„კულტურის აშენება არ შეიძლება, ეს არ არის ჯარი ან ფლოტი“ ვიქტორ ეროფეევი:

ვიქტორ ეროფეევი: „კულტურის აშენება არ შეიძლება, ეს არ არის ჯარი ან ფლოტი“

16 მაისს გამოქვეყნდა რუსეთის სახელმწიფო კულტურის პოლიტიკის საფუძვლების ახალი ვარიანტი. მას კომენტარს უკეთებენ გერმანული საინფორმაციო სააგენტო და ცნობილი რუსი მწერალი.
როდესაც „საფუძვლების“ პირველი ვარიანტი გამოქვეყნდა, მან ბევრი კრიტიკა გამოიწვია - პირველ რიგში, რუსეთის კულტურის მოღვაწეთა მხრიდან. ბევრი ხაზგასმით აღნიშნავდა, რომ კულტურული პოლიტიკის „უარყოფაზე“ აშენება (მინიშნება კეთდებოდა თეზისზე „რუსეთი არ არის ევროპა“) დამღუპველია კულტურისათვის, ხოლო "კულტურული ერთგვაროვნებისკენ“ სწრაფვა ზღუდავს შემოქმედების თავისუფლებას, რაც ეწინააღმდეგება რუსეთის ფედერაციის კონსტიტუციას.
განსაკუთრებული გზაა ურთიერთგამდიდრების ნაცვლად.
რუსეთის სახელმწიფო კულტურის პოლიტიკის საფუძვლების პუბლიკაციას გამოეხმაურა გერმანული საინფორმაციო სააგენტო DPA. მას კომენტარი გაუკეთა DPA-ს მოსკოველმა კორესპონდენტმა ულფ მაუდერმა (Ulf Mauder). მისი აზრით, რომელიც ეფუძნება არა მხოლოდ პროექტის პირველი ვარიანტის ტექსტს, რუსეთი ემზადება კულტურული ბრძოლისათვის დასავლეთსა და აღმოსავლეთს შორის. ამ მიზნით, ხელისუფლება მუშაობს ახალი იდეოლოგიური კონცეფციის შექმნაზე, რომლის მიზანია „ქვეყნის სულიერი და კულტურული ერთიანობის გაძლიერება“  და მისი მოქალაქეების დაცვა დასავლური „სიმახინჯისა“ და „გახრწნისაგან“. ულფ მაუდერის აზრით, შეიძლება მოკლედ რუსეთის კულტურის სამინისტროს მიერ შემუშავებული პროექტის მნიშვნელობის შეჯამება.
კონცეფციის ავტორებს მიაჩნიათ, რომ რუსეთი უნდა განიხილებოდეს როგორც ცივილიზაცია, რომელიც არ შეიძლება დაუკავშირო არც „დასავლეთს“ და არც  „აღმოსავლეთს“. DPA -ს კორესპონდენტმა განსაკუთრებული ყურადღება გაამახვილა იმ ფაქტზე, რომ აქცენტი კეთდება არა ტოლერანტობაზე ან ურთიერთგამდიდრებააზე, არამედ „კონკურენციაზე“. მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ „საფუძვლების“ ახალ, გარკვეულწილად შერბილებულ ვარიანტში საუბარი კონკრეტულად ეხება „რუსეთის, როგორც მსოფლიო კულტურის განუყოფელი ნაწილის გააზრებას“, მთავარი კვლავინდებურად რჩება „თვითმყოფადობა“, „რუსეთისთვის ტრადიციული ზნეობრივი ღირებულებები“, „რუსული ცივილიზაცია“ და ა. შ.
გერმანული საინფორმაციო სააგენტოს ავტორმა თავის კომენტარში შეახსენა გარკვეული აკრძალვების შესახებ, რომელსაც აწყდებოდნენ ოპოზიციური კულტურის მოღვაწეები თავისი გამოსვლებისა და პროექტების განხორციელებისას. კერძოდ, ის მიუთითებდა მუქარის შესახებ მწერალ ვლადიმერ სოროკინის მისამართით და ჯგუფისთვის Pussy Riot თავისუფლების აღკვეთის შესახებ... ხელისუფლების ზეწოლის მაგალითები კულტურის მოღვაწეებზე რუსეთში მრავლადაა, აღნიშნავს ულფ მაუდერი, შეიძლება საკმარისი რაოდენობის მოყვანა, მაგრამ დღემდე საერთო იდეოლოგიური და სამართლებრივი ბაზა ამისთვის არ არსებობდა.
კრიტიკა = მტერია?
ამიტომაც, როგორც DPA-ს კორესპონდენტი აღნიშნავს, რუსეთის კულტურის მინისტრმა ვლადიმერ მედინსკიმ გადაწყვიტა ახალი დოკუმენტის დახმარებით განსაზღვროს კულტურული ცხოვრების ჩარჩოები, მოახდინოს მისი რეგლამენტირება ხელისუფლების თვალსაზრისიდან გამომდინარე. რუსეთის ცნობილი სახეების, როგორიცაა ლუდმილა ულიცკაია, კრიტიკულ განცხადებებს, რომლებიც ადანაშაულებენ ხელისუფლებას იმპერიულ ჩვევებში, ხელისუფლება იგნორირებას უკეთებს. კრემლის მიერ კონტროლირებად მასმედიაში კრიტიკოსები წარმოჩენილი არიან, როგორც რუსეთისა და რუსების მტრები, იუწყება საინფორმაციო სააგენტო DPA- ს კორესპონდენტი.
ერთ-ერთი კრიტიკული ხმა, რომელსაც სამწუხაროდ, კრემლში არ უსმენენ, არის ცნობილი რუსი პროზაიკოსის ვიქტორ ეროფეევის ხმა, რომელიც გერმანიაშიც არის ცნობილი, სადაც ასევე იბეჭდება მისი წიგნები. DW-მ სთხოვა მას კომენტარი გამოქვეყნებულ პროექტზე.
ვიქტორ ეროფეევი:  „სახელმწიფო კულტურული პოლიტიკის საფუძვლები უვაროვის დროს მაგონებსმ მისი „შესანიშნავი“ ლოზუნგით „თვითმპყრობელობა, მართლმადიდებლობა, ხალხურობა“, და მეტყველებს იმაზე, რომ რუსეთის ბიუროკრატიული კონსერვატიზმი ჯერ არ არის აღმოფხვრილი. კულტურის  აშენება არ შეიძლება. ეს არ არის არმია და ფლოტი ... კულტურა თავისთავად ვითარდება, და არავის შეუძლია მისი მოთოკვა, ან გამდიდრება, იმიტომ, რომ ის თავისუფალი და დამოუკიდებელია. რა თქმა უნდა, შეიძლება ხელ-ფეხი შეუკრა ხელოვანებს და საერთოდ ძლიერად აწყენინო ინტელიგენციას, მაგრამ საბჭოთა დროიდან ჩვენ ვიცით: როდესაც ადამიანმა იცის, რა უნდა დაწეროს, ის დაწერს, როგორც პასტერნაკმა დაწერა „ექიმი ჟივაგო“, მანდელშტამმა - მისი ლექსები და ა. შ. და ა. შ.
კულტურა რუსეთში უნიკალურია, ეს ჩვენ კულტურის სამინისტროს გარეშეც ვიცით. რაც შეეხება საბიუჯეტო თანხების გამოყოფას - რაზე უნდა გაიცეს ის და რაზე არა - ასე ადრეც ხდებოდა. ფულს აძლევდნენ იმას, ვინც მხარს უჭერდა ხელისუფლებას, და არა იმას, რაც იყო  თავისუფალი და დამოუკიდებელი. ანუ, ამ თვალსაზრისით, „საფუძვლების“ გამოჩენით არაფერი შეცვლილა, ისევე, როგორც არაფერი შეცვლილა ჩინოვნიკების თავში, რომლებიც ფიქრობენ, რომ ისინი გავლენას მოახდენენ კულტურაზე. უმჯობესი იქნებაა კულტურა ვითარდებოდეს თავისუფლად, ხოლო სახელმწიფო განზე გადგეს. ამ შემთხვევაში რუსეთის კულტურისთვის, რომელსაც აქვს ასეთი დიდი ტრადიციები, ყველაფერი კარგად იქნება“.

