The numbered articles listed in this blog’s “Page Index” are chapters in an evolving book, “Blowing the Whistle on Enlightenment: Confessions of a New Age Heretic,” by Bronte Baxter. The book will be made available in ebook or hardback format when it is finished.
Until then, you can read the completed chapters and keep up with new ones as they come out. (Upcoming chapters will be published as blog entries, then as pages, on this website. Not all blog entries will be part of this book, however.)
The chapters build on each other, so it’s a good idea to read them in order. Feel free to leave any comments of your own at the bottom of each one.
Chapter 1: The Hidden Agenda of Mantra Meditation
Chapter 2: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone? – Part One
Chapter 3: Where Have All the Flower Children Gone? – Part Two
Chapter 4: When Deepest Cherished Beliefs Come Tumbling Down
Chapter 5: Tracking the Crack in the Universe (Loosh 101)
Chapter 6: The Forgotten Key to Freedom (Loosh 102)
Chapter 7: Enlightenement: From Siphoning to Assimilation
Chapter 8: Catching More Flies with Honey: How ‘Love’ and ‘Oneness’ Teachings Are Used to Disempower
Chapter 9: Amma, the Mother Saint – Hugging Away Your Personhood
Chapter 10: Creating Reality from Thought
Chapter 11: Goal of ‘The Oneness Doctrine’: Kill Everything Oneness Kills Cares About
camille said,
July 24, 2009 at 5:56 am
i find all this info very startling, bold and different from all the other ‘enlightenment’ stuff on the web. i just very recently denounced karma as a part of my truth because i began to think what intelligent, caring creator would impose such nonsense upon his/her creations; i just happened upon your site yesterday and was reading an article about manifestation and read what you had to say about karma and i had to say out loud “thank you!” after reading that. you are actually the only person i have ever heard talk that way about karma. when i began to think karma was a crock of shit, i said the universe would just have to be mad at me for coming to that conclusion! i am very glad i found your blog. anyway, i do not know anything about mantra meditation; i came across some words on some website about ascension last month that i have a question about. would you happen to know anything about the meaning of these words: jot niranjan, omkar, rarankar, sohang, sat nam ? to me they sound like indian words like the ones you are speaking about in mantra meditation.
brontebaxter said,
July 24, 2009 at 8:05 am
Hi Camille. I don’t know much Sanskrit, so I can’t translate those words for you. You might try an online Sanskrit to English dictionary. I can tell you that “nam” at the end means “bow down to,” so true to the style of those wonderful mantras, this cryptic little phrase has you surrendering your power to something (or more likely to someone).
Bronte
Joe said,
October 16, 2009 at 7:04 pm
I’ve just finished reading all the chapters and I just want to say “wow!” I feel extremely uplifted, so thankyou very much, Bronte. Keep up the good work. I’ve been struggling with a lot of the stuff you talk about for a long time, believing and following certain teachings and then becoming dissillusioned and swinging to the other extreme of cynicism and anger at myself for being so gullible. I realise now that I’m probably normal in terms of my levels of acceptance and questioning. You’re perspective is very valuable in that it is balanced and seperates out subtleties in spiritual teachings that I have never been able to distinguish before. Once again, thanks!