Persecuters Will Not Be Prosecuted Say WEU Founders

By Shao-lin Monk

We have been overwhelmed by the generous posts in support of our new blog WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored $$$ !

Less praise-worthy however, has been the flooding of our baby blog with unsolicited spam from the heavily censored "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog which can only be seen as a Denial of Service attack.

Is it not enough that "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog supporters

• delete our incisive posts within seconds of publication?


• retrospectively deletes all our old, previously accepted, posts?


• engage in identity theft - posting at myself and Binman on WEU?


• libel both Binman's wife and another frequent poster , Gordon?


• send their angry "anony-mouses" like an army of Agent Smiths to post misinformation and drivel?

It would seem that the "WHAT enlightenment??!" camp cannot accept viewpoints contrary to their own. It was for that reason that a huge number of "WHAT enlightenment??!" readers called for an alternative blog. They simply did not trust the integrity of the so-called "WHAT enlightenment??! Blog Administrators". How tragic!

Worse, is WE Blog's conspicuous silence in denying, reprimanding or criticising those behind the DoS spam attack on WEU. Instead, their supporters seem to be rejoicing in it. This is far below any normal standards of common decency especially on the Net where spam is universally abhorred.

However, we want to make it clear that we will not trace, prosecute or embarrass the perpetrators and fellow-conspirers of this foul strike against our right to free speech and freedom of press. We will not even suggest, as WE Blog sanctioned posters do, that they need cult exit-counseling - because that perpetuates the victim mentality business which WE Blog heavily promotes and endorses.

Instead, we send Metta (compassion) to all.

And when we say "May all beings be happy!" you can be sure that we mean it unlike Hal Blacker, whose reactionary comments to my (retrospectively deleted) post, in the thread hypocritically labelled post "To Heal One is To Heal All", were sarcastic and ungenerous.

Soon I will publish the posts which "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog removed especially my questions to Hal/Helene. Clearly, there is a place for blog judging by the stir that it has already caused - and we still refuse to advertise it or spam any mailing list (unlike WE blog)!

My Early WE Post Proves Prophetic

Below is one of my early posts to "What Enlightenment" blog . They obviously liked it and did not notice it after they retrospectively deleted all my old posts. It still appears on "What Enlightenment" blog which has become a "Killing Field"as its Khmer Rouge censors try to return Year Zero when there was no dissent in their ranks.

My Wednesday, 02 March, 2005 post clearly shows that while I am concerned about the direction of WE blog, I am also no supporter of Cohen or Wilber. Though unlike "What Enlightenment" blog, I would not toss Ken and Andrew in the trashcan. Such a foul attitude guarantees that "What Enlightenment" blog posts will be extremely warped. Worse, Hal Blacker?s call for reconciliation with Andrew strikes me as disingenuous.

shaolin_monk said...
Aargh! I cannot stand it anymore. I must write. I did not want to. This whole blog represents a sad day for enlightenment (there is hope but that will have to wait for another day).

If WIE ("What is Enlightenment?" magazine) is the spiritual "Statue of Liberty" then she has fallen into the New York Harbour.

If the "What Enlightenment" blog is her successor then certain checks and balances must be in place to ensure that the same mess does happen again because it could. However, the blog cannot be completely effective because, evolutionarily speaking, it is in the plodding dinosaur stage (Ken Wilber please do not claim these concepts as your own). Worse, a great ice-age is coming where the waters will freeze over and all dialogue will be capped off.

To avoid this happening, the air must be cleared. All ex-Cohen camp commandants who are hiding among the ranks of the newly free an stirred but still shaken should confess their crimes. Otherwise their repressed guilt will rise up gain like Satan cast into Hell and they will do mayhem again. There is no use in throwing stones at Cohen. Hitler did not work alone but was assisted by Goring, Goebbels and Mengele. (Hal, Stas and Jerry might have to put your hands up here.) This is in no way to suggest that Cohen is like Hitler. Though when a Jewish boy runs a group of shaven-headed, black-shirted men and women to enforce his will one does wonder what on earth is happening ? surely it is not heaven!

Andrew's students have created a lot of hell on earth.

