Information About The Guruphiliac Blog
Jody Radzik is the webmaster
for the
guruphiliac blog (a blog that has published
numerous article trashing & bashing Amma and whose articles
are praised and published by the
“Cult Of The Hugging Saint” website).
About the purpose of the Guruphiliac blog, Jody Radzik said:
While we understand that gurus are held sacred by many, they
are also public figures deserving of scrutiny. Our primary aim is to inject a
little humor into what can be an excessively self-righteous enterprise, and to
illustrate the primary truth that no matter how divine their devotees believe
them to be, gurus poop on the same pot we do...Any self-respecting guru would
understand this and make every effort to show his students that s/he poops on
the same pot as they do...This site is dedicated to the truth. The truth that
gurus are merely plain, old ordinary people just like us. They complain like
us, shit on the toilet like us and most imagine they have special powers, just
like a lot of the least mentally stable among us.
Jody
Radzik also believes that followers essentially project
“enlightenment”,
“powers”,
“holiness”,
“purity”, etc. onto their
“Gurus”,
“Religious
Figures” and/or
“Religious Objects”. Fair enough.
Information About Jody Radzik, The Guruphiliac Webmaster
Jody Radzik
is not an easy person to understand. One might easily assume that Jody Radzik is
a free-thinker, a skeptic, a rationalist, a disillusioned ex-follower, a grumpy
guy or a mixture of all of the above. However, the truth about Jody is rather
surprising and is going to be disillusioning to Jody’s coterie of
guruphiliac-ites. Jody is the webmaster to
Atman.net, which provides links to an online book by Bruce
Morgan, an article by Jeffrey J. Kripal about
Kali’s Child, the
NonDualLogicality
Blog (where you can listen to Jody garble on non-duality) and a site
dedicated to the Hindu Goddess, Kalika. Jody believes in tantric
Shaktism and
Advaita Vedanta
(although Jody’s interpretation of these two are non-orthodox). Jody is also a
devotee of the Hindu Goddess
Kali Ma, whose picture he links to from his
guruphiliac site. Whenever Jody refers to
“Ma”, he is actually
referring to Kali Ma. Jody is openly into
Raves and
psychedelic drugs (more on this later). After reading many of Jody Radzik’s
postings on
Google Groups (using the name
“Jodyrrr”), it is
abundantly clear that he has a compulsive need to be “right” and to trash and
bash anyone who dissents with him:
Reference. Jody often accuses others of
“projecting”
and that they have
“uninformed opinions”. He often rants about
realization (
claiming he is realized), but then will break down into
shrieking hissy fits, labelling (or is it “projecting”?) others as being
“stupid and crass”! Apparently, those who have the greatest of
self-realization, like Jody, tend to act just like ordinary human beings, with
the same reactions and emotional outbursts. Jody endlessly preaches on
“self-realization”, just as other Gurus do. Jody can rightly be called
an
“Anti-Guru Guru-Wannabee”. As if this isn’t enough, Jody also
professes to having a Guru whose name he keeps secret (more on this
later)!
Guruphiliac Blog Webmaster Claims Self-Realization:
On Google Groups
(using the name
“Jodyrrr”) Jody Radzik (the Gurphiliac Blog webmaster)
claimed that he is
self-realized, joining the ranks of Saints,
Siddhas, Sages and Mahatmas. Jody said:
Guruphiliac Jody Radzik: “But the lesson of the
evening for me was that people who call themselves spiritual will never
believe that I’m realized. I’m just way too out there for them. Ma has made me
the counter example to all they’ve come to expect about spirituality and about
realized folk.” (Reference)
After reading through Jody Radzik’s
posts on
Google Groups (under his name
“Jodyrrr”), it became
apparent to me that he has a compulsive
need to be
“right”. Jody
trashed and bashed anyone who dissented with him and accused them of
“projecting” and having
“uninformed opinions”. Although Jody
ranted about realization (claiming he is self-realized), he broke down into
shrieking hissy fits, labeling (or is it
“projecting”)
others as being
“stupid and crass”. Sri Sri Jodyrrr (the self-professed
Saint and Mahatma) exhibited (and continues to exhibit) the behaviors of
ordinary, over-emotional and non-realized humans. As if this is not embarrassing
enough, Jody Radzik (the guru-basher-extraordinaire)
admitted that he
has a
Guru whose name he keeps
secret (in fear that others will
“criminally libel” his Guru, as he does with other’s Gurus).
