before I had retired, I used to be involved in factory floor level electro-mechanical systems Testing and Maintenance, as well as the testing and maintenance for individual pieces of electrical equipment.  While other engineers and techs never seemed to know what was going on with this stuff, and I was the one that was always saying “No that’s not it. The Problem’s over here”.  And when something would beep or smoke or whatever I would suddenly get some avalanche of understanding concerning the significance of whatever just happened  and I would jump in the air, swing my fist and shout “Yeah!”, and nobody else would seem to understand what just happened and I would have to take five minutes to explain what I saw in a fraction of second.   

I suppose True Discernment eventually helped me with navigating my way through people.  But that has been an evolution.  Just reviewing my History of Dreaming, over the decades I have gone from being mostly a loner in my dreams, or from having one to one interactions with various Dream Characters and Personas to now being where most of my dreams involve social groups involving a lot of discussion and joint group activities.  It is like my own Core Persona is spreading out more which has enhanced my social skills and perceptions.  There is also the fact that I am an Old Man now.   With the decline of sexuality that accompanies the aging process the impulses to objectify women and to see men as rivals greatly declines, making it much easier to be social and less impulsively predatory by nature.    So I believe it might be far easier to be a Nice Old Man then a Nice Young Man.  Heck I’ll take Spiritual Progress any way I can get it, even if it requires wrinkles and a low sodium diet. 

Well, enough about me.  Let’s talk about you, particularly you doing your Sociology Thesis on Western Meditation from a Sociological Perspective.  You will have to send me DOC files of at least your final draft (leovolont@gmail.com) .  I would find it fascinating.  I would wonder how you would approach such a monster of a topic.  I have been often very critical of what I refer to as the “New Age” which would seem to subsume much of what we could call euphemistically ‘Western Meditation’.   Indeed, the ink is still wet on a blog entry that I had used to comment on another lady’s Video in a series of Kundalini Awakening Videos (see leovolont.blogspot.com ).   Her screen name is Soulful Toz, an outstanding young woman who produced a number of very informative  Kundalini related Videos, where perhaps the most memorable was her video regarding the collapse of her ego structure and how it had made her effectively helpless and infantile.  Yes, everyone who speaks regarding the evils of the ego should watch that particular video and realize that we could not make lunch, brush our teeth, go to the toilet or even wipe our butts if it were not for our ego structures, which simply give us bodily awareness and functional executive impulses which every autonomous entity needs simply to coordinate basic life adaptive behaviors.   The problem with ego only arises as the entity determines what exactly its ‘life adaptive behaviors’ are or should be, where the assumptions could be as often more wrong than right.  

So in evaluating Western Meditation I suppose one would have to examine its orientation toward Life Behavior Adaptability.   Spirituality as a whole can go two different ways in its Life Social orientation.  First we have the Activist Charitable Empathetic Social Model for Spirituality.  This is where some Individual’s Life Force seems to expand out into the Greater Community and the Persona Identity of that person’s Ego Structure seems to stretch out to incorporate a Social Organism beyond the previous body boundaries.   But the much more common Spiritual Orientation which is almost thoroughly embraced by the New Age Movement is toward Social Isolation and Cocooning.  This follows in the traditions of Ascetic Monasticism and Hermit Cave Dwelling.  It is interesting to see how the Religious Orders of the Catholic Church often bounced between these two extremes.    

