Permaculture, the science, understanding & practice of life - bb-bm-bh-2012

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:23:18 +0000

First meeting

TOPIC OF THE FIRST MEETING:

Degenerative view of history and the end of kaliyuga

Proposed questions to think about & discuss:

Do you share similar view on the human history?
What traps do you find in some versions of the contemporary “environmental” movement?
What can be the benefit of having “transpersonal”, “mystical” experiences?

EXCERPT

Our terror of insecurity and impermanence leads us to invent technological “solutions” in order to eradicate all risks of death, illness and all that we consider to be a problem.

Thus, we prouce pesticides, chemical fertilizers, antibiotics, drugs and all kinds of “sciences,” devices and machines — from nuclear energy to genetic engineering — that disrupt the ecological balance on which our lives depend both in the so-called “external world” and “inside our own bodies”.

We try to destroy the “negative” side of the coin of existence — the side featuring death, suffering, illness, discomfort, insecurity, hard work, pain and so on — by constantly putting corrosives on it.

Nowadays, corrosion has worn away so much of the coin that it is about to reach the side we wished to preserve — life, joy, health, comfort, security, leisure, pleasure and so on — and thus put an end to human existence.

By trying to destroy death we have come to the brink of bringing all life to an end.

(source)

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

Capriles, E.: The Perennial Philosophy’s Degenerative View of Human Evolution and History, pages 857-870
Quinn, D.: Beyond Civilization

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The Perennial Philosophy’s Degenerative View of Human Evolution and History

Keywords and significant quotations:

We are living in what the Greeks called the “kairos” – the right moment – for a “metamorphosis of the gods,” of the fundamental principles and symbols –Jung (p.797)
According to A. J. Ayer “we are authorized to have faith in our procedure [i.e. scientific method], so long as it carries out its function, which is that of predicting future experience and thus control our environment” – it has invalidated the sciences insofar as, in trying to control the environment wtih the avowed aim of creating an Eden and kill death an dpain, the sciences and the technology based on them have produced a hellish chaos… which is supposed to be the opposite of the place where we intended to go (p.797)
Sciences are but myths … Progress is nothing but a myth to the bourgeoisie –Sorel (pp.797; 934=endnote 3) … apparent comfort to privileged minority (p.803)
there cannot be a perfect structural fit between [digital] conceptual maps and the [analog] territory … adaequatio intellectus et rei is principially impossible (p.946=footnote 39) … essential problem is not in the precision of the map but in mistaking the map for territory which buddhism calls avidya (ignorance). A myth/metanarrative that acknowledges itself to be a myth/metanarrative (authentic myth –Sorel) is therefore better than a myth concealing such a thing (p.798) and can serve the purpose of Wittgenstein's ladder “used to accede to the place where it can be left behind” (pp.798-9). Ignorance means ignorance of being conditioned by metanarratives (ibid.) “Counter-ideology” (Sorel).
pseudo-postmodernism of petit récits and imperfect deconstruction/relativization (p.798) being not radical enough (still keeping the project of technology, modernity, private ownership and capitalism as natural/taken-for-granted, mistaking nomos - convention for physis - nature) (pp. 798; 941=footnote 19)
Mount Kailash as the sacred center of Bön, Indian and other traditions (pp- 799 etc.)
Lila-telos of evolution (p.800)
Kalpa, 14 manvataras, 3 or 4 yugas (krityayuga/satyayuga, tretayuga, dwaparayuga, kaliyuga) , in Europe ages (golden, silver, bronze, iron age). No such eras in taoism (Lao-tzu: pure simplicity → order not harmony → loss of reality of essential life → straying from Tao; cynical eruditionm pretending arrival at wisdom etc.) (p. 802)
taoism: “complete people” (making their essential nature return to nonbeing) vs. “mundane people” (fame, honor, ego,…missing key to Tao)
A.Watts: reverse law / law of inverted effect. Trying to go south yet going actually north… going to create technological Eden yet creating a ecological catastrophe (pp. 803n.)
circular vision of becoming (p.800) Heraclitus, Stoics etc.
traditional degenerative conception of human evolution and history (gradual dev. of avidya/lethe); vs. the ideology of progress and evolution
Figure-ground mind (gestalt) ~ secondary-process-only limited mind (Freud) (p.804)
architecture of delusion: selection – neglecting the rest – indifference – blindness – selected perceived as completeness (p.804)
story of blind man and elephant
incapacity to grasp the unity of the coin of life (p.805) Destroying the whole [coin] while trying to get rid of what is unpleasant [one side of the coin] “when an arc annoys us, we aim at it our powerful technological weapons, destroying the circuit of which they are a part, setting fire to the tree in front of us, we burn the forest in which we stand, bringing about our own destruction”
Four Noble Truths transferred to the current ecological crisis (pp.805-6)
story of the rainfall of maddening water (p.806)
Erich Fromm: our society as a whole is lacking sanity, “Just as there is a folie à deux there is a folie à millions”; Blaise Pascal: state of mind of normal individuals can be compared to a psychological disorder (p.806)
Goethe, The Sorcerer's Apprentice: at some time we lose control of the charm and wreak havoc on ourselves (p.807) … indian mythology - Matariswan –> myth of Prometheus (pp.807-8) , Yanomani: “eternal fire will bring you torments” (p.944=endnote 27) … c.f. D.Quinn's Ishmael! … Schumacher: people of the forward stampede vs home-comers (Schumacher)(p.944=endnote 28)
biblical story of the tower of Babel - attempt to arrive at paradise though building buy means of linear intelligence, fragmentary vision and delusion –producing confusion ending up in a disaster (pp.808-9)
fable of Golem - homunculus, letters aleph-mem-thau creating “emeth=truth”, Golem growing, then removing the aleph creating “meth=death”. the mud from dissolving Golem killing the Hasid who created the homunculus (p.809)

