Aleister Crowley wrote much of his 1,000 page autobiography on heroin and cocaine. Gurdjieff wrote much of his ‘Beelezebub’s Tales to His Grandson’ while drinking French brandies. Osho dictated books on nitrous oxide. And I wrote much of my recent work ‘Rude Awakening’ while enjoying good stout BC pale ale.

As to the matter of Lokesh’s opening post — good stuff, and above all to be commended for using his intelligence to arrive at his own conclusions, instead of just riding off of the shoulders of Osho, Ramana, or anyone else of the Sat Pack. There is this lingering residue of religious programming that many sannyasins seem to still carry, that being the fear of assessing one’s own guru, and one’s own relationship to that guru. It’s a carry over of religious conditioning that to assess one’s own ‘god’ is to be punished. It has infected many — a good example being a guy who has posted here a few times I think, a certain Swami Heeren, who, in his recent review of Subhuti’s book, referred to my own book as a ‘slanderous, anti-Osho’ work…

http://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Dance-Madman-Anand-Subhuti/dp/1905399634/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337383620&sr=1-1

…which is nonsense, given that my book runs 80-90% supportive of Osho, and I’ve been accused by other authors of being an ‘Osho apologist’. But this is what happens when devotees of a guru are incapable of critical assessment.

A thing I appreciate about this message board is that it is the only sannyas board I’m aware of that has intelligent posters who are not caught in the grip of religious programming that blocks their ability to assess matters, or even to cultivate some of the Joker’s energy. In older times only the Joker could criticize the king, everyone else risked losing their head to do so. The Fool of the Tarot is all about that inner freedom that is not bound by fear-based conditioning. I think Osho himself deeply embodied the Fool archetype.

Sorry to hear about Shantam’s space-sickness, shoulda taken the red pill…

Martyn, some may see you as some kind of ‘vicious’ Sith Lord, but I see you for the Jolly Jedi that you really are. Your Jedi mind trick works very well it seems on the young sannyasin and I wonder if you’ve sat back and had a good chuckle at the weak-minded Storm-trooper waving you off into a galaxy of stars?

Why has no one pointed out to the Stormtrooper (myself included) that you’re just having fun with the Force and your posts are lyrical not literal? Somehow it turned into bear (can be substituted for Wookie) baiting. Cruel sport that.

I wonder myself sometimes at your crypticisms (is there such a word?! There is now.) For example, Descartes’ La Pensee Humaine? Did Nourisson not write that?? Could I stabilize a wobbly table with a book that doesn’t exist – or maybe that’s your point? You see how the Jedi mind trick can effect an old Stormtrooper like me who has long since hung up his helmet and laser-blaster. But on the subject of Descartes, “cogito ergo sum”, if ever the ego found a super-food to gobble up (or maybe tv dinner would be more apt), and lounge around ever since, ‘self’ satisfied, that was surely it.

Martyn, the Force is with you…