Nothing to Hide: Commentary

Warning: rant ahead.

There was a MISA yoga camp at Herculane at the beginning of May this year. Among the conferences recorded and sent there by Grieg was one about stupidity. Among other things Grieg said in it was that ex MISA yogis refused to speak with MISA yogis, MISA instructors and even him, which was intensely tragic and demonic.

I'm going to include a translated quote here, as it appeared transcribed on the Exmisa forum. I'll do my best to make it as literal as possible, though I will have to ignore the grammar mistakes in the original.

In case the absurd length of the first paragraph-sentence and the grammar put you off, I'll do a summary after the quote.

Even if at first sight for some of you such a behavior seems to be unbelievable, you must know that there are such obviously bizarre cases which prove that demons managed to get under their influence those human beings who maintain themselves obstinately in this state of demonic muteness, who refuse to answer to the compassionate and benevolent message which are sent to them and act in this cretin way in order to play the game of the demons who manipulate them, who make them fall in a more and more emphasized state of spiritual blindness and evident stupidity, because through exacerbating this aberrant state of demonic muteness, the demons manage in this way to get them off the spiritual path, to induce cretin demoniac doubts, because through obstinately remaining in the state of demonic muteness, these poor human beings easily become the prey of demons because they do not confess to anybody, do not speak about the obsessions and aberrations that torture them and because they refuse any sort of communication, including with us, or with their old course colleagues, they fall deeper and deeper into a state which is the opposite of courage, the opposite of honesty, the opposite of communication, the opposite of common sense and in this way become a certain prey for some demons - we are speaking about the demons of obstinacy and the demons of demonic muteness - falling in this way into a terrible state of spiritual blindness in which they unconsciously indulge in with great obstinacy and that is exactly why they can neither be helped, nor advised, because they refuse any sort of communication and become an easy prey for the demons that make them slide deeper and deeper into a self-destructive state which has nothing to do with spiritual transformation, with complete honesty, with transparency and with an open, fruitful communication.

We do our duty to unmask this evident ploy of demons for all of you who hear this to reflect upon the fact that it is not necessary to play the demons' game and to let yourselves be manipulated in such a cretin way in which, when it will be too late, will prove to have been profoundly ill-fated.

Now, to summarize that:
-those who have left the course and refuse to speak with MISA-people are demonic
-they're also spiritually blind
-they're also all sorts of faulty
-they're also obstinate

Incidentally, he says that some people refuse to speak even with him (the Great Grieg). I feel somewhat touched by the matter, because often in the past I have told people that I really, really don't want to write to Grieg and if we never met again, that would all be for the best. I'm also known for my obstinacy. So while I highly doubt that that part of the conference was written with me in mind, there are some people in whose minds I might spring when they hear that. (for details about whom the conference might refer to, you have Supermahashakti's comment below; she suggests and I think I agree with her, that it is most probably intended towards the small group of VIPs who left)

So you get my comments here.

First of all, it's not only people who have been in MISA who refuse to speak with people who are still in MISA. Things happen the other way around, too. I only disclosed my true colors (those of being an ex) quite recently and my relationship with MISA friends tended to deteriorate over the years, but somebody else who used to be on friendly terms with people there told me that she went to an open conference after she quit the course and people did their best not to be too close to her. Are those MISA yogis demonic, too?

Secondly, I hate to break it to MISA: the world doesn't revolve around you. People don't go blind and miserable because they've left. The outside world isn't bleak and dreary. As a humanities student who's currently in a culture-related Master's program, I can assure you with supreme and utter confidence that the world is a big, complex, complicated place where you can have quite a lot of systems of values, practices, beliefs, styles of life - and the conclusion has been reached that stating which is right and which is wrong is not only amazingly difficult, but might not be the actual question at all (well, except if you have cultures in which hurting/killing others is a rite of passage, case in which... yeah...).

Your truth, regardless of how in tune with reality it is, is just one tiny grain of sand on the beach of the world. Leaving MISA means that you have one less grain of sand to try in those dunes.