Oh, while I took my B.A. Degree in Philosophy it turns out that the Intellectual Love of My Life has been with History, where I actually piled up more academic credits.  So whenever I studied various Spiritual Movements, it was never without putting them into some Historical Context.  It seems that Altruistic Spirituality is a sign of health in a fresh and flourishing young Civilizations or Social Movements.  Examples of this can be found in the Social Outreach of Christianity, first in the early expansion of the Primitive Church, and then in the expansion of the Catholic Monastic Revolution which created the Social Preconditions for the Civilization that was known at the time as “Christendom” – or what we now refer to as High Medieval Civilization.   It is interesting but Religious Monasticism had actually been a broad political and social reaction to and effective rejection of the Establishment Bishops, a fact which the official Histories of the Catholic Church tend to gloss over.  I myself had converted to Catholicism, but I make it clear to anyone who will listen that there are Two Catholic Churches: the first is the Church of the Religious Orders which follow a Jesus-esque style characterized by Social Spirituality and Moral Responsibility (I see myself as a Religious Orders Catholic of the High Middle Ages… think Bernard of Clairvaux, Vincent Ferrer or Francis of Paola), and the second Catholic Church is the self-admittedly Secular Church of the Bishops which is Paulist in doctrine and evades social and moral responsibility through various doctrines of Salvation and Justification of Sin.  Of course, after the Catholic Church was defeated on the field of battle during the Wars of the Protestant Rebellion, and the Catholic Church institutionalized its Defeat and Surrender at the Council of Trent (circa 1550), much of the independence of the Religious Orders was nullified, and Religious Order Priests were compelled to attend the same Seminaries that indoctrinated the Bishops in all of their Corruptions and Profligacies, teaching both Paul’s Doctrine of Evasion of Moral Responsibility by Faith and the Evasion of Moral Responsibility by Predestined Election (arbitrary Favoritism)  from God.  So nowadays most Religious Orders preach the same Moral Irresponsibility as the Bishops or even the Protestants.   More than once I have told Religious Order Priests whom I have caught red-handed siting Paulist Doctrine to innocent parishioners that they should be ashamed of themselves and that the Founders of their Orders would be slapping their faces or swift kicking them in the ass, which I would also be doing if I were 20 years younger.  They tell me what a Bad Catholic I am and I tell them I am pleased that ‘such as they are’ think so. 

Also, to move on, historically, Islam, during its growth phase was socially activist, characterized by extensive Charities in regards to public health and education.  

It is collapsing and increasingly dysfunctional Civilizations where Spirituality mutates in the direction of insularity and cocooning.  The best example of this is with China’s native Taoism.  If you look at China’s History one sees visible cycling in their Dynasties characterized by vitality and expansion in each of the Dynasties early phases followed by morbidity and insularization prior to collapse but before the reemergence of a fresh dynastic Civilized Restructuring.  Again and again we see how that cycle plays out in regards to rising and falling for the popularity to Taoism.  It is almost like Taoism is a kind of a cancer that Chinese Dynasties contract just before they die.  They call it “The Way”.  Think of it as a Road Sign pointing out over a Cliff. 

Buddhism is effectively much the same as Taoism, though I have to insist that when I read about the Life of Gautama and the Doctrines of Buddhism, it seems to make no consistent sense at all.   It seems full of logical blanks which makes one wonder what the omissions were.    You see, Doctrinal Buddhism is simply too much of the same thing that the Buddha was supposed to have been reacting too, that is, Caste System Brahmanism.  We are supposed to believe that the Buddha believed in the Hocus Pocus of Reincarnation and the Doctrine that Past Life Karma justifies the Rich being Rich as well as certifying that the Poor Classes are being punished by Past Life Karma for having once revolted against the Rich Privileged Castes in prior life times.  If Buddha was in such lock step agreement with the Brahmins, then Buddhism would have had no Revolutionary Impulse behind it and Gautama would have been just one more of thousands of other itinerant mendicants sitting under trees doing nothing simply in order to save energy while slowly starving to death.   So I personally think that Buddhism was hijacked within five minutes after Gautama died of a belly ache (it seems that a devotee wanted to get Buddha’s favorite dessert just right, some sweet diary dish with egg whites, and so she spent too long working on it so it partially spoiled, and so she inadvertently  killed Gautama with salmonella poisoning – a case of murder by good intention).  So all around the World today the various Buddhist Sects and Disciplines basically instruct their adherents regarding various methods and techniques for inserting their thumbs up their asses.  That is not what the Buddha himself taught.  We KNOW what Buddha taught from what he did.  Look at the Story of Buddha.  He had been sitting under that Bodhi Tree for years with his thumbs up his ass when he finally got his foundational Realization  which was basically “what the fuck am I sitting here with my thumbs up my ass for?  Buddha, by every undisputed account, had walked away from Quietist Meditation while every Buddhist today thinks the Teachings point back to sitting underneath the Bodhi Tree.  It would be like somebody using you as an example to go by, but tossing out all of your Post Realization Advice, only to sanctify all your pre-Realizations indiscretions and youthful blunders.  

