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The Ballroom Is Coming Down
My trust in any establishment has been eroding for years, but the last administration seemed to do everything it could to accelerate my loss of faith. And this administration is no better. Two sides of the SAME ass! We’ve been conditioned to pick a “team”, not realizing most sides are just two cheeks of the same ass – different angles, same dysfunction. Real awakening begins when we stop clinging to sides altogether because division is the greatest pillar of the old syste

Karen Pierce
Jan 116 min read


Enlightenment is Bullshit!
The teacher of teachers, yogi Krishnamacharyi said his best friend Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, or just UG, is “the greatest living Yogi I have ever met.” Unimpressed by religious models that believed some people were enlightened, and others weren’t, UG (which he said stands for “Ugly Guy”) questioned the state of enlightenment and once said, “You don’t have a chance in hell of enlightenment…and isn’t that a relief!” The suffering is in the searching. He said the search f

Karen Pierce
Dec 1, 202217 min read
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