I Will Not Follow

"Mantra meditation turns humans into zombies who serve [an] agenda,...that agenda is procurement of more humans and more human energy. This explains the common phenomenon of proselytizing by the religious, including fundamentalist Christians, TMers, and disciples of other varieties."

- From Bronte Baxter, writing in The Canadian

I've posted another part of this essay before*. I don't agree with all of it (he goes into a Bush thing at the end that makes me nauseous) but it still might be helpful, for anyone trapped in an Eastern spirituality haze, as a way to start breaking the spell.

I'm re-posting it to point out that it was written after Baxter took a trip to Fairfield, Iowa - the same place the Barack Obama cult started*: The TMers just added themselves to Oprah's "followers", stirred, and viola! We got The Cult of Obama.*

Anyway, the spell seems to have subsided, if not broken. I think we may have dodged a bullet on that one. Or Barack did, I don't know. Just don't vote for him and let's hope for the best. He might decide to confront his "followers" about the phenomena one day. If he ever does, he'd get my vote, for sure. But next time - not now. The fact he let it go as far as it did says he ain't ready: real leaders have to be aware of these things*. And if he is, and he let it go anyway, he ain't no real leader:

He's Oprah Winfrey's bitch.

*I'll add the links tonight, but you can click the Meditation and Barack Obama tags (at the bottom of the post) and find the previous appropriate ones yourselves.

Baby, It's MEDITATION NAZI TIME!!!

"Who were the mystical entities Hitler conversed with and took guidance from? Why was group meditation a part of Nazi protocol? Why were many TM/ New Age slogans (“established in Being, perform action,” for instance) also slogans of the Third Reich?

Total control and spiritual domination. The destruction of everything that makes life worth living. Creation imploding on itself, like a snake swallowing its tail. That actually is a symbol found in mystery schools, which were controlled by the gods.

It’s time to give up beads and mantras, chanting and bowing down to dirty feet. It’s time to fire the gurus, stand up and be the powerful, sublime individuals we are. It’s time to question the dogmas we swallowed whole from Vedic tradition and take a closer look at what is happening when we meditate.

It’s time to reclaim our birthright, our divinity and this Earth. Only we can do it, as the conscious beings we are. As Alice in Wonderland said, turning and facing the Red Queen’s army that was hot on her heels, “Pooh! You’re nothing but a pack of old cards.” That army toppled, turning into a heap of playing cards the moment the girl broke through her bad dream. Our controllers too will topple, and dragons will turn into geckos. It’s time to give up the cosmic illusion and de-hypnotize."

-- By Bronte Baxter, posted on the Transcendental Meditation Free blog.