That brings us to the New Age Movement today, or maybe we should look at from the point of its inception since it hasn’t essentially changed that much along the way.  William James (Professor of Psychology, Harvard University) in his famous lectures “Varieties of Religious Experience”, circa 1905, referred to the New Age before it was even called the New Age and sited other founding individuals, but in looking back myself, the Big Mover and Shaker had been Madame Blavatsky, and perhaps Swami Vivekananda in bringing in to it the Indian elements of Western Spirituality. We can see that the Rise of the New Age had never been entirely popular, that is arising from the inherent spiritual needs and impulses of actual persons, but had been propelled by the Publishing Houses, and the Barnum and Baily style of Geek Show Mass Audience Appeal.  True Spirituality must always have been trumped by Promotional Considerations.  The Big Question was never “Is this Good, Right and True?” but “What’s the Market and who is our Audience?”  Spiritual decisions were being co-opted by predatory capitalists.  

Then, at the same time as the New Age Movement was developing, we had the growing Political Storm on the Horizon which was seen as the collision between the Forces of Communism on one side and the Forces for Anarchy on the other.   While everyone was careful at the time to denounce Anarchistic Bomb Throwers, we can imagine whose side the Business Community was taking.  The Communists would lock down all Property and Means of Production.  But the Anarchists, those nasty villains, would suspend all government regulations.  So the Publishing Houses and the Vaudeville and Lecture House Show circuits, which Sponsored the New Age, circled their wagons against any hint of socialistic collectivist sympathy.   It is interesting to see that while a hundred years ago people were so worried about either Communism on the one hand or Anarchy on the other, that after the Forces of International Communism were squarely defeated with the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, we didn’t hear a peep about the possible rise of Anarchy.  Hmmmm, we can wonder why.  Well, it is because the Anarchists Won!  The Bomb Throwers now rule the World, and they would be the last to complain about it! 

But, yes, Western Spirituality has been culled and throttled so that nearly its entire focus and appeal is towards catering to Individual material needs and desires.  Even Enlightenment is sold as largely a super-sensual experience.  ‘Spiritual Laws’ are invoked  and sited to promote magical Wealth Attraction , and certain affirmations are marketed little differently from Love Potions.  

One wonders how the New Age could even pretend to any credible source materials, but that brings us to the Genius of Madame Blavatsky.  She made appeal to and popularized “the Ancient Wisdom” which harkened back to First Generation Civilization Protocols of Law and Religion which were actually Pre-Moral.  Yes, there was an intuition that Civilization could not flourish side by side with rampant barbarian self-seeking, and so Property and Priesthood Protection Regulations were developed.  And the Masses were controlled with the Human Sacrifice Mythologies, where the finest children in the community would be sacrificed annually so that they supposedly could guard the Seed Grains and Surplus and haunt anybody who would steal or covet them.   So it was that Civilization was maintained by Police and Superstitious Fear.  There was yet no concept of Good or Evil.  There was only the manipulation of impulse.  That was what Blavatsky appealed to.  No, not the Laws and the Police, but the Superstitions with all the Fears and the Promises that could manipulate early Social Behaviors.  

But what Blavatsky had done was to jump over and land before what had been the Revolution that lead to the Second Generation of Civilization, the Morality Based Civilizations.  Persian Zoroastrianism had come down to us from Zarathustra, who had been born in an Age of Oral Transmission and so we have almost nothing that had been written about him within centuries of his Life.  But we know what we got because of him.  Persian Zoroastrianism gave Humanity its first delineation between Good and Evil as well as a clear recommendation for the one and the willful rejection of the other (it is instructive that Zarathustra had no existing words at the time for Good and Evil but had to use the Analogy Metaphorical Terms “Light” and “Darkness”).  One can see the distinction between Pre-Moral and Moral even within the Jewish Scriptures, where the influence from Persian Civilization can be seen in the Jewish writings of the Post-Babylonian Captivity period.  All one needs to do is review the Life and Career of Pre-Captivity Jacob who had been a moral scum bag but had the appeal of being a dashing, clever and successful Moral Scum Bag.  You see, in the Pre-Moral Days one did not have Good Men.  Then there were Heroes.  A Hero was measured only in terms of his success.  So most Heroes had been merely been very gifted murderers.  Notice in the New Age today, there is an appeal to the Market and Audience that delights in the idea of adopting a ‘Warrior’ mentality.  The American Armed Forces are even beginning to address its service members as “Warriors”, as though it is a good thing.  It is actually a renunciation of the Moral Revolution of the Second Generation of Civilization.  The American Military of today is now not as moral as the Armies that served under Cyrus the Great in the 6^th Century B.C.  Thanks New Age. 

