An Indictment of “Progressivism”

February 26, 2015

[My Review of Rene Guenon's "The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the Times."]

A fan of my Amazon reviews, unhappy with my less-than-positive three-star review of Rene Guenon’s “The Essential Rene Guenon,” suggested that I needed to reconsider my assessment of the renowned French spiritual philosopher – and so, as he suggested, I read “The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the Times.”

In this text, a scathing critique, Guenon blisters early-to-mid- 20th-century Western society, culture, and values and argues for the importance of true, esoteric spiritual tradition. Guenon blasts egalitarianism, moral relativism, multi-culturalism, neo-spirituality, pseudo-initiation, simplicity over depth, humanism over super-humanism, rationalism over super-rationalism, substance (or matter) over essence (or spirit); in short, quantity over quality.

According to Guenon, so-called “progress” is euphemism for “profound decadence, continuously accelerating, which is dragging humanity toward the pit where pure quantity reigns.”… Read the full article

The Humility Hoax

February 13, 2015

I am a spiritual teacher, and I’m not shy about advertising the fact that I can find no peers, no fellow living teachers with comparable understanding of how it all comes together in the field of mystic-philosophy. But, of course, I receive a great deal of flak from my critics for my hubris and my penchant for “telling it like it is.” To counter this flak, I’ve put together some quotes (see below) from legendary gurus and philosophers, who make it clear that humility is hardly a great virtue.

I first realized that humility was overrated when I came across the following quote while in high school:  “As soon as you think you have humility, you’ve lost it.” The State, Church, and Media like to push the ideal of humility, because pseudo-humble, cattle-like people are easy to control. But because I have little regard for the State, Church, and Media, I felt moved to write this article.

Ayn Rand

I’ll start with a quote from Ayn Rand, who, unabashedly, billed herself as the “greatest philosopher since Aristotle”:

“There is no more despicable coward than the man who deserted the battle for his joy, fearing to assert his right to existence, lacking the courage and the loyalty to life of a bird or a flower reaching for the sun.… Read the full article

Paul Case’s “Occult Fundamentals and Spiritual Unfoldment” (02/01/2015 Amazon Review)

February 1, 2015
This the third Paul Foster Case text I have reviewed at Amazon (see my two-star review of “The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages” and my three-star review of “Esoteric Secrets of Meditation and Magic”), and it contains some interesting and enlightening material germane to the brand of “electrical” spirituality that I teach, along with some occult “fundamentals” that I don’t fully resonate with.

On the first page, Case writes:

“We live in an electric universe. Our bodies are electrical machines. The food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the clothes we wear, the houses over our heads everything in our world is made of electricity. Our senses tell us we are surrounded by things innumerable: the Ageless Wisdom declares, ‘There is only One Thing.’ Modern science confirms this ancient teaching. Physicists now picture the universe as a great ocean of pulsing, vibrating electromagnetic energy, and psychologists tell us that this One Thing, electro-magnetism, presents itself to our consciousness in the particular forms which we call ‘things’, because our senses are what they are.… Read the full article

The Holy Trinity (The Triadic “Structure” of Reality)

January 29, 2015
Understanding the Trinity

No one I’ve read or talked to seems to understand the Trinity. Do you?

You can judge for yourself how deeply I understand it. But I do want to say that if I hadn’t studied and practiced Hindu Kashmir Shaivism, Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen, and Daism, I wouldn’t understand the Trinity to the extent that I do. These spiritual traditions, like Christianity, are trinitarian, and they provided me with the mystico-philosophical insights that I needed to grasp the triadic nature of Reality.

I am a big proponent of trinitarian spirituality, which is why I am so attracted to Christian mysticism. But Christian mysticism can be difficult to deeply understand if one doesn’t consider it in the light of other great trinitarian teachings.

Here’s how I view the Christian Trinity. The Father, the Divine Being-Consciousness, is   omnipresent and omnipotent; in other words, all-pervading Presence (or radiant Space) and Power (or Spirit-energy). The Son, the disciple’s Self (or Buddha)-nature, is the same Presence as the Father’s, but the disciple cannot realize his True nature as the Son (or Christ, or Self, or Buddha) until the Father’s Power (or Spirit-energy) blesses him to the degree of full en-Light-enment.… Read the full article

The Spiritual Politics of Jesus

January 24, 2015

[Note: This is an excerpt from my book "Electric Christianity: A Revolutionary Guide to Jesus' Teachings and Spiritual Enlightenment.” It may be freely copied and posted elsewhere as long as my book is cited as the source.]

Jesus’s Politics and the Federal Reserve

Q: If Jesus were alive today, would he be political or apolitical?

A: That’s a good question, and no one knows for sure. Arguments can be made for either possibility. One could argue that he would be apolitical because his focus was not on this world, but on heaven. As Jesus himself put it: “My kingdom is not of this world.” And as the “Prince of Peace,” some of his actions seem to imply surrender to government authority. For example, when confronted with the question of whether it was lawful for Jews to pay taxes to Caesar, his response, “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21), can be construed as an enjoinder to submit to secular law.… Read the full article

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