ANZAC Day is powerful. If anyone who was born in OZ or a Kiwi no longer values that holiday, that will mark a huge shift in their belief systems.
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What is painful is that only the feelings of UM members are considered real, legitimate.
The pain and emotion felt by non UM family members and friends are
not given equal respect in UM. Friends, that lack of reciprocity is why this thread began, has continued, and several news articles published.
Not pranic oppostion.
Intead of being given equal respect with the feelings and experiences of non UM members, the concern, worries, anguish and opposition from non UM family members are, perhaps, actually being dehumanized by the UM system and then co-opted, explained away as pranic opposition, or even used as evidence of the UM aspirants' specialness.
We need to pause and recall that some of the UM family member report being pressured to change household routines and even, lose their own freedom in their own homes so as to accommodate the heavy demands of the UM aspirant in their lives.
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Things are pretty farsical from an outsider's point of view when they see the way we live our lives. I have restrictions on what I can and can't do. I won't go into any detail about what they are, but there are some fundamental rights as a grown, Australian man that I no longer have in my house.
People might judge me (and certainly judge her) for putting up with it all. The fact of the matter is that I love my partner, and living without her and my child isn't an option. Not to mention the fact that my child needs a parent who isn't under the control of all of this nonsense to be there for them.
I dare wonder whether these legitimate emotions from non UM members living alongside UM members seem are turned, by UM into mere negative energy, friction, drag factor, something the UM aspirant not only arouses, but must expect to arouse and then
use.
1) Use as
evidence of his or her specialness for having elicited the emotions in the first place.
2) Utilize as
opportunities for growth on the esoteric path by standing firm in the face of family and friends LEGITIMATE misgivings and opposition by standing firm and detached in the midst of the turmoil instigated by ones own adherance to UM lifestyle and imposing it on others.
If this is what is going on in UM (and its speculation on my part, but we can speculate), its a clever way to cover all the bases. But its not a kind thing to do.
First, it is
not nice to co-opt some one else's emotions and, without their knowledge or consent, turn them into a villain in a drama where you get to be the saint, martyr, heroine or hero.
For film and live theatre, actors decide which roles to audition for.
And all parties know the content of the play or script.So perhaps UM, without intention of its leadership, may function and get a sense of noble strife, from combining two sources.
A) The emotions of its
students,
B) (Perhaps without intending to) Co-opting emotional energy derived from
opposition from non -UMfamily and friends, because opposition gives the UM student a competing loyalty, something to fight against to prove worthiness to a higher loyalty.
The legitmate pain and anger and fear felt by non UM family and friends is perhaps seen as evidence that the UM aspirant is very special to have generated such family discord, and that their opposition is not love, but a mere friction to be overcome as one rises higher and yet higher on the initiatic grade.
That opposition and push back from non UM family and friends may give a sense of drama, momentum, friction, a feeling of righteous strife, making UM life seem so much more real and authentic than life lived before UM.
What is forgotten is this is brought at the cost of eliciting anguish from non UM family and friends -- and it is interesting that that quoted material gives an impression that opposition from families is expected, and perhaps prepared for.
To use an analogy, it is impossible to earn the Victoria Cross or the US Medal of Honor unless one does certain actions in the midst of a declared war.
Without a declared war, circumstances dont exist in which it is possible to earn those honors.
Perhaps without non UM family love, misgivings and even opposition, that sense of opposition that gives meaning and emotional charge to the UM grades of initiation would not exist, and the ranks of initiation and the world view would not seem nearly so exciting.
So it isnt just the emotions and loyalties of the students that bring energy that is utilized by UM and its belief system.
My citizen's hunch, just a hunch, is that even the emotions and opposition of non UM family members and friends are, unconsciously, co-opted, used by the UM belief system to give that feeling of conflict, in which the UM aspirants can hope to rise high enough to earn the UM equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
From the description quoted above, the persons here, concerned about UM, are persons.
But in the UM mindset, non UM family members without their own knowledge and consent have been, without their awareness or consent, recruited to play villain roles in the UM psychodrama any time one person in that family or friendship is convinced they are marked for ascent in the UM universe.
The impression I get is that to feel special in UM, and to get
a felt, sense of momentum in this map of ascent into progressively higher initiatory realms, in the UM system, one gets that feeling of momentum, of striving, by needing something or someone to contend
against.
This seems to be accomplished by almost ensuring that families and friends will resist.
I suggest that UM, perhaps without intending it, brings a sense of drama, righteous striving, into students lives.
Family strife generated by UM is turned into proof of both a student's specialness and as evidence that he or she is ascending the initiatory ranks.
But to do this means writing off the legitimacy and reality of how much suffering is felt and borne by family members and friends of UM members.
Their families did
not ask to be recruited and used to play the role of one dimensional villains in the UM psychodrama. These men and women didnt ask that their anguish and attempts at negotiation be turned into evidence of a UM aspirants specialness.
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You are so
special that the forces of Prana are trying to hold
you back, via your family!)
You are the astronaut soaring up the iniatory scale, and your family and friends are written off in UM cosmology as pranic opposition or friction.
Your families and their humane human response to your coldness and retreat are perhaps (my hunch again, as a US citizen), written off in the UM belief system as an expected by product of your energetic ascent. Their anguish is a mere opportunity for you to prove your worth in cosmic battle and get a Victoria Cross from the Fiery Realm.
And the more your family resists what you are turning into the more this validates how special you are, and how potentially high you can go up the initiatiory scale--you are generating so much Cosmic Opposition, look how
special you are.
Well, these families and your friends are people, human beings, families, their worries and feelings are real, not 'side effects' of your fiery ascent to higher realms.
If my speculations are accurate, and I want to emphasize the 'if" a big part of the power of UM belief system is it successfully turns even the fiercest family resistance into a source of momentum and drama for the seeming ascent of its aspirants.
How special you are. Your UM practice is eliciting so much opposition from family and now from society.
How special we UM'rs are.
Any suggestion that the UM praxis in early stages turns people into difficult company for family and friends--thats not considered within the belief system.
Gotta earn that Victoria Cross.
Just be careful. Soldiers, sailors and airmen/women who have come home from wars will tell you that after one has been in combat, one find one does long for home.
They find that home is what matters. The medals are usually put away, into a drawer.