Three Dangerous Magi: Osho Gurdjieff Crowley
by P.T Mistlberger.
Antinomian is any view which rejects laws or legalism and argues against moral, religious or social norms (Latin: mores), or is at least considered to do so. The term has both religious and secular meanings.
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“Crowley’s idea was much more sophisticated than simple antiauthoritarianism. He was, in a sense, taking Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas to the next level.”
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“To be able to truly love – i.e., love minus manipulative attachments, or to put another way, unconditional love that freely gives with no thought of reciprocity – is our highest potential”.
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“the main reason why orgasm is so intensely pleasurable is not merely because of biochemical processes, but also because when it occurs we experience a moment of total desirelessness.”
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Nietzsche expresses the philosophy of this School…
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Osho well familiar with Wilhelm Reich, pioneer 1960’s bodywork, teachings on importance of sexual orgasm
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“…only a natural, innocent person can truly move into higher states of consciousness. By ‘innocent’ Osho did not mean ignorant, or inexperienced in life. He rather used that word to point toward a deep and natural acceptance of who one is, beginning with one’s body. As Gurdjieff taught, and as Crowley attempted to demonstrate, it is attachment and identification that lies behind practically all psychological suffering.”
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“More than one observer – many of whom were students at one point or another of any of these (or similar) crazy-wisdom type teachers – has gotten entangled in perceptions that focus exclusively on the conventional personalities of these teachers, thereby ending up invalidating all work done with them and by extension, all work done on themselves when with them (or their communities).”
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Sheela and her group of lieutenants – mostly all of whom were women – ran the commune with an iron fist…
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“The community’s frequent skirting of the law seemed justified in many ways despite a queasy feeling of distaste that never left me.”
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“The best women have always been sexually free, like the best men; it is only necessary to remove the penalties for being found out.” Aleister Crowley
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Gurdjieff referred to this wastage of energy as ‘masturbation’.
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When improperly used its energy gets ‘stolen’by other parts of us resulting in a person who is in the grip of a overactive mind.
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“the Achilles Heel in the master-disciple relationship is always (for the disciple) the tendency to project disowned elements of one’s darker nature onto the master, as a convenient means to avoid responsibility for one’s own inner work.”
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“Get out of your head”
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Third force psychology 50s – 60s by Maslow Rogers – self actualisation
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Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition by David Bakan 1958
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first book in Osho’s list Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzsche
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Wilhelm Reich major influence on Osho
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Tantra – universe is a play of energy (shakti) to he harnessed and utilized to both manifest things and attain to self-realization, rather than merely illusion (maya) to be overcome.
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Taoism – ideal of awakened man
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Crowley- Nietzsche similarities