I’d like to add something to your story, from my own small experiences with sacred land; that the telling of the story the birds, the grasses, wolves, wild people, and wild vibrating earth reappear; that they are embedded in the land and have left its imprint there. That the land tells us many stories, its very history when our hearts are open and able to hear her cries and songs. Thank you, I am grateful!

The resistance you refer to in your comment in one such moment possessing weight. That’s it! This is an invitation to experience your Wound and then you shoo it away with your excuses.

Very nice, as usual Eric. I look forward to talking with you some day!

Namaste,

Lenny

Nice, very very nice!

We can also notice that the same ecstatic expressions of realization that we can see in Christian religious history, as well as in other faiths, we can observe also in Advaita. The experience of ecstasy happens in areas of human endeavor, especially where the will to make a “break-through” is present and sustained. Yes, these states happen and yes the brain/mind can release its need to hold onto everything with an iron grip and when that happens there is a great softening in the persona. All of that is wonderful. I believe that many people who would describe themselves as part of the Advaita “movement” would concur with all of this. The problem you point out is when these become religious organizations with a small “in” group and a vast “out” group … of winners and losers, that they begin to create their own belief systems. In the case of neo-advaita, its a wholesale negation of actual experience. I’ve seen, recently, where Jeff Foster has changed his own tune regarding this, but he continues to set himself up as the realized one. He would be a lot more compelling were he to do the opposite, but I suspect he needs the ranking.

Thank you again,

Yours, Eric

I loved reading this post. You have hit the nail on the head with the ”candle-in-the-corner-meditative-neo-advaita-brigade”! It is swarming with many old and many new alike these days. The ego-mind will only want to see what it wants to see, or more to the point doesn’t want to see, in order to suit its own personal agenda. I am not meaning to be deliberately critical here but the obvious of the old outdated religious thinking has appeared in a guise pretending to be new! Just another One-is-all religion with so-called better and all-empowering methods to become worthy-when we already are– and therefore illuminated/self-realized.

Thanks for a great post.

David

I also would never describe myself to a teacher to anyone but myself. I write these posts more for myself than anyone else. They are responses to the questions also occur in this consciousness quite out of the blue.

Thank you again!!!!!