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[Dekalb_Blues]

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"Sub ek." [Hindi, "It's all one."]
---- Neem Karoli Baba (known familiarly to his devotees as "Maharajji" ["Great King"] an honorific often used by high-caste
Indians in a comically ironical way when addressing a low-caste laborer, servant, etc.)

You know, sometimes I think there oughta be a Law about this "oneness" thing. . . ! Maybe, self-characteristically, it would be a
unitary, holistically all-embracing Law about The Oneness, itself being of that Oneness, created by and for this Oneness-Without-A-Second
for use in rejoining fragments of Itself that have been off exploring Oneness as Parts of that Oneness. . . a Law of One, to coin a phrase.

“'I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all,' Teddy said. 'It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister
was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she
was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.'”
― J. D. Salinger, "Teddy", in Nine Stories (1953)

"[A] key error among your peoples has been to forget that all things are one. It is a very simple truth. There are many, 
many ways to say this truth. But you are part of the entity sitting next to you, the entity on the other side of the world, 
the ground that lies closest to your feet at this time, and the ground of the entire planet. All of these energies coalesce 
within your energy system."
http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._0101.aspx




"When I don't know who I am, I serve You; when I know Who I am, I am You: I am Loving Awareness. . . I'm Home."
--- Ram Dass




^ Excerpt from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Co.) documentary How To Go Out Of Your Mind -- The LSD Crisis, which was made for 
Canadian TV (airing 24 April, 1966) and featured, among others, psychedelics/mystical-spiritualism pioneers Tim Leary, Richard Alpert 
(later Ram Dass), and Ralph Metzner.
Complete documentary here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIkot1DYC8Q 

Free files of relevant books:

> Don Lattin, The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, RAM Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties 
and Ushered in a New Age for America (2010) -- http://b-ok.xyz/book/2221778/703f05

> Ram Dass & Ralph Metzner, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties
(2010) -- http://b-ok.xyz/book/2316530/99bd8f



After he returned from India to the U.S., ex-Harvard Professor of Psychology Alpert (now re-christened Ram Dass* by his guru) wrote 
and had published the seminal (or culminating?) work of the true '60s spirit of being open to new horizons of thought and feeling: 
Be Here Now (1971) -- http://www.organism.earth/library/document/99

* I.e., "Servant of Ram" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama)

Later works dealt more anecdotally with Neem Karoli Baba, who demonstrated (if the situation called for it) extraordinary metaphysical 
abilities in the course of absolute-top-drawer STO behaviour while under the intense & often hyper-sceptical scrutiny of linearly-rational-
minded, logically-thinking Westerners who were thus catalyzed to radically question their models of reality itself, much less their culturally-
conditioned ideas of "God," "spirituality," "love," "good/evil," "service," & all the rest of it mechanically emerging from these models.
(See, e.g., Ram Dass, Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba -- http://b-ok.xyz/book/3410533/322514 (.epub); http://b-ok.xyz/book/2172492/fbf26b [.pdf])

I've personally interacted with Maharajji, and I have also in a much darker period of my life followed a line of work in the covert-influence biz which 
called for what amounts to a scientifically-oriented, unavowed-tech-using, sociopathically-worldviewed & utterly-paranoid mindset. What fun! 
So trust me on this one: this is not your everyday, predictably-conditioned automatonic human being who can be manipulated in any way. This 
character is off the bloody charts, and is an exemplar of the apotheosis of STO polarity in action at the good old grass-roots. As he would say:
Love people, serve people, remember God. 
https://www.ramdass.org/simple-truth/
Very simple, really, but try actually doing this, through thick & thin, come hell or high water, in such a negatively-tinged environment as today's 
ultra-psychologically-invasive world of disinformative-info-pollution & psyop-distorted, increasingly improbable "contemporary history," sort of a 
non-stop general-broadcast of "psychic greetings" -- that's  what separates the professionals of unconditional-love-with-no-reward-expected from 
the amateurs of contingent-kinda-sorta-love-but-only-if-it's-a-nice-day-&-I-get-something-for-it.

The effect on modernity of Ram Dass's work -- the change in paradigm underlying the popular received-knowledge of spiritual lore --
has been enormous. Many ideas passing current in youth culture have their origins in this work. Confluently with other important streams of 
wisdom-culture-diffusion through various human media (some quite openly, some in hidden ways) a new framework of advanced thought 
accessible to the common man emerged in the late 20th century and is having its massive effect on the human spirit even here, even 
now, as you and I take advantage of this laudably-used high-tech platform for exchanging ideas and experiences that are merely laughable
signs & symptoms diagnostic of simpleton-ism or even madness to the hyper-materialist culture that refuses to get with the program. 
STO hearts, firmly rooted in the One, support the validity of others even as they are fallible, imperfect mortal beings currently in timespace -- 
by accentuating the positive & eliminating the negative & not fooling with Mr. In-Between (as in the old song has it); STS ever strives to 
invalidate others by ludicrously magnifying these innate human frailties, and sophistically putting them in the worst context -- and vehemently 
denying oh-so-disinformatively that this negativizing process is occurring.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-- Popularly attributed to George Orwell (but see https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/george-orwell/ ; in any case, it's an Orwell-class truth)

"The truth" for today is what we actually are as beings in the light of Infinity & Eternity, regardless of the prevalent black propaganda to 
the contrary.




  
^ The hard-earned wages of weirdness are passed on by well-traveled old-timer miscreants to a new generation of gullible & self-obsessed 
young ne'er-do-wells also up to no good whatsoever, under the cunning guise of "spirituality" -- bwa-ha-haa!

Just pour lagniappe: A look at a true super-hippy, who hipped & hopped before the official "hippy trip" happened -- an archetypal blonde-
haired Californian surfer-dude, he took off for India as a teenager in '64, in reaction to the assassination of JFK; within a year he was. . . 

  [Gives zero f***s about your phoney-baloney world-o'-maya]

. . . a much-revered traveling sadhu (ascetic spiritual aspirant, yogi) who visited Indian villages, leading kirtan (musical worship-narrative) 
sessions for everyday-folk (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIlmBek0...Pcd0NDyhdd )
and energizing local esoteric-cult religious observances -- under the guidance of his guru (life-exemplar/spiritual teacher) Maharajji, who had
himself been no slouch along these lines --

  [Minus-zero-f***s given, ditto]
^ Ca. pre-1920s Neem Karoli Baba as a young-whippersnapper transcendental-hippy sadhu
https://www.maharajji.com/Premavatar/hal...tment.html
Frighteningly enough, this is what I looked like for most of my teens, before I knew of Maharajji! Ah, youth. So wasted on the young -- especially
young'uns who are pretty wasted. I wonder how many younger wild-haired ones today groovily infesting the playa at Burning Man or the nooks &
crannies at various other ultrahep gatherings realize they are living out cultural memes expressing thousands of years of sadhu culture, transmitted 
to Europe & America by mimetic world-traveling hippies now old enough to be their grand-mas & -pas? 

(Example of kirtan adapted to modern-day Western esoteric-cult requirements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXSizNdh...LcK7u1Xy2t )

 जय हो  Jai ho! "Let [spiritual] victory be yours!"