Sabtu, 10 November 2007

Re: [psikologi_transformatif] Osho, Bhagwan Rajneesh, and the Lost Truth

Pengikut J. Krishnamurti ya?

Nani Sujiwo <nsujiwo@gmail.com> wrote:

Osho, Bhagwan Rajneesh, and the Lost Truth
by Christopher Calder
 
When I first met Acharya Rajneesh at his Bombay apartment in December of 1970, he was only 39 years old.  With long beard and large dark eyes, he looked like a painting of Lao-Tse come to life.  Before meeting Rajneesh I had spent time with a number of Eastern gurus without being satisfied with their teachings.  I wanted an enlightened guide who could bridge the gap between East and West and reveal the true esoteric secrets, without what I considered to be the excess baggage of Indian, Tibetan, or Japanese culture. Rajneesh was the answer to my quest for those deeper meanings.  He described for me in vivid detail everything I wanted to know about the inner worlds and he had the power of immense being to back up his words.  At 21 years old I was naive about life and the nature of man and assumed that everything he said must be true.
Rajneesh spoke on a high level of intelligence and his spiritual presence emanated from his body like a soft light that healed all wounds. While sitting close during a small gathering of friends, Rajneesh took me on a rapidly vertical inner journey that almost seemed to push me out of my physical body.  His vast presence lifted everyone around him higher without the slightest effort on their part.  The days I spent at his Bombay apartment were like days spent in heaven.  He had it all and he was giving it away for free!

Rajneesh possessed the astounding powers of telepathy and astral projection, which he used nobly to bring comfort and inspiration to his disciples.  Many phony gurus have claimed to have these mysterious abilities, but Rajneesh had them for real.  The Acharya never bragged about his powers. Those who came near soon learned of them through direct contact with the miraculous.

   
Rajneesh, aka "Osho"
at his arrest in
October 1985
  One or two amazing occult adventures was all it took to turn doubting Western skepticism into awed admiration and devotion.
      One year earlier I had meet another enlightened teacher, known to the world as Jiddu Krishnamurti.  Krishnamurti could barely give a coherent lecture and constantly scolded his audience by referring to their "shoddy little minds."  I loved his frankness and his words were true, but his subtly cantankerous nature was not very helpful in transferring his knowledge to others.
      Listening to Krishnamurti speak was like eating a sandwich made of bread and sand.  I found the best way to enjoy his talks was to completely ignore his words and quietly absorb his presence.  Using that technique I would become so expanded after a lecture that I could barely talk for hours afterwards.  J. Krishnamurti, while fully enlightened and uniquely lovable, will be recorded in history as a teacher with very poor verbal communication skills.  Unlike the highly eloquent Rajneesh, however, Krishnamurti never committed any crime, never pretended to be more than he was, and never used other human beings selfishly.

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[psikologi_transformatif] Adonis Dan Ubermensch kebudayaan

Kompas, Minggu, 11 November 2007

Adonis dan Übermensch Kebudayaan

Zacky Khairul Umam

Sastrawan Arab kontemporer, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, l. 1930), yang kerap disebut-sebut sebagai calon penerima Nobel, memukau dari segi gaya bahasa dan makna puitik. Ia simbol kemodernan syair Arab. Simbol yang dipuja sekaligus dikecam karena kerap tak lazim dan menimbulkan kerumitan luar biasa dalam berkarya, juga mendobrak kemapanan. Ia modern dalam arti menawarkan kebaruan dan menghadirkan semesta kemungkinan yang tanpa penyudahan. Selebihnya merupakan simbol perlawanan atas budaya Arab(-Islam) yang ia saksikan, rasakan, dan dialami sendiri: kemapanan pada tradisi masa lalu. Ia, misalkan, berdendang:

Kita mati jika tidak kita ciptakan Tuhan
Kita mati jika tidak kita bunuh Tuhan
O, kerajaan batu cadas yang kebingungan
("Aghâniy Mihyâr al-Dimasqiy",1961)

Adonis disebut Ali Harb, salah seorang cendekiawan Arab terkemuka, sebagai "nabi". Ia menghadirkan diri sebagai pencipta yang tak sedia menemui ajal kemapanan (touhgtful poet). Kesediaan tunduk pada kepatuhan yang mapan merupakan kemunafikan. Suara Adonis mengalirkan kejernihan dalam melihat teleologi, agar zaman tak lapuk oleh tekanan masa lalu yang serba-menentukan.

Dalam dirinya, Adonis gelisah tak karuan menelisik kebudayaan Arab-Islam yang senantiasa berirama dalam stanza statis. Bahwa masa lalu menjadi segala-galanya, kebudayaan Arab-Islam kini tak boleh bertanya, dalam nalar masa lalu ia berada. Kekinian tak bermakna kala masa lalu tidak dihadirkan. Tradisi dimanunggalkan dalam tafsir yang serba-meliputi. Awal mula kegelisahan itu bertolak dari penelusuran Adonis terhadap genealogi sastra Arab modern yang masih banyak mengagungkan spirit dan bentuk masa lalu, yang tak boleh diganggu gugat.

Simpulan Adonis, ternyata nalar Arab-Islam tak mampu berjejak pada kemajuan zaman karena ia tertarik jauh ke belakang sejarah. Glorifikasi dan romantisasi masa lalu yang gemilang selalu dipegang. Yang kini (al-hâdhir) dan yang mendatang (al-mustaqbal) bersifat linear mengikuti garis lurus tradisi masa lalu (al-turâts al-qadîm). Bagi kaum konservatif Arab, pandangan inilah yang mencibir Adonis sebagai "berhala kejahatan".

Dalam mahakaryanya, Al-Tsâbit wa al-Muta?awwil, Adonis membedah lebih mendalam tentang kecenderungan umum yang membikin bangsa Arab-Islam bersifat statis ketimbang dinamis. Ia melanglang buana untuk menekuni tendensi kecenderungan "yang mapan" atas "yang berubah" dalam aspek filsafat, teologi, fikih, sastra, ekonomi, sufisme, dan revolusi dalam peradaban Arab klasik yang amat berpengaruh pada nalar kebudayaan Arab-Islam kini.

