Tag: Elitism

Spiritual elitism (again)

Spiritual elitism (again)

Today 17/2 it’s 100 years since the State Institute for Racial Biology, in Uppsala, Sweden, was founded, they say on TV.

What did the Western Esoterical (“New Age”) stage looked like at that time? 1922 … Jiddu Krishnamurti, “the Golden Child” of the Theosophical movement, get “enlightened”. (The Danish mystic Martinus Thomsen had had a similar life-changing experience the year before.)

It will not be until 1929 before Krishnamurti turns his back on the theosophists. Theosophy with its doctrine of “root races”, the evolution of souls and cultures, and our rise towards light & sovereignty, peaks the years until then, as I have understood it. They attracts huge masses, thousands and thousands again, of educated people. This world view seems to have fitted well with the Zeitgeist of the time.

Hitler takes full control of the Nazi party in 1922, too, I google.

I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for here…. That the world has changed more than this type of spirituality has, perhaps?

(My take on the subject is rather emotional, personal, superficial when it comes to facts. I recommend you to check out English philosopher Jules Evans. He’s working on something around Western Esotericism, elitism, übermench thoughts, eugenics, and more, I’ve noticed. I. Ex.: This)

To be yourself?

To be yourself?

Reminded of how much I wrestled with that admonition of “be yourself”, like in my late teens-early adult years (o pretty long I think). I just couldn’t understand what was meant! That it was something desirable, which was talked about, was called upon, so much I understood, but I was clueless.

It is normal in your teens at least, the search for identity, trying out who to be? My dilemma probably went a little deeper. Had to do with the fact that I ended up with older people in environments celebrating high, refined ideals of how to be, so early, I think.

Unpleasant spirituality

Unpleasant spirituality

Long and Learned by the philosopher Jules Evans. Just a chapter of something bigger. I’ll admit I didn’t read it to the end. I got stucked in my own thoughts. This unabashed elitism…

And I think that this is, among other things, what can be so shabby and repugnant, unsubstantiated, with contemporary esoteric holistic new age spirituality. A hundred years ago, things like hiearchies, coterie, ûbermensch ideals, etc. were in time. It isn’t anymore.

https://medium.com/spiritual-eugenics/6-dune-the-hermetic-order-of-the-golden-dawn-and-occult-eugenics-8a6f0d3e04e7

“Since about 1900 the better stocks have not been replacing their numbers, while the stupider and less healthy have been more than replacing theirs. Unless there is a change in the public mind every rank above the lowest must degenerate and, as inferior but push up into its gaps, degenerate more and more quickly.”

— WB Yeats, 1930