Publisher's Synopsis
Right Wing Hippie? Is that even a thing?Yes, it has been for not only years, but centuries. You might even call it the indigenous ancestry that we have long forgotten. Today, it is ripe for a resurgence. Read on to learn more.
The day man felt this self-consciousness in him, which made him feel superior to every other species on the planet, is the day he set out on the road to complete and total self-destruction. U. G. KRISHNAMURTI
I used to be sure that the solution to all of society's ills was to be found on the Left. But after years practicing and teaching the words of the great gurus and seers of the Hindu and Buddhist tradition, I ended my journey on the opposite side - the Right.
You see, the vast majority of people hold a human-centric view of the world - either consciously or unconsciously.
In other words, they believe that the world was either made for humans, or that humans are the center, meaning, and measure of things. This worldview forms the basis of the Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
This gave birth to the neo-Abrahamic doctrine of Humanism that dominates the West today, which is a way of seeing the world as defined by human standards and language.
Which is why the average human today believes the human world is the world and vice versa - that these two things are one and the same. This, while more than 70 percent of the world is covered with water and that water alone holds 98 percent of the world's living space.
But when a human invents some gadget they say, "They change the world." Should a famous human die they say, "The world mourns." Or should a celebrity change their hair color they say, "The world is stunned."
Can you see the problem with this?
The philosopher John Gray, in the foreword to his fine book Straw Dogs, aptly dissects Humanism as, "...the unthinking belief of thinking people. Humanists like to think they have a rational view of the world; but their core belief in progress is a superstition, further from the truth about the human animal than any of the world's religions....Humanism is not science, but religion."
To me, Abrahamism and Humanism are essentially the same superstition. Both rely on a set of irrational beliefs to support their original delusion: human-centrism.
As a Right Wing Hippie, I see the world as it really is instead of the way humanity imagines it to be or wants it to be or fancies it to be. As a Right Wing Hippie, nothing is more important than this honesty.
As a Right Wing Hippie I see the world as life-centered. This acknowledges the unity of all creation and knows life to be one indivisible entity. It is built on a reverence for all life, not just human, and the knowledge that humanity is but a small part of this majestic whole.
This worldview is at the essence of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions, as well as nature-based cultures such as the Native-American.
Whereas a human-centered worldview seeks to define the world by human intelligence, the life-centric worldview knows the world to be defined by the intelligence of nature and life itself.
As a Right Wing Hippie, I first honor all that is natural and real. This, in opposition to the Left which honors man and his imagination and his ill-fated ideas about changing human nature above all else.
To the Left, natural laws must be ignored and rewritten by humans. If there is no such thing as equality in nature, then nature itself must be evil and wrong. If there is no such thing as equity in nature, then nature itself must be bigoted and hateful and therefore must be corrected and put in its place.Get the picture? It's pretty simple.
