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The Transpersonal Aperture
Depravity fills the news these days. For most of us it is a struggle to even begin to wrap our head around piercing questions such as how could anyone do the things to innocent children we hear about, how could anyone conspire to let them get away with it, how could others know what was going on and remain quiet about it, and how can people in positions of authority and responsibility continue to do nothing even when so many of us know what went on ( at least enough to know that law enforcement should be involved in a big way)?
A lot of questions to be sure, and every individual in this sordid story - from Epstein and Maxwell to Patel and Bondi - have their own backgrounds, the combination of experiences that worked like a potion to turn them into disgusting monsters.
What is clear about all of them is that they are failed personalities. Where they should be good, they are cruel; where they should be fair, they are unjust; where they should be honest, they lie through their teeth about the most horrible things imaginable.
As far as personalities go, theirs are as bad as it gets.
Being disgusted and horrified by them - and wanting them cast completely out of society - is only natural. However, in order to grow, personally or societally, being disgusted and horrified can only ever be a starting place, not where we ultimately end up.
One thing that is clear to me is that viewing these villains purely from the perspective of THEIR personalities, and through OUR personalities, is a recipe for frustration and torment, not growth.
There is a way to move beyond that. People generally don't think about it in this way, but if asked, most people would probably agree that the best thing a person can do with his or her life is provide the personality with the best possible ongoing experience. Or, perhaps, to use the personality in ways which optimize one's existence, attracting desired experiences of romance, fun, status, etc.
Yet, is that true? If it is, then it is difficult to escape the conclusion that many persons involved in the Epstein scandal have done exactly that. Epstein and Maxwell themselves likely would have gone right on until their last breaths thinking that THEIR lifestyles - of cruelty, of sadism, of depravity - were providing them the 'good life' if they hadn't been arrested. Many who weren’t arrested are thinking that even now.
The fact that there are powerful sadists who are 'providing their personalities with the best possible ongoing experience' while getting away with Epstein level crimes this very moment should cause us to question whether that assessment of the personality and its uses is, indeed, accurate. It places us in the company of the Marquis de Sade and Aleister Crowley to believe that our personalities are best utilized merely to amuse us and reward our desires.
Thinking in such a way misses the point of what personalities are TRULY for and how they can truly be optimally utilized. Collectively, our society has rejected the answer, but perhaps as so much collapses around us, it is time for a wider embrace of what the best role and function of the personality is, in fact.
What the personality actually is is a tool. It is a highly specialized tool designed for a specific purpose. We refine this tool as we move through our life experiences - some ecstatic, some tragic, and of course everything in between - until it becomes capable of fulfilling the function it was designed for: to pierce through the superficial Plane of Personalities to achieve acquaintance with our True Self submerged beneath the plane, via a 'transpersonal aperture'; an opening that enables us to move from personal (self-identifying at the level of personality) to transpersonal (where we recognize ourself as the author of our personality, and even of all personalities at play upon the Plane of Personalities). Utilized this way, the personality is glorious. We can enjoy it in ways we couldn't have imagined when we were exclusively identified with it. That doesn't mean that we 'do' things that we couldn't previously, such as become rich and meet the ideal soulmate. Rather, we enjoy it more than previously even when engaged in the most mundane of daily activities. We might be sitting, perhaps noticing the way a ray of sunlight illuminates a glass of ginger tea that makes it seem as if we are imbibing the sun itself, and suddenly enter into a state of swooning ecstasy, the moment unexpectedly turned miraculous.
However, such transcendent moments are not the goal in and of themselves. They are simply welcome results of having attained such a high degree of awareness.
The REAL pleasure comes from connecting - transpersonally - with our true self, which is expressing through the personality (and all others as well) but not limited either by it or to it. Just as I, for example, at the level of my personality create drawings, songs, poems, essays, etc. - while maintaining awareness that they are mere expressions and not my identity in full - each of us is creating an ingenious work of art each moment, that being the personality. We are its artist, in other words; not the the thing itself but its creator. Another way of putting it is that we wear our personality like a well selected outfit.
Once we have an experience of passing through the transpersonal aperture, we thereafter understand that our personality was never what we thought it was and that, honestly, we were 'cheating' ourselves somewhat by imagining it to be what we thought it was, i.e., our identity, and not a tool by which we may come to know our TRUE identity. Similarly, we were cheated by a society which urges us to see ourselves this way. Just as we misunderstand the role of our personality, we also misunderstand the role of society. A healthy, sane society is one which assists us in grasping our true nature, not hiding it from us.
Even among those who have purportedly dedicated their lives to understanding this transpersonal aperture, and explaining it to others, there is an awful lot of having the whole thing backwards. Which is why it comes as no surprise that inspirational/motivational/metaphysical 'guru' Deepak Chopra got into the filthy with Epstein, chattering and gossiping with him about 'cute girls' who 'make noises' and other revolting messages. New Age celebrities like Chopra promote the idea that one can exploit the spiritual and transpersonal in order to reward the personal. It is on behalf of our personalities that they exhort us to learn about 'The Law of Attraction' and 'The Secret' so that we can 'live our best lives' and provide the personality with the optimum ongoing experience.
