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Verse-formed, carefully faceted and smart thinking
that go against cult fares
or over-bossing system,
can help the snared boys inside it
to see how to cope
better
one day on their own.
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BUT DEEP inside a cult one has to balance very well, like a tamed farm animal at
times
sometimes parading in between poles apart
Freedom opposed to servility.
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NOT ALL fair outlets, good-natured wit and common fare is allowed
under bosses
that live well on top of religious indoctrinations
Nor logical, neat and unforeseen
outputs that
help common man.
Parable
THE SECRETIVE Harding,
"The meaning of any lesson series we at time call New Deal parable, or the New
Deal homily or Exercise Plan - because it's all of them in one and the same package - is
to arrive at some looming tenets that can be used as roadside guard-stones to hint at a
road on and up, such as "Be clever at any cost." If this matter looks "British-terse",
well, it is aimed at. And you may deduct from it. - STICK TO CAREFULLY
FACETED AND SMART THINKING that is good for you and note that much that's conform through
law can be at variance with religious instructions fairly often. Laws serve to protect
somem whereas religious-looking cults and their missionaries undermine that averaging
coating (protection). Some use that to capture minds and lots of money. Not a few play on
love in the clouds and much bartering centred on it. You had better try to cope better.
- BALANCE NEATLY. GOOD IDEATIONS (IDEAS) HELP. Both inside and outside cults the
average member has to balance neatly. Good ideations help. Lots of religious-looking
ideals happen to mark a glide downwards, but bad things can be considered through mental
ideas, luckily. Thus, ordinary love is perhaps not the worst there is.
- FIND A COSY
MATE AND DON'T BE OVERTLY SHORT-SIGHTED. Besides, good-natured wit can help some. You have
to preserve freedom in any way you can. Too shortsighted fellows dilute basic conditions
for having freedom and ample space. Having one's own pretty woman to look down on often
speaks of fulfilment! But he who talks down on woman, forgets Mother. (Norwegian). If in
this way you flourish it could prove fatal, but it's no soap. What is more: The best don't
even try to repress or forget the wicked past, and some learn to pant cleverly that they
can be called Yogi-Christs by persons like Yogananda. About one of them: "His stalwarth
body developed a small boil," writes Yogananda. He panted, but all the same that body lay
dead, as if to assure some that we had better not trust this and that in too shortsighted
ways, or that life has its ugly marks (and so on). On the other hand you could lose
straight, common sense if you believe in undocumented stories and deviate much from
it."
Children often becomes a man
GIAN POGGIO (1380-1459) was an Italian humanist scholar and writer that
distinguished himself in very many fields of literature. And as holder of a secretarial
post in the papal Curia, he wore ecclesiastical dress although he was never formally
ordained a priest.
A cardinal reprimanded him for having children, which did not become a man wearing
ecclesiastical garb, and for having a mistress, which was unbecoming even to a layman.
Poggio retorted,
"I have children, which is suitable for a layman, and I have a mistress, which is
a time-honoured custom of the clergy."
(He was much right. Also, in "Celtic Christianity" monks and nuns typically took
to communal living quite like families, and were allowed to have many children in their
settlements. [see Aoe])
This counsel (above) looks stupid to some, but not to
bright friends. Now, you can reverse the trend of the foregoing chap. Here's an example.
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They murder the vital zest and interests of those underneath you -
careful!
it's the bossy rascal's cultlike way.
All the same,
don't leak out
your own basic frivolity;
keep it well guarded.
Much nobility shows the way
here.
What do you think?
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BE STILL very fit for bland,
local applications if fit and systematic.
Think well in deep, private matters -
or let's say you're too scarred.
Anyway, it
may be the best you can do.
Be frank, tidy, crisp and go for solvency where you're
allowed a non-sallow entry,
Never allow your vital interests to get lowered or
go
bad, if you can avoid it.
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MAYBE your basic grounding is far too scarred
or denied that you can oppose
those over you.
