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Soulmate, Myself:
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Krishnamurti: Psychological dependence on any stimulation makes the mind dull, insensitive. All stimulation, whether of the church, drink or drug, brings about a dependence. Most dysfunctionally depend on something - a relationship, a book, ideologies, some intellectual escape, music, art, or we depend on solitude, denial, resistance. But UC is fiercely independent and leads us to deny all external psychological supports. The following is an excerpt from Krishnamurti’s July 11, 1967 lecture in Switzerland: If one is dependent on any stimulation, for the energy which one needs, then that very stimulation makes the mind dull, insensitive, not acute. One may take the drug LSD or other forms of drugs and one may temporarily find enough energy to see things very clearly, but one reverts to one's former state and becomes dependent on that drug more and more. All stimulation, whether of the church, of the drink or drug, or the speaker, will inevitably bring about a dependence and that dependence prevents one from having the vital energy to see clearly for oneself. Any form of dependence on any stimulation lessens the quickness and vitality of the mind. We all depend, unfortunately, on something, it may be dependence on a relationship, or on the reading of an intellectual book, or on certain ideas and ideologies we have formulated; or we depend on solitude, isolation, denial, resistance - these obviously distort and dissipate energy. One has to become aware of what it is that one is dependent upon. One has to find out why one depends on anything at all, psychologically - I don't mean technologically, or depending on the milkman - but psychologically, why do we depend, what is involved in dependence? Editor's note: We all depend on a host of service-providers in the course of ordinary civilization - like "the milkman" - but this is not the concern. It is is the psychological dependence, the support for one's inner being, that creates a dysfunction, and is the core issue with all forms of cultism. This automatic pathology as a function of dependence tells us that our spirits were made to be entirely free. Editor's note: All this is extremely important information – inferentially so. How do we know that we are meant to honor and prize personal independence, to deny all forms of psychological servitude? This is actually an easy one. Look around you, look at the world, virtually, almost 100% of the planets denizens, are studiously involved in some form of cultism. And how do we know that UC decries all this? Isn’t it obvious? People go mad in herds, surrender their critical-reasoning faculties to some Dear Leader in exchange for security and safety in a hostile world. Every last belief-system in the world, to one degree or another, bears this psychological marker.
But there’s another way to know that UC asserts itself as fiercely independent. When you learn how to “go within”, you will perceive that “the living thing” -- that is both you and UC -- absolutely demands its autonomy. You can feel it, and that’s the best way of knowing about this. a society built around the individual, not the group Summerland civilization, unlike that of the Earth, is not built around power-structures of the group, the institution, or society, but, instead, focuses on the individual, the growth and development potentialities of each person.
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