A Spiritual Bottom Line

Bottom line is this:

I have lost my ability to digest yet another Enlightenment Package, Smiling Guru's Picture included (for one's altar), available for immediate download for only $ 59.95, plus tax, but only if I surrender my personal information to some PR Firm that will include me in a list of New Age Truth Seekers and spread vicious rumors about me until I'm buried alive under a mountain of bright and colorful Yoga magazines, Meditation Fliers, Psychic's Brochures, Earth-Friendly underwear catalogs, Shamanic Rituals Workshop announcements, Full Moon Celebrations, Spiritual Cruise cabin discount offers, Whole Health events, Longevity yogi-goji-noni-hunza-kombucha-super-anti-oxidant Supplement Packet samples and Single Parenting of Indigo Children Bulletins.

Mind you, it's not that I don't have faith in humanity's capacity to achieve excellence, spiritual, physical and everything else. On the contrary, I am convinced that there must be a good number of enlightened beings walking around on our planet at any given time, or else the whole thing would have already turned to dust.

It' just that I can no longer stomach the "spiritual" scene; the pack behavior, any time another bliss-bestowing, groupie mobbed GURU shows up; nor can I avoid turning into a veritable road-runner (complete with aerodynamic do) and flee any conversation the moment it disintegrates into spiritual lingo, with its trite cliche' repertoire and all of the stereotyped body language wide-eyed devotees adopt in order to convey affiliation to the politically correct "holy" group of the moment.

In conclusion of this second post (although rant might be a better choice of words), I respectfully request that all those who are interested in joining us for this worthy quest, refrain from referring to us using any trigger word that would associate us with any pre-existing spiritual discipline, enlightened teacher, philosophical tradition, etc., etc..

Rest assured, however, that our quest finds no barriers in our pursuit of truth and self-realization, and that we are sincere, relentless and unstoppable.

If our vision inspires you, you are welcome to join us.