We Have a Responsibility to Be Supernatural!
Summary: Shunyamurti returns for another conversation with the astute Bodhisattva Ryan McCormick, master of ceremonies at the Outer Limits of Inner Truth. The fascinating discussion concerns the life and death of civilizations and worlds. At this time, the human spirit is being weighed on the scales of divine worthiness. We must bring love and law back into unity, and regain the power to re-dream the world.
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Ryan
Shunyamurti, the last time we spoke, we’ve seen this world delve into more chaos, and it seems to be accelerating.
Shunyamurti
Oh, yes.
Ryan
And I’ve had the pleasure of talking with some wonderful teachers, and one of the things I’ve been hearing about is that we’re in this thing called Kali Yuga, and apparently this is this great upheaval in humanity, but it’s also an opportunity for humanity to grow. From your perspective, have other civilizations, other forms of humanity, gone through this and missed their opportunity to grow? Do you believe or feel within your heart that humanity is on a trajectory right now of maximizing this opportunity to grow and evolve? Or do you feel at this point that collective humanity is succumbing to their ego, to the desires of the ego, and a lack of heart to get off this exit ramp, to jump to the next level of evolution?
Shunyamurti
Well, you see, what you’ve expressed is the fact that we are being tested—that’s the whole point. This, in a way, is the final judgment. We can either go down or we can ascend. We can return to God-consciousness and salvation and bring a new world into being, or we can fall under the spell of hopelessness and despair, or even worse, demonic intentions, and of course, then lead our own fate to ruin. But the human spirit is now in, you could say, the scales, being weighed.
Ryan
- And speaking of what it means to be human, it seems that if it’s not just been the past few years, it seems like a process that’s happening within humans, as some humans are adding things to their bodies or they’re becoming merged in with machines, and I wonder about this, this thought kind of pulsated within me that: do humans have a set destiny? Do humans have a set part that they’re going to fulfill while being human? And do you find that this push to take a person that is primarily human, to modify that human, to make it genetically modify the body, that that will, in essence, take that human, make it something else, and not allow that human to experience the fulfillment of what a human could be or what its prophecy, prophetic vision is? My understanding is if humans could actually evolve to grow, to be free, to really have this paradise, but if you’re no longer a human, if you become a different race, then I wonder if your karma takes on a different cycle? I wonder if there’s a push or a need to pull people away from the true humanity, not necessarily because they want to control them, but because they want to pull them out of their collective destiny, which is to have a beautiful end for being a human.
Shunyamurti
You see, your very question comes from the paradigm and the premises of a Kali Yuga mentality which has become humanist, atheist, materialist, and technologically subservient to that level of our intelligence that wants to control, and manipulate, and dominate nature, right? And there’s an assumption in the modern world that that is reality, whereas that’s only the densest level of the appearance of what is really a cosmic drama that is going on. And the Playwright and the powers that actually are in charge of the unfoldment of this drama are not the ones that are the apparent players on the scene, right? So what has happened—and you asked about previous civilizations, have they failed—it’s not that they have failed, but it wasn’t their role in the drama to do anything more than express a certain aspect of human consciousness and it would take it to its highest point, and then it would decline and die. So every civilization has a lifespan, a life and a death, and so does every yuga. Kali Yuga has a lifespan, and it’s now in its death throes. And we’ve had other yugas, and you could say the entire cycle of time has a lifespan, right?
And so we are at the end of the entire cycle now. We’ve gone through the seasons of life, the springtime, summer, fall, and now we’re in the dead of winter, right? But a new spring is coming, and most people today don’t see the new spring that is coming, and so they are only focused on the nightmare of the control by tyrannical technologically-informed beings who are now dominant. They are dominant, however, only in the winter, and they are dominant only until the human spirit has awakened to the higher powers that actually rule when we are receptive and attuned to that power, and can bring it into the world to shift the entire morphogenic field of planetary consciousness.
So that’s what’s about to happen, and is in fact underway. So this whole question of are we in trouble or not, it looks like it’s hopeless, and that we are about to reach total enslavement through microchips and all the nanobots and the robots and all of that—but it only looks that way through a very limited paradigm of what reality is. When you see reality whole, then you can have a great sense of humor about this because you see it’s not real.
Ryan
Well, it is kind of funny how I think, how people are responding. It does seem like the Twilight Zone. I appreciate your answer, and when it comes to looking beyond the world right now, and you’re talking about, OK, well, if humans have an awakening and they awaken to their spirit and they’re awakening there, then they connect and it’s beautiful—but when you have times of chaos, we have times where people are focused on survival, I feel that that ties so much more into ego because ego—isn’t that for the most part there to protect you, to keep you alive to some degree? So if you are in a constant fight-or-flight mentality, if you are in a mentality where you must survive, does that in some way, shape, or form, prevent you from allowing yourself to experience the totality of embracing your spirit? Because you’re in that survival mode, you’re in the mode of preserving the life of the body, maybe you cannot access this, maybe in a peaceful period of time, I’d imagine you’d have a greater opportunity to express and to connect. So how do people embrace and connect when they are in a fight-or-flight mode, and they are in a survival mode and tied to the ego?
