--- In [email protected], "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Local Ru author Jed McKenna (pseudoname) points out in > his book Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment that the > story of the Gita is the story of the Break Out Archetype. > The story of you, the seeker on the path. He actually > points out the Krishna lies and cheats and that Arjuna > got a free ride. Refreshing look at a classic from the > standpoint of an awakend soul. A lot of fun actually. > Good challenge to accepted dogma. Tom
Neat. I'll have to check the book out. It probably goes without saying that I have an affinity for offbeat spirituality, those rare looks at the same old same old from a very new perspective. In my opinion that's What It's All About. It's not about reading the great spiritual literature of the past and trying to imagine yourself in that era and "get" it from that point of view, the one appropriate to that world state of consciousness. It's about reading the great spirtual literature of the past and trying to "get" it from the point of view of a dimwitted, addlepated, just-trying-to-get-through-the-day- with-a-modicum-of-class modern spiritual seeker, in *this* world, with *this* world state of consciousness. It takes guts to write this kind of stuff. The safe path is to write about these tales of power of the past as if the power was only *in* the past, in some glorious era that is long gone and may never be realizable again. The unsafe path is to write about this stuff as if it were every- day, as if you lived the same sort of adventures every day, and as if the power encapsulated in these past tales of power were just as available here in the present. It's not about reshaping the world and its world state of consciousness to make it conform with some possibly mythical time in the past. It's about shaping one's every- day consciousness to fit in with the *current* world state of consciousness, and realize that *all* of the higher states of consciousness that were available to the ancients are available right here, right now, as close as the nearest Denny's, or Fatburger, or Windows On The World, or the restaurant overlooking Central Park in New York that they call Nirvana. The power is there in these weird places in the present just as much as it was in those weird places in the past that were recorded in the Gita. Krishna was no more important than some dudes walking the streets of New York or Los Angeles or Boulder or any number of other places right here, right now. Arjuna was no more special than you are, and very possibly a lot less clueful.
