Friday, February 15, 2013

THE NONALIGNED STATUS OF THE REALIZED: Feeling without Emoting, Part Six

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F.: The Realized Nisargan - and all things abiding naturally - can and will feel, but only an ego-state can emote. So in the case that unfolded last month a very short distance from the home office where these posts are written (the case in which a woman was shot seven times in the face at point-blank range and the man later impaled himself on a sword) what that case did not involve was one that had Realized or one that was abiding naturally or one that had been freed from being driven by the subconscious agendas of multiple personalities. 

The personas assumed by both people determined, first, the thoughts being thought and the words that had been previously spoken in anger for several days running and the words spoken on the final day of their on-going, multi-day argument. 


Again, when the assignment and assumption of personas are present, those ego-states will never generate feelings (which are felt by the Realized) but WILL set the stage for emotional intoxication (and for the emoting that happens regularly among the non-Realized). 


Because they are false, ego-states are forever trying to appear to be real; because they are false but assumed to be real, ego-states are forever trying to sustain themselves; and because they are false, ego-states are forever trying to convince everyone else that they are real; 


thus, they also are forever using ego-defense mechanisms to protect the ego-states (false identities), they are forever on the defensive, and they are forever vulnerable to entering into a state of emotional intoxication which leaves them believing that they are being threatened. 


Believing that they are being threatened, they will first assume a defensive posture, but at some point they can shift to an offensive posture which - in the mind of the individual or individuals involved - is nevertheless assumed to be a defensive posture (defending one's "self" / "selves" which are thought to be under attack). 


And that is the level of insanity that can manifest when trapped in the machinations of the mind which is the "home" to all ego-states. A wife who is smaller in stature and who is walking away - the most non-offensive posture in nature - can be believed to constitute an assault and attack.

And ego-states, being the very opposite of Oneness, never appear in singularity. While all persons are driven by one of the primary types identified via the enneagram, usually four to five more of the nine types also show a strong influence over thoughts and words and deeds as well. The result: "one persona only" never feels it is being attacked. Always, a multiplicity of ego-states feel that they are being attacked at the same time, thus ratcheting up the intensity of the response.


Those who are aged thirty or higher and who complete a study of their personality types here can often make a list of the roles they have assumed and played that exceeds 75 or 80 in number. And each of those ego-states has its own agenda, own fears, and own desires, and all can be affected in up to seven areas (such as, the false identity's "financial concerns," "personal relationship concerns," "sexual concerns," etc.)


And all of the personas have "a voice" (where else but inside the head ... in the mind) that argues for each of their particular agendas, leaving them ready to shift from a defensive mode to an offensive mode if that is deemed necessary. In the case above, "The Super Husband" also believed he was "The Super Rich Businessman," "The Super Father," "The Respected Super Business Leader in the Community," "The Super CEO," "The Super Homeowner," "The Super Jet Setter" who visited his customers around the globe, etc. 


What were the threats that his multiple personalities / false identities were experiencing? A divorce would "kill off" "The Super Husband" first; then, because a divorce would take half of his millions away, that would "kill off" "The Super Rich Businessman"; 


liquidation of his many corporations to come up with the capital required by a court-ordered payout would "kill off" "The Respected Super Business Leader in the Community," "The Super CEO," "The Super Homeowner," and "The Super Jet Setter." 


The possibility of losing custody of the three children and having to pay child support would "kill off" "The Super Father" and "The Money Man." Then dozens of other ego-states were also in play that would be affected. In the end, their agendas - combined with what was perceived to be a plethora of real threats, though they were not - ended the defense-based arguing and led to the man's offense-based actions. 


As for the sword? In the case of many of the annual murders in the U.S. (murders in which 59% of all women who are killed are killed by "A Lover" or "A Husband") the end result is actually a murder-suicide. The unconscious assumption? 


"If all of my selves are going to die, then the body that has been facilitating the assumption and playing of those false roles may as well die, too." 


As another example, there was a one-on-one, face-to-face conversation with a man who appeared on "The Dr. Phil Show," in the news because he had been recently released from prison for the murder years earlier of his former wife and was seeking to make amends to his daughters. That murder, also, took place just a mile or so away. 


(Another murder so close by? Yes. Texas, with its "drink-a-bunch-of-beer" and "bang-bang-shoot-'em-up" mentality is home to more than its fair share of ignorance and violence and insanity). 

Looking back on the murder, he told me that he "could not believe he had done that" and had spent years "wondering how he could have possibly gotten to that point, even though 'under the influence' at the time." As I discussed the defense-to-offense shift that happens with ego-states when they feel threatened, he understood that he was operating more under the influence of his false identities than under the influence of drugs or alcohol or anything else. That tomorrow. 


