The postings this week are responding to several e-mails that have been received that are in the same vein as this one:
Received 12-24-05 from a site visitor: “Tomorrow is Christmas and I’m going to be alone. My wife divorced me and got custody of our child. Both of my parents died during the breakup, my health has gone south, and problems at work are constant. My ‘ex’ married another man and he and the ‘ex’ and my child are now living in the home I bought. They are participating in all of the same events that were traditional for my family for many years. She took away my house, retirement funds, cash, other investments, but most of all my family and my child. She’s plugged another man into the slot I once filled with her and my daughter. I suspect you’ll want to offer some Advaita pointer that might relieve me of the hurt and anger, but the pain is overwhelming and after months of trying to detach by using the postings on your site, I need something else. In fact, having written that, I really don’t know why I’m even writing to you because more of the same that has not worked cannot help. But I knew no one else that I could talk to about all this so openly who might understand. Can you say anything I haven’t yet heard that might help me make it through this season?”
F.: Tomorrow, the discussion of the “sleeping aids” will continue. Today, the talk is more frank, dealing directly with the topical issues of “Christmas” and “this season” and the manner in which you are falsely linking the cause for your unhappiness to a season and to circumstance. In fact, there is no such linkage. [No apology will be offered to site visitors from around the globe who live in nations that do not celebrate this same holiday since the invitation is to all persons to be free of the insanity of enculturation that allows seasons or celebrations to affect mood and to supposedly contribute to “unhappiness.”] The cleansing of the corrupted consciousness that was called “floyd” began in earnest when certain facts were seen and allowed to replace the myths and mirages that had been accepted as truth, so today some facts about this illusion you call “Christmas” will be shared since you’re erroneously linking the intensification of your unhappiness to a particular date on a calendar.
Persons are more willing to discuss the increased level of stress during the “holiday season” as they complain about all that they have to do and how little time they have to do it in; however, the fact is that a recent study revealed that 75% of the population in the U.S. admitted to experiencing stress every day of the entire year. (Persons on other “developed” parts of the planet experience the same high levels, but persons in some “less developed” countries experience far less stress. So much for “development.”)
The images you’re thinking that you’re seeing (of “other wonderful families enjoying their wonderful Christmas” while your “previously wonderful family” can’t do the same) is all illusion. More insane is that billions of persons allow their “leaders” to use a calendar as a tool for upgrading their illusions. Among Christians, their illusion-filled, stress-filled days are given an upgrade with more illusion and more stress during their “holy days.” The miserable person who e-mailed on the 24th of December was guaranteed to be even more miserable on the 25th since the corrupted consciousness had been programmed and conditioned to believe that one day can be different from (more “holy” than) the next.
Look at the facts if you want to stop allowing them to delude you and if you want to stop empowering them to exercise the control that they currently have over how you feel: you believe that Christ was born on December 25th instead of during the fall season, which was the actual tax collection time in those days. December 25th was selected as the birthday celebration date because of its association with the solstice and because December 25th was already a pagan holiday of celebration on the old Roman astronomical calendar. The tree, the yule log, the mistletoe and the candles on a tree (now lights) were all accoutrements used in ceremonies by pagans who practiced human sacrifice. In the same way that you regularly re-enact with your communion service the ancient pagan practice of killing virgins and passing their hearts through the crowd so the worshippers could eat the body and the blood and appease an angry god, so you also regularly re-enact the great pagan ritual of December 25th. Is your conduct not calling into consciousness the blind fashion in which sheep live?
Like sheep blindly following their leader off a cliff, you have been practicing a pagan ritual and thinking it “holy.” You have been celebrating a “virgin” birth (which was not the first on record but was the 23rd such claim, 22 prior religions having already proclaimed that their saviors were born virginally rather than vaginally). You told your children a lie about a Santa and then you shattered their hopes and dreams in that regard a few years later when you admitted that you were a liar. Is it not time to shatter your dreams, to stop the insanity, and to get real? Is it not time to disconnect your moods from your Gregorian calendar of timelines and then live out this relative existence in an AS IF fashion by being in touch with the truth of cycles rather than by believing the dualistic lies about separate days, separate months, separate years and separate events? Is it not time to get in touch with Reality and stop lying to “self” and “others”? Is it not time to know the peace of being in touch with reality as opposed to being emotionally intoxicated by the lies of your culture? Realize that there is no Christ, no Mohammed, no Moses and no "you" that is a body-mind-personality triad. See all the illusions, disregard them as you would a mirage, and know That Which You Truly Are. Only then can you be free of the lies, and only freed from belief in lies can You be free of your relative existence unhappiness. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
Received 12-24-05 from a site visitor: “Tomorrow is Christmas and I’m going to be alone. My wife divorced me and got custody of our child. Both of my parents died during the breakup, my health has gone south, and problems at work are constant. My ‘ex’ married another man and he and the ‘ex’ and my child are now living in the home I bought. They are participating in all of the same events that were traditional for my family for many years. She took away my house, retirement funds, cash, other investments, but most of all my family and my child. She’s plugged another man into the slot I once filled with her and my daughter. I suspect you’ll want to offer some Advaita pointer that might relieve me of the hurt and anger, but the pain is overwhelming and after months of trying to detach by using the postings on your site, I need something else. In fact, having written that, I really don’t know why I’m even writing to you because more of the same that has not worked cannot help. But I knew no one else that I could talk to about all this so openly who might understand. Can you say anything I haven’t yet heard that might help me make it through this season?”
