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William Enckhausen

The Last Priest

Of course I remember a time when living in a society of monastic celibates was a very positive experience. I felt that most people were looking for self realization and struggled to transmute their sexual desires in order to put more energy into their meditation…

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William Enckhausen

From Quetzalcoatl To Cassanova

Human life is always at balance between inferiority and superiority complexes. We make so many mistakes based on such complexes, dominating others or submitting to the domination of others. However, one day we have to wake up, have true confidence and be more authentic without…

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A Greeting

A really evil person sent me a good vibration the other day. I did not realise that he had such a bad vibe when I first saw him smiling at me and nodding his head to say hello. People around here are generally very friendly…

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Joy And Trauma

A few years ago a Facebook friend who turned out to not be very friendly made some comments on some photos of me playing the flute in some indigenous community in Chiapas. She said that I played classical music that those people probably could not…

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Gymnopedia On Yerba Mate

I play the solo quenacho flute to aid contemplation, to cure a headache and sometimes in my yoga classes during the relaxation. Recently, while travelling, a person was listening to me play by the beach. She was very grateful and told me that she had…

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Apparitions

"The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough." After travelling through two international airports in one day I recall Pound´s "In A Station Of The Metro." Sleepless, I lie awake at night seeing all of the faces of the…

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Redemption

A mystic seeks some higher, absolute and enduring truth and declares the world as something that must be transcended. Suffering the loss of what is near and dear in the relative, ever-changing world propels more conscious beings to renounce blind attachments and fleeting desires to…

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The Inward Mirror

I had just gotten off of the train in Berlin. I was waiting for a friend who had been talking to two German girls and was exchanging addresses with them. While waiting for him a punk with a blue mohawk approaches me and asks if…

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All Of Us

Meister Eckhart once wrote that the essence of all creatures is nothingness. At other times he said that the human soul was at one with the Godhead, that there is no essential separation of the human soul from God. I believe these are different ways…

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The Way

When I began to practice yoga at the age of 21 all of the spiritual ideas that had attracted me toward some spiritual path began to make sense to me. I began to see in a more clear light all of the good Christian ideas…

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Between Two Devils

I was given a sweater by a Mexican family member who did not realize the figure on the front was Donald Trump. She gave Christmas sweaters to all family members and this was the only sweater available in my size. It has Trump`s orange face…

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The Tree Tantra 

Trees hold our precious earth together to prevent floods. They give us fire for wood and building shelters. Some give us fruits and food from their leaves. They work ceaselessly to convert all of the carbon we mindlessly dump into the atmosphere only to give…

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Anahata - Introduction And Chapter 1

Introduction and chapter one of Anahata By examining the spiritual heart we can begin to understand the reasons for the limitations the egocentric "I" notion that distorts the pure reflection of pure and infinite consciousness ("Hunab Ku" in Tantra Maya or "Shiva" and "Atman" in…

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Stories Of Quetzal

I came to learn of the Tantra Maya practices in a very curious manner. One summer I passed through very deep and intense meditations. It was during the most intense and horrific times of the so-called “narco war” in Mexico. The terror only pushed our…

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Collective Evolution

“The harmful internal consequences of over-industrialization not only affect the personal, social and national health of the people, they also precipitate gradual individual and collective psychic degeneration. A type of psychic epidemic may arise which can poison almost all expressions of life and destroy them.

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Why Is This Evil Upon Us?

We have started the work of planting organic coffee. A friend suggested that I should build a cabin for tourists who would like to visit an organic coffee farm. I think tourists would need something more to do in the local area than just visit…

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The Timeless Tattoo

Stavrogin: .....in the Apocalypse the angel swears that there´ll be no more time. Kirillov: I know. It´s quite true, it´s said very clearly and exactly. When the whole of man has achieved happiness, there won´t be any time, because it won´t be needed. It´s perfectly…

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Discernment And Depression

excerpt from Anahata In the phase of involution, Shiva, the infinite consciousness, has been transformed by his immortal consort Shakti, the divine creative energy, into all that is in this universe. Shiva is the material cause of the universe, Shakti is the efficient cause. Shiva…

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Books

A Name To The Nameless - First work from 1995. A psychological and philosophical explanation of the practice of Tantra Yoga. Anahata - Mystical dynamics of the Anahata Chakra or Spiritual Heart. Microvita And Tantra Maya - Part II of A Name To The Nameless.

