By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:51:24 +0000

Dear Joseph:
Thanks for your well documented comments on some spiritual teachers, as I have read them also I notice That you have thoroughly studied them. I read your comments on Tolle, Chopra, Wilber and Ruiz. I agree with you that we can receive information and messages from the higher world and flow with the intentions of God. But at the same time it is also true that we can experience oneness with God and having spouse and children as Lahiri Mahasaya showed while alive in india from 1860´s to 1890´s the problem is that is extremely difficult for the mayority of people to get that level so for the most people is better what you say about embracing connectedness with the divine instead of oneness with it as you pointed out. In this topic is important that every individual measure his own state and tries to leave according to it and not to pretend to do something far beyond his present possibilities. The latter is the problem of some people who try to leave in oneness with God while they still have many wordly and personal duties in this world. The other important matter about some self proclamed spiritual teachers is that because they have reach experiences of oneness with God they think after they descend from the experience that they are perfect. And for this reason they suffer from hubrys and commit a lot of mistakes on behalf of their spiritual experiences.Arthur E. Powell wrote a book called “the causal body”where he explains the problem of geniuses that even though they have gained mastery over one skill still they have a lot of difficulties in their personalities and wordly life. This same happen with these spiritual teachers; they are great meditators and we can say they are spiritual geniuses that have rejected to clean their personalities of all their baggage, they have been overwhelmed by their spiritual experiences and they have problems to accept that their personalities are far behind their spiritual experiences. There are very rare world known spiritual teachers who have attained oneness with God with a clean and purified personality and they are the ones who have attained liberation. Finally, we should remember that we as humans beings are evolving and we are subject to defects and imperfections and we need to be humble enough to recognize that we can be great in something while we are small in other areas. In spite of the defects or mistakes in their teaching I like Ekhart Tolle for his humbleness and I think he has a clean personality in spite of his rejection to past and future that you refer in you comments and that I agree on in terms that the past and future are also important and necessary at times and according to each one´s level. I also like Deepak Chopra because he has an integral life with wife and children and has the ability to express his ideas in a good way even though he may commit mistakes or be wrong in some aspects. And I like ammachi, the indian saint for her loving approach to mankind, her selfess work and her amazing detachment to things in life.
I would like to thank you Joseph for sharing your ideas in the web about other spiritual teachers with education, good manners and good information of their work and life.

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By: Alejandro