F.: Tomorrow, the discussion of the “sleeping aids” will continue. Today, the talk is more frank, dealing directly with the topical issues of “Christmas” and “this season” and the manner in which you are falsely linking the cause for your unhappiness to a season and to circumstance. In fact, there is no such linkage. [No apology will be offered to site visitors from around the globe who live in nations that do not celebrate this same holiday since the invitation is to all persons to be free of the insanity of enculturation that allows seasons or celebrations to affect mood and to supposedly contribute to “unhappiness.”] The cleansing of the corrupted consciousness that was called “floyd” began in earnest when certain facts were seen and allowed to replace the myths and mirages that had been accepted as truth, so today some facts about this illusion you call “Christmas” will be shared since you’re erroneously linking the intensification of your unhappiness to a particular date on a calendar.
Persons are more willing to discuss the increased level of stress during the “holiday season” as they complain about all that they have to do and how little time they have to do it in; however, the fact is that a recent study revealed that 75% of the population in the U.S. admitted to experiencing stress every day of the entire year. (Persons on other “developed” parts of the planet experience the same high levels, but persons in some “less developed” countries experience far less stress. So much for “development.”)
The images you’re thinking that you’re seeing (of “other wonderful families enjoying their wonderful Christmas” while your “previously wonderful family” can’t do the same) is all illusion. More insane is that billions of persons allow their “leaders” to use a calendar as a tool for upgrading their illusions. Among Christians, their illusion-filled, stress-filled days are given an upgrade with more illusion and more stress during their “holy days.” The miserable person who e-mailed on the 24th of December was guaranteed to be even more miserable on the 25th since the corrupted consciousness had been programmed and conditioned to believe that one day can be different from (more “holy” than) the next.
Look at the facts if you want to stop allowing them to delude you and if you want to stop empowering them to exercise the control that they currently have over how you feel: you believe that Christ was born on December 25th instead of during the fall season, which was the actual tax collection time in those days. December 25th was selected as the birthday celebration date because of its association with the solstice and because December 25th was already a pagan holiday of celebration on the old Roman astronomical calendar. The tree, the yule log, the mistletoe and the candles on a tree (now lights) were all accoutrements used in ceremonies by pagans who practiced human sacrifice. In the same way that you regularly re-enact with your communion service the ancient pagan practice of killing virgins and passing their hearts through the crowd so the worshippers could eat the body and the blood and appease an angry god, so you also regularly re-enact the great pagan ritual of December 25th. Is your conduct not calling into consciousness the blind fashion in which sheep live?
Like sheep blindly following their leader off a cliff, you have been practicing a pagan ritual and thinking it “holy.” You have been celebrating a “virgin” birth (which was not the first on record but was the 23rd such claim, 22 prior religions having already proclaimed that their saviors were born virginally rather than vaginally). You told your children a lie about a Santa and then you shattered their hopes and dreams in that regard a few years later when you admitted that you were a liar. Is it not time to shatter your dreams, to stop the insanity, and to get real? Is it not time to disconnect your moods from your Gregorian calendar of timelines and then live out this relative existence in an AS IF fashion by being in touch with the truth of cycles rather than by believing the dualistic lies about separate days, separate months, separate years and separate events? Is it not time to get in touch with Reality and stop lying to “self” and “others”? Is it not time to know the peace of being in touch with reality as opposed to being emotionally intoxicated by the lies of your culture? Realize that there is no Christ, no Mohammed, no Moses and no "you" that is a body-mind-personality triad. See all the illusions, disregard them as you would a mirage, and know That Which You Truly Are. Only then can you be free of the lies, and only freed from belief in lies can You be free of your relative existence unhappiness. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]
