Kundalini True Discernment Vs New Age Faith Vs Hope

I’ve been following the vlog of a young woman who experienced a Kundalini Awakening a few years back, Vanessa Ooms.  Apparently a Kundalini Awakening can be very life-disrupting.  She has gone from an almost ecstatic bubbling exuberance in the beginning to a gloomy sullenness, and her tone is often carping and sharp (hmmmm, not that I am claiming to be any Mr. Sunshine).  For about a year recently she seemed stuck in a negative social context with herself dropping old friends and old friends dropping her or least growing distant and critical.  She seemed to feel persecuted and isolated and struggling to deal with that.   Given her collapsing social circle she had only her own intellectual Inventory to fall back on which she must have felt so insufficient that she reached out for more mental content.  This got her caught up in the New Age spider web.  Her Page is cluttered with the stuff and her most recent vlog was entitled “The Law of Attraction” which she said was inspired by some new generic New Age author she had just found.  She was basically declaring that she was now reduced to being some non-entity’s New Age parrot.   

 

This is all very disappointing for me.  You see, I wanted to believe that the Kundalini would bring some kind of Light of Truth.  But poor young Madame Ooms, even after what describes objectively as an entirely genuine Kundalini Awakening, is simply now circling the drain and is well on the way to becoming totally insignificant.  Of course, such is not the necessary outcome of a Kundalini Awakening.  At roughly the same time another young woman, Soulful Toz, had a Kundalini Awakening.  But her life situation was significantly different. She was with a very wide well educated and well-traveled social circle that gave her plenty of support, even at times when her personality seemed entirely imploded and she could only manage to stare at the walls with her mouth hanging open – for days on end.  It was the Nightmare Worst Case Scenario of Transcending the Ego.   Nothing inside of her was left in charge.  But her friends made her eat.  Her friends brushed her hair, made her brush her teeth, and made her change her cloths once a week whether she needed too or not.  Anyway, her personality, given the exemplary social context she live in, came back brilliantly re-organized.   Rather than stewing in isolation, she traveled the World, and her series of vlogs goes on like a travel log.  One can imagine all the intellectual influences that come her way at this time.  Now Madame Toz is doing extremely well, and my only complaint with her is that she may have become too normalized, and I would wish her to be more of an activist.  So a morose self-isolating paranoia, as per young Madame Oom, is not Kundalini’s necessary outcome.

 

But that still leaves me with my disappointment.  If the Kundalini does not present a Vision of Truth, well, what does it do?  Oh!  I think I once got an answer for that in a dream.   I was in a large field where I used to take walks when I was a child, and this woman who was singing and playing guitar came walking by.  She was extremely coarse, round in all the wrong places, and ugly, but her playing and singing was angelic.   Then a group of young men happened by (it seemed very busy for an isolated grassy field) and they were all pointing and laughing and ridiculing this lady.  That irritated me no end and I turned on them and snapped with a snarl in my voice that they should all shut up and listen and they’d hear the loveliest song they ever heard.  Apparently my response triggered the dream’s denouement.  The dream scene of the Field flashed away and that Lady was now standing very near me, facing me, looking me in the eyes and she said “The Faculty most worth Cultivating is the Faculty of True Discernment”.  Then suddenly I was transported into a moonlit arbor where a very beautiful Goddess Diana, the patron Goddess of the Hunt, was strolling amongst the trees.  Then a proud, arrogant, and undeniably good looking hunter came along and decided to flirt with her by bragging about himself.  He said that he was out hunting but that he was so skilled with the bow and arrow that he felt it was not giving the poor animals a chance.  Without saying a word she pulled a very crooked and malformed arrow out of her quiver and loaded it into her bow.  She pulled back the string, and looked away from where the bow was pointing, even closing her eyes, and let the arrow fly off into a nearby bush.  She then walked over to the bush where we could see the end of the shaft and the feathers sticking out, and she retrieves the arrow, and on the very end was a dead grouse.  She turns towards my Point of Perception and says “Chance? Nothing happens by chance.”

 

Now, this dream, or dreams, but they came as a unified couplet, came after my own Initiations into Kundalini by a few years.  Apparently what the dream was telling me was that the Kundalini brings no positive Truth, but it does enable the capacity to Discern the Truth, and the methodology for exercising and strengthening this capacity for Discernment is the presumption that there is a Truth behind everything that occurs.  Yes, some things are in fact random, but the constant practice of seeking the Meaning in Things will “cultivate the faculty”. 

 

I took that dream to heart and over the years I have found that I did indeed seem to be possessed of the Faculty of True Discernment.  It was not so much that I would ever think of or get some vision of the Truth, but that I would Know the Truth when I saw it or heard it.  But, perhaps more importantly, in the absence of the Truth, I would experience a Doubt Sensation.   Indeed, decades ago I came across what is now an obscure book of Zen Teachings by Huang Po which had several stand out elements which got my attention.  He talked of the importance of the Doubt Sensation – that one arrives at Enlightenment by a practice of clustering and intensifying Doubt, which he describes as a tangible feeling in the forehead – what many people today would take for a headache.    In Kundalini parlance, it is an open Ajna Chakra.   Anyway, what we can take away from Huang Pu is that by short circuiting Doubt by clinging onto a Faith, as a drowning man will clutch at a straw, we are doing exactly the WRONG thing in our pursuit of Enlightenment.  For the Faculty of True Discernment to kick in and work for us, we need to be able to first of all know when certain things are NOT true.   The Discernment of the Truth works in two ways – positive affirmations of the True, and negative denials of the Not True.  There are the rare ‘eureka’ moments when we  come across something and we Discern it to be True, but then there is almost everything else in our social and intellectual discourse which elicits Doubt.  We would be doing away with more than the better half of the Faculty of True Discernment if we shut ourselves off from Doubt.  And often this is what the New Age recommends, claiming that doubt is negativity and we need to be positive about everything.    For instance, our Madame Oom, with her parroting of the old worn out “Law of Attraction” chestnut, she is telling us that by admitting Doubt we are attracting the Doubtful.  But Huang Pu would say she has it all wrong.  One can only arrive at the Truth by first actively rejecting all that is not true, and that is a heck of a lot that needs to be rejected.  To go through the Forest we need to get past all the Trees.

 

Yet when we look at the New Age Intellectual Infrastructure it is largely based on Faith, which is the diametric opposite of Doubt.  And this New Age stress on Faith seems to source directly from Paulist Christianity’s emphasis on Faith that was most distinctively found in Post Reformation Protestant Christian Doctrine.  Here it is appropriate to look more closely at the origins of this concept of Faith.  Paul was the first significant proponent of the Faith Idea and so we need to put Paul into his proper context.   The most important thing to know about Paul was that he was not a follower of Jesus, but he was the founder and head of the Greek Mystery Religious Sect that co-opted the fame of Jesus of Nazareth.  To understand Paul’s disproportionate influence over ‘Christian’ Doctrine one only has to realize that within 40 years of the crucifixion of Jesus, Judea was marched upon by a pincer movement of several Roman Legions and Jerusalem was completely razed.  You see, Jews throughout the Roman Empire had over the previous years gone into insurrection where wild blood lusting Jewish Mobs had committed vast genocides upon various Greek Communities throughout the Empire – millions of victims were killed and even entire cities and regions had been entirely depopulated by the massive slaughters.  So the Roman’s aim in marching on Judea and Jerusalem was to eradicate the threat – to kill all Jews who could not run and escape from out of their reach, out of  Roman jurisdiction.  Well, the True Followers of Jesus were after all Jewish and so they were either all slaughtered or they scattered and fled to Damascus and points Eastward.  That left only the phony derivative Greek Mystery Sect founded by Paul to represent ‘Christianity’ and Jesus to later ages.  Paul is largely thought to have limited his influence to only his Letters which are contained within the New Testament, but all of the 4 Gospels had been either written by avowalled Paulists or they were edited, amended and appended by avowalled Paulists.  Perhaps the only Biblical Record of what Jesus really taught is the Sermon on the Mount, cited by only one of the 4 gospels.   You can find it in Mathew Chapters 5 thru 7.

