At the core of every mythological system is a sacrificial act. This offering is the price of renewal. Since history recapitulates mythology, we have now arrived at the climactic moment in which our own core is to be revealed. Either we make the total conscious sacrifice required, or Death engulfs the world. The good news is that only the unreal must be sacrificed in order to attain the immortal Real.

Only once the heart is fully open and integrated with the intellect will the nondual wisdom accurately emerge and function with all its potency in the morphogenic field. This grace is always accessible if one is willing to use one’s margin of free will to surrender to the Absolute.

In this explanation of the importance of the upcoming retreat on The Secret of Instant Illumination, the impending collision between world events and the ego’s fundamental paranoid anxiety is elaborated. A time will come when all who have been in denial of the truth will be desperate to get out of unbearable suffering brought on by their own closed hearts and inadequate intelligence. The limited consciousness of the ego can only be overcome if the soul awakens and receives the grace of illumination that brings reunion with the God-Self.

An ancient sutra called the Netra Tantra teaches a different form of ashtanga (eight-limbed) yoga. Unlike Patanjali’s version, this Shaivite yoga describes how to live in nonduality. It is essential to master the arts of letting go, of accepting, and of seeing the unreality of ego (including one’s own) and the dreamlike nature of the entire world. Most of all, the closed heart must open.

The cosmos arises from an energy field created by complementary charges, which fractally results in every form of binary. One and Zero, Being and Nothing, are dialectically related, meaning they are convertible terms. All apparent polarities are moving pendularities, meaning everything morphs eventually into its opposite. Enjoyment becomes suffering, the actors become the audience, the end is the beginning. The sacred mountain attracts sages, the sages make the mountain sacred. Dependent origination is also independent self-causation and non-arising waves of information. Systole follows diastole. The heart opens and again closes. The Real is hidden and then revealed. The way to go is just to flow.

The world did not appear out of nowhere, but arises within the Mind of God. Because the nature of Absolute Consciousness is freedom, joy, creativity, and limitless power, the world process cannot be grasped by a finite mind. But since every limited consciousness is only separated from the Infinite Self by a thin veil of willful ignorance, it takes only a simple shift of attitude to become reabsorbed into the blissful light of Liberation.

One of the main issues of life nowadays is coping with pain. The true nature of pain still escapes the understanding of the allopathic medical establishment, despite the advances in neuroscience, as the psychic and spiritual sources of suffering are not explored. Even the depth psychologists who recognize the psychosomatic origins of many kinds of pain do not grasp the full karmic and teleological dimensions of the phenomenon. But all ministers of religions know that suffering can motivate not only despair but also maturation, acceptance, repentance, conversion, and ultimate surrender to the grace of God.

As we grow psychologically and spiritually, our understanding and appreciation of love evolve into more altruistic modes of expression and unconditional inclusion, until infinite love is attained. This is the glory of divinization and the completion of our pilgrimage through many lives to the real essence of who we are.

The structure of time serves the needs of the great unfolding drama of history, dialectically surging toward its redemptive Eschaton. Dyads produce unstable triads. Truth and Beauty both disrupt the closed systems that congeal into social patterns that become rigid and obsolete. Our culture heroes manifest novelty and creativity that shift our values and perspectives into ever new paradigms of possibility. The first step always requires letting go and returning to freedom.

The best alternative to living in a society of narcissistic egos is to move into nonduality. There is, after all, only one Real Self. Why be crowded when you can enjoy infinite spaciousness?