Adjust accordingly on top of that.
Try not to seem alarming to
those in power over you at this stage.
dress and behave on your own
most often if
you can.
Try and remain sincere -
Well done.
These were all general hints. Your wars for mastery you have to fight on your own.
Parable
- BEST SINCERITY IS IN CONGRUENCE WITH ONE'S FOOTING AND GOOD GROUNDING.
And often you can allocate much more better. It could even pay to go for that. There are
many sorts of beginner's problems, and we have all been beginners. As such, we're favoured
by meeting with both sincere and upright people fairly often. A little insincerity may not
be too alarming, yet it depends.
- HAVE YOUR STRONG MARKS AND SIDES. IT COULD BE THAT AT
TIMES THE BEST WE'RE ALLOWED TO DEAL IN IS SYSTEMATIC PRESENTATION. Tidy, quite
independent living is worth going for. Much in life has to be built one step at a
time on top of some platform. And tood things can take time. We had better live so well
that we preserve zest or vital interest by not being outsmarted.
- PRESERVE GOOD ASSETS
AND GAIN NEW ONES. Good life is well composed, well aligned, and hardly marked by flares
of anger. And the bet is that idolatry is not for you.
Great Italian conductor of passion
THE ITALIAN CONDUCTOR Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) used to sing with the orchestra
during rehearsals. Engrossed in the music, he sometimes forgot about this habit. Once,
during a dress rehearsal at Salzburg, his voice was heard above the instruments. He
stopped the orchestra and exclaimed, "For the love of God, who's singing here?"
Another time, exasperated by the shortcomings of an orchestra, he suddenly burst
out, "When I retire, I open a bordello ... it will be the La Scala of passion. But I'll
lock the door against every one of you!"
The blunt teaching
I ONCE knew a coming movie star in Hollywood very well. He was trying to enter the
Bramble Garden. He said something like: "Master said all you need to know is in the
Bramble Farm Lessons." Well, it is not like that. The Arctic Survival Course is
missing in them, frankly.
The coming movie star dropped a good education for a while, trying to rise into
the ranks of monastics there, and he had a heart. In many cloisters what is called the
superiors dissuade flourishing correspondence with the men of the world, for the influence
is thought to be unhealthy. Well, swelling fan mail later made up for that "loss", if it
was any . . .
Another eager intellectual and devoted member I knew in Hollywood, liked to study,
but gave up studying for a long time while he hardly got along, but after we met, he
taught me many basics on how to play tennis. He was 'awarded' with a neat-looking horse
for it, I dare tell you.
Now, to write to persons who have been subjected to scarecrow teachings as to men
of the world, persons who have been around and made their mistakes too, is perhaps not
wholly worth while after some time, due to how id works. Something undermines the
frankness of jovial encounters - I have experienced it. If the other is subjected to
discipline and bossy supervision in private affairs too, it may not be good for all
involved.
The next you know is that dogmatism sets in, and rigid and formalistic bent
individuals set themselves up to guide married man and women in how to live through being
canonical, no matter how awkwardly and poorly that may work down to the minutest detail,
on top of leader dictums and plot-rich verbiage. Maturer men don't like such things, as
the whole approach reeks.
The movie star knows that "the show must go on - Godly is what godly seems" -
things like that.
To study better than the first maimed and later maiming cult members, stay
awake if the weird mist comes from the dwarfing hill, and don't try to get
complementary to it. Recruitment of new submission members had better be stopped. And why?
Ritualising bullying and use of false flag is not good enough, essentially. And it may
not work well to get into complementary patterns with fellows that get marred or
much dirty.
Is a man of the world dirty for being an experienced fellow? He may be, but he
could also be one of the finest to meet, depending on how he as used his experiences. Has
he gathered relevant wisdom? Has he become overbearing? Does he bear grudges or not? Is
he free inside and full of liberating wisdom accordingly?