Struktur tradisional pemikiran Arab telah terkonstruksi oleh sebuah "preteritisme" yang berkecenderungan mengagungkan masa lalu sebagai patokan utama. Masa lalu terkait dengan pendasaran prinsip-prinsip keagamaan yang amat statis. Nalar yang dihadirkan mesti diasosiasikan terhadap al-mâdhi (masa lalu) sehingga generasi berikutnya hanya mengambil al-ittibâ' (imitasi), taqlîd (meniru), dan serba mengikuti struktur arketipe masa lalu. Pelbagai kecenderungan untuk dinamisasi kebudayaan yang muncul untuk keluar dari kerangkeng kejumudan dan konservativisme ditolak habis-habisan. Padahal, "yang dinamis" identik dengan spirit kemajuan, yang kemudian bersetubuh dengan teleologi al-hâdhir (kemendatangan), al-'aql (pemikiran), al-ibdâ' (kreativitas), al-fard (individu), serta keniscayaan perubahan kebudayaan

Adonis mengatakan, selamanya orang Arab-Islam tidak akan pernah makmur dan menjadi "pencipta", kecuali jika struktur tradisional pemikiran Arab itu didekonstruksi sehingga terjadi perubahan dalam cara memandang dan memahami sesuatu. Yang mesti disadari betul bahwa dasar kebudayaan Arab ialah plural, tidak satu, dan ia tidak memiliki vitalitas untuk melampaui dirinya sendiri, kecuali dengan membuang struktur keagamaannya sehingga agama menjadi pengalaman yang murni bersifat personal, amat privat.

Untuk melampaui tradisi yang "membatu" itu, Adonis menekankan pentingnya menggunakan instrumen (tradisi) kebudayaan sendiri sebagai pengalaman untuk mengubah turâts Arab-Islam. Masa lalu tidak bernilai, selama ia tidak menjadi kekuatan untuk menjadi bagian masa depan kala ia dimanfaatkan secara inovatif. Dengan demikian, menurut Adonis, bangsa Arab mesti menggunakan potensi perubahan dalam tradisinya untuk melampaui masa lalunya secara kreatif, radikal, komprehensif, dan niscaya.

Proyek kritik kebudayaan Arab-Islam Adonis dalam Al- Tsâbit wa al-Mutahawwil ialah: "Keharusan membebaskan (kebudayaan) Arab dari setiap bentuk atavisme (salâfiyyah), keharusan desakralisasi yang dilabelkan pada masa lalu, dan menganggapnya sebagai bagian dari pengalaman atau pengetahuan yang tidak mengikat secara absolut. Konsekuensinya, manusia mesti dilihat sebagai orang, dan esensi kemanusiaan yang sesungguhnya adalah ketika ia menjadi kreator yang transformatif, daripada sekadar pewaris yang konformistis (baca: menegaskan)."

Gara-gara pandangan ini, Adonis kerap dituduh sebagai anti- Arab, mengikuti kemauan orientalis, kehilangan rasionalitas dan obyektivitas itu sendiri di tengah kematangan emosinya yang stabil.

Gagasan tentang modernitas, kata Adonis, bukan persoalan tentang suatu periode sejarah kontemporer yang saat ini kita nikmati. Modernitas (al-hadâtsah) lebih merupakan model pemikiran, weltanschauung, dan konsepsi tentang waktu dan filsafat manusia yang secara total berbeda dari kearifan tradisi yang telah diterima.

Menurut Adonis, modernitas sama dengan sekularisme dan rasionalisme absolut sebagai jalan tunggal menuju keadilan sosial, egalitarianisme, dan kemajuan. Manusia, bukan Tuhan, harus menjadi pusat dunia dengan dirinya sendiri, dan kebebasan atau kehendaknyalah yang mesti mengukir sejarah peradaban sesuai dengan fungsi akal. Hanya melalui pengalaman manusia dan efektivitasnya di dunia luar yang dapat membawa pada makrifat kebenaran, bukan spekulasi, kontemplasi, maupun praanggapan keagamaan yang apriori. Dalam Mihyar, syair Adonis: //Seorang Tuhan telah mati/Tuhan yang dulu turun dari sana/dari tengkorak langit.//Siapa tahu/dalam ketakutan dan kehancuran/dalam keputusasaan dan di tandus tanah padang pasir/dari kedalamanku muncul seorang Tuhan.

Proyek kritik kebudayaan Adonis ialah sebentuk dekonstruksi radikal pada struktur kebudayaan yang telah mendefinisikan dirinya sebagai "selesai" dan menjadi "diktator" paling baik untuk menilai kekinian, kebaruan, dan wilayah terra in cognita. Untuk membangkitkan spirit kemajuan, Adonis amat memercayai bahwa peran manusia-manusia kreatif yang mempunyai will to power dan memahami betul arti kebebasan dapat menjadi agen- agen perubahan yang utama. Karena itu, jika kebudayaan sebuah bangsa atau masyarakat hendak menemui tingkat progresivitas yang baik, secara kolektif kemanusiaan yang mempunyai "kuasa kreatif" itu mesti diberdayakan. Ini memang amat Nietzschean. Tepatnya, kreativitas memaknai kekinian dan upaya menumbuhkan teologi masa depan sebagai pijakan. Manusia tidak boleh terkungkung oleh nilai-nilai kebudayaan klasik yang terlalu menentukan, apalagi jika antropologi kemanusiaan terlalu ditentukan secara teosentris yang mengebiri sifat kebebasannya.

Akan tetapi, dalam pertarungan di panggung sejarah, kemenangan kerap berpihak pada pemegang imitasi dan mendukung kemapanan. Karena, dalam tradisi Arab-Islam yang disorot Adonis, cabang-cabang perkembangan peradaban, seperti sastra dan pemikiran, secara umum tunduk pada aturan agama yang menjadikan kebudayaan Arab menjadi hegemonik dan, karenanya, menjadi kebudayaan kekuasaan. Yakni, kebudayaan yang menjadi milik mazhab statis saja. Kebudayaan yang melakukan inkuisisi (mihnah) atas pluralitas pemahaman untuk ditempatkan pada struktur kemapanan. Otoritas kebenaran menjadi milik kaum penguasa. Agama ditempatkan sebagai kekuasaan politis yang memisahkan unsur budaya untuk kemudian memberikan standardisasi pada teks kebenaran, wahyu, dan bangunan keilahian. Jika ini yang semakin menentu, Adonis pun melihat keputusasaan dalam kemapanan: //Dalam tuhan baru apa/bangkit jasad kita/balok-balok besi impit gerak kita/algojo-algojo tiada henti siksa kita/atas nama puing-puing yang bahagia/kelahiran kita jerit putus asa.// Alamak!

