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Now available on DVD or downloadable computer file:
seven hours of satsang with floyd guiding seekers through all seven steps (in their exact order) to Realization. See details at the end of this post.
seven hours of satsang with floyd guiding seekers through all seven steps (in their exact order) to Realization. See details at the end of this post.
[Please review the list posted yesterday that identifies the basic personality types]
F.: Each personality type has a basic fear and a basic desire. Fear generates misery, and desires do the same; therefore, personality is the source of misery and suffering. The very wanting /desiring to change “the world” and the very wanting /desiring for all people to love each other—a dualistic concept and a total impossibility—will generate unhappiness.
Yesterday, the personality / change-the-world-link was discussed. Today, the personality / desiring-all-to-love-each-other-link will be discussed. Which types want everyone to love everyone else? WHO (which personality types or ego-states) are failing to see that the notion that “A” should love “B” is subject-object duality? WHO (which personality types or ego-states) have failed to understand that Love Is, period?
Of those basic types listed yesterday, certainly “The Perfectionist” will be subconsciously motivated to want a perfect world where everyone loves everyone else, completely ignoring how many Type Eight sociopaths have disintegrated to the lowest levels of psychic health and can only hate;
completely ignoring the fact that even the majority of individuals who try to love just one person cannot pull that off and sustain their marriage; and completely ignoring the fact that all species have some types with a survivor motive and some types with a warrior motive, resulting in a "built in" source of conflict and disagreement.
So notice the way that among the non-Realized it is personality, not "good" intentions or "good" motives, that drive thought and word and deed:
“The Helper’s” primary motive is to get love. That is why those types “give love” (not altruistically but with a motive to be loved in return).
“The Idealist” is most certainly attached to the notion that “it’s all about love, really.”
“The Fearful One” wants to be loved in order to preempt possible attacks.
“The Peacemaker” wants love and peace to prevail across the globe.
So again, all across the planet, persons are being subconsciously driven to expound upon their dualistic, subject-object beliefs about “love” without the slightest awareness that only the atonement—the at-one-ment, the wisdom to know they are everything—can bring about an understanding of the difference in false (subject-object) love and Real Love.
Notice how often the roots of the Personality Trance or the Ego-Trance are included in the content of many novels and movies:
In THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, a small computer chip is implanted into the brain of a presidential candidate. The chip allows a group of conspirators to control his actions and even gives them the ability to make him kill.
In the 1983 film BRAINSTORM, the military tries to take control over a new technology that can record and transfer thoughts.
The idea of such mind-control and behavior-control is the basis of THE MATRIX TRILOGY.
And in the STAR TREK franchise, members of the Borg collective are equipped with brain implants which connect them to the Borg "hive mind" and allow them to be manipulated by the Borg Queen.
In all of those cases, the trance is induced by implants. Among the non-Realized masses, the trance-inducing implants include ideas, concepts, beliefs, values, attitudes, and all else associated with the programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication to which humans are subjected.
The ideas in those novels/movies are not impossible scenarios of science fiction but are the current circumstance of the non-Realized, and if they do not find everything that has been implanted and discard it all, they will never be free; they will, instead, be connected to the universal, dualistic “hive mind” and will suffer the stings thereof.
Furthermore, if freed of the influence of the subconscious motivators called "personality" and if then Realized Fully, You will understand that You cannot change anything but can only witness.
You will understand that You cannot do anything, but can merely witness.
You will understand that You are that which is presently being moved about via a body but that You are not the body, just as you would not be a car merely because you traveled in a car.
You will understand that You can merely witness, and only from the platform of pure witnessing can the relative existence unfold in as sane and peaceful and natural a manner as that which characterizes the natural existence of a deer. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
Yesterday, the personality / change-the-world-link was discussed. Today, the personality / desiring-all-to-love-each-other-link will be discussed. Which types want everyone to love everyone else? WHO (which personality types or ego-states) are failing to see that the notion that “A” should love “B” is subject-object duality? WHO (which personality types or ego-states) have failed to understand that Love Is, period?