In ancient India there were many sorts of gurus, seers, and dusty persons, even
men who strolled around from place to place completely naked. If they were not monks, were
they inferior to them? Not all of them. Some are venerated still for divine attainments,
which are independent of monk's garbs and roles in any order. For example, in the classic
Siva Purana there are entertaining stories of how God appears in the garb of some
dusty mendicant who is looked pretty much down on by haughty men, those who are wont to
judge a book by its cover and the present by its wrapping, if you understand. But there
may not be any correspondence there.
The status, role of life and reciprocal expectancies form much interaction in
social life, but real worth is often differerent, for it resides inside, and "it takes one
to know one".
Gauging the sect of your desire
How many gurus are almighty just by guru-bragging over and over!
As you try to figure out the lay of the land in any cult of your desire, why not run
through a set of opportune questions and see how many "yes" points you may grant yourself?
Now, if all looks well, don't swerve from looking twice and looking better if it gives
help for life! The reason why thinking twice could help some, is that straight answering
requires honesty, and it may take a life-time to retrieve it, if possible at all, after
rigid sect involvement.
- Have enough control of your own from first to last
We should look very circumspectly and prudently into how much good control leaders
seem to have taken, because of the many who get fooled by pretences, first impressions,
facades and inner drives that can't be all healthy, to give a hint.
Canonical bosses of some sect may love to call one another great, holier than
others, righteous men and women, of some divine dispensation and so on. There's perhaps no
visible end to that where you are.
Now, the unhappy clique may take up vicarious bragging in unhappy
circumstances. Much depends on what is at stake. Maybe the poor braggart is lagging behind
too.
How many King Kongs or "almighties" are there in the galaxy or "pantheon" in any
case? We can't all be King Kongs and gold-hungry, can we? The point is: It matters to do
better than gold-hankering ones, and might-greedy ones, and business-rigidity lovers. And
we should hope to do better than fall victim of outré and exotic-looking bragging too,
because that is generally a wise thing to do. Write down your points.
- Ascertain how far you do have a say in the group of your desire before you're
hopelessly bound to it.
As cults grow bigger or older, they may stiffen into formalism that appears natural, for
that is what tends to happen with groups that get large, and often it happens with groups
that get old too. If you remember those facets of group psychology and life itself, you
may avoid mistakes into dogmatic lanes, but maybe not all of them.
As for Self-Realization Fellowship, headquartered in California, there are some
who think the fellowship has messed up the guru-founder's teachings, and some sites on the
Internet bear evidence of that sort of stuff. Parts of the messages that the guru himself
found vitally important, are missing, it may be found.
- Does the leader of the group or cell claim infallibility or wisdom?
Unluckily, we have a letter that proves that such is the case.
- Do you get confused too?
Many cults may find themselves getting near to brain-washing, especially in
dogmatic waters. Confusion is a "milder variant" in the art of mind-bungling, it may seem,
and may be very fit for making young ones lose confidence in themselves and so on, until
they give in, some of them.
It did not make it easier to find out how far the founding, holy guru talked and
wrote against himself on very important subjects. We could fill up a book about them.
Messy teachings tend to be trying and make people give up.
- Do polite questionings concerning leader judgements bring on lowering of your
thought life, denunciations of your faith, honesty or loyalty to the group?
It happened. I could have preserved the best of the written evidence.
- Are you permitted to question teachings, to accept just some parts?
In part, but not so much as to form decent contracts - and equality is out of the
question. The guru avatars odd system is very, very boss-ridden per definition.
- Is there a strong emphasis placed on recruiting new members?
Go east, west, south and east to spread the message. - Max Sacre in a short talk.
(excerpts) ¤Cf. SRF's Golden Anniversary Booklet [Mas].
In practice, however, many
things are in the hands of nuns and monks, so the spreading is hardly maximal. I took part
in forming one group and visited others. The control over group leaders is not small.
- Do group leaders [harass or] make sexual advances?