Zacky Khairul Umam Program Studi Arab FIB UI, Depok
Sumber:
Adonis dan Übermensch Kebudayaan
Zacky Khairul Umam
Sastrawan Arab kontemporer, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, l. 1930), yang kerap disebut-sebut sebagai calon penerima Nobel, memukau dari segi gaya bahasa dan makna puitik. Ia simbol kemodernan syair Arab. Simbol yang dipuja sekaligus dikecam karena kerap tak lazim dan menimbulkan kerumitan luar biasa dalam berkarya, juga mendobrak kemapanan. Ia modern dalam arti menawarkan kebaruan dan menghadirkan semesta kemungkinan yang tanpa penyudahan. Selebihnya merupakan simbol perlawanan atas budaya Arab(-Islam) yang ia saksikan, rasakan, dan dialami sendiri: kemapanan pada tradisi masa lalu. Ia, misalkan, berdendang:
Kita mati jika tidak kita ciptakan Tuhan
Kita mati jika tidak kita bunuh Tuhan
O, kerajaan batu cadas yang kebingungan
("Aghâniy Mihyâr al-Dimasqiy",1961)
Adonis disebut Ali Harb, salah seorang cendekiawan Arab terkemuka, sebagai "nabi". Ia menghadirkan diri sebagai pencipta yang tak sedia menemui ajal kemapanan (touhgtful poet). Kesediaan tunduk pada kepatuhan yang mapan merupakan kemunafikan. Suara Adonis mengalirkan kejernihan dalam melihat teleologi, agar zaman tak lapuk oleh tekanan masa lalu yang serba-menentukan.
Dalam dirinya, Adonis gelisah tak karuan menelisik kebudayaan Arab-Islam yang senantiasa berirama dalam stanza statis. Bahwa masa lalu menjadi segala-galanya, kebudayaan Arab-Islam kini tak boleh bertanya, dalam nalar masa lalu ia berada. Kekinian tak bermakna kala masa lalu tidak dihadirkan. Tradisi dimanunggalkan dalam tafsir yang serba-meliputi. Awal mula kegelisahan itu bertolak dari penelusuran Adonis terhadap genealogi sastra Arab modern yang masih banyak mengagungkan spirit dan bentuk masa lalu, yang tak boleh diganggu gugat.
Simpulan Adonis, ternyata nalar Arab-Islam tak mampu berjejak pada kemajuan zaman karena ia tertarik jauh ke belakang sejarah. Glorifikasi dan romantisasi masa lalu yang gemilang selalu dipegang. Yang kini (al-hâdhir) dan yang mendatang (al-mustaqbal) bersifat linear mengikuti garis lurus tradisi masa lalu (al-turâts al-qadîm). Bagi kaum konservatif Arab, pandangan inilah yang mencibir Adonis sebagai "berhala kejahatan".
Dalam mahakaryanya, Al-Tsâbit wa al-Muta?awwil, Adonis membedah lebih mendalam tentang kecenderungan umum yang membikin bangsa Arab-Islam bersifat statis ketimbang dinamis. Ia melanglang buana untuk menekuni tendensi kecenderungan "yang mapan" atas "yang berubah" dalam aspek filsafat, teologi, fikih, sastra, ekonomi, sufisme, dan revolusi dalam peradaban Arab klasik yang amat berpengaruh pada nalar kebudayaan Arab-Islam kini.
Struktur tradisional pemikiran Arab telah terkonstruksi oleh sebuah "preteritisme" yang berkecenderungan mengagungkan masa lalu sebagai patokan utama. Masa lalu terkait dengan pendasaran prinsip-prinsip keagamaan yang amat statis. Nalar yang dihadirkan mesti diasosiasikan terhadap al-mâdhi (masa lalu) sehingga generasi berikutnya hanya mengambil al-ittibâ' (imitasi), taqlîd (meniru), dan serba mengikuti struktur arketipe masa lalu. Pelbagai kecenderungan untuk dinamisasi kebudayaan yang muncul untuk keluar dari kerangkeng kejumudan dan konservativisme ditolak habis-habisan. Padahal, "yang dinamis" identik dengan spirit kemajuan, yang kemudian bersetubuh dengan teleologi al-hâdhir (kemendatangan), al-'aql (pemikiran), al-ibdâ' (kreativitas), al-fard (individu), serta keniscayaan perubahan kebudayaan
Adonis mengatakan, selamanya orang Arab-Islam tidak akan pernah makmur dan menjadi "pencipta", kecuali jika struktur tradisional pemikiran Arab itu didekonstruksi sehingga terjadi perubahan dalam cara memandang dan memahami sesuatu. Yang mesti disadari betul bahwa dasar kebudayaan Arab ialah plural, tidak satu, dan ia tidak memiliki vitalitas untuk melampaui dirinya sendiri, kecuali dengan membuang struktur keagamaannya sehingga agama menjadi pengalaman yang murni bersifat personal, amat privat.
Untuk melampaui tradisi yang "membatu" itu, Adonis menekankan pentingnya menggunakan instrumen (tradisi) kebudayaan sendiri sebagai pengalaman untuk mengubah turâts Arab-Islam. Masa lalu tidak bernilai, selama ia tidak menjadi kekuatan untuk menjadi bagian masa depan kala ia dimanfaatkan secara inovatif. Dengan demikian, menurut Adonis, bangsa Arab mesti menggunakan potensi perubahan dalam tradisinya untuk melampaui masa lalunya secara kreatif, radikal, komprehensif, dan niscaya.
Proyek kritik kebudayaan Arab-Islam Adonis dalam Al- Tsâbit wa al-Mutahawwil ialah: "Keharusan membebaskan (kebudayaan) Arab dari setiap bentuk atavisme (salâfiyyah), keharusan desakralisasi yang dilabelkan pada masa lalu, dan menganggapnya sebagai bagian dari pengalaman atau pengetahuan yang tidak mengikat secara absolut. Konsekuensinya, manusia mesti dilihat sebagai orang, dan esensi kemanusiaan yang sesungguhnya adalah ketika ia menjadi kreator yang transformatif, daripada sekadar pewaris yang konformistis (baca: menegaskan)."
Gara-gara pandangan ini, Adonis kerap dituduh sebagai anti- Arab, mengikuti kemauan orientalis, kehilangan rasionalitas dan obyektivitas itu sendiri di tengah kematangan emosinya yang stabil.
Gagasan tentang modernitas, kata Adonis, bukan persoalan tentang suatu periode sejarah kontemporer yang saat ini kita nikmati. Modernitas (al-hadâtsah) lebih merupakan model pemikiran, weltanschauung, dan konsepsi tentang waktu dan filsafat manusia yang secara total berbeda dari kearifan tradisi yang telah diterima.
Menurut Adonis, modernitas sama dengan sekularisme dan rasionalisme absolut sebagai jalan tunggal menuju keadilan sosial, egalitarianisme, dan kemajuan. Manusia, bukan Tuhan, harus menjadi pusat dunia dengan dirinya sendiri, dan kebebasan atau kehendaknyalah yang mesti mengukir sejarah peradaban sesuai dengan fungsi akal. Hanya melalui pengalaman manusia dan efektivitasnya di dunia luar yang dapat membawa pada makrifat kebenaran, bukan spekulasi, kontemplasi, maupun praanggapan keagamaan yang apriori. Dalam Mihyar, syair Adonis: //Seorang Tuhan telah mati/Tuhan yang dulu turun dari sana/dari tengkorak langit.//Siapa tahu/dalam ketakutan dan kehancuran/dalam keputusasaan dan di tandus tanah padang pasir/dari kedalamanku muncul seorang Tuhan.
Proyek kritik kebudayaan Adonis ialah sebentuk dekonstruksi radikal pada struktur kebudayaan yang telah mendefinisikan dirinya sebagai "selesai" dan menjadi "diktator" paling baik untuk menilai kekinian, kebaruan, dan wilayah terra in cognita. Untuk membangkitkan spirit kemajuan, Adonis amat memercayai bahwa peran manusia-manusia kreatif yang mempunyai will to power dan memahami betul arti kebebasan dapat menjadi agen- agen perubahan yang utama. Karena itu, jika kebudayaan sebuah bangsa atau masyarakat hendak menemui tingkat progresivitas yang baik, secara kolektif kemanusiaan yang mempunyai "kuasa kreatif" itu mesti diberdayakan. Ini memang amat Nietzschean. Tepatnya, kreativitas memaknai kekinian dan upaya menumbuhkan teologi masa depan sebagai pijakan. Manusia tidak boleh terkungkung oleh nilai-nilai kebudayaan klasik yang terlalu menentukan, apalagi jika antropologi kemanusiaan terlalu ditentukan secara teosentris yang mengebiri sifat kebebasannya.
Akan tetapi, dalam pertarungan di panggung sejarah, kemenangan kerap berpihak pada pemegang imitasi dan mendukung kemapanan. Karena, dalam tradisi Arab-Islam yang disorot Adonis, cabang-cabang perkembangan peradaban, seperti sastra dan pemikiran, secara umum tunduk pada aturan agama yang menjadikan kebudayaan Arab menjadi hegemonik dan, karenanya, menjadi kebudayaan kekuasaan. Yakni, kebudayaan yang menjadi milik mazhab statis saja. Kebudayaan yang melakukan inkuisisi (mihnah) atas pluralitas pemahaman untuk ditempatkan pada struktur kemapanan. Otoritas kebenaran menjadi milik kaum penguasa. Agama ditempatkan sebagai kekuasaan politis yang memisahkan unsur budaya untuk kemudian memberikan standardisasi pada teks kebenaran, wahyu, dan bangunan keilahian. Jika ini yang semakin menentu, Adonis pun melihat keputusasaan dalam kemapanan: //Dalam tuhan baru apa/bangkit jasad kita/balok-balok besi impit gerak kita/algojo-algojo tiada henti siksa kita/atas nama puing-puing yang bahagia/kelahiran kita jerit putus asa.// Alamak!
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Bls: [psikologi_transformatif] The Skeptic John Powell Meets the Mystic Jiddu Krishnamurti