Believe It Or Not: Jody Radzik Has A Guru:
Some
very
amusing excerpts from a conversation between Jody Radzik and Greg
Goode:
Guruphiliac Jody Radzik: “The difference between
them and myself is that I’ve always lived in and enjoyed the world, and that
Mother has made it exceedingly clear to me that She will bestow realization on
whomever She wants, despite their disposition as ascetic wannabes.
Unfortunately, no one believes I know what I’m talking about, except my guru.
In the interest of maintaining the status quo, he doesn’t enter the debate,
even though he confirms my assertions as I’m making them. This isn’t to say
that I don’t get along with them. I do for the most part. However, I’ve found
myself in raging debates, the whole bunch of them vs. me. I find this
situation quite enjoyable, but it seems to shatter their quaint ideas about
what the center exists for, and so in deference to my guru I usually keep a
lid on it…I’ve been blessed to have taken initiation from a monk of the
Ramakrishna Order, and I’m quite convinced he’s a bona-fide, yet successfully
hidden saint.” (Reference)
Apparently, Jody Radzik converses
with Mother Kali on a regular basis and hears her voice in his head. Sounds
rather spooky, if you ask me. Imagine that, the Supreme Goddess of the Universe
conversing with you? Some Gurus (and schizophrenics) claim they do the same
thing. Jody also said he has a Guru (
*gasp*) and that he took
initiation from a monk of the Ramakrishna Order that he regarded as a saint
(
*another gasp*). I guess Jody never witnessed this monk
pooping.
Jody Radzik has a Guru and sees
nothing wrong
with it. When it comes to others and their Gurus, however, Jody Radzik subjects
them to ridicule, defamation, bitter sarcasm and bold-faced lies on his
Guruphiliac Blog and
Guruphiliac Yahoo Group. In Jody Radzik’s
illumined world, the realized are
indistinguishable from liars,
deceivers and potty-mouthed extremists. Weird? Eh?
Guruphiliac Jody Radzik: “My guru basically left
me to my own devices with the mantra he gave. His advice is always the same.
Pay your bills. Don’t party too much. Restrain yourself some. Meditate. Pray
to the Lord and come every Sunday. He offers his time generously but keeps the
personal relationship to a minimum. He always gives the same, somewhat boring
lectures along with his gentle advice and admonishments. I’m convinced he’s a
great bhakta saint, but to many he’s just a cute little village man from West
Bengal presently living in California. His satsang is small because he doesn’t
allow projection, and he doesn’t perform psychotherapy. That filters out
everyone except the sincere who already have or develop a liking for the
teachings of Ramakrishna and his disciples. He leaves the therapy to the
therapists while he gently points you in the direction of understanding. In my
book that makes him an ideal guru.” (Reference)
Guruphiliac Jody Radzik: “My guru, a Ramakrishna
Math swami, is about the most low-key and unassuming person I’ve ever met. His
teaching is the same teaching his guru gave, which is the same teaching
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda gave. I have many problems with some aspects of
this teaching, and I expressed my opinions about them often in the context of
my weekly discussions with him and his satsang. Not once, ever, did he have
any problem with it at all. I’ve found some agreement with a few other members
of the group, but the bottom line is that it doesn’t perturb my guru in any
way at all.” (Reference)
Jody Radzik’s comments amount to
nothing more than face-saving
deceit and self-serving
hypocrisy. Jody seems to live in an
egocentric universe where
his experiences, opinions and beliefs
are tantamount and superior to everyone else’s. What about other’s convictions
about the genuineness of
their experiences with
their own chosen Guru? What about other’s beliefs and ideas
about an
“ideal guru”? Apparently, no one else’s opinions or
experiences matter except Jody Radzik’s.
