Friday08 Jun 12:10 PM
Subtle Revolution: Yoga, Authority, + the Conspiracy of 1
I've got some revolutionary yoga vibrations careening through the mindscreen right now, my own private Operation Garden Plot. A work-in-progress, a theory & practice where there is no escape. We is I. You are them. They are us. Wherever you run, there you are.
Therewith, it appears radically better to take the path of the alchemist. That is, to digest, or transmute (in the alchemical parlance), the lead of the world into gold; the shit and sewage into the sweet and radiant —rather than take the path of politics, capitalism (and conspiracy theory)— always pointing and blaming and coercing. Our own, personal, unique perception of the world is also a global responsibility, and this very act actively alters the world. Can you dig it? Don't just take my word for this, here's a few points of reference, and departure—
- An absolutely beautiful (if paranoid) interview with Father Frank Morales by the Wit. I suggest plowing through the conspiracy stuff and savoring the juicy bits on radical Christianity. I’m not saying that the stuff is untrue (it actually makes too much sense), it’s just that straying down the conspiracy path usually renders us crazy and powerless. But persevere, because the Christian raps are high grade (and also touches on Phillip K Dick, another brilliant-if-paranoid Gnostic whom I adore). Father explains the symbolism of the cross as signifying the non-dual integration of the realm of the spirit with that of the Earth (okay, he doesn’t say non-dual, that’s my interjection). Christ is depicted here not just as a yogi, but as a revolutionary spiritual activist. Link.
- A video podcast by Dr. Robert Thurman, wherein he explains the common, logical errors in thinking about nirvana, or enlightenment, as some sort of rarified bliss state. His relative, no-escape view, is illustrated with this off-the-hook insightful, hysterical (and oddly paranoid) Buddhist meditation wherein one visualizes themselves lecturing to students about enlightenment. Throughout the course of the meditation, we realize that our “students” are in fact already enlightened beings just being nice and playing along in our fantasy that we are an authority on yoga, when actually we are the last un- enlightened being in the room. Link.
Now that’s a headtrip. Not just because of the obvious megalomaniacal ego-bust but because it’s a good practical framework for action and humility in our everyday world, here and now.
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