The Wayseer Manifesto
March 23, 2011Henry Baum 1 Comment »Charles Shaw linked to this today on Facebook. Hadn’t heard of it and apparently it’s pretty popular.
To me this looks like the Zeitgeist movement through the lens of “Entertainment Tonight.” But then, I read posts like this one and it’s hard to find fault with someone who’s had this profound an experience.
I think that LoPorto has found an artistic way of shining a light on an important, and often-ignored, part of the cultural water in which we swim: the woundedness of those who were born and raised in the dominant culture. In my experience, that’s the hardest piece of our present predicament for most people to consider. And yet, collectively, I’m convinced that we feel it in our bodies. This culture beat the hell out of us, labeled us, trained us, twisted our thinking, and made us believe that there was something wrong with us. When we interviewed Daniel Quinn, he made the point that the basic reason we “civilized” humans are destroying the planet is that we’re miserable. That has always resonated with me as true. And it’s one of the basic stories of our culture: human beings are inherently flawed, miserable creatures who should be loathed. (And when we’re not believing that, we’re believing that we’re God’s gift to the Universe, another mind-fuck that contributes to the destruction of the life of this planet.)
At core the message is a good one – it’s good to be a misfit. But here I am showing my prejudice – maybe if the guy looked like more of a misfit, maybe if he didn’t look like someone who’s used to admiring himself in the mirror, maybe if he didn’t refer to himself as a high priest – then his message would resonate more deeply.
Because to me I get a vibe of self-love:
Most people cannot sense the Way directly. … But then there are the Wayseers. The keepers of the flame. Wayseers have an unexplainable knack for just knowing the Way. They sense it in their very being. They can’t tell you why or how they arrived at the right answer. They just know it in their core. They can’t show their work. So don’t ask. Their minds simply resonate with the Way. When the Way is present, so are they.
Frankly, the shit creeps me out like any religion. But I guess if there’s ever going to be a shift in consciousness away from how things are going, there are going to have to be many different spokespeople who appeal to many different people. This one just isn’t for me.
March 23rd, 2011 at 2:01 pm
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