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Title: Colors of the Spirit
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Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross
Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross
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Rosanna Vigil
reviewed Colors of the Spirit on January 06, 2019The Free Love Movement is Still Alive and Kicking
She put her pen to the piece of paper that was lying on the table in front of her, and she waited. And waited. The pen began to move, to even write, and what it wrote frightened her: “You are going to go to hell for this.†She never practiced automatic writing again, but I really wouldn’t know, because I don’t remember who she was or what had happened to her. It was too long ago.
We all met at Rose’s house back in 1964. We mostly played with the Ouija board, and we even gave that up because it worked, and because it worked, it frightened us. I had said, “One of you must be moving this pointer. Let me do it on my own.†I picked up the plastic thermos bottle cup that we had been using for a pointer; the original had been lost long ago. There was no magnet in it or under the table. Nothing. The women put their hands aside, and I put my fingers over the cup, not touching it. I also kept my eyes opened. I asked a question, and the cup began to move. I kept my fingers over it, but then all the sudden it rushed out from under my hands and stopped at a letter and then turned so that the handle would point to a letter on the board. It had, in the time I was doing this, said, “Feed cat.†I decided to go home, and standing at the door was my then husband and our cat. We never played with the Ouija board again.
1980. I met some women who were into learning how to give psychic readings. They went to Heartsong in Berkeley, a school which taught you how to go into a trance and give psychic readings. I went with them. It was then that I began reading New Age books, many of them. They were only called New Age, the information was old.
1990s. I joined a yogic tradition, stayed a few years and left it for yet another, then I left that one after a few years and went to Buddhism, first Zen, then Tibetan Buddhism. Zen was peaceful, and it taught to do no harm.
The Book
Walsch sat at his desk with pen in hand, resting the pen on a piece of paper. He asked questions. He waited. And waited. The pen finally moved. It began to write, and it never stopped except for brief periods. Books poured out of Walsch, and he became rich and has many followers.
The information produced came from Walsch’s head and from his heart, just as it had for the woman who I spoke of in my first paragraph. It did not come from God.
His information also came from all the metaphysical books that he had read and from Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism, but very LOOSELY. I recognized them all. He took what he wanted from those books, just as those who had written books on metaphysics had. But there was always a twist to them, a few biblical scriptures thrown in; a few from Hinduism and Buddhism, but due to the twists the teachings were never the same. The prophets had got it wrong, the gurus had it all wrong as well, but Walsch now has it right. That is so wonderful to know. Finally, all of our questions have been answered.
I learned a few things in just the four chapters that I had read: We are all God, just as the prophets had written. But his explanation had changed somewhat. God wished to become man, to know what it felt like to live in the flesh. So he created himself in the flesh of all. And now God learned what it was like to suffer, to feel joy, to even have sex and reproduce. It wasn’t man who suffered; it was God. God got his desires fulfilled by doing this. If man wanted out bad enough he could pray to God, and God would take away all of his suffering. Just like that. But why does man have to pray if he is God? Isn’t God tired of this suffering? I guess all my questions have not really been answered. Now we are back to the Bible or the Christians who believe that God answers all prayers if you are really sincere or are really God’s child.
Then Walsch’s pen claimed that good and evil didn’t exist, even Hitler goes to heaven.
Note: The Hindus always had always liked Hitler, but I am not sure why and don’t wish to look it up. Paramahansa Yogananda also liked Hitler and thought that he was a good person and that mankind was stupid and needed a dictator like Hitler.
Then there is another thing: Hitler is important in the New Age Movement. The idea is that only an enlightened person could love Hitler, could forgive him, so they all speak of this love for him that they have, and Walsch put his foot in the door and joined them.
What happens when man believes that there is no good or evil? Well, you can use your imagination. I can think of one thing: The Hindus and the Buddhists don’t literally help people unless it is to teach them meditation. Now, I realize that this is a generalization, but I have seen it all too often when I was in Hinduism and then in Buddhism, except to say that at least Thich Naht Hanh believed in helping those who suffered and sent money back to Vietnam in order to help the poor.
So, now I was beginning to see where Walsch was going with all this. He was teaching a loving God, one who doesn’t punish. I will give him credit for that much. But I question as to whether his God loves. No loving God would desire to feel pain and suffering. No loving God would say that there is no right or wrong, because by believing this people end up hurting each other.
And then Walsch put his pen to paper again and learned more about this God: He tells us that we misunderstood Yogananda, not in those words, but he claimed that Yogananda was a very high being, that he was enlightened, yet in another paragraph he said that any guru who tells disciples that they have to be celibate is not a true guru. But since Yogananda is a true guru in his eyes, his disciples got his message wrong. They didn’t understand what the guru was saying, that he didn’t really mean that disciples should be celibate. Yet, Yogananda put this teaching into his organization when he was alive. But I guess his disciples didn’t understand it. They didn’t get it that you could have sex with all and everyone you desired. Kind of like how many believe that Yogananda had done, only like all lamas and gurus these women and/or children were sworn to secrecy.
So, I came to realize, when reading this book, that Walsch likes sex, lots of sex, and he wrote how we should never feel guilty about sex but should have sex with anyone and everyone we liked. And so he had sex with another woman other than his wife and got caught. But, hey, that is okay because there is no right and wrong. His wife wanted the experience of being hurt.
Walsch is a hippy at heart, but even hippies learned that having multiple partners wasn’t so great after all. As one hippy told me, “I got burned out by all the sex.â€
And from here Walsch began talking about meditation, but then he said that the highest meditation was when it is combined with sex. So, now he is taking lessons from Tibetan Buddhism, a religion that Buddha did not teach. This teaching came from Tantric Hinduism and was introduced into Tibet in the 8th century. And the teaching is that you have ritualized sex during meditation, and that this is the only way to become enlightened. Even the Dalai Lama said that he couldn’t become enlightened because, and he literally grabbed his crotch as if to say, it doesn't work anymore. No sex with meditation, no enlightenment.
And when I learned this about Tibetan Buddhism, I threw out my teacher’s lessons, told him off and left. And when I learned all of this in this book, I deleted it from my kindle. I once even burned all of Yogananda’s lessons in a garbage can. The only books that I had enough respect for to give away were my Zen Buddhist books.
Why did I bother reading this much of this book? I saw that it was being read here and was curious why people liked it. But it didn’t take me long to see where it was going, and it was going off my kindle.
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