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As children, we grow up listening to stories of great men and women. We are also introduced to mythological figures who we say we can count on in times of trouble. I personally feel this is a great injustice to children and to all who are forced into such indoctrinations. Let me explain why.

Mythological indoctrinations give “indoctrinees” a false sense of hope and expectation, and then when things go wrong in life we are left to question the entire belief system that we were forced into or were encouraged into. As a boy, I was told that Jesus was born from a “virgin” birth and that after death he arose into heaven where he sits next to God The Father on some kind of throne, surrounded by angels, overlooking creation. Well, this Jesus mythology is not very comforting when you consider the vast amount of suffering that has transpired over the past two thousand years. To think that such a god sits in a throne, all comfortable in heaven, while nations of men threaten the very existence of the human race with ever-increasing destructive technologies is a terrible charade, the say the least. As a parent, if I were to watch passively as a child walked into the street only to get hit by an oncoming car, what would you call me if I saw the car coming but cared not to intercede and save the child? I personally believe I would be a cold and callous person. Now, what to say of such a mythological image of a god in a throne in heaven sitting there while man edges every day closer to worldwide destruction and self-destruction? All of this is the result of the mythological mentality that we are indoctrinated into. We are asked to believe in something that does not exist.

The message of the Himalayan yogis is simple: when you sit in meditation, what do you hear? The Cosmic Hum or OM, that is all! So, for these great and simple and virtuous men, that is what they want you to believe in - that which you can perceive firsthand in meditation, without any silly mythologies that set you up for a false belief and then let you down when life becomes overwhelming. Last night there was a program on 20/20 - an ABC News special Friday night program - where people more than ever are jumping to their death from San Francisco’s Golden Gate bridge. Surely, the reality of mythology has caused them at least in part to bring them to the point of self-collapse, where their god has seemingly abandoned them, or has not appeared to help, and thus they feel no more hope and thus have lost their will to live.

The opposite side of mythology is also prevalent in the Islamic faith. Fundamental Islamics are told they will go to heaven and men will gain seven virgins in heaven if they kill anyone who is not a professed Islamic. Such is the malevolent power of mythology.

In fundamentalist Christianity, whomever does not conform to a very strict doctrinal view that the Bible is the literal word of God and that not adhering to this viewpoint means eternal damnation in hellfire after death, is yet another monstrous manifestation of mythology that is forced on people and that forever shapes society and human beings.

False mythologies have moved man to the brink of self-destruction. There is only one hope: the experience of meditation and in meditation we see that there in no need to believe in anything. The “authority” of religionists, in my opinion, is completely bogus. They are more lost than the average person. They are conspirators in the near-destruction of people. The yogis are the saviors because they say “forget all that you have been taught. Just meditate and let the truth manifest directly to you, apart from the ignorance of those who profit from your non-awareness.”

Meditation is the path “beyond faith” and “beyond belief”. It is the path of direct experience, and what could possibly be better than that? I say nothing, absolutely nothing. We need to establish meditation centers across the world so that we can all have solidarity, unity, and oneness through a common life experience, not through false mythological beliefs which cause us to further subdivide.

Mythology is verily poison to the human being and human soul.

Meditation is its solution and definitive remedy and elixir.

Tags: buddha, om //