07 - Healing of the Self ; The Negatives by Paul Brunton

Author:Paul Brunton
Language: eng
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Published: 2010-10-03T19:21:45.091000+00:00

3.4 Totalitarianism, Communism

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It is significant that Communist leaders like Lenin despised all schools of spiritual thought, denounced religion, and scorned metaphysical reflection. This is now the nominal inheritance of half the world, most particularly the so-called workers' class.

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If social justice means that every man, however deprived his background, should have a chance to develop himself and to better his standards of living, then it is certainly a good thing. But if it means the forced regimentation of everyone, the compulsory equalization of everything, the denial of individuality and the destruction of freedom, then it is surely a bad thing.

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If we only pause to consider that half the entire human race has fallen under the enforced leadership and tyrannical domination of those who would limit man to his ego and reality to matter, we may see how urgently necessary is an arrest to this downward trend. The world is in a state of spiritual crisis.

119

Where the physical body is cherished as the sole reality and made the sole basis for social and political reform, where hate-driven men advocate physical violence as the sole means of effecting progress, be sure of the presence of evil forces, dangers to society, ignorant opponents of truth, and enemies of the Light.

120

It is very meaningful that the filthy abuse which Lenin put into his writings against the idealist metaphysicians like Berkeley is no longer able to detain Soviet psychologists and philosophers in the utter blindness which he left them as part of his spiritual legacy. More and more they begin to question the nature of consciousness as well as its relationship to the external world, more and more they investigate borderland experiences like telepathy and hypnotism. On the question of consciousness' relationship to the brain they are now arguing quite widely, but, for obvious reasons, they remain unable to come to definitive conclusions on which all could agree. They are not satisfied with the completely materialistic answer and yet dare not venture into the purely mentalistic one. Meanwhile they go on debating, and so long as this continues, it is spiritually much healthier than their state of thirty years ago. Problems are being stated and solutions are being discussed. If the Leninist inheritance overshadows it all, that cannot be helped in a totalitarian Communist country. At the present stage of history the truth must be left out in such a land, but it cannot be left out forever. Out of all their mental and verbal activity, the Russians will have to draw a little nearer to it intellectually. What is happening on a deeper plane is outside their knowledge.

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No materialistic organization of society can prevent the appearance and development of spirituality in the individual, but it can create the conditions which will obstruct the appearance or hinder the development of spirituality.

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The intellect, uncontrolled by intuition and unguided by revelation, has spawned the two great masters of our time – Science holding the atom bomb and Communism holding revolution. Science, which in the last century promised so much, gave us the terrible problem of atomic war instead.

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