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The Rotten Root
by Drew Hempel
It is now, only under the severe crisis of
postmodern late-capitalist globalization, that
access to experiential nondualistic knowledge is
finally beginning to be recognized by the
globalized West.
Introduction: The Root Problem
This investigation is based on the assumption that
there is a severe global crisis of injustice and
ecological damage that primarily stems from the
elite-controlled institutional policies of western
culture. Working from that premise the issue at hand
is how to overcome the root of the problem that
drives the interlocking oppressions symptomatic of
westernization. Since the root problem has been
analyzed at length in the past, I provide simply a
brief presentation and then focus on the facets of
implementing the solution ã the subject of my
experiential applied research and what I contend to
be dialectically transcending nondualism. In terms
of format, because of the very broad and
untraditional nature of my project, the introduction
references are contained in my thesis and the
sources for my applied research are listed at the
end of the text.
Whether it's the Dalai Lama or, Hanne Strong, one of
the organizers of the UN Conference on Environment
and Development (the Earth Summit) or, Charles
Mills, author of The Racial Contract -- there can be
found a focus on one common underlying problem for
all levels of oppression. For theorists it is
described as an inaccurate "naturalized" hierarchy:
There is a repression of the self, a projection of
that repression on to others -- call it an
externality or a prejudice -- and then the denial of
others' rights as justified through that projection.
In the history of the West, this Self/Other
oppressive dynamic has been traced back to Plato and
Aristotle by their concept of dualistic,
materialistic and rationalistic "natural law." Thus
as people were labeled subhumans, natural slaves,
and savages, they, along with the Muses, were
devalued (i.e. destructively controlled and killed
through indoctrination, slavery, disease,
starvation, and organized slaughter)
and an elite linear, imperial "utopia" was
envisioned -- this is the beginning, the root
concept, of western culture. From that primary
definitive vision of the West, this root crisis has
become globally encompassing today: The Great Chain
of Being, the witchhunts, the enclosure acts, the
papal decree of "territorius nullius," Manifest
Destiny, the "natural" efficiency of the homo
economicus, corporate personhood, and the World
Trade Organization.
Just before the beginning of the West there was an
ecologically and socially just culture of nondualism
(definition below) that taught integration and
balance of knowledge through self-discipline,
concentration and wisdom. The recent Oxford
graduate, Dr. Peter Kingsley, documents that this
Pythagorean culture was stripped down and driven out
as the definitive years study in Egypt, combined
with many excursions into eastern areas, the
knowledge of Pythagoras became very fertile fodder
for the materialistic elite. A great imbalance of
power was thereby established. Pythagoras taught
orally and his knowledge was integrated via
experiential theory -- as compared to the reified
and closed, dualistic and linear, symbolic knowledge
system of "the West." Ironically the latest in
scientific findings describe the universe as one
great multidimensional, yet connected harmonic
string of energy-knowledge (nondualism) -- literally
the same scientific principles as Pythagoras.
Unfortunately current western scientific "progress"
continues to be based on externally forcing nature
(and those cultures living close to nature) to
reveal internal truths, thereby creating the great
global sufferings via the same root of limited and
inaccurate unbalanced methodology.
As Kingsley and others have documented Pythagoras
was a powerful healer who knew of his past lives,
and had the power to experience life after death.
Not only was he a spiritual leader, similar to Jesus
Christ, but he taught a system for realizing this
knowledge -- the same essential system as the laws
and practices of the Buddha, those contained in the
ancient Vedas of Hinduism or those found in the
hundreds of endangered indigenous shaman practices
found worldwide. Through extensive research and my
broad background in music theory, philosophy, and
global development policy, I have reconstructed the
scientific harmonic principles of the teachings of
Pythagoras (as described in my masters thesis).
