Earlier today Osnat, who is sitting here on my left side , wearing those big hoop earrings, came up to me very upset, because she feels insulted by some of the people in this group, so today, I want to offer her an opportunity to talk through her issue.

So Osnat what do you have to say?

Well, like, people here have been calling me a frecha. As if! Anyway, so what if I am a frecha?…. There’s only thing I give a shit about now, and that’s will it stand in the way of me getting enlightened?

Well, your self examination is commendable, but first of all kapara, if you want me to answer you properly, can you stop chewing [gum]?

-What’s your problem?

My problem is that you sound worse than my dad slurping hot soup and its disturbing my shmakras. So, please take it out………. Now…. let’s begin as usual by defining our terms – what is a frecha and what is enlightenment?

What’s a frecha isn’t exactly a new question. Ofra Haza sang so beautifully about it,
… nails… lipstick…… dancing……the latest jeans…..fashion and a cold stare….
but look where it go her. Sadly, frecha standards can only fall, and today, the plastic baton is being carried forward in a much more insipid way by the likes of Sarit Hadad and Maya Bosilka.

The frecha is inceasingly, a low class try-hard, who lacks talent, and sees herself as the centre of her own little universe, but doesn’t register frequencies beyond those of her mobile phone. For her, being sexy and getting what she wants is paramount. But in fact, this part of her character is actually helpful for spiritual advancement, because she’s focused on the right stuff – her self.

We say that selfishness is beautiful, and in this sense, so is the frecha, because she is clear with other people about her needs and limits. And whilst she lacks any concept of cosmic unity or even common decency, she isn’t necessarily as damaging as the over educated polish Jewess, who capitulates on all the things that are really important to her, and will never forgive you for it.

There are other positive sides to being a frecha. She wears high heels, she lives close to the ground, and is total in her behaviour, meaning she lives life in the now, and doesn’t save happiness for a future day. Also, if there is a suspicious package on a bus, she isn’t frightened to shout about it.

In this vein we can see that a simple mind can be easier to fix than a complex one. You know, a good number of the masters of old were working class, non educated people, like Kabir, Guru Nanak and Guru Angad. You see, education makes it more difficult for us to undo our conditioning, and to become an empty vessel for life to flow through. Osnat, Sarit and Maya and the rest of you, there is hope, but only if you stop chewing that ghastly gum, and whilst you are at it, throw away that tacky lip gloss.

OK, I think we’ve buried that one, now let’s look at enlightenment – ?

Enlightenment, is the final goal of full, constant, self realization – permanent union with the one. Call it what you want, I piss on it and urge you to scrap this bullshit concept, because the very idea hinders us from what it points to.

You see, enlightenment is a lie, a fiction, a manipulation. Its like the dream of being a movie star, or winning the lottery. We spiritual teachers, sell this lie in new age circles, because it offers a hope which can’t be proved to exist or not. We say: if you listen to me and give me your money, I’ll point the way.‘ Well, will I hell! There aint no state of permanent enlightenment. – it can only be temporary. If you focus on the present, you are there – that’s all it is.

There are of course different levels of consciousness, the highest is when we experience moments of complete ego dissolve, and cease to separate ourselves from the world. Last week I introduced our Shmeiki One course, which includes 5 Shmechniques, Shmeiki techniques for bringing us to the present: Shmantric sex, Shmychedelics, wasabi snorting, communal shitting, and opening to the retard within. But listen guys, you can make any technique of your own, which can be just as effective at bringing you to the present moment as any other. In this vein, I encourage you to release your creativity and inventiveness, and by and by you might transcend your frecha nature.

One final thing to say on this question, is that if cracks are appearing in the makeup, and the frecha’s soul is yearning for enlightenment, the new age is clearly not so new any more, its reached the mainstream, which is what needs to happen. So, let Shmeiki be in fashion. Just remember that the idea of enlightenment is just as superficial as frechot themselves.

Osnat, has this helped you at all?

As if!

I see we have a long way to go.

