Das Mysterium von Michael Jackson und Sathya Sai Baba
("The Enigma of Michael Jackson and Sathya Sai Baba")
by Margott Schürings
ISBN-10: 3934281001
ISBN-13: 978-3934281004
Language: German
* A provocative book that puts together the puzzle that regular thought denies to recognize
* The "King of Pop" and the greatest scientist of all times are luminaries of forgotten knowledge and of the awakening of a several centuries old dream
* Michael Jackson Sathya Sai Baba are unique, each one in their own way. Vilified and rejected, defamed, praised- humiliated, glorified and exalted.
* Margott Schürings, Doctor of Philosophy, has elected MJ and Satha Sai Baba for this book, they have not been "chosen".
* The first and only book- worldwide- that illuminated the spiritual side of Michael Jackson
[
I guess that was indeed true for 1999 when the book was first published]
* For all those who consciously departed onto this journey- at it's end one realizes that one has travelled from oneself to One Self. ...
... the dream continues...
... this time around it is a dream dreamt lucid and awake...
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Translation of the summary as found on
www.amazon.de:
This universal book of counsel is a challenging the consciousness of the masses. It deals with the broad topics of spiritual issues when examining both The King of Pop and the Avatar. The book proves that the truth is everywhere and that there is no location where truth is not. It proves that limited thought and lack of imagination in mankind is the reason that mankind does not know what to do- nor does mankind know itself.
Many carrying knowledge have spoken- from Jesus to Goethe, from Wilber to Ghandi, from Hesse to Laotse.
New and interesting is the mix of sources here and the proof that there is no place where God is not. What mankind considers reality is unreal and what mankind consider unreal, is reality. What mankind divides- is One. God and men, SPIRIT and nature, energy and matter- all these are different names and shapes for the One Truth that is without a name.
I AM- GOD IS- OM.
Edit: Will add English chapter summaries just in case there is someone out there as nuts as I am.
h34r:
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English chapter summaries:
Michael Jackson- hereinafter "MJ"
Sathya Sai Baba- herinafter "SSB"
[thank God his middle name doesn't start with an "O"]
mankind = humankind, regardless of current gender understanding
[italic remarks in brackets are 'editorial comments' by me to facilitate better understanding through nuances used, context etc]
General comment: The book is only 192 pages long and one could seriously finish it in just a few hours. Apologies if it sounds complicated- it really isn't. It just sounds more complex since I am avoiding an actual translation which I don't feel okay with unauthorized, hence my attempt to summarize which is almost as long as the actual chapters. Translating it would be almost easier, I'm afraid.
The author does refer to literally everyone who came before her, hence the constant references.
P.S.: My summarizing does not mean agreement or rejecting of the subjects and conclusions drawn...
Foreword Second Edition 2009: [First Edition 1999 !]
Author declares that MJ now resides in the "place with no name"; not as the King Of Pop- but as a great soul, a Mahātmā.
[author seems to refer to the use of the word as used by Helena Blavatsky and in the theosophical literature that followed, since Blavatsky is listed as source very early on in the index]
Chapter 1: "The Diagnosis"
- Author proposes that all mankind suffers from a rampant disease.
-This disease being the 'collective amnesia' within mankind.
-What mankind has forgotten are the essential questions of "Who am I? Who are you? Where did we come from? Author cites "Are you listening?" by MJ, from "Dancing the Dream".
-Author seeks confirmation of MJ's questions by citing SBB, who in turn referred to the Vedanta and also the
Sanathana Sarathi by SSB.
-Author explains meanings, history etc of Vedanta, explores the word "veda/knowledge".
-Author further explores the importance that "Who am I? Who are you?" had to SSB and the general importance of wondering "who am I and where did I come from".
-Author references James Redfield's "Celestine Prophecy", citing Redfield as "mankind running through the world, wearing the blinders intentionally."
Chapter 2: "The Reminders and those who remind us"
- Author implores reader to listen to the messages of those two who she considers unaffected of such amnesia: MJ and SSB.
- Author cites "Two Birds" by MJ from "Dancing the Dream", relates the purpose of the book to finding the second bird and ask how one can possibly find the second bird when not knowing what it actually is that one is looking for.
-Author hypothesizes about the relevance of the search for our getting healed from aforementioned amnesia.
- Theorizes that healing will be achieved upon remembrance of who we are and where we come from.
- Compares not knowing to a river that doesn't know where it springs from.
- Suggests that the past consists of lessons to be learned as the only way to be present in the present.
-Author suggests that those who wish for healing from amnesia, need to sharpen their memory until they remember all that they once knew.
[one could cut that short by calling it the "Ancient Wisdom" as many have done- despite theosophical tendencies this book theosophical- at least not in my very, very limited understanding since the author clearly refers to a narrow human focus at least in the beginning of the book- as far as I understood Theosophy, these principles would be applied universally and not to mankind alone. Author seems to be coming for a Hinduism standpoint largely]
-Author cites SSB's analogy of the little boy who was playing with a brittle world map that breaks into many pieces upon which the Father suggests putting the map back together with tape. The proves nearly impossible for the little boy until he sees a human eye on the backside of a piece of paper that contains the world map on the other side. Other human body parts become visible on the pieces of paper and by assembling the human, the boy manages to piece together the world map that is printed on the other side.