These principles are the basis for understanding
transcendent dialectical mind-body dynamics, group
social power dynamics, and the transcendent
dialectical means for analyzing and organizing
technology and social institutions. Nondualist
principles have been intuitively grasped in
piecemeal by previous western cultural producers and
were subsequently systematically rediscovered during
the western social upheaval in the 1960s, developing
into the potential of New Paradigm Science (again as
described in my masters thesis). It is now, only
under the severe crisis of postmodern
late-capitalist globalization, that access to
experiential nondualistic knowledge is finally
beginning to be recognized by the globalized West. A
truly transcending global dialectic is being
visualized -- one that addresses the root of the
mass global suffering and goes beyond the
traditional dualistic schisms systematic to western
power relations threatening the future of the planet
and humanity.
The Systematic Principles of Nondualistic Direct
Knowledge or Immediate Awareness
The scholar David Loy, in his Yale University
publication Nondualism: A comparative philosophy,
analyzes the nonwestern systems of thought and
documents their successful universal application.
The systems that Loy investigates reveal a
transcendent means of knowledge derived from
principles of organization that are accessible to
all of humanity. But intellectually describing these
systems is one thing, as I did with Pythagorean
thought in my thesis -- actually realizing the power
of nondualism is another ã a process that I will
describe in this investigation. Once that power is
established or stabilized it is much easier to truly
pass that direct knowledge or immediate awareness on
to others. To realize or actualize the power of
nondualism, great self-discipline, concentration,
and wisdom is required. The common principles found
in all systems of nondualism (whether it's from the
Vedas, Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, or
Pythagoreanism) are the following:
1) The whole universe comes from the void or
absolute nothingness that is the original form of
universal energy. Total Emptiness equals Total
Energy this is ONENESS/NOTHINGNESS (nondualism).
2) This Universal Energy (nondualism) divides into
connected harmonic principles of organization.
Complimentary opposites, through their mutually
excluding logical extremes, reveal their common
underlying transcendent ONENESS/NOTHINGNESS and
evolve into (and evolve via) this third transcendent
truth-state.
3) From this Third transcendent state All Myriad
Things of the Universe are further formed (i.e.
modeled by the synthesis or the third stage of the
complimentary opposites). All these myriad
things/processes or forces are derived from the
first FIVE SYNTHETIC SETS OF HARMONIC COMPLEMENTARY
OPPOSITES (These five sets or categories are grouped
by matching elements, directions, color, frequency,
animal, planet, etc. and all five are direct
manifestations of ONENESS/NOTHINGNESS).
4) DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OR IMMEDIATE AWARENESS OF THE
UNIVERSE -- NONDUALISM (beyond the first five
perceptible senses and the first four perceptible
dimensions) IS POSSIBLE BY MEANS OF HARMONIZING OR
RESONATING WITH THE SYSTEM OF CONNECTED BASIC
COMPLIMENTARY OPPOSITES. THIS KNOWLEDGE -- ENERGY IS
POTENTIALLY OMNIPOTENT, OMNISCIENT and at the least
is required for understanding how to achieve
PERSONAL HEALTH and HAPPINESS and POSITIVE PERSONAL
RELATIONS.
These principles of nondualism need to be further
applied in detail (as will be done below) for them
to be utilized and more accessible as a means of
achievement. Although westerners are intellectually
taught the golden rule (treat others as you would
treat yourself) this ethical basis for developing
western knowledge and science is, because of the
limitations of dualistic materialism, replaced by
actions of "the end justifies the means" or
literally "he who has the gold rules." But it is
exactly this principle of humanity -- the pervasive
and recognized existence of suffering, the knowledge
of delusion, or the limit of ignorance -- that
provides such an excellent motivation for achieving
the harmonic means of transcendent dialectical
problem-solving.
Because of the recent unique position of China as a
location of ancient nonwestern civilization and
rapid industrialization after the institution of
scientific materialism, there have been hundreds of
scientific studies documenting the details of
achieving nondualism and the applications of
nondualism. These applications have become known as
qi gong or "energy work" but come from ancient
Taoism. Their usage has been documented to be over
7,000 years old. Although it has been integrated
with Buddhism and Confucianism, the nondualism of
China or the Tao is considered the most ancient true
way of organizing society.
