Spiritual Teachers

You said this in the take your power back thread:

"I have no problem acknowledging that a table and a chair appear as 'discrete' objects...unique and apart from each other...we can call that 'relative separation' if need be, but for the sake of keeping things clear and not confusing the issue, I, like many nonduality teachers do, reserve the specific term 'not separate,' for referencing the fundamental Truth."

That has an ambiguous meaning as to whether you just think like some non-duality teachers or whether you include yourself as an non-duality teacher.

He (Abrushin) was on a mission indeed....I dunno...what do you think Reefs...was he putting spirit above intellect in his discourse below? Some very strong judgments and opinions he's espousing there about how a woman should live and behave, and yes, even dress! I provided a quote for the really judgy stuff, but I suggest reading the whole essay to get the full drift of where he's coming from.




web.archive.org/web/20150325164306/http://grailmessage.com/en/volume-one/the-woman-of-subsequent-creation

".....And this is just what the woman tries to hide today; she exerts herself to coarsen or suppress it altogether. In boundless vanity and stupidity she surrenders the most beautiful and valuable gift bestowed on her. Through this she makes herself an outcast from the Light, to whom the way back will remain closed.

What has thereby become of these images of queenly womanhood! One must turn away from them with horror. Where does one still find in the woman of today the genuine feeling of shame, which is the expression of the most delicate intuitive perception of noble womanhood. It is so grossly distorted that it must be exposed to ridicule.

The woman of today is certainly ashamed to wear a long dress if fashion decrees a short one, but she is not ashamed to expose almost three-quarters of her body, offering it to the glances of all on festive occasions. And of course not only to their glances but also, when dancing, unavoidably to their hands! Without hesitation she would also uncover still more if fashion required it, probably even everything judging by present experiences!

This is no exaggeration. For hitherto we have had enough of this disgraceful conduct. It was not a wrong but, alas, only too true a saying that “woman begins to dress herself when she retires for the night”!

Besides, delicate intuitive perceptions also demand a sense of beauty! Unquestionably. But if today the delicacy of womanly intuitive perceptions is still to be assessed on that basis, then affairs are in a deplorable state. Indeed, the type of dress often and plainly enough tells the opposite, and these thinly-stockinged legs of a woman, or even of a mother, are very difficult to reconcile with womanly dignity. Bobbed hair and modern sports for women are no less harmful to genuine womanhood! Coquetry is the inevitable accompaniment of vain fashion follies, which result in grave dangers for body and soul, to say nothing of the simple domestic happiness. Often enough many a woman prefers the coarse and really insulting flattery of some idler to the faithful labour of her husband.

Thus much, very much more could be cited as visible evidence that a woman of today is lost to her real task in this Subsequent Creation! And likewise all the high values entrusted to her, of which she must now give an account. Accursed be these empty human beings! They are not the victims of circumstances, but they have forced these circumstances into being.

All this talk about progress does not alter the fact that these zealots of progress, together with their faithful followers, only sink deeper, ever deeper. Already they have all buried their real values. The majority of womankind no longer deserve to bear the name of honor, woman! And they can never represent nor become men, thus in the end they remain nothing but drones in Subsequent Creation, which must be exterminated according to the inflexible Laws of Nature.

Of all the creatures in Subsequent Creation, woman stands least in the place where she should stand! In her way she has become the saddest figure among all creatures! She simply had to become corrupt in soul, since she wantonly sacrifices her most noble intuitive perception, her purest power, to outward, absurd vanity, thereby ridiculing and scorning the decree of her Creator. With such superficiality there can be no salvation; for these women would reject words, or be no longer able to understand and grasp them at all.

Thus out of the horrors the new, true woman must first arise, who has to become the mediator, and therewith also provide the foundation for the new God-willed life and human activity in Subsequent Creation, the woman who will have become free from poison and corruption!

Yup...he's on the money there. If you can describe it in great detail...if it has a beginning and end, content, then it's "an experience," and thus, has nothing to do with Truth.



He should have stopped right there.

The term "emptiness" is the pointiest of pointers....any bit of description is really too much...crosses the line.