Indian sage, Ramakrishna, frozen like a statue in a state of Samadhi bliss, who just a moment ago was dancing and singing Bhajans with his disciples. The nimbus around his head is authentic.

Friends,
“Deepak” from India took me to task in Mumbai 9-11: Part Five (see 26.11, India’s 9-11). In the series I tried to explain how Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist commando attack on the financial district of Mumbai India on 26 November 2008 was intended to pull India into another — and potentially nuclear — conflict as per al-Qaeda’s strategic aims, which are to unite the Islamic world to fight infidels thus fulfilling Islamic apocalyptic prophecies. Mahatma Gandhi, before his assassination had predicted that partition of Pakistan from India would create four large-scale wars. Three of those wars have since been fought. If there is a fourth, it could be nuclear effectively killing more Pakistanis and Indians in South Asian than all who died in the First and Second World Wars combined.

In the Mumbai 9/11 series, I reprised segments of an earlier set of articles describing the border standoff in late 2001 early 2002 between India and Pakistan just after al-Qaeda had launched its terror attack on New York City and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Kashmiri rebels trained by al-Qaeda elements had tried storming the Indian Parliament in December 2001. After which, Pakistani and Indian forces gathered along their shared frontier. Nuclear arsenals of both belligerents were on a hair trigger. More frightening to me than this were the mass rallies in Indian and Pakistani urban centers. Millions on either side urged their governments to drop the atomic bomb on the enemy. Many blithely believed that nuclear blast effects and plagues of radioactivity were nothing new to what Indians and Pakistanis suffer from earthquakes or monsoonal floods. They could take it — please drop the bomb with our blessings. Our India, our Pakistan will live forever, according to our prophets.

This incredible naivety lurks underneath the masses. Perhaps it embeds deep in the mind of “Deepak” who wrote the letter below.

All religious fundamentalists of every cloth, be it orange of Hindu, black of Islamic, or the somber cloth of Protestant collared reverends or the rich raiments Catholic priests, presume divine beliefs prevail untested. I wrote about it in greater detail here: See Messiah. The righteously faithful serenely believe they will survive any apocalypse they might have to unleash on others. Here is one of them:

DEEPAK
I read your article and well don’t agree with your Analysis. India survived 1,400 years of Islamic and British rule. Swami Vivekananda and Swami Ramakrishna were the reincarnation of Lord Ram and Lord Krishna. They did not predict the destruction of India ever. They have only spoken of India’s rise. Many other saints have predicted the same. Indian horoscope also shows the same.

HOGUE
There is a famous story of Ramakrishna giving his disciple Vivekananda siddhi (psychic) powers and was admonished to use them wisely. Instead, he used them to plant a thought in a simple disciple’s mind that he should throw into the river the rocks he used to represent the gods for worship. Ramakrishna found out and promptly took the powers away. Vivekananda pleaded for them to be restored but Ramakrishna compassionately forbid their use as long as Vivekananda lived because his ego was too strong to resist misusing them and he needed to learn humility.

He was sincere and a great messenger for his Master, Ramakrishna, but his master tried very hard to help him go beyond that self-absorbed spiritual narcissism. Ramakrishna’s message was delivered well by Vivekananda to the West, and he is one of the pioneers of the great shift of spiritual values from the East to the West gradually taking place. Vivekananda, however, was only a messenger and not a living “message.”

When I see Ramakrishna (left), still as a statue, propped up by his bewildered disciples, in the famous picture, gone, gone, completely lost in the light of the gap… Who cares about who was born as whom? All distinctions are lost in that blissful light of Now-Eternal. Only top-heavy people lost in the dark recesses of minds piled high with religious jargon and thoughts care about whether Ramakrishna was Lord Ram. As I see him in the photo, Ramakrishna is not thinking. He is free. He is beyond all dry-boned and drop-dead punditry. He is gone, gone, beyond Lord Ram.

You don’t know for sure, Deepak, but you would like to think Ram and Krishna never said there would be an end to India.

All things of this world — India included — end. Lord Krishna “had” predicted your end, my end and India’s eventual end, albeit indirectly. Read the Gita. Krishna often speaks of transience of the egoistic world. With that in awareness, think. Where is “Bharat”? Gone. Where is the Mogul Empire? Where is the British Raj? Gone, gone completely gone.

India? Pakistan?

It takes no prophet to tell you that your current political construct called “India” will go the way of Ashoka’s Empire and the way of the Kaurava’s whom Arjuna slaughtered with his arrows with Lord Krishna guiding the chariot.

