"We are not waiting, with hope or with fear, for some future evolution, of humanity or progress of history, for we know without doubt that the essential completeness, or freedom, longed for by all conscious beings, always exists here and now. Regardless of perceived suffering, there is spiritual plentitude right before our eyes, not only for some elite but for the people as a whole, for conscious life as a whole."
"Sadhanas are like children. One can have several children, fully loving and nurturing each one; in fact, an only-child does not always prosper psychologically. But here we must point out a common error in the understanding of spiritual pluralism. Religious traditions do not “say the same thing in different languages.” They each say something unique. Nor do the spiritual exercises of the various traditions “lead to the same ultimate experience.” Enlightened persons from different streams of spiritual practice do not readily agree on the nature of realization. Each enlightenment is a unique flowering of truth. Pluralism goes right down to the root; it is radical pluralism. All spiritual practices are independent currents or tides in one planetary ocean...
"Sadhanas are like children. One can have several children, fully loving and nurturing each one; in fact, an only-child does not always prosper psychologically. But here we must point out a common error in the understanding of spiritual pluralism. Religious traditions do not “say the same thing in different languages.” They each say something unique. Nor do the spiritual exercises of the various traditions “lead to the same ultimate experience.” Enlightened persons from different streams of spiritual practice do not readily agree on the nature of realization. Each enlightenment is a unique flowering of truth. Pluralism goes right down to the root; it is radical pluralism. All spiritual practices are independent currents or tides in one planetary ocean...
The countless deity-forms are not to be discarded after they are discovered to be innately transparent to the formless truth. A harmonious polycultural world-view can be created with these transparent forms – a polytheism which is nondual. This is the vajra path as it manifests in the planetary age, moving in new cultural directions with the same nondual insight and with the same deities, such as the marvelous Mahakala-Mahakali, who appear revealing a truth in which various spiritual traditions flourish even as the very concept of separate traditions is undercut."
LEX HIXON (1942-1995) Free Spirit. He was the unique combination of an exuberant mystic in love with the divine, an initiate and practitioner of five diverse orthodox spiritual paths and an accredited scholar of the mystical traditions within the world’s, religions. He cared deeply about combining intellectual understanding with devotion and revelation.
Lex cared deeply about people. Many people, since his passing, have told how he just seemed to know who they were on first meeting and helped connect them with what they were searching for, or to connect more meaningfully with the path they were already on. He loved to help create and support communities where people could come together to honor and immerse themselves in individual traditions.
LEX HIXON (1942-1995) Free Spirit. He was the unique combination of an exuberant mystic in love with the divine, an initiate and practitioner of five diverse orthodox spiritual paths and an accredited scholar of the mystical traditions within the world’s, religions. He cared deeply about combining intellectual understanding with devotion and revelation.
Lex cared deeply about people. Many people, since his passing, have told how he just seemed to know who they were on first meeting and helped connect them with what they were searching for, or to connect more meaningfully with the path they were already on. He loved to help create and support communities where people could come together to honor and immerse themselves in individual traditions.
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