The thirteenth-century taoist adept Chang-chun, the
Master of Eternal Spring and originator of the
Dragon Gate branch of Complete Reality Taoism, was
of such power that Genghis Khan requested he be the
personal advisor on preserving the ancient
civilization of China. By the abilities and wisdom
of Chang-chun, millions of lives were saved in
China. He is known as a spiritual immortal by Taoist
tradition and until just a few years ago his lineage
and skills were passed down, in secret, through a
process of intensive, exclusive training, generation
after generation. The Harvard Ph.D. in East Asian
studies and translator of numerous ancient texts,
Thomas Cleary, recently published Opening the Dragon
Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard by Chen
Kaiguo and Zheng Shunchao. Opening the Dragon Gate
is the authorized biography of Master Wang Liping
and Master Wang is an eighteenth-generation
Transmitter of the Dragon Gate branch of Complete
Reality Taoism.
Just like the Kogi, who for hundreds of years have
kept secret an ancient civilized system in the
unattainable wilderness of the Andes, the Dragon
Gate Transmission of Complete Reality Taoism has now
come public with its powerful esoteric knowledge.
This dramatic change of approach was due to the
modern spiritual revolution of "energetics" or qi
gong in China that started in the early 1980s.
Everyday in China qi gong is now practiced by the
equivalent of the whole population of the United
States. Master Wang explains that powerful Taoist
nondualist energy-knowledge is also now being
presented because of the current westernized crisis
of the planet and humanity.
Opening the Dragon Gate distinguishes three types of
government for humanity. The first is by law, the
second is by principle and the third is "Government
by the Tao, or the Way".... As the book states:
Government by the Tao, or the Way, is on an even
higher level, nurturing the people by means of the
Way, returning to naturalness and going back to
reality, assimilating humanity to heaven and earth,
taking no artificial law as law, but being orderly
without being managed. Lao-tzu said, 'The sage says,
‘Since I contrive nothing, the people are
spontaneously civilized. Since I like calm, the
people are spontaneously upright. Since I have no
interests, the people spontaneously prosper. Since I
have no desires, the people are spontaneously
innocent. Government without artificiality is
government by the Way. This is the highest level of
social development, and the highest attainment of
government.
Described in detail in Opening the Dragon Gate, the
training and accomplishments of Master Wang Liping
are extraordinary to say the least and since he has
come public he is conducting extensive training and
healing in China.
As the concise and powerful Taoist teaching,
considered to be authored by an all-powerful
immortal Taoist adept, The Secret of the Golden
Flower, states, "When you keep presence of mind,
only then do you have autonomy. When you have
autonomy, only then can you manage affairs....
However, presence of mind is easily interrupted.
Practice it for a long time, though, and it will
naturally become unbroken.... Ordinarily, once
people let their eyes and ears pursue things, they
get stirred up, only to stop when things are gone.
This activity and rest are all subjects, but the
sovereign ruler becomes their slave. This is 'always
living with ghosts.'"
"The conscious mind is like a violent general of a
strong fiefdom controlling things from a distance,
until the sword is turned around…. Now steadily keep
to the chamber of origin, turning the light around
to look back, and this is like having a heroic
leader on top with great ministers helping. Once the
inner government is orderly, the strong and violent
naturally become tame."
For an example of another powerful Master of the Way
(of nondualism), one can attend the upcoming free
public information sessions conducted by Master
Chunyi Lin, a taoist teacher who lives in the Twin
Cities and teaches through Anoka Ramsey Community
College. His motto is "A Healer in Every Family, A
World without Pain."
Master Lin continues to heal many people of severe
cancer (lymphoma, breast, lung, etc.) and of
Parkinson's Disease and many other severe health
conditions. He is doing research at the University
of Minnesota Medical School and has been contacted
by several other interested research hospitals that
have become familiar with his success. He treats
people from all over the world by sending energy
focused via the telephone and other high technology.
Master Lin, by drawing in universal energy, treats
twenty to thirty people a day, has a four month
waiting list for appointments and he only needs to
sleep three to four hours a night. He meditates four
to five hours a day and teaches almost every night.