Jody thinks he is
perfectly entitled to criminally libel other’s Gurus (under the
direction of voices he hears in head, which he attributes to Kali Ma), all the
while ferventy protecting his own chosen Guru, sniveling that others are
“criminally libeling my guru” (whom appears to be Swami Chetanananda
from the Kali Mandir). Jody is essentially trying to argue that his Guru is
better than all other Gurus. Consequently,
all of Jody’s opinions, arguments and
judgments about Gurus are deflated, irrelevant, superficial and just
plain weird.
Jody Radzik’s Drug-Induced Experience Of Kali Ma:
Douglas Rushkoff: “Jody Radzik, for
example, believes he once encountered the spirit of Kali directly. To him,
there was nothing dark about it, he tells me as he makes a graffiti picture of
the goddess onto a billboard at a construction site in downtown Oakland: ‘I
can positively describe that experience as making love with God. I know that’s
what it was. Nobody can tell me different. I will argue until the day I die
that that’s what my experience was. It was a wonderful experience and it’s led
me to greater opening. Every now and then I do Ecstasy again because it brings
me back to that incredible experience that I can’t even begin to describe.
It’s there. It’s there that I learned how to make love with God. It’s how I
offered myself as a sex slave to God, through MDMA, and it’s brought me to
really a wonderful experience of life.’ Several TOPYs who are walking by stop
to watch Radzik paint. ‘Whoah!’ exclaims one girl. They stare in astonishment.
‘Better be careful, man!’ warns the largest of the guys, whose nose has at
least three rings in it. ‘Kali is dangerous. She’ll get you really hard. She’s
the Destroyer.’ The TOPYs shake their heads and walk on in horror and disdain.
Radzik looks up from his work and shouts after them with a wide smile: ‘Kali
has her fist up my ass up to her elbow and she loves every minute of it!’ (Reference)
When devotees attribute
extraordinary experiences or visions to their Gurus (without the aid of drugs),
it’s all
“projection” according to Jody Radzik. But when Jody Radzik
had a
drug-induced experience
(and re-induced the experience by using illegal psychedelic drugs), he claimed
his sex-slave hallucinations were
real experiences. This is the
type of Anti-Guru weirdo who attempts to invalidate others spiritual
experiences.
Jody’s Gospel of “Who” & Blurbs About
“Brahman”
It is perplexing, amusing and highly entertaining to
note that the Guru-Bashing addict, Jody Radzik, actually talks and preaches
exactly like Gurus do! No kidding! Let us look at Jody’s
cultish introduction of the concept of
“who”. What? Yes, the concept of
“who”. Haven’t you heard of it before? Before you start sounding like a
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, let us allow Jody to explain (taken from his
nonduallogicality archive, emphasis on
“who” added:
References:
01 -
02):
Jody Radzik: “It occurred to me that thinking
of who as a quantity is a measure of realization’s effect on
a life.
Before awakening, we are our who exclusively.
When we decide to embark on a spiritual journey to find ourselves, we start
out by adding to this who, sometimes greatly adding to it,
with the materials we come across while being spiritual people.
As far
as I can tell, much of spirituality seems to only add to who
levels. Sure, it may turn you into a bliss bunny, and that’s certainly good
consolation for some. But being a bliss bunny is only a different color of
who. Many, many people get stuck right here. If they can feel
bliss around their guru, they think they’re getting “it”. These folk spend
their lives chasing experience, never really seeing the truth that lay just
beyond, in plain view, the whole time they were looking for it.
There
was just too much spiritual who in the way.
In order
to reduce your who, you’ve got to turn your mind back on
itself, and attempt to learn as much about your process as possible, and do so
fearlessly. You’ve got to become an eater of who, processing
the landscape of emotional complexes through your awareness of them. You’ve
got to dive into your most fearsome nightmares. That is the only way to truly
know yourself and get access to your deepest who.
And
perhaps after a few decades or so, you'll suddenly see that you are not this
who at all. You'll understand in a very clear and very real
way, that you are ‘that’.
