Dark Asana: Setian Initiation and Yoga

Anybody who can be a good pretender, a hypocrite, will become your leader politically, will become your priest religiously. All that he needs is hypocrisy, all that he needs is cunningness, all that he needs is a facade to hide behind. Your politicians live double lives, your priests live double lives—one from the front door, the other from the back door. 
And the back-door life is their real life. Those front-door smiles are just false, those faces looking so innocent are just cultivated. If you want to see the reality of the politician you will have to see him from his back door. There he is in his nudity, as he is, and so is the priest. These two kinds of cunning people have dominated humanity. 
And they found out very early on that if you want to dominate humanity, make it weak, make it feel guilty, make it feel unworthy. Destroy its dignity, take all glory away from it, humiliate it. And they have found such subtle ways of humiliation that they don’t come in the picture at all; they leave it to you to humiliate yourself, to destroy yourself. 
They have taught you a kind of slow suicide.
- Osho

Anybody who can be a good pretender, a hypocrite, will become your leader politically, will become your priest religiously. All that he needs is hypocrisy, all that he needs is cunningness, all that he needs is a facade to hide behind. Your politicians live double lives, your priests live double lives—one from the front door, the other from the back door.

And the back-door life is their real life. Those front-door smiles are just false, those faces looking so innocent are just cultivated. If you want to see the reality of the politician you will have to see him from his back door. There he is in his nudity, as he is, and so is the priest. These two kinds of cunning people have dominated humanity.

And they found out very early on that if you want to dominate humanity, make it weak, make it feel guilty, make it feel unworthy. Destroy its dignity, take all glory away from it, humiliate it. And they have found such subtle ways of humiliation that they don’t come in the picture at all; they leave it to you to humiliate yourself, to destroy yourself.

They have taught you a kind of slow suicide.

- Osho

The Appearance of The Guide

I awoke from the dream while still in it…. I awoke to the sound of my Voice describing the experience; neither here nor there… The Guide told me to be sure not to go to directly to sleep and to be sure to write this description, because there were more who needed to read this and Hear it.

I had drifted off on the couch as I usually do only to find my Self in a pool, laying on my left side, right hip exposed to the atmosphere, but head fully submerged.

The Guide was gently holding my head underwater while running some kind of Energy along my spine. What I soon realized was, The Guide was teaching me ever so gently, that it was no longer important to breathe and even though it appeared that I was still in my body, I was in fact, not…

I was told the the pool represented a transitory state in between finite and Infinite and as I gradually let go of the need of habitual breathing, that I would eventually rise to the surface as the ancient survival energy of human dissipated from my system. The Guide went on to explain that because I had done my Initiatory Work most honorably, that I wouldn’t be joining the others and that there was indeed a place outside of the Cosmic Whole for those who had found The Path and did their Work fearlessly, without concern of convention and conformity….

I laid there quietly letting go of the need to breathe…

After a while, I was presented with two dogs while in the water. They looked like Dobermans, but it was hard to tell. They looked like one was male and the other female, but that was difficult to determine as well, and I was assured that it didn’t matter. Regardless, one of the dogs immediately took to me, and we swam about as we got to know each other. At one point while in the Pool, the dog opened its mouth 180 degrees wide. One straight line from snoot to chin and it had really big teeth. The dog looked like some kind of abstract seahorse floating about straight upright in what appeared to be the water.

The body of the dog was nearly rigid, but The Guide told me not to worry about it, that harm would come to neither me or it and that assuredly, it wouldn’t bite me. The teeth had me a bit concerned, but that quietly fell away as we floated around.

There were other Guides and new Initiates of the Beyond Infinity in the pool as well, but I could only feel their presence, almost perceiving them as faint shadows… and as the Guide/Initiates floated by, an almost orgasmic sort of “feeling” would occur. Interestingly, it wasn’t a sexual energy at all, it was something akin, but decidedly different. I asked my Guide about this and The Guide just smiled and laughed and said “you’ll see…”.

The surroundings around the body of fluid changed from time to time. At once it would be pitch black, floating around beyond the stars looking down upon them. Other times, the Pool was surrounded by common looking brick apartment buildings, aluminum windows, venetian blinds and all. Sure can’t explain this one, but The Guide told me it was just some piece of random information and without consequence.

I moved from the couch to my bed, still fascinated by the presence of The Guide and what I had just been made privaleged to experience, hoping to drift off to sleep at this hour. But no, I was urged to write, got up, made coffee even, lit a smoke and began to compose…

There are many things in transition right now. Some work-related, some health-related, some Magically-Related. But this evening’s experience of the Beyond is what really has me wondering… A prep for what surely lies ahead… but when? Who knows who cares, but I clearly look forward to returning to that Feeling of neither here nor there; the Betwixt and the Between… And letting go with finality of the Need to Breathe…

Hehehe… Funny how when I don’t write/do anything for a while, my tumblr goes off the hook. Perhaps I should shut up more often and for longer…

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