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F.: The relative existence will unfold in one of three ways: either in a (Nisarga) natural manner; in a (super) natural manner; or in a most (un) natural manner. Just as oil and water cannot mix, there can be no sane existence that can happen in a "partly this style" and "partly that style."
For example, there can be no sane existence that can happen in a partly unnatural and partly natural manner; furthermore, there can be no sane existence that can involve living in any combination of styles because that will preempt abidance as the unicity and will support the illusion of duality. Some trying to live in all three styles are lost in triplicity and are trapped in the misery of the multiple personality disorder.
(SUPER) NATURAL LIVING
Supernatural living preempts natural living. To believe that one is living in a supernatural fashion is to believe that one is accessing a superpower. Supernatural beliefs are supported by magical thinking, and all magical, erroneous thinking is supported by the concepts and falsehoods that are stored in what is called "the mind."
The basic, supernatural belief is that the natural existence cannot happen effectively without being in a close relationship with an other-world power who lives not in close proximity but who lives in a place that is very far away in a location that is always "up there" (no matter where on the globe such a believer might be standing while pointing upward).
(NOTE: For many, the belief is that there is not a single, other-world power but that there are multiple gods assuming hundreds of forms, a belief that is no different at all from the beliefs held by ancient Greeks and Romans who thought that their myth-based stories were true).
However, for most of the 14.5 million years that humans or human-like beings walked the planet, they lived in a natural, non-supernatural manner because there was no language by which they could be taught that myths and superstitions are true.
Written language developed a little more than 5000 years ago, at which time the dreamed-up tales of gods began to be recorded in texts that would someday be considered "holy." So out of the 14.5 million years that humans have walked the planet, all but the last few thousand years were lived quite naturally and quite successfully without any holy texts discussing supernatural beings and teaching supernatural concepts.
Additionally, all 14.5 million years were lived (with the possible exception of the last 100,000 years of that span) without any oral tales being told and circulated about supernatural concepts and supernatural beings. How can that be known? Science proves without a doubt that it was only about 100,000 years ago that, anatomically, humans developed hominid vocal tracts that were of a shape that would permit a range of speech sounds.
Even then, it would have required thousands of years for the development of vocabulary and thousands more to develop supernatural concepts that could be verbalized. So natural living prevailed for millions of years whereas the human effort to try to live supernaturally is a recent phenomenon in terms of the overall human experience;
moreover, the relative existence was a fairly simple existence prior to efforts by controlling men and women to overlay supernatural concepts onto the previously all-natural existence. That complicating factor and the roots of distortion and delusion were discussed last year in this passage:
Note the loss of simplicity when the first medicine man dreamed up not just a rain god but an angry rain god. Before that point, humankind would have witnessed and accepted the fact that when it rains, it rains; when it does not rain, it does not rain; when it is hot, it is hot; and when it is cold, it is cold.
After that god was dreamed up, note how complicated things became during the relative: parents had to offer up a daughter to have sex with a medicine man claiming to be "god's representative on earth"; to be killed; to have her heart cut out; and to participate as all passed the heart about and ate the body and drank the blood in a service that provided the chance to "commune" with the rain god and please him with sex and sacrifice.
Those early “worshipers” who engaged in the first communion services began to define morality and then inventoried what is “good” behavior and what is “bad” behavior so as not to anger the rain god any further; they codified their beliefs in “holy” books; they began to engage in preemptive strikes, sacrificing in advance rather than after the rain had stopped.
Now, when humans behave in the natural ways that humans engaged in for millions of years, other complicating concepts are added to the mix from the storehouse of supernatural beliefs: guilt, shame, rejection, disgrace, and fear, including the fear of not being rewarded now, the fear of not earning an eternal reward but of suffering eternal punishment instead, and the fear that if they don't give money or gifts and hours of “service,” they will not get rewards both now and forevermore.
