Igor Kufayev: A True Guru?

September 7, 2014
I’ve had a number of people ask me about Igor Kufayev, a rapidly emerging spiritual teacher who twice has appeared on Buddha at the Gas Pump and who has posted 150 + Youtube.com videos. I replied in the affirmative to these people, letting them know that I thought Igor was good and interesting.

Even though I thought that Igor was good and interesting (at least as a spiritual speaker), I didn’t think he had “cracked the cosmic code,” because, unlike me, he doesn’t integrate the consciousness process and conductivity. Thanks to his Capricorn Sun and Gemini Moon, he’s an agile and loquacious communicator (as attested to by his multitude of Youtube.com videos) – but is he a fully Enlightened one? Never one to shy away from asking such direct questions, I posted the following question at one of his YouTube videos:

L. Ron Gardner: “Igor, have you cut the Heart-knot, meaning that you now perpetually abide in Sahaj Samadhi and radiate unbrokenly to Infinity via Amrita Nadi? Or are you still on the "path," and periodically experience the Hridayam?”

Igor’s evasive, muddled response, which follows, answered my question, and told me all that I need to know about him:

Igor Kufayev:  “Whatever I reply, L.… Read the full article

Dissing the Da Avatar, Part 3

August 31, 2014

Although I couldn’t have “cracked the cosmic code” without the help of Da’s Dharma, particularly his early teachings on radical understanding, over time, as I expanded my study of spirituality beyond Da’s teachings, Advaita Vedanta, and Zen Buddhism, I began to encounter the principal sources from which his Dharma derives.

When I read the first edition of the “Knee of Listening” in 1973, I thought it was oh so cool and original when Da asked the Shakti to stay with him and likened spiritual seekers to Narcissus. Then, ten years ago, when I read the Gnostic classic “The Secret Book of John” (translated by Stevan Davies), I discovered where he got the Narcissus metaphor and the idea of asking the Shakti (the Gnostic equivalent of Spirit) to stay with him.

In the “Paradox of Instruction,” which I read shortly after it was published in 1977, Da discoursed on Divine Ignorance, the idea that we don’t know what anything really is, we only know about things.… Read the full article

Ferguson — When Assholes Collide by Ivy Mike (Ivymikecafe.com)

August 24, 2014
[Note: This is a guest post, the first for electricalspirituality.com. A bud e-mailed me this article, and I dug it so much I contacted Ivy Mike, who gave me permission to post it.] 

www.ivymikecafe.com

Well, I have been trying to lay low on this thing for a while, because I knew as soon as all of the breathless reports started about Michael Brown’s death, more facts – and let’s stress that, FACTS – would come to light that would blow the immediate narrative right out of the water. The initial collision between alleged lawbreaker and law enforcer is of little consequence to me, because criminals and cops collide daily. It is the inevitable aftermath caused by cultural sicknesses that are now embedded in several groups of assholes that I want to discuss.

First group of assholes: the media


For the love of all that’s holy, the US media is full of brainwashed cultural-marxist, limp-wristed, sissy men and their “you-go-girl,” change-the-world sisters. They lack ability to think critically and they frame every issue within the bucket of rotting tripe the pampered communists in their J-schools filled their spongy young minds with.… Read the full article

Dissing the Da Avatar, Part 2

August 19, 2014

EARLY ADI DA STATEMENTS (BEFORE HE CALLED HIMSELF ADI DA)

“My meditation is absolute. It is what is being reflected to you in these ridiculous conversations. Nor is my existence particular. I am manifested in particular but the confession I make to you is of a condition that is not particular. It is the Avatar in this moment. There could be Avatars all over the yard, you know! I do not know who they are. The Avatar is simply God present, God present and speaking through an ordinary manifestation. (Adi Da in “The Way That I Teach”). 

"There are some people walking around who claim to be the only incarnate God, the repetitive avatar of all the ages, the exclusive true guru, and such things. But they are the least among us" (Adi Da in “The Method of the Siddhas”). 

LATER ADI DA STATEMENTS (20 + YEARS AFTER HIS DIVINE SELF-REALIZATION)

“I Am Adi Da, the Adi-Guru, the Original and Eternal Teacher, here to Complete the Great Tradition of mankind.… Read the full article

Dissing the Da Avatar, Part 1

August 8, 2014
Over the years, I’ve received numerous complaints about my “love affair” with Adi Da (a.k.a. Franklin Jones, Bubba Free John, Da Free John, Da Love-Ananda, et al). People cannot understand how I can unabashedly recommend the spiritual teachings of an “abusive,” “megalomaniacal” guru like Da.

First off, my “love affair” is not with Adi Da; it is with much, but hardly all, of his teachings. Secondly, I think his “abusive behavior” has been grossly exaggerated and that his “megalomania” is partially justified (which I’ll explain in Part 4 of this article).

Although I could not have “cracked the cosmic code” without Da’s teachings, and though I highly recommend most of them, in no way do I think Da is the final word on everything. In fact, if he was still trucking and I could meet with him, here are some of the things I would confront him with:

1) In the original “The Method of the Siddhas” (published in 1973),” Da writes: “the Process I describe as understanding is ultimately the same that Ramana Maharshi was describing. The same state or enjoyment is being communicated or served.… Read the full article

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