Path: Supernews70!Supernews69!not-for-mail From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (lorax666) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.alien.visitors,alt.pagan,alt.satanism,talk.euthanasia,alt.psychology.transpersonal,alt.consciousness.mysticism,talk.religion.misc,alt.tv.x-files Subject: Re: Aliens and the Transpersonal Date: 7 Jan 1998 21:47:36 -0800 Organization: Access Internet Communications, Inc. Lines: 50 Message-ID: <691p9p$5mo$1@shell.accesscom.com> Reply-To: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 23304@205.226.156.10 X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 (NOV) Xref: Supernews70 alt.magick.tyagi:14644 alt.alien.visitors:230899 alt.pagan:250998 alt.satanism:83871 talk.euthanasia:7658 alt.psychology.transpersonal:1574 alt.consciousness.mysticism:15618 talk.religion.misc:340600 alt.tv.x-files:287180 [orig-to: private email] 49971106 aa2 Hail Satan! (this meme-innoculation approved for all sectors) re a mass-mailing meme-spread regarding the loathesome menace called 'tv': # >certain recurring trends in the plot-lines. One of the most prominent # >is that it's continually IMPLIED--never said (so as not to offend # >those members of the audience who are Tibetan Buddhists, Gnostics, # >Hindus, Pagans or good old fashioned "New Agers"), that only people # >who have been TAMPERED WITH or have made UNHOLY PACTS with evil # >forces possess the capacity to understand the world in anything but # >a strictly materially oriented way. In other words, THE # >TRANSPERSONAL IS INHERENTLY "ALIEN" TO HUMAN EXPERIENCE. the transpersonal *is* inherently alien to personal consciousness. this is why it is symbolized as related to aliens in fictional media. materialists are wise and realistic to portray or attempt to understand transpersonal consciousness in this manner, as it is 'unnatural' (in the sense of 'not ordinarily occurring in nature' for this type of consciousness to develop on its own). one of the greatest dangers human beings face at present is becoming obsessed with any form of transpersonal spiritual disciplines or techniques and losing a real and lasting connection to the material, living world of jungles and oceans and birds. it profits dualists to portray competing mystical systems as 'evil' or 'demonic' as it drives the religious blindedly into a prepared social enslavement while simultaneously condemning competitors as dangerous. the realistic and centering objective of religious aside from these dualists should not be to attempt to laud and glorify their own transpersonal system in reactionary measure, but to observe themselves and their relation to both the depersonalized (a disastrous and accumulating effect of urban living) *and* the personal (supported by decidedly egotistical and imaginative religions that place a heavy emphasis on ecological restoration and the preservation of conditions amenable to the quality of material life of all kinds). blessed beast! tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com lorax666 -- (emailed replies may be posted); http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi; 408/2-666-SLUG join the esoteric syncretism in alt.magick.tyagi; http://www.abyss.com/tokus -- (emailed replies may be posted); http://www.hollyfeld.org/~tyagi; 408/2-666-SLUG join the esoteric syncretism in alt.magick.tyagi; http://www.abyss.com/tokus