Well there’s just time for this week’s Shmechnique. Everybody, please print out this picture of world banking logos, and at 12 pm on Friday, place it in the toilet and then urinate on it. Whilst you are urinating, focus your attention on your own happiness, beyond duty and social conditioning, and know in a deep place in your heart, a new way of life is emerging for all of us, based not on money but on love and the maximization of mans’ true potential.

Om fucking Shmeiki

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…..Friends, everyone sitting here knows it’s better to avoid cults, but since the recession has arrived, and a war with Iran is on the cards, I guess there’s little to lose……

Now, there are a number of simple steps to starting a cult.

No. 1. Make like a guru.

The dynamic at work between Guruji and his followers is as follows: I am still a slave to the whims of my mind, you are too. But rather than being a slave to the whims of your mind, gain a little space, and be a slave to the whims of my mind instead. You see there are givers and takers in this world. Some people need to give, and it’s a mistake not to allow them to do so. Of course when we adopt this stance, people will have expectations. So we ought to be spontaneous, light and easy, like children. Our words must be wise and humorous, like fathers. And like brothers, we must share some of what we have. This is how we become the embodiment of compassion, even when faced with lost, pathetic people who come to feed off our energy.

Dealing with fucked up people, is the one downside to this business. We must think of them as ugly people waiting to become beautiful, as geeks soon to turn cool, as victims about to turn victorious. Let us remember that the power of transformation is limitless.

2. The Schpiel

We need to spend some time writing down what we’ve learnt from experience, and distil it down to form the backbone of our ideology, which we can of course expand, change and contradict over time. But let’s always try to steer followers away from philosophy, and instead focus on the here and now. We can use phrases such as ‘my words only point, they are not the thing itself’ and ‘truth is beyond logic and lies within paradoxes,’ to get away with most inconsistencies.

We must feel free to say anything we want, but it’s important to remember to speak slowly, with a sincere smile, and to meet everyone eye to eye – and never be the one to look away first. Some simple NLP style communications techniques can help make people feel warm – notice how I try to use the inclusive ‘we’ rather than ‘you.’

Like a cyclone needs certain conditions to form, if we make the right conditions, the cult will form. It is a natural phenomenon, an instinctive grouping system amongst humans, based around finding security in consensus.

2. The Gospel.

We do also need write one more thing – a ridiculous and improbable story about how our philosophy came to being. Its best, though not necessary, to hang it on a prophet or other mysterious channel of ultimate truth. For example, Shmeiki appeared to the Shmeiki Baba when his haemorrhoid began talking during a trip. Its good that the story is improbable, so that when followers believe it, we know they are properly hooked.

3. Regular group meetings.

This is where the group dynamic of the cult begins. At the beginning two or three people is enough. At the meetings, talk briefly about philosophy, and concentrate on fun techniques, meditations and social games. Aim to increase the numbers of meetings, in order gradually to take people away from their old friends and family.

With around nine strong members it’s viable to start a commune, in a house in the countryside. It is they who will pay for its rental and maintenance. Create a regime which is exciting and light-hearted, but which results in sleep for only short periods and at strange times. We need to replace the followers old identity with a shiny new identity, which is based on freedom and self development. We have our own Shmeiki vocabulary to express our group’s ideas: shmantra, shmoga, and shmundalini. Remember to reward loyal followers with appropriate positions of responsibility.

4. Techniques and activities.

Followers need techniques to help them focus on the now. Shmeiki has many techniques. Almost all of them work with equal effect, except psychedelics, which if used properly, can work better than everything else. Techniques can come from anything though, for example the Shmeiki Healing Foundation is currently organizing a Rename Your Street Day, in support of human liberation. Followers are currently working on special new names for streets in Israel. Initial proposals are: Moshe the Rapist Avenue, and Ehud the Embezzler Street…..

5.Courses

Running courses is a key income generator. But running a Teachers Training Program is even more important – this is where we train other people to run our courses, so they can share in our system’s profits. This is a basic pyramid selling scheme, and a great source of wealth.

As you can see, setting up your own cult is a lot of work. If it sounds a bit daunting, but you find yourself attracted to the Shmeiki way, you are welcome to take part in our own Shmeiki Teacher Training Course, which will allow you to run your own profitable Shmeiki courses. You can talk to Shoham about this later, and also check www.shmeiki.com for details.

