I must say I agree with everything you said.
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On Fri, 1/17/14, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com <awoelfleba...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apostasy, is a terrible thing.
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 17, 2014, 4:51 PM
Michael wrote:
I feel the Universe
has nearly infinite if not infinite experiences we can all
have, and the so-called higher states of awareness or
enlightened perception, including all the celestial
perception stuff is just another experience among a plethora
of experiences.
I agree. I also have a hard
time finding greater or lesser validity of any particular
experience over another. An experience experienced is just
that - it is reality for that experiencer. And as we all
know experience is ultimately subjective and particular to
each person. How to understand or interpret, let alone judge
or put some value on someone else's reality/experience
is, for me, an exercise in futility. I do, however, believe
in personal growth and the reality of the possibility for
the expansion of awareness and the development of
sensibility in different human beings in different phases of
their life or lives.
I think
that if one chooses one can create an experience, a persona
that is real moral, always sativcc, always unperturbed, sort
of like the historical Buddha was supposed to have been. But
most of those who have "higher states of
consciousness" cycle from those kinds of experiences
into egoic focus that includes often enough the idea that
since everything is a play of awareness, it doesn't make
a tinker's damn what they do with and to people, cuz its
just all consciousness playing around. No rules, no standard
of conduct, these are the ones like Muktananda, Maharishi
and Rama who go off the deep end of ego and screw things
up.
I also think that many
people who are under the assumption that a sort of higher
state of consciousness can or does exist in
"gurus" or "teachers" and are therefore
responsible for giving these people free licence to do as
they please and to support them in this, often to the
detriment of everyone involved. I have yet to see anyone
free of ego and I don't think of ego as something
terrible. Like many characteristics, it can become
distorted, unbalanced but in and of itself ego is neither
good or bad. Just as ambition or empathy or passion is not
inherently, ultimately good or bad. How it manifests can
make the difference between something becoming positive,
negative or simply remaining benign. It's complex, of
course.
I guess my point here is that it takes enablers to
allow certain individuals to spiral out of control. When you
put someone on some sort of pedestal it can really screw
them up, whether they are "holy men" or "holy
women" or the Justin Biebers and Miley Cyrus' of
the world. Feed the ego like you would force feed a goose to
fatten up the liver and sooner or later you create something
that is unwell.
