When Andreas Buttler told me in
November 2013 that he no longer believed in Spiritologie etc. I listened
carefully and acknowledged his ideas politely as any good auditor realizing the
man is somewhat disturbed by having to give up his creation and admit he had
been wrong.
My colleagues Claudia and
Magdalena were in Austria at the time. I told them over the phone that Andreas
had given up. After they arrived in Biere, Claudia suggested to Andreas to go
in session and handle his reading charge. We offered sessions which he did not
accept.
There were some discussions and
it was decided from both sides that Andreas would return to Erwitte where he
had lived before. We offered to temporarily rent a place for him and gave him
some money so he could leave and physically get well again, given the fact he
was ill.
An interesting synchronicity
happened, which did steer later events in a certain direction. Luigi Kwas
happened to phone in just the day when Andreas – who was upset after an
argument - was leaving and didn’t want to talk to Luigi. Luigi interpreted this
in his way and thought that we were withholding something as we in his
perception were not willing to connect him through to Andreas.
We tried in vain to convince him
otherwise. I must mention at this point that Luigi had been critical of our
positions already for a longer period, but not always expressed.
Some time after Andreas left
Luigi contacted him over Skype and Andreas reportedly stated that there was
nothing wrong but that Caspar was upset with him due to interference of
Claudia. This started the rumour that Claudia and Caspar were the one’s that
had created a breach in the group by not accepting Andreas’ new insights.
I had written some private notes
criticizing the Spiritologie book and shared these with Luigi, who in violation
of our agreement passed these to Andreas. This led to an upset and as a result
Andreas disconnected from us.
It was subsequently revealed
that Luigi - who had obtained a high grade in Spiritologie and was therefore a
trusted public representative - according to his later statement had never
believed in the basic Spiritologie principle. Thus it was no surprise to him
when Andreas recanted and gave up his core Spiritologie belief:
“All – and by that I mean as a matter of fact precisely that, namely
all – what you perceive and experience is exactly that, which you out of
yourself, through your own causal thinking create, and indeed exactly … now!”
Luigi had over the years been
extremely critical of Andreas’ Scientology connection and believed and stated
that the above principle only applied to the mind.
When Caspar and Claudia called a
special briefing in early January 2014 to reveal what happened and announce the
demise of Spiritologie as seen from the viewpoint of the founder, they were met
with unexpected accusations.
Luigi apparently had already
privately and prematurely briefed (third party) several of the group and thus
some present at that meeting would accuse Caspar of been emotional and
prejudiced against Andreas, which was far from the mark.
Luigi covertly kept telling other
members of the group that there was nothing wrong and that we were the ones
making trouble, not Andreas.
Eventually this dis-information
spread in the group culminating in a schism where several of the Spiritologie
group became disaffected with us.
Nothing we said or did could
clear this up as we were not aware of Luigi’s counter-actions until much later.
It is remarkable that Andreas
and Luigi went straight from pure spirituality to blatant denial of the
celebrated mind over matter credo, which is the essence of the major spiritual
traditions.
The Buddha for example declares
in the opening lines of The Dhammapada, that "All phenomena are preceded
by mind, made by mind, and ruled by mind".
Or Mary Baker Eddy in Christian Science
stated: “All is mind”
Or Wolfgang Pauli, who
knew:“Matter is derived from mind, not mind from matter.”
Or Sir Arthur Eddington who
said: “Physics is the study of the structure of consciousness. The
"stuff" of the world is mindstuff.”
Or Baba Muktananda:“You are the
entire universe. You are in all, and all is in you. Sun, moon, and stars
revolve within you."
Caspar de Nada
