When we are trapped between fantasy talk and chaos, we face the impossible choice of being swallowed by reality, or paying heed to a crooked narrative. The need for keeping a cool head on these troubled times has never been bigger, neither geographically nor in its scope for potential destruction, were we to fail. When you pay the ultimate price, everything has been taken from you. He (SA) was remarkable, truly remarkable.
A pertinent quote from one of those I mentioned earlier:
“The discovery of India will not be accomplished until the day the creative forces of the West shall have run irremediably dry. [..] To repeat: it is not a matter of purely and simply accepting one of the solutions proposed by India. [..] Above all, it is not a matter of philosophical syncretism, or of "Indianization," still less of the detestable "spiritual" hybridism inaugurated by the Theosophical Society and continued, in aggravated forms, by the countless pseudomorphs of our time. The problem is more serious: it is essential that we know and understand a thought that has held a place of the first importance in the history of universal spirituality. And it is essential that we know it NOW. For, on the one hand, it is from NOW on that, any cultural provincialism having been outstripped by the very course of history, we are forced -Westerners and non-Westerners alike- to think in terms of universal history and to forge universal spiritual values.” Mircea Eliade (Yoga, PUP, p.9)
When we are trapped between fantasy talk and chaos, we face the impossible choice of being swallowed by reality, or paying heed to a crooked narrative. The need for keeping a cool head on these troubled times has never been bigger, neither geographically nor in its scope for potential destruction, were we to fail. When you pay the ultimate price, everything has been taken from you. He (SA) was remarkable, truly remarkable.
A pertinent quote from one of those I mentioned earlier:
“The discovery of India will not be accomplished until the day the creative forces of the West shall have run irremediably dry. [..] To repeat: it is not a matter of purely and simply accepting one of the solutions proposed by India. [..] Above all, it is not a matter of philosophical syncretism, or of "Indianization," still less of the detestable "spiritual" hybridism inaugurated by the Theosophical Society and continued, in aggravated forms, by the countless pseudomorphs of our time. The problem is more serious: it is essential that we know and understand a thought that has held a place of the first importance in the history of universal spirituality. And it is essential that we know it NOW. For, on the one hand, it is from NOW on that, any cultural provincialism having been outstripped by the very course of history, we are forced -Westerners and non-Westerners alike- to think in terms of universal history and to forge universal spiritual values.” Mircea Eliade (Yoga, PUP, p.9)