[Please note: Out-of-town for satsang Tuesday and Wednesday. Series continues on Thursday]
F.: Realization is about forfeiting belief in lies and myths in order to be in touch with Reality. Being in touch with Reality cannot happen until persons are able to see that all of the beliefs and concepts that are being disseminated throughout their cultures are complete fiction. Examples abound daily, but nonsense is most verbalized—and most televised—when an event happens that the non-Realized label as “a disaster.”
So millions if not billions of persons believe that it was a god, not human incompetence or natural erosion and decay or wear and tear, that caused a bridge to fall and kill people. It must be asked: as disgusting as governmental negligence might be, relatively speaking, wouldn’t you rather deal with incompetents than with a god that is capable of First Degree, Pre-Meditated murder? Millions would hate any “terrorist” who destroyed a bridge and killed U.S. citizens, but billions continue to worship the "god" that they believe did exactly that. If you want to know just how warped the consciousness can become, you may now have a basis for making your calculation.
Yet that blind devotion is understandable if you are familiar with the “Stockholm Syndrome,” the name now given to a favorable (but abnormal) psychological response toward their victimizers by hostages and by the battered, the abused, or the raped. The name comes from a case in Stockholm, Sweden where bank robbers held hostages for almost a week. After being released, it was seen that the hostages had become emotionally attached to their victimizers and even defended them publicly.
Some might be shocked if they saw how many persons in sessions or e-mails still defend their abusive parents, yet how is that any different from the masses who defend their abusive god, the one they think caused a bridge to fall...the one they think injured and killed people? Ego will inspire that “Don’t you dare talk about my momma” schoolyard mentality. If one parent is bizarre, a person trapped in ego can conclude, “I’m half-bizarre.” If both parents were bizarre, a person can conclude that “I’m totally screwed up in the head,” and the ego certainly doesn’t want to go there. Thus, parents will often be defended by their young children (and by those same children as adults) who are in denial, even if the parents held those children hostage in violent homes and even if those parents abused or battered or raped those children.
And since their god is an extension of those parents, the non-Realized will also defend their god, even when "He" holds them hostage or when he abuses and batters them with fears and psychological hangups and threats of eternal torture. Understand that when children are abused or neglected (or "spoiled" or coddled) by parents, and then take god to be like their early authority figures, then the Stockholm Syndrome activates in “their relationship with god.” Thus, among those experiencing an abnormal psychological response, god can be brutal and punitive and will still be defended and loved. God can be kind at one moment and mean the next, and that’s considered okay...perfectly normal...just the way god is. And one who assumes the persona of "The Godly One" can be seen to be brutal, kind, punitive, and mean...and you can like it or not.
Among those persons experiencing an abnormal psychological response, God can offer protection and comfort but can also tear down bridges and kill people...and that’s acceptable to those persons. It is no great leap for (a) the Stockholm Syndrome to manifest when a child deals with parents and then for (b) a child to believe in a god that is a celestial version of earthy parents, and then for (c) the Stockholm Syndrome to manifest in one’s “relationship with god.”
After that scenario happens, there is no limit to the insanity that duality can inspire when the Stockholm Syndrome activates and then justifies the actions of (an imaginary) god who behaves as insanely as did many parents. After years of trying to please an emotionally-unstable parent who was happy with them at times but was angry with them at other times, persons feel quite "at home" in undertaking a life-long mission of trying to please a god that is happy with them at times but that is angry with them at other times.
Such is the way it is among persons who normalize the insane-like behaviors of their parents: they will also believe in a parent-based god and then normalize in their “minds” the insane-like behavior of that god which is an (imaginary) extension of their parents.
F.: Realization is about forfeiting belief in lies and myths in order to be in touch with Reality. Being in touch with Reality cannot happen until persons are able to see that all of the beliefs and concepts that are being disseminated throughout their cultures are complete fiction. Examples abound daily, but nonsense is most verbalized—and most televised—when an event happens that the non-Realized label as “a disaster.”
So millions if not billions of persons believe that it was a god, not human incompetence or natural erosion and decay or wear and tear, that caused a bridge to fall and kill people. It must be asked: as disgusting as governmental negligence might be, relatively speaking, wouldn’t you rather deal with incompetents than with a god that is capable of First Degree, Pre-Meditated murder? Millions would hate any “terrorist” who destroyed a bridge and killed U.S. citizens, but billions continue to worship the "god" that they believe did exactly that. If you want to know just how warped the consciousness can become, you may now have a basis for making your calculation.
Yet that blind devotion is understandable if you are familiar with the “Stockholm Syndrome,” the name now given to a favorable (but abnormal) psychological response toward their victimizers by hostages and by the battered, the abused, or the raped. The name comes from a case in Stockholm, Sweden where bank robbers held hostages for almost a week. After being released, it was seen that the hostages had become emotionally attached to their victimizers and even defended them publicly.
Some might be shocked if they saw how many persons in sessions or e-mails still defend their abusive parents, yet how is that any different from the masses who defend their abusive god, the one they think caused a bridge to fall...the one they think injured and killed people? Ego will inspire that “Don’t you dare talk about my momma” schoolyard mentality. If one parent is bizarre, a person trapped in ego can conclude, “I’m half-bizarre.” If both parents were bizarre, a person can conclude that “I’m totally screwed up in the head,” and the ego certainly doesn’t want to go there. Thus, parents will often be defended by their young children (and by those same children as adults) who are in denial, even if the parents held those children hostage in violent homes and even if those parents abused or battered or raped those children.
