I have developed an interest in the traditions that formed the basis of the Western world, and yet I am reluctant to share what value I find in some of the ideals, visions and sentiments expressed there.
It seems, in certain contexts, exposing a mere inch of sympathy to the christian vision can evoke very strong responses. Darts start flying.
With my work with the tea and yoga, I have experienced extremely rarefied states of consciousness which are profoundly gentle and fragrant, a place of immense subtlety and purity. From this place of transparency, a condition in which the agendas of the ego/personality have temporarily abandoned its battle, it becomes evident that the perennial philosophies and the ideals of many mystics and teachers, are inspired truth, filtered through the capacities of language.
From such a place, it seems nauseous and unnatural to make war or argue with the ancient sacred visions and creeds of the many generations before us, that evoked and then were filled with the beauty of the human heart.
As a result of these experiences, I have come to a place of non-reactivity and even active interest in many aspects of the Western tradition, which I feel compliments and deepens my prior interests in shamanism and the Vedas.
I understand the symbol of Christ as the divine child of the cosmos, a brother of complete love and compassion, God entering and touching its creation, and submitting to its rigor in order to fulfil a deep cosmic transformation and redemption. This is the Ideal, for me, that stands beyond the argumented 'facts' of history and peoples different personal issues with what they percieve to be the results of christianity.
Christianity aside, I find nothing to argue with in the Ideal of Christ. Its Ideal is of tenderness and beauty and guidance, which stands, in direct experience, as self evident and deeply benevolent in the numinous light.
People blame Christ for witchhunts, ignoring the millions of christians that died at the hands of rome at the dawn of this revelation.
People blame Christ for war, when there has always been war, before and after Christ, and in cultures unaquainted with christianity.
God is not needed for war, since the most horrifying wars in history were perpetrated by God-denying, secular powers. It is human free will, not God that impells us to ignorance, hypocracy, control and destruction.
The Ideal of Christ, beyond history, reflects the deepest and most tender sentiments within us. This is what Ideals are for.
The world has been transfigured by the myths of christianity. There is a 'compulsory apocalypse lobby' of evangelical endtimers, consumed with the idea of a coming apocalpse and doing everything in their control to bring it on. And yet beyond the destructive provarications and irrationality, it does seem that the human race is drawing close to catastrophic change, the outcome of which is inherently unpredictable.
The secular mindset seems unable to comprehend such a level of change, because it is a self-referencing matrix, a worldview that endlessly references anthropomorphic primism. The new-age vacilates in chapel perilous, a confusing interplay of paradoxical and often nonsensical concepts.
I suggest that active engagement with the principal ideas and myths that compose the substratum of the western mind, and therefore anyone born and reared within western civilisation, is a requisite for their clarification and transformation, so that the various creeds that are currently in conflict are again percieved as an unbroken and non-conflicting series of ideals and mythic truths, that whilst often paradoxical, nonetheless can stand side by side in harmony as beautiful and inspired understandings, which can be values as the common and ownerless natural treasures of the human race.
But this cannot happen without active engagement, direct experience, using intuition to bring balance, to shamanically regenerate the original sentiments, to clarify these constellates in order to harmonise the conflicts of worldview within the planet in these times. It cannot happen through denial, blame or histility operating through a shallow assemblage point of reactivity, blame or thinly vieled intellectualised hatred.
Only by reaching beyond reactivity and shallow thinking, intuiting the beingness of the Ideals, and how the images and myths are meant as learning and teaching vessels for this formless beauty and goodness, can the conflict caused by the humanisation and fragmentation of these higher realities be healed.
It seems, in certain contexts, exposing a mere inch of sympathy to the christian vision can evoke very strong responses. Darts start flying.
With my work with the tea and yoga, I have experienced extremely rarefied states of consciousness which are profoundly gentle and fragrant, a place of immense subtlety and purity. From this place of transparency, a condition in which the agendas of the ego/personality have temporarily abandoned its battle, it becomes evident that the perennial philosophies and the ideals of many mystics and teachers, are inspired truth, filtered through the capacities of language.
From such a place, it seems nauseous and unnatural to make war or argue with the ancient sacred visions and creeds of the many generations before us, that evoked and then were filled with the beauty of the human heart.
As a result of these experiences, I have come to a place of non-reactivity and even active interest in many aspects of the Western tradition, which I feel compliments and deepens my prior interests in shamanism and the Vedas.
I understand the symbol of Christ as the divine child of the cosmos, a brother of complete love and compassion, God entering and touching its creation, and submitting to its rigor in order to fulfil a deep cosmic transformation and redemption. This is the Ideal, for me, that stands beyond the argumented 'facts' of history and peoples different personal issues with what they percieve to be the results of christianity.
Christianity aside, I find nothing to argue with in the Ideal of Christ. Its Ideal is of tenderness and beauty and guidance, which stands, in direct experience, as self evident and deeply benevolent in the numinous light.
People blame Christ for witchhunts, ignoring the millions of christians that died at the hands of rome at the dawn of this revelation.
People blame Christ for war, when there has always been war, before and after Christ, and in cultures unaquainted with christianity.
God is not needed for war, since the most horrifying wars in history were perpetrated by God-denying, secular powers. It is human free will, not God that impells us to ignorance, hypocracy, control and destruction.
The Ideal of Christ, beyond history, reflects the deepest and most tender sentiments within us. This is what Ideals are for.
The world has been transfigured by the myths of christianity. There is a 'compulsory apocalypse lobby' of evangelical endtimers, consumed with the idea of a coming apocalpse and doing everything in their control to bring it on. And yet beyond the destructive provarications and irrationality, it does seem that the human race is drawing close to catastrophic change, the outcome of which is inherently unpredictable.
The secular mindset seems unable to comprehend such a level of change, because it is a self-referencing matrix, a worldview that endlessly references anthropomorphic primism. The new-age vacilates in chapel perilous, a confusing interplay of paradoxical and often nonsensical concepts.
I suggest that active engagement with the principal ideas and myths that compose the substratum of the western mind, and therefore anyone born and reared within western civilisation, is a requisite for their clarification and transformation, so that the various creeds that are currently in conflict are again percieved as an unbroken and non-conflicting series of ideals and mythic truths, that whilst often paradoxical, nonetheless can stand side by side in harmony as beautiful and inspired understandings, which can be values as the common and ownerless natural treasures of the human race.
But this cannot happen without active engagement, direct experience, using intuition to bring balance, to shamanically regenerate the original sentiments, to clarify these constellates in order to harmonise the conflicts of worldview within the planet in these times. It cannot happen through denial, blame or histility operating through a shallow assemblage point of reactivity, blame or thinly vieled intellectualised hatred.
Only by reaching beyond reactivity and shallow thinking, intuiting the beingness of the Ideals, and how the images and myths are meant as learning and teaching vessels for this formless beauty and goodness, can the conflict caused by the humanisation and fragmentation of these higher realities be healed.
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