The Post Captivity Prophets up to Jesus of Nazareth demonstrate a Moral Awareness and a distinction between Good and Evil, even while still occasionally falling back into the Tribal Confusions of all their Pre-Moral Hebrew Traditions, out of which Modern predatory Pre-Moral Zionism springs.  

Oh, I should mention that at approximately the same time as I guess Zarathustra was advancing his Moral Revolution, Confucius was doing the same thing in China.  Confucius fought against Legalism tooth and nail.  His point was that one can never make enough laws to contain the Vast Imaginations for possible Evils.  So the goal of Civilization is not to Outlaw everything that is Bad, but to encourage Righteousness.  Confucius had only a mixed success and had to be satisfied with a Hegelian Dialectical compromise.  The Legalists won and the lawyers remained, but Confucian Moral Writings survive to this day.  Yes, the Moral Details vary from East to West.   But I am happy enough with Persian Based Western Morality as it is far less authoritarian than Asian Morality.  A Good Young Man or even Young Woman can go far in the Western Model of Moral Society, but in the Asian Model the Meritorious Young seem to be overly stifled by the need to kowtow to the strict requirements of Family Rank and Status.  However, it must be noted that Asian Moral Civilizations can pack much higher population densities before social collapse than the Western models.  But this may simply be because the West never really fully consolidated the Persian Moral Revolution.  While Greek Philosophers had been influenced by the Persian Moral Revolution, that influence was thin compared to the Greek amoral Heroic Ideal which was thinly veiled unabashed Barbarism.  And the Romans were total Amoral dunderheads.   High Medieval Christendom was a return to Moral Civilization but was never left in peace for more than several hundred years at a time and was required again and again to process through new waves of invading Barbarians who unfortunately kept bringing back the notion of the Heroic Barbarian Amoral Ideal. 

Indeed, one can look at the Protestant Rebellion as having been a successful revolt of Teutonic Heroic Barbarism, by the German Barons and the Saxon-Norman Barons of England against the Moral Christendom of the Franks and the Iberians.  And so, effectively, since the Protestant Victory in the 16^th Century the West has effectively been returned to the protocols of the Pre-Moral Barbarian Societies.  Global Civilization, if we can even call it ‘civilization’ probably doesn’t even have the coherency of the First Generation of Law and Superstition Civilizations.  It is now just Every Man for Himself which can maintain only sporadic ad hoc social partnerships based on momentary opportunities for mutual interest and convenience, but which are inherently unstable.  For instance, capitalist enterprises can be ‘heroes’ to the community on one day by employing thousands of workers, but on the very next day when all the workers are fired and the capitalists relocate, well, the former corporate managers and directors have to steer clear of town in order to escape the wrath of the mob.  Indeed, the populous ‘mob’ victory of Donald Trump is simply an instance of such social instability.  Any real Civilization would not have these problems.  

So, yes, all that must give you some idea of what I must feel about Western Spirituality, that I hardly see anything spiritual in it at all.   And Eastern Spirituality is largely dominated by Hindu Vedanta which is again Pre-Moral, and indeed, Vedanta was what Zarathustra and Persian Morality was reacting against in the first place.  

