Monday, May 22, 2006

SENSE OR FAITH: Freedom or Bondage for Humankind, Part Two

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F.: [Continued from yesterday] Nowadays, freedom is still being stolen because children are being programmed and conditioned as concepts are force-fed into their brains…creating warped “minds” as the Original Understanding has been lost and as the Misunderstanding is being taught as fact. Along with the introduction of Western concepts such as “good” and “bad” and “punishment” and “reward,” an entirely new vocabulary of cerebral imprisonment has evolved. The members of the earliest human communities were Realized and did not suffer the mental anguish common to persons today. How is that known? It is known that those early cultures had no dualistic words for concepts such as ownership, greed, war, right, wrong, good, bad, reward, punishment, my, mine, yours, ours, theirs, hate, contend, competition, rival, separation, time, or problem—all words that mark the cultures of the unenlightened masses. More importantly, those cultures had no word for “I”—the word which is at the heart of delusion and egotism and the false sense of separateness that plagues persons. Thus, those early people were stable and sane and free because they suffered no dual-mindedness. It is known that dual-minded persons are unstable in all ways, but in those early cultures of unicity, no duality or multiplicity was being imagined. Quite to the contrary, they were consciously aware of the Oneness, so they knew the greatest degree of mental and emotional stability and freedom that humans, on the whole, would ever know. Today, that level of freedom can again be known by following a path to Realization…to realizing what the earliest humans knew intuitively as well as what each person now knows but has forgotten.

The more nonsense that was introduced over the ages, the more persons became imprisoned, trapped in their “minds,” suffering the consequences of trying to negotiate this relative existence with their consciousness having been bastardized with concepts. How, then, can humanity return to at least the maximum level of freedom that can happen in this relative existence? Freedom comes with enlightenment, and enlightenment begins with being free of all learned ignorance that is being taught by cultures, parents, priests, worshippers, moralists, preachers, spiritualists, and all the others who claim to know what is “absolutely right” and what is “absolutely wrong” in a relative existence. In Reality, what could be more insane—more out of touch with Reality—than trying to apply absolute labels to relative situations? Yet the masses accept those lies as fact because they live under the influence of blind faith, and therefore under the influence of those to whom they give blind allegiance. In fact, it is that which persons so proudly call their “faith” that prevents their seeing the light and thus locks them (and almost all humanity) in the darkness. Only one variety of faith exists, and it is blind faith. So what of you? Are you seeing clearly, or is faith preventing your taking the one action that must precede even the beginning of the seven-step “journey” to Realization, namely, being willing to question it all? Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
TOMORROW: Faith, God, Trust, and Belief in Things That Can Never Be Proved

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