Where too has Arjuna gone? He has also passed to the Himalayas in an icy tomb of avalanche. The evil, the good, all the chapters of India, even “chapters” as a concept will pass away in Kalpas (great cycles of time) coming.

India will end. What is important is whether the witnessing Atma ends. Who cares about transient illusions like India, or the USA, or this “John Hogue” or that “Deepak” — all dust. What about the consciousness behind these masks of illusion, Deepak? That ought to be your concern, not the further existence of the idiotic political posturing of Maya.

DEEPAK
…They have only spoken of India’s rise. Many other saints have predicted the same. Indian horoscope also shows the same.

HOGUE
Then they are projecting their chauvinism. India will vanish like Mohenjo Daro and Harappa, like the throne of Hastinapura. It is the nature of things. Yet, egoists like your saints and astrologers would project their belief as fact against the passing of kalpas. Such folly.

DEEPAK
There will be problems which Indian horoscope shows and K N Rao predicted about the turmoil in India during the Bombay attack. Indian astrology is quite competent to show what lies ahead and its also has a dark warning for the coming years.

HOGUE
Indian astrology is the most competent. I know from direct experience. I’ve lived in India and met with many of your astrologers. Unlike the West, Indian Astrology keeps the calculations simple and doesn’t clutter them up with the needless additions of every piece of floating space rock to clutter the interpretation with noise.

I have a large South Asian readership. They’ve been asking for predictions about India and I will provide them with many in my forthcoming book Predictions for 2011. I will say this, one dark warning for which India must prepare is a natural disaster of floods and storms in the next Monsoon Season of 2011 that will rival those besetting Pakistan in 2010. Orissa, West and East Bengal in particular should brace themselves. Also, there will be more terrorist attacks in September and November of 2011 issuing out of Pakistan from Lashkar-e-Taiba. Once again the targets intended will be where Westerners gather and spiritual retreats. If security is high and awareness vigilant these attacks will not succeed.

Back to Indian Astrology. It is the finest in the world. However, that doesn’t mean that on occasion egos like those possessed by some of your Indian-chauvinistic seers will be any less myopic than chauvinistic American astrologers are about believing and projecting upon the stars an illusion of the eternal progress of America. All things of this mortal world rise and fall like a wave on eternity’s ocean.

The question I ask my self is this: shall I fixate on an identity of wave or remember that I am the ocean?

I will stand with Ramakrishna transfixed and gone in devotion of Ram.

John Hogue

(04 December 2010)

Now the fight over the right to drag threads over or off one’s face may drag France into a period of high security alert this October. The Internet and cell phones are alight with traffic heating up faster than an Apple G4 microprocessor. What heats it up are rumored concerns of an imminent, Mumbai style attack planned by al-Qaeda operatives from North Africa. They may unleash suicide commando raids gunning down and grenade stoning apart crowded and iconic public places across Germany and France. Both countries are on high alert though American government sources are less concerned about alarming Americans abroad.

Perhaps American intelligence keeps alive an old pattern from nine years ago. French intelligence was monitoring the same kind of email and cell phone traffic on 10 September 2001. They tried to warn their opposites in the CIA and Pentagon. The latter were still scratching their heads about taking French warnings seriously when on the following morning (September 11th) a Boeing 757 jet full of hijacked civilians of American Airlines Flight 77 swooped down at grass-top level at over 530 mile per hour. The raped jet struck the west face of the Pentagon like a lightning bolt from the blue turbaned al-Qaeda Talibani.

Is a large-scale attack coming soon to the European tourist destination nearest to you?

My oracle says not in October. Look out for November because it is the 11th month and the al-Qaeda inspired jihadists love to mark their targets on dates playing with the numbers 11, 9 and 7. Be mindful of days like 11/6 (upside-down “9/11″) or 11/7 or 11/9. Remember to mark these days on the European calendar as 7/11 and 9/11/10. You can read more about it in an eBook about 2010, click here: terrorist attack.

Whatever the numbers, Guy Fawkes (the English terrorist who planned to blow up English Parliament at the end of the 16th century) is a jihadi Shaheed (Muslim martyr) in our times. He is in search of a kafir (infidel) target to powder keg. It may not be British Parliament on his hit list to be blown all-a-sinders, but to paraphrase the famous Guy Fawkes rhyme, “Remember, remember, any night in November” 2010 as a time to be extra vigilant against terrorist attacks in Europe, in America, and especially in India. Be watchful where many Western tourists and/or Western disciples of Eastern teachers gather in ashrams or meditation resorts from Mumbai, Pune or down in Bangalore. Meditation and awareness is your greatest defense against terror of all kinds — jihadist or the greater terror of being under the sleepwalking influence of a conditioned mind.

