A New Myth - 12.12.09

Student Question: You were saying that this is a time when all the myths have to gather together to create a new myth. Can you say a little more about that?

“Well for one thing all the religions are exhausted now,” explains Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. They can no longer provide the energy of spiritual transmission. And what’s worse, scandals permeate all the world religions now to the point of collective distrust. “And there’s a negative charge now on religion instead of a positive aura of reverence. Now people assume it’s hypocritical, or ‘What do they want? How are they gonna exploit me?’ and people have great fear of it, and with good reason.”

“And the cynicism that’s built into the modern ideology of materialism and scientism makes a lot of people think that religion is automatically anti-reason, anti-intellectual, anti-scientific. None of this is true.” But, nonetheless, we have reached a point culturally in which the most brilliant and avant-garde thinkers are moving further and further away from religion. So where is higher spiritual knowledge going to come from? “We have to create new passageways for Spirit to be able to enter the world. And so this can only be done at an individual level at this point until enough individuals come together to create new kinds of spiritual communities that are not dependent on the belief systems, credos, institutionalizations of the lineages that have become exhausted.” Recorded on the afternoon of Saturday, December 12, 2009.