Darvish Khan Writes

Avatar Meher Baba has remarked that the spike in world population in the past 120 plus  years has been the result of immigration from outer planets to take birth on Earth so as to benefit from the present Avataric advent. The Avatar and the saints and Masters only take birth on Earth, and spiritual progress is only possible on Earth.

Earth is the planet- and the only planet, where heart and mind are balanced to the extent that spiritual progress is really possible. The influx of souls from the more “mental” planets, that is planets which have a greater percentage of intellect versus feeling, is the cosmological response to the denouement of the Kali Yuga.

The present climax of the Kali Yuga, or the “Machine Age”, invites the influx of brainy technocrats from “mental” planets to facilitate the end of Nature in Mahapralaya, or the dissolution of the universe. But in so doing, the massive influx of souls from these mental planets gain in spiritual advancement. The Earth reaches the point of exhaustion and expiration, but billions of souls are introduced to spiritual possibility in the process.

Now, this is admittedly a fantastic take on the problem of overpopulation. But it is Avatar Meher Baba’s message on the matter. The rise in world population from 1.5 billion to 8 billion in little over a 120 years is by any account extraordinary- if not miraculous!

According to Avatar Meher Baba, all these souls have arrived to partake of the enormous blessing that is the present Avataric age. This is an extraordinary time. Avatar Meher Baba’s Manifestation will occur over the coming 100 to 200 years and will result in an unprecedented world spirituality over the next 700 years, when the Avatar will return.

Meher Baba has intimated that what will then happen is what has never happened before (in this cycle of cycles of time). He has hinted that the universe will go to sleep in a very deep spiritual sleep in the event known as Mahapralaya, only to awaken after a vast expanse of time, on a new Earth, and in the start of a new Golden Age.

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Global warming since the beginning of the industrial age is approaching the redline of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Most of this heat is stored in the oceans where it is affecting global weather patterns. The world is not reducing fossil fuel energy usage as a result, but using more and more energy. So called “Green ” energy, energy based on photovoltaics, even though ever increasing, is nonetheless eclipsed by increasing fossil fuel usage to meet an insatiable need for high density (fossil fuel) energy.

In other words, all the “Green” energy coming online doesn’t even offset the total amount of fossil fuel energy being used.

Now, this fact doesn’t even account for the fact that photovoltaics and battery storage are based on minerals which require fossil fuels to extract, process, manufacture and replace the so called “Green” infrastructure. And that the entire “Green” infrastructure needs to be replaced every 20-25 years- at least.

So, we have an ever accelerating race for not only fossil fuels- but for minerals as well, to somehow theoretically replace fossil fuels- but which will never happen. Not to mention that the mining of minerals is extremely destructive of the environment, and that it represents a competition for scarce resources that makes the competition for fossil fuels look like maybe a better idea. And we know how well that has competition has gone- don’t we?

What is never discussed- at least not practically, is that it is simply not possible to go “Green” on the present assumptions of what represents a sustainable future. The Growth Model of economic development does not allow for sustainability. What does this mean? It means that the economic model that has fueled world development for centuries, i.e. capitalism, which is a model that requires continual growth, does not work as a sustainable model.

So, what to do? The answer, of course, is nothing. Nothing will be done to replace capitalism as the reigning model of world economic development. Nothing at all. And that is precisely why no one, even ardent environmentalists, is seriously talking about the problem in practical terms.

Evidently, the industrial economic model of the past two centuries must go completely bust before we come up with a better- and sustainable, idea.

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Karma denotes the fate that we we are destined to experience on the basis of past lives. Dharma denotes the appropriate attitude we should bring to the discharge of that karma.

The only “free will” we have lies in the attitude we bring  to the karma that binds us. There is no escaping karma. But we do have the “free will” to regard karma in an appropriate manner; we have the capacity to witness karma.

The only occasion for the proper exercise of dharma lies in the NOW. The past is a frozen lake, and the future completely depends  on the attitude we bring to the NOW. The NOW is simultaneously the expression of the past and the determinant of the future.

Why is this so?

