A mass transmutation is occurring on our planet, leading to the emergence of a new kind of transhuman being: the Entheopolitan. Consider this essay an outline of both the complex dissipative environment in which this rhizomatic interconnective supercharging shamanic shape shift is happening and some of the early, unintended consequences of this unpredictable event-in-process.

In the first written teaching bequeathed to us by Sri Ramana Maharishi, the great sage explained the lineaments of the eight-fold path of knowledge that leads to the Supreme Liberation.

This eternal path is the core practice of Sat Yoga. To be most effective, Gyana Yoga must be integrated with the other six essential yogas that comprise the heart of the Sat Yoga approach. But those with clarity, determination, and devotion—those who have had what in Zen is called kensho, the living recognition of the presence and true nature of the Absolute, can reach jivan mukti solely on the basis of this practice of Ashtanga Gyana Yoga.

The most difficult part of building a sustainable yogic prema-culture community is to assure that relations between men and women remain pure, harmonious, friendly, and free of the defilement of lust, attachment, and possessiveness, or the counter-nemeses of anger, hatred, envy, and the whole panoply of venomous manifestations of power struggles.

The ancient yogis, in order to defend themselves and their ashram communities against such demonic forces, developed the most powerful weapon ever conceived. This weapon is still far in advance of any known to the human mind. The special warhead, and its guided delivery system that flies far above the stratosphere, and even beyond the noosphere, is irrestible in its transformative potential.

The life of a yogi is one of complete dedication to the attainment of the full development of the human spiritual potential. This goal requires ceaseless effort; mindfulness; Self-enquiry; refinement of thought, speech and action; sublimation of impulses and cessation of old sanskaras.

The yogic life is one of purity of mind and heart, nobility and generosity of spirit, egoless action, and disciplined patterns of relationship, in order to remain untouched by maya, the illusion of body-identification that produces all forms of suffering.

To understand the play of surface events in the world—whether social and political upheavals, natural cataclysmic events and gradual shifts such as climate change, or unpredictable and uncanny events in one’s personal life—it is necessary to understand the deep play of the Supreme Intelligence that underlies and pervades reality.

The ancient yogic teachings refer to the deep play—gambhira lila in Sanskrit—as the deep dynamic structure of the Real. This concept must be deeply understood, the sages taught, if we are to play the game of life victoriously. In ancient China, it was called the Tao. To be in alignment with the Tao, we must ourselves be the embodiments of its power. This requires us to master the principle of wu wei, or effortless and egoless action.

Some say this is the end of the world.
But there is no world.

Some say it is the end of the age, the Kali Yuga.
But this age will end only when the ego dies.

Love is the essential trauma. Love arises as a rupture of reality, destabilizing all that had been known. The secret formula understood by the great tantra masters is the mixture of love, desire, self-restraint and recognition (discernment, or viveka, leading to withdrawal of projections). This is the recipe for an atmic bomb. The atman is what makes us tick. The time bomb ticks with the talk of love, the God that is love.

God has always only been a word for the explosion of brutally beatific consciousness that annihilates the ego. The trigger for this explosion is love. But the explosion is also ignited by the ineluctable awareness of synchronicity and the unsurpassable intelligence sublating the universe, seeing full-on the inauthenticity of the ego and all its projects, propelling the well-deserved self-shattering of its world through internal schisms and disowned betrayals. But God is also bliss, joy everlasting and overflowing. Is joy, too, a trauma?