 

We can acquire a great deal of insight into Paul’s Doctrine if we come to realize one fact, that in all of Paul’s writings he never quoted Jesus even once, and not once did he ever refer to anything Jesus ever said.  He did not even bother to lie and make things up.  He simply turned the discourse away from Jesus and limited Doctrine to what he could make up on the spot.  And it is clear that Paul’s Doctrines change from letter to letter depending most probably one what he believed would most appeal to the target demographic he was addressing at each point in time and place.  

 

 However, when you place Jesus into historical context, we find that he was from out of what then was a recent development in Hebrew Religiosity – Religion for the first time in Human Evolution encompassed a Moral Vision – it was the Invention of the Moral Distinction between Good and Evil.  The Persians had been the avant garde in that respect, with Zarathustra being first to equate God and Religion with Morality (dividing the Polytheistic  Pantheon of various Pre-Moral Gods and Goddesses into two camps – the Angels on the Good Side of Light, and the Demons on the Evil Side of Darkness.  Incidentally, the Hindu Pantheon got really trashed, whereby the Gods of Hinduism show up as the Devils of Zoroastrianism).   This Persian Zoroastrianism had a profound influence on the Hebrews.  Adam and Eve, the Garden, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil are all straight out of Persia.     Then recent to the time of Jesus himself we have in Hebraic Tradition the actual first use of the term “Messiah” to refer to the Persian King, Cyrus the Great, the first Righteous King (and I hope not the last).   Jesus was greatly impacted by this Evolution toward Morality.  So we can see in his Sermon on the Mount a very challenging demand for the highest moral standards, in both conduct (that had previously been covered by the Law) but also in regards to thought and disposition.  Morality had to be all pervading.  The Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus spoke of was to be reserved only for those who were worthy of entering it – the Righteous.  If one looks exclusively at the actual Teachings of Jesus, there is no ‘Salvation’.  Sinners would not be allowed into any Heaven of Light and Goodness because just their presence would pollute and darken it and it would no longer be much of a Heaven of Light and Goodness.  Wherever Sinners go, that is by prima facie logic what we would more correctly refer to as Hell.  It can be compared to what Groucho Marx said about Country Clubs, that he would not wish to belong to one that would take himself as a member.   So if Heaven is full of Sinners, well, no thank you.   But the vast majority of Christians don’t seem to have a problem with it.   

 

Perhaps we should make it more clear exactly what Paul wanted his people to have Faith in.  To keep it short, what Paul did was to take the Moral Religious Revolution of Hebrew-Persian origin and transport it to Greece where they reacted to it by stripping out all of the moral requirements, and returned everything to the Pre-Moral Religious Mystery formulas familiar to the Greeks where the Ultimate Religious Experience was mostly about getting really drunk at orgies.  Sins were forgiven, cancelling out the need for Morality, and Eternal Life attained by the easy formula of getting baptized (and Secular Catholics, outside of the Religious Orders of Monks and Nuns, likewise believe that Salvation comes by simply participating in the Sacraments).  In one of Paul’s secondary doctrines, Salvation and Eternal like could also be obtained by avowalling the belief in Jesus as Divine and therefore able to remit sins.  It is interesting when we consider that they found it necessary to make Jesus equal to God Almighty because it suggests that it was understood that God Himself would never consent to any idea smacking of Free and Condoned Sin.  Also notice that people were only required to make the declaration of faith, that is, they only had to say the words.  No one then ever expected anybody to truly believe such nonsense.  Faith and Belief are two different animals.  It was simply a Magic Formula that appealed to the Greeks then and still has a massive appeal today.  It seems that next to nobody bothers to ponder the Moral Implications involved with telling people it is a Core Religious Principle that they are not held to the slightest Moral Responsibility.   There is even the Doctrine of Original Sin, which we can’t blame on Paul himself, but on his greatest advocate, the satanically clever ‘Saint’ Augustine.  The Doctrine of Original Sin sets forth the notion that people are not only expected to sin, but that sin is inevitable, and that the only Unforgivable Sin is to maintain the possibility that a man might be able to refrain from sin by using will power and a pretense to moral fortitude.   Augustine had invented the Doctrine of Original Sin in order to prosecute a rival Bishop, Pelagius, whose crime was to suggest that Old Men, who know when the impetuous flames of their youthful inclinations have died down somewhat, should make the effort to live righteously.   What we need to carry away from this tale, is that according to Modern Christian Doctrine and Beliefs, Pelagius would still be wrong.  We should therefore all be frightened of our Christian friends and neighbors.  The more religious they are the more we should depend upon them to stop at nothing, and to sin against God and Man as though they thought it some kind of sacred duty – to absolutely prove their faith in Christ’s infinite capacity for  forgiveness (and  by implication, God Almighty’s total surrender of His Heaven to the Pall of Evil).    My only conclusion would be that Paul was the Anti-Christ and Augustine his right hand man, or I should say left.  

 

But for our present purposes we need to appreciate why Paul created this notion of Faith in the first place.  You see, Paul had his own ideas about the Religion that he wanted to sell and its primary requirement was that it would have to be both attractive, and easy.  He must have felt that Jesus with his strict moral requirements was chasing away too large a share of the Market.  However, this was a cosmopolitan period and region that Paul lived and dealt in, and so his target audience was likely to have heard about what Jesus actually said, did, and about what the True Apostles of Jesus were teaching and able to accomplish.  They probably heard a lot about the idea of the Holy Spirit and its attributes.  So Paul’s devotees were probably given to complaining that Paul’s Church was exhibiting none of the known attributes of the Holy Spirit.   Paul responded in two ways, first, he redefined the Holy Spirit to mean that it was only a kind of a feel good sensation and that it should encourage them toward the normal social virtues, especially in regards to being open to giving freely to others (particularly to himself), and secondly he blamed the people themselves for their not having the Holy Spirit (and here he meant the real Holy Spirit – the Miraculous Holy Spirit that they had heard so much talk about).  It was because they lacked Faith.  The Paulists even rewrote much of the gospels so they could put the same words into the mouth of Jesus.  This created an obvious contextual contradiction.  We are presented with Christ’s ability to take thousands of people totally by surprise with inexplicable Miracles, and then almost simultaneously we are asked to believe that Jesus insisted that none of these miracles would have been in the least bit possible unless every one of those thousands of people had absolute diamond pure Faith that the ‘Miracles’ had been entirely possible all along.  It’s a contradiction, right?  A True Miracle does not happen BECAUSE of Faith.  A True Miracle happens Despite Doubt.   Paul’s Doctrine of Faith can then be seen as a reduction to the dynamic of  “Blaming the Victim”.   We can imagine Paul telling his clients “It only seems like I am taking all of your money for nothing but you would have plenty of results except that you do not have enough Faith”.   But Jesus would have been too busy feeding the masses with multiplied fishes and loaves, healing the lame, cleaning the lepers and giving sight to the blind.  Even Paul’s devout followers cannot site even one Miracle that they can attribute to Paul.  By current Vatican Policies regarding the issuing of Sainthood Status, Paul would be rejected at the very first screening.  Not only did he not have any miracles under his belt, but he was known to be nasty, ill-humored, violent, bad tempered, greedy and mendacious, which were all attributes widely accepted as natural enough in the Greek World in which he flourished, but not what we would nowadays think characteristic of a Saint.  European Catholic Civilization had discerned this ‘truth’ about Paul and therefore Paulist influence declined and the influence of the Moral Religious Order ascended.  But the Protestant Rebellion brought Paulism back to its old zenith.  Protestants are supposed to read their Bibles, and you would think they would notice what a prick Paul is.   

