Today’s post continues the discussion of the actual factors that perpetuate unhappiness. The factors driving unhappiness are neither holiday-specific nor event-specific, so its counterpart—happiness—is not based in one day of the week over another, on a particular season, on a certain holiday, on being or not being with a certain person, or on any of the other factors that humans love to blame for their unhappiness or to credit with their happiness.
F.: One irony associated with ego-states is this: in a universe where cycling (where the recurring sequences of organization-deterioration-disorganization) make discontinuity the only constant, ego-states still want to deny the inevitability of cycles and impermanence. Magical (supernatural) thinking among personas leads them to desire permanence and to believe delusionally that continuity is possible, ignoring all evidence to the contrary. A part of the Original Understanding has been lost, namely, the part that made clear that cycling is inevitable and that nothing perceived by the eye can be continuous. Once, almost all knew the truth of cycles; now, almost all believe in religion’s timeline of birth, life, death, judgment and continuity of a body-mind-personality that will experience punishment or reward eternally. Yet personas abhor change and cling to the lies of continuity that are at the core of all dogma. The masses have gone to sleep, and their sleep aids perpetuate their condition of being unawake and unaware.
FACTOR #3: USING “SLEEPING AIDS”
"Sleeping aids" are used by persons unconsciously as a result of programming and conditioning. The "aids"—actually deterrents to awakening—keep persons asleep and prevent them from being awake, aware, and conscious. Most will never know Reality. They will say, “I can’t really take much reality. I can only take a small dose at a time. I have to escape from reality and fantasize and daydream.” Most are being kept asleep by using certain “sleeping aids”:
(a) Sleeping aids in the form of ego-states: To assume "lost" roles as actual identities (such as, “husband” or “boyfriend,” “lover,” “parent,” “homeowner,” “victim,” “son,” “employee,” etc.) is illusion, but the misery they can generate will seem real enough if not awake to that. The result is that persons can talk about "this person" or "that person" that they are “missing,” but what they are really missing is a false identity that they can no longer play. It not nearly as much about "others" as it is about self. Personas, being artificial contrivances, thrive on the artificial, on their phony play-acting. Rather than becoming sick of the game-playing of their culture, they embrace it. In that lila mode, their concerns are always far more about the false self or selves that no longer “exist” because the co-dependent counterpart to those roles is no longer available to sustain those false identities.
(b) Sleeping aids in the form of assigning blame and accepting blame: The moment that humans experience fear or anger or unhappiness, they prefer to assign blame by pointing at one thing, one person, one group of people, or one something for a single cause. The fact is, however, that all is caused by all. Everything is the result of all that has happened before, not by a single cause involving a single event. In that regard, this consideration is offered:
No matter what your current age, no one else has made you angry or fearful or sad or unhappy since you were between the ages of 6 and 12. Everything that has anything to do with your current angers, fears, or sadness was already firmly placed within your psyche before your teen years or slightly thereafter. That period called "childhood" is the scourge of the relative existence. It is the time during which the seeds of consciousness are cast into darkness by being buried beneath the seeds of insanity. The result is this: neither people nor circumstances have anything to do with your anger or unhappiness today, but people and circumstances can trigger emotions that are based in the residue of your "past" and that are associated with the various roles that you play in an effort to define who you are.
In an exchange during a session years ago when the “The Seven-Step Journey to Reality” was being discussed, a man disagreed with that pointer. He was certain that his unhappiness was based in a circumstance similar to that described in the e-mail posted yesterday by the man who was “alone” last Christmas. Further discussion revealed the fact that, during his high school days, his mother was clinically depressed and regularly threatened suicide. That contributed to the formation of his “mind,” and his unconsciousness belief became this: "The worst thing I could experience in life is abandonment by a woman that I love." Freedom began to come as he realized that he and his personas were not merely experiencing the recent case of his wife leaving him. He saw that he was re-experiencing the hundreds of instances of childhood fear when he went home each day, afraid that he would find his mother dead and be left “alone.”
