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Four female enlightened masters who went completely “insane”

Taoist Master Sun Bu'er

(Asangoham) May 28, 2026: #egodeath #consciousness #nonduality Four women throughout history were called "insane," possessed, and heretical. But each one had broken through to a level of awakening most people never touch.

This is the story of mystics who looked mad on the outside but were actually living proof of the deepest spiritual truths ever discovered.

1. Sun Bu'er destroyed her own beauty to escape the prison of the ego and became the only woman among the Seven Immortals of Taoism.

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  Young Sri Anandamayi Ma

  QUESTION: Gurudev, what does Asangoham [the name of this channel] mean? Gurudev, kindly explain the meaning of Asangoham (a phrase often chanted by Gurudev in the Advanced Meditation or Silence Course).
• ANSWER (by Gurudev @SriSriRaviShankar ji): "I am not this," that is what Asangoham means. For example, I am wearing the cloth, but I am not the cloth...I am not the body. I am not the thoughts, I am not the mind. Like this you go on to negate one by one all the layers of identity. And finally when you ask, "Who am I?" You will find nothing. "I am nothing..." That is what Asangoham is. Sangoham means "being one with it." If I think I am my clothes, then that is a problem. I am beyond all these layers of existence. If I think that I am my thoughts, my emotions, my sensations then I lose track of my vast nature. Therefore, to reach the realization of our vastness we say, "I am not this and I am not th[at]," repeatedly.

Atma-shatakam (with lyrics) by Rishi Nityapragya | Rejoicing Rishi-ji

• Gurudev sings: Mano Budhyahankaar Chittani Naaham, Na Cha Shrotra Jihve Na Cha Ghraana netre Na Cha Vyoma Bhumir Na Tejo Na Vayuh, Chidananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham (from the Atma-shatkam by Adi Shankara-Acharya): "I am not the mind, intellect, memory, or ego. I am not this, not this, not this. This is the way of negating and going into that hollow and empty space. This shiva tattva is what I really am. This realization is what meditation is, that is samadhi.
• [EDITOR'S NOTE: Buddhism goes further to the realization that ANY identification is in error, and because there is no-self (no-atman, anatta, no soul, no self, no ego to cling to, in the ultimate sense, one lets go, ceases to cling, as is liberated to Truth, to enlightenment, to nirvana). But because the Old Vedic Religion and later Hinduism are not aware of this, they call Atma-shatkam Nirvana-shatkam as this level of "self realization" is the highest attainable for them. Were they to practice in line with what "Lord Buddha" taught, they might well make an end of all further rebirth and suffering, but ordinary worldlings, even the spiritual kind, are not interested in that. They long for rebirth in the heaven they deem supreme, the World of Brahma, and fail to grasp what Brahman is. No one should ever mistakenly think Vedic Hinduism and Buddhism teach the same thing. They are worlds apart for all their shared language and history.]

2. Anandamayi Ma surrendered her freewill so completely that she became a living puppet of the divine.

• [NOTE: Wisdom Quarterly loves Sri Anandamayi Ma (Anandamayi Ma Indian saint) not only because of her spectacular beauty and realization but because she was a favorite of Swami Paramananda, the founder of our local Ananda Ashram. (Yelp).] 

3. Marguerite Porete [French Christian mystic] smiled as she burned at the stake for teaching that the awakened soul outgrows religion itself.

4. Bernadette Roberts [Carmelite Catholic nun] lost God, lost her self, and walked straight into the void to discover the raw truth of pure consciousness.

How sweet to glimpse the Truth

This deep dive explores non-duality, ego death, enlightenment, and the terrifying spiritual awakenings that the world mistook for insanity.

Drawn to Advaita Vedanta (nondualism), Taoist internal alchemy, Christian mysticism, consciousness, and the [true] nature of the self? This journey into the minds of history's (herstory's) most misunderstood mystics will stay with you.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

• 0:00 The woman who burned her own beautiful face
• 00:00 The puppet of the divine
• 00:00 The smiling heretic
• 00:00 The nun who lost God

Women, just like men, can do this.

#spirituality #nonduality #enlightenment #consciousness #egodeath Script: Sid. Edit: Joana Cruz. Voiceover: Rohit Dave. Original score: @asangvani.

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Mad for Marilyn Monroe: Happy Birthday

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Norma-Jean as Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926) lived until August 4, 1962. She was a sex symbol, comedic American actress, and model.

Known for playing comic "Blonde Bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2025) by her tragic death in 1962 [2].

I was born Norma-Jean Mortensen

Born in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage before marrying James Dougherty at the age of 16.

She was working in a factory during World War II when she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career, which led to short-lived film contracts with 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures.

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Dr. Joel Wallach: Why did Bruce Lee die? (Ask Doc Live 12/16/2022)

Bruce Lee was the real thing.

