F.: Your programmers and conditioners completely fooled you about who/what you are—which in turn robbed from you the memory of Who (or What) You Truly Are and thereby deprived you of much happiness. In addition to the fraud of dreamed-up personas and their imaginary, personal needs, your programmers also set you up for tremendous misery and limitation by convincing you that you are your body. Pretend for a moment: if you knew someone had been a cat for twenty years and then a dog for twenty years and then at age forty became a human, would you say that person has been a human for all forty years? No. Then why speak of a “baby” and then a “child” and then a “teen” and then a “young adult” and then an “adult” and then a “senior” and suggest that the current senior human is the same human that was referred to as ”child”?
It should have been seen during the postings dealing with the man who was (and is) suffering as result of playing “husband” that the “me” who took itself to be “husband” was a fraud…was a false identity. The “me” who looks at pictures of itself as “baby” and then “child” and then “teen” and then “young adult” and then “adult” and then “senior” and believes that those are all the same body is glaringly unobservant and as blatantly mistaken as that man playing "husband." If you were to lay out pictures of each of those bodies and ask any child (who had not yet been totally programmed) if those were all the same person, he would deny it immediately. The differences are obvious to any objective observer, and only the third fraud (based in the belief in a continuous mind along with a major misunderstanding of science) could so confuse persons that they believe in body continuity. Yet it is from that confusion that all religions have developed and that all beliefs have evolved among persons that they have “one body on earth” which will be “the one, same body that will exist forever” in one of an assortment of dualities: Valhalla or Hifhel; the Elysian Fields or Hades; heaven or hell; Paradise or Hell; the light or the darkness; or the clouds or the fire, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
It should have been seen during the postings dealing with the man who was (and is) suffering as result of playing “husband” that the “me” who took itself to be “husband” was a fraud…was a false identity. The “me” who looks at pictures of itself as “baby” and then “child” and then “teen” and then “young adult” and then “adult” and then “senior” and believes that those are all the same body is glaringly unobservant and as blatantly mistaken as that man playing "husband." If you were to lay out pictures of each of those bodies and ask any child (who had not yet been totally programmed) if those were all the same person, he would deny it immediately. The differences are obvious to any objective observer, and only the third fraud (based in the belief in a continuous mind along with a major misunderstanding of science) could so confuse persons that they believe in body continuity. Yet it is from that confusion that all religions have developed and that all beliefs have evolved among persons that they have “one body on earth” which will be “the one, same body that will exist forever” in one of an assortment of dualities: Valhalla or Hifhel; the Elysian Fields or Hades; heaven or hell; Paradise or Hell; the light or the darkness; or the clouds or the fire, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
However, there has never been one body with continuity, and there will never be a body with continuity (whether talking about pre-manifestation, manifestation or post-manifestation). The human body is constantly replacing and regenerating cells to maintain proper and efficient function. Cells such as blood cells, skin cells, and bone cells are being replaced at different rates. (If you spend ten minutes reading this post and considering the content, during that time you will have shed 250,000 skin cells and those will have been replaced by 250,000 different cells. Not one cell of the billions of skin cells that came about during the last twenty-eight days is now present. From one month to the next, your body in not even “enclosed” in the same skin! The basal cells will divide in order to insure a certain skin thickness. If the outer layers of dead skin peel away more frequently, the basal cells on the inside will divide more frequently to make up for the lost skin. If your skin has had no continuity for even a month, why the misconception about the space within?)
Bone marrow cells called “hemopoietic stem cells” can divide over and over to generate red blood cells as well as different kinds of white blood cells. In the inner lining of the small intestine, cells turn over every seven days or so. In the pancreas, the turnover time may be as long as a year or more, but it too is subject the same “turnover.” Liver cells rarely divide, but if there is injury to the liver and the liver is somehow reduced, liver cells will divide to get the liver back to the right size.
So if the body (which you think has been "your one continuous body") has different red blood cells, different white blood cells, a different pancreas, a different lining to the intestines, completely different skin on a regular basis, different bone cells, etc., where is the continuity? Is it becoming clear that the body seen in the first grade photo has practically nothing in common with the body seen in the second grade photo, much less with the body seen in a high school senior photo, much less with a senior citizen body seen in another photo? What do those bodies/spaces have in common, if not “you”? Only the illusion of a continuous mind that misleads the corrupted consciousness into believing in the fallacious concept of “continuity now” and “continuity forever.”
If all bodies are in a constant state of flux (becoming a different body this second, and then a different body the next second, and then a different body the next second), then no body should be mistaken as something that is “set” or “permanent” of “fixed” as a continuous form. And if no “set” body exists, then that which is constantly changing into something else cannot possibly define anything, including “you.” [Compare that misunderstanding with someone saying, "The ice cube that I've dropped onto the hot pavement is a cube...no wait, it's part cube and part water...no wait, it's water...no wait, it's vapor...no wait, it doesn't even exist." Then, understand that the various "forms" were all illusions and that all that was real was the combination of hydrogen and oxygen atoms. See the body as the cube and see the atoms as the energy-consciousness.]
Thus, the flaw in the concept of "body continuity for eternity" should be obvious: which body would exist for eternity if no body is the same for even a split-second in time? If “you” have had no body continuity during “this life,” then you cannot possibly have body continuity in an afterlife. (To believe that lie is an example of magical thinking at its worst.) Thus, no body will exist that can experience the physical pleasures to be gained from scores of virgins, and no body will exist that could experience the pain of eternal flames. What freedom in that understanding! More significantly for Advaitan protégés, if you are not the continuous body you have taken yourself to be, and if you are not a body at all, then Who (or What) Are You, Truly? Do you understand why the only statement that can be made about this manifestation is offered in the declaration, “When you speak of Me, speak of Me as I AM”? That is the only “Me” there is. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued tomorrow]