Di buku Kearifan Timur dalam Etos Kerja dan Seni Memimpin, anda akan mendapatkan bahwa  Siddharta Gautama sebagai pelopor era Ikhtiar, seorang pengeran yang meninggalkan istana untuk mencari jawaban : mengapa dunia menjadi lautan penderitaan karena menjadi tua - sakit dan mati adalah penderitaan. Setelah melalui jalan intelektualism dan ascetism, belum juga mencapai pencerahan, lalu kembali hidup normal dan setelah bermeditasi akhirnya mencapai pencerahan. Ini dikatakan Jalan Tengah / Middle Road.
Buddha adalah manusia sempurna - manusia sempurna adalah Buddha.
Setelah mencapai pencerahan, lukisan mengenai Dia selalu diserta aura.

1000 tahun kemudian datang Bodhidharma ke Tiongkok, dan lukisannya sama sekali tidak pakai aura.
Muridnya yang pertama adalah manusia biasa (bukan berpendidikan, aristokrat)  yang saking  hausnya pada pencerahan,  akhirnya sampai memotong lengannya  untuk menunjukkan kesungguhannya pada Bodhidharma.
Terjadilah loncatan era Ikhitiar dari semula diawali oleh darah biru, kini  menjadi orang biasa.
Kesimpulannya pencerahan bisa dicapai oleh setiap orang melalui pendidikan (digambarkan sebagai kerbau dengan kepala putih) dan latihan  terus menerus pada gambar berikutnya sehingga seluruh tubuh kerbau menjadi putih dan gembalanya bisa tidur nyenyak membiarkan si kerbau merumput seperti dilukiskan dalam 6 tahap melatih kerbau.
Orang seperti Bill Gates, Muhammad Yunus, Norman Bourlaugh sedang dalam tahap menuju ke arah ini.
Dia memberikan semua milik, keahliannya untuk menjaga dunia, bukan seperti puncak hirarkhi A.Maslow yang mencari pengakuan recoqnation.

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Topik: [psikologi_transformatif] The Skeptic John Powell Meets the Mystic Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Skeptic John Powell Meets the Mystic Jiddu Krishnamurti

John L. Waters

February 26, 2002

(c) Copyright 2001 by John L. Waters. All Rights
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Professor John Powell,
http://www.humboldt .edu/~jlw47/ jp022502. html
Jiddu Krishnamurti claimed to sense what he called
"the benediction" and many others felt a mystical
presence in Jiddu Krishnamurti. Practicing trance
mediums report seeing an intense golden aura around
the physical body of a spiritual master or saint.
Many people sensed a healing presence fill the room as
Jiddu Krishnamurti entered. This article examines
this subject in detail.

Mystics or psychics who see a light or aura that many
persons cannot ever see are sometimes attacked by
skeptics who deny that any such light could possibly
exist. How can this be? What is going on?

Consider the problem of demonstrating that a talent
and a sense exists to those who don't have the sense
or the talent.

The problem is demonstrating the sense or the talent
to persons who simply don't have it.

Consider the difficulty in proving to a deaf person
that sounds truly exist. The person who has the
ability to hear will have trouble proving to deaf
people that there is a talent called hearing. How can
the proof be carried out?

Consider this. You can show a deaf person what
vibration is by gently pressing an electric vibrator
upon their skin. Say their hand or their chest. As
they are feeling the vibration you can explain that
sound is a vibration that the ears can feel something
like your body feels the electric vibrator. The deaf
person won't hear the buzzing of the vibrator but they
will feel the vibration and they will see the vibrator
moving back and forth.