What really killed Hollywood's Bruce Lee? According to Dr. Joel D. Wallach (criticalhealthnews.com), it is unequivocal and perfectly clear that ignorance and a terrible diet killed the superstar and legendary mixed martial artist. What killed Bruce at the young age of 32? Wheatgerm (gluten) and malnourishment from gluten and other things that prematurely depleted him. Lee disciplined himself to death with a wrong idea of how to get or stay healthy. What did Bruce eat?

A very diverse diet would have been much better, avoiding extremes, fads, and health trends, but that would not have saved him (or us) from deficiencies in depleted farmland soil. That is why supplementation has become essential.

Bruce Lee: I ate these Top 3 foods to stay strong, ripped, and dead

• (We say this as extreme vegans interested in maintaining our great health. Dr. Wallach says real food supplements are now a must due to soil depletion, processing, and lots of bad information out there. You are responsible for your diet choices because you will be the one to bear the tragic health results of any mistake made in choosing what to put in this pure temple of a body: avoid ultra processed foods, avoid eating the dead, avoid stale/toxic substances that are not stored correctly. Eat to enjoy, eat for flavor, eat lots of fiber and foods in their natural state or processed in beneficial ways such as culturing, light fermentation, drying, preserving, seasoning... As with all things, we are ultimately responsible for ourselves and cannot give that job over to someone else as much as we would like to, for choosing to not choose for ourselves is also a choice, and believing Big Pharma, doctors, and surgeons can often be fatal. Look around. Look how healthy everyone in our society is).

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How to keep Heart open in Hell (Ram Dass)

(After Skool) It's all perfect by Ram Dass (Dr. Richard Alpert, Ph.D., Harvard University)

RAM DASS ("God's Servant or Slave") was born Richard Alpert on April 6, 1931 and lived until December 22, 2019) [1]. He became a hippie and is also known as Baba ["Father"] Ram Dass. He was an American spiritual teacher, guru of modern yoga [2], academic psychologist, and writer of Be Here Now, his best-selling [3] 1971 book, which has been described by multiple reviewers as "seminal" [4, 5, 6].

Ram Dass perfectly describes "ego death"

With the help of his scandalous but loving sex guru Neem Karoli Baba, he helped popularize Eastern spirituality and yoga in the West [7]. He authored or co-authored a dozen more books on spirituality over the next four decades, including Grist for the Mill (1977), How Can I Help? (1985), and Polishing the Mirror (2013).

Remember: Be Here Now (Ram Dass)

Once when he was teaching with his long hair, beard, and linen garments, someone in the crowd asked him why he dressed like a guru from India when he was really a Jew from the U.S. Without missing a beat, his retort was, "I'm only Jewish on my parents' side." Ha ha ha, exactly. We are born into a faith, and it's usually rammed down our throats before we have a chance to do anything but swallow. And most of us won't question it. But some of us vomit it up, leave or examine, sometimes even come back to it later. However, it seems the job and duty of any human to question it, test it, attempt to validate it, argue against it, learn from it, grow from it, reject it all together, or make peace with it. There's a world of spirituality out there to explore. We usually need a floor, a ground, by which to test things. And almost all major religions have a mystic component or sect. That's a place to start. But question we must, and explore we will, and find? That remains to be seen. We are on a spiritual quest. And maybe the whole rest of the world can't be. But if Americans can't, what the F are you calling yourself an "American" for? Life, liberty, and the PURSUIT of happiness is all you were promised -- and you're not even going to pursue it? Truth means nothing? Just taking sides? Just being controlled by your government, schools, and parents, the "powers that be"? Pathetic. Human up, and get searching.

Hell: all the people Ram Dass hated

(My brother Comes) Love everyone and tell the Truth

Ram Dass was personally and professionally associated with hippie Dr. Timothy Leary at Harvard University in the early 1960s. Then known as Richard Alpert, he conducted research with Leary on the therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs.

In addition, Alpert assisted Harvard Divinity School graduate student Walter Pahnke in his 1962 "Good Friday Experiment" with theology students, the first controlled, double-blind study of drugs and the mystical experience [8, 9].

While legal (not illegal) at the time, their research was controversial and led to Dr. Leary's and Dr. Alpert's dismissal from Harvard in 1963. In 1967, Alpert traveled to India and became a disciple of Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, who gave him the name Ram Dass, meaning "Servant of Ram," but usually rendered simply as "Servant of God" for Western audiences.

In the following years, he co-founded the charitable organizations Seva Foundation and Hanuman Foundation. From the 1970s to the 1990s, he traveled extensively, giving talks and retreats and holding fundraisers for charitable causes.

In 1997, he had a stroke, which left him with paralysis and expressive aphasia which would be better characterized as "fluent, anomic-like with hesitations and word finding difficulties at the conversational level with grossly intact auditory comprehension for high level, low-context information" [10, 11].

He eventually grew to interpret this event as an act of grace, learning to speak again and continuing to teach and write books. After becoming seriously ill during a trip to India in 2004, he gave up traveling and moved to Maui, Hawaii, where he hosted annual retreats with other spiritual teachers until his death in 2019. More

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