[The posts intended for both yesterday and today will be combined in order to conclude the series]
F.: Today, several hundred million persons will be celebrating what they call “Independence Day,” but those persons have no real independence or freedom at all. Like the politicians who will be reading the words of an unseen writer, persons always appear to be speaking; however, their words are not their own but are generated instead by something hidden from view. The real “Independence Day” for the non-Realized is the day that they are freed of all of the hidden and unseen illusions and delusions that drive them to behave and think and feel in the fashion that they do.
TO REVIEW THE KEY POINTERS OF THE SERIES:
1. Persons who believe they are free and independent are actually trapped and dependent.
2. The non-Realized speak words that are contrived by sources that are hidden from view, including sources that are hidden from their own view.
3. Specifically, it has been shown that persons (the non-Realized) cannot possibly be free when their actions and reactions are driven by the agenda of a frustrated child within that they are not even conscious of.
3. Neither can they be free when their thoughts—and the behaviors that are generated by those thoughts—are products of “the mind,” which is nothing more than the accumulation of the falsehoods that they were programmed to believe, such as: “My country is better than every other country on the entire planet, bar none” and “If you do not want your area to be struck by an approaching hurricane, pray for god to move its path” (and let it strike others?) Are you seeing the self-ishness and arrogance of accepting such nonsense as reality?
4. Persons are trapped in ignorance because they don’t even know Who/What They Truly Are and because they believe that their multiple false personas really define who they are.
5. Persons don’t even have the freedom to make an independent statement; instead, all of the words coming from the mouths of the non-Realized are nothing more than the voice of one of their multiple personalities. The voice only appears to be coming from those people. Just as politicians’ words are not their own, so it is with all non-Realized talkers. None of them are different in any way from the dummies of ventriloquists that appear to be thinking and talking but whose every move and every word is coming from a source behind those dummies. As an exercise in awareness, take every statement that you make for the next several days—or, better yet, every statement you start to say but don’t—and ask, “WHO is coming up with that thought?” Is it “The Proud American”? “The Controlling Person”? “The Super Religious Person”? “The Spiritual Giant”? “The Frustrated Child That is Within”? “The Expert”? “The Helper/Savior”?
6. The key is to see what is behind your thoughts and words and deeds, to find what it is that is pulling your strings and manipulating you like a marionette or controlling you the way that a ventriloquist controls everything seemingly done by a dummy. Then consider: dummies are not locked in prisons or houses and left there. They move about the country and even cross oceans, just the way persons can move about and thus assume that they are free. But no sensible human would suggest that dummies are free and independent.
Only when being manipulated by some driving force behind them can dummies appear to move on their own; can they appear to be thinking on their own; can they appear to be making choices on their own; and can they appear to be talking on their own. (All appearances are what make persons believe that the illusions they are witnessing are real. It is appearance that makes persons believe "this world" is real.) Persons are just like those dummies, only appearing to be deciding where they go and what they do and what they think and what they say; however, since some driving force is behind all of what appears to be happening via persons, they have no freedom or independence at all. To talk of persons being "free and independent" is as nonsensical as suggesting that a ventriloquist’s dummy is free and independent.
Today in one nation, words that are rooted in duality will perpetuate the already-present sense of separation (as well as the arrogance that inspires belief in the lie that "We're the Best"). Those words will be inspired by such personas/ego-states as “The Proud American” and “The National Leader” and “The Dedicated Soldier” and “The State Leader” and “The Local Leaders” and “The Patriot” and “The One Willing to Die for My Country—Right or Wrong.”
Tomorrow, and continuing until the next July Fourth, all will return to (ab)normal as words that are rooted in duality and that generate or reinforce a sense of separation and arrogance will be spoken by “The Ayatollah” and “The Priest” and “The President” and “The Super Spouse” and “The Entitled One” and “The Frustrated Child” (of all ages) and “The Highly Religious One” and “The Justices” and “The Conservative” and “The Liberal” and “The Christian” and “The Judgmental Parent” and “The Spiritual One,” and “The Racist,” and “The Rabbi” and “The Republican” and “The Democrat” and “The Centrist,” and “The Tribal Leader,” and “The Helper/Savior” and “The Wealthy One” and “The Boss,” ad infinitum.