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Recreating

For countless lives my eyes turn toward you, rolling upward, inward, into that primordial eye, Peering into these lives and deaths in search of freedom. Lost in the spirits crown, forgetting world and self Your formless bliss and gentle Om release nectar from the spirits…

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Form And Formless

Nothing in this universe is an accident, all is incident. The closer our meditation moves toward the First Cause of OM, the more we see the universe as the dream of the Supreme Consciousness instead of a series of disconnected accidents in alienated minds. What…

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The Elite Pseudoculture

In the 90‘s I lived in a spiritual community in rural Missouri where many members were from India. The locals would come and shoot their rifles at us, try to burn down our buildings and shout “Sand Niggers!” (which is actually a racist term for…

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The Perennial Philosophy

An Excerpt from A Name To The Nameless There has never been nor will there ever be a more exalted inspiration than the realization of the oneness of the human soul with the Infinite Being. This is an ever-renewing germ of thought in the perennial…

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Psorax

Anybody who has looked into the abyss of his or her consciousness knows that the abyss looks back at you, as Nietzsche said. The unconscious mind is a very live and active zoo of escaped animals raging about in pure chaos and savagery. Does their…

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Frogs And Fugues

Desert rains abate. Now crickets join frogs in fugues. We dug our trenches, collecting water for trees, birds, insects, and animals all around. Our home is an island of hope for many now. But now the world and its interests encroach. May spirit and nature…

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A Requiem

It was a Sunday with my friends on the ranch. A man from the local village arrived on a 4-wheeled motorcycle. He was a person that did some occasional work for us. He was very drunk and came to ask me for money. I denied…

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A Frameless Photo

To see the world as a frameless photo and wander through the night, or submit to sweet affections for earthly form caressed in the light of the known. Can we endure Your darkness and pass by the light from these wanderer’s inns ensconsed from this…

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The Divine Cactus

I came to Mexico when I was 30. I was very healthy and my mind was very light. After the initial intensity of my meditation experiences in my early 20’s, I was finally able to come down a little and kind of sort of adapt…

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The Indigenous Revolution

I was an admirer of the Zapatistas since the first videos that I saw early in 1994 when Commander Ramona, an ex-nun Zapatista rebel commander, led the attack to take San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas. Even though they had machine guns and were…

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Asana, Ethics And Evolution

These yoga postures are called "asanas," which means "a posture held with coordinated breathing." Ancient forest dwelling yogis named the asanas after animals in their natural postures. The purpose of yoga asanas are to help one advance in meditation. Their practice brings health, longevity and…

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Personalities

an excerpt from Light And Dark Tantra Before the tragedy of The Purulia Arms Drop I spent my time meditating and reading Anandamurti´s books, among some other books on yoga while at Ananda Nagar in India. I was the first student in the tantric research…

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A Marriage Of Sense To Soul

This evening my soul poured out and into all things, leaving this empty, lonely vessel, and was filled with an infinite, ever-flowing stream. My soul poured out, reeling and roaring into everything. Ceased of breath, I am; empty of form in a diaphanous blue immensity,…

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A Bridge To The Infinite

Anandamurti reintroduced the old tantric concept of “Taraka Brahma.” Taraka means “bridge,” and Brahma is “infinite consciousness” and so Taraka Brahma is the bridge to the infinite entity of Brahma. Taraka Brahma is the point just between the unmanifested infinite ocean of Brahma (Nirguna Brahma)…

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Light And Dark Tantra

Writing Light And Dark Tantra was always a balancing act. It felt very good to write about my experiences with people like Chandranath (at the far right of the photo) and other early disciples of Anandamurti. One can even feel a sense of pride about…

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The Debate

6 months before the Purulia Arms Drop I participated in an Ananda Marga debate about whether terrorism could ever be justified. Ananda Marga was a pacific revolutionary organization that denounced both the materialistic philosophies of capitalism as well as communism. The focus of the ideology…

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Universal Tantra

“Brahma alone is the guru.” This saying from the Upanishads represents a very universal conception of the deity. Brahma literally means that which is great and makes others great. In other words, Brahma is the Consciousness of the Macrocosm, of the entire universe. The guru…

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The Liberation Of Desire

Sexuality is one of the least understood aspects of human life. All have this desire, but few people seem to find a healthy solution to sexual conflicts. There is so much suffering caused by blind sexuality. So many women are abandoned with children by men…

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Contact/Follow

To sign up for the blog mailing list or contact me send an email to me at william@williamenck.art, through Telegram (@williamenck). The Net In some recent writings on this blog I have been attempting to comprehend the relationship betweeen the microcosm and the macrocosm through…

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William Enckhausen

William Enckhausen

I was initiated into a Rajadhiraja Tantra Yoga tradition when I was a student in Austin in 1993. I adopted a very healthy vegetarian lifestyle without drugs and alcohol. Within a few months the kundalini began with what would be a very long and intense…

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Adobe Construction

We excavated 7 feet out of the side of our mountain in Chiapas for our construction site. The excavated dirt and gravel will be used to fill the earthbags. The oak timber cleared will serve for roof beams. The first courses of earthbags are with…

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White Trash

People are essentially the same everywhere. Only externally we appear so different. Everywhere you go in the world you find the same basic virtues as well as the same scandals. Human beings create the same gods and devils all around the globe. Perhaps the particular…

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The Infinite Eye

The infinite being is beyond name and form yet bestows name and form to all things. Nothing exists apart from the causal matrix, the fundamental fractal that divides its very own Self so as to create the universe by infinite self division. Creation is the…

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Ramananda

Below is a publication from 2012. It was written at a time when Ananda Marga was already mostly disintegrated. The situation has not improved, to say the least. I wrote it while I was still at El Misterio, when I had more contact with the…

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