Assume the deaf person is able to see and also has
muscle sense and can feel the vibrator through their
muscles and bones.

Now what about explaining to a blind person what light
is? Again, we can use the vibrator. The blind person
won't be able to see the vibrator but they will feel
the vibration of it on their flesh and they will hear
the buzzing of the vibrator in their ears.

The blind person's ears and muscles sense the
vibration. Furthermore, the blind person can hear the
vibrator buzzing and sense the vibration in his body.
The teacher can tell the blind person, "Your eyes
sense vibration. A nervous connection is missing,
though, so you can't see the vibrator. Neither can
you see the vibrations of light."

The problem of credibility enters. Why should the
handicapped person believe the nonhandicapped teacher?
By what process do congenitally blind people come to
believe that light exists? By what process do
congenitally deaf persons come to believe that sounds
exist? Well, a little handicapped child trusts in
what the adults say. The little child isn't such a
doubter and skeptic.

Another question: Do all blind people believe that
light exists?

Do all deaf people believe that sounds exist?

Consider a skeptical blind person. Why would a blind
person be skeptical? Well, the skeptical blind man
would trust only what he himself senses. (Before he
could believe light exists he would need to see the
light repeatedly. He would never trust what another
person told him about vision and visible energies.)
This is why a skeptic would never accept the mystical
sense of Jiddu Krishnamurti. When Krishnamurti
describes what he calls "the other," "the immensity,"
and "the benediction, " skeptics refuse to believe him
because they just can't sense what he senses. They
have lost all the trust that a little child has.

Even so, a mystic can say to you that the mystical
vibration is warm, bright, and soothing. It helps one
relax and turn off the thought-engine. The mind stops
plotting, planning, and thinking. If you are
trusting, you can believe. If you aren't trusting,
there are still ways of helping you to understand the
mystical sense. Hear what Jiddu Krishnamurti himself
has to say. This is a quote from page 82 of the book
entitled "Krishnamurti to Himself:"

"Meditation is a movement without any motive, without
words and the activity of thought. It must be
something that is not deliberately set about. Only
then is meditation a movement in the infinite,
measureless to man, without a goal, without an end and
without a beginning."

As Krishnamurti goes into deep meditation, he senses
"the other" and he moves his body in different ways,
serenely, without any ulterior motive, without a plan
or an idea in his head. A sensitive person feels the
mystical energy emanating from Jiddu Krishnamurti and
senses that he is holy. But most people don't have
enough sensitivity to feel this aspect of
Krishnamurti. They just can't sense his aura or see
the light coming from him. These people are rather
like deaf people or blind people, yet they don't have
the trust most deaf or blind people have. The deaf
people trust other people when they say sounds are
real. The blind people trust other people when they
say colors and light are real. But the skeptics who
can't sense the aura of a holy person refuse to trust
other people who do sense in this way. One really
wonders why the skeptics are so skeptical.

By collecting many reports of the mystical sense of
Krishnamurti together, the open-minded person amasses
evidence that the mystical sense is real. For
example, in his book entitled "Cosmic Consciousness"
Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke presents reports of or by
forty-nine adults whom he believed attained the
mystical state of cosmic consciousness. Furthermore,
the modern scientist Sir Alister Hardy F.R.S. created
a book entitled "The Spiritual Nature of Man" in which
he presented over four hundred anecdotal reports by
persons who had a mystical experience or an uncanny
experience of some rather similar kind.

Despite all these anecdotal preports, a skeptic can
say, "There is just belief on the basis of desire"
because the pioneer psychologist Sigmund Freud said
this and it seems to be true enough, in many cases.

There's a problem though, for how does just belief on
the basis of desire enable an insomniac to turn off
his or her thinking mind and go to sleep? Belief on
the basis of desire doesn't make a person into a
meditator. There's more to meditation than just
wanting to be free of the demons that keep one on
edge, tossing and turning under the blankets and
totally unable to go to sleep. There's a lot more to
becoming a saint tham wishful thinking and vain
belief.

Skeptics doubt that the empty mind of the meditator
and the special sense of Krishnamurti and other
mystics is a valid sense. Indeed, the skeptics call
this perception of strange lights and other eerie
sensations a delusion, or an hallucination. Why? On
what basis? Well, they say that it's just not a
normal perception. Moreover, they say it's associated
with atypical behavior, sometimes even dangerous
insanity. The skeptics insist that the person who
sees lights that other people don't see is a
psychotic. That's like deaf people giving sighted
people a nasty name, and it suggests that the skeptics
are jealous. Maybe they are just believing on the
basis of their own desire. How do the skeptics prove
this is not the case?

1. The skeptics have never sensed what Krishnamurti
calls "the other" or if they sensed it once they were
like Scrooge and they snorted "Bah. Humbug!" and they
called it a distortion and they blamed it on a trick
of sense or on an "underdone potato" or some kind of
poisoning. They said it must be an illness. They
treated it as evidence of insanity. Where is the
skeptics' proof that they are right? Why should we,
the naive ang gullible innocents, believe what the
skeptics say?

2. Most people are skeptical of this extra sense.
They just don't have the talent and the sense or they
never developed it, and so they doubt that it is real.
In fact some skeptics really get upset at the idea
that what a mystic senses is real.

3. Scientists dressed in their white coats like holy
men dressed in white robes have sanctioned ways of
removing this sense from insane people. In fact, if
Jiddu Krishnamurti hadn't been venerated as a holy
man, he would have been feared as a psychotic. Maybe
he just compensated very well for his handicap and was
wise despite his illness? Well, let's examine each of
these ideas.

A. Like Ebeneezer Scrooge suggested he was seeing the
ghost of Jacob Marley because the rich miser ate a
piece of underdone potato, the skeptics will say that
the mystic is just being poisoned... maybe poisoned by
the body itself, or by physiological changes inside
the brain. The doctors give the mystic some medicine
that drastically alters brain activity. This
medication is called a cure for insanity.

The assumption is that what meditators sense is bad.
The doctors assume that it's good to always be using
the rational retentive cognitive style (RRCS) and
planning every move and thinking ahead. The doctors
say that intuition is bad, or at least inferior to
conscious calculation and cogitation The doctors
and the skeptics would never trust their intuitions.
They would insist on having clearly defined reasons to
do something. Maybe it's because the doctors and the
skeptics just never had the sense and the talent of a
very intuitive person, or they suppressed their own
intuition to do well in school and get ahead in the
stiff, competive academic world.