So the notion of trying to live supernaturally likely took a foothold 5000 or so years ago and certainly not more than 100,000 years ago. Compared to the natural way that humans lived for the other 14.4 million years, supernatural living is “the new kid on the block” in terms of the way that some humans try to live. It is not natural.
(UN) NATURAL LIVING
Next, unnatural living is an even "newer kid on the block." Unnatural living began when persons developed a section of the brain that is capable of storing and retrieving facts. The storage part is commonly referred to as "the mind."
Again, the “thinking part” of the brain did not start processing ideas and concepts and beliefs until language developed. Nor did personality or personalities develop; therefore, the assumption of personas as identities did not happen except at the very end of the total human experience that has gone on for 14.5 million years.
Unnatural living only resulted after languages developed and after cultures developed and after those cultures began teaching their false concepts about multiple "identities." The subsequent unnatural way of living began when persons became so fooled that they (a) began to think that they are what they are not and (b) eventually ended up not having even the slightest clue about Who/What They Truly Are.
As a result, if persons today do not complete the seven-step journey to Reality, then they will never know Who/What They Truly Are. What hampers most seekers is not a lack of willingness to seek but their inability to find a teacher who can say, “You are right here on the 'path.' The next step is specifically this and then your final steps after that are these, specifically.” Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
For example, there can be no sane existence that can happen in a partly unnatural and partly natural manner; furthermore, there can be no sane existence that can involve living in any combination of styles because that will preempt abidance as the unicity and will support the illusion of duality. Some trying to live in all three styles are lost in triplicity and are trapped in the misery of the multiple personality disorder.
(SUPER) NATURAL LIVING
Supernatural living preempts natural living. To believe that one is living in a supernatural fashion is to believe that one is accessing a superpower. Supernatural beliefs are supported by magical thinking, and all magical, erroneous thinking is supported by the concepts and falsehoods that are stored in what is called "the mind."
The basic, supernatural belief is that the natural existence cannot happen effectively without being in a close relationship with an other-world power who lives not in close proximity but who lives in a place that is very far away in a location that is always "up there" (no matter where on the globe such a believer might be standing while pointing upward).
(NOTE: For many, the belief is that there is not a single, other-world power but that there are multiple gods assuming hundreds of forms, a belief that is no different at all from the beliefs held by ancient Greeks and Romans who thought that their myth-based stories were true).
However, for most of the 14.5 million years that humans or human-like beings walked the planet, they lived in a natural, non-supernatural manner because there was no language by which they could be taught that myths and superstitions are true.
Written language developed a little more than 5000 years ago, at which time the dreamed-up tales of gods began to be recorded in texts that would someday be considered "holy." So out of the 14.5 million years that humans have walked the planet, all but the last few thousand years were lived quite naturally and quite successfully without any holy texts discussing supernatural beings and teaching supernatural concepts.
Additionally, all 14.5 million years were lived (with the possible exception of the last 100,000 years of that span) without any oral tales being told and circulated about supernatural concepts and supernatural beings. How can that be known? Science proves without a doubt that it was only about 100,000 years ago that, anatomically, humans developed hominid vocal tracts that were of a shape that would permit a range of speech sounds.
Even then, it would have required thousands of years for the development of vocabulary and thousands more to develop supernatural concepts that could be verbalized. So natural living prevailed for millions of years whereas the human effort to try to live supernaturally is a recent phenomenon in terms of the overall human experience;
moreover, the relative existence was a fairly simple existence prior to efforts by controlling men and women to overlay supernatural concepts onto the previously all-natural existence. That complicating factor and the roots of distortion and delusion were discussed last year in this passage:
Note the loss of simplicity when the first medicine man dreamed up not just a rain god but an angry rain god. Before that point, humankind would have witnessed and accepted the fact that when it rains, it rains; when it does not rain, it does not rain; when it is hot, it is hot; and when it is cold, it is cold.