Via Realization, persons can become free of the “internal condition” that is driven by the beliefs and concepts that make up that comglomeration of lies called “the mind”; then, nothing outside of persons can trigger those internally-held beliefs or concepts that rob persons of their peace and happiness. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
F.: One irony associated with ego-states is this: in a universe where cycling (where the recurring sequences of organization-deterioration-disorganization) make discontinuity the only constant, ego-states still want to deny the inevitability of cycles and impermanence. Magical (supernatural) thinking among personas leads them to desire permanence and to believe delusionally that continuity is possible, ignoring all evidence to the contrary. A part of the Original Understanding has been lost, namely, the part that made clear that cycling is inevitable and that nothing perceived by the eye can be continuous. Once, almost all knew the truth of cycles; now, almost all believe in religion’s timeline of birth, life, death, judgment and continuity of a body-mind-personality that will experience punishment or reward eternally. Yet personas abhor change and cling to the lies of continuity that are at the core of all dogma. The masses have gone to sleep, and their sleep aids perpetuate their condition of being unawake and unaware.
FACTOR #3: USING “SLEEPING AIDS”
"Sleeping aids" are used by persons unconsciously as a result of programming and conditioning. The "aids"—actually deterrents to awakening—keep persons asleep and prevent them from being awake, aware, and conscious. Most will never know Reality. They will say, “I can’t really take much reality. I can only take a small dose at a time. I have to escape from reality and fantasize and daydream.” Most are being kept asleep by using certain “sleeping aids”:
(a) Sleeping aids in the form of ego-states: To assume "lost" roles as actual identities (such as, “husband” or “boyfriend,” “lover,” “parent,” “homeowner,” “victim,” “son,” “employee,” etc.) is illusion, but the misery they can generate will seem real enough if not awake to that. The result is that persons can talk about "this person" or "that person" that they are “missing,” but what they are really missing is a false identity that they can no longer play. It not nearly as much about "others" as it is about self. Personas, being artificial contrivances, thrive on the artificial, on their phony play-acting. Rather than becoming sick of the game-playing of their culture, they embrace it. In that lila mode, their concerns are always far more about the false self or selves that no longer “exist” because the co-dependent counterpart to those roles is no longer available to sustain those false identities.
(b) Sleeping aids in the form of assigning blame and accepting blame: The moment that humans experience fear or anger or unhappiness, they prefer to assign blame by pointing at one thing, one person, one group of people, or one something for a single cause. The fact is, however, that all is caused by all. Everything is the result of all that has happened before, not by a single cause involving a single event. In that regard, this consideration is offered:
No matter what your current age, no one else has made you angry or fearful or sad or unhappy since you were between the ages of 6 and 12. Everything that has anything to do with your current angers, fears, or sadness was already firmly placed within your psyche before your teen years or slightly thereafter. That period called "childhood" is the scourge of the relative existence. It is the time during which the seeds of consciousness are cast into darkness by being buried beneath the seeds of insanity. The result is this: neither people nor circumstances have anything to do with your anger or unhappiness today, but people and circumstances can trigger emotions that are based in the residue of your "past" and that are associated with the various roles that you play in an effort to define who you are.
In an exchange during a session years ago when the “The Seven-Step Journey to Reality” was being discussed, a man disagreed with that pointer. He was certain that his unhappiness was based in a circumstance similar to that described in the e-mail posted yesterday by the man who was “alone” last Christmas. Further discussion revealed the fact that, during his high school days, his mother was clinically depressed and regularly threatened suicide. That contributed to the formation of his “mind,” and his unconsciousness belief became this: "The worst thing I could experience in life is abandonment by a woman that I love." Freedom began to come as he realized that he and his personas were not merely experiencing the recent case of his wife leaving him. He saw that he was re-experiencing the hundreds of instances of childhood fear when he went home each day, afraid that he would find his mother dead and be left “alone.”
Via Realization, persons can become free of the “internal condition” that is driven by the beliefs and concepts that make up that comglomeration of lies called “the mind”; then, nothing outside of persons can trigger those internally-held beliefs or concepts that rob persons of their peace and happiness. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
NOTE: There are professionals who are trained and skilled at assisting persons who are suffering from the residue of trauma events, residue that is stored at a cellular level throughout the physical body.