 

That brings us to the New Age. Firstly, the “New Age” is a serious misnomer. The origins of what we now refer to as the New Age Philosophy and Spirituality source out of the seminal writings of Madame Blavatsky and Anne Bessant (who, taken in the Artistic and Literary sense, wrote at levels quantums above the 4^th grade level New Age pulp being turned out nowadays.  You know, if people want to read that New Age crap, they might as well read the highest quality crap that’s available, and you can’t find better than Blavatsky and Bessant).  Both Blavatsky’s and Bessant’s Ancient Wisdoms jump back to before the Evolutionary Leap of Moral Consciousness arose into Human Consciousness.  Apparently the 5^th Century B.C. was not Ancient enough for either of them, are perhaps in deliberate reaction against the strict Moral Standards of the Victorian Era, their snub of the basic concepts of Good and Evil was intentional.   So the New Age Movement grew out of Pre-Moralism and has been stuck there ever since.  We can see this in what so often are the New Age ‘crowd pleaser concepts and sales pitches’ – “Attract Wealth” which translates to encouraging predatory greed and mendacity in Business People, and “Attract Relationships” which is code for how to become a successful sexual predator. The New Age also has a very dark side with those who attempt to amass Personal Power with the deliberate and focused intent on ‘Weaponizing’ it, through spell casting, hexes and curses. One of the biggest names in 20^th Century New Age Thought was Carlos Castaneda who basically issued manuals for sorcery. Compared to that, the Pre-Moral Greek Religious Ideal of ‘getting really drunk at orgies’, is relatively benign and harmless. The New Age Doctrines are in many ways a return to pure Tooth and Claw.  It’s unfortunate that so many people who find themselves with newly Awakened Kundalini use the New Age as their first stop for ‘grounding’ themselves.  Hmmmm, ‘Grounding themselves”… strange expression.  They should prefer to take wing and Fly.  

 

 Anyway, I had been often curious about what happens at New Age Seminars… you know, how New Age authors write books and then go on book signing tours, and at each whistle stop, they contract with various local hotels or resorts to conduct Weekend Seminars, which are the real money makers for those with New Age Business Plans.   So I went to a few of these Seminars and time and time again the same issue would come up with people saying in effect “Your stupid ideas don’t work. I think you are just a big Rip Off”.  The answer back would always be along the lines of “it’s all your own fault you stupid idiots.  You just need Faith.  Look at me!  It works great for me.  I got plenty of money (well, plenty of other people’s money.  Hmmmm, well even that must be a lie, because nobody with a lot of money would be on the road, hustling suckers and living out of a suitcase)”.  Oh, by the way, these Seminars can really get bazaar.  I went to one Seminar on Channeling and found out the big secret to channeling – that the Inspiration comes when you just start Making Stuff Up as you go along.   So the New Age Secret to Channeling Inspired Truth is to be a well-practiced Liar… well that may be a bit harsh.  Let’s use a euphony and call it ‘Story Telling’.  But it was well worth my 300 bucks to be made privy to that particular Truth regarding foundational New Age Philosophy.

 

Anyway, now let’s take a look at the Law of Attraction.  When you think about what that must mean you get the idea that the Universe is Structured entirely around each Individual, and it is the Attitude and Expectations of each Individual that pulls all of the Universal Strings.  Well, the contradiction there is that not EVERYBODY can be the single most central point of the Universe.   In all of the Moral Mystical Religious Spiritual Traditions we have the notion of opening up to the Higher Truth and to a Collective Understanding which is transcendental to the Individual Self.  We are expected to get beyond  Ego-Centric notions.   I was once told in a visionary dream that “Birth is but an illusion and Christ is the Life in All Things”.  As far as the Higher Truth is concerned THERE ARE NO INDIVIDUALS.  There is only One Great Life Force.   In that sense we can see that the Doctrine of Law of Attraction is an appeal to our delusional sense of separateness.  Basically it appeals to the animal impulse for seeking rewards and gratifications.  If we are looking for the Next Big Evolutionary Step for Humanity, we won’t find it in the impulse for instant self-gratification.  Even my house cats are more evolved than that.   But perhaps young Madame Ooms, who seems to have grown bitter and suspicious of her social circle, and who undoubtedly has suffered a lot because of it, is due some simple animal satisfactions at this point just so she can keep up the will to continue going forward.  But I certainly hope she doesn’t get stuck at that level.  And I would hope that the Kundalini’s Doubt Sensation will be too overwhelming for her to be able to override with fabricated and artificial notions Faith in all that New Age hocus pocus and snake oil promises.  I think that will be so.  In that recent vlog she freely acknowledged how silly and cliché she must have sounded.  Yeah! That was her Doubt Sensation talking loud and clear.       

 

Now let us take a look at the concept of Hope.  A lot of people think they require Faith because they see it as a Positive Idea, despite the real world fact that Faith is always cited in the Negative, in the sense that Lack of Faith is why we never get anything we want.   Faith is Supposed to Get us Everything, but the catch there is that it just so happens that nobody ever has quite enough of it.  For instance, of the millions of people who have dropped hundreds or even thousands of dollars on New Age clap trap, we can point to no success story beyond the ordinary – people who fish every day will eventually catch a fish; people who practice at being convincing liars and swindlers will eventually get good at deceiving people and make a place for themselves with the Local Chamber of Commerce;  and people who constantly  troll the clubs until closing time will eventually get laid and find the romance they had been seeking.  If people want anything more than that ordinary kind of stuff, Faith is not how they will get it but the purported lack of faith will be sited as the reason why they don’t.   This applies especially in regards to people’s honest and worthy desire for Enlightenment.  It has often been mentioned by many of those who belonged to vast Religious Spiritual Organization run by this or that New Age Guru, that in the decades in which they were actively involved, they never met a single Member or Devotee who attained Enlightenment… and the more they got to see of their Gurus, the less they seemed to be as Enlightened as they claimed to be.   The conclusion is obvious.  All that Faith multiplied by millions was good for nothing. 

 

But don’t we need something positive in our lives.  Well, yes.  Hope. Nobody will ever throw hope back in your face as an accusation, as they do with faith. Faith makes promises it can't keep.  Hope is above all that.  Hope is the quintessential life affirming attitude.  Hope is never giving up.  Hope is believing that we will always find a way.  Hope is crawling blind through a smoke filled burning house and reaching up to feel for a door handles.  Hope is stopping to help somebody out of a free-fire machine gun kill zone, and then, once clear, going back to help somebody else.  Hope is in advancing an Idea for an entire lifetime and not getting anywhere with it but still believing that long after you’re dead, somebody else will be carry on with your same Idea or something even Better… that the Idea, or I should say ‘Ideal’, has a Life of Its Own.  So Faith just trips us all up and ends up betraying our trust in it.  What we really want and what we really need is for everybody to Hope for the Best.            

America Pushing Pakistan to Fight the Taliban

It seems that America under Trump’s “America First” Regime is endeavoring to open up an expanded offensive in Afghanistan against the Taliban.   It is one of Trump’s many contradictions, but we can see it as a result of his fetish to be surrounded by Generals – apparently the Generals wouldn’t consent to play along unless Trump allowed them some of their own preferred toys, and these old Generals love war.  You see, for the Generals, actually taking the trenches themselves is only some distortedly nostalgic memory pumped up by ‘survivor’s bias’, but if you could ask the Service Members who got killed fighting, they probably wouldn’t think much of it at all.    So, anyway, Trump gave his Generals Afghanistan to play with.   But like petulant children, the Generals also demanded that they should Win (yes, you would think they would recognize that as being their own responsibility, or, better yet, to expect from them more maturity as Warriors – that they be able to appreciate a good War, win or lose, that a True Warrior’s satisfaction is in having a Good Fight, not necessarily in winning it, and that History still remembers certain Crusaders who gloried in having fought well against Saladin even though they got their asses kicked).  Well, getting back on topic, the Americans, even when they had 200,000 boots on the ground (is it 2 boots per soldier?), couldn’t corner the Taliban into any decisive Conventional Battle because they couldn’t or wouldn’t follow the Taliban into Afghanistan’s rugged hills and mountains, where one feisty mule is worth a thousand battle tanks.  But that is their own fault, or the fault of America’s Political Oversight, that they did not see from the start that the might of the America’s Military Fighting Establishment was unequal to uneven ground, and so they should never have gone in there in the first place.  But the way ‘Assigning Blame’ works is one is always supposed to point at something or somebody besides one’s self.   So when the Generals wish to cry and make excuses for their quagmire helplessness, they point to the Pakistan Frontier and say that it is Pakistan’s fault for not doing enough to close their border against the Taliban.