TODO:

Hegel - Phenomenology of Mind
Sartre
Kiergegaard
Bateson - conscious purpose against nature (p.822)
MISC–Marx, Freud, Communion, post-Contemplation state, metamorphy, morphogenesis, morphoeugenesis, Dante-Divine Comedy, phenomenology etc.

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:23:17 +0000

Second meeting

TOPIC OF THE SECOND MEETING:

Higher conditioned states

Key points:

Consciousness expansion does not equal Supreme Sanity (Enlightenment)
Instances of nirvana are not caused, compounded, fabricated, conditioned states
Beyond Creation (Being) vs within creation

EXCERPT

EXCERPT: Looking for pleasure is a source of pain,

yet we cover the embers with so many ashes

that awhile we cannot feel the burn.

Thus, we consolidate our habit of clinging to the ember

and so sooner or later we will burn our hand.

(source)

Recording of the session (4 participants): http://www.anymeeting.com/brozkeff/EC51DF85874F

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

Capriles, E. (2011, v.3.0): “Ascending in the Wheel: The Error of Striving to Achieve Higher Conditioned States”. In Beyond Mind, pp. 377-391
Zahler, L. (2009). Study and Practice of Meditation: Tibetan Interpretations of the Concentrations and Formless Absorptions. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion. PDF

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Zahler - REFUTATION [OF MISTAKEN OPINIONS]

First debate

Incorrect position: In [someone having] a physical basis of the three bad transmigrations or [the northern continent] Unpleasant Sound, there is [retention of ] possession of actual meditative absorptions already attained.

Correct position: It follows that that is incorrect because whoever is a person of an upper realm who is about to die and who is definite to be reborn in [a bad transmigration or Unpleasant Sound] in the next birth necessarily degenerates from the actual meditative absorption of that [upper realm]. This is because (1) whoever is [a person of an upper realm who is about to die and who is definite to be reborn in a bad transmigration or Unpleasant Sound] necessarily manifests gross craving, and so forth, which is included within the level of the Desire Realm and (2) a person who simultaneously possesses in his or her continuum manifest afflictions of the Desire Realm and an actual meditative absorption does not occur. (p. 353)

Reminder about the analog territory / digital maps

Imminent death has been predicted for analog since the advent of the PC. But it is still here; in fact, analog ICs have been growing at almost exactly the same rate as digital ones. A digital video disk player has more analog content than the (analog) VCR ever did.

The explanation is rather simple: the world is fundamentally analog. Hearing is analog. Vision, taste, touch, smell, analog all. So is lifting and walking. Generators, motors, loud-speakers, microphones, solenoids, batteries, antennas, lamps, LEDs, laser diodes, sensors are fundamentally analog components.

The digital revolution is constructed on top of an analog reality. This fact simply won't go away. Somewhere, somehow you have to get into and out of the digital system and connect to the real world.

