Spicy Sue,
I am sorry to hear about your friend- that must be very painful for you, having someone important in your life leave and never return. Knowing that they are out there somewhere but that they are essentially lost to you is heart-breaking.
Many, many people have lost loved ones to cults like the Moo Cult. That is the reason I keep posting on Cult Ed and I keep hoping that people will use this as a resource to understand what is going on with groups like Moo's cult.
It nearly happened to me! I nearly packed my bags and left for Monte Sahaja! I know what it is like to go through the on-line cult indoctrination experience and how it makes you feel... there is some strange euphoria you get from escaping your every day existence into Moo's bizarre dream-world of double-speak! It's a process of letting go everything that was once very important to you- even your identity.
But it isn't real. It's not a true enlightenment experience. It's false and misleading.
You can never let go of your identity. No genuine and true spiritual path will ever ask you to deny reality. Many religious traditions accept that there are different levels of reality and that there are deeper truths hidden behind our normal waking lives. That could well be correct. But in order to explore these, you do not have to lose your identity as a person.
In fact, when you embrace a deeper truth, you become more secure and content as a person. What Moo is teaching is not traditional Advaita Vedanta. It is just some half-baked teaching that he has invented himself.
He is a big fraud and people are beginning to see through him now.
Take a look at what Vedanta Advaita is really all about:
[www.iep.utm.edu]
"This introduction, called the adhyasa bhasya (commentary on illusion) presents a realistic position and a seemingly dualistic metaphysics: “Since it is an established fact that the object and subject which are presented as yusmad—‘you’ /the other, and asmad—‘me’ are by very nature contradictory, and their qualities also contradictory, as light and darkness they cannot be identical.” Plurality and illusion, on this account, are constructed out of the cognitive superimposition of the category of objects on pure subjectivity. While two conceptual categories are superimposed to create objects of illusion, the Adavita Ved?nta view is that the only possible way of metaphysically describing the object of illusion is with the help of a characteristic, other than those of non-existence and existence, which is termed as the “indeterminate” (anirvacaniya) which also somehow connects the two usual possibilities of existence and non-existence. The object of illusion cannot be logically defined as real or unreal. Error is the apprehension of the indefinable. It is due to the “illegitimate transference” of the qualities of one order to another. Perceptual illusion forms the bridge between Advaita’s soteriology, on the one hand, and its theory of experience, on the other. The relationship between the experience of liberation in this life (mukti) and everyday experience is viewed as analogous to the relation between veridical and delusive sense perception. Sankara formulates a theory of knowledge in accordance with his soteriological views. Sankara’s interest is thus not to build a theory of error and leave it by itself but to connect it to his theory of the ultimate reality of Self-Consciousness which is the only state which can be true according to his twin criteria for truth (non-sublatability and foundationality). The characteristic of indeterminacy that qualifies objects of illusion is that which is truly neither real nor unreal but appears as a real locus. It serves as a stark contrast to the soteriological goal of the Self, which is truly real and determinate."
After listening to Moo speak, do you really believe that he has understood this teaching? I don't.
I am sorry to hear about your friend- that must be very painful for you, having someone important in your life leave and never return. Knowing that they are out there somewhere but that they are essentially lost to you is heart-breaking.
Many, many people have lost loved ones to cults like the Moo Cult. That is the reason I keep posting on Cult Ed and I keep hoping that people will use this as a resource to understand what is going on with groups like Moo's cult.
It nearly happened to me! I nearly packed my bags and left for Monte Sahaja! I know what it is like to go through the on-line cult indoctrination experience and how it makes you feel... there is some strange euphoria you get from escaping your every day existence into Moo's bizarre dream-world of double-speak! It's a process of letting go everything that was once very important to you- even your identity.
But it isn't real. It's not a true enlightenment experience. It's false and misleading.
You can never let go of your identity. No genuine and true spiritual path will ever ask you to deny reality. Many religious traditions accept that there are different levels of reality and that there are deeper truths hidden behind our normal waking lives. That could well be correct. But in order to explore these, you do not have to lose your identity as a person.
In fact, when you embrace a deeper truth, you become more secure and content as a person. What Moo is teaching is not traditional Advaita Vedanta. It is just some half-baked teaching that he has invented himself.
He is a big fraud and people are beginning to see through him now.
Take a look at what Vedanta Advaita is really all about:
[www.iep.utm.edu]
"This introduction, called the adhyasa bhasya (commentary on illusion) presents a realistic position and a seemingly dualistic metaphysics: “Since it is an established fact that the object and subject which are presented as yusmad—‘you’ /the other, and asmad—‘me’ are by very nature contradictory, and their qualities also contradictory, as light and darkness they cannot be identical.” Plurality and illusion, on this account, are constructed out of the cognitive superimposition of the category of objects on pure subjectivity. While two conceptual categories are superimposed to create objects of illusion, the Adavita Ved?nta view is that the only possible way of metaphysically describing the object of illusion is with the help of a characteristic, other than those of non-existence and existence, which is termed as the “indeterminate” (anirvacaniya) which also somehow connects the two usual possibilities of existence and non-existence. The object of illusion cannot be logically defined as real or unreal. Error is the apprehension of the indefinable. It is due to the “illegitimate transference” of the qualities of one order to another. Perceptual illusion forms the bridge between Advaita’s soteriology, on the one hand, and its theory of experience, on the other. The relationship between the experience of liberation in this life (mukti) and everyday experience is viewed as analogous to the relation between veridical and delusive sense perception. Sankara formulates a theory of knowledge in accordance with his soteriological views. Sankara’s interest is thus not to build a theory of error and leave it by itself but to connect it to his theory of the ultimate reality of Self-Consciousness which is the only state which can be true according to his twin criteria for truth (non-sublatability and foundationality). The characteristic of indeterminacy that qualifies objects of illusion is that which is truly neither real nor unreal but appears as a real locus. It serves as a stark contrast to the soteriological goal of the Self, which is truly real and determinate."
After listening to Moo speak, do you really believe that he has understood this teaching? I don't.