Darvish Khan Writes

When Avatar Meher Baba first visited the US he remarked that America had great spiritual potential because of its great energy, but that its energy was misapplied. He stated that for America to “lead the world spiritually” it would have to redirect its enormous energy to spiritual purposes. And in which case the world would be transformed.

My blogging on the evils of American empire is to emphasize the importance of refusing to accommodate the Death Machine that is US foreign policy and which is the world’s greatest obstacle to Avatar Meher Baba’s Manifestation.

The US government with its past 23 years of continuous Terror Wars against the middle east is in an unprecedented campaign of hate and carnage that has arrived at the Final Solution of the Palestinian.  The Terror Wars have concluded with an undisguised genocide live streamed 24/7 that has now gone on for 1 year, and which now involves Lebanon and promises to finally include Iran.

Meanwhile, the US has contrived and provoked a proxy war against Russia that could easily result in nuclear war, and the US threatens to involve China in a war over Taiwan, as well. We are in an extraordinary perilous moment orchestrated by the logic of relentless and psychotic empire.

This bipartisan insanity is the Deep State or the Duopoly in action. There is no political solution to this insanity as the Deep State, as remarked, is a bipartisan actor. Only an outside agency can deflect and change the course toward global destruction.

The horse is saddled and the rider is on his way.

It has now become a civic and spiritual  obligation to resist and counter the Deep State in all manner possible. Not only the fate of America is at stake, but the fate of the world. The “end of every affair was in its beginning” applies to the settler colonial tragedy of the US: what began as genocide and slavery organized by the corporation (Jamestown) and rationalized as Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine, has now become American Exceptionalism and Full Spectrum Dominance.

The US aspires to be a galactic empire in fact as advocated by the technologist, Elon Musk, with the backing of the Deep State. The conquest of Mars is the exaltation of Ares, the god of war and empire. This is the energy of Death that we all must resist and defeat so that Spirit and Love can reign.

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The problem with Avatar Meher Baba’s books and statements is that one can easily read them in isolation from other books and statements that often provide essential context to form a just appreciation of them. This can lead to very serious errors.

The fact that the Avatar is Perfect does not guarantee that his books and statements don’t require contextualization. In other words, spiritual perfection often does not warrant a literal reading or assessment of content taken at face value. For example, God Speaks is widely regarded as Baba’s most important work, a work so important that most of the text was meticulously dictated. It could easily be regarded as a perfect book for that reason. But in fact, we know that Baba expressed unhappiness with the published work in notes made by Francis Brabazon, who was tasked by Baba to make some additions and changes. (This never happened.) This tells us that no matter how valuable and insightful the material of God Speaks is, it is not a perfect work.

And in fact Baba tells us that in the text itself, in Part 10, Conclusion:

“God cannot be explained. He cannot be argued about, He cannot be theorized, nor can he be discussed and understood. God can only be lived.”

Another example: Baba’s Discourses are widely regarded as his authoritative statements on a wide variety of subjects. There are chapters on meditation which go into exacting detail on the subject. But Baba in his own life disavowed the importance of meditation as unnecessary relative to remembrance of his Name, and especially so for the time period covering his life, and for some time after after his dropping the body.

Another example: Baba went to extraordinary efforts to collaborate with Ivy Duce on a charter that would empower the sufi order of which she was the presiding Murshida, to carry Baba’s imprimatur. This charter was guaranteed by her promise of 100% honesty in obeying Baba, as she herself was not qualified to act as a Murshida. (She didn’t have the requisite spiritual status.) So, the charter which Baba approved was conditioned on a covenant of honesty to Baba’s wishes and expectations. The short story is, the sufi order started wandering in the wilderness. To adduce the charter as proof of the sufi order’s legitimacy is ridiculous.

Another example: Baba was recently quoted in the online edition of Lord Meher as having expressed surprise and respect for Israel, a small country, having defeated  a coalition of larger Arab countries, in the 1967 6 Day War. But this quotation has been adduced as evidence of Baba supporting the present US/ Israel genocide of occupied Palestine. This is obviously a complete distortion of Baba’s words made decades earlier which in no way were an endorsement of genocide.  And in fact Baba has made very clear statements about what justifies war, and the gratuitous persecution and annihilation of Arab Muslims is definitely not on the list.

There is no substitute for common sense and context in the appreciation of the writings and words of the Avatar. Literalism and especially deliberate distortion of his words because of the refusal to apply context is what will guarantee that Baba’s advent will be dishonored.

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“Ethics in time of war can only be judged by the degree to which they reflect the divine plan. In war there are two kinds of forces operative: (1) those which make for love, justice, harmony, and the well being of all mankind, and (2) those which work in alliance with narrow racial and national loyalties towards the selfish exploitation of others…

He who would wage war must search his heart and make sure that the ends for which he is fighting are a reflection of the divine plan. His actions will be justified only if they help to lead humanity to spiritual brotherhood cemented by an inviolable sense of the unity of all human beings, regardless of class, color, nationality, race, religion or creed.”