But, that doesn’t suddenly drain the
who out of the mind. The who which was still
there sticks around, and changes gradually in the awareness of ‘that’. This is
what I mean about levels of who indicating the effect that
realization has had on a life.
So start eating your
who, slowly at first. A therapist can be really helpful here,
but you should probably make an effort to find a good one. I'd recommend one
trained at a transpersonal psych college. That’s no guarantee of quality, but
at least they'll be able to get their heads around your spiritual
trip.”
Say what? Who is Jody trying to fool with this Guru
Talk? Not only did the above comments make
no sense, Jody is
talking about realization as if he is realized! Oh yeah, Jody
claimed he is realized! After eating through all his
“who”, the end result is Jody’s disgust that Guru’s poo! Now that
sounds like a realization worth striving for.
Jody Radzik: “Brahman is indivisible, and
Atman is Brahman. Atman is not separated from Brahman to become a “drop,” it
is the whole Brahman known to an individual life.
There was never any
separation. There is only apparent separation. It’s a mirage, not a difference
in location.
Seeing ourselves as these “drops” puts a layer of symbolic
thinking between personal and impersonal awareness, keeping personal from
opening up to see what’s always been present, the impersonal
truth.
Breaking the bonds and opening awareness would be the trick. I
guess that’s what spiritual practice is about. However, even with those bonds
we think need breaking, we are always right here, in front of our noses, as
Brahman.”
The
BIG questions are: Is Jody
self-realized? Is he enlightened? Why would Jody speak about Brahman if he has
not realized Brahman? Why would Jody tell us that
“breaking the bonds and
opening awareness” is
“the trick”, if he has not broke the bonds
and opened his awareness? Essentially, Jody is setting himself up as some sort
of Guru figure who lays claim to
special wisdom about Brahman,
Realization, the Atman and the Truth (claims that Gurus happen to make, by the
way). Perhaps the reason why Jody makes special claims about realization is
because he claims he is realized:
Reference. Jody said,
“But the lesson of the evening for
me was that people who call themselves spiritual will never believe that I'm
realized. I'm just way too out there for them. Ma has made me the counter
example to all they’ve come to expect about spirituality and about realized
folk.”It is laughable when
“non-dualists” attempt to
express their non-dual
“truths” by utilizing the vehicle of duality. As
soon as non-duality is preached, five main things blossom into existence: 1) The
speaker; 2) The spoken, 3) The means by which the spoke is spoken; 4) That to
which the spoke is spoken and 5) The means by which the spoken is heard,
understood, assimiliated, etc. As soon as Jody opens his mouth to talk about
non-duality, he is affirming and preaching duality by utilizing the vehicle of
duality. To whom exactly is the explanation of
“oneness” for, if there
is only the
“self” and none other? Why is it that duality is easily
perceived and validated in our everyday life, yet non-duality is unseen,
difficult to grasp and is mummified in spiritual terms and philosophy? One would
think that an easily validated
“truth” is more meritorious than one not
so easily validated. In Advaita Vedanta, the opposite holds true. I'm sure Jody
has a good explanation for those who are gullible (some would say
“brainwashed”) enough to believe him. Maybe I fail to understand these
things because I haven’t eaten enough of my
“who”? Then again, maybe
non-dualists are
“projecting” (Jody’s term) their inner emptiness,
inner void, self-negation and denial onto the Universe? There’s a
thought!
There is another perfectly good reason why we shouldn’t believe
Jody. He poops! No matter how deep his insights, how vast his realizations, how
profound his experiences, Jody (like other Gurus) is no better than anyone else
because he poops in the pot just like everyone else! Jody should change his
Gospel of
“Who” to the Gospel of
“Poo”. The only problem with
Jody’s blurbs about
“truth” the spiritual path and nonduality is that
he poops. He is unbelievable for this reason alone. Enough said! After all, this
is the logic that Jody generally uses against Gurus.