The guru avatar seemingly molested the self-esteem of the present leader to mould and
kneed her for the task - He adamantly persecuted her. One night the guru drove her outside
the gates, where she stood weeping and harassed. She's an old dame now, and hails that
systematic guru harassment in the role of being the Giant Bramble Garden's female boss.
Weird fellowship is had by those means. This is much contrary to another, shameful "trend"
among guru leaders: feeling high and free enough to screw devoted females. To some it has
come as no welcome and no small surprise. I know.
- Must you clear what you say about the group? It depends.
The guru avatars drill could have been worse.
- Are you told what to say concerning the group?
It depends.
- Are you free to come and go at will, or -?
Maybe, maybe not.
- Are indecent threats directed at former members and those who express a desire
to leave?
Indeed. One rigorous statement in secret lessons is copied from a talk or sermon found in
an early Self-Realization Magazine. Mishap over many lives has to be expected after
leaving, according to the guru avatar.
- Do leaders seem to take themselves too seriously?
You should perhaps ask about hidden derision instead.
- [Do the leaders deride negatively to get their ends?]
Yes, at times. They could deride an attack fair and sound realism and self-esteem in me. I
was sturdy enough to inform them too politely about Demolition Society's general, broad
faults, defects and flaws in a series of open-hearted letters.
- Do they seem [to be mudslinging in canonical ways,] paranoid or worse about
outsider opponents?
It may have happened. (Canonical) mudslinging is the word used to describe Demolition
Society and other odd enough kriya churches fighting each others now. Internet presents
letters in the matter.
- Are there front groups or phoney organisations designed to recruit new members?
Maybe Since I left many years ago, I'm not wholly updated.
- Are leaders honest about the activities?
Definitely no. They bring idolatry and call it pure Christianity. They twist or distort
many main facets, as a sort of bland mockery or ridicule - in other words mumbo jumbo
religion by facades and pretences.
- Is there a high degree of secrecy?
Yes. The structure is very Masonic. You swear blind allegiance to a bunch of avatars
exported (in idea) from India. Not handsome and too blind promises may later make you
badly introvert. I got too much to figure out by being boss-ridden and drowned in sordid
perils over many years. I hardly survived.
- [Are there horrible expenses?]
Maybe, maybe not for the common beginner.
- [What could be at stake? What are the odds?
It may pay to discern that first to avoid getting bitter. And learn from ancient
Dandalos.
Dandalos
Dandalos and his son Ikaros flew by wings of wax and feathers from captivity on
Crete. Ikaros soared high, so that the sun made his wings melt. He fell into the sea and
died. From this, flying could be labelled unnatural and a bad-omened thing. But his father
used the same outfit and methods, and made it.
The tale: [Story]
It often pays to study well
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Stay awake if the weird mist comes from the hill
WHETHER bland SRF leaders are free to be strictly honest about the main activities
depends. Previously, while still a devoted member, I experienced concrete SRF harassment
of able, skilled thinking that happened to disagree with ritualised avatar infallibility
(braying). They wanted me to stop thinking at variance with guru decrees for the sake of
much "sexton" obedience.
Individual efforts aside from the topdog-strictly regulated "business" or
enterprise may get stopped for servility inside the offhand "family". Good local efforts
may get dwarfed, somewhat aborted or wiped out for the sake of control.
Recruitment of new SRF members had better be stopped due to ritualised bullying,
insane outlooks from the worshipped guru, idol-worship under false flag ("as taught by
Jesus Christ", maybe) and not good enough lessons.
2 To write
to sectarians is hardly worth while
TO LEAVE as a kriyaban is next to impossible, I presume. Yogananda calls those who
left in his days such as "quitters or traitors", but apparently never found fault with
inconsistent sermonising of his; quite dwarfing submission building, or his own words:
"God is the Sole Doer" "The universe is an illusion" - Granted this, he forgot his own
teachings for the sake of "the show must go on" (his words) - when it seemed opportune for
the sake of his soap opera. We don well to refrain from trusting dwarfing bullies and
submitted members - it may not be good to get into complementary patterns with fellows
like that.
