Sometimes people like to see the mind of a person writing, rather than constant impersonal rhetoric, here is a glimpse
Can never exhaust the subject matter of this journal, could write 40 posts a day and only touch the outer layers
The fact that very few are writing about this vast subject, more detractors than friends at present, is also how it could only be, in some sense (The egoic self will always defend itself, how could it be otherwise?).
In an ideal world, you would have perhaps 20 writers blasting away 24/7, because what is out there in real spiritual and sustenance terms is not much, it often seems to hold great promise, but poke it with a stick and it gets boring real fast, I have shaken that tree with some vigour and only bird droppings fell on my head!
Where is Alan Watts when you need him ?
God threw a party and very few came, which has always been the case (The lifetime of the Spiritual Master)
Here is an apt quote from 1970’s
“The Spiritual Master is a casual meal, eaten by lovers, who only notice each other”
Quick thoughts on a couple of spiritual teachers who appeared in consciousness recently via the internet
Eckhart Tolle: Seems to be teaching an almost Vipassana method, the “Now”, as a focus of attention is a method via Buddhism originally, and then made popular by Osho in his 80’s books. In an early edition of the Dawn Horse Testament, Adi Da mentions perceptual mind (Now) versus conceptual mind(past/future) Tolle may be doing good work in expanding the possibility of an indepth awareness to people in general, plus his environmental philosophy, he seems at last to point to consciousness.
U.G. Krishnamurti: “An odd man”, could be a fair phrase to reference him, he seems to move from an extreme independence and denial of all Help ( God, Guru, Tradition) his life seems to be based on absolute disillusionment, kundalini weirdness and aberration (he mentioned spiritual experience in his life). He may be more like a mast, though in a mild form, where the life force in its movement through the esoteric anatomy gets bent or aberrated somewhat, that is not to deny him as a source of insight and wisdom and a pointer to the spontaneous Self-Nature.