--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > > On Oct 9, 2011, at 11:54 AM, maskedzebra wrote: > > > I had been working against my "Enlightenment Hallucination" > > So would you agree that TM can produce a style of psychosis and that this is > what many are seeing as a "higher state of consciousness"?
Answer: I resist giving a simple response to this question. What follows here is strictly my own idiosyncratic view of the matter. I doubt I will take anyone with me in what I say. But I will go ahead anyway. Enlightenment, in the case of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, was real; real here means: functioning in a different context mechanically, behaviourally, experientially. Enlightenment *is* a separate and distinct state of awareness which is as different from waking state as waking state is to dream state. Enlightenment is like waking up from a dream, and it is, unquestionably, the experience of knowing the intention of the entire cosmos is acting through one's individual existence. Unless it has thismechanical, purposefulaspect, it can't be enlightenment. Not the way Maharishi defined it. Not the way Maharishi made it possible for me to know what he was experiencing. But as for the true reality of it: that is: does enlightenment represent the fulfillment, the perfection, the consummation of what it means to be a human being? this I reject categorically. Enlightenmentany state that takes you outside of normal waking stateincluding transcendenceis ultimately an illusion. Note: I am not saying that it isn't something very real as measured by how it allows one to function, the experience it immutably affords one to have at all times, the stability of it, its unconquerable integrity. It is all these things. But the question becomes: *How* is it that this state of consciousness comes about? For sure, it is the perpetual integrated experience of transcendence. But, after all, does enlightenment correspond to objective reality? Does reality seek to have itself embodied in a human being in the form of enlightenment? No. A universal No to this. Which is why Maharishi started to come apart at the end; it is why (if I may speak personally) I started to come apart at the end. Enlightenmentif you're all out therecannot be sustained. And reality will bring it down. If, that is, you put yourself on the line: as in: I am enlightened; let me lead you to the promised land (Unity Consciousness). Just do this technique. Or: let me confront you inside the metaphysical drama of creation. So, strictly speaking, yes, TM "can produce a style of psychosis" which could describe fittingly the state of enlightenment. But I have never seen *anyone* on the earth other than Maharishi that I believe is 'truly enlightened'. Because, as I have said, enlightenment requires the cosmos to appear to be behind one's actions and supporting one's experience of a unified state of consciousness. Enlightenment should and can meet all testsbut one. All the tests short of reality deciding to confront it. Then Reality overpowers reality. And enlightenment is seen for what it really is: a very unnatural, deceitful, black-magical state of consciousness, which alienates one from who one really is. As far as I am concerned Maharishi's version of what enlightenment is is the only true enlightenment of my lifetime. Maharishi lived out the truth of his enlightenmentuntil the universe, or what is behind the universe, decided it had had enough, and in its unfathomable providence decided to bring him down. And is still bringing him down. But it brought me down too. So, then, I deny, challenge, the so-called enlightenment of anyone other than Maharishi. How so, Robin? Because I know I can destabilize and undo that illusion if it gets presented to me in the form of another human being. Not in the form of Maharishi, howevernot when I knew him; not when I was enlightened. The universe allowed Maharishi to represent itself, even though, when it really came down to it, it rejected him, and sent him on his way. And I am still suffering the consequences of this same kind of rejection. That is, I am still finding out how f***ked up I made myself by going into Unity Consciousness on that mountain in Switzerland. So, as long as one stays in waking state, one is all right. But anyone who claims to be enlightened, first of all is not enlightened in the sense that the universe or reality is getting behind that enlightenmentas it did in the case of Maharishi, as it did, in the case of myself; and secondly they are making themselves weaker as a human being than they otherwise would be were they to step out of their so-called enlightenment and become a normal waking state person again. Every guest on BatGap fits this description, and Rick's association with TM and Maharishi renders him far more subtle, fluent, savvy in his conversation about things cosmic than anyone of his guests. They are all in an illusion of one kind of another. But, short of enlightenment, perhaps it's just fine to think one can evolve into a higher state of consciousness through TM or any other meditation technique. Myself, I have not outside of Maharishi encountered a single person who claims to be enlightened who can stand up to the confrontation of their enlightenment. They just get angry or out of control, and the falseness of their experience gets exposed. Nobody, by contrast, could lay a hand on Maharishi. But they could now. Same applies to myself. But since God is no longer enabling us to know his Creationand ourselvesthrough his own grace, well, then, everything is up for grabs. And everyone's reality is just as valid as anyone else's reality. But for sure enlightenment in some objective sense is a form of psychosisbut it may be supported by awesomely powerful invisible beings like Devas, or angels, or discarnate spirits. I think this causality applies to Maharishi, and I have come to believe applies to my myself. If there was anything valid or truthful or objective about enlightenment, the West would have made it an object of scientific study centuries agoand all those Jesuit Missionaries to India and Japan in the fifteenth century would have been brought up short when they encountered some Guru or Roshi. They did not, because enlightenment is a mystical state of consciousness which does not correspond to reality as it is governed and sustained (and was originally created) by a personal Creator. The Holy Ghost was with the Jesuits [like St Francis Xavier]. Enlightenment will never become part of philosophy, psychology, science, or literature: because it is *not real*. Therefore the East is ultimately, in its spirituality, unreal. The spirituality of the West once *was real*. The basis of its reality has gone. And therefore we in the Westespecially since psychedelics moved inhave followed the gods of the East. And this, in my opinion, is all God's fault. Because he abandoned the institution that Christ founded: the Roman Catholic Church. Now just a corpse, but for all that, holding within itself still the intellectual and philosophical integrity which makes the East seem what those Jesuit missionaries knew through grace it was: deceived. Just like Maharishi was deceived, just like I was deceived.