And since their god is an extension of those parents, the non-Realized will also defend their god, even when "He" holds them hostage or when he abuses and batters them with fears and psychological hangups and threats of eternal torture. Understand that when children are abused or neglected (or "spoiled" or coddled) by parents, and then take god to be like their early authority figures, then the Stockholm Syndrome activates in “their relationship with god.” Thus, among those experiencing an abnormal psychological response, god can be brutal and punitive and will still be defended and loved. God can be kind at one moment and mean the next, and that’s considered okay...perfectly normal...just the way god is. And one who assumes the persona of "The Godly One" can be seen to be brutal, kind, punitive, and mean...and you can like it or not.
Among those persons experiencing an abnormal psychological response, God can offer protection and comfort but can also tear down bridges and kill people...and that’s acceptable to those persons. It is no great leap for (a) the Stockholm Syndrome to manifest when a child deals with parents and then for (b) a child to believe in a god that is a celestial version of earthy parents, and then for (c) the Stockholm Syndrome to manifest in one’s “relationship with god.”
After that scenario happens, there is no limit to the insanity that duality can inspire when the Stockholm Syndrome activates and then justifies the actions of (an imaginary) god who behaves as insanely as did many parents. After years of trying to please an emotionally-unstable parent who was happy with them at times but was angry with them at other times, persons feel quite "at home" in undertaking a life-long mission of trying to please a god that is happy with them at times but that is angry with them at other times.
Such is the way it is among persons who normalize the insane-like behaviors of their parents: they will also believe in a parent-based god and then normalize in their “minds” the insane-like behavior of that god which is an (imaginary) extension of their parents.
Thus, relationships with parents and “relationships with god” are never as perceived but are typically driven by irrational beliefs and absurd concepts that result in a series of abnormal psychological responses.
That is why it required the strength of three social workers to pry a child away from the mother that had used cigarettes to burn the child over the entire length of its body. That it also why it is almost impossible to free most children from the effects of decades of exposure to the belief systems of parents as well as beliefs about a fictional, parent-inspired god that continues to generate abnormal psychological responses in those children, even after they reach adulthood.
Those belief systems—all based in duality—can generate either a schizoid or a bipolar sense of dis-ease for a lifetime, especially in nations like the U.S. where the duality manifests as a struggle between a 400-year-old puritanical influence and what John Knowles called the Americans' repressed “germ of wildness.” After years of being driven through their relative existence by parent-inspired, god-inspired abnormal psychological responses, the non-Realized normalize their constantly fluctuating moods and emotions and accept the most outrageous nonsense as fact when it is presented in dualistic terms that deal with “good vs. bad” and “reward vs. punishment” and “godly people vs. evil humans.”
If parents program and condition the masses in the way that most are programmed and conditioned, then it becomes easy to influence people to believe that a god made a bridge fall down for some “good reason”; to influence them to ignore their basic urge to render aid and to fall to their knees and pray instead; to influence persons to abuse anyone who does not behave according to the standards taught by those persons' non-Realized parents...standards supposedly enforced by a fictional god; and to influence persons to believe that it is noble to be willing to “die for their country”—and to kill for their country—if someone arbitrarily orders them to do so. Now it should be easy to see how the masses have been hypnotized and are walking about in their sleep.
It is likely that 95% of the insane-like thinking and the destructive behavior on the planet springs forth either from parental programming or from illusory concepts about god(s) or from a combination of the two. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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That is why it required the strength of three social workers to pry a child away from the mother that had used cigarettes to burn the child over the entire length of its body. That it also why it is almost impossible to free most children from the effects of decades of exposure to the belief systems of parents as well as beliefs about a fictional, parent-inspired god that continues to generate abnormal psychological responses in those children, even after they reach adulthood.
Those belief systems—all based in duality—can generate either a schizoid or a bipolar sense of dis-ease for a lifetime, especially in nations like the U.S. where the duality manifests as a struggle between a 400-year-old puritanical influence and what John Knowles called the Americans' repressed “germ of wildness.” After years of being driven through their relative existence by parent-inspired, god-inspired abnormal psychological responses, the non-Realized normalize their constantly fluctuating moods and emotions and accept the most outrageous nonsense as fact when it is presented in dualistic terms that deal with “good vs. bad” and “reward vs. punishment” and “godly people vs. evil humans.”
If parents program and condition the masses in the way that most are programmed and conditioned, then it becomes easy to influence people to believe that a god made a bridge fall down for some “good reason”; to influence them to ignore their basic urge to render aid and to fall to their knees and pray instead; to influence persons to abuse anyone who does not behave according to the standards taught by those persons' non-Realized parents...standards supposedly enforced by a fictional god; and to influence persons to believe that it is noble to be willing to “die for their country”—and to kill for their country—if someone arbitrarily orders them to do so. Now it should be easy to see how the masses have been hypnotized and are walking about in their sleep.
It is likely that 95% of the insane-like thinking and the destructive behavior on the planet springs forth either from parental programming or from illusory concepts about god(s) or from a combination of the two. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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