Terrorists are watching you as you watch your selves. They are waiting for your awareness to loosen, for your security guards to be withdrawn. Stay alert in November and all will be well.

A terrorist is like black magician. He needs the victim to unconsciously give his or her power away to his fearful bluff of cursing. A terrorist is an unconventional warlock, ever vigilant for a moment of weakness in which to strike. A curse works because you give it your energy. An act of terror works only when you give your watchfulness away.

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Back on 8 August I received an email from “RA” about another kind of terror. The kind people sometimes vent when a “spiritual terrorist” shares an insight that can blow up one’s apple cart of borrowed beliefs. There are good terrorists as well as bad. The good shock us out of our false reveries and pretenses. They blow up the foundations of our under-”mind”, which are the twin towers, parliaments and pentagons of borrowed knowledge, identities and dogmas imposed on our innocent, nascent, birth-given intelligence. I have known such a spiritual terrorist and I aim to become one.

RA
I listened to your comments on Nostradamus on a History Channel special called the Nostradamus Effect. Your commentary was quite interesting, so I went to find a book or two by you and was surprised at how virulent some people seem to be when it comes to your work. I’ve found that when many voices are raised to silent one voice, there’s usually something interesting to pursue there. Not always, but often. Why do you think some people have taken such a critical view of your work.

HOGUE
Thanks for your letter today, RA. I receive many letters each day. Many of them are unconsciously motivated and driven by narcissistic projections of the letter writer who either praises me because my round peg by chance happens one day to fit their round whole of biases. Other readers react against me because my round peg by chance pinches their square whole of preconceived antithesis. With time, nearly every narcissistically positive commentator on my writings will eventually find I do not fit with his or her projections, thus I am rejected off handedly. With time, nearly every calumny-texting, vitriolic emailer will by pure accident of bias find I sometimes do fit with his or her worldview. Then suddenly my credibility is resurrected. My peg at last fits in their whole of mindset.

Your letter, RA, is rare because it contains words composing a thoughtful set of questions and comments that indicate someone who may be a true skeptic; namely, someone who inquires in the spirit of what ancient Greek word skepticos originally meant: “to investigate without prejudice for or against.”

I am not agreeing with what you have said like one of my narcissistic readers. There is a very fine line of difference. I harmonize with what you are saying because it has been my own direct experience not a mere belief upheld without it. How you have sought inquiry is how I also seek it. Whether what I say or who I am resonates with you or not, will have as little or as much value to existence depending on your capacity to delve deep with an open mind and heart of true inquiry into what this John Hogue is all about.

I have come to understand that originality and fresh intelligence can act like sand rubbing raw the oyster or it can act like a brush combing against the grain of what is traditional, robotic and politico-spiritually correct. Like you, when faced with a thinker or mystic or any figure in any field of endeavor that stirs a large and virulent protest from all sides, rather than join in the chorus I am compelled to learn for myself who that person is and what they are saying. Such universal controversy is a sign that something new and important may be hiding just under the surface related to the target of all-sides, negative attention.

I look at history. When has the new been easily embraced by the status quo in any dimension of life? When has progress in human consciousness not met resistance? Of course there is always the danger that controversial figures are being irritating just because it satisfies a recalcitrant ego trip. Then again, not all gold is pyrite. Not all pearls are plastic. It is worth the risk to inquire further into a man or a woman at the center of so much controversy from all sides. The passion of detractors can indicate that a nerve has been touched, a tradition exposed or illusion’s sleep disturbed. So off I go to directly understand that person who stands alone as a majority of “one” against the crowd. Does he or she become this out of hubris, or authentic and progressive humanity flowering from within?

Originality is by its essence a force that undermines complacent status quo thinking, feeling and experiencing. We seem embodied in a mortal universe (perhaps not the only universe around) that is wired to resist progressive evolution of thought and spirit. Yet it evolves. The sand chafes the oyster, yet from time to time pearls of great beauty and richness arise. Unconsciousness exerts the pressure of form-ality that turns coal into diamonds. Mediocrity and conform-reality have their parts to play. The question is, for each of us to contemplate: Am I choosing to be a force of form-ality; or, am I the diamond in the rough, in the making? Am I the garden’s mulch or am I the flowering?