Please enter the silence of contemplation.

(Note: Online Internet Course now available at a discount. See details above.) [Received from Mac, 10/17/12]: "Glad to see the online teaching offered at a discount. Hopefully, more who are ready will be able to take the course. For me, the course was the beginning of the unlearning that led to the trip to the lake for a retreat and the understanding."

  SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part One

A "movement" or "shift" happened here that added another parallel to the many parallels in terms of the phenomenal "experiences" and the noumenal revelations that "Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj" and "Floyd" share in common. (Many visitors over the years have said that they also shared the same parallels with "Maharaj" and "Floyd" as well.) In the case of "Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj" and "Floyd" 

1. both grew up in very poor families 2. both moved to populated areas to seek employment opportunities 3. both exhibited business skills that led to their opening and operating many businesses and to their having a large number of employees working for them 4. both succeeded financially 5. both became attached to accumulating 


6. both married and had a family 7. both were initially religious 8. both moved away from organized religion and became interested in "spiritual" matters, finding and following the teachings of a big name teacher (or, in "Floyd's" case, many big name teachers) 9. both had highly religious wives who were quite displeased with the shift away from religion and toward "spirituality" 10. both began to feel empty in spite of all of their "spiritual seeking" and in spite of all of their accumulated "spiritual knowledge" 

11. both began to de-accumulate after both saw that they could survive quite well on a fraction of the income they had been making 12. both had wives who were unhappy when the de-accumulation stage was entered and both had wives who became unhappy about their husbands' focus on non-duality and who blamed their unhappiness on no longer having a religious husband (The facts be known, in both cases the unhappiness involved the fact that their husbands were no longer interested in - or willing - to work 80+ hours per week and that their husbands were no longer interested in accumulating wealth and possessions and providing the rich lifestyle to which their wives had grown accustomed) 13. both eventually came to see that the religious and spiritual states were also ego-states, and both saw that there are far more steps on the "path" to complete after reaching the religious and spiritual steps and after playing those roles which are the third of seven steps on the entire "path" 14. both "lost" their wives (one via "death," the other through divorce) 15. both accelerated their seeking 

16. both entered into the "forest dweller stage" 17. both Realized 18. both began to de-accumulate even more 19. both began sharing the teachings 20. for years, both answered questions in whatever order those questions were received, though both said that the movement from identification with the false "I" / "I's" involved an exact, step-wise manner of moving along a "path" that involved "going back" in the same (but reverse order) of the way they "came in" - that is, the way that the manifestation happened and the way that the consciousness was blocked through seven stages that resulted in their becoming identified solely with their false personas, with the content of the "mind," and eventually, with the body. But the most significant awareness that finally came to both after years of offering satsang and after having answered thousands and thousands of questions was this: After years of "Maharaj" offering satsang in his loft, and after years of "Floyd" offering satsang in meeting halls and in his home and via what one site visitor called "Floyd's electronic loft," this fact became obvious to both: "Maharaj" came to see in the 1970's and into 1980 and 1981 that his approach was not working and "Floyd" finally came to see the same. 

21. Both saw that many who heard the teachings are not going to understand (Maharaj reporting that "only 1 in 100,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding) 22. both soon saw that even more than expected of those who heard the teachings were not going to understand (Maharaj modifying his "guesstimate" and reporting that "only 1 in 1,000,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding) 23. eventually both saw that even far more than expected of those who heard the teachings were not going to understand (Maharaj eventually concluding that "only 1 in 10,000,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding). And the failings were not the fault of seekers. A "one -in-ten-million" estimate is proof that satsang was not working for most seekers, and the evidence here lately is proof of the same. 

Both "Maharaj" and "Floyd" invited seekers to focus on the exact, step-wise "path." Yes, during satsang, "Maharaj" sometimes alluded to the steps while discussing them in no particular order - but he never once laid out the steps in the exact order in which they had to be completed. That was not his teachings style or approach. 

Therefore, another movement or shift is happening here spontaneously after reflecting on the more than two decades since the teachings were first offered here and looking at the results of Maharaj sharing pointers in his loft and looking at the results of "Floyd" sharing pointers in this electronic loft: Looking objectively at his results, Maharaj's satsang method of sharing - in the end and by his own admission (only "one out of 10,000,000") - did not produce the intended outcome. 

Looking objectively at the results here when using an "electronic loft" satsang method of sharing has not produced the intended outcome nearly as often as any of the three "face-to-face" methods used with seekers by which they have been led through the seven steps in order. Here, the body is growing older, of course. Mahasamadhi could be taken today, or it could be taken in twenty years. 

