7-17-98 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

When one of the most well read men of the century, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, wrote Books I Have Loved, which book does he mention first? Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Knowing Bhagwan as I do, I'm certain this choice was partly for shock value and partly because he truly did admire this man.

Nietzsche was a brilliant philosopher, but, from the beginning, he was overly attached to the processes of the mind and intellect, which were, in his case -- according to the principles of The Art of Multi-Dimensional Living® governed, respectively, by a very weak Moon and Nodes of the Moon. Thus, he drove himself relentlessly to the point of exhaustion and eventual insanity.

One must maintain a balance between the processes of thinking, feeling and willing, and when one is unable or unwilling to do so, the psychosomatic organism will suffer a breakdown. Nevertheless, this great man flew high for a time leaving us his unique understanding (through his spiritual nature) of the role of the will in human endeavor and the pitfalls of not following this path with courage and authenticity.

Nietzsche is a classic example of someone unable to distinguish his own approach to spiritual development from the seven other archetypal paths and who therefore projected his own style as the only laudable one. This ego-based stance was bound to draw men to his philosophy like Adolf Hitler, who would then pervert it into something Nietzsche never intended or envisioned.