Люди всегда будут такими, какими делают их женщины; поэтому, если вы хотите, чтобы были великие и добродетельные люди, — внушите женщинам, что такое величие и добродетель.
Люди злы, но человек добр.
Природа хочет, чтобы дети были детьми, прежде чем быть взрослыми. Если мы хотим нарушить этот порядок, мы произведем скороспелые плоды, которые не будут иметь ни зрелости, ни вкуса и не замедлят испортиться. У ребенка свое особое умение видеть, думать и чувствовать; нет ничего глупее, чем пытаться подменить у их это умение нашим. Дайте детству созреть в детях.
Книги только учат людей говорить о том, чего они не понимают
Человек очень силен, когда он хочет быть только тем, что он есть, и очень слаб, когда хочет подняться выше человечества.
Видеть несправедливость и молчать - это значит самому участвовать в ней.

Царство женщины - это царство нежности, тонкости и терпимости
Дайте детству созреть в детях.
Отказаться от своей свободы - это значит отречься от своего человеческого достоинства, от прав человеческой природы, даже от ее обязанностей. Невозможно никакое возмещение тому, кто от всего отказывается. Подобный отказ несовместим с природою человека; лишить человека свободы воли - это значит лишить его действия какой бы то ни было нравственности.



Когда мужчина берет жену ниже себя по званию, он не унижает себя, но возвышает свою супругу; наоборот, заключая брак с особою более высокого звания, он унижает ее и сам не возвышается.
Жан-Жак Руссо

"Trans-humanism is merely the tantalizing carrot to seduce the population with all it’s superhuman potential, including anti-aging and longevity..Such will always appeal to the masses in an offering artificially what has been taken away artificially in the first place. What was removed from our Being is what is Rightfully ours and always was. We must endeavor to Re-remember and take back and Ingrain as much Consciousness from this enforced amnesia and false programming as possible, for that is what ultimately breaks the matrix and it’s A.I containment field seeking the ultimate consummation.”


"The model is Jungian in its mythopoetic roots, as the terminology indicates. Each archetypal energy potential is modeled on a triune pyramidal structure where the bottom two represent a bipolar dysfunctional or shadow form, and the apex represents the mature fully integrated form. The archetypes are traced back to their emergence at different developmental stages in the lifecycle. However, the phylogeny-ontogeny correlation is not made explicitly like in a classical developmental psychology model, nor may it be valid. However, it is shown how a healthy man’s potentiation necessarily requires a healthy boy pyramid apex inhabitation followed by transcendence. Importantly, each archetype is shown in a complementary relationship with the others for a fully integrated personhood. And some injunctions are offered to ‘access’ the hidden potentials. The King energy represents the qualities of bringing order, balance and ‘fertilizing’. In its unintegrated state-stage it is subject to usurpation syndrome or the abdication syndrome. The Warrior archetype represents self-discipline, cautious aggression, creative destruction and loyalty to a transpersonal goal. The two key vulnerabilities to watch out for here are the hatred of the weak and the helpless (the Sadist’s own hidden Masochist) and the compulsive obsession to ‘succeed’. The Magician is the knower (theory) and he is the master of technology (application). It is also the ‘bullshit detector’ and it sees evil for what and where it is when it masquerades as goodness, as it so often does. In Eastern parlance this is the Jnana Yogi/ Zen Master – there is a trickster element to make it unpredictable and inscrutable. The Lover embodies aesthetic consciousness, with the two primary roles being the artist (broadly defined) and the psychic. The artist lives very close to the fiery power of the creative unconscious, the genuine psychic in a world of sensations and “vibrations” of deeply felt intuitions. His interests are the opposite of the Warrior’s, the Magician’s and the King’s concerns for boundaries, containment, order and discipline. Overall, within the remit of what the authors set out for themselves, they’ve done a very decent job. This book is essential reading for both men and women who feel torn and confused in a culture of political correctness & archetypal suppression after suffering the 0-7 year itch." - Neelesh Marik