B. If most people are skeptical, it's because they
don't sense this "other" and they are social. They
focus upon thinking and talking, reading and
listening. They don't want to withdraw for hours and
go into deep meditation. They have the social
instinct. They tend to believe a person is mentally
ill if he or she spends a lot of time alone. Their
socially conditioned bias is showing. In a different
culture, however, meditators could be respected
persons. Our culture just favors reasoned arguments
and conversation.

C. Examine the assumptions of the psychologists and
psychiatrists. They were raised on Freud and the
teachings of other determined skeptics. They were
trained in the university where RRCS is the ONE WAY to
excel...and prove yourself competent. As advisors to
educators they sanction the partial mind-blinding of
schoolchildren. I say. Does this remind you of
William Blake, and his poem, "Holy Thursday?"

Okay. The main issue here is that unlike the deaf
children and the blind children who trust in their
teacher and caregiver, the hard skeptics who don't
sense the subjective light and just don't believe in
the subjective light of Jiddu Krishnamurti and other
mystics are determined not to trust in what Jiddu
Krishnamurti says, and in what other mystics say.
Like John Powell, whom in this article we shall
consider the consummate skeptical philosopher, they,
like John Powell, are all from the state of Missouri,
the "show me" state. And so I am prepared to show
John Powell and the other skeptics what Krishnamurti
was talking about.

If you go to my website Prophets
and Prophecies and read my article on AUM art,
you will see a different way of expressing what
Krishnamurti said in his preceding quote on
meditation. Here is part of that quote again:

"Meditation is a movement without any motive, without
words and the activity of thought. It must be
something that is not deliberately set about...without
an end and without a beginning."

Now consider this. While he is in meditation a man
produces drawings which don't suggest any name or
word. Furthermore, after the drawing is done you
can't tell where the man first set the pen to paper
and where he lifted it off the paper. The process of
meditation so filled his body and brain that as he
continues drawing you can see a picture of that very
movement that Krishnamurti is talking about. The
artist himself is demonstrating this state of activity
for you, right before your eyes.

As you urge the artist-meditator to argue with you and
prove to you that he is a good debater and arguer, you
are urging him to forsake the sense of blessedness and
benediction he feels which comes by means of his
special sense and his special talent, and adjust to
your special sense and talent. You admit you worry a
lot about philosophical issues. You want the blessed
meditator to come down to your own level and worry
along with you. Is this fair? If the meditator is
going to struggle and reform his brain activity to
suit your needs, your training, and your
expectations, can you admit that this will take the
man a bit of time and effort, and during that time he
won't be able to work his brain as much in the other
way, which Jiddu Krishnamurti was encouraged to work
his brain? After all, Krishnamurti was revered as a
holy man. But you don't want to believe there is any
such thing as a holy man. Is this correct or is there
something I don't yet understand about your
skepticism? You talk about Freud and William James,
but the blessed person sees that each one of these
persons is like a deaf child who refuses to believe
that sound exists. Each one of them is like a blind
child who has no trust in the parent or educator who
is explaining what light is and what seeing is like.
But the vibrations from a holy person are felt as
vibrations by the person who has the sense and the
talent to feel these vibrations. If you don't have
this sense and this talent, well, why must you insist
that there is no such thing as a holy light or a
subjective light? Could that just be a sour grapes
attitude? How do you prove the skeptical person isn't
just demonstrating a sour grapes attitude?

What you want, of course, is some hard evidence, or
some clear argument that is convincing. Jiddu
Krishnamurti has given us a clear definition of what
meditation IS, and the AUM artist gives you a
demonstration of the movements about which
Krishnamurti speaks in his quote. If you can't sense
the holy light that comes through the AUM artist as he
is meditating and drawing figures right in front of
your eyes, well, that doesn't mean the holy light
doesn't exist. It just suggests that you never
developed the sense and the talent in yourself.

Now if you are weak in intuition, you don't know what
to believe. You don't sense the holy light, and you
know that young children trust in their parents and
their teachers, so a blind child and a deaf child will
trust and believe that there is light and sound. So,
too, a young child will trust the parent or the
educator who tells them about the holy light.
Moreover, some of the children will sense the holy
light in certain eerie places and in certain eerie
persons. But what does it mean to be feeling eerie?
That's just a funny word that doesn't get used a lot
nowadays.

We know that a little child will believe things which
aren't really true. Like Santa Claus doesn't really
come down the chimney with lots of toys in a large
sack. If one child says he or she sees an eerie light
in a certain person, why doesn't that child see the
same light in other persons? Moreover, if out of two
hundred children five children see an eerie light in a
given person but not in other persons, is that just
chance? And if the AUM artist can take ten persons
and give them a method for seeing lights they didn't
see before, and they all report seeing these lights
even though they didn't know what to expect, is that
just due to chance? The AUM artist has done these
things. This isn't made-up fantasy.

The idea of Freud that "We believe on the basis of
desire rather than on the basis of argument or
evidence," can help us understand why some skeptics
are so adamant in their insistence that there is no
such thing as a "holy" light or a "subjective" light
as Dr. R.M. Bucke called it. The skeptics are failing
to sense a part of reality, but they don't want to
admit this. Of course there are lots of deaf people
and there are lots of blind people. But in our
culture, a man doesn't want to think of himself as
handicapped or disabled. If there is an "extra" sense
that many children don't have or they just outgrow it
at a rather young age, if this sense isn't essential
for being a good hunter and warrior, then natural
selection isn't going to eliminate those who don't
have the sense. Millennia will come and go, and some
people will have the sense of the holy presence and
many will not. Furthermore, one can see that the
sense of a light that isn't physical can be a
distraction to man who needs to focus on the physical
reality to succeed on the hunt and in battle. So
there is a certain amount of selection pressure
against this talent and this sense. Even so, the
sensitivity is still present in the human race. Some
persons will be unusually sensitive to this
environmental input.

11:05PM Saturday, February 23, 2002

8:40PM Monday, February 25, 2002

John L. Waters

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[psikologi_transformatif] The Skeptic John Powell Meets the Mystic Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Skeptic John Powell Meets the Mystic Jiddu Krishnamurti

John L. Waters

February 26, 2002

(c) Copyright 2001 by John L. Waters. All Rights
Reserved

-------------------------------------------------------

Professor John Powell,
http://www.humboldt.edu/~jlw47/jp022502.html
Jiddu Krishnamurti claimed to sense what he called
"the benediction" and many others felt a mystical
presence in Jiddu Krishnamurti. Practicing trance
mediums report seeing an intense golden aura around
the physical body of a spiritual master or saint.
Many people sensed a healing presence fill the room as
Jiddu Krishnamurti entered. This article examines
this subject in detail.