6. The Inner Circle

Graduates of the Teachers Training Course, comprise the elite of spiritual followers and sit closest to Guruji. In Shmeiki, they are known as The Secret Army of Shmeiki. The goal of the secret Army of Shmeiki is: to make a non serious world. Our main weapon is: the practical joke. Our one true duty is: to see the funny side of things. Our salvation lies: in laughter. We know that this, and by ‘this’ we mean ‘the universe’, is one VERY big joke. And this is why, we, the Shmeiki warriors, are not held down by loans or mortgages, but are mobile, self sufficient, and generally like to live a life of lazy, hippy luxury in various third world beach paradises.

5. Manufacture key products

In most businesses, the key cost is labour. One of the advantages of having a cult is that we are provided a workforce, who work from love, and who we don’t need to pay. As we speak, around the world cult members are working away, making incense, and amulets, distributing books and dodgy mineral, without so much as a dollar being paid to them.

Some products cults make, relate to practices within the cult. For example, those wishing to complete Shmeiki 1, need to make a secret rubber g-string, inscribed with the Shmeiki logo. Its done using a sheet of rubber, some glue, a roll of red cotton, and a strong needle. We sell both the kit and the finished items on www.shmeiki.com.

There is time for just one quick question.

Yes, Shmeiki Baba, do you make a living from the Shmeiki Healing Foundation?

Luckily, Shmeiki Baba has only simple requirements –he needs just one Rolls Royce, and a token Hollywood actress to become a Shmeiki devotee….. Perhaps Selma Hayek is interested….. Shoham, before I forget, can you make a note to call her agent?

Yes, sorry, I make a good living, but spreading the word of Shmeiki is expensive. Luckily, I am blessed with a few, generous supporters. If you would like to join them, there is a donate button on shemiki.com.

Shoham, could you read today’s first question?

Yes Babaji…..

I’ve been watching a lot of conspiracy movies on the internet like Zeitgeist, and Loose Change and I reckon they are right – there is an evil elite ruling the world. I reckon that after they’ve put us under the control of an all powerful global government, they are going to cause 80% of the world’s population to die, and put microchips in the arms of the remaining 20%!

…..Hmmm…… Well conspiracy theories say ‘things are not what they seem.’ And yes, that is the case. It is in private, at unreported gatherings, like the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the Commission on Foreign Affairs, that the owners of global corporations, politicians and even royalty, agree their secret agenda for global domination. It is they who conspired the fall of the twin towers, and the subsequent “war on terror.” Their aim was to justify a reduction in civil liberties and an increase in the techno-surveillance of consumers. The war on terror has made private military contractors extremely rich on American taxpayer’s money. And significantly, despite the shiny new puppet in the oval room, nothing has changed …. What, you don’t really believe there was an election just now? Get real. The Americans have technology 50 years more advanced that what they show us, and aliens visit earth on a regular basis, but keep quiet about it.

Sure, the whole system stinks to high heaven….but we must see this mess, as a necessary part of man’s evolution. The important question which must ultimately arise when faced with most conspiracy theories is: So what? – because the only use conspiracy theories can be, is to bring the realization, that by going to work every morning, as paid slaves, we earn money to pay for a bunch of things we don’t actually need, and so perpetuate the prison we have built with our own hands.

We need to be aware, that if our immediate happiness is not our focus, if we allow ourselves to be unhappy, then conspiracy theories merely offer someone to blame, and a release of personal responsibility. In this way, conspiracy theories are like psychedelics – we need to know how to use them properly, or they will backfire on us.

But its not all bad news! The good news is that we can still choose how we use our time – We can opt to live in freedom, running around naked, outside the mainstream, in the countryside, close to nature.

Any questions?

Yes. Shmeiki Baba, I do need some money for food, my yoga classes, a ticket to India once a, so how should I earn my living?

Do what you love. Allow your talents to flow, and by and by, the money will come. Oh yes, and if you have a TV, sell it.

Om Shmeiki, Om.