The rot goes on. Andrew got Adi Da (the so called "Heart Master") traumatised cast-offs ? refugees and refuseniks from Da's drunken spanking chains and also Ken Wilber into the bargain (shiny-headed Ken makes a good trophy bust). "In Cohen we trust" they prayed. Ken promised that fire-breathing Old Testament-style Prophet Andrew (standing in for Charlton Heston as Moses) would lead them out of the Flatlands. However the Adidamists still worshipped the Golden Calf and dabbled in a bit of guru toe sucking which even sexual-sin free Andrew could not resist. Unable to give up their abused slave tendencies they deliberately made mistakes to elicit their gurus ire, which in the fullness of time they got in the form of evolutionary punishments like neo-zen face slappings, freezing river immersions and prostitute samplings.

Cohen, hungry for fame and fortune in those fledging days, unable to separate the true from the false, faced the same problem as the America when Castro emptied his prisons and put them on boats ? who is truly worthy? Unfortunately, Cohen's tests of worthiness are mini-mock-ups of Guantanamo Bay.

Andrew was not ready to start a community. Bereft of children he lacks the pastoral skills of a father.

However, screaming villagers baying for blood outside Doctor Frankenstein's castle could bring about an end as tragic as Waco. Cohen and co. will not want to come out to face a lynch mob.

Cohen is in place because of his Revolutionary Guard. It is their paranoid fears and passive-aggressive power-grabbing that creates the hard shell around Andrew's heart. Ex-members of that guard, decent guys like "Jerry the bodyguard" who boasted "Andrew is the best Aikido master" need to come forward and dismantle the egoic machine that keeps these knuckle-heads from stepping beyond fear. Otherwise, these master-less ronin samurai will reap the fruits of their bad karma.

Andrew always claimed to be independently wealthy. He should walk-away from the money, the land and the commune. HWL Poonja his teacher avoided creating a group. In the end though, the "Osho never died" Rajneesh sannyasins created a circus around him.

Exploring the whole Papaji-Andrew alchemy is crucial for enlightenment students who wish to fully understand Andrew's power and fall from grace. It has been hidden from view. Maybe I will write about it another day when I can no longer stand keeping silent.

http://whatenlightenment.blogspot.com/2005/03/emperors-new-clothes.html

Why We Will Not Spam to Survive (unlike "WHAT enlightenment??!")

This post is not a tired old repeat of the last one about the blindness of Christopher Titmuss in regard to "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog's nameless, faceless promoters who happily spam the internet with bucket loads of irrelevant material.

No, instead, it is about the observation that we have great respect within the cyberspace community because of the simple fact that we do not spam, censor or raging bullsh*t.

Unlike "WHAT enlightenment??!" we will not engage in a desperate bid to gain readers by abusing lists of subscribers (who opted-out of spam mail), Andrew Cohen, Ken Wilber, Don Beck and their wives, grandmama's and pet dogs.

Instead will wait until the cool viral marketing wind blows in to take our virtual seedlings out into deeper space.

Of course, if your name is Kenny W, Andy C or Donny B and you want to tell your followers about us then we graciously accept.

You'all know where we are:

http://what-enlightenment-uncensored.blogspot.com/

DoS Attack By "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog Promoter

A dazed and confused Binman was cleaning up the pieces of our broken WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored $$$ blog tonight.

Fighting back the tears, Binman told a sad story of betrayal by people who he once considered friends. "I don't know why they would do this to me", sniffed Binman.

He continued with difficulty, watery doe-like eyes, clearly winded by the low blows inflicted upon him by people he thought he could trust, "I had just been to my Metta Bhavana - Loving-kindness Meditation class and felt pretty pumped up on loo-oove. So I cycled by the office to do some paperwork clearing. Routine stuff. Doesn't normally take more than 15 minutes and then home to my loving wife. That was the plan, at least."

"However, what met my eyes was a scene of absolute devastation, something straight of the St. John's Book of Revelations."

"I first knew that something was terribly wrong when my bleeper started going crazy. I get these messages when my email inbox gets near full quota, so that I do not lose even one precious email from my darling kids. They make these cute computer grahics at school and send them to me. I print them and put them on the office wall. Customers love them, even offer to buy them, but they are not for sale", he explained.

"When I finally managed to get into my email account it was over-quota and bouncing posts. I thought of my little girl trying to get her pictures to me. She makes these neat mandalas."

"The shock and horror was only just beginning to set in when I realised that the excessive emails related to bandwidth abuse caused by someone who was launching an extremely strong cyber-attack our new blog WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored $$$. Our cyber-baby hasn't been alive more than 24 hours and these b*stards have already moved in for the kill." Binman was starting to get angry. I had never seen him like this before. He then calmed himself by steadying his breathing and practicing the life-saving Metta Bhavana techniques."

