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"Radical" Devotion
Excerpt from The Ancient Walk-About Way

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In general, what the world wants—and, there- fore, what religious institutions tend to provide—is social association and optimistic talk, perhaps in combination with self-applied techniques that people can use as means for consoling themselves. Therefore, in the "modern" world, instead of cultures of right practice, there are "religion businesses" and "workshops". The "modern" world is a fragmented world—full of individuals who regard their own separateness and independence as "absolute", who demonstrate no profundity, and who are not moved by profundity. In this "modern" world, human beings are becoming progressively more and more preoccupied with "self", and with all of the "whatevers" that can be pursued within the framework of egoity and worldliness.

True human culture is the esoteric (and, necessarily ego-transcending) culture of Reality-Realization—and the process of Reality-Realization requires devotion to a genuine Spiritual Master. However, people in general are not interested in becoming devoted to a Spiritual Master. People in general are not interested in finding a Realizer—nor are they interested in the fact that the Realizer Is the "Who" and the "What" to be Realized.

In the modern world, people are obsessively interested in what is "out there"—what they do with one another in the common world. If that is your disposition, you remain involved in mere exchanges of words—socializing with one another, and relating to the other aspects of the common world with which you are associated. In that case, you either refuse all involvement with religion, or else you merely make token (and, inevitably, self-involved) gestures in the direction of religion. Such is the institutionalized exotericism what is conventionally called "religion".

The exclusive preoccupation with what is "out there" is a disposition that is now manifested everywhere on Earth—with dreadful results. Listen to the global "daily news" of terrible violence and threats. Look at the absolute emptiness of "consumer egoity". It is madness.

Who has seen the madness of this world?

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