The Doctrine of Love and the Chill of Woke Spirituality
The Way of true spirituality is like a strong cup of black coffee in a world that is drunk on the cheap wine of shallow love.
So what are the proponents of love? Are they a harmless bunch of Romantics demanding freedom of worship for their individual ideas? Or are they really attempting to cancel everyone else’s ideas?
Hello, and welcome to the Ancient wisdom modern mind blog and today I am going to discuss the “Doctrine of Love” and how love and woke culture are mutually reflective of each other and how this influence has over taken spirituality, making spirituality nothing more than a new form of polytheistic religion.
We have all heard this doctrine of love being pushed in spiritual groups, and love seems to have become a blanket statement that the mob now shouts. We are told that divine love and forgiveness are what is needed in order to save us. That we must love everyone as we love ourselves, and we must forgive. First ourselves, then anyone or anything that has hurt, harmed, or damaged us in any way.
And before I start this podcast I what to say that if you are feeling triggered at any point by the content, understand that this is not a personal attack. But I do have an obligation to share subjective truth regardless of how bitter the information may be to some people, and since my only goal is to share practical and effective information, information that will produce results. This also means that ineffective information needs to be called out also.
So now back to the blog and how any of this divine love going to save us, and what does forgiveness have to do with our spiritual evolution, because evolving as spiritual beings is at the root of what the spiritual journey is all about. We seek to grow and evolve beyond our humanity, to become more aware and develop our critical understanding of not only who we are, but also the true nature of reality.
Spirituality is a way of action, it is the application of critical thought over coming cultural limitations through the practical application of philosophical ideas. This is what distinguishes the yogi, mystic, sorcerer or seer from the philosopher. Philosophy stops at critical thought, whereas the spiritual journey applies these critical ideas. That is why the Daoist called it the Way, or Action without intention, this is action without emotion or reward. It is the “Not Doing of Action”.
Yet this new woke spirituality seems to want to only dwell in the human realm, to focus on human concerns.
We have become focused on virtual signaling our spirituality and concepts such as Divine, Wu Wei or the Unknowable are rebranded as love, yet what this clever manipulation and rebranding of the abstract has done is to redefine what was abstract as an subjective idea.
What was undefinable and unknowable has become a common culturally flexible term, and its intent seems to be to pull us back down into the emotional quagmire of tribalism, and the pseudo philosophy of human apprehension.
So the question that has to be asked is; are we seeing the birth of a new religion based on human emotionalism, a religion of emotionality, a doctrine without the higher self?
Does this sound familiar, is this a new form of religion that looks to a woke fluid authority that depends on how it is feeling that day. Are we entering a time of spiritual woke oppression? A new religion of ignorance based on subjective feelings? A New Dark Age of self-deprecating narcissism disguised as love.
Or is this simply Romanticism parading as deep philosophy. Romanticism ideas have existed since the time of Lao-Tzu, but it was not taken seriously until the late 1700’s, with the rise of the sentimental novels in which the Romantics challenged the Enlightenment movement by giving up rationality and critical thought for a more spontaneous and intuitive thinking.
The doctrine of Romanticism is characterized by its emphasis on emotionalism and a fluid moralism, and to quote Immanuel Kant” Romantic philosophy is a pseudo philosophy in which one is entitled “not to work”, and that one only heeds to and enjoys the oracle in oneself in order to take complete possession of that wisdom towards which philosophy aims.” (Immanuel Kant 1724-1804).
And surprisingly even the occultist Aleister crowley in 1904 spoke of the rise of communism and censorship in the Book of the Law. This time period would have also been in the grip of a Romanticism cycle, which reached its peak with World War 2.
If we are again in a Romanticism cycle, does this imply that spiritual thought has again degenerated into a game that people use to climb the social hierarchy, have we devolved into a religion of covert narcissism, a religion of virtue signaling? Of feelings and moral fluidity?
Has the 21st century because of its compassion and liberal respect for diversity given rise to a new vocal ideological discrimination? Or have we simply empowered the doctrine of narcissistic love because social media encourages expression through pictures rather than through critical thinking?
Common sense tells me that the doctrine of love is not trying to sell us a type of spirituality or philosophy in which we can freely explore. But instead, what we are being sold is an ideology in the same way religious dogma sells its ideology.
And while the idealists are easy prey to this doctrine of love, and they willingly buy into this pseudo philosophy. I have to ask, are we also in danger of falling into a hypocrisy that demands worship of an ideology that is attempting to cancel everyone else’s ideas?
If you ask the question, what do you mean by love and once the proponents of love have exhorted their repetitive response of “love is everything”, love is our very essence, and love is the fabric that together with pure consciousness created the universe.
Once they come to the realization that their repetitive propaganda has reached the point of zero returns, once they find that their shallow rhetoric runs its course, and they have nothing left, no rational or philosophical points. This empty ideology finally resorts to attacking with emotional triggers, by asking “who hurt you?” they try to drag you back into their emotional frame by shaming you and shut down the discussion, and they do this because they never intended it to reach that point of critical thought.
The proponents of the love doctrine never intended love, consumed by their own emotions, they no longer know the meaning of love, and to quote ― Saint Thomas Aquinas “To love is to will the good of the other.”
But to such people, love now colloquially means “to affirm the ideas of another.” If you don’t affirm their “truth,” then that is now “unloving.”
The question we need to ask is, what are the proponents of love? Are they a harmless bunch of Romantic hypocrites demanding freedom of worship for their subjective thoughts and ideas? Or are they attempting to cancel everyone else’s ideas?
And will this resurgence of romanticisms political ideology infect the critical thinking of spiritual truth? Or even worst, has it already infected the spiritual with fear.
No matter how much a snake sheds its skin. It's still a snake.
So that’s my thoughts on The Rise of the Love Doctrine, and I hope that this post will stimulate your own critical thoughts, and that this also encourages you to explore and learn about yourself and to continue your journey.
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