"I repeatedly tried and tried to logon to WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored $$$ and the server kept coming back with a frustrating 'Busy ... Try Again Later' message. In sheer desperation I tried to call Blogger and then a miracle! A gap appeared in the torrential of data tsunami stream, and I managed to gain access to 'Enlightenment Uncensored $$$. It was a freak stroke of luck.'"

"But it gets worse! What I saw made me whoop my fortune cookies (actually they were Tibetan cookies). Sorry, Shao-lin but I threw up over your desk and lap-top - but the vomit missed your family photos! Okay?", joked Binman in his serious, loving kind of way.

[I unconditionally absolve you, Binman. Under those circumstances anyone would have been broken, possibly for years becoming a down-and-out, which is what the "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog supporters clearly want of us. And then they will offer us cowboy deprogramming services and charge us hefty fees. As won't be able to pay them, we will have been bankrupted, they will then suggest that we sue the Impersonal Enlightenment Fellowship. That would be the end of us because we would lose.]

"I witnessed", continued Binman, "a scene of utter devastation, unremitting horror and needless destruction. A blow to humanity, cyber-evolution and our First Amendment Right. Someone had started to post all the old, crappy "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog posts on our comments pages. Worse, when they had finished publishing the entire contents of "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog (including the archive) they then started all over again - recursively repeating the same operation like they were using some kind of automated spam-bot)."

"Initially, I thought it was a joke. Then I remembered that you had written about how "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog spams was unethically invading forums and Amazon book reviews in completely off-topic ways. Finally, I saw that this 'hoax' was not a joke at all but a really disgusting low-life Denial of Service attack (DoS)."

"To be honest, I don't really feel like cleaning up this info-vomit. Anyway, the last laugh is on the "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog promoters because by re-posting the same tired old content around the Net they are going to damage their meagre Google Ranking. Google hates spam and repeat content. I figure, what the hell, "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog's promoters don't really care about netiquette nor anything ethical."

[However, we owe it to our growing readership, Binman, to clean up the mess. What surprises me is that "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog's henchman knows about us and cares enough to spend all evening trying to take us down. How on earth did they find out about us? The so-called "WHAT enlightenment??! Blog Administrators" delete all of our posts, within seconds. So, we have now given up posting there. Therefore, dear Dr.Watson, the hit upon our dear Blog must be connected to "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog's Star Chamber because they are the only people who know about our existence.]

In a touching gesture to the larger cyber community, far beyond the Andrew Cohens, Foxy Hollows, Hal Blackers, Raging Bulls and "anony-mouses" of this small-time sectarian struggle for domination, Binman said, "You know repeat content really sucks! It clogs up search engines. I will clean the mess even if it takes me all night. My wife, Trinity, won't be too please but she will understand since she is a former hacker herself."

[It seems that "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog is suffering some kind of instant "karmic justice" (a phrase used by Christopher Titmuss). Intelligent readers have picked up upon Titmuss' politely veiled criticism of "WE Blog's" weakest points - which "WE blog", desperate as ever for content, unwittingly published. Posters have raised issues about what post-Cohen services "WHAT enlightenment??!" Blog is covertly promoting. Another reader suggested that our WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored $$$ is being unfairly treated just like Jean Valjean. We will see how long their posts survive until the "WE Blog" censors realise what is really being said about them.]

'WHAT enlightenment??!' Starts Long Job of Evidence Shredding

'WHAT enlightenment??!' Starts To Delete Retrospective Posts

By Trixie Lykes

'Anonymous' is so misinformed that he is misinformation itself.

'WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored $$$' has many laudable aims. It grew out of ashes of another blog which claimed to be 'uncensored'.

Shaolin Monk's posts at 'WHAT enlightenment??!' were unique and insightful, and I miss them. S/he clearly knows what s/he is talking about. He may be very close to Cohen's commune or Wilber's Integral Vision crowd.

(Ok, enough of the politically correct she, he, s/he.)

I saw one of his posts which was quickly deleted by 'The Blog Administrators' and there was nothing offensive about it.

His style 'abroad' is much more subdued than on his own blog. This is to be expected. My own blog is like my home.

Regrettably, having just checked back at 'WHAT enlightenment??!' I see that the Stalinist book-burners have completely destroyed all evidence of earlier accepted posts by Shaolin Monk (aka Enlightenment Student). They had accepted them 7 days before!

Clearly, they were so shocked by his Shaolin Monk's truth-revealing antics that they sought to eliminate all traces of his existence. Highly suspicious!