(Hans Camezind: Designing Analog Chips)

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:23:18 +0000

Third meeting

TOPIC OF THE THIRD MEETING:

The Undoing of Delusion

Key points:

Genuine paths undo the delusion, not add further layers on top of it

EXCERPT

EXCERPT: “The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.

For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at the tree of life; and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and holy, whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.

This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.

But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this I shall do by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite that was hid.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite.”

(William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth)

Recording of this session is not public due to low technical quality and a little added value.

RECOMMENDED TEXT:

Capriles, E. (2011, v.3.0): “The Undoing of Delusion on the Dzogchen Path vs the Delusive Paths based on building.” In

Beyond Mind (v3.0), pp. 411-417+

This short session had major technical difficulties with my internet connection instability due to a congested wireless network at school, and also problems with audio/video recording due to Flash Player–Java–Linux incompatibility on my Linux box. The recording made does not have good enough quality & added value to be made public.

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:23:17 +0000

Fourth meeting - 31st October 2012 20:00 CET

Topic: Lacking and Abundance

Reading: “Loops from The Source of Danger is Fear”

Due to last minute announcement of the changed date and time not many people attended However it should change the next session which should cover the topic of spiritual benefits of psychedelic drugs consumption.

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:23:17 +0000

Fifth meeting

TOPIC OF THE FIFTH MEETING:

Psychedelics and genuine spiritual paths

Key points:

Consciousness-expanding chemicals are not used in any buddhist school/tradition
Usage without having received initiation/transmission and proper instructions can lead to further delusion
Most experiences on psychedelics do not belong to instances of nirvana, but rather to instances of kunzhi lungmaten (the neutral base-of-all condition of epoche) followed by experiences of formless realms and realms of form (arupaloka, rupaloka) which belong to the peak of samsara

EXCERPT

Excerpt:

“Stan Grof has worked mainly with abrupt ways to raise the energetic-volume- determining-the-scope-of-awareness, and especially with psychedelic substances of the kind I have christened chemical raisers of the energetic-volume-determining-the-scope-of- awareness that have an epochotropic, non-dissociative, non-hypnotic, potentially “psychotomimetic,” consciousness expanding effect (CREV), which in themselves and by themselves do not give rise to stable, clearly recognizable instances of nirvana, yet can easily induce instances of the neutral base-of-all immediately followed by samsaric experiences of the formless realms (which, however, does not mean that nirvana could not have occurred in some people under the effect of these substances who, probably as a result of previous practice, were ripe for it to occur, or who on the basis of teachings received and practice applied in “past lives” happened to apply traditional instructions). ”

— Beyond Mind, p.457+

Recording of the session (4 participants), CZECH LANGUAGE: http://www.anymeeting.com/brozkeff/EC53D9888046

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

Capriles, E. (2011, v.3.0): “The so-called psychedelic experience”. In Beyond Mind, pp. 497-509

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:23:17 +0000

Sixth meeting

TOPIC OF THE SIXTH MEETING:

A Critical Appraisal of Transpersonal Psychology With the Emphasis on the Psychology of Stanislav Grof

Key points:

Abraham Maslow came with the benefit of “peak experiences” which he later corrected
Meanwhile many authors in the antipsychiatry and transpersonal psychology movement glorified various expanded states of mind, comparing them with buddhist realizations etc., often mistaking higher samsaric experience or neutral base-of-all state (both involving all 3 or one aspect of avidya) for instances of nirvana/unconditioned Absolute
Grof classified 10 types of spiritual emergency, pointing both potentially wholesome and harmful effects according to circumstances
Grof's 'descending' path (seeking some usefulness of going “back” or “deeper” in the early stages of development is delusive, but much more aligned with genuine buddhist schools than Ken Wilber's 'integral' approach of going up the samsaric ladder of fulcra

EXCERPT

Excerpt:

