6. TRANSITION AND MODERNITY
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| 6.6.2 Rogue Buddhas and Sufi Hyenas: A Challenge to Guruism | ||||
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The New Age movement is neglected by modern thought, and these remarks are not a rejection of the so-called New Age movement, as such. In fact, we have potentially built into our thesis the great issues of Indian religion. But if we do so we need to sound a warning that we are not in the endorsement business for the many deceptions that pass under the name of esoteric spirituality. It is important to remember that these movements have none of the factor of macro-action we see in the Axial Age. That’s a fact of life, and a warning to false hopes the next guru will ever match, viz. the emergence of Buddhism. A good starting point is Kant’s classic essay, What is Enlightenment? The issue of autonomy is an apparent threat to the legacy of guruism, and the time has come to challenge the spiritual authority of these ancient traditions. No mention of the guru is made in the Buddhist Eightfold Way. The manufacture of proxy fascist agents in downfield reincarnation sequences with the unwitting trust of ‘disciples’ is the end of the line for the legacy of naïve guruism . Wolves in sheep’s clothing. The figure ‘Jesus’ gave a sound warning. The New Age collapse of Sufistic and Buddhist traditions (to say nothing of the Christian) is already showing the proliferation of freelancers and spiritual capitalists armed with occult means of exploitation. The text of Rudranandra on Spiritual Cannibalism is of note in this context. Occult fascists put democratic politicians at risk. The modern transition with its emphasis on freedom and autonomy should, but won’t, put these operators out of business. The modern liberal is a perfectly good exemplar of ‘Santanadharma’, with a Kantian angle on transcendental freedom, historically mindful of the spiritual slavery peddled as dharma by the reactionary Neo-Brahmins and their massacre of the Buddhists. We should inject a caution against an emerging false, or misleading, view of evolution taken as ‘spiritual self-evolution’. It is not evolution to do yoga exercises, unless you define it that way, in which case you should not confuse it with general evolution. Noone, not even Gautama Buddha can operate on the level of the eonic evolution we see in history. These people are not evolutionary guides for mankind in the sense of macro-evolution. The propaganda of gurus is in a state of rapid diffusion, and many wild claims are made to buttress an authoritarianism inappropriate to the real development of human autonomy. The question is simple. If we examine the relation of religion to the eonic mainline we can see that evolution in our sense far outstrips any of the cultural initiatives of Buddha figures. Claims related to this of the ‘Sufi guides’ behind the evolution of man are false, and misleading. We can see the scale of the eonic sequence is so awesome in its effects as to sweep up the religions of entire continents in a greater pattern. The sad truth is that these authoritarian traditions show the same drift and deviation as every other, and could as well profit from the challenges of the Enlightenment to recast their foundations. It is hard to think of a better foundation for a truly informed modern ‘spiritual path’, based on the individual’s autonomy, and receptive to the classic findings of ancient sutras (subjected to some historical sandblasting). The eonic sequence shows us that evolution in our sense is on scale far greater than any initiative of religion. Looking at the legacy of Buddhas and gurus we notice a highly embarrassing fact. They cannot resolve their own history, its ideologies, or even its data, let alone detect evolution. The many attempts to speak of ‘spiritual evolution’, sometimes with involutionary myths, have muddled the issue of both the classic sutras, and modern empirical evolutionism. The endless guru wars between the Buddhists and Neo-Brahmanism are forgotten. The latter was the enforcer of last resort of the spurious law of caste and has never repented of this even as it spreads globally. The realm of the guru has an immense propaganda, but it belongs to another age, and is a dangerous game that will turn the disciple into a Faust with a Mephisto problem. Be wary! The issue is that there is a critical point of danger in the release of the ‘sovereignty of your own will’, which you alone can fritter away. There is absolutely no spiritual law of spiritual guru authority. The point should be stated then that there are absolutely no spiritual authorities anywhere to which anyone is required to submit. The gurus, Buddhas, Sufis, popes, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, are not spiritual authorities. Their conspiracy to undermine the legacy of the Enlightenment and generate propaganda against human autonomy stretches all the way to fascist anti-modernism. Enlightened men often perform poorly on cultural issues, and have a poor understanding of history. The long string of hopeless idiots with this label in the recent New Age movement suggests an essential caution: the term can only be verified by individuals after making their own efforts. There is no public standard definition of the term. Rarely does the field get lucky with someone like Gautama (and significantly this occurred in the Axial period). Acquire a stash of bootleg sutras and be off. You are alone here, completely. And that is unfortunate, but it so. That’s the way it started, bootstrap from ground zero. Look at the ferment of philosophers and yogis in the period before Buddha, Axial India (about which we know too little). The shadowy gurus come later. And Buddhism is already quite late. The always unstated problem is that of captive agency, or agency invultuation. One must always be suspicious of what happened with Wagner, Nietzsche coming to in puzzlement. Something terrible was afoot at the end of the nineteenth century. Rumors abound. Declare yourself a ‘null occultist’ to figure through the dangerous possibilities, and never be tempted. The most shining Buddha is no more than Mephistopheles to you. Behind too many spiritual fronts lies a predatory world of the esoteric mafias, ‘Sufi’ hyenas of the will. In the West as Christianity passes with its minimal protection a dangerous realm flows into the void. It is significant the Christ figure warned of it. It is a serious problem with no public resolution. The world of modern science leaves the typical Westerner ill-equipped to confront or resist the devastating tactics applied without warning by the practitioners of exotic hypnosis known to agents in these traditions. Never trust or join an organization you suspect is a front in the cancerated traditions of the exoteric and esoteric division. The case of Sufism is especially devious in this respect. The legacy of Theosophy is revealing here, yet it is a promoter of the very problem of passive spirituality and cultic dependency that are the opposite of any true search for enlightenment. Dark rumors, or slanders, of fascist Buddhism begin to undermine the whole basis of trust in the spiritual fronts of these antiquated and corrupt religions. Noone can exploit your sovereign will unless you yourself consent. |
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