Selected Writings on the Third Alternative from

Richard’s Journal

Peter’s Journal

Vineeto’s Writing

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Audio-taped Dialogue

Richard

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Vineeto

The Third Alternative

The Third Alternative is the new and radical discovery that the world view or current wisdom is merely a vast metaphysical construct based on 5.8 billion human beings instinctually battling it out for survival. With fear and aggression firmly rooted in the bosom of each of us, any attempts at finding lasting peace and harmony, either individually or collectively, have in the past been doomed to failure. Our current primitive view of good spirits (God, Truth, Love, etc.) battling it out with bad spirits (Devils, Evil, Hate, etc.) is but a global-wide primitive fantasy of the internal battle that rages passionately within the heads and hearts of each human.

Every human is born with a primitive sense of self complete with a set of instinctual reactions (fear, aggression, nurture and desire) meant to ensure the survival of the species. Further we are imbibed with a social identity from early age consisting of the particular morals and ethics of the tribe we are born into. We further develop an individual identity within the tribe consisting mainly of the particular beliefs, customs and behaviour that appeal to us and that we take as our own. This collection of hard-wiring and programming we fondly call ‘me’ and we then proceed into the world to make our way as best we can. No wonder everyone feels lost, lonely and frightened and develops a very, very cunning nature. This created ‘persona’ is then so dense, so convincing, so instinctually perceived as to be ‘real’, that it is taken to be ‘set in concrete’ as it were.

One has had two alternatives as a human being to date – remaining ‘normal’, accepting ‘one’s lot in life’ and doing ‘the best one can to cope with a tough life’ – or becoming religious or spiritual, joining in or believing in a particular god-based belief system that espouses that there is a better life after death.

Many came to Eastern Religions from the 60’s onwards after experiencing Pure Consciousness Experiences or similar glimpses of something other than ‘normal reality’, or as a genuine search for personal peace and a desire for global peace. These experiences and desires appeared to fit neatly with the Altered State of Consciousness of the eastern tradition of spiritual experiences. The eastern tradition also pointed to the ego, or personal self, as the ‘problem’ and was condemnatory both of the ‘real’ world and Western monotheist religions, all of which was appealing to the new converts. Thus it is that the current fad for meditation, spiritual and other feel-good experiences, denial of the physical as merely illusionary, condemnation of the body/ mind, affective imagination and Guru-worship has blossomed to epidemic proportions.