 

But this is just an excuse – it is just words used as smoke and mirrors.  One only needs to look at any survey relief map of the Pakistan Frontier Border with Afghanistan.  It’s the same kind of hills and mountains that the Americans have not been able to secure within Afghanistan.  There’re a few roads but a million goat tracks.  And Warriors, Bandits and Goat Herders have been digging protective caves into those hills and mountains since before Alexander… heck, Adam’s Uncle probably dug a cave or two.   Also it is well to point out that when America had 200,000 boots on the ground (is it two boots per soldier?) they couldn’t close off the Pakistan Border from their own side of it.  So apparently the American Generals wish that the Nation of Pakistan should commit more troops to the region then the Americans themselves were ever willing to send.  But why should they?  The Afghan War has always been just an American Adventure designed exclusively for America’s profit (wasn’t their some idea for a Pipeline at one time, before the War became simply a matter of the American Generals trying to save face and salvage a Win so their old War Colleges wouldn’t remember them as no account losers and design 300-level courses on how to be exactly not like them).   Also, I believe that I read somewhere that the largest part of the Pakistanis Military are of the same ancient tribal affiliation as the Taliban and share the same patois, so to speak.  So it is doubtful that they would fight even if ordered to.  Now, yes, the Pakistan Military does indeed go up against the Taliban when it commits some crazy fanatical atrocity against some instance of modern secular culture and economy (such as terrorizing schools for girls – schools which the Fanatics hate because they encourage girls who will become women who will become wives to go off to work where their bosses will inevitably sexually harass, assault and then rape them.  The way they see it is that the Man is only Husband at Home, while the Boss is the Husband at Work… which is the same way American men used to see it, if we take the time to remember that far back.   It is an argument that we must concede some credence to, in view of current American revelations concerning the sexual abuse of educated girls and women in its own workforce.  And, by the way, anybody who looks at the data regarding wage trends will see that an increase in female participation in the workplace leads inevitably to a decline in general wages.  For instance, we can see in America that before women entered the workforce in mass, one man could typically support an entire household.   But now it takes two paychecks to support a household.  So, in effect, Women, for the sake of their ‘freedom’, sold themselves into wage slavery and families as a whole are not the better off for it, and while I can appreciate that the original hope women had was to be able to become independent and not totally reliant upon having to get married… marriage being a kind of institutionalized and euphemized prostitution … well, it did not work out exactly as they planned, did it?  Their bid for freedom simply turned into double duty.  So one can perhaps understand the reluctance of other peoples to follow enthusiastically and with no reservations into America’s Political Social and Economic footsteps.   But Crazy Atrocities can never be tolerated – such as murdering little girls in order to save them from what? – ‘fates worse than death’?   But as long as the Taliban inside Pakistan keep the peace and do not provoke showdowns with the Pakistan Government, then Pakistan has no very compelling interest in supporting America’s Military Adventurism.

 

Of course America could try to make it in Pakistan’s interest to side against the Taliban.  You see, we can look back into History and see why Military Forces have been used to subjugate frontier regions.  It is because Tribes, Cities, Nations or Empires wished to exploit these regions for economic development, settlements for their expanding populations, or to secure trade routes against barbarian chaos and banditry.  All of that must start with Economic Investment.  The Military will not get involved until some Program for Economic Development is put at risk.  For instance, America’s pushing its indigenous Peoples into marginalization was caused by almost purely economic considerations, and all of the militarism and cavalry charges were simply the subsequent effects of the forces of financial interest.  We can see the same kind of development in the expansion of the Roman Empire, where the Legions were used only as a means of effectively ‘smoothing the ground’ for economic development – while the Legions marched for Glory, they were sent for Profit.  So, if America was really serious about bringing in Pakistan as a partner, then America would have to develop and pay for some plan of economic development for all those barren hills and mountains along the Pakistanis Frontier with Afghanistan.  Who knows, maybe they could bring back the Soma Plant and use those Hills for mass cultivation.  But it would take a lot of investment and the money would have to be spread around sufficiently throughout Pakistan’s population in order to give the people themselves a compelling interest in fighting to pacify its frontier region.

 

But while America used to provide Foreign Aid Investments on a large scale, well, that was only during the Cold War which in a certain sense was a kind of Bidding War between America and the Soviet Union for the hearts, minds and Special Interests of the rest of the World.  But with the collapse of the Soviet Union, America no longer had a reason for pretending to be the Good Guy against the Soviet Villain, and so all that Foreign Aid was cut off as no longer necessary, and America could permit itself to relax its frozen smile and let its hair down and act wholeheartedly like the predatory Capitalists that they in fact always had been.   Of course, China is now taking over the World with its own Foreign Aid Investments, and it is telling us something about America’s boast about Democratic and Free Capitalist Superiority that the Americans  can’t even pretend to be able to keep pace with China’s level of Investment in various developing countries and continents, but instead retreats back into its own borders, builds walls, and cries that it must pinch every penny, despoiling and impoverishing its own citizens and allowing its schools, roads, rails and bridges to crumble and fall down and cave in  from neglect, all in order to become “Great Again”.       

 

So America is caught in a contradiction with Afghanistan and Pakistan.   America’s retreat from the World is inconsistent with the large economic investments it would require to develop that entire region, which is what it would take to make it actually worth fighting over.  Yes, America in the past had tried various cheap shortcuts to imposing its power, such as sponsoring Dictators, where instead of using widespread investment to get an entire population on board with a comprehensive program for Economic Development; they would simply pay off one Thug War Lord who would be supposed to use his Army for purely American interests.  But history shows us that such dictators have a difficult time maintaining their power against popular opinion, political opposition and even open rebellion, and often enough they eventually find it necessary for their survival to stand up against and oppose America.   And I believe that Pakistan has now reached enough of a Political Consensus and level of Accommodations between its various interests and demographics that America can simply no longer short change them and impose some nickel and dime Dictator on the cheap.   Pakistan is now big enough, important enough, and developed enough that it is largely Dictator Proof (well, as long as it can continue its own economic development, which would be significantly helped along if it could work in greater partnership with India.  You know, if France and England are able to get along… or maybe I should say France and Germany, then we can perhaps imagine a time when Pakistan and India will come to see that they have more to gain by being friends than by being enemies.  Oh, a Chinese Partnership with Pakistan, though possible, would not be as desirable as close ties with India.  The Pakistanis and the Indians are after all historically the Same People who in some momentary fit of passion allowed themselves to be separated by Religion.  Perhaps the chief advantage in a Pakistan-India rapprochement is that both Pakistan and India are well versed in what has turned into the New Lingua Franca, English, while China holds out with its primitively ideographic language and remains largely unintelligible to the rest of the World, and likely even unintelligible to itself.  You see, reading and writing Chinese is very difficult to learn even at the elementary level, even for the Chinese, and the untold secret regarding China’s chronic problems with Quality Control is that the greater part of its Workforce couldn’t possibly be literate enough to know every fine detail that would be involved with Quality Production.  Imagine Western Production Engineers who didn’t quite know what any of the big words meant, and a workforce who had to either guess or depend upon verbal instructions at every turn.  That would be China.  So Pakistan would be better matched with India just by virtue of being able to talk to one another and because their workers and engineers can be relied upon to understand written instructions.  Indeed I pray for the day when India and Pakistan become the World’s Manufacturers, and displace all that cheap low quality Made In China crap.   The Indian Subcontinent is both more literate and I believe they have a more solid and reliable moral center than the Chinese who have had scandals involving the Production and Sales of poison Baby Milk and poison Pet Food, which again, may have only been Quality Issues because nobody in these Chinese Factories can really read Chinese and they got their ingredients all mixed up… but how can we be sure that such poisonings were simply not moral lapses involving trying to substitute cheap ingredients for dear ones, and the perpetrators only defense would be that they didn’t think anybody would be hurt “that bad”.  Then there is the hugely significant problem with China’s Pro-Han Racism.   It is no big secret that China almost openly expects the entire World to bow down and kiss its butt.   They don’t make a lot of noise about their Racial Superiority, but this is only because they already believe that most of the World either assumes all of that already, or will have little choice but to acknowledge that ‘truth’ when it becomes the de facto condition of a Chinese dominated planet.    So it goes without saying that China would not be able to see Pakistan as an equal partner, but India and Pakistan would be two Brothers that just happen to disagree about Religion, and, historically speaking, that is not an insuperable problem).  