The Two-Sides Of Projection
Jody is no dummy. He knows how to weave
thoughts and concepts that superficially appeal to those who are rational and
logical. Jody rightly points out that followers (devotees) essentially project
“enlightenment”,
“powers”,
“holiness”,
“purity”, etc. onto their
“Gurus”,
“Religious
Figures” and/or
“Religious Objects”. I agree. However, I also
believe that non-followers (ex/non-devotees) essentially project their
negativity, hate, anger, fear, un-holiness, impurity, etc. onto
“Gurus”,
“Religious Figures” and/or
“Religious
Objects”. That’s right, this is a two way street. Jody bashes positive
projections from followers but doesn’t say one word about
his
negative projections or the negative projections from non-followers!
Kali Ma & Solving The Pooping Issue
Jody has a big problem with
pooping Gurus. The thought that Guru’s poop disgusts Jody so much he cannot
fathom being devoted or eulogizing anyone that poops. Enter Kali Ma! Stone idols
and paper pictures of Kali Ma don’t poop. Pooping problem solved!
Jody Radzik Dumps Nirvana For Ecstasy & Glorifies Drugs
Reference:
E-volution
“You touch the darkness--the feminine, the gross, whatever you
see as dark,'' Jody Radzik explains to Diana as they hand out flyers in
the street for a new house club. “When you’re on Ecstasy, the drug forces
you to become who you really are. You don’t get any positive experience from a
drug like cocaine; it’s a lie. But with Ecstasy, it can have a positive effect
on the rest of your life!''
Jody and Diana are on their way to a
club called Osmosis, a house event which occurs every Thursday night at DV8, a
downtown San Francisco venue, for which Radzik serves as promotional director.
Promoting house, though, is almost like promoting Ecstasy. The drug and
subculture have defined and fostered each other. Osmosis is proud of the fact
that it mixes gay, straight, glam, and house culture, and Radzik--a gamine,
extremely young thirty-year-old with a modified Hamlet haircut and a
mile-a-minute mouth--credits E with their success.
“There’s a
sexual element to house. E is an aphrodisiac and promiscuity is big. In
everyday life men usually repress their ‘anima.’ Ecstasy forces you to
experience what’s really going on inside.” Diana (who runs her own house
club down the block) is amused by Jody’s inclination to talk about taboo
subjects. Jody goes on proudly, exuberantly, and loud enough for everyone else
in the street to hear. Being publicly outrageous is a valued personality trait
in E culture adapted from Kesey’s Merry Pranksters.
“E has a
threshold. It puts you in that aahh experience, and you stay there. It might
get more intense with the number of hits you take, but it’s not like acid,
which, with the more hits you take, the farther you’re walking from consensus
culture. With E, your ability to operate within the confines of culture
remain. You can take a lot of E and still know that that’s a red light, or
that there’s a cop here and you don’t want to fuck up too much. On acid, you
can be completely out of your head, and walking in a completely different
reality.”
“So E is not simply watered-down LSD. While acid was
a ‘test’, Ecstasy is a ‘becoming’. Acid involved a heroic journey, while E is
an extended moment. The traditional bell curve of the acid trip and its
sometimes brutal examination and stripping of ego is replaced with a similar
vision but without the paranoia and catharsis. By presenting insight as a
moment of timelessness, E allows for a much more cyberian set of conclusions
than the more traditional, visionquest psychedelics.”
“Rather
than squashing personal taste and creating legions of Birkenstock clones, E
tends to stimulate the user’s own inner nature. Hidden aspects of one’s
personality--be it homosexuality, transvestitism, or just love and
creativity--demand free expression. All this is allowed to happen, right away,
in the E-nvironment of the house club. Reintegration on E is unnecessary
because the E-xperience itself has an immediately social context. If anything,
the E trip is more socially integrated than baseline reality. E turns a room
of normal, paranoid nightclubbers into a teaming mass of ecstatic Global
Villagers.”
To Radzik, the club lights, music, and Ecstasy are
inseparable elements of a designer ritual, just like the campfire, drumbeats,
and peace pipe of a Native American tribal dance. Arriving at the club in time
for the sound check, Jody and Diana dance a while under the work lights.
