Understanding the Leftist Mindset

I’m agnostic but I like the quote “the greatest trick the devil can do is convince you he doesn’t exist.” A lot of leftist “intellectuals” don’t believe in evil because they necessitate its existence on religious superstition. They are so caught up in their self-righteous elitism that they’re “convinced by the devil” that evil doesn’t exist.

That’s why leftists explain all the “evil” we see as being caused by the “West” itself, or by mere environmental causal factors per se. These leftists are morally indiscriminate. Everything “West-related” is automatically bad and any attack by terrorists, no matter how brutal, is justified because “evil” doesn’t exist in their “intellectual” minds.

By the way, you can be agnostic and still be spiritual.

Start 9 mins into this video:

The Essence of Vedanta (i.e. Shedding the Ego)

A friend sent me this and all I could think about is how well this resonates with Advaita Vedanta in layman’s’ terms.

Caveat: The video advocates for a good time after realizing nothing matters. The “nothing matters” part may be interpreted as nihilistic, but the speaker is also saying that you can find deeper/truer meaning in enjoyment when you realize you are not the focus in people’s lives and your physical life is finite. This is very Vedantic indeed.

Understanding the Spinozan God of Einstein and Carl Sagan

Over the years I have come to appreciate Vedanta, and particularly Advaita Vedanta as the optimal path for intellectual truth-seekers. When posed with the question of the purpose behind creation, Vedanta teaches you to instead ask, “Why do I perceive a world all around me? How can I perceive myself, my own self, in its true nature, away from the world as an instrument?“

If you share an appreciation for the Pale Blue Dot concept, I highly recommend the following Vedanta authorities, in this order:

I list Swami Sarvapriyananda last because he is perhaps the most profound Vedanta teacher alive in the world today. I make this statement after studying him for two years. To truly appreciate him you will have to learn about Vedanta from more accessible resources. You may also benefit from more mainstream voices like Sadhguru, but I personally like the four authorities I have listed above because they take a far less “mainstream” approach to Sanātana Dharma (Hinduism).

Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda’s teachings are best described in this interview.

Security Theater

I’m disturbed, yet not surprised at the number of people who willingly accept totalitarianism, who chase after the illusion of security and safety by silencing any information that contradicts the “One Official Story Explaining Everything,” even if that story is shown to be transparently false.

So many people are scrambling to find a reliable arbiter of truth because they are terrified by the reality of having to figure things out for themselves, never having been taught how. So they look to the historical purveyors of information they trust to be “true,” what we now call “corporate” or “legacy” media, and place their trust in them, feeling confident they now know who’s to blame for the relentless stream of lies coming down on them daily for years and years.

As it has been said time and time again, “this too, shall pass.”