Those are all persons who think they know what they do not, namely, the Truth; therefore, they are not independent since they are not free of the delusional thinking resulting from their programming and conditioning. Pavlov’s dogs lost choice. They lost the ability to choose because of their conditioning and programming. So it is with the non-Realized. No letter was sent to 300 million citizens of the U.S., telling them how to behave today, but most will behave in exactly the same fashion today because with persons, the rule always is, “Monkey see, monkey do.” Who would conclude that a monkey is free and independent if all it does is mimic other monkeys? For persons, the monkeys being mimicked include parents, grandparents, friends, relatives, ancestors, “leaders,” neighbors, co-workers, “personalities in the news,” employers, etc.
But for those who would be truly free and independent, the invitation is to discard your false personas and awaken to the Reality of Who/What You Truly Are. Another “state” is available for abidance during the manifestation. It is the only state in which true freedom and independence can happen and be justifiably celebrated. It is that state wherein the Realized abide. Knowing that nothing in “this world” is real, the Realized understand that nothing in an imaginary world can generate a consistent sense of ease and comfort that only comes with true independence. While the accumulations and machinations of “this world” generate disappointment or restlessness or misery or irritability or discontentment or boredom or frustration or alternating period of happiness and unhappiness, there is that state which is free of the chaos and illusions of “this world”…namely, the Void.
Real freedom and independence can only happen in that Void—in that state of Nothingness with zero concepts—as the consciousness remains manifest but does not attach to any ideas or beliefs or dogma or religious teachings or so-called "spirituality" or any other form of "learned ignorance." The alternative to the peace of the Nothingness is that state of innumerable concepts in which most will live out the manifestation, trapped in personas, driven by fears and desires, never able to relax and take it easy, but convinced in that dream (or nightmare) state that they are free and happy and not bored and not depressed.
In truth, it is that state that all are in already, but persons do not know Who/What They Are, much less what state They Are Truly in. Instead of recognizing that state of unicity, they believe all of the lies that constitute the “mind” and therefore believe that the state of duality in which they exist is the real state. But you will not change them, so the only logical consideration for you is to determine, “How free (or trapped) are you?”
That is, how free of the influence of personas and personality are you? Are you totally free of the influence of a frustrated child within that has controlled your adult-age feelings and thoughts and generated your belief that "needs" (which are only imagined) are real? Have you seen all of the ideas and concepts and roles that have governed you? Have you seen how personality and fears and desires determine everything that persons do and say and feel? Have you consciously declared your independence? Are you completely free? If not, are you ready to take the seven-step journey as outlined in the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE and be truly free and independent? Please enter the silence of contemplation?
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TO REVIEW THE KEY POINTERS OF THE SERIES:
1. Persons who believe they are free and independent are actually trapped and dependent.
2. The non-Realized speak words that are contrived by sources that are hidden from view, including sources that are hidden from their own view.
3. Specifically, it has been shown that persons (the non-Realized) cannot possibly be free when their actions and reactions are driven by the agenda of a frustrated child within that they are not even conscious of.
3. Neither can they be free when their thoughts—and the behaviors that are generated by those thoughts—are products of “the mind,” which is nothing more than the accumulation of the falsehoods that they were programmed to believe, such as: “My country is better than every other country on the entire planet, bar none” and “If you do not want your area to be struck by an approaching hurricane, pray for god to move its path” (and let it strike others?) Are you seeing the self-ishness and arrogance of accepting such nonsense as reality?
4. Persons are trapped in ignorance because they don’t even know Who/What They Truly Are and because they believe that their multiple false personas really define who they are.
5. Persons don’t even have the freedom to make an independent statement; instead, all of the words coming from the mouths of the non-Realized are nothing more than the voice of one of their multiple personalities. The voice only appears to be coming from those people. Just as politicians’ words are not their own, so it is with all non-Realized talkers. None of them are different in any way from the dummies of ventriloquists that appear to be thinking and talking but whose every move and every word is coming from a source behind those dummies. As an exercise in awareness, take every statement that you make for the next several days—or, better yet, every statement you start to say but don’t—and ask, “WHO is coming up with that thought?” Is it “The Proud American”? “The Controlling Person”? “The Super Religious Person”? “The Spiritual Giant”? “The Frustrated Child That is Within”? “The Expert”? “The Helper/Savior”?
6. The key is to see what is behind your thoughts and words and deeds, to find what it is that is pulling your strings and manipulating you like a marionette or controlling you the way that a ventriloquist controls everything seemingly done by a dummy. Then consider: dummies are not locked in prisons or houses and left there. They move about the country and even cross oceans, just the way persons can move about and thus assume that they are free. But no sensible human would suggest that dummies are free and independent.
