stripping the gurus - Brahma Kumaris Info

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guru). One might well then even seek out guru-figures who are
known to be “amoral.” For, what is morality but a product of the
same conceptualization which daily blinds us to the Way Things
Are? Isn’t breaking such arbitrary hang-ups exactly what we need
to do if we wish to be free of our dualistic conceptual boundaries?
So, a “wild and crazy” guru who will “wisely” place you into situations
where you have no choice but to drop your categorizing intellect
and culturally molded conscience in “choiceless awareness”
would be the best for accelerating your own spiritual evolution,
yes? You could further hardly ask up-front for a detailed list of
what you might be asked to do in such a community, as that would
spoil the spontaneity of the guru’s “divine expression,” would it
not?
There is further, quite clearly, no alleged abuse or breach of
conventional morality so gross that it cannot be rationalized away,
even by persons outside of the residential group. That is so, particularly
for those who desperately want to believe that one or another
guru-figure is the “greatest living Realizer” or the like, and
that everything he or she does is a “Teaching.” And, one need not
be “brainwashed” in order to think that such rationalizations
“make sense.” Rather, one needs only to sincerely believe in the
long-touted, if utterly wonky, transpersonal/integral theory.
The voluntary entrance into known (reported) psychologically/
physically abusive and amoral environments will then quite naturally
follow. For, how else can one prove one’s “spiritual machismo”
to the heroes who have recommended “complete surrender” to one
or another even-“problematic” guru and environment? How else to
show that you’re serious about becoming as “enlightened” as they
are in their spiritual genius, except by “taking the heat”?
Interestingly, Live singer/songwriter Eddie Kowalczyk has expressed
his early appreciation for Wilber’s (1996) A Brief History of
Everything. (That book is again the same one in which both the
Pythagorean Fiasco and kw’s “complete rubbish” misrepresentations
of high-school-level evolutionary biology were unleashed on
the world, in a “Q & A monolog.”) He later visited with Wilber
himself in August of 1999. Kowalczyk then blurbed for Da in 2000,
crediting him with being “Real God ... incarnate as Avatar Adi Da
Samraj.”
Coincidence? Or a troubling demonstration of the points
above, even with Kowalczyk meeting Da as a “celebrity” either
way, and thus necessarily having no real knowledge as to what the