I’ll be shutting down this blog again for a couple of months.

What with the NDAA, it might be wise to wait a bit until I have a better sense of where things are going.

If anyone is interested in being informed when I have it up again, please shoot me an email with your name, email address, and a line or two about yourself, so I can be sure I’m dealing with a real human being.

Thanks to W.F for writing. I will keep you on my list.

I’ll be leaving the blog public for a couple of days before I take it off the web.

I wanted to leave you all with a wonderful resource that brightened my day recently and might brighten yours:

atmajyoti.org, the site of the atmajyoti monastery and nightlotus.com, the site of former Hollywood film producer, Hindu monk, singer and writer, Sharon Janis, who also calls herself Kumuda or night-lotus.

Sharon has put together a huge range of Hindu texts in various translations, along with recordings of chanted versions, as well as her books on the subject. There are dozens of beautiful, authoritative websites of Hinduism on the web, but some are written by non-native speakers of English, so they don’t always makes graceful reading; others are scholarly, but lack the insight that the practice of religion brings; still others are crude.

This one hits it note-perfect.

Nothing to do with the economy or politics, but everything to do with human liberty and individualism.

I particularly recommend the chapter The Christ of India both for its spiritual and its political implications. I for one firmly believe the globalists intend to destroy evidence that the origins of Christianity and Judaism are to be found in the Vedic tradition.

That may well be the ideological reason for their support of the Islamicist claim to Kashmir. There are, of course, compelling strategic reasons, but I think this ideological agenda might be more important than most people would guess.

Addition: 1/8/12

Just to make it clear, I don’t subscribe to everything posted on either site. The notion that Christ went to Kashmir, for instance, is disputed by orthodox Biblical scholarship, just as orthodox scholarship disputes the theories behind Zeitgeist, the enormously influential movie based on “The Christ Conspiracy,” by Acharya S.

Acharya S., who is a skeptic and humanist scholar of comparative mythology, actually takes the position that Jesus was not a historical figure and that the globalists of the time used the mythology of Christ, cobbled from pre-existing mythologies, to buttress the rationale of empire.

In my view, that’s inaccurate. There’s enough historical evidence to believe fairly certainly that Jesus was a historical figure who was crucified under the Romans. Beyond that, it gets confusing.

With that caveat, it’s documented that the tenets of Sanatana Dharma inform practically every aspect of New Age thought, contemporary Christian mysticism, Sufism (born in India), Buddhism (also born in India), for it to be mandatory that anyone discussing questions related to these issue study their roots in the Hindu tradition and its subversion, appropriation, use and misuse in the West.  In these texts, and in the still untapped reservoir of Vedic science and literature, you will recognize everything from David Icke’s fables about lizards and moons to Gurdjieff, to Nietzsche, to Yeats, Lawrence, Rand, Scriabin, Tesla, Emerson, the Transcendentalists, Hasidic and Sufi mysticism, the so-called prosperity gospels (“Think and Grow Rich”, the Law of Attraction and so on), Jefferson (who studied the Upanishads and Vedas), Freemasonic ritual (the inner rites were perversions, I believe, of Tantric initiation), Blavatsky, Fritjof Capra, Heisenberg, Planck, Einstein, Ramanujan, Bose, the Internet, nuclear power, radio waves, alternative medicine (ayurvedic, homeopathic), the environmental movement,  yoga, the animal rights movement, Edgar Cayce, and of course all the New Age gurus from Da Free John to Robert Pirsig.

In those texts, you will find the most inclusive and systematic exposition of the spiritual and intellectual basis of global spiritual consciousness. That is not an exaggeration. It is an opinion I share with some of the most notable thinkers in the West including Schopenhauer and Romaine Rolland. [Some of these people may have absorbed the influence subconsciously, but it is nonetheless demonstrable in every case.]