Much has been written about the violence in the media, but who has asked the salient question: how many of the Jews and Arabs fighting have had good Shmantric sex recently? I’m sure even fewer have ever considered putting their identities to the psychedelic test.

To be fair to the rioters on both sides, they are blind products of our fucked up system. We’ve all been conditioned to construct identities from just about everything. I am an Israeli, I am a Jew, I am an Arab. Even: I am successful. I am a yoga teacher, I am a vegetarian who only eats organic. I’m a Vipassana Meditator, which means I’m a really good person.

Of course, when we cut the crap, we know in our hearts that there can be only one true identity: I am conscious. This means: I am alive, and I am aware of it. In this state, there is no pose, we identify with the universe as a part of it. It is only here that true character can develop, and for this reason, in Shmeiki, all other identities are the butt of jokes – for good reason too, because boy do we like to laugh.…. laughter – the great Shmeiki therapy. You know, In Israel, we see how comedy and tragedy are a breath apart, which means, if we do not laugh, we will cry.

I am an Israeli

Now let’s see….. you know, many Israelis come to me, looking to drop their identity. And all I can say is oi va voi. It is way more difficult to drop being an Israeli than to drop being Spanish, Swiss or Singaporean. Why? Our enemies intensify our sense of being Israeli, and unite us. Everywhere we go, the message is reinforced: The Iranians, the Syrians, Hamas, Hezbollah want to kill us. If we stop fighting for our land, caring about being Israelis, it will be the end of us.’ And anyone who does not take the threat seriously, is seen to be disrespecting those who have died and also those who daily put their lives on the line.

And so, the question arises: do new age ideas about dropping identity spell suicide for Israelis?
Well if we are the only ones to drop our identity, and our enemies don’t do it as well, well then yes, it might well spell suicide. But this threat cannot hold us back, it would mean they have won! This is why we ought to begin our work quietly, on an individual level.

Yes, those of us lucky enough not to take being Israeli seriously, do so at the expense of those in the military and its affiliated programs, who are simply not in a position to drop their guard. Sure, its not fair, but that’s tough luck. Again – we cannot stem the evolution of our consciousness for a broken ideal, and we also can’t help that an identity we once saw as super important now seems a bit ridiculous.

Luckily for us, nationalism is pretty untenable when our leaders show such persistent incompetence and corruption. And luckily for Israel, our enemies lack the intelligence to understand, that as we currently stand, all they would have to do to win the war, is to stop fighting, and sit back for long enough to watch Israel’s various factions, no longer united by a common goal, destroy each other.

In the little utopia I’m imagining, we need the religious Jews and Muslims not to take themselves too seriously either. Yes that might be a problem. Here I say, bring on the shmantric sex and the (legal) psychedelic experience. And if all else fails, we’ll just have to content ourselves that the various Shmeiki techniques will make life in the nuclear bunker more fun.

I am a Jew

‘Hear Oh Israel’ – chill the hell out! – Religion isn’t meant to be taken so damn literally. Yes, the bible is the word of God, but then so is the phone book, and that includes the phone book for Ramalla.

And don’t think that traditionally minded Jews outside Israel are any less screwy, quite the opposite. They suffer the enforced schizophrenia of divided identities. They are part French, part Jew, and they are consigned to the uncomfortable position of sitting on two chairs. That’s why they often look like they’ve got carrots stuck up their asses. They want to feel special, and being part of a minority ensures it. So by buying a seat in the synagogue, sporadically dressing in expensive clothes and making prayers in a language they don’t understand, they pay dumb lip service to a distant God. The insecurity which results from this insanity, in turn drives the ambition for professional status, fast German cars, and high maintenance Jewish princesses.

Shmeiki knows one thing, that if you just can’t drop it, if you really do insist on keeping your Jewish identity, for God’s sake, do it in context, do it in Israel, and do it with a sense of humour. Remember, nothing in Judaism precludes you from practicing Shmantric Sex, and tasting the psychedelic experience. Try it and you will learn to smile again.

[Unfortunately this week’s shmatsang was cut slightly short by a Sanyasin who attacked the Shmeiki Baba with a Chai on a chain. Luckily this time, no one was hurt.]