The Occupy Wall Street movement is one signal of our world's dramatic shift as it enters the technological age. Millions of people are questioning a power structure built on rampant greed and the rhetoric of the power-possessing class. But can any of this lead to lasting change if we ourselves are not Occupied, not self-conscious?
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The first critical assessment of the life of Adi Da Samraj and his teachings. Born he said in the "Bright," with his kundalini risen after only a few years of practice, Franklin Jones had a breakthrough into the pointless point of view. Young, hip, articulate and funny, this first American-born guru had a meteoric rise, bringing him thousands of seekers until the sex scandals brought a public shaming and his withdrawal to a Fijian island hermitage where he, now Adi Da Samraj, announced he was God Incarnate.
Ouspensky writes in In Search of the Miraculous about how Gurdjieff defines sin.
"... with food, with pleasure, with sleep ... there is a limit to what is necessary. After this 'sin' begins."
"Sins exist only for people [not the masses of man-machines] who are on the way or approaching the way ... Sin is what puts a man to sleep when he has already decided to awaken."
WORKING WITH THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS – AD 2011
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