Meher Baba, from Listen, Humanity pg. 131

https://avatarmeherbabatrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ListenHumanity.pdf

The above statement by Avatar Meher Baba is a concise statement on the ethics of war and an excellent basis on which to evaluate the justifiable basis for war. It is a common sense rule of thumb from a spiritual and humanistic perspective that posits the essential unity of life despite outward differences, and that to wage war apart from or in contradiction to this basis is unacceptable.

In short, war based on “selfish exploitation of others” is unacceptable. War will only be justified, in fact, if it promotes “spiritual brotherhood…regardless of class, color, nationality, race, religion or creed.”

By this standard, the US/ Israel genocide against occupied Palestine is flagrantly unacceptable. Israel is acting altogether as a rogue state in denying the rights and very existence of millions of Palestinians- whose land Israel has stolen. This could not be a more emphatic illustration of the promotion of “narrow racial and national loyalty”.

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Rahu, or the north node of the Moon, is considered a shadow planet in Indian/ Vedic astrology. It is not a physical planet, but an astronomical point. It, along with Ketu, the south node of the Moon, represent an axis that describes the intersection of the Moon’s orbit around the Earth with the ecliptic, the apparent path of the Sun.

Rahu and Ketu thus signify eclipses when the Sun and Moon are conjunct either one of the two points, i.e. a solar eclipse, or both points, i.e. a lunar eclipse.

Rahu is the “head” of the Dragon that “swallows” the Sun or Moon, and Ketu is the “tail” from which the respective luminary then reappears.

Rahu represents desire and ambition in a natal chart. It is a malefic influence that denotes “losing one’s mind”. It rules all things astral and virtual. It rules insanity, possession, entities, mind altering substances, poisons, snakes, ghosts, viruses, computers, digital reality, intense desire and shadowy experiences. It also rules imagination, out of the box thinking, inventions, new and bold ideas and technology, change, transformation and fame and riches. Rahu rules space travel, astral travel, magicians, tantriks, shamans, and certain occult based meditation traditions.  But it always brings dissatisfaction. Rahu’s appetite is never satisfied. Rahu never has enough.

Rahu represent’s biting, gnawing and clawing at the apple of experience; Ketu, on the other hand, represents digesting and rejecting the apple of experience. Ketu is a spiritual and ascetic symbol whereas Rahu is a psychic and indulgent symbol.

Rahu and Ketu have much in common, but Rahu plunges one into experience, and Ketu forces rejection of experience.

Now, what does Rahu have to do with AI?

Rahu rules all things shadowy and virtual. It rules all things astral. It rules computer science and virtual reality. It rules imaginative states, visualization and it rules the dream state. It rules the future. It rules “what’s next”- but on the basis of the projection of desire.

It rules the “inflation of desire”.

Rahu to be sure is a powerful influence in all things relating to computers, digital and virtual reality. It rules all things having to do with the technology of representation on a more subtle level. Rahu is all about the manipulation and transformation of form (think eclipse, pulling a rabbit out of a hat).

AI is simply manipulating data at super fast speeds according to algorithms. It manipulates data to the point that the computer program can seemingly think. AI parodies the faculty of reason- not the intellect, which has to do with discrimination. Much of the confusion about AI has to do with the confusion of the parody of the faculty of reason with the spiritual faculty of discrimination. AI is a parody of reason; it has nothing at all to do with discrimination. In other words, AI relates to Rahu and not to Ketu.

AI is a machine; it is clearly useful as a machine. But it has no greater utility than that of a machine parodying reason. The relation of AI with virtual reality is completely under the purview of Rahu, as Rahu rules imaginative and fantasy states.

In astrological symbolism, Rahu rules imaginative states as an astral influence (good and bad); it does not rule the mind- Moon, or intellect- Mercury. But in the US natal chart, Rahu has a very strong influence over the ascendant, the Moon and Mercury. The ruler of the ascendant, Jupiter, and the Moon are in lunar constellations ruled by Rahu, and Rahu is conjunct Mercury. This explains much about the US as a world leader in entertainment and computer technology. It also explains much about US delusional thinking as a superpower.

From the cosmological point of view, the prominence of Rahu in describing US karma suggests relentless desire and ambition coloring its identity and thinking. AI will doubtless become an important tool of government surveillance and military application. US and Israel are in fact using AI in the genocide of Gaza. The US will embrace AI as a competitive technology to the clear advantage of the militarized corporate state.

A worthwhile point to make is that the power and influence of Rahu exhausts itself  eventually. It doesn’t last forever. Eventually desire exhausts itself in a state of collapse.

AI is a parody of reason because of super fast calculations. A super fast mind is madness as it veers out of control. AI crunches data/ desire at super fast speed to attain power. This is the power of Rahu, the power of the eclipse, the power to lose one’s mind.

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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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