“Grof coined the concept of systems of condensed experiences or COEX systems, which he defined as “emotionally-charged memories from different periods of our life that resemble each other in the quality of emotion or physical sensation that they share,” which he called “constellations of emotionally relevant memories stored together and which he deemed determinant in the formation of individual psychology. Among these so-called COEX systems, most determinant are the four Basic Perinatal Matrices or BPMs, which according to Grof’s initial view originated in the third of the above realms: that of “birth and death” making up the “perinatal realm” (however, in 1998 Grof acknowledged that, though he continues to classify some of the experiences that manifest in nonordinary states of consciousness [NOSC] in terms of perinatal matrices, those experiences need not be seen as determined by the birth process or as replicating the later: though BPMs often accompany the reliving of birth, they can also emerge independently of such liaison, and the manifestation of BPMs in NOSC and the process of birth itself may be both determined by an archetypal dynamic, rather than the former being determined by the latter). Grof views these BPMs—within each of which different COEX systems can manifest—as conditioning human experience in all of the levels / realms into which our author divides the human psyche, and in particular as determining the experiences of the fourth of the above levels / realms, which is the transpersonal domain…”

— Beyond Mind, p.453-475

Recording of the session in CZECH LANGUAGE: MP3 (32kbps), 14 MB, 1 h 2 min.

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

Capriles, E. (2011, v.3.0): “A Critical Appraisal of Transpersonal Psychology With the Emphasis on the Psychology of Stanislav Grof”. In Beyond Mind, pp. 453-475

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capriles

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:23:17 +0000

Skype webinar with Elías Capriles - Monday 17th December 2012 18.00-20.00 CET

Recording of the session:

2012-12-17_bbbmbh2012-webinarwithelias.ogg (40 MB, 1h50m)

Questions posed and answered:

Question 1 - kaliyuga

The information about the current phase of the “age of darkness” (kaliyuga) the mankind is now differs significantly in various sources, some claiming we are still in the early period, and a long continuous period of growing conflict, perpetuating ignorance and suffering is yet going to happen before the threshold level/reductio ad absursum is reached at the mass scale, giving rise to the new “Golden age”. Yet the perspective that the mankind urgently needs this change of direction otherwise it will face its own destruction within this very century is constantly appearing in the last decades (the Silent Spring, the Limits to Growth and the Club of Rome, and number of newer data supporting this claim). Could some excursion to the calculations of the different authors be made? It is particularly interesting in the light of the mass hystery caused by the popular conclusion that the Platonic year / the big cycle according to the Mayan calendar is going to end in “just a few weeks”…

Question 2 - Origin of various traditions on Mount Kailash

The historical conclusion that various traditions including the Indian ones, the Zurvanism, etc., originate from Mount Kailash is yet not a widespread one - at least not taught this way at Czech universities where religious studies (religionistics) are being studied. Even prof. Tucci didn't used this explanation and it is perhaps largely the contribution of Ch. Namkhai Norbu that he made the effort to have a critical look over the traditional historical myth how the indian culture spread into Tibet, and so on. Are there more contemporary works that deal more in depth with this topic, particularly the texts of the proponents of those specific traditions that have their source at Mount Kailash in the ancient Bön teachings originating from Shenrab Miwo(che)?

Question 3 - distinction of samsaric states and instances of nirvana in psychotherapy

It has been asserted that the contemporary psychedelic, antipsychiatry, transpersonal psychology, phenomenological and existential philosophy movement, if pointing towards some of the extraordinary experiences of some kind of consciousness expansion (being it called the “peak experience” by Maslow and by various other names by other authors), generally fails to have the view specific to the genuine spiritual paths as the higher vajrayana or atiyana-dzogchen have, that is, being able to distinguish between the experience and of what is beyond experience; distinguishing between the samsaric states of kamaloka-rupaloka-arupaloka, the experience of void/emptiness/kunzhi lungmaten, and the instances of nirvana. For such a distinction is rarely possible without getting in contact with these particular teachings that employ the genuine methods for distinguishing these, and that traditionally require the contact with the master to receive the initiation/empowernment and proper instructions, it is difficult to imagine a conventional western psychotherapeutic session dealing with these extraordinary states so this absolutization of certain samsaric experiences doesn't happen. Your critique of the transpersonal psychology movement doesn't give much help to the therapists what to do in these settings when the client is not particularly open to meet some master to start following some authentic spiritual path. Have you elaborated this topic somewhere more in detail, not just analyzing the flaws in the theories of those transpersonal movement authors particularly the Ken Wilber or Stan Grof?