The past completely determines the future on the basis of the NOW. The NOW is the fulcrum on which fate is scripted. Each present moment is the expression of the past and the determinant of the future. Only the NOW is real because only the Now scripts fate.

In other words, the only real and determinant reality is the regard we have for the NOW.

This is why dharma is so important. Dharma is the the proper regard for what represents the truth of karma. How we witness our karma is also at the same moment how we create our karma. Dharma is what creates righteous karma. Dharma is righteous karma. Dharma is witnessing the truth of one’s karma, and thereby insuring a good rebirth.

From the spiritual point of view, the only thing that matters is remembrance of God/ the Beloved/ the Friend in the NOW. The remembrance of God is what creates the presence of God. The name of God is God, and is the presence of God.

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People get needlessly confused by politics. With the right set of references, it’s not that difficult to get it right.

1) Politics is about power: how to get it and how to keep it.

2) Politics runs on money, because money is power.

3) Corporations and those enriched by corporations, are always the most powerful players.

4) Corporate money rules politics- especially since Citizen United, the supreme court decision that ruled corporations are individuals and can act like individuals in funding political activity.

5) Corporate money buys all politicians on the national level. It is not possible to be a national politician and not be a shill for corporate interests.

6) The greatest political rationalization on the national level is defense, defense against all enemies of the state, real and imagined. Politics thus largely centers on the imperative for supporting national defense. No politician can afford to be perceived as weak on national defense.

7) Thus the Spy and War Machine is the best funded and the most powerful actor in politics, in creating the national budget and in determining foreign policy. The Spy and War Machine exists to perpetuate itself for the enrichment of corporations and the politicians whose continued existence as politicians depends on corporate money.

8) This describes the emergence of the corporate state, which becomes more and more a paranoid militarized corporate state. Over time, it becomes a militarized fascist corporate state.

9) The militarized fascist corporate state must justify itself on the basis of patriotism, on the defense of the national good- which requires ever greater and greater expenditures on the militarized fascist corporate state- the Spy and War Machine, which is wholly devoted to the enrichment of corporate empire.

10) The militarized fascist corporate state is fully bipartisan; both parties- the “duopoly”, exist only to perpetuate the militarized fascist corporate state. But they maintain a semblance of opposition on relatively trivial matters- the culture wars, in order to justify the farce of democratic process.

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In Wendy Doniger’s massive book, The Hindus: An Alternative history, in chapter 17- Avatar And Accidental Grace In The Latter Puranas, there is the following:

“And at the end of the Kali Age, the minds of the people will become pure as flawless crystal, and they will be as if awakened at the conclusion of night. And those men, the residue of humankind, will be the seeds of creatures and will give birth to offspring conceived at that very time. And these offspring will follow the ways of the Winning (Krita/ Golden) Age.” pg 487.

“The transition between the end of the Kali Age and the beginning of the Winning Age is usually a cosmological upheaval, fire and blood.” pg 487.

This is interesting for how closely it follows the narrative provided by Bhau Kalchuri in Avatar Of The Age Manifesting. And that is that at the end of the Kali Yuga, after a period of great destruction- 3/4s of the world in fact, the world will attain a height of spiritual development that allows it to go to sleep in a fantastic mood so as to wake up after mahapralaya, in a new cycle of time beginning with the Golden age. The world must be “put to bed” in a good mood, so as to wake up in a good mood, to begin a new cycle of time.

The new Golden Age, following mahapralaya, will be represented by a purified humanity that wakes up in a very, very good mood.

But here is the bad news: the denouement of the Kali Yuga- the Iron Age, the Age of the Machine, is all about the machine. The machine goes crazy, completely crazy!

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AI is a parody of the faculty of reason- at hyper speed. It is a tool, based on the computing power of the microchip- which makes it a machine. But its power to copy the processes of the mind- including skillful cut and paste, i.e. editing, is entirely parody.

Now, the most miraculous thing about AI is the speed at which it can operate. This is what allows it to seemingly improve upon the human faculty of reason. As if the faculty of reason could instantly know and comment intelligently upon anything. AI is practically omniscient.