Only when being manipulated by some driving force behind them can dummies appear to move on their own; can they appear to be thinking on their own; can they appear to be making choices on their own; and can they appear to be talking on their own. (All appearances are what make persons believe that the illusions they are witnessing are real. It is appearance that makes persons believe "this world" is real.) Persons are just like those dummies, only appearing to be deciding where they go and what they do and what they think and what they say; however, since some driving force is behind all of what appears to be happening via persons, they have no freedom or independence at all. To talk of persons being "free and independent" is as nonsensical as suggesting that a ventriloquist’s dummy is free and independent.
Today in one nation, words that are rooted in duality will perpetuate the already-present sense of separation (as well as the arrogance that inspires belief in the lie that "We're the Best"). Those words will be inspired by such personas/ego-states as “The Proud American” and “The National Leader” and “The Dedicated Soldier” and “The State Leader” and “The Local Leaders” and “The Patriot” and “The One Willing to Die for My Country—Right or Wrong.”
Tomorrow, and continuing until the next July Fourth, all will return to (ab)normal as words that are rooted in duality and that generate or reinforce a sense of separation and arrogance will be spoken by “The Ayatollah” and “The Priest” and “The President” and “The Super Spouse” and “The Entitled One” and “The Frustrated Child” (of all ages) and “The Highly Religious One” and “The Justices” and “The Conservative” and “The Liberal” and “The Christian” and “The Judgmental Parent” and “The Spiritual One,” and “The Racist,” and “The Rabbi” and “The Republican” and “The Democrat” and “The Centrist,” and “The Tribal Leader,” and “The Helper/Savior” and “The Wealthy One” and “The Boss,” ad infinitum.
Those are all persons who think they know what they do not, namely, the Truth; therefore, they are not independent since they are not free of the delusional thinking resulting from their programming and conditioning. Pavlov’s dogs lost choice. They lost the ability to choose because of their conditioning and programming. So it is with the non-Realized. No letter was sent to 300 million citizens of the U.S., telling them how to behave today, but most will behave in exactly the same fashion today because with persons, the rule always is, “Monkey see, monkey do.” Who would conclude that a monkey is free and independent if all it does is mimic other monkeys? For persons, the monkeys being mimicked include parents, grandparents, friends, relatives, ancestors, “leaders,” neighbors, co-workers, “personalities in the news,” employers, etc.
But for those who would be truly free and independent, the invitation is to discard your false personas and awaken to the Reality of Who/What You Truly Are. Another “state” is available for abidance during the manifestation. It is the only state in which true freedom and independence can happen and be justifiably celebrated. It is that state wherein the Realized abide. Knowing that nothing in “this world” is real, the Realized understand that nothing in an imaginary world can generate a consistent sense of ease and comfort that only comes with true independence. While the accumulations and machinations of “this world” generate disappointment or restlessness or misery or irritability or discontentment or boredom or frustration or alternating period of happiness and unhappiness, there is that state which is free of the chaos and illusions of “this world”…namely, the Void.
Real freedom and independence can only happen in that Void—in that state of Nothingness with zero concepts—as the consciousness remains manifest but does not attach to any ideas or beliefs or dogma or religious teachings or so-called "spirituality" or any other form of "learned ignorance." The alternative to the peace of the Nothingness is that state of innumerable concepts in which most will live out the manifestation, trapped in personas, driven by fears and desires, never able to relax and take it easy, but convinced in that dream (or nightmare) state that they are free and happy and not bored and not depressed.
In truth, it is that state that all are in already, but persons do not know Who/What They Are, much less what state They Are Truly in. Instead of recognizing that state of unicity, they believe all of the lies that constitute the “mind” and therefore believe that the state of duality in which they exist is the real state. But you will not change them, so the only logical consideration for you is to determine, “How free (or trapped) are you?”
That is, how free of the influence of personas and personality are you? Are you totally free of the influence of a frustrated child within that has controlled your adult-age feelings and thoughts and generated your belief that "needs" (which are only imagined) are real? Have you seen all of the ideas and concepts and roles that have governed you? Have you seen how personality and fears and desires determine everything that persons do and say and feel? Have you consciously declared your independence? Are you completely free? If not, are you ready to take the seven-step journey as outlined in the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE and be truly free and independent? Please enter the silence of contemplation?
THE FEATURED ITEM FOR THIS WEEK’S SALE IS THE NEWEST RELEASE: There’s No Such Thing As Peace of Mind (There Is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind). The book should be ready to ship by Friday, July 6th. Regular price after July 8th will be $14.99 + S&H. 15% off through July 8th = $12.74 + S&H)
FOR INFORMATION ON THE GUIDE FOR TAKING THE SEVEN-STEP JOURNEY TO REALITY