The Hyperdimensional Matrix Control System affects us in more ways than we are aware of, especially people who are actively engaged in consciousness raising activities, seeking truth, and speaking out about it. There are many traps, distractions, and temptations in the process of awakening for the truth seeker, be it through our own minds, like psychic attacks or entity attachments, or forces working through others who are being used as “portals” to vector us off our path. Think of Agent Smith being able to inject himself into any character in the film “The Matrix” trying to stop Neo from awakening. Hence, blind people, people who are asleep, plugged into the Matrix – the grand illusion – can become unconscious “tools” and puppets of the Matrix to make sure no one jumps out of line. It’s easy to fall into paranoia, especially in light of comprehending the scale of hyperdimensional manipulation. These archonic critters hook into our blind spots, triggers, traumas and wounds, thereby feeding off our ‘lower’ emotions (and creating them through us). [...] By consistently experiencing positive emotions in a fully embodied and integrated way – as opposed to chasing a philosophical/spiritual ideal in a contrived way (of being positive/loving and ignoring the negative, one of the fallacies of New Age Thought), we also turn off the food source for negative hyperdimensional entities. In other words, we can starve them to the point that they lose interest and move on, and we don’t become subjected to their constant attacks and manipulations. [...] Resisting pain and negative emotions actually creates more pain. We live in a world where most people run away from their internal pain, and project it outwardly onto the world (and other people) in unconscious ways. In short, it’s the avoidance of unconscious, repressed pain that creates conflict between people, which can even be ‘scaled-up’ into inter-tribal, “us versus them” warfare. Unacknowledged and unprocessed negative emotions are exactly what the archonic overlords feed upon, which is why they try their best to keep us in that lower frequency through the mechanism of our own minds, which most often results in us fighting each other. [...] So this is the ironic paradox in the anchoring equation: in order to access a higher vibration and feel more positive emotions on a consistent basis, we need to “love” any negative emotions that come up, without judgment, and without attempting to fight them, resist them, or over-analyze how pathological we or others are as a result of them arising in us. It’s not about avoiding these feelings in an attempt to access love – the only way out is through.... Full article:

Also relates to Tim McClew's recent write-up.

"This deviousness brings up an even-more fundamental tool of misdirection: the truth that all religious archetypes and iconographies are allegorical reference points which are designed to reinforce the original deception - the 'fall' of humanity.
That event was, in fact, NOT due to some innate "flaw" (sin/pride/avarice) within our species, but rather was the result of the genetic manipulation of our fundamental coding, and the insertion of various implants into our collective consciousness by which to maintain the mutant matrix of our current false 'reality'.
Not only do these figures reinforce the enslavement that arises from adherence to external authoritarian ("higher beings") programs, but they actually weaken your central nervous system via the simple act of gazing upon their symbolic representations. Try muscle testing someone as they look at Buddha and you will see why Siddhartha pleaded with people not to worship him, nor to make laws of his observational principles.

When well-meaning Westerners sit in rapturous trance-like states at Kirtan, do they realize they are singing songs of praise (and providing energy to) archetypes of warlords who raped, pillaged, and committed genocide? There are chapters in the Vedas that are 'off-limits' and/or censored due to concerns that they may "confuse" followers - with verses that describe in gory detail the exploits of the Hindu "god impersonators".


"[There are] strange creatures of other planes. Creatures, many of us would be frightened to death of if we could actually see them. We seldom realize that our passions and hates create these demonical beings in the superphysical world, but this is one of the secrets to black magic. Every evil or debased thought and emotion of man helps build these tearing, rending creatures, the innate qualities of which become in the hands of those who know, agencies for the destruction of light. It also seems part of plan, that those who chain these demons shall themselves fall victims to their own slaves, for one after another, the black magicians are sucked into a maelstrom of the astral hell. [...] The terms incubus and succubus have been applied indiscriminately by the Church Fathers to elementals. The incubus and succubus, however, are evil and unnatural creations, whereas elementals is a collective term for all the inhabitants of the four elemental essences. According to Paracelsus, the incubus and succubus (which are male and female respectively) are parasitical creatures subsisting upon the evil thoughts and emotions of the astral body. These terms are also applied to the superphysical organisms of sorcerers and black magicians. While these larvæ are in no sense imaginary beings, they are, nevertheless, the offspring of the imagination. By the ancient sages they were recognized as the invisible cause of vice because they hover in the ethers surrounding the morally weak, and continually incite them to excesses of a degrading nature. For this reason they frequent the atmosphere of the dope den, the dive, and the brothel, where they attach themselves to those unfortunates who have given themselves up to iniquity. By permitting his senses to become deadened through indulgence in habit-forming drugs or alcoholic stimulants, the individual becomes temporarily en rapport with these denizens of the astral plane. The houris seen by the hasheesh or opium addict and the lurid monsters which torment the victim of delirium tremens are examples of submundane beings, visible only to those whose evil practices are the magnet for their attraction." ~ Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages


Individuality is the embodied individualized soul as a conscious transducer for higher energies, being the “instrument” for Divine Will. Individuality DOES NOT mean ego/personality identification (the false “I”), or what the matrix/official culture promotes as “Individuality” which is most often a “cult of personality”. In the same context, becoming a sovereign emancipated Individual does not imply that one is an “independent” human being, separate from everything else. That illusory idea stems from the over-riding head-centric male aspect of consciousness, the (inner) tyrant who is identified with self-achieved (false) independence. From a spiritual and holistic perspective, being a sovereign embodied Individual is based upon a deep recognition (on an embodied level) of the interrelationship of life, fully tuned into nature and the Divine/Spirit as an individualized (but not separate) expression of it – a fractal aspect of the universal Hologram. It stems from the feminine aspect of consciousness, which is grounded in Being. A sovereign emancipated Individual is not influenced by external influences/intrusions which the Matrix attempts to inset into their consciousness: any form of rulers/authority (including hyperdimensional interference) or social/cultural programming/spiritual conditioning. But he/she is also not an isolated, “independent” and separate being, but deeply connected to (and in alignment with) nature, spirit and the Divine, as a conscious vessel/transducer for Divine Will. Being, in the true meaning of the word, does not mean that one is just passive (another common misconception). It is the still point (zero-point consciousness) from which our wholeness can be informed by the world’s wholeness (listening to world through the body, anchored in the pelvic floor/gut, the seat of the feminine aspect of consciousness), and then respond to it from this grounded space. It is from this state of Being wherein spontaneous, perfect action arises – action that is in alignment with nature and Divine Will. It is receptive to “what is”, contrary to the reactionary “tyrant” of the male aspect of consciousness, who is threatened by the present moment (and, essentially, afraid of the Feminine), addicted to “willful doing” and head-centric analysis, with a desperate need to control the “outside world”, which only results in more and more fragmentation, for the intellect/mind can never ever perceive wholeness.


“There is always this critical hostile voice in everybody's nature, questioning, reasoning, denying the experience itself, suggesting doubt of oneself and doubt of the Divine. One has to recognise it as the voice of the Adversary trying to prevent the progress and refuse credence to it altogether.” Sri Aurobindo “Half of the time you think you’re thinking, you’re actually listening.” Terence McKenna

To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful. ------C.G. Jung

"Ничего не знаешь – живешь себе, расхаживаешь по земле, скачешь верхом по лесам, а на тебя то и дело что-нибудь взирает так требовательно, так обнадеживающе и так волнующе, рождая в душе тоску: вечерняя звезда, синяя головка колокольчика, мутно-зеленое озеро, глаза человека или коровы; и порою кажется, будто вот-вот рассеется прозрачная пелена, отделяющая тебя от остального мира, и случится нечто невиданное и вместе с тем давно желанное, но время течет, ничего не происходит, и загадка остается неразгаданной, тайные чары не развеяны, а ты не успел оглянуться, как уже состарился…и все также ничего не знаешь, все также ждешь и прислушиваешься." Гессе.«Нарцисс и Гольдмунд»


From Boyhood to Manhood "Patriarchy is the expression of the immature masculine. It is the expression of Boy psychology, and, in part, the shadow— or crazy— side of masculinity. It expresses the stunted masculine, fixated at immature levels. Patriarchy, in our view, is an attack on masculinity in its fullness as well as femininity in its fullness. Those caught up in the structures and dynamics of patriarchy seek to dominate not only women but men as well. Patriarchy is based on fear— the boy’s fear, the immature masculine’s fear— of women, to be sure, but also fear of men. Boys fear women. They also fear real men. What is missing is not, for the most part, what many depth psychologists assume is missing; that is, adequate connection with the inner feminine. In many cases, these men seeking help had been, and were continuing to be, overwhelmed by the feminine. What they were missing was an adequate connection to the deep and instinctual masculine energies, the potentials of mature masculinity. They were being blocked from connection to these potentials by patriarchy itself, and by the feminist critique upon what little masculinity they could still hold onto for themselves……………." ~ King, Warrior, Magician, Lover Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette

https://www.newlifetucson.com/cvglobal.html?page=loneliness&kw=lonely%20man&mt=b&loc=9004370&n=g&d=c&adp=2t1&cid=1051191486&adgid=51877301272&tid=kwd-16300586&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3ObE_vKJ3QIVQ1mGCh14SAWuEAAYASAAEgIu_vD_BwE

https://www.supercall.com/culture/drinking-alone-without-looking-sad

https://pairedlife.com/problems/Stop-Explaining-to-The-Narcissist-Do-This-Instead

Intimacy is often times mistaken as physical closeness alone: hugging, cuddling, kissing, sex. However, if there is no emotional intimacy (as in emotional relating) and a feeling of safety in a relationship, then physical intimacy and sex can only go that far. In order to truly open up to a partner and go deep we need to feel safe and be able to share emotional intimacy, our fears, mistakes, traumas, wounds and pains and receive each other with compassion and empathy. For many people physical intimacy comes easier than emotional intimacy. For others it is the other way around. Often times people avoid emotional intimacy by focusing on physical intimacy, using sex to buffer up their vulnerability.

In order to be emotional intimate with a partner we need to be able to be intimate with ourselves, feeling our vulnerability without judgment and developing healthy self-love. If we are not comfortable with our own vulnerability, we cannot receive the vulnerability of another person fully and emotional intimacy is blocked. No matter how hot the sex and how great physical intimacy is, if we don’t develop or have emotional intimacy and the safety to express ourselves that way, a relationship and the sexual union can go only so far, keeping it on a lower vital level.