The only Moral Spiritualists that had ever developed any kind of a system were the Sufis which had come out of Persia, but even the Sufis seem to have forgotten their Ancestry and Spiritual Heritage and they all swear up and down that they are Islamic, though Islam itself barely tolerates them and nowadays they are being murdered off by Muslim Fundamentalists with the same abandon that they usually reserve for killing Christians or Jews.  But there are shreds of documentation telling us of what the Sufis had been able to accomplish with their unique Spiritual Vision of Life Force Possibilities.  One interesting thing I read was that the Sufis had set up a Mental Telegraph for communicating across the entire Muslim World, from India to Spain.  It worked by telepathy and was apparently very reliable.  Altruistic Catholic Religious Order Spirituality may have been influenced by Sufis who had run into the Iberian Peninsula and Province to keep ahead of the Fundamentalist Islamic persecutions that increased steeply after during the Decline of Islam’s Golden Age as Eastern Barbarian Tribes exerted more and more influence on Islam’s traditional Centers.  Much of Sufism in the Indian Subcontinent remained intact because the periodic Fundamentalist purges of Sufism could not always project very deeply into India where many Sufis (fakirs) had found refuge and blended in well with the native Hindu mendicants and foot travelers.  Plus the fakirs were famous for their spooky powers and so even the Brahmins were reluctant to antagonize them.  What the Fakirs were better able to do than anybody was a kind of thoroughly sympathetic ability to read minds, but almost by a way of total immersion.  For instance, the Fakir Sai Baba of Shirdi could tell a complete story in the first person, but not his own story but someone in the group, who would understandably be freaked out by it, such as detailed adventures of traveling to Shirdi.  Ramana Maharshi could do the same trick.  Oh, Ramana Maharshi was even able to tell a first person story about a dog that had been kicked around the local village, siting exactly how it had been abused and by whom, which shamed the villagers into giving the poor thing better care. .

So, for the last half year I have been thinking about Spirituality, the Kundalini, and What Good Is It?   You know, what you yourself have been saying on your Videos, that the Standard we should be applying to our Spiritual Ambitions is “What good would this Practice be for Life in General”?   Indeed, your most powerful Message to me was in your short second video which most people skipped over, which gave your insight into  the Holographic Wisdom that we do not have an Individual Enlightenment but are only participating in some Mother Earth spasm of Self Awareness and Enlightenment.  So, yes, in view of these Standards, what good is the Kundalini?  Well, I was thinking that the Kundalini may possibly be Engineered towards Implementing a viable Collective Consciousness if only Enlightened people could delve into that Possibility and figure out how to do it.  I believe the Sufis were half way there, but their traditions have been largely disrupted.  So we can find little help there.  And the Chinese Taoists, the Buddhists, and the Vedantic-Hindu-Yogic Traditions are all ego-centric, Heroic, Pre-Moral examples of how Barbarians should Meditate.   Any Innovation in Spirituality would not only be Revolutionary but would essentially have to be Innovative.  Collective Consciousness Enlightenment would be breaking Virgin Ground.   But I think we already have the Foundation for it.  

I would think the trick would be in using Persona Filtering to get through the Problem of Ineffability.  You know about Ineffability – the overwhelming impression while in High Trance of being outside of any way to construct a Concept – you can’t have ideations without Space, or linear analysis without Time.  Then I thought of the Persian Sufi Invention of Angels.  What exactly is an Angel?  An Angel is an Aspect of the Divine that has been Coalesced into a Personality Structure – a Persona.   Could an Enlightened Person reach into the Vast Life Force and come back with Coherent Persona Packets of Information?  Why not?  I’ve been experimenting in my dreams, trying to intentionally merge with different Personas, but what has happened instead is I have noticed that in some dreams, I find that dream characters would be talking to me differently than if I were the real  ‘me’.  That tells me that I am “other personas” in my dreams sometimes.  I used to argue with dream characters telling them that they must be mistaking me for somebody else, but once I realized what was really happening I have learned to go along with it to see what I could learn from it.  Only in a few dreams do I have a hint that I am Acting and Thinking differently and with a different Inventory of Personal Knowledge.  Apparently the sense of “I-ness” from one persona to the next is too uniform to tell much of a difference.  Also, when my Self finds itself in another Persona, there is a strong sense of still being Leo.  To profit from the experience of being inside another Persona, I would have to be able to somehow relax into the Others’ pool of memories. 

Imagine what a boon it could be for World Civilization if a core of Enlightened People could effectively coordinate, assimilate, and disseminate Knowledge and Experience from person to person simply by leaving Persona Impressions in other people’s minds.  What you had said in one of your Videos about the 140 Million Enlightened Beings – close to 2% of the World Population.  That would be a relatively Dense Communications Hub for a Collective Consciousness, don’t you think?    Well, this is enough of my thinking for the day…. Let me go back and do a edit re-write of this mess and post it up where you can find it.  Talk to you later.