Firewalkers and the Future

[Anonymous]

When we see the corruption that hierarchy and the Platonist or Neo-Platonists including 'radical aristocrats' like Nietzsche give philosophical support to, we often also find some special segment like Rhodes identified as a 'superior' class who go along with the corruption to be more powerful themselves. It is so nice to see really good people like Joseph Campbell have a good life. But he clearly saw this corruption for what it is. Through co-operative approaches like McKnight and Illich define or demonstrate for us by enabling all human resources including every person on earth, so much more can be achieved.


    Bucky Fuller showed all people on earth could be millionaires and there would be no need for anymore iron or steel manufacture and the pollution of the environment. That was in the late 60s when being a millionaire meant a lot more. He built a community near Calgary to demonstrate the benefits of recycling. When I tell people earth could have ten billion millionaires and even more billionaires than at present they think I am totally insane even when I give them solid evidence that guaranteed minimum incomes require less taxation and through technological distribution and implementation people can produce more in less man hours. I only have the likes of John Kenneth Galbreath and the Club of Rome to provide whereas they have their fear-based Malthusian One Pie or Toilet Philosophy ideology with all its backers galore.


    These fears or 'sins and demons' we are told exist are perpetrated upon our souls by 'experts' who do not believe in the soul. Thus I will provide some more of the philosophy of Joseph Campbell who as we have shown in this book was labeled a Nazi for pointing out war was only beneficial to Empire builders.


    Thankfully the Gospel of Thomas was hidden by the Gnostic priesthood and survived the 1600 or more years that the hegemony sought to destroy it. These Gnostics who probably were just as muddled and subject to the effects of myth-making in their following did contribute to the Corpus Hermeticum and were part of the 'source' that Jesus studied. Now we must endeavour to carry out a plan that Jesus would encourage and I believe that is the freeing of the minds and souls of everyone on earth. This is the nature of goodness and anything less is fraught with the 'thought' that Krishnamurti speaks to and serves the rationale and ego of those who need easy answers.


    The Eranos Conferences at Lake Maggiore included people I would have to say were true scholars in search of answers that are seldom easy and often uncertain. The following story from the life of Joseph Campbell and his biography indicates fact that I am not the originator of the cell theory of cultural diffusion in man's stages of advancing awareness. On page 444 from 'A Fire in the Mind' it says something I have already included in this book but which deserves repetition:


    "It was Najagneg, another primitive shaman from the northern rim of the Arctic, whom Campbell would later quote again and again: 'All we know is that the voice (of Sila) is gentle, like a woman's: a voice so fine and gentle that even children cannot become afraid. And what it says is: Be not afraid of the universe!'


    The remarkable thing about his presentation of this material at Eranos was that once again Campbell had differed with orthodox Jungian thought in his portrayal of the cultural origins of archetypal forms, educating the archetypalists about the anthropological principle of cultural diffusion."


    Joseph Campbell's life story is chuck full of knowledge. It is one of the few books I have read every word of more than once, in the last five years. The part I am quoting is the end of his Yamabushi Firewalker experience and includes the reaction of Aldous Huxley another hermeticist/seeker of TRUTH. He felt the 'coldness' of fire, under the psychic direction of a master shaman. It HEALED HIS ANKLE and left more than the 'three cute little fire holes in his suit' to remind him of the AWESOME BEAUTY OF THE SOUL!! The soul that the Sphinx, before the heinous face of a despot was foisted upon her, represented so well!


    "The courteous gentleman was greatly pleased that I had participated and invited us all to come back someday. We gathered our things, and presently strolled away.


    Two days later Joseph wrote to Jean about the event: 'When you come to Tokyo I'll show you three cute little fire holes in the suit, which I shall wear henceforth with secret knowledge.--The next day (22nd) I walked some eight or ten miles at Nara and Horinji--and the ankle is still good.'


    Shortly after Jean had received her letter, she got a phone call from Aldous Huxley, who wanted to speak to Joseph. Jean, still full of the excitement of the account, told Huxley the whole story, how Joe was in Japan and had just firewalked. Huxley became excited and told his friend Gerald Heard, also interested in magic and the paranormal, who later contacted Campbell to get his firsthand account of the experience.


    Campbell later learned that Fu-do Myo-o, the name of the patron deity of the temple where he had seen the ceremony, means 'very still, even in fire.'" This is taken from 'A Fire in the Mind' which I hope anyone interested in humanity will read.

[You]

Fire walking seems cool, I'd like to learn that sometime.

This post gives the example that 'anyone can be a millionaire' by showing him succeeding in recycling, as if anyone could do that. This is misleading, if everyone worked in recycling, there wouldn't be any byproducts from other things to recycle.

People must find their niche, he found his, and perhaps it was more profitable, perhaps he was a better worker, perhaps he was lucky. Using one man's success and saying it can be identically applied to all others is just wrong.