6 2 S p i r i t ua l i t y S t u d i e s 8 - 1 S p r i n g 2 0 2 2 solidification of Earth’s crust. “However, at that time the beings that we now call people were more ghosts than material beings, hence more spiritually advanced than people of today.” (Minařík 1991/1, 83). Before those beings inhabited the Earth, they were abiding in the divine sphere of Nirmānakāya, “the realm of the so-called living Buddhas. It is where the authentic humankind used to live and where that part of [note: mankind] which does not descend to primitive forms as a result of unrestricted enjoyment of their primitive reflexes, will return. It is a spiritual world of immortal or invisible beings whose living conditions are entirely different from those of physical people.” (Minařík 1991/2, 236). Along with the decay decline of moral values, the bodies of those beings have in the course of billions of years grown more dense and, subsequently, through many evolutionary stages, resulted in what we know as the modern man, homo sapiens sapiens. “On that account the spiritual sphere is the true home of the inner essence of man. It is in this sphere where the faculties of observation, reasoning, understanding, maintaining a balanced state of mind, and attaining wisdom dwell.” (Minařík 1991/1, 37). 3 Mysticism as a Reversion of the Involution Process Minařík argues with Darwin’s theory of evolution. He explains of the process of involution of man, and he speaks of his teaching as a way to go against the stream, against the decay of the qualities of being. Minařík identifies two different types of beings in the context of cosmic creation: the happy ones, also called “nirvanic, whose essential energies have a centripetal tendency” and, unhappy ones, “samsaric, whose energies of existence have a centrifugal tendency” (Minařík 1997, 95). The centrifugal tendencies, manifesting in gradual radiation into the outer world, have nine stages of psychological decline in men and they have, in turn, a fundamental influence upon the qualities of a man’s psychological and physical structure as well as their spiritual rank (Minařík 1991/3, 13–15): 1. If the contents of consciousness are made up from merely perceptions of material nature, man’s consciousness is then obscured by some sort of darkness, ignorance. 2. In such a case observing becomes more and more dependent on sensual perceptions which brings about a loss of proper inspirations and intuitions. 3. Eventually, a lack of interest in higher way of life will settle in the consciousness and flowing from that a lack of interest in achieving the state of light-heartedness and spontaneously arising pleasures. 4. After that, it is only interest in material things which remains, and this burdens man psychologically so much that he or she becomes bad-tempered, selfish, and unfriendly. 5. An unfriendly mind gets more and more shrouded in growing obstinacy. 6. This condition causes strong dissatisfaction in man. 7. This dissatisfaction arouses anger in a human being, which is always a result of egoism. 8. These psychic states evoke inclinations for hurting others. 9. Hurting others generates in turn bad individual karma and, generally, is the seed of all evil in the world.
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