06-29-2016, 09:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-08-2016, 08:04 PM by Dekalb_Blues.)
(06-13-2016, 04:08 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: Is he a GI like Military?
I.G.W., you are very intuitively adept to penetrate this Wanderer-gone-bad's cunning camouflage!
But-- beware his evil hypnotic gaze!
Here he is in an early photo subverting an innocent pussy-cat, attended by two hell-hounds:
You know, I actually was in a Gurdjieffian esoteric school thirty-five years ago; the teacher was a quite interesting and accomplished man, a very learned archeologist (then in his 80s) who, as a teen-ager, had studied under Gurdjieff in France in the 1920s.* This learning experience was a positive one for me, I think, for it allowed me to recognize and begin to deal with a certain visceral complex of deeply-seated cultural conditionings in myself which -- as in all our cases -- if left unexamined and in untempered control, reduces one to little more than a predictably self-deluded (and thus remotely exploitable) herd animal, a sort of animate automaton totally in the grip of groupthink. Now, it stands to reason that this kind of austerely objective, unflattering view of man's peculiar susceptibility to his own self-enchanting relative stupidity (and thus his almost unreasonable open-ness to malign manipulation) does not sit well with people who are... well, self-enchantingly relatively stupid (and thus almost unreasonably open to malign manipulation). Certain other kinds of people have no problem at all taking aboard this basic fact of terrestrial life, and then from this humility-inducing starting-point, engaging realistically with the Sufis' current diffusion of their amazingly advanced and humane scientific/technological/artistic/philosophic culture, with its eminently useful framework of knowledge for properly self-referencing one's mortal, terrestrial self in a world like this one, in this kind of time, oriented within an immense greater reality with its own great design of being and becoming. Their society existed in the days of ancient Egypt when the illustrious Akhenaten spearheaded the Ra-cultural diffusion of monotheism, a startling and radical innovation in thought; in all times and places on this planet they have worked to serve the One in certain specific ways unique to their specialist skillset, adapting universal truths to specific time/place/social-grouping needs and limitations, and teaching humans how to optimally approach the high-energy domain of advanced knowledge so as to sustain its effects and become truly sentient and effective beings, and not to amateurishly be deranged by it so as to become useless pseudomystics, who tend to be big pains in sensible peoples' necks, faux-spirituality-wise. In Ra-esque terms, it is as if the most powerful Wanderers incarnate on Earth have, through the millennia, intelligently joined together in a supremely effective positive-polarity social memory complex which has protected mankind's potential against tremendous opposition, while serving as the nucleus from which Man's future species-wide positive social memory complex should evolve. Which is no big deal... except for being the whole bloody point of our being in form at all in this density, on this sorrow-wracked planet! If this sounds unbelievable, remember that most people who support so-called "consensus reality" would consider (rightfully, from within their worldview) the Ra's existence to be pure fantasy, and we here to be crazily self-deluded ones babbling frightful self-validating cultworthy nonsense of the kind commonly heard when paranoid schizophrenics concoct extravagant cosmic sagas of inter-galactically battling empires, complete with exotic higher densities and dimensions, aliens, gods... all swirling around them personally. Well, as the Sufis say, "The dogs bark-- but the caravan moves on."
* http://www.endlesssearch.co.uk/northeon12.htm
Yes, I went to a Fifth Way school and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!:
Oh, well. Live and learn.
And don't even get me started on that super-fraud, that upstart, the late Idries Shah Sayyed! Some people are just beyond the pale.
"Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens." --- Ditto
The kittéh-subversion angle is always the dead giveaway of that old black-magic sheer-quintessence-of-evil diabolically in play:
When the Waters Were Changed
Quote:Once upon a time Khidr, the teacher of Moses, called upon mankind with a warning. At a certain date, he said, all the water in the world which had not been specially hoarded, would disappear. It would then be renewed, with different water, which would drive men mad.
Only one man listened to the meaning of this advice. He collected water and went to a secure place where he stored it, and waited for the water to change its character.
On the appointed date the streams stopped running, the wells went dry, and the man who had listened, seeing this happening, went to his retreat and drank his preserved water.
When he saw, from his security, the waterfalls again beginning to flow, this man descended among the other sons of men. He found that they were thinking and talking in an entirely different way from before; yet they had no memory of what had happened, nor of having been warned. When he tried to talk to them, he realized that they thought that he was mad, and they showed hostility or compassion, not understanding.
At first, he drank none of the new water, but went back to his concealment, to draw on his supplies, every day. Finally, however, he took the decision to drink the new water because he could not bear the loneliness of living, behaving and thinking in a different way from everyone else. He drank the new water, and became like the rest. Then he forgot all about his own store of special water, and his fellows began to look upon him as a madman who had miraculously been restored to sanity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKzcdz68F6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRKXsJHRBq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5svUTE6PgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7nmFU1eAJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcKgY5WMHtU
https://idriesshahfoundation.org/
http://mystical-faction.blogspot.co.uk/2...m-for.html
Cheers! Fiat lux! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY3aiOXkzUk
From these stars like inverted candles, from these blue awnings of the sky
There has come forth a wondrous people, that the mysteries may be revealed
-- Jalaludin Rumi (13th century Sufi and poet)
https://vimeo.com/25996242
Ancient Sufi symbol, the naqsh or design