3 Ola
Norwegian, not infallible by chance -
YES, THE SURPRISING TRUTH is that SRF claims its big and now invisible
guru-founder's copious and fairly often self-contradictory guidelines to be infallible. I
have it in a private letter. That letter was too much to take. I quit soon after receiving
it; I preferred to die rather than keep up like I did at that time. So that much was at
stake. Conditions quickly worsened - it doesn't happen by chance, is one lesson of
Yogananda to prevent people from breaking out after learning kriya - and perhaps made
Dante's Inferno a quite agreeable place in comparison.
Those who haven't been initiated may feel free to leave - it depends. Much depends
on the degree of attunement and involvement before that.
For the general neurotic and soap opera hungry goof it may not be laughable to
enter that flock.
Tick tack toe poetry, or "vers-o-gram" (an insider
joke)
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If you leave the glossolalia's God for avatars, and next leave the avatars
also, after swearing to obey them and a Hindu's All-God, what dire mishap can follow! Then
even your good moral can be turned into the means of your downfall - it's hard to
say.
"Go east, west, south and east to spread the message" -
Yogananda. [See "balcony talk" in Ak].
A very Masonic
structure leaves you with feeble or no control in much important and even private matters:
It could happen you're going to swear blind allegiance to a bunch of unmet leaders, or one
such secret man -
Not a few leaders take themselves very
seriously in a good way, and so should we.
Stay away from where
there is a strong emphasis on recruiting members, for members give away some measure of
their own say. It's a matter of degrees. Even a political party does it, but the political
hardly swindles over and over against their public profile.
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GOOD MEN leave a rather heathenish, sly crook that plays on a Christian
God-concept to further other ends than those of God, writes Jeremiah in his chapter 18.
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Gain relevant, fit clarity first, then say much.
Are
there front groups designed to recruit new members - get away from that enclave. Your
whole future - very many lives of cares, torments and imbalances - is at stake.
We could do better than fall victim of insignificant Führer bragging over
and over.
To obey is "always" an easy way for a small man. Maybe
he gets neurotic also.
Parable
A homily is a lesson series marked by "one step at the time so as to limit the
odds for floundering much. Here are new ones: - STUDY BASIC SUBJECTS FIRST-HAND.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BECOME A RECRUIT TO LEARN EXCELLENT YOGA AT HOME. Buy a free man's books
on it. The British James Hewitt (born in Belfast) has written at least two good ones. To
study well, stay awake if the weird mist comes from the dwarfing hill, and don't try to
get complementary to it. Recruitment of new SRF members had better be stopped due to
ritualised bullying and use of false flag for a Hindu entry.
- GOOD TEACHINGS STAND THE
LIGHT OF DAY - AND CLEVER INSPECTION. To write to 'members of submission' is hardly worth
while. The great yogi forgot his own teachings for the sake of "the show must go on". It
may not be good to get into complementary patterns with fellows like that.
- MUCH
TRUSTED GURUS MAY GET TOO PUFFED UP AND FAR TOO WHIMSICAL-CATEGORICAL, for one thing. It
can be one of their "habits", along with false flag pretence and braying in
rigmarole-pompous manner also. False leader infallibility is an outright shame; it appears
to have killed many devout members. There is reason to get better than that, and so should
all of us: (a) Trust no infallible-hailed avatar; (b) Don't claim over-much on behalf of
yourself either. Enough is enough. These are our best median-looking estimates.
Interesting candle
A YOUNG JOURNALIST was sent to get a personal interview with a wealthy old Scotch
merchant. His paper desired a human interest story on how he had accumulated his
riches.
"It's a long story," said the old man. "And while I'm telling it we may as well
save the candle." With that he blew it out.
"Never mind about the story," said the reporter, "I understand."
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Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:
Boy thinking: "This verse-formed series of essays that go against unwanted
submissions or an over-bossing system, teems with golden nuggets for me. I may see how to
cope better on my own."