Master Lin recently brought the Coon Rapids City
Council to China for a sister city educational
exchange program that focuses on qi gong.
For endorsements and testimonials (i.e. a doctor
from the Mayo Clinic) see http://www.potentools.com/body/qigong/endorsements.htm
http://www.potentools.com/body/qigong/testimonials.htm
The Development of Nondualistic Direct Knowledge or
Immediate Awareness
Just in the past ten years there has finally been
translated many of the ancient meditation texts of
Taoist Yoga and Taoist meditation has been the
subject of much academic research. The principles of
nondualism are achieved through various techniques
found throughout the world: Mantras can be repeated
in order to focus in the mind and create energy
resonance that purifies the person. Another approach
is to use self-enquiry ã a question that turns the
attention of the mind back onto itself. For instance
"Who Am I?" -- repeating this question with true
doubt, while meditating, will cause the investigator
to contact the living nondualist energy that is the
source of their thoughts. Taoist Yoga focuses on a
more accessible approach. In qi gong people are
taught basic, very simple active exercises that use
posture, breath and mental focus to open up the
energy channels of the body. By using certain
breath, hand and foot movements based on the
knowledge of complimentary opposite energies of the
mind/body, a person can enter a stage of deep
relaxation and focus that will cause the living
energy-knowledge -- nondualism, to be activated.
Once activated the
energy is further developed through still
meditation.
Taoism teaches that when a person is conceived great
universal energy/knowledge is focused. Not only is
the genetic energy passed on from the parents but
the energy of Heaven and Earth is passed on as well.
While the baby is being developed as a fetus in the
womb, this energy is balanced ã it enters through
the umbilical cord and circles up the back and down
the front of the body. The baby naturally holds its
tongue up to the roof of its mouth and this acts as
the switch that connects the front and back energy
channels of the person. After birth the energy of
the person slowly begins to separate, settle and
become unbalanced: The lower half of the body is
associated with Earth energy and the upper half is
associated with Heaven energy. As the person
undergoes puberty and further development the energy
of the body is continuously dissipated through
emotional stress, pollution and environmental
stress, unbalanced nutrition, and normal hormonal
and reproductive processes.
Taoist yoga teaches a person how to perform
"needleless acupuncture,” whereby the practitioner
consciously recognizes and activates the subtle
energy of the mind/body, balances that energy, and
then uses resonance to take in more energy and
consciously connect with higher energy levels. This
is the process of going back to the root of a
person's existence, of mind-body awareness ã of
understanding the power dynamics of not only the
self, but also the interactions of the self with the
outside environment. Under nondualism it is known
that humans represent a microcosm, a holograph, of
the universe and that the universe is a hologram
with each part containing the energy of the whole --
another way of describing nondualism.
In the beginning of the practice a person will feel
great heat being generated in the energy centers
(the Earth center, the Heaven Center and their
combined Center in the Heart-Mind). As the practice
develops the energy will surge, like high-pressured
water through a hose, up the back and down the front
of the body. The person will experience different
internal organs of the body become very hot ã the
kidneys, the thyroid. This is the subtle energy
resonating and opening up the subtle energy channels
of those organs. Many hormones will be stimulated
during this process and there will be a feeling of
great energy, serenity, bliss, and lucidity. As the
practice develops the energy will be experienced as
electrical and magnetic fields that actually move
the body. Ailments of the body will be healed. The
person will have the ability to send out energy to
heal others and the person will need less sleep,
less food, and will not have normal cravings.
As the body energy channels continue to resonate,
higher levels of energy will be activated eventually
leading to the opening of the Heaven center or the
Third Eye of the person. This is beginning of
spiritual cultivation and the beginning of samadhi
in yoga. At this point all the energy channels of
the body will be open. When meditating the person
will not feel their body at all ã it will become one
with its surroundings. The mind's thoughts will stop
on one point of focus. The breathing of the person
will slow down to such an extent that for all
purposes it comes to a stop. The person will
experience a bright light when the eyes are closed
and when they are open as well. The person will
develop psychic abilities and will process the
thoughts and emotions of others as direct energy
vibrations. The person will
experience their aura, their subtle energy field,
extending out around them and interacting
with/processing the conditions of those around them.
