Have you ever wondered why so many “guru” types get caught up?
Humans simply are not meant to be famous beyond the limits of a tribe.
“The essence of being spiritual is learning how to be consciously human.” — Matt Kahn
I’ve got to speak to this or a whole lot of people will simply discredit what is being said in many of my writings because of certain people I like to reference. For instance, Chogyam Trungpa, who is one of my favorite mystics. He like so many others got caught up in some rather nefarious stuff towards the end of his career. They made him famous, and not even a guy like Trungpa could handle it. I don’t think anyone can. Had he stayed in China he wouldn’t have become famous. It’s just normal everyday life over there for enlightened people to be walking around. Here in the West, we make them famous.
I simply love to study people. I not only study the words, but also the personal lives of these great thinkers who have put down knowledge freely for all of us to read. Trungpa has some seriously legit spiritual books available. If one only reads their high end thoughts though, one tends to only have a certain view. What I would call an inflated view. Grandiose. On the other hand, if one only reads about their despicable stuffs, one only gets a certain narrow view there as well, and this causes many to not even attempt to read their spiritual words. I don’t do that. I don’t rule out anyone for being a monkey. Because I love to study people in general I wanted to see these men as they really were. I can see in myself, how I am capable of this really high end thinking, but then still here I am in this monkey suit, really just kind of a piece of shit too. This points out a clear problem with how so many of these monkeys get put high up on a pedestal. The problem here is that no matter what level of knowledge one attains, no matter how deep, or high one goes into the psyche; still just a primate. Never not a monkey.
The millisecond a human starts thinking he’s more than just a primate a huge inflation is occurring. If that same monkey can get others to believe it too, then this inflation just goes straight into outer space it gets so ungrounded. We are the same nature as all other life, but spiritual jargon really gets monkeys inflated. It really gets them believing they are more than just a monkey. Words can do almost anything, but words don’t make reality.
We can never ever leave this fact behind; we are only primates. We can never with our thinking, think we are anything more than a monkey, a primate, a human. Most spiritual jargon creates massive grandiosity, by putting forth this idea that somehow man is separate from nature, or above nature. All of us in this Christian culture have been given this concept before we were even old enough to think for ourselves. It’s mostly unconscious in most of the populace that we are somehow above reality. We have the same DNA, essentially, as a single celled bacteria does. Matter of fact, our brains would not even function without these single celled life forms. How could man possibly be above nature, if his very life depends on these supposedly lower life forms? A human can’t even be happy without bacteria living in his body. This is real humility we are talking about.
Anatomically speaking, we primates are tribal, and it’s unnatural for us to cohabitat in groups larger than about one hundred and fifty people. This has been thoroughly studied. Once the tribe size reaches its threshold of about one hundred and fifty people social accountability is lost. Once a primate can just go off alone behind a closed door, and do whatever, and there’s no one to exile him to death for crimes against the tribe; exactly that happens: they go off behind closed doors and commit crimes against the community. All socially enforced accountability is gone. It is just a plain fact that it is unnatural to live outside of a socially maintained tribe.
Well that’s just a fact of our modern life; it is unnatural. We can clearly see there is absolutely no social accountability anywhere. For instance, and this has actually happened; a CEO can make a decision that ruins the entire Gulf of Mexico, then can just go home, and nothing ever really actually happens to him. Nothing on the scale of the destruction of his decisions anyways. If we were in a tribe, and one of our members, let’s say ruined our fishing lake, because he was conspiring to get rich at our expense dealing with a neighboring tribe, what would happen to such a primate? That would never fly. Such a guy would get strung up like the Lord. Real fact of life in “civilized” culture; the supposedly civilized are actually the most savage because they can just go home and close the door.
One of the main reasons this happens is because a human, being a primate, is not equipped to deal with fame and notoriety beyond about one hundred and fifty people. The typical CEO has thousands of followers, if not tens of thousands. Think about it. Once a primate starts getting into the thousands, which is very easy to do in this modern culture, his libido, that is psychic force, or energy, it’s not just sexual, will just go far beyond his means of control. It will drive a monkey mad. A human primate is simply not equipped to deal with that much psychic force. It makes him go insane. Look around. The fact that most everyone is participating in it doesn’t make it natural. We could call it rock star syndrome. Or CEO syndrome. Call it whatever, but I’ve noticed that no matter who it is, if a person starts getting too many other monkeys directing their psychic energy towards him; he starts doing extra special nefarious things. There’s a long list of people who were supposedly highly gifted spiritual guys, and not any of them could handle the fame and notoriety.
This is a psychic affair. We are all psychic. We are all, all the time, emitting and receiving psychic energy. The guru types in particular, just like rock stars, really draw in a lot because of the nature of their followers. They are more than followers, they are admiring. Even the “King” of Shambhala got caught up. Think of it. Here’s this guy just constantly receiving all this psychic energy from who could even count how many followers, and he’s expected to not have sex! He’s expected to live up to everyone’s projected standards. No human can withstand that. It is simply unnatural. Now if he had simply been the “King” of his local one hundred and fifty person tribe, he would be able to just keep a wife, or possibly even manage celibacy without inner psychic backlash. Even this I would doubt though, it’s just not natural.
This Western culture, America in particular is practically famous for making monkeys famous. Of course, we can find an anomaly, but if we truly investigate the lives of these people who have thousands of followers it drives them all into doing dark things. It’s hard to find anyone not destroyed by fame. I mean let’s be honest, we have a hard enough time being good behind closed doors without being famous.