We need safety and healthy boundaries in order to establish intimacy on all levels. This safety is more than just feeling “secure” and boundaries don’t mean rejection or avoidance. It is about taking care of ourselves. Our body gives us constantly clues about what is safe for us and what not. The more we are in touch with our bodies, the more we can receive these messages which also puts us in touch with our vulnerability. It’s important to listen to these bodily sensations which go deeper than just sexual feelings. Most often they are buried under layers of “armor”. It’s easy to rationalize these deeper sensations away, judging ourselves for not opening up when it doesn’t feel safe. Don’t listen to the mind, trust your body and don’t judge yourself for however you feel.

Emotional intimacy goes hand in hand with trust, knowing that we can be completely ourselves with all our vulnerability and always be received with compassion and empathy in a safe container by a partner. But before we can receive another person like that ourselves, or even express ourselves that way, we must be able to to be compassionate with ourselves and love ourselves, the dark and light, neither inflating or diminishing ourselves.

Otherwise we will keep looking for the illusory partner, who never comes and whom we want to be a certain way, when in fact this is what we need to give to ourselves first. Sometimes we’re looking for a “savior” in a partner unconsciously but it is a projection of what we have denied or avoided to give ourselves: healthy self-love, vulnerability and inner safety. Before we can develop deeper trust with a partner, we need to be able to trust ourselves and the deeper clues our bodies are giving us

Consider the quality of grace: when you watch a really fine dancer move with accomplished fluidity and precision, you might marvel at the grace she possesses. You might even feel a sense of awe similar to what you’d feel witnessing a murmuration of starlings sweep and ascend and condense against the evening sky. Even so, you’d likely not say, “Those starlings possess a lot of grace.” Their flight does not express a quality they possess; it is a highly attuned response to the felt energy of the Present that expresses the grace of that energy. Watching the starlings, feeling them, you are feeling the grace of the present moment made manifest.

The same is essentially true of the dancer, the actor, or any other artist. What moves the arm in space or the brush across the canvas is not a quality the artist possesses. Each is moved, rather, by her attunement to the world as it passes through her and by the sensitivity that enables that attunement. As we witness that attunement, it attunes us. We resonate to it, carried into the moment, feeling the Present with a renewed, exquisite sensitivity.

[...] Again, that reality is not something you possess but something that lives through you. You cannot know it objectively, but you can attune to it.

[...] the qualities we most deeply cherish - spaciousness, ease, connection, love, spontaneity, grace, freedom, joy, truth, harmony - are properties of the Present; you cannot self-achieve or supervise your way into any of them. They don’t even exist independent of the Present.

But if you join the Present - if you surrender to it and allow yourself to be carried by its currents - you will partake of its spaciousness, its grace, its ease, its poise.

[...] The dancer’s gift is to reveal the grace of the organic whole through her sensitivity to it. She does not possess that grace; she submits to it - and through her perfect submission, we, too, feel it."

~ Philip Shepherd, 'Radical Wholeness'

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Question: When a human being is possessed by a hostile (occult) force, what becomes of his psychic being (soul) ?

The Mother Mirra Alfassa: It depends on the degree of the possession. Usually it is something progressive. First there is an influence under which one comes, and comes in a fragmentary way, not even totally in his being, but in certain parts and for a time. This is the first stage. The second: the influence becomes permanent and there is one part of the being which deteriorates, which is constantly under this influence and expresses it. After this, the being which has cast this influence tries to enter that part. Then, usually, this produces a conflict, a kind of inner battle. People have fits, sometimes even nervous morbid fits. In trying to resist, the two parts of the being come constantly into conflict, and this produces great imbalance, even physical imbalance. But if one doesn’t know how to resist and doesn’t succeed in shaking off the hold, then gradually the being that has seized upon a part of the person acts like an octopus and spreads its tentacles like that, slowly and everywhere; and finally it is a total possession.

At the moment of the total possession, either the possessed person becomes completely unbalanced or he becomes a kind of monster and his psychic being leaves him [soul extraction]. Usually, in the human being the psychic is strong enough to be able to resist, and the most frequent case is that of constant conflict between the two parts, until the psychic being, if it is strong enough and knows how to lean on a greater strength than its own, is capable of rejecting this influence and freeing itself. It is only in an extreme case of a total possession that the psychic being goes away.

It sometimes happens that a child is still-born, that is, just at the moment of birth it dies or a few minutes later, or an hour or two later, you see, just at that time. In these cases it happens that it is the psychic being which has decided not to use this body. But if, for example, the doctor who is looking after the case is a clever man or the nurse a clever person and they can bring back life into the body by artificial respiration or such means, most often it is a hostile being which gets hold of this body. There have been cases like that, children who seemed to be dead, that is, the psychic being had left the body, and before it had died completely, a vital being had entered and taken its place. Such cases have been known. And these beings are demons. In life they become veritable demons. There are not many of them."

- from "Collected Works of the Mother, Volume 6" [Integral Yoga]

A “healer” doesn’t heal you. A healer is someone who triggers within you, your own ability to heal yourself. Your own body knows what to do and it is always striving towards wholeness and healing (on all levels: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual) if given the space to do so. You have the power all within yourself and you are your own healer, even though we all need assistance sometimes (asking for help can be very challenging for some people) to have the space and safety to let it happen.

We cannot do “self-work” on our own all the time, especially since we all have blindspots and triggers that only appear in relationship. By “relationship” I don’t mean just romantic, but our relations to everyone because relationship is all there is: how you relate to everyone and anything in your daily life, the food you eat, the streets you walk, the nature surrounding you, the situations you find yourself in, the people you meet and interact with, any “thing” you have, how you relate to yourself, etc.