Now the posts at 'WHAT enlightenment??!' on the 'To Heal One is To Heal All' thread after Shaolin Monk's deleted posts make no sense at all.

Even Hal Blacker had responded though with vague evasions which Shaolin Monk had pointed out.

It was embarrassing!

'WHAT enlightenment??!' executed a similar cover-up operation against Craig Tindale who had not even posted on their blog.

'WHAT enlightenment Blog Administrators' had hoped that stealing Mr. Tindale's posts from the Integral Naked forum would give them the credibility which they so desperately craved.

However, they then discovered, a bit too late, that Mr. Tindale's p.o.v. was not as biased as they had hoped (although he most certainly is no Cohen fan).

Since they had not contacted Mr. Tindale for permission, they figured that they could quietly make the whole episode go away by deleting their copies of his works once a new thread appeared. This seems to such a standard routine at 'WHAT enlightenment??!' that they are getting sloppy.

Well, it backfired when Mr. Tindale caught them both making the posts and taking them down - all without his consent!

I am all in favor of free-speech and letting all sides have their say. Even 'anonymous' gets to the right to rant something silly, something which 'WHAT enlightenment??!' would never allow.

Who knows how many wonderful messages get censored at 'WHAT enlightenment??!'? No figures are kept. The posts disappear without trace and all complaints are rubbed out.

Which is why, I say, 'WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored $$$' must be allowed to survive.

Tonight, I will do my part in flying the 'To Truth No Censorship' flag. I'm going to enlist the help of my deliciously sweet boyfriend and his techie pals to spread the word around the Net. Join us!

lovin' it large,

trixie xxx

Chris Titmuss duped by "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog's spammy tactics

An email by Christopher Titmuss, who was one of Andrew's teachers, has just been posted on "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog commending them on their supposed ability to take "direct criticism".

This untrue and blind assessment came minutes after several posts by the "WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored" team were totally nuked by the nameless censors at "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog.

"WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored" started its humble existence as a blog-of-freedom to counter-balance the censorial excesses of "WHAT enlightenment??!"
Craig Hamilton, current editor-in-chief of Cohen's What Is Enlightenment? magazine, has already asked former editor Hal Blacker to reveal why he was called Raging Bull. We would like to say Hal that news is to be read and not to make you see red and cut it!

Christopher Titmuss reveals that he was solicited to read "WHAT enlightenment??!" I would like to question the unsolicited spamming methods employed by "WHAT enlightenment??!" because they are an abuse against common decent standards of netiquette, and the evolution of internet communication.

On this last point, the censors at "WHAT enlightenment??!" have abundantly made it clear that they care not one iota about real communication. How so very far they have back-slid from their original roots of ecstatic communion!

Examples of "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog's spamming methods can be found at Amazon where a character called "Yamahavas of Colorado" has abused the Amazon review posting mechanism by advertising "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog but NOT reviewing a single book!

Equally as bad, is a poster called "Kansas4" who spams the erudite "Integral Naked" forum from which "WHAT enlightenment??!" stole posts by Craig Tindale. Craig agreed with my post that "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog's micro-managers were killing intellectual free-speech and that would ultimately turn people off.

I do not know if "Kansas4" is a pun for "Ken's Ass" but I guess he paid a subscription fee to Ken's forum for the simple 'privilege' of making 10 posts in support of "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog. Worse, Kansas4 drowns lively threads at "Integral Naked" with large amounts of text from every single new post on the homepage "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog. Kansas4 seems to lack any critical ability to think for himself or be able to weave the text into the thread in an intelligent way.

So, whilst "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog's nameless, faceless promoters are happy to spam the internet with bucket loads of unrelated text they are not open to allowing even relevant, incisive and on-topic post of only 100 words on their so-called "uncensored" blog.

Unless of course the off-topic post is full of weak and enfeebled praise for their monument to deceptive practice.

If only Christopher Titmuss had enlightened himself about "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog's true face by engaging in a bit of dharma debate and seeing how quickly he would have been bounced out.

The mysterious editors at "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog are so anally retentive that they seem to be suffering from a permanent wedgie. David Deida release that pants-hold!

Shao-lin Monk

http://what-enlightenment-uncensored.blogspot.com/

Censored at "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog

Last year, the team at "WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored" were so excited by the deep-throat revelations by ex-student escapees from the Andrew Cohen camp that we did spontaneous back-flips in our tiny penthouse office, and thereby cracked our skulls on the lobby entrance canopy 17 floors below. Fortunately, it was made of tough fabric, otherwise the repair costs on top of our hospital bills would have bankrupted our fledgling advertising firm.