RA
Also, I’m trying to find a copy of your book cited on the History Channel: Nostradamus and the Anti-Christ. Is it published yet?

HOGUE
Yes, RA. I publish it as an eBook. Much of my work now is self-published, because the evolution of my work since I published my last book in paper in 2003 — Nostradamus: A Life and Myth — no longer ingratiates me with the corporate media pigeonhole set for authors and scholars in the prophetic field. I hope to see that change, but I also understood long ago as a tomorrowist that the future of the written word depends upon delivery systems made of photons and electrons stored on screen tablets like Kindle and iPads, not on ink staining the skins of murdered trees. I try to live by the future I foresee, so several years back I began publishing my books as electronic books that I sell at my web site and soon through other electronic avenues.

Here is a link to my web page concerning Nostradamus and the Antichrist (Mabus). It is the second highest ranked page on the topic in the world.

John Hogue

(04 October 2010)

This is the 389th anniversary of a mythology-myth-holiday when those mistaken as “Indians” (Native Americans) shared food with English Pilgrim settlers before the latter wiped them out in the ensuing years. (See Real Thanksgiving Turkey.)

Give or take where you were on either side of the International Dateline, the 26-27 of November marked the passing of American mystic and teacher, Adi Da. (See Adi Da.)

On this Thanksgiving Day, I want to share a sense of gratefulness better understood by a more enlightened human race coming in the future.

I thank a reader named “Julie” for inspiring the following unorthodox take on Thanksgiving future-framed.

She asked a question about globalism that inspired an unexpected answer about right selfishness. This concept may not be understood today, but right selfishness is a virtue people of a new humanity will value once the aberrant era of human-kid becomes matured human-kind.

I could say the kiddy stuff will end in a few hundred years. A new and mature humanity at that time will not live in the past, or be too interested in time beyond its mere utilitarian usefulness for clocks and time-space folding the galactic.

Homo Novus will be free of time-mind-egoic constraints. If such a timeless people are to be born, then how can there be a gulf of time of hundreds of years? How can there be a separation of time at all? If they are born, they are already living here and now. You are here right now. The new humanity is born from becoming your rightful self.

Julie asked me the following question that inspired my oracle soar from its peripheral concerns into a completely different theme. A right world can only be born from a state of right self.

JULIE:
Do you think this financial crisis is all engineered by the worldly powers-that-be to deplete the world’s economy and therefore bring in the new ‘one world’ currency in to control us even more until we all hit the brick wall?

HOGUE:
One world currency is coming in the next 36 years, as is a one-world government. Whether these will be good or evil depends on the consciousness of humanity rising, first one individual at a time, then individuals gathering in their aloneness together to forge a government where the blissfulness and intelligence of their inner being is reflected by their outer world. If enough individuals transform their consciousness, irregardless of what others are doing or not doing to transform their own consciousness, then, a shift in the destiny of this earth will incline towards a more life affirming future world society.

Civilization’s hoped for new direction is not as important as your individual transformation this present moment. Remember, Gautama Siddartha did not change his society, but his full self-remembering of his birthright — the birthright of all people actually to be a Buddha, (an Awakened One) — changed his society. He brought more meditation into it. It was not his aim to change anything or anyone. Indeed his work on himself was the ultimate act of selfishness. He abandoned kingdom, family and responsibilities on a half-dozen year quest to know that which is a truth beyond the transient mortal life.

He found “IT”. It shined out of him — a catalyst to remind others of their lost legacy of light. He did not seek ten thousand disciples. They sought him. He did not desire this army of followers. He did not seek to help his planet or his culture, but all were helped in the wake of his ultimate quest for “right” selfishness.

If I do not know who I am in my innermost being, then how can there be any abiding good arising in my actions? The world is mostly full of good people. Why then is it a world of misery and madness with a few glimmers of love and joy? It seems that it is not enough to be virtuous and good. I suppose a good sleepwalker will fall in a ditch as much as an evil one.

Perhaps if one truly flowers into the full spectrum of divine revelation it makes all actions, right actions. That is why it is more imperative now than in Buddha’s time to find one’s inner being, unbury it from the garbage of borrowed thoughts and identities of our particular societal conditioning and arise in our own light. That is what all enlightened ones and many devotees attracted to their light did. Only this kind of selfishness finds the state of self-lessness.

The prophecies for a new Humanity coming, sees each of us taking that jump within, if we but do it. Now. Every “now.”

John Hogue
(25 November 2009)