Random Harvest

bits of Ganesh Baba’s wisdom plucked from
The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba, his unpublished writings, and Ira Landgarten’s recordings

from The Crazy Wisdom of Ganesh Baba, page 50:

"Astanga Yoga and Crea Yoga are related to each other as the lock and the key. As a matter of fact, Crea Yoga is the universal key to all esoteric knowledge—the key to the secret code of sciences, arts, and religions, especially the scriptures, which are written in cryptic languages with confidential codes being handed down from guru to student."

This is a direct quote from Ganesh Baba’s “Sadhana,” and quite likely from Tripura’s original. I would have scoffed at it – and probably edited it out of the book – had I not had the extraordinary experience of being initiated into kriya yoga by Baba some months after meeting him. The shift in consciousness kick-started then never really left me.

I’ve often compared it to wearing 3-D glasses; dimensions of the world you may have only intuited before become clear as day. Images associated with the ritual and the transfer of energy like the tunnel, the dove, and the eye were especially obvious to me. For months after the experience, I saw them everywhere. Literature, poetry and art unfolded in new and unexpected ways. It was like living in a country where you don’t know the language and waking up one day to understand everything people say.

Like a new language, the new understanding fades if it isn’t used—thus practice is essential—but a shift is taking place now, and so many of formerly secret understandings are now common knowledge, that reminders are everywhere. The reversed perception of reality (“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players,”) the understanding that the cosmos is reflected in the body, science’s exploration of the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity, all these are understandings that until recently were only accepted in the expanded worldview of initiates.

What the Crea key does is closely akin to taking psychedelics. It stretches your perception in ways that can’t be reversed. The practical thing about Crea is that drugs aren’t necessary; it’s a transfer of energy and a set of practices to keep that energy flowing, a bag of marvelous tricks that keep growing and changing and revealing more of their magic forever.