Unfortunately, hospital policy restricted patient internet access and we never had time to keep abreast of developments at Camp AK in Foxhollow. Upon our release, we picked through the dregs of history Andrew the student of Papaji, Andrew the Master is Myself, Andrew spiritual leader of 100's of shaven headed blackshirts, Luna Tarlo makes book buck and appears at conferences attended by deprogramming, Andre van der Braak joins the rat-pack, Andrew arrives at the cutting edge of human evolution, Ken Wilber, Don Beck and then "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog!

"WHAT enlightenment??!" got off to a bit of slow start and started copying and pasting content from other sites. Apparently, they did not always ask for the author's permission according to Craig Tindale whose posts were copied from Wilber's "Integral Naked" forum. But what the heck, who cares, this is how it is on the internet, so we have to get used to it! I bet that if the color of "WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored" changes then "WHAT enlightenment??!" will follow suit within 12 hours. Beeetch!

Next thing I hear is that Craig Tindale is complaining that his posts have been scrubbed from "WHAT enlightenment??!" apparently because he has been thinking for himself and is loyal to neither to the anal AK camp nor the moody constipated gripers who left it. Quite right too.

Maybe it was only a trick of the light and Craig's posts were only hidden from our sight. But then again they might have been consigned to the Cyberian wastelands after all. Who cares now, anyway, because Craig's posts can be easily found on "Integral Naked"? And ironically, building a forum was just one brilliant suggestion which I made to "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog's censors to improve communication. Of course, they rejected it because it obstructed their master-plan to topple the Fuehrer and sit in his chair.

What gives me the right to speculate? The facts, Watson! Plus, I did a bit of my own detective work. It's a bit complicated to explain it all in one post, so you will have to come back again and again to this blog. In the meantime, I am going to barricade our office door because I don't want to take another dive off 17th floor. However, I am expecting a visit from Raging Bull. Hopefully, Hal cometh with tidings of reconciliation. However, I am not so sure about that as there seems to be a counsellor of war, who moonlights as a deprogrammer, posting freely over at "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog.

Why did Binman and I start this blog? First, Binman will do anything that I say because I am the Master. Second, I was tired of having my posts deleted by the nameless, faceless censors at "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog who all probably had a good laugh and then stole my material! What finally did it though was their totally sincere hypocrisy ? they claim to provide "an uncensored look at self-styled "guru" Andrew Cohen"- I kid you not!

Right now, word has dribbled out of the "WHAT enlightenment??!" camp that they are going to implement much tougher censorship measures. So all those bleeding hearts who post trivial comments at "WHAT enlightenment??!" will have no home to go to! Don't bother coming here either because Binman has been ordered to bin any posts which have no redeeming content. (Binman's ToS are posted elsewhere on this blog.)

Anyways, I am thirsty now so I am off to sup at the frothy edge. I will be back with tales from enlightenment's far-side which will make a bull red with rage. But first, I suppose, I'll have to explain the whole yarn about "WHAT enlightenment??!" blog's micro-management of the truth down to the last punctuation mark.

I bid thee farewell and a hearty hail!

Shao-lin Monk (aka "enlightenment student")

Been Censored? Look In The Uncensored Bin

Greetings!

I am Binman, trash administrator.

I archive trivial comments in "The Uncensored Bin" at our blog "WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored".

In "The Uncensored Bin" are posts by boring old farts who are incapable of saying anything useful say about Andrew Cohen and his ragged rabble of merry men.

At "WHAT Enlightenment Uncensored" we like to consider ourselves above the devious market positioning antics of the nameless faceless censors at rival blog "WHAT enlightenment??!". If their trapping and baiting Mr. Cohen is all a charade designed to promote their business interests then shame upon them.

Therefore, gratuitous adverts placed by deprogrammers, exit-counselors, evangelicals and ambulance-chasing attorneys will be consigned into hell's raging inferno.

However, we accept all relevant posts even those that seek to deconstruct our methods, because unlike the censors at "WHAT enlightenment??!" we enjoy a good slap around the face when we rise above our diminutive status.

Boring old fart entries will appear as comments posted by me below. Expect a delay because it is quite a strain muster the enthusiasm to do so, and then to ascend safely from the dark depths where the bottom-feeders reside.
I bid you adieu.

Binman - "It's a dirty job but someone has got to do it"