It’s so easy to resist and complain in our daily lives and find fault in anything that is not the way we “like” things to be, most often based on our conditioned preferences (resulting in shadow projections), our self-importance (identification with our personality/ego), first world privileges, and our social/cultural conditioning that has removed us from nature and who we truly are.

But one of the most struggling things is for people to “go there” because real shadow work and confronting your fears (most of them unconscious) and stored trauma in the body is not a walk in the park, far from it. We can read books and quotes about it and may understand it intellectually but the work itself is painful, scary, messy and requires immense courage, but not the courage of being “tough”. It’s the courage to not resist discomfort, not escape into the head or back into your comfort zone, but to be vulnerable and feel it all in the body, for the healing only happens through the body, beyond any intellectual analysis.

That’s where the rubber hits the road when it comes to self-work and the internal alchemical fire for transmutation gets ignited through the friction of discomfort and “conscious suffering” as Gurdjieff and many other teachers have talked about, without resisting it, escaping it, nor projecting it outwardly by blaming others or your situation. It requires incredible self-ownership and responsibility for everything you feel.

The only way out is through and there IS light at the end of the tunnel as you realize on a deep embodied level (not just intellectually) that any fear you have had was just an illusion and didn’t reflect your true self, or that you have taken on stuff that is not yours to carry; that you always did the best you could at anytime of your life based on where you were at. Forgiveness for self and others plays a big part in it. That unconditional acceptance of what “is” opens the space for healing on much deeper levels.

"[There are] strange creatures of other planes. Creatures, many of us would be frightened to death of if we could actually see them. We seldom realize that our passions and hates create these demonical beings in the superphysical world, but this is one of the secrets to black magic. Every evil or debased thought and emotion of man helps build these tearing, rending creatures, the innate qualities of which become in the hands of those who know, agencies for the destruction of light. It also seems part of plan, that those who chain these demons shall themselves fall victims to their own slaves, for one after another, the black magicians are sucked into a maelstrom of the astral hell.
[...]
The terms incubus and succubus have been applied indiscriminately by the Church Fathers to elementals. The incubus and succubus, however, are evil and unnatural creations, whereas elementals is a collective term for all the inhabitants of the four elemental essences.

According to Paracelsus, the incubus and succubus (which are male and female respectively) are parasitical creatures subsisting upon the evil thoughts and emotions of the astral body. These terms are also applied to the superphysical organisms of sorcerers and black magicians. While these larvæ are in no sense imaginary beings, they are, nevertheless, the offspring of the imagination. By the ancient sages they were recognized as the invisible cause of vice because they hover in the ethers surrounding the morally weak, and continually incite them to excesses of a degrading nature.

For this reason they frequent the atmosphere of the dope den, the dive, and the brothel, where they attach themselves to those unfortunates who have given themselves up to iniquity. By permitting his senses to become deadened through indulgence in habit-forming drugs or alcoholic stimulants, the individual becomes temporarily en rapport with these denizens of the astral plane. The houris seen by the hasheesh or opium addict and the lurid monsters which torment the victim of delirium tremens are examples of submundane beings, visible only to those whose evil practices are the magnet for their attraction."

~ Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Before we can "wake up" or engage in the process of awakening we need to see (and essentially admit) how asleep we actually are, realizing our mechanical, conditioned, and programmed ways of thinking/feeling/doing under the illusion of control and "free will" with various occult (hidden) forces working through us, moving and manipulating us like puppets on strings. It's what Gurdjeff called coming face to face with the "horror of the situation", not only regarding the lies "out there" of official cult-ure but the lies we've been telling ourselves which only reveal themselves via sincere esoteric/psychological self-work.....which then leads to the necessary disillusionment, the shamanic decent into the underworld to engage in the Great Work to ascent and be reborn in the true Self in alignment with the Divine.

"The apparent freedom and self-assertion of our personal being to which we are so profoundly attached, conceal a most pitiable subjection to a thousand suggestions, impulsions, forces which we have made extraneous to your little person. Our ego, boasting of freedom, is at every moment the slave, toy and puppet of countless beings, powers, forces, influences in universal Nature. All life is the play of universal forces. The individual gives a personal form to these universal forces.

But he can choose whether he shall respond or not to the action of a particular force. Only most people do not really choose – they indulge the play of the forces. Your illnesses, depressions, etc. are the repeated play of such forces. It is only when one can make oneself free of them that one can be the true person and have a true life – but one can be free only by living in the Divine.”

- Sri Aurobindo

Two years ago my brother Humberto Braga made this incredible art video. It was fun (and hard work) to help him realize his vision. Check it out!

"ARISE" is a music video/ experimental narrative which presents a journey through universally archetypal themes, touching the divine peaks and darkest hells of the human experience. It embodies the dance between life & death, light & dark, and good & evil. Through experiencing the transformation in between, it ultimately transcends the polarized boundary between the two extremes, and we discover that only through this embodied journey toward understanding "what is" can we consciously evolve and arise.

Video & music by Humberto Braga

n the Gospel of Thomas Jesus tells us:
"The seeker should not stop until he finds. When he does find, he will be disturbed. After having been disturbed, he will be astonished. Then he will reign over everything."

These four short sentences contain, for me, the essence of Jesus's inner teaching to humanity and the essence of that Path of Radical Embodiment that he pioneered. What Jesus has given to all humanity is not a path of union with the Transcendent only, but a path through which the transcendent powers of love and wisdom are embodied in the core of human life. This path is at once the most difficult of all, because it invokes a gruelling and dangerous descent into the personal and collective shadow, and the most empowering, because if it is taken far and deep, it births a new kind of human being: one whose mind is illumined by gnosis, whose heart is aflame with a sacred passion of compassion, and whose body becomes, over time, the conscious receptacle of divine energy.