This experience is the development of direct
knowledge or immediate awareness. Unfortunately it
is very common to develop "over-exuberant heroics,"
meaning that a person becomes very excited about
their new exalted state, they become attached to the
powers and lose focus of the nondualist principles
that the powers are derived from. At this stage the
person wants to tell everyone about their
"awakening" experience and wants to act out on their
powers when instead this is the time of the greatest
need for continuing to focus on the nondualism
source, to focus on the macrocosm within. Also at
this stage, beside the problem of getting too
excited and out of balance from attachment to the
powers, it is also very easy to become scared. To
literally not feel your body, or too literally feel
your pituitary gland in the middle of your brain
become heated up and charged full of energy is a
bizarre experience to say the least. To literally
experience psychic powers as the norm of processing
reality, to experience one’s aura extending out -- a
field of energy vibrations rippling and processing
the thoughts and emotions of others before those
thoughts or emotions are communicated through words
or body language ã these can be intimidating
experiences. Also to literally not need to eat food
or drink water because one can rely directly on the
subtle energy as a means to create protein or to
have one's thoughts stop and one's breath stop all
this can be startling to say the least.
As a practitioner of Spring Forest Qigong, taught at
Anorak Ramose Community College, I practiced for
four hours a day over a three month period and I
began to experience some of these symptoms of the
beginning of samadhi or what is called "the
emptiness" in qi gong. I didn't see the bright light
and I didn’t have my body disappear or my breathing
stop. I did develop psychic powers, have my aura
extend, have no need for food, need less sleep, and
feel my pituitary gland become charged up. I did
conduct very successful external energy treatments
(no touch) of others whereby they had their symptoms
disappear after feeling heaviness leave their
bodies, intense heat, electrical shocks, internal
movement. Although I fell back into the other
extreme of normal reality, I experienced enough to
get a taste of "the otherside" -- the nondualistic
source.
The Otherside or the Nondualistic Source
In Taoist Yoga, once "the emptiness" is obtained and
stabilized then a person's power of healing and
power of wisdom is greatly increased. Because Taoism
focuses on balancing the mind and body with all
other levels of energy, longevity or immortality is
also obtainable and explainable in Taoist Yoga. Not
only is there an ability to project the energy of
the person across space-time dimensions but as the
energy is continued to be developed then the power
of physical replication and transformation is also
possible. In the final stages a person is able to
literally dematerialize the body and to finally
exist in a cosmic form that is "at-one" with the
universe. This person is considered a "celestial
immortal" by Taoist standards, meaning they can
exist outside the space-time continuum and have
achieved the Tao -- nondualism.
To the "normal" westerner this all seems ludicrous
but the academic book published by SUNY, Taoist
Meditation, actually gives the explanations of how
this state is achieved in methodology. The
principles are the same as the nondualist principles
stated above -- it is just a matter of deepening the
practice. After the initial levels of samadhi or
emptiness, direct knowledge or immediate awareness
can not be captured by the normal means of
communication and is essentially impossible to
explain except through direct experience. The
ultimate nondualist state is beyond any form, any
concept, any sensation, any limitation of time and
space, any source of mind and matter.
Of direct consequence for modern western culture are
solutions to psychoanalysis, to social and economic
conflict, to health issues, and to realizing the
effects and potential of technology. Without this
basic knowledge of nondualism power relations can
not be understood very well, an accurate model of
reality can not be maintained and a sense of
unfulfilled desire will lead to an unbalance of
power. Many elite societies of leaders in the West
have attempted, as a means of maintaining an
unhealthy, imbalance of material power, to keep
secret and utilize this nondualist knowledge that
Pythagoras once taught. This extreme of Western
control, since it relies on maintaining ignorance of
nondualism and utilizing it for limited, inaccurate
development, can not last. The motivation to
externally control the environment and people around
you through destructive superficial means simply
does not last when one can truly stabilize direct
knowledge or wisdom through nondualist means.
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