The Integral Life/Ken Wilber Challenge

October 31, 2016
Earlier today (October 30, 2016) I, along with other Integral Life subscribers, received the email below, written by Jeff Salzman. Salzman is a liberal (really liberal-fascist) who serves as the political “front man” for Ken Wilber, who seemingly doesn’t have the balls to put his own face on the front of Integral Life’s political proselytization. Over the past few years, I’ve received numerous left-wing political messages from Salzman under the rubric of Wilber’s “integral” organization “Integral Life,” while Wilber, like a little girl, hides in his “integral” political closet.    

I not only think that Ken Wilber is a political wuss, a pansy-ass libtard who hides his left-wing fascism behind the façade of “integralism,” I also think that he is an overrated spiritual “pandit.” (Check out my reviews of his books in my archived August 2015 article “My Amazon reviews of Ken Wilber’s Books.”)

I would love to debate Wilber on the subjects of sociopolitics and spirituality (though I doubt he would risk taking on a virtual no-name like me). But if anyone who reads this can, by any chance, arrange a “confrontation of Dharmas" between us, please contact me at lrongardner@hotmail.com.… Read the full article

Fourth-Way Flotsam (Gurdjieff-Ouspensky Gobbledygook)

October 28, 2016

I briefly participated in a Gurdjieff-Ouspensky group in San Diego in 1971. The group didn’t even suggest that I read anything by Gurdjieff. Instead, they recommended P.D. Ouspensky’s “In Search of the Miraculous” – probably because they knew that Gurdjieff hadn’t written anything very useful for spiritual seekers. Unimpressed with the group and “the Fourth Way,” I left Gurdjieff and Ouspensky in my rear-view mirror and focused my attention on other spiritual paths.

Now, decades later, I’ve reviewed Ouspensky’s “In Search of the Miraculous” (two stars) and Gurdjieff’s “Meetings with Remarkable Men” (two stars) and “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson” (one star) at Amazon, and I’ve decided to post the reviews here to make clear my POV on “the Fourth Way.”… Read the full article

Cracking the Cosmic Code, Part 4

August 29, 2016
[In this informal series, I will consider the all-important subject of “Cracking the Cosmic Code” – meaning demystifying and transcending the cosmic domain (multi-dimensional manifest existence) in the context of realizing (or awakening to and coinciding with) the unmanifest Di-“vine” Domain (Infinite Being, or Consciousness-Spirit), wherein Consciousness (or timeless Awareness) is one “vine” of the Divine Domain, or Infinite Being, and Spirit (or spaceless Clear-Light Energy) is the other.

I will consider this subject through the five essential “portals,” or branches, of classical philosophy – metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and esthetics. In this Part, the fourth of the series, my focus will be on sociopolitics and its relation with spiritual life. Part 1-3 of the series can be found in the archives of my blog: electricalspirituality.com]

In order to “crack the Cosmic Code” and awaken sociopolitically, one first must grok the four fundamental “isms” -- capitalism, socialism, individualism, statism – which, to varying degrees, characterize every modern sociopolitical system, state, or order.… Read the full article

Adyashanti: A True Guru?

July 27, 2016

Hardly. As I see it, this uber-popular Advaita “guru” is on the same (grossly overrated) spiritual level as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji. It’s more likely that Miley Cyrus is chaste, Hillary Clinton is honest, and OJ is innocent than Adyashanti is Enlightened.

Because I’ve reviewed a number of Adyashanti’s books at Amazon.com that make clear my POV on him, rather than write an article on the subject, I’ll just post a few of the reviews. The first one (A Blind Man Leading the Blind) is my two-star review of “The End of Your World,” the second (The Way of a Muddled Mystic) is my two-star review of “The Way of Liberation,” and the third (Falling into Dis-Grace) is my just-posted at Amazon one-star review of “Falling into Grace.”

A Blind Man Leading the Blind

In the interview at the end of this book, Adyashanti implicitly makes it clear that he has no business writing books on spiritual awakening, or anything else for that matter.… Read the full article

Cracking the Cosmic Code, Part 3

May 16, 2016
[Note: Part 1 of this series is available in the July 2015 archives, and Part 2 in the October 2015 archives.]

In Part One of this “Cracking the Cosmic Code” philosophical series, I focused on metaphysics, in Part Two I considered epistemology, and in this Part I will turn my attention to ethics, an essential branch of the “philosophy tree.”

Ethics is the branch of philosophy that considers morality: right conduct versus wrong conduct.

In my opinion, the libertarian ethos – self-ownership and non-initiation of force (against others) – represents the ideal moral philosophy. It honors individual rights (including property rights), but with an essential caveat: that one’s rights do not include the right to violate the rights of others. In other words, one should not be able to restrict others from engaging in victimless, so-called immoral activity (such as gambling, prostitution, and drugs), nor be allowed to steal or violate an- other’s property.

The libertarian ethos is in perfect alignment with the U.S. Constitution, but the U.S Government is not. The current U.S… Read the full article

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