Jody’s diatribe continues as he demonstrates the new hip-hop steps he picked
up in Los Angeles last week.
“The Ecstasy comes through the house
music. The different polyrhythmic elements and the bass ... this is current
North American shamanism. It’s technoshamanism. E has a lot to do with it. It
really does. I get a little nervous but I’ve got to tell the truth about
things. But the system is probably going to react against the E
element.''
Diana cuts in: “And then they'll just shut you down
like they closed our party last week.” She takes a cigarette from behind her
ear and lights it. Jody still dances while Diana stands and smokes. Neither he
nor the E culture will be taken down that easily. “E is an enzyme that’s
splicing the system. E is like a cultural neurotransmitter that’s creating
synaptic connections between different people. We’re all cells in the
organism. E is helping us to link up and form more dendrites. And our culture
is finally starting to acknowledge the ability of an individual to create his
own reality. What you end up with, what we all have in common, is common human
sense.''
The E-inspired philosophy borrows heavily from the
scientific and mathematics theories of the past couple of decades. House kids
talk about fractals, chaos, and morphogenetic fields in the same sentence as
Deee-Lite’s latest CD. Jody’s cultural neurotransmitter'' image refers back to
James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis, which is the now well-supported notion that
planet Earth is itself a giant, biological organism. The planet is thought to
maintain conditions for sustaining life through a complex series of feedbacks
and iterations. A population of ocean microorganisms, for example, may
regulate the weather by controlling how much moisture is released into the
atmosphere. The more feedback loops Gaia has (in the form of living plants and
animals), the more precisely “she” can maintain the ecosystem. Evolution is
seen more as a groping toward than a random series of natural selections. Gaia
is becoming conscious. Radzik and others have inferred that human beings serve
as Gaia’s brain cells. Each human being is an individual neuron, but unaware
of his connection to the global organism as a whole. Evolution, then, depends
on humanity’s ability to link up to one another and become a global
consciousness.
These revelations all occur to house kids like Jody
under the influence of E. This is why they call the drug a “cultural
enzyme” The Ecstasy helps them see how they’re all connected. They accept
themselves and one another at face value, delighted to make their
acquaintance. Everyone exposed to E instantly links up to the Gaian neural
net. As more people become connected, more feedback and iteration can occur,
and the Gaian mind can become more fully conscious. Jody and Diana both
believe that house culture and the Gaian mindset literally “infect”
newcomers to the club like a virus. As Osmosis opens, Jody watches a crowd of
uninitiated clubbers step out onto the dance floor, who, despite their
extremely “straight” dress, are having a pretty Ex-uberant
time.
“This looks like a group of people that might be
experimenting with Ecstasy for the first time. They’re going to remember this
night for the rest of their lives. This is going to change them. They are
going to be better people now. They’re infected. It’s like an information
virus. They take it with them into their lives. Look at them. They’re dancing
with each other as a group. Not so much with their own partners. They’re all
smiling. They are going to change as a result of their participation in house.
Their worldview is going to change.”
Indeed, the growing crowd
does seem uncharacteristically gleeful for a Thursday-night dance club. Gone
are the pickup lines, drunken businessmen, cokeheads, and cokewhores. The
purposeful social machinations--getting laid, scoring drugs, or gaining
status--seem to be overrun by the sheer drive toward bliss. Boys don’t need to
dance with their dates because there’s no need for possessiveness or control.
Everyone feels secure--even secure enough to dance without a partner in a
group of strangers.
Whether that carries into their daily life is
another story. Certainly, a number of new “cyberian converts” are
made each evening. But the conversions are made passively, as the name of the
club implies, through Osmosis. “Unlike acid, which forces users to find
ways to integrate their vision into working society, E leads them to believe
that integration occurs in the same moment as the bliss. The transformation is
a natural byproduct--a side effect of the cultural virus.
As club regulars
arrive, they wink knowingly at one another.” Jody winks and nods at few,
who gesture back coyly. The only information communicated, really, is “I
am, are you?” The winkers are not so much the “in” crowd as the
fraternity of the converted. They’re all part of what one T-shirt calls
“The E Conspiracy”. These are the carriers of the cultural virus. No
need to say anything at all. The E and the music will take care of everything
(wink, wink).