They would have us meditate to find a soulmate, recite mantras to increase our wealth, practice yoga to tone our physical form, and so on. All very superficial.
But that's not ‘living your best life’, at all. That's merely, as I wrote earlier, "using the personality in ways which optimize one's existence, attracting desired experiences of romance, fun, status, etc.".
Though even his name implies depth, Deepak Chopra is in fact a very superficial and shallow man, as is so often the case with ersatz gurus. Plugging into the metaphysical realm through workshops and seminars and books and 'healings' etc., purely for the purpose of rewarding the personality is in fact the exact OPPOSITE of spiritual practice. It is the tawdriness of such New Age pseudo-spirituality that brought fake guru Chopra and real monster Epstein together in a cozy, chummy and almost comically puerile relationship of drooling over 'cute girls'.
So long as we continue to exclusively identify with the personality, we are lost. We are like a painter who has become lost in her own painting. In some cases, such as with Jeffrey Epstein, the painting depicts a gruesome beast. In others, such as Deepak Chopra’s, it depicts a vain clown and phony holy man. In others, it depicts something truly beautiful, like a generous and loving parent or brilliant and beloved teacher. One can surely feel great affection for the latter ones, but they remain depictions nonetheless. We are not that. The transpersonal aperture is the ‘pearl of great price’ referred to by a great man who pierced it that enables us to step out of the painting and recall ourselves as the artist that expresses through it.
The method by which one perceives the transpersonal aperture is meditation. This bears repeating and emphasis. Meditation IS THE method to perceive the transpersonal aperture. Thus, if you 'don't have time' for meditation then you do not have time to perceive the transpersonal aperture. No judgement, but no pussyfooting around it either. It's like wanting to swim without learning how.
Is it impossible to arrive at this perception any other way? No, but other ways generally involve a powerful jolting out of your everyday consciousness, most commonly by means of a harrowing life experience. Hardly welcomed by the personality even if instrumental in transcending it.
Therefore, I can’t really end without stressing the importance of meditation. Nevertheless, I wrote this essay not to recommend meditation but to describe the transpersonal aperture.
It is liberation from the madness of our world because it is liberation from the delusional concept that you are your personality and there is no you beyond your personality. With the realization that there is more to you than your personality comes not only liberation, but a sense of mission. You want to do right by collective humanity to free it from illusion, so that a new and flourishing world may emerge. A world where all are given opportunities to reach their full potential - as personalities and beyond personalities - absent the truncation that results from the virus of depravity, sadism and cruelty that infects the plane of personalities we call 'the world'.
A lot of questions to be sure, and every individual in this sordid story - from Epstein and Maxwell to Patel and Bondi - have their own backgrounds, the combination of experiences that worked like a potion to turn them into disgusting monsters.
What is clear about all of them is that they are failed personalities. Where they should be good, they are cruel; where they should be fair, they are unjust; where they should be honest, they lie through their teeth about the most horrible things imaginable.
As far as personalities go, theirs are as bad as it gets.
Being disgusted and horrified by them - and wanting them cast completely out of society - is only natural. However, in order to grow, personally or societally, being disgusted and horrified can only ever be a starting place, not where we ultimately end up.
One thing that is clear to me is that viewing these villains purely from the perspective of THEIR personalities, and through OUR personalities, is a recipe for frustration and torment, not growth.
There is a way to move beyond that. People generally don't think about it in this way, but if asked, most people would probably agree that the best thing a person can do with his or her life is provide the personality with the best possible ongoing experience. Or, perhaps, to use the personality in ways which optimize one's existence, attracting desired experiences of romance, fun, status, etc.
Yet, is that true? If it is, then it is difficult to escape the conclusion that many persons involved in the Epstein scandal have done exactly that. Epstein and Maxwell themselves likely would have gone right on until their last breaths thinking that THEIR lifestyles - of cruelty, of sadism, of depravity - were providing them the 'good life' if they hadn't been arrested. Many who weren’t arrested are thinking that even now.
The fact that there are powerful sadists who are 'providing their personalities with the best possible ongoing experience' while getting away with Epstein level crimes this very moment should cause us to question whether that assessment of the personality and its uses is, indeed, accurate. It places us in the company of the Marquis de Sade and Aleister Crowley to believe that our personalities are best utilized merely to amuse us and reward our desires.
Thinking in such a way misses the point of what personalities are TRULY for and how they can truly be optimally utilized. Collectively, our society has rejected the answer, but perhaps as so much collapses around us, it is time for a wider embrace of what the best role and function of the personality is, in fact.