 

Oh, but there is one crazy insane possibility open to America.  America could issue Pakistan an Ultimatum saying that America will go to War against Pakistan if Pakistan does not go to War against the Taliban.  This would actually be a repeat of how America started its War against the Taliban in the first place.  You remember, America gave the Taliban a similar ultimatum demanding that they go to War against the Al Qaeda, that is, to stop giving them ‘sanctuary’.   We know how reasonable that demand was.  America is still chasing Al Qaeda around after much more than a decade, but somehow America back in 2001 thought the Taliban could go out and simply take 10 or 15 minutes to arrest all of Al Qaeda and throw them in jail.  But this example of bone-headedness does sort of prove how simple minded America can be, or pretend to be, even without short-sighted Trump or his tunnel-visioned Generals at the helm.   

 

Or America could decide to open up its own fighting and bombing campaigns within Pakistan’s borders, expecting Pakistan to keep back and acquiesce to it.  The problem there is that while the Taliban now only have to cross the Border Line to arrive at safety, if America were to bomb those present sanctuaries, the Taliban would just move further into Pakistan, and all the way to Islamabad if need be.  Sooner or later America would insist that the Pakistan Government take sides.  And the most basic problem with siding with the Americans is that everyone but the Americans understands that America will eventually tuck tail and go home, and when they do nobody has any doubts that the Taliban will be able to regain control of the Afghan Government.   You see, the Taliban demonstrated  in their last Civil War that they can defeat all the other tribes put together, assuming that they made some strategic alliances with some of the peripheral Tribes.   And even with American Support, the Non-Taliban Elements in Afghanistan have been unable to subdue the Taliban.  Or perhaps while they may hate the Taliban, they do not hate them to the extent where they would be willing to commit treason against their Nation by selling it out to the United States in order to gain some momentary advantage.  Indeed, I wonder that the present Regime of Traitors who run things in Kabul don’t fight much harder, because if they can’t win while America is actively engaged in helping them, then they surely won’t stand a chance when American inevitably leaves, and then the Taliban would have every conceivable right and justification in hanging all them all for treason.  Indeed, those fighting in the Puppet Regime’s Afghan Army right now are virtually Dead Men Walking.  Their only chance at mitigating their crimes would be to stage a Pro-Taliban Insurrection before the American’s leave.   This should be a warning to the poor American Service Men stationed in Afghanistan to watch their backs and get ready for the modern version of the Delhi Mutiny of 1857. 

 

So Pakistan has little interest in fighting the Taliban, since  in what may be the very near future the Taliban will rule Afghanistan, and the Pakistanis would be crazy to declare war now on those who will soon be their neighbors as well as having always been their Tribal Kinsmen.  And we may also assume that while Pakistan would consider an American Declaration of War against them as being catastrophic, on the par with a tremendously destructive natural disaster, still everyone realizes that America has no staying power, and in order to protect their lasting Sovereignty and national self respect they would be willing to weather any American Storm.  

 

Besides, Pakistan is a Nuclear Power.  Oh, and I wonder that everybody is so worried about Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.  Wouldn’t it be easy enough to send nuclear bombs to America in shipping containers?   One only has to pay the same bribes to the same Customs Officials saying the container contain the same contraband heroin as usual.  Now that I think about it, America is probably already dotted with Chinese and Russian nuclear weapons in various urban storage units or private homes that are primed and ready to go at the push of a button.  I suppose that is why America now finds it so urgent to immediately suspend its principles regarding Freedom of Navigation in order to blockade North Korea and interdict all of its shipping.  All North Korea would have to do is get one shipping container out and mixed into the International Shell Game of tens of thousands of shipping containers and then it could come in to any American Port from any other Port in the World.  So yes, America needs to be nice and polite to any and all of the World’s Nuclear Powers, whether they have missiles, airplanes, submarines or simply just a shipping container and a big first class stamp.  I suppose somebody should tell Trump of the danger, but they are afraid he might shut down all America’s Ports… or build sea walls around them.     

 

But, getting back on topic for my summation, we must all wonder why the American Generals would even suggest the idea of dragging Pakistan into the Afghan fray.  Maybe it’s a problem where these older Generals who have been heavy drinkers their entire careers are now marginally demented, but they still have too many Stars on their lapels for younger less brain dead officers to argue sense to them without fear of being disciplined for insubordination.   Or it could be a case involving the American Generals’ unexamined assumption that they never lose Wars, and this even after having lost, or at least having failed to ‘win good enough’, every war they fought since World War II.  Well, in any case somebody needs to tell Trump that there are significantly sensible overriding reasons why it is wise to keep Generals under Political and State oversight and control.  Wars should only be fought for Political and State reasons, and not so chronically alcoholic and semi-senile Generals can put another notch on their pistol grips.    Trump needs to put his toy soldiers back in their 5 sided box and bring back career government service people to do the jobs that they were educated for, and have experience with, and have a fairly long tradition of doing well.   While Government Service People may not provoke and win many Wars, perhaps we could count on them better to not Lose the Peace.                               

Kundalini: Tower and Flower Your Power

I was watching one of my favorite YouTube channels, Soul Toz, who’s been vlogging about her Kundalini Awakening for about the last 3 or 4 years, and now, quite recently she has been saying that her condition has quite stabilized to what seems to be a new ‘normal’.  She had been accustomed to a lot of tumultuous emotional and physical upheavals; rollercoastering a ridgeline of highs and lows, and her recent leveling off took her quite by surprise.  She was puzzled by it at first but has come to now accept it as a positive development – a kind of plateau before a vaster more significant step, whatever that is to be, and she was not at all sure herself what she might expect.  She calls this impending development the “5D”.  I had to google it.  The term seems to refer vaguely to what we could understand as Spirituality’s Next Big Thing.   I would refer to it more specifically as the Collective Consciousness, where people will go from I-consciousness to We-consciousness, but that is just my opinion and I haven’t heard very many other people suggesting anything along similar lines.  Most New Age Spiritualists today are still circling around with the prevailing philosophies of over hundred years ago – the very philosophies that brought us the Great Wars – the philosophies of the likes of Nietzsche who saw the Evolutionary Spiritual Process in terms of its creating individual Supermen and Women.  I would tend to see that as a step backwards, wouldn’t you?   The World today is in no way lacking of individuals who not only assert their own individual superiorities, mostly in the material sense, but go a long way toward imposing them on all the rest of us.  For a few select individuals to become Masters, the rest of us must all become Slaves, no?   But a Collective Consciousness would raise us up all together.

 

But that is itself vague theorizing.  The practical issue in regards to Soulful Toz’s newfound condition of normalcy, is whether she is still, or perhaps ever was, in control of her Kundalini’s movements.  Perhaps all of her Kundalini Movements were simply acting upon her, and she was more or less the passive recipient.  Of course I would acknowledge the strong possibility that the Kundalini has its own inherent Wisdom, while also taking note that Kundalini Awakenings can be catastrophic for some people.   Anyway, I would like to ask Madame Toz if she can control any of it, but she has so many subscribers (it’s now in the thousands.  She will soon catch up to the Kitten Lady) that I would doubt I could catch her attention.  Maybe somebody will mention this blog to her.

 

Now about the possibility that a person might be able to control his own Kundalini Energies.   I myself was initiated into a little heard about Kundalini Yoga system decades ago.  A guru from India, whom I will refer to as the Old Guy and won’t mention the name of his system because he died some years back and I have no idea whom it was who may have swopped in and usurped the Property Rights to his System, and so I am a bit afraid of getting sued for copyright infringement or whatever from some chiseling conniving greedy scheming New Age Predator (who is so used to being called a Master that he has begun to believe it himself).   Anyway, the System consisted basically of awakening the Kundalini using touch (Shaktipat), which is actual common to a number of Systems that I know about, and probably goes back far enough to be considered common domain, but that wouldn’t stop some lawyers from threatening to sue and demanding a settlement offer to make the problem go away (the only Legal Black Mail allowed nowadays is, well “Legal” Black Mail, committed by lawyers under the noses of Judges who forget the Dignity and Responsibility of the Robes they wear and only remember that when they were themselves Lawyers that they would lie and swindle in the same manner, and so it must therefore be entirely upright and ethical).    But, back on topic, one of the things I noticed even before my initiations was that I would feel a pressure sensation at the location of my Ajna Center whenever I was around the Old Guy or some of his Initiates (the Cool Ones).  I guess the Kundalini has a kind of a vibratory resonance that can reach out well beyond the skin, so that other people can sometimes ‘catch the buzz’, if they happen to be tuned in close enough to it.

