F.: Persons (as opposed to the Realized) develop dependencies and co-dependencies. While they may give lip service to being “free” or “independent,” what they do speaks louder than what they say. Notice the evidence of how dependent persons really are in this culture:
1. Recent survey results have been shared on this site, revealing that 2000 recently-married men and women unwittingly admitted that they had married in order to create more ego-states and to establish dependencies and co-dependencies. The top three reasons women gave for marrying "him" dealt with his income and job prospects. They each established a dependency on a man and created an entire set of co-dependent ego-states in the process. The top three reasons men offered for marrying "her" dealt with physical sex, so they each established a dependency on a woman and created an entire set of co-dependent ego-states.
2. Millions are members of groups that they depend on.
3. Billions are dependent on a god that they claim can be equally kind and mean, equally helpful and destructive, as the two preceding posts on the site revealed.
4. 87% in the U.S. believe in angels and believe that those angels are hovering nearby and can be depended on to protect them.
As long as the least sense of personality or individuality remains, then the consciousness is impure. As long as magical, supernatural beliefs—beliefs that were dreamed up by ignorant men over 5000 years ago—are taken by persons today to be the truth, then the consciousness will remain impure. Impure consciousness will drive persons to be dependent and therefore not free and thus trapped in experiencing all the chaos of the “Drama of the Lie.”
What do persons experience in their day-to-day drama? Have you ever felt as if your heart had been crushed as a “relationship” ended, even if it ended calmly with such comments as “We are in love, but we don’t have the skills required to live together peacefully”? Have you ever felt as if your esteem and sense of self-worth were trampled as a “relationship” ended viciously with such comments as “I never loved you” and “I was using you the whole time, you fool”? Those dramas ended as the curtains closed on the "relationships," but the ego-states that should have ended at the same time can still be fighting for their existence or mourning their disappearance. Are you yet in a “relationship” that is loaded with chaotic acts and confrontational scenes with arguments that deal with much ado about nothing? Looking back at the motives that initially inspired the trip to that theatre of battle together, how much of the incentive involved wanting someone to care for you or provide for you (also known as, “seeking to create dependencies as an answer to a perceived need or a strong desire for more”?) What was driving that perceived need or desire? An ego-state? A false identity assumed to be real? The belief that you need someone else to provide for you? An egotistical sense of entitlement that you deserve to be taken care of?
The reality is that your drama is a fraud, a giant hoax. If you are suffered from impure consciousness, the lines that you are delivering in quarrelsome scenes are overly-dramatic. Your tastes in drama are more toward tragedy than comedy. You have played your roles for so long, and you have been so programmed by your culture, that you have taken those roles to be who you are. If you looked closely, you would see that the stage on which you’re acting is really inside a prison. You strut across the stage while playing a prideful role or while playing your sometimes-angry, sometime-happy roles, but the fact is you and the stage and the other actors in your drama are still confined within your prison. You never asked to be locked away and forced to play all those roles, but they were forced upon you via enculturation and what you call your "mind." And every belief or idea or concept clung to in that "mind" forms another brick in the wall that encircles your prison. You might leave your home and drive to a store or to work or to visit friends or to visit another city. Moving about like that, you'll think you're really free, but ultimately you're always confined within the walls of that prison-mind.
1. Recent survey results have been shared on this site, revealing that 2000 recently-married men and women unwittingly admitted that they had married in order to create more ego-states and to establish dependencies and co-dependencies. The top three reasons women gave for marrying "him" dealt with his income and job prospects. They each established a dependency on a man and created an entire set of co-dependent ego-states in the process. The top three reasons men offered for marrying "her" dealt with physical sex, so they each established a dependency on a woman and created an entire set of co-dependent ego-states.
2. Millions are members of groups that they depend on.
3. Billions are dependent on a god that they claim can be equally kind and mean, equally helpful and destructive, as the two preceding posts on the site revealed.
4. 87% in the U.S. believe in angels and believe that those angels are hovering nearby and can be depended on to protect them.
As long as the least sense of personality or individuality remains, then the consciousness is impure. As long as magical, supernatural beliefs—beliefs that were dreamed up by ignorant men over 5000 years ago—are taken by persons today to be the truth, then the consciousness will remain impure. Impure consciousness will drive persons to be dependent and therefore not free and thus trapped in experiencing all the chaos of the “Drama of the Lie.”
What do persons experience in their day-to-day drama? Have you ever felt as if your heart had been crushed as a “relationship” ended, even if it ended calmly with such comments as “We are in love, but we don’t have the skills required to live together peacefully”? Have you ever felt as if your esteem and sense of self-worth were trampled as a “relationship” ended viciously with such comments as “I never loved you” and “I was using you the whole time, you fool”? Those dramas ended as the curtains closed on the "relationships," but the ego-states that should have ended at the same time can still be fighting for their existence or mourning their disappearance. Are you yet in a “relationship” that is loaded with chaotic acts and confrontational scenes with arguments that deal with much ado about nothing? Looking back at the motives that initially inspired the trip to that theatre of battle together, how much of the incentive involved wanting someone to care for you or provide for you (also known as, “seeking to create dependencies as an answer to a perceived need or a strong desire for more”?) What was driving that perceived need or desire? An ego-state? A false identity assumed to be real? The belief that you need someone else to provide for you? An egotistical sense of entitlement that you deserve to be taken care of?
The reality is that your drama is a fraud, a giant hoax. If you are suffered from impure consciousness, the lines that you are delivering in quarrelsome scenes are overly-dramatic. Your tastes in drama are more toward tragedy than comedy. You have played your roles for so long, and you have been so programmed by your culture, that you have taken those roles to be who you are. If you looked closely, you would see that the stage on which you’re acting is really inside a prison. You strut across the stage while playing a prideful role or while playing your sometimes-angry, sometime-happy roles, but the fact is you and the stage and the other actors in your drama are still confined within your prison. You never asked to be locked away and forced to play all those roles, but they were forced upon you via enculturation and what you call your "mind." And every belief or idea or concept clung to in that "mind" forms another brick in the wall that encircles your prison. You might leave your home and drive to a store or to work or to visit friends or to visit another city. Moving about like that, you'll think you're really free, but ultimately you're always confined within the walls of that prison-mind.
That condition has been visited upon you by early programming and conditioning which resulted in your ego-states, has been given continuity by the false roles that you take to be real, and has been clung to as a result of an unconscious addiction to the chaos that marks your drama. The battle scenes in your drama are based in much ado about nothing, so your drama is nothing and it will be nothing forever. That Which You Truly Are can never be what you try to make of yourself, and what you try to make of yourself will always be a source of imprisonment in the “mind” that is dreaming up the roles and the scenes and the acts and the lines that your various personalities deliver with much pomp and circumstance.
The gatekeeper of your prison is Realization. Realization can free you from the roles, and freedom from those roles will free you from the drama. Yet most persons are so addicted to the chaos, so lost in the drama, and so removed from reality that they will never search for a way out of their prison. They will move about within the confines of their prison and believe that they are free. Few will ever have any desire to be totally independent. Fewer still will take the seven-step “journey” to reality and know true freedom and absolute independence. Most will fight to the end in defense of nonsensical, magical beliefs that were dreamed up by uneducated men during ancient times. What about you? How free do you want to be? How soon do you want that freedom? What steps are you willing to take to have the independence that results in a sense of bliss? Please enter into the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
