Quote Farming

I have been reading again, about brainwashing and cults. Nothing too heavy, not the mechanics of de-programming or so much the methods of programming, but the psychology of the human capable of using the skills.


Sometimes it seems to me that the "guru-type" may have at one time been sincere but after years or maybe even as soon as he received adoration, something changes.

Sometimes i see their are some out there who haven't one holy bone in their body, and they purposely set out to implement their cult. They desire to control and abuse humans.


Sometimes wish..........but not oftian do i see An honest teacher of mystical things. And it is my luck that when i find them, they have already died.

Allen Watts would be an example.

Then i see people with some good teachings, but am scared off when i hear about conventions and retreats, Follower/fame, and ashrams. And just stick with their teachings and watch the news for their names.

My skin crawls when i hear about Jim Bakker's building a "christian community" knowing that he has not just alittle resentment for his past.

It cant be that all "wise men" are dishonest.........why must it be that wealthy wise men tend to be? But i cant blame them alone. They are nasty and without moral or compassion...................

BUT it is the likes of us that placate them. We let them have the arena. We ask them to show us the way.

ALL thru my spiritual trials i kept looking for the "true teacher" and i have been nearly trapped by some very cunning people. (woo hoo visions and contracts and everything oh my) But i kept pulling myself out of the trap by realising that nothing stops god from coming to me. He isnt going to come for me in the form of a human. He already did that with Jesus. I think of a verse, let no man decieve you saying lo there he is or look there he is in the inner court.

And like Peter McWilliams said, "IF they did it so can you. If one person survived something you can be second."

And it's just too bad that i will never get to tell him the lessons he had taught me. He was one of my guru's. And in honer of his memory i want to post some quotes.


I find it shameful that we dont even have a lost nostalgic view anymore about the kind old wise man. Or the Mister Myagi-type. We dont really have a cultural yoda anymore. The theme of "true teacher" is gone. The ideal that someone can teach us the way and not want to make themselves rich in the process is dysfunctional.

There is so much spiritual/nonspiritual crap out there...........and after a while such a battle worn seeker figures it all sounds the same. And have their minds so terribly messed up that the only way out is ALL OUT! Because the bullshit is hard to separate from the grain the higher and deeper you step into it.

But please protect yourselves from the common and ancient traps. If prostitution is the oldest profession, and motherhood is oldest still, then as old as that would be the inevitable profession of Guruology. A sort of spiritual combination of both.

BUT lucky for us there are Quotes!

" The most costly of all follies is to believe in the palpably not true. It is the
chief occupation of mankind." - H.L.Mencken

" Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion." - Modonna

"I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the hustles. Just like having an ear for music or something. It would just never occur to such a person for a second that the World isn't about something." - Woody Allen

"It is good to be noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler- and less trouble." - Mark Twain

" It is easy- terribly easy- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work." - George Barnard Shaw.

" Mephistopheles: In this mood you can dare to go my ways. Commit yourself; you shall in these next days behold my arts and with great pleasure too. What no man yet has seen, I'll give to you." - Goethe (Faust)

" Faust: I shall get well, you promise me... Mephistopheles: By all means you can acquire a youthful look, But it is in another book.... Done!
Faust: Another hand clasp! There! Mephistopheles: ... write away as unabated as if the Holy Ghost dictated! " - Goethe (Faust)

" All propaganda.... has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those whom it intents to direct itself." - Adolf Hitler

" The great enemy of the truth is very oftian not the Lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest. But the Myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic." - John F. Kennedy

" The devil is easy to identify. He appears when you are terribly tired and makes a reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant." - Fiorello La Guardia

" There is a sort of transcendental ventriloquy thru which men can be made to believe that something which was said on earth came from heaven." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 1764-1799

" A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect form himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could." - William Hazlitt 1823

"A casual stroll thru a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." Niezsche

" Vanity is the quicksand of reason." - George Sand

Stage direction " Mephistopheles steps forth form behind the stove while the vapour is vanishing. He is dresses as a traveling scholar. " Goethe

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own influence. He inspires self trust. He guides their eyes form himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. " - Amos Bronson Alcott 1840