That contact with the Transcendent will initially cause chaos in our understanding of ourselves and the world. It will demand that we undertake a Descent into our own and the world's shadow and uncover and become conscious of the personal and collective forces of evil and destructiveness. Before we make the descent, it is essential to make vivid and ecstatic contact with the Transcendent Light first, because it is this contact, and the faith in the grace and protection of the Divine that it brings, that will give the "finder" the dogged passion and naked courage that she will need to undertake the marriage of the Light with every aspect of the psychic and physical life."

Andrew Harvey, Sacred Activism

patriarchy is not the expression of deep and rooted masculinity. for truly deep and rooted masculinity is not abusive. Patriarchy is the expression of the immature masculine. It is the expression of Boy psychology, and, in part, the shadow - or crazy - side of masculinity. It expresses the stunted masculine, fixated at immature levels.

Patriarchy.. is an attack on masculinity in its fulness as well as femininity in its fullness. Those caught up in the structures and dynamics of patriarchy seek to dominate not only women but men as well. Patriarchy is based on fear - the boy's fear, the immature masculine's fear - of women, to be sure, but also fear of men. Boys fear women. They also fear real men.

The patriarchal male does not welcome the full masculine development of his sons or his male subordinates any more than he welcomes the full development of his daughters, or his female employees.....

What we are really being attacked by is the immaturity in human beings who are terrified of our advances on the road toward masculine or feminine fullness of being....

We need to learn to love and be loved by the mature masculine. We need to learn to celebrate authentic masculine power and potency, not only for the sake of our personal well-being as men and for our relationships with others, but also because the crisis in mature masculinity feeds into the global crisis of survival we face as a species. Our dangerous and unstable world urgently needs mature men and mature women if our race is going to go on at all in the future."

from "King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette

the bestselling, widely heralded, Jungian introduction to the psychological foundation of a mature, authentic, and revitalized masculinity.

Redefining age-old concepts of masculinity, Jungian analysts Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette make the argument that mature masculinity is not abusive or domineering, but generative, creative, and empowering of the self and others. Moore and Gillette clearly define the four mature male archetypes that stand out through myth and literature across history: the king (the energy of just and creative ordering), the warrior (the energy of aggressive but nonviolent action), the magician (the energy of initiation and transformation), and the lover (the energy that connects one to others and the world), as well as the four immature patterns that interfere with masculine potential (divine child, oedipal child, trickster and hero). King, Warrior, Magician, Lover is an exploratory journey that will help men and women reimagine and deepen their understanding of the masculine psyche.

Humans urge each other to satisfy their lower desires because they think that they will be the ones to profit and enjoy the results, but it is not so! The only ones to profit are the ones they work for, which is something they do not realize until they have lost all their joy, their strength, their inspiration. The invisible entities in man come and feast themselves, unbeknownst to him. The day we realize this and understand that we have spent our lives working for others, not for our own benefit… that our divine Nature is not the one to be enriched, nor fulfilled, it will be too late.
Who benefits, who are the “others”? It would take too long to explain now, but many entities feast themselves at our expense! Generations of humans have worked to satisfy them, and we are left with an inheritance that we drag along with us, myriad creatures who profit from the way we live, without our ever knowing it.

Those who observe themselves carefully see that after gratifying certain desire, they lose their peace of mind, their energy, their lucidity… which is proof that others were enjoying themselves in their stead; if we were clairvoyant at that time, we would see millions and millions of creatures robbing us of our energies. You think everything that you do under the impulse of the personality is done for your own welfare (which is why you are so insistent on obeying those impulses), but if you knew it was not for you, that millions of other beings both visible and invisible push you into doing these things, that you work for them in their interest, not in yours, perhaps you would not be in such a hurry nor so convinced that you are right in everything you do.

The whole point is to know when you are working for your benefit and when you are working for the lower entities or family spirits who ruin you. You must make every effort to dominate and control such entities, reducing them to silence, otherwise you are no more than an animal - a domesticated animal. We human beings are like animals in employ of forces outside of ourselves that we spend our lives working for.”


- Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov - Man’s Two Natures, Human and Divine