Question 4 - interpretation of Heraclitus' fragments (Theory of value – Chronicle of Fall, p.3)

Can Heraclitus' thoughts and insight be considered similarly as when doing the elaborate critique of the works of Ken Wilber et alli., when for Heraclitus where only fragments are known, and for Wilber/Hegel/Heidegger and all the modern authors, extensive volumes of their work are available. So it can be possible to interpret some fragments of Heraclitus as being pretty well in accord with the atiyoga-dzogchen point of view, but it is virtually impossible to do so in the complete texts where evidently there are severe logical inconsistencies. If imagining let's say the cricitised Wilber's work would be known only in the fragments like the Heraclitus' ones are, would we be able then to reinterpret it in a significantly different way?

Question 5 - improving western so-called-postmodern philosophy (Beyond Being, p.57 and many other places)

Do you have some ideas how to advance the “postmodern” approach in the social sciences taught at the universities etc., so more people could overcome the typical limitations (where the phe- nomenological worldly experiences are not considered as the dharmas sustained by the fully fledged avidya in all the three senses of the term)? (In fact, the limitation of the concepts by the imperative of having the genus proximum and differentia specifica is al- ready somehow acknowledged in the social sciences, being inspired by the so called postmodern thinking, for example in the qualitative research paradigm which is often aware of this inherent limitation, using terminology that tries to re - peatedly emphasize the interpretations put by any conceptualization are only “working hypothesis”, “tentative” or “pro- visional” truths/meanings. For example, in the discoursive, collaborative, “post-modern” approach to counseling and psychotherapy, there exists a “not-knowing approach” (re)introduced recently by Harlene Anderson et alli. The approach considers any experience experienced and/or described by the client as fully legitimate with the thera - pist having no right to judge it, to recommend something, etc., for the therapist (according to the “not-knowing” stance) cannot directly and accurately know what should be “good” for the client. However it seems there is quite lacking any vision/direction of either the aim/intention where to actually go in such a “therapy”, or of any consideration of what is the nature or some “true character” of the experiences of the client. So the cluster of approaches like that one seems quite “descending” for not rejecting some types of experiences and prefering certain others, but still it seems to me as not satisfactory enough, for it “embraces” anything as “natural” and legitimate, but not giving any plausible view and a key like the one Buddhist view posits, that is, the consideration of the experiences and their multitude of cognitive con - tents as being delusorily valuated because of the avidya…)

Question 6 - Should we go back to the trees? (Beyond History v1.1 footnote 15, p.997-8)

The Alan Watts' law of inverted effect where in the short term the actions seem to produce the de- sired effects but in the longer run the results start getting the very opposite of the original intention seems a very unpopular in all the scientific circles where there anything except for continuing in the very same “progress” of the body of knowledge, etc.etc. is absolutely beyond imagination, for the typical response is something like “Should we go back to the trees?”. In the academic courses of “Sustainability” there is a very commonly used the concept of a “demographic transition” where it is said, showing the demographic data of the “developed” countries, that the problems with the ex- cess usage of the natural resources, etc., are caused not just by the individual level of consumption but also by the increase in the world population, and in the longer run it is somehow necessary to stop the geometric growth of the population by 1…2…3 % a year in some of the developing coun- tries … and the growth of the GDP and increase of the education are considered as the main modera- tion factors that are the key to “make” the “demographic transition”. Of course, the argument for the necessity of increasing the nation's wealth is so often misused to argue for deploying the green revolution and “modern agriculture” of Syngenta+Monsanto and many other similarly controversial means, that I wonder whether one can nowadays produce a “myth” with some directions that although being delusory, still could be wholesome. I feel some of the interpretations present in the “permaculture” movement could be used for that purpose. What are your experiences in the Latin America regarding this approach and its outcomes?

Question 7 - dharmakaya, logos, common to all? (Beyond Mind, p.392nn. - Laing and the spiral of pretenses)

Could the various new age ideas and techniques of “returning home” to some kind of primordial condition of the child qua tabula rasa, before the first iteration of the pretenses began, yet in fact usually inducing certain samsaric experiences where the mind functioning is somehow paralyzed/crippled, or giving some extra value to the bodily sensations etc., considering these to be somehow “nearer the Center/essence/Ground”, be considered as the error in failing to distinguish between the logical negation and the phenomenological negation, where the double negation is not the same as the original condition? It seems that in these systems there is multiple errors and distor- tions occuring simultaneously, one of them being the one just described and another one being the typical mismatching of the experience of emptiness or some other more or less pleasant experiences for the supreme aim of the spiritual systems, combined perhaps with the erroneous view copied per - haps from the theosophy that “all spiritual traditions have in fact the same aims and realizations”, and/or there exists some “universal Mind” or consciousness common to all (an interpretation that could be also drawn from the particular fragments of Heraclitus, considering the logos as some “world consciousness” or so… Could you expose the structure of the errors in these views in a more elaborate and precise way? (It seems it has already been explained quite well by Igor Berkhin in his 2011 article “Why Altered States Are Not Enough, A Perspective from Buddhism” in the IJTS and it seems it is almost perfectly consistent with what you are exposing in your works)

