But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have
That he didn't, didn't already have
America(the band), 1974
If you read any of my previous articles for Rebelle, and this website, than you know
that I’ve been through a very challenging personal ‘Odyssey’
and that I am always on the lookout for ways to heal, mend and move forward.
Recently, I had an encounter with
a truly gifted teacher and healer, who opened me up in a very personal and
vulnerable way, and then gave me a pamphlet listing the programs she offers on 'tuning into one's divinity',
and their cost. Afterward, I wrote this to her: "at
this point in our collective spiritual evolution, I feel it should be untoward
for anyone to charge someone else for teaching them how to be 'more spiritual'.
There's such a void, such a longing to fill, that I'm sure one can make a
fortune. Even if you say that's not why you are doing it. It amounts to that in
the end. I've watched this phenomenon all my life. It truly sickens me.
"Let me cut to the chase further: I have as much
experience and knowledge of the things you are talking about, but I choose to
use that energy directly with the people I meet every day. There's no program;
no cost. There's only Life getting better through the personal exchange
of two human beings being fully open with one another. Therein lays 'real
spirituality'.
"The whole present Gestalt of bringing 'spiritual awareness'
to people assumes that they don't have it, and need it (and if they
can afford to, pay for it).
"It may not
happen in my lifetime, but I'd like to help blast that tripe into the deepest
part of the ocean forever."
I then
went onto to recommend her to read Rebelle Society and Chris Gross’s meme Indie Spiritualist.
From my
perspective on Life, it seems to me that when people have their basic needs met
– food, clothing,
shelter – they then rise up on their hind legs, look skyward,
and want for spiritual and sexual fulfillment. (Not necessarily in that order.)
There are
people among us who are either innately blessed with adept knowledge and skills
in these areas, or they practiced until they mastered them.
I know
from experience that being around spiritual adepts, like Yogis, hastened by own
spiritual growth simply by osmosis. This past weekend I spent Father’s Day at Muktidham, The Abode of Liberation, where
Shrii Kripalvanandji did the last four years of Kundalini yoga sadhana. Just
being there for an hour in silent meditation revitalized me in ways a hundred
yoga classes, or books, would not. The real thing is palpable.
In the
same way, I’ve had special sexual partners who opened me up to states of
ecstasy and bliss that I would not have encountered on my own, or with ordinary
partners.
And here’s my point: when you sell spirituality or sex you not only sully the practice but dissipate its potency.
How?
Because,
the only way to truly advance in one’s knowledge and experience of these
aspects of Life is to be intimate with the source of the teachings and
experience. Without that intimacy, it is just mechanical spiritual practical or
rote Eros.
I’m not
saying it is never all right to pay for guidance in these areas: if you have a
physical or emotional dysfunction that prohibits you from advancing personally,
then yes, by all means get the therapeutic help you need.
But by and
large that is not the case.
One should
not charge money to get into Oz if, for no other reason, than that sooner or
later, your ‘clients’ are going to figure out that Oz is free. I’ve watched
this happen over and over; what was once cherished, and rightly so, becomes yet
another disappointment, something you overpaid for and lost energy on.
It doesn’t have to be that way. But rather than leave you
with a rather dour cautionary note, I’d like to offer a brief video that
shows two people in a loving relationship sharing their spiritual intimacy. You
don’t even have to listen to their words: just observe the sparks in their
eyes, and the barely containable joy in their smiles: http://thecoolvegetarian.com/blog/2014/05/the-key-to-powerful-lasting-love-gabriel-cousens-shanti-gold-cousens-video/
Have a Blissful Day!
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