What the personality actually is is a tool. It is a highly specialized tool designed for a specific purpose. We refine this tool as we move through our life experiences - some ecstatic, some tragic, and of course everything in between - until it becomes capable of fulfilling the function it was designed for: to pierce through the superficial Plane of Personalities to achieve acquaintance with our True Self submerged beneath the plane, via a 'transpersonal aperture'; an opening that enables us to move from personal (self-identifying at the level of personality) to transpersonal (where we recognize ourself as the author of our personality, and even of all personalities at play upon the Plane of Personalities). Utilized this way, the personality is glorious. We can enjoy it in ways we couldn't have imagined when we were exclusively identified with it. That doesn't mean that we 'do' things that we couldn't previously, such as become rich and meet the ideal soulmate. Rather, we enjoy it more than previously even when engaged in the most mundane of daily activities. We might be sitting, perhaps noticing the way a ray of sunlight illuminates a glass of ginger tea that makes it seem as if we are imbibing the sun itself, and suddenly enter into a state of swooning ecstasy, the moment unexpectedly turned miraculous.
However, such transcendent moments are not the goal in and of themselves. They are simply welcome results of having attained such a high degree of awareness.
The REAL pleasure comes from connecting - transpersonally - with our true self, which is expressing through the personality (and all others as well) but not limited either by it or to it. Just as I, for example, at the level of my personality create drawings, songs, poems, essays, etc. - while maintaining awareness that they are mere expressions and not my identity in full - each of us is creating an ingenious work of art each moment, that being the personality. We are its artist, in other words; not the the thing itself but its creator. Another way of putting it is that we wear our personality like a well selected outfit.
Once we have an experience of passing through the transpersonal aperture, we thereafter understand that our personality was never what we thought it was and that, honestly, we were 'cheating' ourselves somewhat by imagining it to be what we thought it was, i.e., our identity, and not a tool by which we may come to know our TRUE identity. Similarly, we were cheated by a society which urges us to see ourselves this way. Just as we misunderstand the role of our personality, we also misunderstand the role of society. A healthy, sane society is one which assists us in grasping our true nature, not hiding it from us.
Even among those who have purportedly dedicated their lives to understanding this transpersonal aperture, and explaining it to others, there is an awful lot of having the whole thing backwards. Which is why it comes as no surprise that inspirational/motivational/metaphysical 'guru' Deepak Chopra got into the filthy with Epstein, chattering and gossiping with him about 'cute girls' who 'make noises' and other revolting messages. New Age celebrities like Chopra promote the idea that one can exploit the spiritual and transpersonal in order to reward the personal. It is on behalf of our personalities that they exhort us to learn about 'The Law of Attraction' and 'The Secret' so that we can 'live our best lives' and provide the personality with the optimum ongoing experience.
They would have us meditate to find a soulmate, recite mantras to increase our wealth, practice yoga to tone our physical form, and so on. All very superficial.
But that's not ‘living your best life’, at all. That's merely, as I wrote earlier, "using the personality in ways which optimize one's existence, attracting desired experiences of romance, fun, status, etc.".
Though even his name implies depth, Deepak Chopra is in fact a very superficial and shallow man, as is so often the case with ersatz gurus. Plugging into the metaphysical realm through workshops and seminars and books and 'healings' etc., purely for the purpose of rewarding the personality is in fact the exact OPPOSITE of spiritual practice. It is the tawdriness of such New Age pseudo-spirituality that brought fake guru Chopra and real monster Epstein together in a cozy, chummy and almost comically puerile relationship of drooling over 'cute girls'.
So long as we continue to exclusively identify with the personality, we are lost. We are like a painter who has become lost in her own painting. In some cases, such as with Jeffrey Epstein, the painting depicts a gruesome beast. In others, such as Deepak Chopra’s, it depicts a vain clown and phony holy man. In others, it depicts something truly beautiful, like a generous and loving parent or brilliant and beloved teacher. One can surely feel great affection for the latter ones, but they remain depictions nonetheless. We are not that. The transpersonal aperture is the ‘pearl of great price’ referred to by a great man who pierced it that enables us to step out of the painting and recall ourselves as the artist that expresses through it.
The method by which one perceives the transpersonal aperture is meditation. This bears repeating and emphasis. Meditation IS THE method to perceive the transpersonal aperture. Thus, if you 'don't have time' for meditation then you do not have time to perceive the transpersonal aperture. No judgement, but no pussyfooting around it either. It's like wanting to swim without learning how.
Is it impossible to arrive at this perception any other way? No, but other ways generally involve a powerful jolting out of your everyday consciousness, most commonly by means of a harrowing life experience. Hardly welcomed by the personality even if instrumental in transcending it.
Therefore, I can’t really end without stressing the importance of meditation. Nevertheless, I wrote this essay not to recommend meditation but to describe the transpersonal aperture.
It is liberation from the madness of our world because it is liberation from the delusional concept that you are your personality and there is no you beyond your personality. With the realization that there is more to you than your personality comes not only liberation, but a sense of mission. You want to do right by collective humanity to free it from illusion, so that a new and flourishing world may emerge. A world where all are given opportunities to reach their full potential - as personalities and beyond personalities - absent the truncation that results from the virus of depravity, sadism and cruelty that infects the plane of personalities we call 'the world'.
