The Psychology of the Esoteric: Insights Into Energy and Consciousness

By Osho

Book Overview

All that is valuable is esoteric. Ecstasy cannot be pragmatic. Love cannot be pragmatic. Trust cannot be pragmatic. The word esoteric simply means it is not objective, not scientific. It is something inner, something subjective, something so mysterious, so miraculous that you can experience it but you cannot explain it. You can have it, but still you cannot explain it. It remains beyond explanation. It is good that there is something in life which we cannot bring down to language, which we cannot bring down to the objective world, something which remains always beyond. We can become one with it - and that Osho describes as the work of his school. This early work by Osho is a University course in psychology and esoteric - two words which seem not to fit together at all, but Osho integrates everything in a way the human mind cannot. The subjects and areas addressed by Osho in this book cannot be described on the back cover of a book, it is only possible to indicate, to give a glimpse. This book is about becoming and being, an introduction to an understanding which allows a new view of ourselves and the existence around us. Why do we suffers from anxiety? We seem to be anxious to our very roots. What torments us, to begin with, is: To be or not to be? To do or not to do? To do this or to do that? "No choice" is not possible. If we do not choose, then we are choosing not to choose; it is a choice. So we are forced to choose; we are not free not to choose. The dignity, the beauty and the glory of humans is this consciousness. But it is a burden also. The glory and the burden come simultaneously the minute you become conscious. Osho speaks in this elaborate work about human revolution and as he uses the word here, it means a conscious, an effort toward an individual evolution. It is bringing individual responsibility to a peak. Only we are responsible for our own evolution. Ordinarily, humans try to escape from responsibility for their own evolution, from the responsibility of freedom of choice. While we long for freedom, there is a great fear of freedom. When we are slaves the responsibility for our life is never ours; someone else is responsible. So in a way, slavery is a very comfortable thing, there is no burden. In this respect, slavery is a freedom: freedom from conscious choice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0991237803
• ISBN13: 9780991237807
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Osho Media
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Grade Range: Grade 5 to Postsecondary

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In this one of at least one hundred and fifty five books, Osho as he callshimself, describes individual evolution and meditation on a very personal level. At the peak of his popularity in the mid 1980's, he and his massive number of followers all flocked to a rural town in Oregon. They bought most of the land and took control of the city council. They proclaimed a new name for the town "Rajneshland" after his first given name. People not familiar with his writings may see it as cultish, however in India he is seen as one of the foremost philosophers of modern Indian thought. As he defines it, the unconscious mind performs actions that are repetitive, that require no change in design or implementation to be carried out. He argues that the mind is capable of a higher awareness, but only in individuals who are open to the signs of inner awareness. Each level of consciousness has an inner and outer dimension. The first level starts with the body. The second level consists of the rising feeling felt during meditation.The moment the second level is entered, the third can be experienced without realizing it. It is only when this level has been achieved that one will haverealized that he has gone past it. The fourth level has even fewer boundaries, allowing a relatively easy transformation to take place. However, the boundary between the fourth and fifth is much larger than any boundary before it. The eyes are the key to getting through the fourth level to the fifth (for clarification, the opening of the frontal lobes is symbolized by the dot worn on the forehead of Indians as decoration, it is highly symbolized in Indian mythology). After the fifth, the stages grow exponentially in size. The sixth stage will have cosmic level proportions, an incomprehensible proportion impossible for most people to fathom. The seventh level has no size, it is the pre-existence of anything that has ever come to be. This is an excellent book for everyone, because the rules laid out can be applied to any situation. It teaches you to rely on yourself, instead of abstract deities and all of the other things that we seek to temporarily fix our insanity.