Forwarded from Occult of Personality
"The distinction matters because the esoteric world, in its current degenerate form, has largely become another expression of the same horizontal drift it claims to be offering an alternative to. The seeker’s spirituality is, in most cases, a refined version of the same appetitive self-project that governs the rest of modern life: self-improvement, self-discovery, self-actualization, the individual as the sovereign subject of his own developmental narrative. He is still following his bliss. The bliss has merely been rebranded as awakening.
"And this is not simply a matter of a neutral figure failing to provide anything useful. The “spiritual but not religious” seeker, the Boomer meditator dissolving judgment in warm undifferentiated awareness, the consumer of commodified Eastern wisdom at the Chopra Center or its ten thousand franchises, is not standing aside from the Hasnamus regime. He is an integral support of it. This requires explanation, because it is not immediately obvious and it is deeply uncomfortable."
https://scottmallett.substack.com/p/the-soil-and-the-seed-obyvatel-ashiata
"And this is not simply a matter of a neutral figure failing to provide anything useful. The “spiritual but not religious” seeker, the Boomer meditator dissolving judgment in warm undifferentiated awareness, the consumer of commodified Eastern wisdom at the Chopra Center or its ten thousand franchises, is not standing aside from the Hasnamus regime. He is an integral support of it. This requires explanation, because it is not immediately obvious and it is deeply uncomfortable."
https://scottmallett.substack.com/p/the-soil-and-the-seed-obyvatel-ashiata
Substack
The Soil and the Seed: Obyvatel, Ashiata Shiemash, and the War on Human Potential
Consider this passage from Gurdjieff’s Paris Meetings of 1943, delivered to a small group of students while the Germans occupied France:
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RIP the Blessed One would've hated Warhammer 🙏🏻😭
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Forwarded from Bellerophon's Autism Plantation
I really can blame them for everything that annoys me
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