Krishna in the Sky with Diamonds by scott teitsworth
Author:scott teitsworth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-02T16:00:00+00:00
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ON SEEING YOU TOUCHING THE
SKY, SHINING IN MANY A COLOR,
WITH MOUTHS WIDE OPEN, WITH
LARGE FIERY EYES, MY INMOST SELF
INTENSELY DISTRESSED, I FIND
NEITHER COURAGE NOR CONTROL,
O ALL-PERVADING ONE.
The dark side of our mental makeup often remains out of sight, fortunately for our stability, but a spiritual or psychedelic thrust will sooner or later unearth something ghastly that can blow away the meager defenses our complacency previously provided. When that happens, a sound philosophy can only offer a straw for the drowning one to grasp; it can’t turn back the tide. There is nothing for it but to be bowled over. But the terror does not destroy; it tempers the mettle of the psyche and strengthens it.
The ego is very clever to take in all manner of spiritual teachings and subject them to its domination, and the resulting spiritual ego is extremely hard to dislodge from its perch. In the manner of an insular cabal excluding all non-believers, doubts and challenges are dismissed without a hearing. If we are particularly blessed, we may encounter an experience that floods the ego out of its ability to co-opt every lesson to its own self-glorification. Regardless of how it comes about, whatever produces the flood should be treated as our guru, the remover of our darkness. That’s not so easy when our first instinct is to reject it.
This is an arena where psychedelics are particularly efficacious. They confront false beliefs, no matter how entrenched, with an irrefutable counterproposition. In the case of a human guru, it is always possible to retain a degree of ego as a buffer against the intensity imparted, but a unique ability of soma-type medicines is to temporarily circumvent all our conditionings. They can be reconstructed, and often are, but at least we are given an opportunity to choose between the valuable and the pernicious ones.
For a yogi, balance in all things is called for. A mere nod to life’s negatives is not enough. Since we are blessed to have so much positivity most of the time, it is only right that this be counterbalanced in a way that cannot be denied. It may be that the terror is so intense because it equates with a vast amount of good times. And of course the exact proportions vary with every person. Ultimately, the intense direct experience of good and bad eventualities can be unified by the yogi to achieve a blissful neutrality that accepts and transcends both. It takes time.
In Jill Taylor’s stroke account cited earlier, she indicates that most of our control, if not our courage, is located in the dominant, usually left, hemisphere of the brain. In her case a ruptured aneurysm took the place of the soma in opening her up to samadhi, taking her left brain offline and ushering her into conscious contact with previously hidden aspects of her self, those more in tune with what we call the absolute ground. She found the experience so delightful that she often wondered why she should bother to regain left-brain function at all.
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