 

His System was not a hundred percent reliable – not even close.  I was quite the activist back then in my younger days and was able to bring a veritable busload of prospective initiates to his door.  His followers at the time tried to do some ‘Gatekeeping” and talked of the usual ‘donations’ but the Old Guy waved the fees, citing an atypical ‘student discount’ that I had suggested to him, which would be whatever the kids could afford to part with which wouldn’t be much.  So there were about 20 New Initiates whom I was in contact with.  Most didn’t feel anything with their Initiation, and some only developed headaches.  The Success Rate seemed to hover at around 15%, that is, people who would describe a consistent pressure at the location of their Ajna Center, and then subsequently the at Tail Bone Center and then the Crown Chakra, as the Initiations progressed from week to week.   Yes, now that I think about it and remember back, one could strengthen the sense of pressure by focusing attention on these particular chakras, but moving the energy around generally did not seem to be on the menu at the time.

 

But the Old Guy eventually had a plane to catch.  He was not officially On World Tour in those days, but he would visit his Old Initiates who had emigrated from India to other parts of the World, and use those social opportunities to advance his Kundalini Yoga System.   But he would return in the next year, and I would become eligible for the Universal Consciousness Initiation.  Wow! Right?  Well, the year came and I sat for the Initiation.  Oh, I need to mention one of the Old Guy’s tricks, and that was not to give out any descriptions of what exactly the Initiations would be like.  But after the Initiation he would ask what the Experience had been like for the New Initiate.  You see, this procedure would be effective at discerning people who were Placebo Effected or subject to Suggestion or who had received nothing but wished to be polite and pretend they did.  Only people who experienced an effective Initiation could describe something close to what the Initiation was actually designed to deliver.   So I sat for the Universal Consciousness Initiation and the Old Guy did whatever it was he did for that one, which I didn’t bother to remember because I got nothing from it.  So when he asked me what I experienced I told him “Well, I got the other Initiations good enough, but I guess this is the One that got away”, and just sort of shrugged my shoulders.  I suppose the Old Guy was struck by my honesty, as I would guess it is customary to ‘make up something’ so you don’t leave the Old Guy feeling like he failed.  But I read his little books.  This guy was basically a science based rationalist and a mature adult, and so he would both want and expect the truth, at least from another science based rational individual (or as close to that as I could manage and still be a young man at the same time).   So the Old Guy thought for a moment and then gave me what was really my most significant Initiation.  He said, “Hmmmm, well I don’t want you to go away with nothing and so let me teach you a trick I learned.  It is the Key to moving the Kundalini around your body.  Wiggle your head around and locate the swivel point at the top of your spine at the base of your brain.  Now energize your Ajna Chakra and bring the Energy back along the top of your pallet to that Swivel Point.  The Energy will feel like a little ball, about as big as a ping-pong ball, but that is way too big.  You want the energy to focus down to being a lot smaller.  Visualize it like an onion where you are removing skin after skin and it is getting smaller and smaller.  It only takes a few minutes to get it down to the right size, about the size of a pea.  This is one time that Bigger isn’t Better.”   I listened to him and this is one time when he didn’t use touch or wave his hands around anywhere.   I followed along with what he was telling me and the amorphous sensation of energy did slowly focus down and get smaller and more solid, and then I noticed that it was difficult to keep it from wiggling – it seemed to spin slightly with a small erratic wobble or swing, which I mentioned, and the Old Guy said, “Good. You found it.  Now that is the Key.  Once you get your Energy there (it behaves like a valve) you can take it to any part of your body.  Move your energy to your right hand”. So I did, and I said “Wow, I was never able to do that before”.  Then he said, “Okay, you have heard about all those other Chakras in your body, right?  So try moving your energy down through your body and see what you feel”.   Now it was only a feeling of pressure – not big Lights and Colors (only in my Dreams do they light up), but it was a tangible feeling of pressure that never existed before and I moved it from Chakra to Chakra.  I said “Cool!” and as I described it and the Old Guy smiled.  I suppose he was a realist enough to be aware of his own dismal failure rate, and so he cherished each little success that came along.  

 

So, for decades now I have been able to move my Kundalini around.  I have combined that with various breathing exercises which intensify the Energy somewhat.  I can actually get a tangible feeling of raising the Kundalini up over my head, by what feels like between 12 and 18 inches or about a half a meter.  I can make it ball up into a roundish 3 dimensional halo, or tower it up to a peak, or even spin it like a kind of propeller.  Another thing I learned to do was to fill my Personal Space with Energy.  You see, our Mental Body is more than our Physical Body in the sense that our Mental Body is Everywhere we can move our hands and feet – the Mental Body is a kind of Coordinate System which incorporates anywhere we can reach out to touch or tap with our hands or feet.  It is kind of roundish like an egg.  I can fill that with a kind of translucent light, which I can feel more than see (but it ‘imagines’ as light).  In dreams it is Light.

 

So I was wondering if Soulful Toz has found that little secret or whether she only gets whatever she happens to get, as a passive recipient.   

 

Oh, about ‘flowering’ the Power.  Years ago I had a dream of a young man who had a tremendous smile and it seemed to connect him with All Life, as I noticed that his silver-blue aura spread out away from him into the entire landscape, but only encircling the living things – the grasses, the bushes, the trees.  Well, I thought that his tremendous smile had something to do with his ability to project and connect.  So I experimented.  What is a smile but turning up the facial muscles, right?   So I used my Kundalini Power to turn upward, smile like, the Energies behind my face.  Then I energized all the Chakras and had those Chakral Disks flatten out horizontally and then turn up like flowers opening up to the sunlight.  That seems to do the trick.  A Full Body Kundalini Smile probably projects a very positive energy, and probably because of the Flower Effect, it also receives a lot of Higher Energy Prana from Above or wherever.

Kundalini and the Collective Consciousness

In the spiritual community we often hear the cliché about a general Kundalini Awakening being the Next Great Evolutionary Leap for Humanity.  But the details are vague regarding ‘how so?’  Perhaps it’s comparable to the distinction between Theoretical Physics and Applied Physics, where we have known about the Theory of Quantum Mechanics now for 40 years, but still the cars, sewing machines, flashlights and airplanes are still designed and run the same way Isaac Newton would have had them run 300 years ago.   I suspect that nobody will ever really understand Quantum Mechanics until we dry our dishes with a Quantum Dishtowel, or something like that.   And, likewise, the Kundalini Energy will remain oddly mysterious until it is found to be good for something.   

 

So, yes, I also subscribe to the cliché about “the next big evolutionary leap for humanity”, but after decades of thinking about it I have an idea about just what it might consist of.  Perhaps the Kundalini can be used to Link into the Collective Consciousness.   Well, how did I arrive at that hunch, or perhaps the more appropriate question for now would be why would I want to think so?

 

Back decades ago I had a few personal experiences which go a long way in explaining why I would want to think there is an actual existential Collective Consciousness that we could tap into, particularly two very Big Dreams I had.   In the first dream, back when I was still a young man and not very philosophically sophisticated, I came upon the grave of one of Europe’s Greatest Thinkers and it had been defaced with graffiti saying that “______ would not live beyond the grave”, but instantly I had muttered that “everybody lives beyond the grave”.   But whatever Higher Wisdom that had been directing that Dream was not to allow me to get away with such an unfounded assertion without some kind of a challenge and so suddenly a large oak tree on the crest of a nearby knoll erupted in flames of multicolored lights, and out of it billowed a Voice that said “Not all men will live beyond the grave… but ______ will”.   Oh, I need to mention some details that indicate just how significant that Fiery Tree and Voice must have been in the context of this Dream.  The instant the Tree ‘Lit Up’ my legs gave way out from beneath me and I came crashing down on my knees, on what seemed like hard granite, but I felt no pain.   Also, tears sprayed from my eyes, but I felt no emotion, which puzzled me even at the time.   Now, one would suppose that I would have been speechless in awe, but, since I felt no overwhelming emotions, I was intellectually quite curious about the Mortality Issue that the ‘Tree’ had brought forward and so without any hesitation I asked “Well, then, what about me?  Will I live beyond the grave?”   Well, the Tree did not immediately give me an answer, seemingly wishing that I should have a little time to contemplate just how possibly disturbing certain answers to that question might be for me, and the Tree’s apparent point was not lost upon me, and I got really nervous really fast.     But finally the Tree spoke and said “Yes, you too will live beyond the grave, but remember one thing: Birth is but an Illusion and Christ is the Life in All Things”.  Now even at the time I did not see the allusion to ‘Christ’ as being in reference to any historical individual, but rather to some kind of All-embracing Spiritual Status – some disembodied Cosmic Christ.   And of course the notion of “Life in All Things” speaks of a Collective Consciousness with no need for further elaboration.