cesky

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:23:17 +0000

Beyond Being, Beyond Mind, Beyond History - seminář a webinář 2012

CO TO JE? English version

Seminární cyklus/studijní skupina vycházející především z textů Eliase Caprilese, profesora historie a filosofie, a dlouholetého praktikujícího dzogčhenu a vadžrajány, co na základě osobních instrukcí upadéši od učitelů jako Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Thinle Norbu Rinpoche a dalších strávil přes 6 let na ústraních v Himalájích.

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mezisvety

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:23:18 +0000

Přednáška na Mezi Světy [HELD IN CZECH LANGUAGE]

TÉMA PŘEDNÁŠKY (Čtvrtek 25.10.2012 13:00):

2012 and the reductio ad absurdum of Kaliyuga?

“Žijeme ve věku postmoderny? Zlí jazykové tvrdí, že nikoli, že jsme stále v dekadentní fázi moderny, stále v Železném věku (Hesiodos) či kalijuze (védy). Myslitelná historie lidstva není žádnou evolucí a pokrokem k lepšímu, ale naopak jde o pokračující úpadek, involuci a rozvoj nevědomosti.] Lze ve vývoji civilizace a kultury vystopovat událost pojedení ovoce ze stromu poznání dobra a zla? Jsou vůbec Mojžíšovy knihy psány lidmi naší kultury nebo jsou psány někým jiným, O LIDECH naší kultury? A přinese letošní slunovrat velkou očistu a nový Zlatý věk (Satyajuga)? Jak by to mělo proběhnout? Které směry dnešní burza duchovních směrů nabízí k překročení kalijugy a které naopak napomáhají dalšímu stupňování současné dekadence? Krátký historický exkurs, meditace a následná beseda a výměna názorů.”

Before the final decades of the twentieth century, no grand systems showing the myth of “progress” to be unjustified were produced, probably because only in the present nightfall of the aeon, when events of the long day in question have drawn to a close, has Athena’s owl seen all that it needed to see for understanding the day’s evolution—and only at this point is it no longer dazzled by the daylight. This not being dazzled stands for the “systemic wisdom” of those who have repeatedly gone beyond delusion and Seen into the true condition of reality, from which the owl can now draw in order to produce clear and precise metanarratives interpreting human spiritual and social evolution and history as a gradual development of the basic human delusion called avidya or marigpa to a threshold lying at the very end of the Era of Darkness or Iron Age, at which this delusion completes its reductio ad absurdum and can disconnect itself, restoring communion—which in its turn would restore plenitude, equality, harmony, ecological balance and fulfillment. In fact, only systemic wisdom, resulting from the repeated manifestation of the state of Truth as defined in this book—i.e., as lack of the avidya or marigpa involving the fragmentary perception and understanding of reality produced by the combination of the hermetic focus of awareness with the confusion of map and territory—can respond to the deadly disease affecting our species and the whole of the ecosphere by producing wholesome myths of the kind Sorel called authentic, expressed in systemic metanarratives that drive human beings to take the courses of action the present situation of our species and planet demand, and that acknowledge their mythic character, challenging us to cease confusing them with the territory they represent. In fact, it is insofar as such systemic metanarratives are intended to lead beyond clinging to systems, myths and metanarratives (whether global or local, systemic or fragmentary, beneficial or detrimental) that, giving a stricter sense to a term coined by Georges Sorel, I call them anti-systems. (E.Capriles, Beyond Being, p.18)

* "Povinná četba": Rozhovor s Mnislavem Zeleným Atapanou

Úryvek: Naší celkovou situaci totiž nemůže vyřešit nikdo. To, co se teď děje, není vina posledních dvaceti či padesáti let. Je to výsledek průběhu tisíců let, od neolitické revoluce a vzniku zemědělství. Tím byl započat celý ten průšvih, protože se začalo vyrábět. To znamená, že se začal akumulovat majetek, vznikly peníze a začal pokrok.

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