-Author references Plato and his use of "amnesis" and the subsequent fragmentation that needs to be overcome.
-Author references and cites "A Course in Miracles"
[what the only sin and fall of mankind are according to ACIM) and that "reality didn't change just because it was forgotten". Cites that forgiveness shall be the way through which we remember.
Chapter 3: "The Heart's Eye"
- Author theorizes that one has to use the inner eye in order to dismantle the layers of the material to reach the essence.
> References to
Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince"> That one can only see well with the heart. The fox maintains logic and reasoning and the outwardly directed view.
- States that world and men are connected and that both suffer the destiny of the other.
- Author proposes that mankind will be holy, redeemed and delivered when understanding has been reached that one is hole and holy. (further states being aware of 'freak outs' upon the use of the word "holy")
- suggests that words and language are merely instruments and directional signs in the landscape.
That understanding is only possible when reaching the essence.
- Author states that words themselves are mere empty shells without meaning and that the meaning of words is thus not identical in people since words are being filled with meaning to create a whole that is filed with differing experiences and that no 2 people on this planet have the same exact experiences.
- Author delves into the difference between expression by the 'sayer' and the impression of the receiver.
Thus expression and impression are bound to differ due to the impossibility of 2 people assigning the same exact meaning to one word.
- A complete understanding is said to be therefore impossible between us through words since associations, feelings and thoughts supposedly blur the clear view of actual reality.
-That essence can be found when going beyond words to be open toward "Being" and reality.
- Author states that human evolution strives toward expression and impression becoming identical, but that this would be a rare occurrence in the current state of us.
- Suggests that readers are meant to do just that- to find for themselves if the author's words are to be filled with the readers interpretation and for the words to be used for their own purposes, or if the reader is willing look with the heart to see what the author is trying to express?
- Cites Descartes' "Cogito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am) and assigns that conclusion the role of a fatal dogma that confirms "being" being bound form.
- Maintains that this dogma is bondage and enchains both science and scientists.
If man would learn to love first and only analyze and judge second- then a portal to reality could be found since only thought born from love can mirror reality that is eternal und unchangeable.
- Cites MJ's song "Childhood" as proof of MJ's plea to switch the sequence of judgement and loving around. ("Before you judge me, try hard to love me", HIStory)
Author then asks if he meant himself personally or if was expressing an eternal law?
- Author takes side excursion to Plato's "Theory of Forms" [
or "Theory of Ideas"] and his "anamnesis".
Author condensed it into "nothing fills man from the outside, but man remembers something that is already innate, but was forgotten."
- Suggests that the idea originates from a place beyond thinking and the mind and therefore cannot be grasped with concepts and words, but can be revealed through "knowing" and lived through awareness revealing itself without words in a direct fashion.
Cites "Heal The World. ("There's a place in your heart and I know that it is love.")
- States "I know that I don't know" to be the first step on the path of true knowledge and proceeds to assert that science merely constructs a reality on the basis of theories and trying to prove these theories, that every theory has a counter theory. (includes statistics and math models)
- Refers to science as Believe-ism and cites the earth is flat as such example.
- States that there is only one truth and that Jesus of everyone narrowed it down.
Cites:
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus declared, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes;..."
- Author maintains that inspiration means for the reasoning mind to be void of outward concepts and ideas, so that spirit may fill it.
- Declares that religion and science are both believe systems, but considers them necessary help for verdant ("unripe") humans, maintaining that nobody has a right to takes this support away.
- States that science often wanted to disprove something with the result that truth has been found.
Cites examples of Para-Psychologists who traveled to India with the goal to "expose" SBB as charlatan etc. Cites another example of a journalist with the same intentions. When SBB answered all questions in a 2.5 hours interview without the journalist even having asked a single question. Journalist concluded that SBB is all knowing.
- According to the author children are the ones in teaching us what knowledge is as it relates to knowledge through experience.
- States that there is no reason and no explanation for such knowledge and that true knowledge cannot be explained or substantiated because that would be a function of the mind and reasoning while true knowledge is located somewhere beyond the mind.
- How can the intellect comprehend something that is outside of its reach because the reason for it is out its reach?
- author then poses rhetorical question what all of this has to do with MJ and SBB? PATIENCE.
Patience is being described as the first virtue on the journey; said journey has to be one from the heart as only then comprehension will be possible.
- Cites SBB as there being only one language, the language of the heart. Cites passage from "Moonwalk" by MJ how certain foreign trips helped him deepen the understanding that there's more than things that hands can touch and eyes can see.
- Quotes a book on Merlin/King Arthur legend. "If you had looked into my eyes and felt my heart, you would have recognized me... ."- Author proposes that those who want to find their own Self should follow the tour guides and directional signs by the named of MJ and SBB.
That perhaps those that understand both MJ and SBB know themselves. And that one better not have any fear of heights since both leaders are 2 birds that kidnap us on occasion up into the air to release us gently onto the ground.
Chapter 4: Will update with more chapter summaries in English whenever I feel like I can handle this particular book again.
