The difficulty in explaining the meaning of Self-realization is that the mind tends to understand everything from within the paradigm of subject-object duality, and that is the very obstacle to the Self-realization we wish to achieve.

That dualistic paradigm, which is illusory, structures language itself, so the very categories of thought by which we attempt to understand ourselves, prevent understanding from occurring. This is the double bind on the symbolic level.

The more intelligent we become in terms of being able to manipulate symbolic forms, the more alienated we become from the Real that lies beyond the realm of symbols. And so we can say that Self-realization is a matter of surrender of the power of symbolic manipulation, investigation, and articulation to the higher power of Presence.

True Sat Yogis must be members of the KGB. In this case, of course, KGB does not refer to the defunct Soviet intelligence agency. Rather, it means to be those who vow to always act with KGB—Kindness, Generosity, and Benevolence—toward everyone we meet, but especially toward our spiritual community.

We need to act with KGB-consciousness because we know that in these final days of Kali Yuga everyone who is not a true Sat Yogi is in a state of hyper-sensitivity, emotional fragility, paranoia, lost-ness and confusion. So we must offer KGB—here, it also means Kali Good-bye Blessings—to help people recognize that it is time to return to the Light, to leave behind this plane of illusion and merge once more into the Supreme Reality. We can only give that message, non-verbally of course, if our consciousness is already united with the Supreme One.

Most people today, before they enter a spiritual path, are made miserable by a mind that is out of control. The ego mind is wild, savage, selfish, filled with lusts, anger, greed, demands, judgments, hostile disregard for the feelings of others, it is utterly self-ungovernable—and yet at the same time it is weak, unbalanced, irrational, emotionally unstable, incapable of perseverance, humility, or clarity, or of full dedication and cooperation with others. Yogis refer to the ego-mind as the monkey-mind. The first task of a new yogi upon entering the path to the Supreme Liberation is gaining control of this monstrous monkey mind.

One name for our current historical moment could be Quantum Yuga. The discoveries of quantum mechanics have shattered the assumptions of the Newtonian paradigm that has too long held our consciousness in collapse, in the straitjacket of naïve pseudo-realism, the dualistic materialism that has successfully masqueraded as common sense. That common sense has revealed its true nature as the psychosis of ego-consciousness, otherwise known as Kali Yuga. We now have the conceptual tools to make a graceful exit into a new Sat Yuga—an age of higher truth and beauty resplendent with the true awareness of our transcendent unity. But to do that, we must de-collapse the wave function that has led to the appearance of the nightmare of demonic egocentricity that has settled upon this dying planet that was once our paradise home.

All human beings worship power. Where they differ is in their conceptions of power. There are many different ways to understand the nature of power and the source of power-and most importantly, in how to reach the underlying goal of possessing real power.

Sat Yoga is the ancient science of metabolizing our theomorphic potential. Human beings, alone of all creatures, have the power of re-designing our own psychic structure in the direction of ethical, aesthetic, cognitive, and spiritual perfection. Through the practice of Sat Yoga, we can gain the skills to alter our personalities, to align our psyche with our innermost essence, and to manifest, cultivate, and sustain the full flowering of the Godseed that lies latent within us all. The inherent powers that become activated in the event of such a self-transformation have tremendous effects upon the phenomenal plane, not only on the social and political levels, but also on the ecological and the geological. This is because gross matter responds to the vibrational transmissions of the subtle energy field of human consciousness. This little understood aspect of reality is the key to responding to the challenge of global warming as well as all the other challenges faced by humanity today. But to accomplish this, we must bring the power of the highest frequencies of our vibrational potential—we can call it Tao or Shiva, Emptiness, unitive awareness, Buddha-consciousness, or God-consciousness—into the equation as the essential engine of our will. Nothing less could suffice.