 

Then there was the second Big Dream not many years after the first.  I appeared to be in a sparse landscape, that seemed as dry as some areas in North Africa, the Near East or the American Southwest, but still there were some clumps of grass, some bushes and a tree here and there.  I seemed to have just arrived on the Dream Scene when suddenly this young man appeared just in front of me, so close within my personal space that it made me feel a bit uncomfortable.  But what instantly caught my attention was the young man’s boundless smile – it quite radiated joy (one can approach duplicating such a Smile with your Kundalini Energy simply by imagining that all your Chakras are like Flat Horizontal Plates which you can turn up at the edges, along with turning up all the Muscle Groups in your body, like turning up a Smile, with the Idea that they are like Flowers Lifting and Unfolding to the Sun Light.  I do that before walking into strange new places with people I never met before.  It seems to help in putting both them and myself at ease.)    Well, in that Dream, I had never experienced such a powerful smile, and his eyes were very entrancing.  The Young Man, as a person though, was not very impressive.  He was thin to the point of emaciation, dark but one would say more ‘brown’ than ‘black’, with a narrow face and a thin nose, and for a beard he had just a slight tuft of curly hairs.  But I could not help but be moved by his perfect joyfulness.  In this Dream I seemed to have been rendered ‘speechless’.   Well, since I had nothing to say, the young man turned and began walking off, but before he was 20 meters away, the same voice as in the other dream spoke up and said from out of the blue, “He went out into the wilderness and became One”.   With that the Young Man developed a silver blue aura.  Then, what was more remarkable was that the nearby grasses and bushes began picking up that same silver blue aura, and then I noticed that even the trees out in the distance began to shine silver blue.  It became clear that everything that was alive had the same aura and that it was connected and centered on him.  I had a hunch at the time that he was experiencing all of that as part of himself – that he felt the Oneness.   Maybe that is what made him so happy, or was it being so happy that made him One with everything? 

 

Also, I might add that that dream is suggestive of what we hear about some traditions of Shamanism whereby it is reported that some Shamans can transform into crows or cats or coyotes or whatever, but what I suspect is probably really happening is only that a Shaman can opportunistically reach his or her consciousness out and partake of the perceptions of crows, cats or coyotes or whatever else is already out there and part of the landscape which the Shaman is concerned with knowing about.

 

Also when I was a young man, I read of a Saint that lived in India just a bit more than a hundred years ago, Shirdi Sai Baba, whom is not be confused with the charlatan Sathya Sai Baba who set up his scam much later.  Shirdi Sai Baba… let’s just call him Sai Baba…  was claimed by both the Hindus and the Muslims to be one of their own, but more appropriately we could describe him as a Fakir – a kind of Sufi that stems from a tradition that predates Islam going all the way back to Persian Zoroastrianism, the first Moral Religion.  You see, Sai Baba had a Sacred Flame going which is the hallmark of Zoroastrianism.   Well, to get to the greater point concerning his influence upon my thinking concerning the Collective Consciousness, one of the things that Sai Baba was famous for was being able to relate objectively true stories from the viewpoint of both animals and people.  Later in the 20^th Century there was another Saint in Southern India, Ramana Maharshi, who could do much the same thing.   This Ability would seem to indicate that it is possible for individuals to harness and focus selectively within the Collective Consciousness.   Of course, in regards to anecdotes concerning Saints, there is a huge problem with both exaggeration and invention.  You see, these Saints accrue to themselves Followers who form Social Groups around them which seem to distribute Status among themselves on the basis of who can tell the best and biggest stories about their Guru.   I would not have believed the problem so chronic and pervasive unless I saw it in operation with my own eyes.  But, yes, it seems a bit paradoxical, but religious devotees are huge liars.  I believe that many such people believe so fully in their own good intentions that the heinousness of their lying about most everything is entirely eclipsed from their notice, but of course there are others who are calculating scoundrels and bad down to the bone.   Unfortunately I had arrived at this skeptical awareness only after decades of studying the lives of many of these various Saints.   So the greater part of that acquired ‘knowledge’ was subsequently cast into doubt but not before it had greatly influenced what was probably to be the greater part of my life span.  So almost from a kind of mental force of habit I retain a bit of hope in a super-natural possibility which still awaits some solid confirmation before I could in good conscience talk about it with any fervent conviction.   

 

But all that interest in the Saints, before I became largely disillusioned, led me to earnestly investigate Mysticism and Mystical Experiences.  Mystical Experiences are interesting in that people who have had Mystical Experiences claim that in their moment of excitement that they Knew Everything and that All Truth was Revealed.  However, the problem arises that they can provide few details after the fact.  The literature of Mysticism gives this problem a name – Ineffability.  William James, a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, in his classic “Varieties of Religious Experience”, circa 1905, talks a great deal about Ineffability.  The consequence of Ineffability is that it turns the Mystical Experience essentially into a purely aesthetic, even sensual experience – a Super High Buzz, but which in practical terms is good for nothing, or even damaging, in the sense that Mystics may become addicted to the purely Sensual Experience while ignoring their Social Duties and Obligations, like students getting high instead of doing their homework.

 

But maybe Ineffability is a Right Brain vs Left Brain kind of thing.  The Right Side of the Brain sees things holistically in complete flashes, images and intuitions, while Left Side of the brain sees things linearly, in some ordered way, with associations and connectedness between points of reference.   Or we can say that the Right Side of the Brain uses Pictures, while the Left Side uses Descriptive Narrative.    So perhaps the problem of Ineffability sources from focusing the Mystical Experience in the wrong side of the head (where right is apparently wrong).  If the Mystical Experience were to be generated from the Left Side of the Brain, the side that deals with Speech and Language, well it would probably be a whole lot more likely that we would come back from it with more to say, though the experience may lose something of its spectacular quasi-visual splendor that only the right side of the brain can provide in full.

 

There is also the issue regarding the various, different and often contradictory reports given by those exceptional few who purport to bring back some form of “eternal wisdom” from their mystical experiences.  Such wide variance would incline us to believe such ‘Truths’ to be subjective rather than objective, and if these Enlightened Truths are only subjective, well, that only means that it was ‘true’ in the sense that an individual really experienced them, and didn’t just make up a story.  But the broader definition of Truth, that a thing is plainly known to exist or its existence can be objectively confirmed, cannot be affirmed by subjective images or thought forms, not unless it can be demonstrated that such subjective impressions are widely shared.  After all, it is the proof of a general Objective Reality that the shared experience of Society confirms it.   And in regards to Religious and Mystical Experiences, we do not yet have this confirmation.  Again I refer to James’ “Varieties of Religious Experience” where you can see just how bazaar and off the beaten path some ‘enlightened’ realizations can be.

 

But we may be able to address this problem of Shared Objective Reality within our mystical experiences by determining whether we use our Kundalini to look Inwards, into ourselves, or Outwards, into the World and Society.   Looking Inwards has been the typical direction.  Most popular thinking these days seems fully on board with the notion that all wisdom comes from within, no matter how foolishly we see people actually behaving who act solely according to their own guidance.   We need to ask ourselves what we can learn from ourselves that we do not already know?  We get nothing new by watching old reruns over and over again.  Self-Inquiry is a labyrinth that can only circle the same old ground over and over again.  If we want to put the Kundalini to any positive use, we must point it Outwards and Think where we have never Thought before.   

