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Listened to Marc Gafni last night on WIE Unbound (www.wie.org/unbound).

He explored the problem of evil, so-called. He was at his best when he related that the problem of evil was a self-justifying cry, the cry of the soul Awakened to its/his/hers/our evolutionary construct. To evolve Divinity--or Spirit insofar as Evolution is Spirit-in-Action. Spirit on the Manifest side of the Street.

His Kabbalistic renditions of Moses and Abraham were intense. He reaches his zenith when he compares two of Moses' meetings with God--at the Burning Bush and then later after his first failure at the court of Pharoah.

In the Burning Bush scene, God appoints Moses a task, which he declines, then is told he must do, and accepts. In the post-failure scene, Moses appoints God a task, which the Divine declines, and to which Moses gives no succor, to which God "must" accede.

It is this, reads the Zohar (the great work of Jewish Kabbalistic mysticism), that spells nonduality.

"Show me your ways" says Moses. Or Abraham questioning God as "he" seeks to destroy the city of sinners. Will you not do justice even if only 50 are righteous? 45?40?30?15? Even 10, say 5, 2 O Lord?

Gafni throws an interesting charge over to the Eastern crowd. He says, here (Moses questioning God) is the height of nonduality, and it's not "OMMM."

It's not quietistic in other words.

The so-called Western (better Abrahamic) religions [i.e. Judaism, Christianity, Islam...ask yourself how Western Moses, Jesus, and Muhammed were] have developed better technologies of the subtle, soul level.

The Eastern religions have better absorbed the Wisdom of Spirit, the Unmanifest both High Causal and Nondual.

The two strains have come back together to awaken Bhava Samadhi. Sahaj samadhi (traditional nonduality) plus the Soul. The Soul, Psychic Being, Authentic Self, call it whatever you want. The deepest part of our personhood, but after having realized The Transpersonal.

The Soul on the way up, as it were, is still constricted. On the Way Down it is the force of Co-Creative Evolution. The "We space", understanding the world of relativity, Desire to Participate in this Stream, but all from a Place of the Natural Great Perfection.

This is Wilber's great insight. There are those who have not realized the Emptiness and Groundless Ground of It all, who talk only of the Becoming, Authenticity, Evolutionary End of Things, showing their contraction, their un-freedom. On the opposite (Eastern and those influenced by exclusively Eastern practices except Bhakti Yoga) end, those who have deeply drunk of the Absolute Self, but no great movement in the realm of Becoming, Manifestation. More than the simple understanding of the Boddhisattva Vow to liberate all beings (from an Absolute Point of View).

The Nondual are marginalized within their own traditions--even in the East, though not as strongly as in the Abrahamic faiths. Either the Ascenders or Descenders triumph. Then even within the Nondual "Camp", the marginilization of the Evolutionary, Post-Metaphysical Nondual. Then even the further marginalization of those who accept, understand those formulations plus the Future of the Body, Siddhi, Ornamention/Charismata.

Discussed as mainly hypothetical in most of the traditions--the Glorification of the Flesh in Christianity, The Rainbow Body in Tibetan Buddhism, The (Full) 7th Stage of Life in Da, The Descent of Supermind in Aurobindo.

By any other name it smells of Bhava Samadhi. A new luminosity, not that of the Subtle. A new Luminosity, a new Fire, like Pentecost, burning down in the world of Beocming as Descent.

Like Fr. Bede's Vision--The Crucified Christ and the Black Madonna.

The Crucified Christ representing traditional nonduality (sahaj samadhi). "Being dead" to the world. N0 separate self, bodymind dropped. The Black Madonna. Burning, Black, Descent, Feminine Divine. While BEING CRUCIFIED. While Dead, on a mere personal level, to the Whole Fiery Process.

Not disappearing like the Sahaj mystic, into the ordinary-ness of the marketplace, in humility, ease, and simplicity. Even more radical--disappearing as you burn. In Bhava Samadhi. In the unnamed Samadhi. "Out-shining the world" as Da says.

All as a Sacrifice to the Evolving Limbs of The Supermind of the Mystical Body of Christ. Or The Evolving Limbs of Samantabhadra, the Blue Buddha of Perfection.

A vision alone. It is hard enough holding a "regular" life in this world as Subtle, Causal, or Sahaj-Nondual. Bhava--Jesus, who knows.

But the feeling to return to the goal. So much to do, on so many levels, simlutaneously.

Humility and a sense of humor. We are a long, long, long way away from that. All of Us.