After that god was dreamed up, note how complicated things became during the relative: parents had to offer up a daughter to have sex with a medicine man claiming to be "god's representative on earth"; to be killed; to have her heart cut out; and to participate as all passed the heart about and ate the body and drank the blood in a service that provided the chance to "commune" with the rain god and please him with sex and sacrifice.
Those early “worshipers” who engaged in the first communion services began to define morality and then inventoried what is “good” behavior and what is “bad” behavior so as not to anger the rain god any further; they codified their beliefs in “holy” books; they began to engage in preemptive strikes, sacrificing in advance rather than after the rain had stopped.
Now, when humans behave in the natural ways that humans engaged in for millions of years, other complicating concepts are added to the mix from the storehouse of supernatural beliefs: guilt, shame, rejection, disgrace, and fear, including the fear of not being rewarded now, the fear of not earning an eternal reward but of suffering eternal punishment instead, and the fear that if they don't give money or gifts and hours of “service,” they will not get rewards both now and forevermore.
So the notion of trying to live supernaturally likely took a foothold 5000 or so years ago and certainly not more than 100,000 years ago. Compared to the natural way that humans lived for the other 14.4 million years, supernatural living is “the new kid on the block” in terms of the way that some humans try to live. It is not natural.
(UN) NATURAL LIVING
Next, unnatural living is an even "newer kid on the block." Unnatural living began when persons developed a section of the brain that is capable of storing and retrieving facts. The storage part is commonly referred to as "the mind."
Again, the “thinking part” of the brain did not start processing ideas and concepts and beliefs until language developed. Nor did personality or personalities develop; therefore, the assumption of personas as identities did not happen except at the very end of the total human experience that has gone on for 14.5 million years.
Unnatural living only resulted after languages developed and after cultures developed and after those cultures began teaching their false concepts about multiple "identities." The subsequent unnatural way of living began when persons became so fooled that they (a) began to think that they are what they are not and (b) eventually ended up not having even the slightest clue about Who/What They Truly Are.
As a result, if persons today do not complete the seven-step journey to Reality, then they will never know Who/What They Truly Are. What hampers most seekers is not a lack of willingness to seek but their inability to find a teacher who can say, “You are right here on the 'path.' The next step is specifically this and then your final steps after that are these, specifically.” Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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Travel costs of the drive to Austin and back: $200.00
Friday and Saturday hotel room: $140.00
½ day Friday, Saturday and ½ day Sunday fees: $600.00
16 participants: $59.00 each for the retreat
Certain bargains are currently available for international flights as well
4. DONATIONS
1. REALIZATION AIDS
2. ADVAITA BOOK SETS-50% off
3. ARRANGE FOR FLOYD TO SPEAK TO YOUR GROUP
4. DONATIONS
1. REALIZATION AIDS
The Advanced Seekers’ Book Set
From the I to the Absolute
Consciousness / Awareness
From the Absolute to the Nothingness
Purchase one or all at The Official Website of Floyd Henderson
2. ADVAITA / NON-DUALITY BOOK SET
THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ARE IN THE STORE IN LIMITED SUPPLY AND WILL BE OFFERED AT 50% OFF WHEN BOUGHT AS A PACKAGE:
From the Absolute to the Nothingness
Consciousness/Awareness
From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
It's All Bullshit (and Why Knowing it Sets You Free)
Meditation Guide (Advanced Volume)
There's No Such Thing as ''Peace of Mind''
Ending Financial Problems by Understanding Your Personality
The Essence of the Teachings
$79.00 for all eight books + free S&H in the U.S.
Visit
The Official Website of Floyd Henderson
3. ARRANGE FOR FLOYD TO TRAVEL TO YOUR LOCATION AND SPEAK TO YOUR GROUP
Here’s a recent example:
Travel costs of the drive to Austin and back: $200.00
Friday and Saturday hotel room: $140.00
½ day Friday, Saturday and ½ day Sunday fees: $600.00
16 participants: $59.00 each for the retreat
Certain bargains are currently available for international flights as well
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FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!
FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.
F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,300+ Advaitin essays archived on the site.