Of those basic types listed yesterday, certainly “The Perfectionist” will be subconsciously motivated to want a perfect world where everyone loves everyone else, completely ignoring how many Type Eight sociopaths have disintegrated to the lowest levels of psychic health and can only hate;
completely ignoring the fact that even the majority of individuals who try to love just one person cannot pull that off and sustain their marriage; and completely ignoring the fact that all species have some types with a survivor motive and some types with a warrior motive, resulting in a "built in" source of conflict and disagreement.
So notice the way that among the non-Realized it is personality, not "good" intentions or "good" motives, that drive thought and word and deed:
“The Helper’s” primary motive is to get love. That is why those types “give love” (not altruistically but with a motive to be loved in return).
“The Idealist” is most certainly attached to the notion that “it’s all about love, really.”
“The Fearful One” wants to be loved in order to preempt possible attacks.
“The Peacemaker” wants love and peace to prevail across the globe.
So again, all across the planet, persons are being subconsciously driven to expound upon their dualistic, subject-object beliefs about “love” without the slightest awareness that only the atonement—the at-one-ment, the wisdom to know they are everything—can bring about an understanding of the difference in false (subject-object) love and Real Love.
Notice how often the roots of the Personality Trance or the Ego-Trance are included in the content of many novels and movies:
In THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, a small computer chip is implanted into the brain of a presidential candidate. The chip allows a group of conspirators to control his actions and even gives them the ability to make him kill.
In the 1983 film BRAINSTORM, the military tries to take control over a new technology that can record and transfer thoughts.
The idea of such mind-control and behavior-control is the basis of THE MATRIX TRILOGY.
And in the STAR TREK franchise, members of the Borg collective are equipped with brain implants which connect them to the Borg "hive mind" and allow them to be manipulated by the Borg Queen.
In all of those cases, the trance is induced by implants. Among the non-Realized masses, the trance-inducing implants include ideas, concepts, beliefs, values, attitudes, and all else associated with the programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication to which humans are subjected.
The ideas in those novels/movies are not impossible scenarios of science fiction but are the current circumstance of the non-Realized, and if they do not find everything that has been implanted and discard it all, they will never be free; they will, instead, be connected to the universal, dualistic “hive mind” and will suffer the stings thereof.
Furthermore, if freed of the influence of the subconscious motivators called "personality" and if then Realized Fully, You will understand that You cannot change anything but can only witness.
You will understand that You cannot do anything, but can merely witness.
You will understand that You are that which is presently being moved about via a body but that You are not the body, just as you would not be a car merely because you traveled in a car.
You will understand that You can merely witness, and only from the platform of pure witnessing can the relative existence unfold in as sane and peaceful and natural a manner as that which characterizes the natural existence of a deer. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or by watching the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send a notice that payment has been received and then you will be sent by e-mail the downloading instructions, password, etc.
2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes. Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
(Order one at a time or use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set for $99 if ordered at one time. For this option, there will be no download information offered; instead, notice of payment will be sent and then each of the e-Books will be sent to you as an e-mail attachment.)
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or by watching the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send a notice that payment has been received and then you will be sent by e-mail the downloading instructions, password, etc.
2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes. Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
(Order one at a time or use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set for $99 if ordered at one time. For this option, there will be no download information offered; instead, notice of payment will be sent and then each of the e-Books will be sent to you as an e-mail attachment.)
You may visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.
3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet
To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally:
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.
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DONATIONS
FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.
FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!
FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.
F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,350+ Advaitin essays archived on the site.
That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.
3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet
To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally:
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.
SUBMITTING ADVAITA VEDANTA POETRY FOR PUBLICATION
Visit
Submitting Advaita Vedanta Poetry for Publication
DONATIONS
FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.
FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!
FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.
F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,350+ Advaitin essays archived on the site.
That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.