Mystics or psychics who see a light or aura that many
persons cannot ever see are sometimes attacked by
skeptics who deny that any such light could possibly
exist. How can this be? What is going on?

Consider the problem of demonstrating that a talent
and a sense exists to those who don't have the sense
or the talent.

The problem is demonstrating the sense or the talent
to persons who simply don't have it.

Consider the difficulty in proving to a deaf person
that sounds truly exist. The person who has the
ability to hear will have trouble proving to deaf
people that there is a talent called hearing. How can
the proof be carried out?

Consider this. You can show a deaf person what
vibration is by gently pressing an electric vibrator
upon their skin. Say their hand or their chest. As
they are feeling the vibration you can explain that
sound is a vibration that the ears can feel something
like your body feels the electric vibrator. The deaf
person won't hear the buzzing of the vibrator but they
will feel the vibration and they will see the vibrator
moving back and forth.

Assume the deaf person is able to see and also has
muscle sense and can feel the vibrator through their
muscles and bones.

Now what about explaining to a blind person what light
is? Again, we can use the vibrator. The blind person
won't be able to see the vibrator but they will feel
the vibration of it on their flesh and they will hear
the buzzing of the vibrator in their ears.

The blind person's ears and muscles sense the
vibration. Furthermore, the blind person can hear the
vibrator buzzing and sense the vibration in his body.
The teacher can tell the blind person, "Your eyes
sense vibration. A nervous connection is missing,
though, so you can't see the vibrator. Neither can
you see the vibrations of light."

The problem of credibility enters. Why should the
handicapped person believe the nonhandicapped teacher?
By what process do congenitally blind people come to
believe that light exists? By what process do
congenitally deaf persons come to believe that sounds
exist? Well, a little handicapped child trusts in
what the adults say. The little child isn't such a
doubter and skeptic.

Another question: Do all blind people believe that
light exists?

Do all deaf people believe that sounds exist?

Consider a skeptical blind person. Why would a blind
person be skeptical? Well, the skeptical blind man
would trust only what he himself senses. (Before he
could believe light exists he would need to see the
light repeatedly. He would never trust what another
person told him about vision and visible energies.)
This is why a skeptic would never accept the mystical
sense of Jiddu Krishnamurti. When Krishnamurti
describes what he calls "the other," "the immensity,"
and "the benediction," skeptics refuse to believe him
because they just can't sense what he senses. They
have lost all the trust that a little child has.

Even so, a mystic can say to you that the mystical
vibration is warm, bright, and soothing. It helps one
relax and turn off the thought-engine. The mind stops
plotting, planning, and thinking. If you are
trusting, you can believe. If you aren't trusting,
there are still ways of helping you to understand the
mystical sense. Hear what Jiddu Krishnamurti himself
has to say. This is a quote from page 82 of the book
entitled "Krishnamurti to Himself:"

"Meditation is a movement without any motive, without
words and the activity of thought. It must be
something that is not deliberately set about. Only
then is meditation a movement in the infinite,
measureless to man, without a goal, without an end and
without a beginning."

As Krishnamurti goes into deep meditation, he senses
"the other" and he moves his body in different ways,
serenely, without any ulterior motive, without a plan
or an idea in his head. A sensitive person feels the
mystical energy emanating from Jiddu Krishnamurti and
senses that he is holy. But most people don't have
enough sensitivity to feel this aspect of
Krishnamurti. They just can't sense his aura or see
the light coming from him. These people are rather
like deaf people or blind people, yet they don't have
the trust most deaf or blind people have. The deaf
people trust other people when they say sounds are
real. The blind people trust other people when they
say colors and light are real. But the skeptics who
can't sense the aura of a holy person refuse to trust
other people who do sense in this way. One really
wonders why the skeptics are so skeptical.

By collecting many reports of the mystical sense of
Krishnamurti together, the open-minded person amasses
evidence that the mystical sense is real. For
example, in his book entitled "Cosmic Consciousness"
Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke presents reports of or by
forty-nine adults whom he believed attained the
mystical state of cosmic consciousness. Furthermore,
the modern scientist Sir Alister Hardy F.R.S. created
a book entitled "The Spiritual Nature of Man" in which
he presented over four hundred anecdotal reports by
persons who had a mystical experience or an uncanny
experience of some rather similar kind.

Despite all these anecdotal preports, a skeptic can
say, "There is just belief on the basis of desire"
because the pioneer psychologist Sigmund Freud said
this and it seems to be true enough, in many cases.

There's a problem though, for how does just belief on
the basis of desire enable an insomniac to turn off
his or her thinking mind and go to sleep? Belief on
the basis of desire doesn't make a person into a
meditator. There's more to meditation than just
wanting to be free of the demons that keep one on
edge, tossing and turning under the blankets and
totally unable to go to sleep. There's a lot more to
becoming a saint tham wishful thinking and vain
belief.

Skeptics doubt that the empty mind of the meditator
and the special sense of Krishnamurti and other
mystics is a valid sense. Indeed, the skeptics call
this perception of strange lights and other eerie
sensations a delusion, or an hallucination. Why? On
what basis? Well, they say that it's just not a
normal perception. Moreover, they say it's associated
with atypical behavior, sometimes even dangerous
insanity. The skeptics insist that the person who
sees lights that other people don't see is a
psychotic. That's like deaf people giving sighted
people a nasty name, and it suggests that the skeptics
are jealous. Maybe they are just believing on the
basis of their own desire. How do the skeptics prove
this is not the case?

1. The skeptics have never sensed what Krishnamurti
calls "the other" or if they sensed it once they were
like Scrooge and they snorted "Bah. Humbug!" and they
called it a distortion and they blamed it on a trick
of sense or on an "underdone potato" or some kind of
poisoning. They said it must be an illness. They
treated it as evidence of insanity. Where is the
skeptics' proof that they are right? Why should we,
the naive ang gullible innocents, believe what the
skeptics say?

2. Most people are skeptical of this extra sense.
They just don't have the talent and the sense or they
never developed it, and so they doubt that it is real.
In fact some skeptics really get upset at the idea
that what a mystic senses is real.

3. Scientists dressed in their white coats like holy
men dressed in white robes have sanctioned ways of
removing this sense from insane people. In fact, if
Jiddu Krishnamurti hadn't been venerated as a holy
man, he would have been feared as a psychotic. Maybe
he just compensated very well for his handicap and was
wise despite his illness? Well, let's examine each of
these ideas.

A. Like Ebeneezer Scrooge suggested he was seeing the
ghost of Jacob Marley because the rich miser ate a
piece of underdone potato, the skeptics will say that
the mystic is just being poisoned... maybe poisoned by
the body itself, or by physiological changes inside
the brain. The doctors give the mystic some medicine
that drastically alters brain activity. This
medication is called a cure for insanity.

