Spiritual technology

The flip side of the coin, of course, is that white people (I am, by the way, quite aware that the influence of women is everywhere in all ages, even if the names are not always known; I am equally aware that in the modern era at least, women like Marie Curie have often contributed directly.  I say this not to be politically correct, but in recognition that on this issue an accurate use of language is helpful and, to use an abused but still usable word, fair)  SUCK at what we might call Spiritual Technology.  We have Christianity, which is really a Semitic religion which spread throughout the Mediterranean.  We have Freud and Psychology and Psychiatry.  We have shitty philosophy, which, unlike the Ouroboros, has actually eaten itself and disappeared.

One could say are our psychiatric drugs are helpful, but the fact seems to be that most of the maladies we can, sort of, treat, don’t exist at all in other cultures, by and large, and where they do, can be cured using traditional methods.

And again, you cannot medicate people into feeling engaged and useful, happy and connected, when their culture militates against all these things strongly and ubiquitously, or nearly so.

I myself, as I share regularly, feel most strongly connected to Buddhism, although I like some of the Sufi schools of thought, and have read the Tao Te Ching more times than I could count.

As I have speculated, perhaps the role of the Communist invasion of, and subjugation and destruction of large parts of, Tibet might have been, karmically, to push Tibetan ideas out onto a broader stage, where humanity as a whole might benefit from them, if we can avoid being fucking idiots long enough to see what is in front of us, and to learn from it.

Like all other groups of human beings, whites have committed many atrocities.  Unlike most other groups of human beings, we have felt guilt and remorse in many cases.

But what I would submit is our most salient attribute is, in fact, the capacity to believe in the benefits of progress. It is precisely this optimism, this hopefulness, which is harnessed by regressive radicals to advance their anti-humanistic agendas.

But the possibility of GENUINE progress remains as well.  We can learn from other cultures, even as they learn from us by harvesting and using our technology.  We do not need to turn the planet into a McWorld.  Better ideas, better rituals, better living is possible.

We just need to turn our best minds away from destroying everything good, and towards improving what already exists.  Like everything else, it is easier said than done, but most things which do begin, to begin as words and the ideas they express.  This is part of the process too, or can be, if it is to be.