Eckhart Tolle, J. Krishnamurti, and What Is

December 26, 2015
[This is an excerpt from my book Beyond the Power of Now: A Guide to, and Beyond, Eckhart Tolle's Teachings.]


Eckhart Tolle is hardly an original thinker, and much of his spiritual teaching is derived from the late J. Krishnamurti. Like many of the simplistic New Age and Advaita Vedanta gurus on the scene nowadays, Tolle loves to emphasize the Krishnamurti maxim that “all effort [or resistance] is the avoidance of what is.” Thus, Tolle’s Dharma “mantra,” in effect, is: “surrender to (or accept) what is.” But this mantra has multiple problems, which I will touch upon.

First, the hypocrisy of those, including Krishnamurti himself, who push it. If you listen to gurus like Tolle and Krishnamurti—and I used to regularly participate in Krishnamurti groups—you soon realize that they are filled with the same kinds of resistance, or judgments, as the rest of us. Whether it’s the insane political system, the conventional religious establishment, or whatnot, they constantly rail at the all-pervading madness in the world. There is nothing wrong with this—I do the same thing myself—but please don’t push complete acceptance of what is if you’ve got a closet full of axes to grind.… Read the full article

Kundalini Psycho-Babble

November 27, 2015
[This is my just-written review of C.G. Jung's book "The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga."]

The iconic C.G Jung was no doubt a psychotherapist for the ages, and when I practiced astrology professionally, I made use of his seminal insights on the shadow, the anima/animus, the collective unconscious, psychological types, and archetypes. But as evidenced by this text, Dr. Jung was clueless with regard to Kundalini – and he makes a complete fool of himself i...n the seminar from whence this book derives.

First off, the title of this book is misleading, because the book focuses more on the chakras than on Kundalini, but Dr. Jung is equally ignorant regarding both subjects. Because this is just a book review and not a book, I cannot expose all of the Kundalini psycho-babble that Jung is guilty of, so I’ll merely point out some of his balderdash.

Dr. Jung opines: “The anima is the Kundalini.” This statement is beyond ridiculous. The Kundalini is the accompanying force-flow of of awakened consciousness. The “lower” Kundalini is cosmic and pranic in nature, while the “higher Kundalini is uncreated, Divine Light-Energy, experienced as Shaktipat, and upon En-Light-enment, as Hridaya Shakti.… Read the full article

The U.S. Government Fascist-Mafia Theft Ring

October 20, 2015

The U.S. government, unbeknownst to the Matrix-bound masses (brainwashed in public schools and libtard universities), is a PRIVATE, glorified Al Capone-type Protection Racket -- and one of its nefarious activities includes asset seizures. It uses unconstitutional "structuring" laws as an excuse to steal money from those with the audacity to do business in cash. And by the way, the $10,000 cash limit has not been increased since its inception half a century ago. If this figure were adjusted for inflation, as it should have been, the cash limit subject to structuring laws would now be about $100,000. The government goons have, of course, a vested interest in maintaining the $10,000 limit, because the lower the limit, the greater is their opportunity to steal your money on "structuring" technicalities. Thanks to the RICO Act (which allows them to keep a big chunk of the bounty), federal agencies have great incentive to rip off anybody and everybody they can.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/24/the-federal-structuring-laws-are-smurfin-ridiculous/
The federal ‘structuring’ laws are smurfin’ ridiculous ...
… Read the full article

Cracking the Cosmic Code, Part 2

October 15, 2015
[Note: Part 1 can be accessed in the July 2015 Archives.]

In Part 1 of this series, I focused on metaphysics/ontology, the first branch of the 5-branch system of classical philosophy -- metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, esthetics – that Ayn Rand identifies as her philosophical hierarchy. Although I resonate with this 5-branch system, I do not resonate with all of Rand’s viewpoints in relation to each branch -- and as made clear in Part 1 of this series, this particularly holds true regarding metaphysics, which unlike Rand, I marry with spiritual ontology.

In Part 2, I will focus on epistemology as it pertains to “cracking the cosmic code.” Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that considers how man acquires and validates knowledge. Scores of academic texts have been written on this subject, but none along the lines of this brief essay, which focuses on epistemology as it pertains to “waking up.” Moreover, although I have great regard for Rand’s seminal text “Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology,” and highly recommend it for all truth seekers, the epistemology I espouse here will only be tangentially along the lines of Rand’s.… Read the full article

Nassim Haramein = New Age Huckster

October 3, 2015
About a year ago, a Facebook fan of my spiritual teachings introduced me to Nassim Haramein’s far-out physics/metaphysics. But I didn’t have much interest in them, because (despite a year of physics in high school and another in college), I lacked the background to fully understand and judge them (and I wasn’t about to invest the time and energy to do so). But I was intrigued by the fact that Haramein, a non-degreed autodidact, was being touted by some as the new Einstein. 

When my Facebook fan continued to post Haramein articles at my Facebook group page – Electrical-Hermetic Christianity -- I Googled Haramein and learned that he had little, if any, credibility in the mainstream physics community. And the physics papers that he had published were not in respected peer review journals.  At that time there was still a Wikipedia.org page of Haramein, but now it has been removed. Wikipedia, citing criticism of Haramein’s physics, explains why:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Nassim_Haramein_… Read the full article

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