Shunyamurti
Right, well, so first of all, I have to say I disagree with your paradigm, because I think when times were easier everybody was very complacent, and happy to just eat their popcorn and watch the movies and let it all hang out, as the rulers wanted, and we gave up our power. But now we realize that the horror that has been created through our own ignorance and our losing our responsibility as vigilant keepers of the unity of love and law in the world, and they split apart because of that, and the law became loveless, and the love became lawless.
And so it’s because of that rupture that we have ended up in the situation that we’re in, but because we now see that on the level of the earth level playing field, things are hopeless, when one begins to face imminent death one realizes you have to let go of the fear of death and the urgency of physical survival, and begin to think about whether your consciousness will survive the death of the body. You see? And that’s the awakening that has to happen.
And if we can voluntarily go through ego death before the death of the body, we will regain our souls and even the Holy Spirit beyond, and gain the power while the bodies are alive to bring that divine energy into the field. And it’s only because we’re facing death as a species, as a planet, that we are now forced to turn inward because there’s no help on the outer plane—the knights are not coming to rescue us, the aliens aren’t coming to rescue us, no one is coming—not even the angels seem to be coming, right?
So we have to go within to find that power because the Kingdom of God is not out there; it’s inside. And when we begin to go into our consciousness, deeper and deeper, we find that we actually live in a different dimension. We’re not in the world—the world is in us—it’s a dream. I awaken first to the symbolic level of the dream. I understand it from an archetypal perspective. I see what’s going on and what it’s leading to and what is being tested. Then to an even higher level of that which is unborn and uncreated, to the level of the power of creation and destruction itself, that comes from the Divine Source, Who is responsible for this holographic manifestation in the first place, and Who will now be able to, when we attune and become instruments of that Power, be able to change the destiny of the world, through a power greater than any that can be used by those who are stuck only within the dimension of the physical.
Ryan
Thank you for that answer. I loved in our previous interview that you gave a really sharp perspective—you’re saying instead of focusing on the you, try to be from the perspective of not the person who’s in the dream, but the Dreamer. I thought that was so empowering, and I’d like to just ask a question about how to further attain and become one with the Divine, to align your spirit with it, because you mentioned ego death, and I’ve had two of them in my life. One was involuntary, one was voluntary, and both of them were very painful. And I was wondering if you could please explain to people how to voluntarily have an ego death? What are some of the benefits? And at the same time, how do you further accelerate your alignment with the Divine?
Shunyamurti
I would have to say that your ego death experiences were not complete, because when they are complete there is no one left to have pain, right? So the fact that it’s painful is the ego suffering a near-death experience but not going through its death, because then the pain becomes ecstasy, you see? So you have to go all the way through, and that means beyond the fear of death, and the fear of the void, and the fear of the infinite, and then you realize that it’s actually ecstatic. But you can only get beyond the fear if you have love. You have to love that Supreme Self in whatever way you imagine it—and it’s not anything you can imagine—whether you call it Buddha, or Brahman, or Dao, or the Godhead, or the Goddess, or whatever, none of those can truly do anything more than use the imaginary level of the consciousness to point to that which cannot be conceived of, but is our innermost being. And when we know who we are at the deepest level, we realize, “I’m not the character I’m playing, I’m not that body, I’m not even its mind, its operating system. I’m aware even of its soul that has incarnated using it. And I go beyond that to the ultimate level of consciousness.”
And from there, there’s neither fear, nor desire, and there is the full empowerment that can conquer not only death, but can activate that power of creative intelligence that brings the highest possible outcome to this cosmic drama. That’s the deus ex machina.
Ryan
Well, I’m always looking for that. I’m always looking for—it’s kind of strange—I feel like there are some people within, I think they call it a New Age movement, they’re always saying, “Oh yeah, the angels are going to come. Oh yeah, something’s going to happen”—and some of the teachers that I follow, they’re always like, “No, you have to really; it’s personal responsibility.” One of my greatest teachers was Stuart Wild, metaphysical teacher, he really was talking about it. He said that the world that you see outside is within and it’s all about personal responsibility. Do you think that, or feel that it is because of a lack of responsibility, maybe it is because of a lack of initiative within others that the world’s gotten to this place, because they’ve neglected their natural responsibility, which is to grow, which is to evolve, maybe, but because they don’t seek or they don’t have an insatiable curiosity that someone else is taking over for them?
Shunyamurti
Well, yes, I would say we’ve lost our supernatural responsibility, and we believe our responsibility is only to take care of business within a capitalist frame of reference. And we’ve lost what is our responsibility to God, and to goodness, and to love, and to freedom, and all of those ideals that have been washed away in this recent eruption of total tyranny. But we have allowed that because we lost our own awareness of the importance, the urgency of our role as the Children of God to sustain the world as the Kingdom of Heaven, and we let it degrade into a hell realm. So now it’s our responsibility to become the angels that save the situation, not wait for somebody else to do it—because we didn’t fulfill our responsibility in the past, we must do it now…
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Sarah
25 Apr 2023Thank you. May I share this?
Vajra Sat Yoga
1 May 2023Dear Sara,
Absolutely! We are glad that you feel resonant with these teachings and happy for you to share them!
Blessings!