“The sixties went awry because they wanted a sweeping
cultural change to go on overtly,” explains Radzik, nodding to two girls
he’s sure he has seen before. They wink back. “And that didn’t happen.
What’s different about house is that no one’s trying to ‘spread the message.’
It’s more like, we’re into it because we love it, but we’re not out to convert
people. ‘Groove is in the heart’ [a Deee-Lite lyric]. We just want to expose
people to it. People decide that they’re into it because they respond to it on
a heart level. I think the bullshit’s going to come apart of its own
accord.”
“So is this a dance floor filled with socially aware,
fully realized designer beings? Certainly not. It’s a dance floor filled with
smart kids, sexy kids, not-so smart kids, and not-so sexy kids, but they do
seem to share an understanding, in the body, of the timeless quality of bliss
and how to achieve it through a combination of dance and E. Even the music,
playing at precisely 120 beats per minute, the rate of the fetal heartbeat,
draws one into a sense of timeless connection to the greater womb--Gaia. The
lyrics all emphasize the sound ‘eee.’ ‘Evereeebodeee’s freee,’ drones one
vocal, in pleeesing gleeeful breeezes, winding their way onto the extreeemely
wide smiles of dancing boys and girls. It’s just the E! Likewise, the way in
which E infiltrates society is much less time-based and confrontational than
was the case with acid. E infiltrates through the experience of bliss, so
there’s nothing to say or do about it. The meta agenda here is to create a
society with no agenda.”
As Jody screams over the din of the house
music, “Fuck the agendas. We just have to manifest our culture. You have
to trust your heart. That’s what Jesus really said. And that’s what E does. It
shows people they have their own common sense. They realize, I don’t need
this!”
Bruce Eisner shows up at about midnight, exploring the
house scene and its relationship to Ecstasy for the second edition of his book
Ecstasy: The MDMA Story. A veteran of the sixties and just a bit too old to
fit in with this crowd, he almost sighs as he explains to E-nthusiastic
clubbers how E’s preservation of social skills and ego make it a much better
social transformer than the psychedelics of his day.
“In the
sixties, we were sure we were going to have this revolution that would change
everything overnight. And it never came. We got the seventies instead.” A
few girls laugh. They were born in the seventies. Bruce smiles slowly. He’s
got a dozen stoned kids hanging on his every word, when in fact he’s trying to
understand them.
“With E, you don’t get so far out, like on acid,
where you lose touch with the physical world. It allows you an easier time to
bring the insights back in. Huxley talked a lot about the importance of
integrating the mystical experience with the worldly experience. He had that
one trip where he decided, ‘The clear light is an ice cube. What’s important
is love and work in the world.’ And love and work in the world is what Ecstasy
shows you. It’s a model for enlightenment, and the challenge is bringing that
into the real world.”
So maybe revolution has become evolution as
house culture awakens to the fact that there is method behind Gaia'a madness,
and that Darwin wasn’t completely right. Life naturally evolves toward greater
self-awareness, and we don’t need to push it anywhere. The universe is not a
cold sea of indifference but the warm, living waters of an oversoul composed
of waves of love--Gaia’s morphogenetic fields. The mock self-assuredness of
the “me” generation gives way to the inner wink-wink-say-no-more knowing of
the E generation, as the sixties bell curve finally touches down, and ego
fully reintegrates into a postpsychedelic culture.
Interesting Links & Stuff About Jody Radzik
- Ape Man Exposes Godmen
- Guruphiliac Jody Radzik Blog
- Jody Radzik’s Pictures
Of A Rave In Sante Fe
- Jody’s Yahoo
Profile
- Jody’s
Wikipedia Profile
- Some Of Jody’s Postings On The “Ammachi Free Zone” Yahoo
Group
- Some of Jody’s Postings On The “Nonduality Salon” Yahoo
Group
- Some of Jody’s Postings On The “Meditation Society Of America”
Yahoo Group
- 1,600 posts for “JodyR” on Google Groups
- Guruphiliac Can’t Find A Date
- View A Poem That Jody Posted In Praise Of Kali Ma
- Douglas Rushkoff stated:
Rushkoff: “My good friend Jody Radzik - the guy
who first introduced me to raves, actually - started up a blog this year.