 

True Civilization could become an achievable possibility if Humanity could be unified by a tangible shared Collective Consciousness.  Looking Outwards to Others will take us in that direction.  Looking inwards is only to look backwards.  We can’t take that next great evolutionary step forwards by always backtracking over our failures and shortfalls.   The Ancient Wisdoms got us into the mess where we are today.  With this surge in Kundalini Awakenings, we need to configure a new path forward.  

An Experiment to Test Kunalini Awakenings for Collective Consciousness

I’ve been involved with Kundalini for about 4 decades now but just recently became aware of what looks like a Surge in Awakenings (but that may simply be attributable to a more widespread Social Media, in the sense that the numerical rates of awakenings may have held at an approximately constant level, but we are now becoming more increasingly aware of their occurrences).   But if there is truly an Upsurge in Kundalini Awakenings, I was wondering if it may be an indication of the blossoming of what we could refer to as a Collective Consciousness.

 

I suppose I am not the only one that may be curious about what the wider implications could be concerning a proliferation of Kundalini Awakenings in the general population, especially if such a broad Awakening significantly increased some real apparently intangible Connectedness between those who are ‘awakened’ or even between them and those who are not ostensively ‘awakened’, or maybe even between Everybody, whether or not they see themselves as ‘Awakened’ or not.

 

Anyway, I decided to do something with my idle curiosity and so I whipped up what could be the basis of an Experiment that could be conducted in more than several ways:  I created two EXCEL Spreadsheets (if you want to see, email me and I can send you the attachments), the first labeled SEND and the second labeled RECEIVE.   Both sheets have identical lists consisting of ten Categories with ten elements each.  On the SEND sheet there is a box beside each Category Name that contains a Random Number Generator Algorithm which pops up an integer between 1 and 10.  The Random Number Algorithm that I used is INT(RAND()*10+1)… cool, huh? (and, yes, nothing goes in the closed parenthesis after ‘RAND’ because it is supposed to create its own number).   Of course the random numbers should be different on each printed sheet, and just copying the same SEND sheet would be an unspeakable anathema, and so if one is printing out more than 1 SEND sheet, in order to get the numbers to change for each print out, just Select all the Random Number Boxes, Copy them, and then Paste them off to the side, and that will make the original boxes update to new numbers, and then you just have to delete the boxes that you pasted off to the side before hitting PRINT.  The idea of using Random Numbers is so the ‘Sender’ does not have to get subjectively involved with picking and choosing what to Send, and the Receiver doesn’t have to worry about whether to guess what kind of ‘Mind Games’ the Sender might be playing with his or her ‘picks’.   The Sender or Experiment Administrator (if the Experiment is designed that way) simply has to draw circles around the Elements on the SEND sheet that corresponds to the Random Numbers, indicating that those are the Elements to be ‘sent’.   The RECEIVE sheet is the same as the SEND sheet except it is marked SEND and it does not have the Random Number boxes and it should remain pure a pristine until the Receiver draws the circles.   

 

As I said above, the Experiment could be conducted in several ways.  Most simply, an Experiment Administrator could generate the two Experiment Sheets, circle the Elements corresponding to the Random Numbers on the Send Sheet, and then perhaps take a minute or two to allow the sight and consciousness of the Circled Send Sheet to sink in and register (within the Collective Consciousness), and finally to mail the second sheet to the Receiver Subject.  The Receiver upon receipt of the Receive Sheet would then circle the choices of what he or she decides that he or she has ‘received’, and then mail it back.  Of course if the Experiment Administrator is conducting more than one experiment at a time, he or she would have to develop a Control Protocol whereby the Experimental Sheets are identified as inseparable pairs, such as writing “X 101” in the corner of both the SEND and RECEIVE sheets.   This version of the Experiment would be easiest to administer, but it does seem a bit detached.  However, such an Experimental Formal would be similar to the methodology that the Remote Scientific Viewers were using (both the Soviet and the American Military Intelligence Organizations had their own offices of Remote Scientific Viewers).  The methodology of RSV was to write a detailed Intelligence Question on a sheet of paper and then seal it in an envelope on which they would write a Control Number  and then they would file it.  Then, let’s say for example that the Control Number is 748, they would go to their Remote Viewer person, without the envelope, and simply say “Give us what you can get concerning number 748?”… That’s all.  The Remote Viewer should have no ‘objective’ idea at all regarding what “748” is referring to.  That keeps his or her mind open to any possibility.

 

A version of the Experiment I would be more interested in, as being much less ‘detached’ though a bit more complicated, would involve two professedly Awakened Subjects.  Two Sets of Controlled Pairs of Experiment Spreadsheets would be used, and each of the two Subjects could be given or mailed a Receive Sheet from one Pair and a Send Sheet from the other.   The Subjects then could coordinate with each other for a time convenient for each of them, or a 3^rd Party Administrator could do the coordinating between the two Subjects, if it is felt desirable that the two subjects should not be made aware of the each other’s identities.  The specified time would have to be an exact 20 minutes, with the two subjects participating in synch, even if time zones apart.    The two subjects could use this one particular Time Clock Website to coordinate and synch up with: https://time.is/  which has Hour, Minute, and Second, as well as various Time Zones that the subjects could agree upon in advance.    For instance, if the two subjects decided to begin the Experiment at 8:00 London Time then the Subject who agreed to be the first Sender could take exactly one minute to ‘Send’ an  Idea of their first circled Element in the first Category.  And the subject who agreed to be the first Receiver could take that same minute to ‘receive’ the Idea and draw a circle around that Element on his or her blank ‘Receive’ Sheet.   At each passing minute, the Subjects would move onto the next Category on the list.  There are 10 categories which would take 10 minutes, and after the 1^st Pair  of Sheets are complete, the Subjects would ‘switch over on the fly’, as they say, and the Subject who was Sender would now become the Receiver, and visa versa, and the second Pair of Sheets could be completed in the second 10 Minutes.  To finish up they would take their sheets, stuff them into envelopes and send them back to the Administrator, or get in touch with each other and grade the sheets themselves –that’s if the Experiment was being done rather informally.  

 

Now, regarding Grading and Significance – it wasn’t long in thinking about it before I determined that 10 Categories of 10 Elements each would be the best Intuitive Way to go.  This is because the Probability of correctly ‘guessing’ one thing from a single List of 10 is ‘1 in 10’, meaning that 9 times out of 10 a person would guess wrong and come up completely empty.  But given 10 separate Lists with each List having 10 Elements, the Probability would be that even by just guessing an overall score of at least 1out of 10 would be the likely outcome.   A ‘2 out of 10’ would be Lucky.  A ‘3 out of 10’ would be a real long shot.  So I would retest anybody who scored a ‘3 out of 10’ because if they could repeat at that level, we and everyone else would want to know what is going on.  If we found people who could test at such significant levels on our little informal home grown Experiment, then we could probably get some real University involved in conducting Experiments that even they could take seriously.  

 

But at our Level our primary concern would be to show ourselves what we are dealing with, not just at the personal level anymore, but as regards to what will certainly begin taking on tangible Social Manifestations – that the Upsurge in Kundalini Awakenings is actually the Dawning of the Age of Collective Consciousness.

 

Of course, the Experiments might also come back flat, indicating that whatever the Kundalini is in each of us, it is isolated and self-contained.  Then the concern would go in the direction of showing the Kundalini to be the Stuff of Superior Individuals, and offering a new avenue for the Selfishness of the Strong to exploit the meekness of the Weak.  But I do hope that finally the ‘We’s’ can win out over the ‘Me’s’, and that the next grand step in Evolution will be toward the Strengthening of Human Society and not just of Human Individuals.   As far as Evolution must see it, it’s best to Survive as a Society than to let a few Strong Individuals kill us all and Destroy the Planet while they’re doing it.  And the flowering of a Collective Consciousness would actually give Society a Unitary Mind, and a Society that Actually Thinks with One Mind would be quantum leaps stronger than any rat’s nest of selfish scheming individuals who would hope to exploit and contain it.   So I’ll have to cross my fingers and hope to luck that the Experiments land on the bright side.