Worthy Of The Wall

File under: Gurubusting and Notable Quotables

Eric Paroissien is a longtime gurubuster among the eTopic/Yahoo Groups mailing lists. Today he broke it down for us regarding the glamorization of spiritual "truths" over the essential truths they poorly imitate:

Modern spirituality produces epiphany-based psychologies; we are collectively responsible for our propagation of spirituality which pivotal meme is: "it is a happening, a wondrous happening that revolutionizes what was before, suddenly ... it is there, like a sun after centuries of darkness, dazzling and obvious."

We have been serving that cold stale soup to beginners for centuries now, we are responsible for turning the younger ones into frozen numb guards with eyes only alive expecting the miraculous as sole possible happening in a human life; revolutionaries whose drive is a half-sleepy expectation instead of a burning intensity to jeopardize everything that one has at one go.

So no wonder a historic, synthetic, cold look on what is called liberation bears no interest, it would show all masters hesitant, stuttering and incoherent.

Relying on one's intensity alone, out of any meme, messages or religion, without any help or any meaning or direction to the concept "intensity" itself, is an unwelcoming effort and dull prospect for one's life; it does not look gorgeous, does not make an exciting topic in forums or at parties, does not make the character in the story glow.

Books like Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi" did not help.

How true. That book was the most damaging thing to happen to spiritual understanding in the West since Alice Bailey decided to make up a bunch of crap about ascended masters so she could be the toast of the parlor rooms of her day... stupid bitch.

Worthy Of The Wall

File under: Notable Quotables

We have a certain regular here in the comments named Chuck, who consistently churns out more homespun wisdom than 100 ladies at a quilting bee. Here's his latest for you all to enjoy:

Good old Walt [Whitman]! Wonder what he'd think of all these people like Ammachi, Karunamayi, Sai Baba, etc, claiming to be God--more God per ounce than the average guy or gal--and using symbolic acts of human kindness (hugging), hospital buildings along with a huge personal home (Karunamayi), and faked miracles (Sly Baboon) to "prove" they are gods. Walt was a lot more honest.

To say the least!

Worthy Of The Wall

File under: Notable Quotables

Comrade-in-arms Stuart Resnick on the real "magic" behind Ammachi's hugs:

There's no need to speculate about magical powers: what we know about belief and suggestion adequately explains the minority of people who do get special experiences from [Ammachi's] hugs.

Worthy Of The Wall

File under: Notable Quotables

We've decided to launch a new feature at Guruphiliac: Worthy of the Wall. These will be sayings and quotes we encounter which speak to the purpose of this blog, which is to remove from spiritual culture all the occluding nonsense hapless seekers are stuffing their heads with in their rush to become like their flimflamming gurus.

The first quote is by Jan Barendrecht, a longtime online denizen of several popular nonduality and gurubusting forums:

"There is no level of "enlightenment" but there are many levels of
conditioning and some will last a lifetime or, as some suppose, even
longer than that."