To: K-list
Recieved: 2004/03/29 17:46
Subject: Re: [K-list] accelerated rate of K awakenings
From: forrest curo
On 2004/03/29 17:46, forrest curo posted thus to the K-list:
>I think the reason there's an apparent increase in "K awakenings", and my
>thinking is it's becoming exponential, is due primarily to the increase in
>the number of PCs/wireless networks.
The great modern superstition is that the best "explanations" are in terms
of things we know to exist physically. So we get all sorts of inadvertant
poetry about DNA & microwaves & other metaphors that may work pretty well
for people who aren't very knowledgeable about the science but think it
sounds better than some overtly spiritual explanation.
We had LSD & similar drugs in the 60's because we'd gone so far down the
path of materialism that a physical substance was the only way grace could
reach us, the only direction from which God could approach a
well-acculturated American without freaking him out. In the course of this
manifestation, many of us were led to slower, steadier paths of spiritual
development. (Robert Aitken, founder of the Zen center in Hawaii, for
example, said that pot was bad for people's practice--but that most of the
people who came to meditate at his center got their initial interest from
experiences with pot--and the exceptions were strange people.) Some of us
got pretty enlightened (Stephen Gaskin etc), many of us came out with wild
hopes and incoherent manifestos, most of us stirred briefly in our sleep
until the rulers of America took up a highly effective propaganda campaign
to make sure it didn't happen again.
If you need a physical explanation for contemporary psychological changes,
there might be some synergistic effect of plasticizers and insecticides in
our food, flame retardants through our skins, and cell phone microwaves
direct to our brains. A sane civilization would hardly have turned all
those unknowns loose in its environment, but who's to say they couldn't
accidently do us good?
But the visible fact is that our world is rolling merrily to hell in a
shopping cart. If we don't want to do a traditional apocalyptic
End-of-the-World (Boring, boring!) there will have to be some heavy
countervailing spiritual forces. Widespread kundalini awakenings may be
part of it.
Just as "being high" was not the same thing as being enlightened, turbulent
kundalini zaps don't seem to guarantee being spiritually awake. (I suspect
that most humans, most of the time, fail to experience kundalini phenomena
because, for some reason, we gain wisdom in the course of more pedestrian
conditions.) But they will help to jolt people out of the ruts their carts
were following.
The original Quaker understanding (though I found it first in a Sufi book)
was that "God is here to teach his people himself." Our whole lives are the
teaching. But we can learn faster if we remember that the Teacher is
available, within and all around us.
Forrest Curo
San Diego
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