Silent Bear: The inexhaustible spiritual source of the Absolute

All during the nineties I was a victim of
psychosis. I lived the grace of madness several
times and I see this as a gift of the Absolute.
Psychosis brought me into contact with the
universal force and truth that is both scourge
and salvation and which together teach living
individuals the lesson of their fate, their place
as living spirits in the universe. Besides our
body we also have a soul and a spirit, which
I find a beautiful idea, as in Western alchemy
with its triangle of sulphur, mercury and
salt. Sulpher stands for the spirit, the divine
inspiration, mercury represents the soul, the
double element of water, emotion working
together with reason, air. The material basis
is salt, the crystal, the body with material and
spiritual needs, both of which have to find
their balance and seek their correct place. In
my poems I have written many times that it
is a bowl of soup that fills the stomach. It
is a great challenge for everybody to have
enough food and I am more than convinced
that this goal can be realised if we all
straighten our backs and look towards the
silent universe and ask for our dignity. Even
in the Kali-Yuga starvation is not a necessity.
Our hunger in this age tends towards
spirituality. The absurd emptiness of a global
capitalist consumption society devours the
divine love of our hearts. This civilisation of
marketing and creation of needs is pointless
and divides the brotherhood of mankind.
The only thing we really know is that we
all have a credit card towards eternity in
our pocket. On this planet called Earth
we live at least the permanent miracle of
consciousness. This unlimited inner self in
a borderless freedom that teaches each of
us that we all are this cosmic manifestation.
And the foundation of this is the Absolute,
the infinite loveof all that is in good and evil.
All we see and live is a divine miracle. Who
looks for it with determination will find it
and the revelation of beauty will be realised.

Silent Bear.

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Silent Bear: Letter From The West

Last autumn I stayed two months in India
for arjuvedic treatment. I had a copy of the
Baghavad Gita with me which I studied
intensely. It was a very inspiring period in my
life. I wrote more than seventy poems on a
mysterious blue god and the inner silence
in my soul broadened en deepened trough
the encounter of the works of Swami Vivekananda.
I encountered the absolute in
myself. It gave me a focus on the divine love
in my heart and I consider this as the greatest
gift from the Indian people. I think the wealth
of Vedanta philosophy can improve the
human condition and offer fullfilment of
the existence of the human race. It is a
miracle how I feel this uplift of my soul
above materialism and consumption of
modern global society. My spiritual
experience of life gained a lot of power by
reading this books on Indian philosophy.
It healed and awakened my soul. Of course I
realise that religion and spirituality is abused
to oppress and exploit people and creates
privileges for the few over the many.
Capitalism brought slavery over the
world as it has never been seen.
The whole technological machine
destroys the planet and makes cultural
traditions hollow. The whole of human existence
becomes more and more meaningless
and absurd. I think and feel that each of us
must take the responsibility to return to the
sources of the sages and the philosophy of
the teachers of mankind. We have to renew
the spiritual experience of the pure heart and
we need a focus on a spiritual concept that is
immaterial and for everyone to reach.
The idea of this focus is absolutely sublime it
creates sense in the nonsense of material
existence and it gives fullfilment of human
needs in a minimum of material satisfaction
because the eternal universal love has to
be recognised as the great goal of mankind.
Last century we have seen how humanity
got lost in atheistic materialism. Everything is
sacrificed for money and material comfort.
The needs grew and were even created by the
economical system. And what more needs
are there than food, clothes, a roof. Material
needs are in essence very limited when
the infinite of the human soul and the infinite
of divine love is discovered and realised
and experienced. Spirituality can extinguish
for a great deal the fire of desire and greed.
There is nothing material that we can take
with us when we die. All of this life has to
be about experience, about spiritual growth,
about emancipation of the individual and
the struggle against the privileges of the few
over the many. The contemporary world is a
disaster of hunger, war and injustice and it is
to every individual to act upon this and go
the path of the inner self to discover the infinitive
bliss of divine love by study and contemplation
and meditation. I think it is the only
solution to improve the condition of everybody
and to realise possibility’s for every man
and woman that are for the time being out
of our perception. We have to discover and
renew with a pure heart all this ancient ideas
and hear and communicate over this to save
the planet, human existence and offer to everybody
a life of sense and fulfilment. We have
to leave this madness of materialism. We have
to give it all up and sacrifice everything to the
sublime spiritual realisation of mankind.

Silent Bear

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