Jody is about the most loving and optimistic person I’ve ever known. That’s
why I was surprised that instead of touting a new spiritual or cultural
phenomenon, Radzik had decided to bash one.”
- Click Here to read one of Jody Radzik’s posts on Google
Groups defending the use of marijuana.
- Click Here to read how Jody said:
Guruphiliac Jody Radzik: “If Adi Da is a
regular user of marijuana he’s just gone up 50 points in my
book!”
- Four months after this
page was published (exposing Jody Radzik’s shameless use and promotion of
illegal drugs) he posted the following comment on a blog:
Guruphiliac Jody Radzik: “Yeah. I need to be
stoned ALL the time.” (Reference)
- Click
Here to read the following post:
“Jody Radzik, identified in a Rolling Stone feature on smart
drugs and rave culture as ‘one of the [rave] crowd’s resident gurus,’
believes that ‘[t]he planet is waking up…Humans are the brain cells. The
axons of the nerve cells are the telephone lines.’”
- Click Here to view the archive to HarshaSatsangh and where
Jody said:
Guruphliac Jody Radzik: “Fortunately, we have
the shelter of the Great Saints and Sages to take refuge with. When we come
to be blessed with sincere aspiration their grace will manifest in a myriad
of ways, assuring us an appropriate course of action in our spiritual
practice no matter what role we are playing in the world.”
I
didn’t know there were Great Saints and Sages who didn’t poop. Is it possible
that Jody changed his views? Don’t you just hate when people flip-flop,
willy-nilly, from one extreme to the other?
- Click Here to read an amusing thread where Radzik, Jody goes
all out of his way to defend his systematic bashing of Gurus, all the while
praising and defending his belief in the Hindu Goddess, Kali Ma. Jody doesn’t
realize that he is projecting power, holiness and divinity onto his concept of
Kali Ma (ironically, a behavior he bashes with devotees of Gurus). Jody acts
exactly like devotees, constantly referring to “Ma”
and whatever she wills for him. Jody acts (or tries to act) like a realized
person who knows “The Truth”. The big question is: Are you willing to
let your son or daughter get addicted to Ecstasy and Psychedelics to find
“The Truth” that Jody is pushing through drug-induced
hallucinations?
In Conclusion
In a nutshell, the
guruphiliac blog bashes
Gurus because they poop and their followers project stuff on them. Period.
That’s really what this blog is all about. Jody also attempts to inject some
humor into his posts (which he does with some success) but at the cost of truth
(Jody mixes truths with untruths; or more bluntly, truths with bold-faced
lies). Jody is doing all this stuff because he believes he is
realized (
Reference) and is being guided by the Spirit of the Hindu
Goddess Kali Ma! Those who dissent with Jody are usually retaliated against
using five primary tactics:
- Name-calling.
- Accusing the other person of “projecting” (although Jody doesn’t
“project” at all).
- Bringing up the “E” word (“ego”, not
“ecstasy”).
- Publicly divulging other’s emails and then encouraging his entourage of
anonymous and potty-mouthed “followers” to e-mail them with complaints.
- Accusing others of being funded or being “paid shills” (let’s not
bring up the issue of who supplied him with club drugs, funded his purchase of
club drugs and is funding his Anti-Guru campaign : Ouch). I also surmise, in
private, Jody might also accuse others of not eating enough of their
“who”.
Hopefully, now that you understand Jody Radzik and
his
guruphiliac blog better, enjoy, laugh and take everything you read
with a grain of salt. It doesn’t get much weirder than this folks!
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Radzik-
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Here For “Jody Radzik - Critic Of Ammachi”
Article-
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Here For “Guruphiliac Jody Radzik - Pervert For Kali”(Content duplicated
from saisathyasai.com with permission.)