Meher Baba has commented on the nature of mind as divine when still, sane when slow and mad when fast. The average mind, he says, is absolutely mad with constant and uncontrollable train-of-thought. The spiritually advanced have slowed the operations of mind down dramatically- to the point where they cease to be automatons compelled by desire; the Perfect Master and Avatar, whose mind is completely still- that is, not activated by desire, are God.

AI, which mimics reason, but at hyper speed, is simply an artifact of human reason- and completely insane by nature. It is a tour de force of computing power, based on algorithms, mimicking the operations of reason- doing better than what reason itself is capable of, but is completely severed from consciousness. It does not have a soul.

AI is an insane machine.

AI heralds the denouement of the Kali Yuga, the age of the machine. The Kali Yuga ends in destruction as the collective mind goes completely insane. The Kali Yuga ends with the triumph of the machine mind.

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AI is rightly getting a lot of attention, but rarely from a cogent perspective.

That technological man can make make a machine smarter or more capable than himself seems to be at the heart of the debate. This possibility worries people. People do not want to be displaced by machines. Or do they?  People are often unaware that the entire history of technology is a progressive displacement of human activity by the machine- which is an extension of the tool. This should come as no surprise. It is completely obvious.

But somehow many now feel challenged by the alarming possibility that machines can think- or kinda-think, think well enough anyway, to fool some and maybe everyone. Now, were this the case, this would turn the long cherished concept of “Progress” on its head.

Progress as an idea coming out of the enlightenment and industrialization was rarely considered an ironic development. Europe and America quickly embraced industrialization as a god-send.  One notable and celebrated exception to this view was William Blake, as expressed in his poem

And did those feet in ancient time,
Walk upon Englands^[b] mountains green:
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On Englands pleasant pastures seen!

And did the Countenance Divine,
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these^[c] dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold:
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land.

Blake contrasted Reason and Imagination, the one faculty leading to bondage among satanic mills, the other to freedom. The faculty of imagination is opposed to reason because it accesses heavenly realms more proximate to God- which then transfigures this world into Jerusalem.

Progress is about the perfectability of human reason. This is the quest of AI, and as applied to an utopian vision of this world. Blake’s Imagination is the visioning of heavenly worlds- and their incarnation, artistically, aesthetically and practically, in place of the world created by Reason. The sheer genius of Blake’s work testifies to the building of Jerusalem in the here and now.

AI mimics the activity of Reason- but not Imagination. AI is like a gifted monkey imitating man, seeking to improve upon him with expert gesticulation. Imagination is not a mime or a copyist; Imagination reveals what has never been known before.

The advent of AI is very significant as it heralds the utter duplicity of Reason, and the futility of Progress. And this is because Reason is based on binary logic, just like the computer chip. Imagination is based on a unitary perception of experience far beyond the binary world of logic.

What the world of AI cannot approach is the world of symbolic thinking and perception. The world of AI is strictly limited to the world of data- the world of binary facts. It can ape Reason well enough, but nothing more. What it can do brilliantly is impressively flatter the mind obsessed with data.

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The two decades since 9/11 have witnessed the radicalization of American politics to a remarkable degree. The two political parties have slid to the far right in a mutual embrace of militarized corporatism promoting forever wars. At the same time income and wealth inequality has exploded to historic levels, the manufacturing sector outsourced, the agricultural sector industrialized, the immigrant blamed for the disappearance of jobs, unions and worker rights degraded to almost nothing, the Muslim world widely regarded as promoting terrorism, much of the Muslim world destroyed by US corporate greed embodied in foreign policy, and the election of a fascist demagogue as a result of all the above- but for which Russia is blamed, and with whom we are now in a proxy war; and because China has been the primary economic beneficiary of failed American neoliberal policy and is beating the US at its own historic game of state capitalism, China now must also die.

Wow! Say what?

This is called late stage American predatory capitalism which, as Marx foretold, would result in cannibalism: America eating itself to death, but blaming everyone else for its savage appetite. This is extraordinary unprecedented political malignant narcissism.

And most importantly, even though all this is completely obvious, our political, military and corporate elites refuse to admit a word of it. Because they are responsible for it.

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