It was the great spiritual philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti who said “it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”.
Krishnamurti, in my feeling, was one of several monumental and revolutionary spiritual voices of the last century. Groomed from a young age to take the reigns and become the great master teacher of an entire lineage, he demonstrated an incredible ability to embrace the outsider within as he stepped down from his position, which was one of immense influence.
In this single revolutionary act, he became all the more radical and spiritually powerful.
His entire body of work came to be about liberating the self from all structures and systems which serve to subjugate the breadth and the beauty of the human spirit.
In embracing the ultimate outsider archetype, like many great masters before him, he was fully liberated, demonstrating through his life the incredible creative power which can be activated when one releases oneself from the tyranny of the known.
Through his books, lectures and teachings he bestowed upon us a wealth of wisdom. His small and radical book Freedom From the Known revolutionized my mind as a young adult, and could be a hymn for our current moment in human history (though I’m sure he might object). It is a liberating work which challenges the most fundamental levels of our indoctrination, and the sheer and profane domestication of the human soul and spirit.
This powerful tiny book inspires the mystic seeker to move to liberate oneself through probing ones deeper patterning, so that one might begin to break the chains that hold each of us captive to a “profoundly sick society”.
This book is a call home to the sacred sovereign flame of the human heart, and a call to reorganize the self in alignment with mystery wisdom principles and cosmic intelligence.
When Krishnamurti spoke of a “sick society”, we should make no mistake, he was speaking directly of the foundations of our current world and its operating paradigms, which have been in place for hundreds and thousands of years.
He was speaking of a system that would attempt to chain the human heart, mind and spirit in a prison of its own making, while we unknowingly walk deeper into our own enslavement.
How is it that we move to truly liberate ourselves from the structures that bind us, now that we are literally under immense pressure from the great globalist empire itself to submit to an ever growing list of rules and regulations born from their dark dungeons? These rules keep us continually bound to a world view that is myopic, where what is projected are but shadows on a cave wall in a much greater reality that is just beyond view.
The question has never been more relevant as we move into this monumental time.
I believe at this moment in human history ones ability to liberate the self rests largely upon ones ability to fully embody and completely embrace this outsider archetype.
One must possess the courage and the heart to walk another path, a path that is unsanctioned, ridiculed and villainized by this society.
This is the path which Krishnamurti walked so effortlessly, and so beautifully. This is the path into the wilderness of the unknown that he spoke of with such emphatic eloquence.
For it is imperative that we understand that one does not rise in power and influence within this society unless one moves to subjugate the power of the human spirit to the dictums of the Empire. Increasingly, If one does not play along with these dictums, then one is threatened with the loss of all status and all influence.
Let it go.
It is but a shadow.
We must come to truly digest and recognize this dark truth, and begin to source our creative power from the higher realms.
For this inverted Empire is entirely lost and crumbling, and knows nothing of true spiritual experience.
Through the deep and lasting embrace of the outsider within, and the outside without, we take the path into the wilderness. This is the path forged by Krishnamurti, and so many before him. This is the path back into remembrance, and into the sacred union of light and shadow.
For all that is sacred in this world has been cast out, has been pushed into exile. In order to retrieve our sacred birthright, in order to liberate our own selves, we must walk out into the wilderness, into the great unknown, and in this passage, we become the outsiders of this world, we become the exiled.
There can be no other way.
But in the great unknown space of the wildlands, in the mountains and in the meadows and in the expanse of the sky - I will meet you there.
I will meet you there, and there will be many, many others there as well.
And in this way, through this deep embrace, we return home.
I embrace this exile, and I embrace this return.
It is a great return.
And it is the only one worth fighting for.
