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When you think about integration, what are the key tools for human organizing?
When you think about integration, what are the key tools for human organizing?
Baba interviewed by Willi Paul at PlanetShifter Magazine
The easiest way of human organizing is along the lines of ideology, so that one is empowered to protect, defend, and promote what one believes. The weaker the substance of the belief, the stronger the need to defend or promote it. It’s always been very difficult to organize conscious people for this reason.
I think back to May ’68 in France, when the students and workers organized perhaps one of the greatest displays of civil disobedience, stopping the entire country for several days to cause the public to think about some wrongs in society. It was a time of incredible hope for a more conscious future, and a surge of confidence in the power of the people to change things. If we look at those who organized this great event, we discover that many of them are now part of the very bureaucracy they opposed and fought to defeat.
Ideology is the expedient way to organize humans, but is not sustainable. Ideology is fickle, and almost always changes with the times. Let’s not forget that the architects of neo-Imperialism, Irag, Afghanistan, etc., were 60’s radicals. One of Bush’s top speechwriters wrote for one of America’s most radical magazines of the 60’s.
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What do humans need to learn to evolve to a higher consciousness?
What do humans need to learn to evolve to a higher consciousness?
Baba interviewed by Willi Paul at PlanetShifter Magazine
We require no further evolution, if there is indeed any evolution of consciousness, to reach a higher state of consciousness, as it is already within us, at least its potential. In fact, just to take another shot at consumerism, we don’t need to acquire, consume, or “learn” anything. It’s the “learning” that is the problem in a nutshell. If we don’t “un-learn” what we have learned in the past couple hundred years, our humankind will become extinct. For that, we must each take responsibility for our individual consciousness.
What do we not know… We have forgotten how to connect to the Natural World, to the earth, the sky, the plants, the topography, the family blood, and all that makes it very difficult for us to connect with our selves. We are evolving, if you can call it that, to a virtual consciousness, in which our Speech, instead of connecting to the world, connects with networks of words.
We have to learn that consumption does not lead towards happiness. Our lives are about doing and making, not taking. We have to learn how to give back all the stuff we have taken in the last couple hundred years. It requires a great deal of self de-construction to rediscover who we are and what is our relationship to this planet.
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The Edge of Indian Spirituality
Baba Rampuri’s speech at the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, March 2008.
You can read the whole speech here.
The Edge of Indian Spirituality – The Oral Tradition of Naked Yogis
