Grab that coaching book and a copy of The Secret, sit cross-legged for a moment and give a little ‘ommm’. Pack your bags and saddle up your unicorn; we are going back to Jericho. It’s a whole new trip, and you are all invited.
Sitting in front of a bookshelf while you talk about “my journey” is so yesterday and old-fashioned. Facebook status updates about your happy clients will no longer pass muster. There’s a new trick in town. It’s an old trick made new. Rediscovered maybe, but never lost.
The medicine show died a slow death along with its gullible patients, but the gurus will always live on. At first, the new young things adopted their gurus and their gods. They paid them money, hung out with them, and had their photos taken for all to see. Who you trained with, when you trained with them, and your relationship with the God-like trainer were all so important, but alas, that is no more.
The passage of time has rendered the old Gods so passé. Their message has been assimilated into the culture, so now is the time to express contempt for the new kids who are finding their message for the first time and who cite it as new. We reject the old; we are forever on with the new. There are new gods in town, and they no longer sit in front of bookshelves and talk about their journey.
These days these new gurus and gods in town talk about other people’s journeys, offering guidance and wisdom as they struggle to maintain their beatific state in front of the camera. They do offer up their experience, express their vulnerability, and try to be open. Vulnerability is the new secret code. Expressing past mistakes and regrets is the new way of maintaining focus on the self while imagining and pretending to be guiding others.
Mysticism is the new model, bringing light into darkness and bringing darkness into the light of reason. The universe speaks to us, and we need to hear its message. This is not just for us; it is for all of humanity. We are the messengers, the intermediaries, the Messiah to whom the universe communicates the truth. And it is Truth that we now speak.
The debts that are forever mounting up, the failed relationships, the bankruptcy, and the poor health. These are not signs of failure; instead, they are demonstrations to ourselves of the sacrifice we are willing to make to dedicate ourselves to the truth. We endure suffering to alleviate the pain of others; we remove sin from humanity. We didn’t ask for it to be easy, but you must know how we suffer so, but we won’t mention the current debt or letter from the taxman. Our worldly concerns and chronic unemployment are not your concern. But we will teach you how to be wealthy, fulfilled and sane. Your devotion, loyalty, and money are all we ask.
Come and be in my company; we can sit silently and meditate. I can teach you magick and connect you to the orgasmic moment of creation. I will talk of Hermeticism, tantra, yantra, yoga, Yarker and Crowley. We can share ourselves, contribute a little of us to each other, and imagine we have changed the world by changing a little piece of ourselves. There is no suffering; there is only beauty. You just need to look and see; we will help you remove the blinkers that blind you.