Obviously, that cannot be known. But the decision here has been made that whatever amount of the relative existence remains shall be spent in sharing the teachings in the ways that have been seen over the last 20+ years to be the most effective methods. 

Looking back over the list of those that have truly received the understanding, it is seen that Robert R. read all of the books, then took the online Advaita course and then completed some face-to-face Skype sessions to receive the final clarifications required. It was seen that Mac read all of the books, completed the online course, and then attended a retreat where he was guided through the seven steps. Mac said that the online course work inspired him to attend the retreat in order to be able to receive the final "pieces." It was seen that Andy Gugar, Jr. read all of the books, then came here for a retreat and was taken through the seven steps in order, and then returned once more for the final clarifications required. After reviewing the shifts that happened with him after attending two retreats, he reaffirmed this past week his commitment to helping spread the non-duality, nisarga understanding as presented here. As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what had not "worked" as well - changes will be made. 

SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part Two 

In "Part One," examples were given of seekers that were led to Realization not by satsang but by following the various protocols outlined farther down this page which provide the understanding in the step-wise, orderly, required fashion which moves seekers along a "path" that is as prescribed by Maharaj ... "going back" in the "reverse order" by which the consciousness manifested and became blocked. 

 However, conversations with some that just read the majority of the books have revealed that they certainly seem to have grasped the understanding and Realized as well. As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what has "not worked" as well - changes are being made. There are seven specific steps that happen when awareness-energy is "pulled" into a cycle of manifestation. When that energy manifests as conscious-energy, that formerly pure and unadulterated energy becomes "corrupted" (or "blocked" from seeing clearly) via programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, and brainwashing. Soon, there is a belief in the not-Real as a result of seven degrees of separation from an understanding of the Real. Using the method that was also employed by his contemporaries - a method which focused on offering non-duality pointers via satsang - Maharaj addressed questions in the order in which they were received. He might receive a question from a seeker at the third step and his reply would include what amounted to an invitation to move to the fourth step. The next question might come from a seeker at the first step, and the reply would include an invitation to move to the second step. The information offered to the second seeker would seemingly contradict what was offered to the first seeker, so visitors who have come here for decades have asked questions which showed how confused they were by the fact that Maharaj's statements to each visitor in his loft were "level-appropriate" yet were provided in no precise order, resulting in what seemed to be an inconsistent message. So the process overall was confusing in that seekers were told to follow the "path back" in the same way that they "came in," except in reverse order, but pointers were not given in a specific, step-wise order at all. Maharaj did recognize the seven steps that are taught here, but by offering the teachings in an order that was dictated by the order in which questions were received from seekers who were at different steps on the "path," the result was this: a pointer about moving beyond the fourth step might be followed by a pointer about moving beyond the first step, and that pointer might be followed by a pointer about how to move beyond the sixth step. The same was done on this site for seven years. The result is a collection of 1,800 or so essays discussing almost every non-duality topic that can be discussed, and the search button on the top right side of this page will now allow seekers with a question about a specific topic to find an explanation. That method, however, will never provide the manner in which the seven steps on the "path" must be transmitted and received in order to Realize Fully. An objective study of the history here of more than twenty years of offering non-duality pointers reveals this: seekers that were given pointers in the exact order in which they needed to receive them were the ones that Realized. 

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    In “PART ONE” it will be seen that most persons on the planet are not seeking, and most will never seek, but for those who are seeking, most will face several obstacles:

    In “PART TWO” of this book, it will be seen why many criticized Maharaj for “changing his message in his later talks.” It will be seen that the changes were not about changing the message per se as much as about changing his methodology as he experimented with one version of the Ultimate Medicine after another in order to try to find an effective means for addressing the Ultimate Sickness.

    He tried a religious version of the Medicine, a Spiritual version of the Medicine, and finally settled on a version which addressed to Sickness at its core . . . at the mental and emotional level.

    V.
    "THE MOST DANGEROUS BELIEF OF ALL"

    “Dangerous” is a term that can only apply during the relative existence, but of those who do commit suicide, for example, how many shoot themselves in the foot over and over until they “bleed out”? None. They shoot themselves in the head. Why? In order to try to stop the noise - to try to stop the chatter of a thousand monkeys – to stop the noisy mind which is the area that stores the ideas, notions, concepts, mind-stuff, etc. which drives them into the depths of insanity.

    And what are those ideas, notions, concepts, etc. called, collectively? "Their beliefs." The irony? They are not their beliefs at all. They are the beliefs of “others” that were set in place via programming, conditioning, etc. and which persons then think are their own.

    And what are those beliefs rooted in, and what reinforces those beliefs and convinces persons that they are sacred and worth fighting over and even sometimes worth dying for? Blind faith.

    This 337-page eBook discusses those issues in detail.

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