The assumption is that what meditators sense is bad.
The doctors assume that it's good to always be using
the rational retentive cognitive style (RRCS) and
planning every move and thinking ahead. The doctors
say that intuition is bad, or at least inferior to
conscious calculation and cogitation The doctors
and the skeptics would never trust their intuitions.
They would insist on having clearly defined reasons to
do something. Maybe it's because the doctors and the
skeptics just never had the sense and the talent of a
very intuitive person, or they suppressed their own
intuition to do well in school and get ahead in the
stiff, competive academic world.

B. If most people are skeptical, it's because they
don't sense this "other" and they are social. They
focus upon thinking and talking, reading and
listening. They don't want to withdraw for hours and
go into deep meditation. They have the social
instinct. They tend to believe a person is mentally
ill if he or she spends a lot of time alone. Their
socially conditioned bias is showing. In a different
culture, however, meditators could be respected
persons. Our culture just favors reasoned arguments
and conversation.

C. Examine the assumptions of the psychologists and
psychiatrists. They were raised on Freud and the
teachings of other determined skeptics. They were
trained in the university where RRCS is the ONE WAY to
excel...and prove yourself competent. As advisors to
educators they sanction the partial mind-blinding of
schoolchildren. I say. Does this remind you of
William Blake, and his poem, "Holy Thursday?"

Okay. The main issue here is that unlike the deaf
children and the blind children who trust in their
teacher and caregiver, the hard skeptics who don't
sense the subjective light and just don't believe in
the subjective light of Jiddu Krishnamurti and other
mystics are determined not to trust in what Jiddu
Krishnamurti says, and in what other mystics say.
Like John Powell, whom in this article we shall
consider the consummate skeptical philosopher, they,
like John Powell, are all from the state of Missouri,
the "show me" state. And so I am prepared to show
John Powell and the other skeptics what Krishnamurti
was talking about.

If you go to my website Prophets
and Prophecies and read my article on AUM art,
you will see a different way of expressing what
Krishnamurti said in his preceding quote on
meditation. Here is part of that quote again:

"Meditation is a movement without any motive, without
words and the activity of thought. It must be
something that is not deliberately set about...without
an end and without a beginning."

Now consider this. While he is in meditation a man
produces drawings which don't suggest any name or
word. Furthermore, after the drawing is done you
can't tell where the man first set the pen to paper
and where he lifted it off the paper. The process of
meditation so filled his body and brain that as he
continues drawing you can see a picture of that very
movement that Krishnamurti is talking about. The
artist himself is demonstrating this state of activity
for you, right before your eyes.

As you urge the artist-meditator to argue with you and
prove to you that he is a good debater and arguer, you
are urging him to forsake the sense of blessedness and
benediction he feels which comes by means of his
special sense and his special talent, and adjust to
your special sense and talent. You admit you worry a
lot about philosophical issues. You want the blessed
meditator to come down to your own level and worry
along with you. Is this fair? If the meditator is
going to struggle and reform his brain activity to
suit your needs, your training, and your
expectations, can you admit that this will take the
man a bit of time and effort, and during that time he
won't be able to work his brain as much in the other
way, which Jiddu Krishnamurti was encouraged to work
his brain? After all, Krishnamurti was revered as a
holy man. But you don't want to believe there is any
such thing as a holy man. Is this correct or is there
something I don't yet understand about your
skepticism? You talk about Freud and William James,
but the blessed person sees that each one of these
persons is like a deaf child who refuses to believe
that sound exists. Each one of them is like a blind
child who has no trust in the parent or educator who
is explaining what light is and what seeing is like.
But the vibrations from a holy person are felt as
vibrations by the person who has the sense and the
talent to feel these vibrations. If you don't have
this sense and this talent, well, why must you insist
that there is no such thing as a holy light or a
subjective light? Could that just be a sour grapes
attitude? How do you prove the skeptical person isn't
just demonstrating a sour grapes attitude?

What you want, of course, is some hard evidence, or
some clear argument that is convincing. Jiddu
Krishnamurti has given us a clear definition of what
meditation IS, and the AUM artist gives you a
demonstration of the movements about which
Krishnamurti speaks in his quote. If you can't sense
the holy light that comes through the AUM artist as he
is meditating and drawing figures right in front of
your eyes, well, that doesn't mean the holy light
doesn't exist. It just suggests that you never
developed the sense and the talent in yourself.

Now if you are weak in intuition, you don't know what
to believe. You don't sense the holy light, and you
know that young children trust in their parents and
their teachers, so a blind child and a deaf child will
trust and believe that there is light and sound. So,
too, a young child will trust the parent or the
educator who tells them about the holy light.
Moreover, some of the children will sense the holy
light in certain eerie places and in certain eerie
persons. But what does it mean to be feeling eerie?
That's just a funny word that doesn't get used a lot
nowadays.

We know that a little child will believe things which
aren't really true. Like Santa Claus doesn't really
come down the chimney with lots of toys in a large
sack. If one child says he or she sees an eerie light
in a certain person, why doesn't that child see the
same light in other persons? Moreover, if out of two
hundred children five children see an eerie light in a
given person but not in other persons, is that just
chance? And if the AUM artist can take ten persons
and give them a method for seeing lights they didn't
see before, and they all report seeing these lights
even though they didn't know what to expect, is that
just due to chance? The AUM artist has done these
things. This isn't made-up fantasy.

The idea of Freud that "We believe on the basis of
desire rather than on the basis of argument or
evidence," can help us understand why some skeptics
are so adamant in their insistence that there is no
such thing as a "holy" light or a "subjective" light
as Dr. R.M. Bucke called it. The skeptics are failing
to sense a part of reality, but they don't want to
admit this. Of course there are lots of deaf people
and there are lots of blind people. But in our
culture, a man doesn't want to think of himself as
handicapped or disabled. If there is an "extra" sense
that many children don't have or they just outgrow it
at a rather young age, if this sense isn't essential
for being a good hunter and warrior, then natural
selection isn't going to eliminate those who don't
have the sense. Millennia will come and go, and some
people will have the sense of the holy presence and
many will not. Furthermore, one can see that the
sense of a light that isn't physical can be a
distraction to man who needs to focus on the physical
reality to succeed on the hunt and in battle. So
there is a certain amount of selection pressure
against this talent and this sense. Even so, the
sensitivity is still present in the human race. Some
persons will be unusually sensitive to this
environmental input.

11:05PM Saturday, February 23, 2002

8:40PM Monday, February 25, 2002

John L. Waters

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