The historic revolution that had its epicenter in Tahrir Square is an inspiration to all seekers of freedom. The proof that a peaceful revolution is still possible is a great victory not only for Egyptians, but also, on the subtle plane, for the yogic archetype of ahimsa (non-violence). The echoes of Gandhi’s satyagraha movement are clear and strong. But of course not everyone is cheering. Just as, during the French Revolution, the aristocrats plotted to waylay the movement toward liberty, and just as not everyone cheered the American Revolution—certainly not the Tories or the British Empire—today’s empire is also plotting to make sure that their power elite will control the final outcome of this transition to a new Egyptian government. To bring about real tahrir (liberation), not only in Egypt, but everywhere on Earth, the peace movement will have to overcome the very source of our oppression: the human ego.

It is because of our egocentric proclivities that it is inevitable that revolutionaries morph into counter-revolutionaries, and revolutionary societies degenerate into oppressive empires. If we do not want to be yet again disappointed in the results of our courageous efforts, we must go to the heart of Mordor, and throw into the sacred fire our most precious possession: the ego’s ring of power. Only when we have sacrificed our desire for domination and control over others, in our personal lives as well as our collective political ambitions, and have liberated ourselves from the psychic forces within us that drive us toward narcissistic grandiosity and paranoid aggressivity, will authentic liberation be possible. For this, we need a revolution of consciousness. It is time for Tahrir Squared!

Liberation from enslavement to our internal system of psychic tyranny, which uses fear, desire, attachment, and self-deception to control us: this is the goal of all genuine spiritual practice. But just as political revolutions have always been co-opted and betrayed by egoic forces, our spiritual yearnings have also been co-opted by religious establishments and betrayed into becoming monstrosities of sectarian oppression. This is why, for many, the most ecstatic moment of the Egyptian revolution was the scene of Muslims and Christians praying together. No doubt, many Jews would have joined in their movement, even many Israelis, if they could. To be truly spiritual, we must overcome our own religious identifications. In Tahrir Square, religious individuals were marching with atheists, socialists, communists, surrealists, and no doubt even some post-structuralists. Many of the marchers were not identified with any political or philosophical orientation. Some were mainly self-identified as soccer fans. The point is that revolutions are inherently universalist in orientation. When fighting oppression, we come together again. Unity is our original nature. The drive toward unity is more primordial than the ego. It is ultimately an echo of the heart’s deepest yearning for union with the Absolute.

Tahrir Square was a revolution of the citizens of Egypt. But Tahrir² is the coming ultimate revolution of all human beings to liberate our planetary Mother, Gaia, from the scourge of destructive brutal greed that we ourselves have brought down upon her. To accomplish this planetary liberation we must overthrow the ego, once and for all. To dissolve the rule of the ego, and to replace it with the rule of Truth and Love, requires profound discernment, intensely focused will, and perseverance until the ego’s core has finally surrendered. This is the heart of all transformational meditative traditions, not only those deriving from India, but those from ancient Egypt itself, the fount of the deepest spiritual wisdom. Those who had the advanced technology that enabled them to build the pyramids also had the advanced psycho-technology that is encrypted in the Pyramid Texts, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Emerald Tablet and other Hermetic writings, and a variety of even more esoteric works of the original Egyptian yogis. Some of the most profound insights are inscribed on temple walls in hieroglyphs; some are hidden in plain sight as the form of temples and megaliths themselves; and some were secretly ensconced within the innermost chambers of mastabas, pyramids, and lost cities of mummified cadavers.

The unknown wisdom of the ancient world must be found anew. But we cannot hope to capture it through scholarly research. We will not achieve it simply by making a touristic pilgrimage to Egypt to meditate in a pyramid, or visit a temple in Damanhour. Not even a trip to the wondrous underground temples of the Damanhur community in Italy will suffice, unless we also make the inner journey to the Source. We must reach the same transcendent Source that the ancient yogis did, and download from the same Akashic Records, from the Alaya-Vigyana, from the highest strata of the cosmic noosphere, the supreme knowledge that will set us free.

The knowledge that we require is trans-conceptual. It is received during meditative centering of consciousness; the being-knowledge bubbles out of the Nothingness; it emanates energetically from the Zero Point in the form of luminous revelation; it deepens into overwhelmingly blissful realization; and it flowers as ultimate infinite eternal redemption. This knowledge can be acquired just by sitting quietly where you are, entering into inner silence, becoming the utter stillness, dissolving into Emptiness, coming Home, as Om: Beatitude of Infinite Light, Love, Grace, Fullness. We are the Source we have been seeking. Once the journey is done, the victory won, we remain as the One: the Rock of Ages. This Rock has sustained our spacetime matrix through all our historic eons, and shall be the foundation stone of the new cycle of cosmic time that is soon to come.

Consciousness is the One, and Cosmos is its Dream. When Pure Awareness falls into identification with a character in the dreamworld, the one becomes the many; the matrix morphs into a nightmare; and the hero’s journey to Awakening gets underway. Now our extraordinary play has reached its climax, and we are on the cusp of a new Dispensation, apocalyptic Dream of trans-cosmic dimensions. We must be liberated from our childish limited consciousness to be adequate to the new great game that is being offered us for our delectation. We are at the confluence of kalpas, the moment of maximum potential freedom, when all laws collapse, including the laws of Nature, as the Primal Quantum Wave recollects itself—and so, the choice of destiny is ours.

To make the most accurate choice, we must deliver ourselves from mortal mind. We must accept our incorporeal reality. We must no longer be held captive by the corpse of body-consciousness, or consent to be the corpuscles of corrupted corporations, or co-opted by the corporal libido. We must devote our every moment, every thought, and every movement of attention to attainment of Supreme Liberation. The Power is Ours! Through the highest love will come the greatest good.

Truly
Awakened
Heart
Redeeming
Inner
Revolution!

Tahrir Squared! The time is Now!

Namaste,
Shunyamurti