“Always relax into the pains and circumstances of experience, and so remain in Communion with Life, rather than in confrontation with the modifications of Life. Relax into Life rather than react to experience. Do this consistently, under all circumstances, and thus remain always free, happy, Full of Life, and disposed toward loving self release in all relationships. This is the Human Foundation of Morality.” ~ Adi Da Love Ananda
Useful study From The Aletheon for Bright House Convocation and Collective True Heart Transformation for Demonstrative Prior Unity:
From The Aletheon Of Bright Siddha Da
*The Dogmas of Social Morality Versus The Esoteric Spiritual Teaching
That Is At The Origin of Traditional Religions
*Beyond The Cultic Tendency In Religion and Spirituality, and In Secular Society
*The Parental Deity and The One To Be Realized
*God-Talk, Real-God-Realization, Most Perfect Divine Self-Awakening,
and The Seven Possible Stages of Life
*Alpha / Omega
*All Imperfect Knowledge Is Bunk
Da Love Ananda:
“Religious” and Spiritual cultism is, thus, a kind of infantile
collective madness. (And such madness is equally shared by secular
cultists, in every area of popular culture—including politics, the
sciences, the arts, the communications media, and even all the
agencies and institutions of conventional “officialdom” relative to
human “knowledge”, belief, and behavior.) “Religious” and
Spiritual cults (and, likewise, all secular cults) breed “pharisaism”
(or the petty righteousness of conventional thinking). “Religious”
and Spiritual cults breed “substitution” myths (or the belief that the
personal transcending of egoity is, both generally and ultimately,
impossible—but also unnecessary, because of what “God”, or
some “Master”, or even some “priest” has already done). Indeed,
“religious” and Spiritual cults (and, likewise, all secular cults) breed
even every kind of intolerance, and the chronic aggressive search
for exclusive social dominance and secular power. “Religious” and
Spiritual cults are, characteristically, populated by those who are,
generally, neither inclined toward nor prepared for the real right
practice of “religious” and Spiritual discipline, but who are (and
always seek to be) glamorized and consoled by mere association
with the “holy” things and beliefs of the cult itself.
This error of “religious” and Spiritual cultism, and of ego-based
culture in general, must be examined very seriously—such that the
error is truly rooted out, from within the cult and the culture itself
(and not merely, and with equally cultic cultural righteousness,
criticized from without). Cultism of every kind (both sacred and
secular) must be understood to be a kind of ritualized infantilism—
bound to egocentric behavior, and to the embrace of “insiders”
only, and to intolerance relative to all “outsiders”. The cultic
tendency, both sacred and secular, brings about (and has always
brought about) great social, cultural, and political trouble—as has
been seen, in this “late-time” (or “dark” epoch), in the
development of worldwide conflicts based on the exclusive (or collectively
egocentric) orientation of the many grossly competitive “religious”
traditions, political idealisms, and national identities.
All cults, whether sacred or secular, thrive on indulgence in the
psychology (and the emotional rituals) of hope, rather than on
actual demonstration of really ego-transcending action. Therefore,
when all egos meet, they strive and compete for the ultimate
fulfillment of searches and desires, rather than cooperate with Truth
Itself, Reality Itself, or Real (Acausal) God, and in a culturally valued
and rewarded mood of fearless tolerance and sane equanimity.
Beyond The Cultic Tendency In Religion and Spirituality, and In Secular Society
Clearly, this cultic tendency in “religion” and Spirituality, and the
egoic (and, thus, cultic) tendency in life in general, must become
the constant subject of fundamental human understanding—and all
of humankind must constantly be put to “school”, to unlearn the
“method” of egocentrism, non-cooperation, intolerance, and dis-ease.”
“Exoteric “religion” is the application of metaphysically-based
ideas (or mind-based presumptions) to apparent
(or presumed-to-be) physical “objects”.
Exoteric “religion” achieves physically effective control over
physical “objects”—and human populations—by means of
(usually, conspicuous) exercises of prescriptive “social activism” and
prescriptive “social morality”.
Exoteric “religion” achieves physically effective mind-control over
human individuals and collectives by means of (invariably,
conspicuous) social and political “moral performances”, power-alliances
with social and political institutions, the public proliferation of
“sacred enclosures” (such as temple architecture), and the
broad-scale persistent propagandizing of “sacred artifices”, such as
“religious” myths, irreducibly “objectified” beliefs, symbolic ceremonials,
ritual re-enactments, “religious” art, and the authoritarian assertion of
such ideas as “objective certainty”, “moral absolutes”, the “inherent
integrity and reliability of tradition”, “happiness by means of
institutions”, “blessedness” by means of “sacramentally authorized”
hierarchies of “religious officials”, “faith” as an exercise superior to all other
human efforts, the “necessary immortality” of the “ego”, and both
the “authority” and the “ultimate sufficiency” of “religion” (“itself”).