http://indigo.com.ge/articles/komunizmis-kristianuli-utopia

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Человек - это не робот, он вкладывает в поведение своё сердце, чувства и индивидуальность. Культура свободы выбора превратилась в культуру механических реакций. В обществе таких "культурных" людей сначала приятно, потом скучно, а затем можно просто сойти с ума. Вообще, слово скука появилось после внедрения Фордом на своих заводах конвейеров. При встрече двух биороботов может произойти следующее: - если их программы сильно отличаются,они,не останавливаясь,пройдут мимо друг друга; - если есть схожие части программы,они вежливо поприветствуют друг друга одновременно подумав "А кто это был?";на самом деле у них просто одна операционная система,а потому один звук её загрузки; - один из них постарается что-то продать другому; - один из них постарается обмануть другого; - один из них предложит другому выпить;согласившись,они пойдут искать третьего. Алкоголь на некоторое время вводит сознание биоробота в изменённое состояние, поэтому по технике безопасности надо пить не меньше чем втроём, чтобы вместе сохранять работоспособность своих программ; - оба оценят возможности создания семьи или просто временных отношений; - рассмотрев друг друга каждый решит,что он более "крутая" модель; - увидев особенности друг друга, у обоих возникнет желание апгрейда - зависть; - если на апгрейд нет денег - возникнет гнев; - один биоробот должен в любом случае опасаться другого биоробота, чтобы его не разобрали на запчасти; Аффирмации стандартного биоробота Для биороботов время от времени придумывают особые программы, которые якобы помогают биороботу решать поставленные перед ним задачи собственными силами. Это копия молитвенной практики, но несущей в себе цель сбалансировать программу биоробота до приемлемого и жизнеутверждающего состояния. Этакая молитва атеиста.. Несправедливость, с которой мы постоянно сталкиваемся в нашей жизни, обусловлена наличием множества ложных стереотипов сознательно внедряемых в наше общество. Например: навязанное обществу деление труда людей на умственный и физический - ложно. Получается, что плотник головой не думает, когда строит дом, а только руками работает. Очевидно, что это - ложь. Хорошего плотника отличают его знания! Он знает, как надо сделать сруб, крышу, крыльцо и т.д. А писатель (работник «умственного труда») очень устает не только «умственно», но и физически, когда пишет ручкой на бумаге. Такое разделение труда на «умственный» и «физический» сделано умышленно, чтобы скрыть труд управленческий и не нести ответственности за качество этого труда. Изначально труд всех людей делится на управленческий и производительный. Производительный труд, - в результате которого появляется какой-либо продукт. Такой продукт может быть материальным (булка, дом, стол, станок и т.п.) или информационным (картина художника, книга писателя и т.п.). Поэтому к производительному труду мы относим труд всех людей, производящих продукты, как материальной культуры общества, так и информационной культуры (духовной). Это труд слесаря и плотника, писателя и врача, ученого и изобретателя и т.д. Работники управленческого труда (управленцы), осуществляют «сборку», координацию (согласование) усилий работников производительного труда. На разных уровнях управления (цех, завод, город, страна) объем такой управленческой деятельности различный, но суть работы одна - осуществлять управление людьми для достижения определенных целей управления.

http://zakonvremeni.ru/publications/24-chronological/19717-velichko-mv-egregorialno-matrichnoe-upravlenie.html

Mindfulness is being an adult. It is unattainable for someone who lacks inner cohesion, personal continuity, and integration. Being a fair witness requires a healthy ego, because distance and objectivity are unavailable to someone with poor boundaries, no tolerance of ambiguity, and no sense of a personal center.

Mindfulness can be either consciousness without content (pure awareness with no attention to any particular issue or feeling) or consciousness with content (attention without ego intrusions, called mindfulness of the mind).

Mindfulness is a courageous venture because it is trusting that we have it in us to hold and tolerate our feelings, to grant them hospitality no matter how frightening they seem, to live with them in equipoise. We then discover a strength within us that is equivalent of self-discovery. From that self-esteem comes effective relating with others. Because mindfulness leads us to let go of ego by letting go of fear and grasping, it is an apt tool for relating. It makes us present to others, without the buffers of the neurotic ego.

We simply stay with someone as he/she is, noticing not judging. We take what a partner does as information without having to sensor or blame. In doing this we put space around and event rather than crowding it with our own beliefs, fears, and judgments. Such mindful presence dress us from constricting identification with another’s actions. A healthy relationship is one in which there are more and more such spacious moments.

Mindfulness is not meant to helps us escape reality but to see it clearly, without the blinding overlays of the ego.

Mindfulness is inherent in human nature. We were built to pay attention to reality. Indeed, paying attention is a survival technique. Over the years, though, we learn to escape reality and take refuge in illusory sanctuaries built by and ego frightened of reality. We notice that it is easier to believe what will make us feel better, and we feel entitled to expect that others will be what we need them to be. These are man-made chains that look like links to happiness. But once we commit ourselves to experience divested of ego wishes and attachments, we begin to act straightforwardly, becoming truthful with one another.

The healthy ego is the part of us that can observe self, situations, and persons, assess them; and respond in such a way as to move towards our goals. It assists us in relationships by making us responsible and sensible in our choices and commitments.

The neurotic ego, on the other hand, is the part of us that is compulsively driven or stymied by fear or desire, feeding arrogance, entitlement, attachment, and the need to control other people. Sometimes it is self-negating and makes us feel we are victims of others. This neurotic ego is the one we are meant to dismantle as our spiritual task in life.

The neurotic ego wants to follow the path of least resistance. The spiritual Self wants to reveal new paths.

Childhood forces influence present choices, for the past is on a continuum with the present. Early business that is still unfinished does not have to be a sign of immaturity; rather, it can signal continuity. Recurrence of childhood themes in adult relationships gives our life depth in that we are not superficially passing over life events but inhabiting them fully as they evolve. Our past becomes a problem only when it leads to a compulsion to repeat our losses or smuggles unconscious determinants into our decisions. Our work, then, is not to abolish our connection to the past but to take it into account without being at tis mercy. The question is how much the past interferes with our chances at healthy relating and living in accord with our deepest needs, values, and wishes.

Every person needs the nourishment of food throughout life. Likewise, a psychologically healthy person needs the sustenance of the five A’s - attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing. It is true that unmet needs for the five A’s in childhood cannot be made up for later in life, in the sense that they cannot be fulfilled so absolutely, so immediately, or so unfailingly. That absolute, immediate fulfillment of needs by one person is appropriate only to infants.

But needs can be fulfilled, in short or longterm installments, throughout life. The problem is not that we seek gratification but that we seek too much of it all at once. What we did not receive enough of before, we cannot receive enough of now; what we did receive enough of before, we can receive enough of now.

We do not outgrow our early needs. Rather they become less overwhelming, and we find less primitive ways to fulfill them. For example, an infant may need to be cradled and carried, while an adult may be satisfied with a supportive remark and a kindly glance. Sometimes a lifelong need can be fulfilled by just such little moments of mindful love.”

- David Richo, How to be an Adult in Relationships