Turn to the Left
The Turn to the Left is a Connection Outcome. It is a form of Activation whereby the individual develops more progressive political, social, economic, and spiritual values. [1]
Examples
Enhanced Connection > Intramonadic Communication, Noesis, Past Life Memories, Realization of Immortality, Recollection, The Family of Spirit, Transcendence, Turn to the Left
List of Connection Outcomes
Connection Outcomes > Connection Pathology, Déjà vu, Emotional Cleansing, Emotional Satisfaction, Enlightenment, Existential Terrors, Healing, Liberation, Perfect Connection, Perfected Connection, Perfection, Permanent Connection, Physical Sensations, Psychotic Mysticism, Realization of Self, Ritambharapragya, Spontaneous Alignment, The Unity, Transformation, Union
Notes
Jesus was a revolutionary. [2] He represented a powerful, charistmatic, grass-roots spiritual and political challenge to the Roman status quo.[3]
In China, in and around 100-200 C.E., a proliferation of revelatory and visionary experiences prompted ongoing "Rebellions against the existing order..." [4]
Thomas Merton experienced a significant turn to the left following his Connection Experiences. "Merton too on social issues--writing, for example, on civil rights and against racism--long before such things were fashionable. His outlook struck a chord. Eldridge Cleaver, the former Black Panther leader and author of Soul on Ice, noted that no white man wrote with such a sympathetic eye on the plight and poignancy of Harlem as Merton Did." [5]
I describe the case of Las Casas, a brutal Spanish colonizers who, after a brief Connection Experience, rejected his country's barbarous exploitation of slaves and instead worked politically to end the practice.[6]. Sosteric calls this the Turn to the Left
Ralph Waldo Emerson, a person that by his description of the Oversoul is one who certainly had more than one Connection Experience was a "radical."[7]
Nour et al. [8] "lifetime psychedelic use... positively predicted liberal political views, openness and nature relatedness, and negatively predicted authoritarian political views, after accounting for potential confounding variables."
Footnotes
- ↑ Sosteric, Mike. “Mystical Experience and Global Revolution.” Athens Journal of Social Sciences 5, no. 3 (2018): 235–55.
- ↑ This is a really excellent article on the revolutionary Jesus and his political and historical context. Gasper, Phill. “Jesus the Revolutionary?” Socialist Worker, 2011. https://socialistworker.org/2011/12/14/jesus-the-revolutionary.
- ↑ Rethinking the Origins and Purpose of Religion: Jesus, Constantine, and the Containment of Global Revolution.” Athens Journal of Social Sciences 9, no. 1 (2020): 69–88. https://www.academia.edu/34970150/Rethinking_the_Origins_and_Purpose_of_Religion_Jesus_Constantine_and_the_Containment_of_Global_Revolution.
- ↑ Kohn, Livia, ed. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York, 1993. p. 16.
- ↑ Harmless, William. Mystics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. p. 24.
- ↑ Mike Sosteric. "Mystical Experience and Global Revolution." Athens Journal of Social Sciences 5 3 (2018): 235-55. [1]
- ↑ Atkinson, Brooks. “Introduction.” In The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralp Waldo Emerson. New York: Modern Library, 1950. p. xii.
- ↑ Nour, Matthew M., Lisa Evans, and Robin L. Carhart-Harris. “Psychedelics, Personality and Political Perspectives.” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 49, no. 3 (August 7, 2017): 182–91. https://doi.org/10.1080/02791072.2017.1312643 p. 182.
