Riffin' On Cooking the Vegetables

“Those in full consciousness of Me, who know Me, the Supreme Lord, to be the governing principle of the material manifestation, of the demigods, and of all methods of sacrifice, can understand and know Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even at the time of death.” 7.3 Bhagavad Gita Knowledge of the Absolute

Is there any tyranny which can parallel the sheer horror of utter incomprehensibility?

Do you get the heebie jeebies suddenly when a stranger bursts into public outcry in your vicinity, stringing together series of words which amount to nothing, and inflecting the delivery of them with a certainty that conveys an internal order of reason which, for all intensive purposes, isn’t there?!

Through conditioning alone, by the time we reach adulthood, we have equated the sheer act of not understanding with danger, incarnate. Obviously there are different levels to this…none of us are all knowing, or all of that competent even, in regards to our social lives, but we know enough to know that at some level we are within secure bounds, largely unconsciously, but we maintain our status by tending to the conscious satiation doing as much brings.

Proper conception is one of the few pre-requisites to proper action….just as we need to perceive a reality before we can act within said reality, we need to see the reality for what it really is to engage it most effectively…to have the greatest potential to live effectively/act righteously within said reality. It can not be denied, a lion’s share of our early lives amounts to the messianic/uplifting march towards the realization of pervasive mutuality…between you and all people…all creatures…all objects even (somehow)…You are literally a part of everything out there…

We’re usually beginning to realize as much in our mid-20’s- on. I’m only 32 so I can’t comment on what awaits ahead, but it’s something I’ve realized…

Somehow all of the struggles of youth, all of the triumphs…all of the utter travesties… they are all about Individuals breaking down whatever mental walls they had always automatically sorta had that separated their sense of self from the sense of others in a meaningful way. The skin grows thin, the heart- two sizes too big.

Religion does this. But like… overtly Buddhism was the one outright saying that we are all One and that utter mutuality via a common Transcendental Source is a pre-requisite to individuated existence in the first place, in 2022. I was raised Catholic and just didn’t get it there. It’s definitely mostly all the Gospel is concerned with, revisiting it as an adult and reading it so…it’s just that at this period of time in the world the Church had every opportunity for decades to try to like take me there or make the magic happened, and they really failed belly up, notoriously. The Buddhists didn’t.

The point is… and these are rare…in 2022…it is enough to say that we should be telling this to the kids, damn it! If all of the worst situations we’ll face in our young adulthood really are at least capable of being reigned in by a common Source, if not springing forth from… let’s avoid that messy left-hand path and get right to the heart of the matter and teach them a worldview which claims pervasive mutuality amongst Mankind and it’s modalities of culture, and sees the system as not generated by early human thinktanks at the dawn of civilization who created the class system and has kept the Illuminati in power by doing as much… but something that arose spontaneously as people made decisions, and is at least half-universe because of as much…

Which is, to really zoom out… if the tyranny of early life is coming to see that everything material operates under the same universal set of rules and therefore you really are a steward of the world and capable of just about anything (to be honest with you, I still can’t cut a straight line with a pair of scissors)… why not just tell people like everything in the world is of God, and the governing principle is Love, supreme, which is more complicated than it seems however as long as we keep the right intent and keep regarding the world around us with the warmness we’d regard our very parents/cosmic Parent, we will undoubtedly continue to succeed, and grow even more successful across time…

When the Buddhist talk about the end of Duality…one of the interpretations is that this is what they are regarding…the moment we realize that we know all of existence pervasively, because it has a common nature with us, and we are self-aware. The moment we realize that Love is going to affect each and every thing out there perfectly…and so it’s the only response. The realization that it’s this dumb… that you just gotta love/do the thing.

As today’s passage indicates, if you come to know the world purely in terms of God… there is no hell or devil. Death isn’t the thing it was before spiritual epiphany/awakening. There is no uncertainty there, no leaps of faith even. Death is but another action of the Almighty regarding the material plane, and every action performed by the Almighty in the material plane singularly feeds the energies of life systems…it only begets more life or the potential for thereof. So death isn’t even death, but secretly is life in disguise, and is but like some sort of weird caterpillar to butterfly transformation.

And no, rebirth isn’t a thing. It’s a system meant to induce the realization that God has strict control over everything that transpires on Earth at all moments. Our individual “life” as it plays out is shaped by our decisions, but no matter what decisions we make it is always perfectly executed on behalf of Universe, and it liberates you in one life cycle, always, by the grace of God. It’s a quick rode to the realization that the kingdom of God is already at hand, and is inherently silly on the surface level. Yes, Buddhism employs doctrines they know the practitioners will be forced to gut. It’s one of the neater moves I’ve seen religions do, and is definitely an Oriental trope.

Another Oriental trope is the idea that we can go “behind our senses” rather easily just by sort of quieting down and listening to the right guided meditation…and clearly find that we are at the “source” of out internal narrative…and that it may not be us, entirely. The guided meditations…they all have different aims, but there are a lot of people out there guiding them strictly under the notion that how we are hardwired, we are mystical communing machines, and that several of our normal modalities of every day functioning technically qualify as “communing with God” in the religious-philosophical sense of it…that humans are biologically what academics have called “mystics” and that what we have historically called “mystics” are people who have consciously recognized as much and leaned into it effectively after learning as much.

I faced some stigma over my way over the notion of writing about “communing with God”…as if it would be possible for any human to be able to talk to God directly, let along consistently and reliably…let alone create some sort of system where they can teach others to do as much. But that’s what Oriental religion is.

There are three times as many self-reported Hindus in India as there are people in the entire United States of America.

It turns out…that’s what Western religion is too. You’re supposed to go to mass and then be able to Bluetooth God on a direct line when you’re rocking one of the sickass Bluetooth headsets and you’re at CVS, and you realize you forgot the shopping list at home…

I’m pretty sure we write horror movies about little kids kneeling down to pray at church and then them have face to face interactions with enigmatic creatures from beyond…

We don’t expect it, socially. We may spontaneously understand it and possibly believe if it seems to happen, but there’s this unspoken thing out there which seems to say “that ain’t ever going to be what happens”… people don’t just go down to the House of God and then start hearing the voice of God…even though that’s literally what the religion is in both framework and execution… there’s some sort of glaring disparity here at the level of the narrative of reality that operates under the perpetual notion that “God is dead”!... we just sorta assume nothing miraculous is going to happen on Sunday at 9am, but like technically it’s a miracle every time…

To be experiencing anything at all is a miracle.

Although the Church didn’t work for me (I had a different destiny) I do see it working. What I fail to see is the parish…in the sense of the social platform… I don’t see a true linking up of community to truly explore how spirit is working with them in their life as an individual…it’s reserved for the closest of friendships…your relationship with your partner…but otherwise it’s taboo, still.

But I am a weird hippie freak musician, and I gather at weird conscientious hippie festivals where we do do as much. So maybe it’s morso that I’m an artist, and that stuff was going to come in with that territory moreso than in the parish.

But I will say, the taboo unfairly placed against our badass music festivals (admitted, there’s a lot of drugs; it’s cleaned up a lot but it’s a stigma’ed walk of life) and our music scene/wook demographics has made it somehow easier…to be brave on the sharing weird spiritual anomalies front. Sometimes you gotta throw some heat to cook the vegetables or something, idk…

I mean...you could go all "A Beautiful Mind" with it...or just note that the thing's face is shaped like a heart...