Someone sent me this. Worth forwarding I suppose. Friends, I just read an intersting book and I wanted to share some myths he debunks and I would suggest reading the book! I would be interested in your perspective on these myths and maybe you have some of your own!. William
Spiritual Myths from The Translucent Revolution by Arjuna Ardagh 1 After a spiritual awakening, there is no more ego, and personality traits disappear completely. What remains is just a homogenous oneness with everything. 2. Awake people are not identified with the personality and therefore have no interest in changing it. 3. Awake people have no sense of a separate doer. Therefore they do not initiate action, but sit quietly doing nothing and wait for things to happen by themselves. 4. People who are awake do not have feelings, particularly ³negative² ones like anger, fear, jealousy, or greed. Instead, they are always calm, in an unchanging state, feeling an unbroken oneness with everything. 5. You have to choose between feeling and presence. When you have feelings, you have lost who you are. 6. Awakened people do not need anything from anyone. They do not have relationships, since they feel oneness with everything. 7. It does not matter what you say or do. Once you are enlightened, every action, even lying or manipulation, is spontaneously for the good of all beings. 8. After an awakening, there is only peace and harmony with everyone, with no need to do anything. Translucent relationships are always harmonious. 9. Sex is an event of the lower charkas. Awakened people have transcended sex. Sexual energy completely disappears with awakening. 10 Awake people automatically have open and flowing sex, without the need for any practice. 11 Having children is a distraction to spiritual life. Like Buddha, Jesus, and all the great masters, you must choose between family life and spiritual freedom. 12 After an awakening, all the negative influences from you family will dissolve through divine grace. You will spontaneously know ho to be a perfect parent. 13 Awakened people are naturally creative. Great art flows through them spontaneously, without any need for formal training or skills. 14 Spiritually awake people would have no need to paint, write pietry, or make musinc; those are all just activities of the restless mind. 15 After a spiritual awakening, there is not need to learn anything; you already are everything. 16 Business and spirituality are two separate arenas of life;; inappropriate and embarrassing to mix the two. 17 After any kind of spiritual awakening, money will flow easily and effortlessly into your life, with little or no effort. 18 Money corrupts. Anyone with real spiritual integrity should not be concerned with money, success, or the world. 19 Awakened people are always in perfect health; they never get sick. 20 Those awake to their real nature have spontaneous healing power. Like Jesus, they can cause the sick to rise up and walk. 21 after an awakening, no one needs psychotherapy; there is no ego and no personal life remaining. 22 awakened people are beyond attachment to the body. They have no care if itt lives or dies. 23 After a spiritual awakening, there is no more need for religion. All churches are just for sheep to blindly follow rules. 24 Only very few people in all history have ever known real spiritual experience. The rest of us must be content with a contact high. 25 There is a specific state, in the future, that you can aspire to, where evolution is complete. Then you will flatline, and nothing will ever happen again. Till then, you will know nothing. 26 Spiritual people are beyond the mundane activities of the world; they are just one with what is. Politics and activism are dirty and ignorant. 27 Everything is happening on on its own. There is nothing you can do, and no doer anyway. Nostradamus said there would be a big war, followed by two thousand years of peace. The Mayans support this, and so did the tea leaves in my cup this morning. Involvement in the ways of the world is just interfering with the divine plan. 28 We are entering a golden age; all we have to do is to meditate and love each other and chant OM, and the world¹s problems will evaporate automatically. 29 Capitalists and big corporations are evil. We need an armed insurrection; we can overthrow the oppressors, and the enlightened ones will rule supreme. The world can only be changed through militant political insurrection. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
