PER NON-DUALITY: EITHER AN INNER RESOURCE OR AN OUTER RESOURCE, BUT NOT BOTH, Part Three

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Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.

F.: So what is driving the non-Realized masses on a near-global basis to be so gullible, to be driven so far into such depths of naiveté, that they are willing...

...to believe in invisible things that have, admittedly, never been seen by anyone, including by the persons encouraging others to believe (and to believe by faith alone while ignoring the facts)?

...to believe in a power or powers in other worlds who operate in dualistic ways so that "He" / "They" will (1) claim to love unconditionally but will (2) conversely bring down misery and suffering and misfortune and pain on persons deemed to be "bad"?

and

...to believe in a power or powers in other worlds (be the power a god or gods or some nebulous and indefinable concept such as "the universe") who see to it that even the most selfish, false-self-serving wishes of persons on this planet are granted if those persons are deemed "good"

or

...to believe that they do not really even have to be "good" to receive vast rewards if they can use their "minds" in "the proper way" that attracts riches and abundance of every variety and physically beautiful people and everyone else and everything else that they desire? It is this that drives them:

it is the core desire of non-Realized persons to control the uncontrollable: weather, people, nations, opinions, beliefs, etc. Rather than accept that the uncontrollable is uncontrollable, such persons both historically and presently dream up ways to gain power in order to be able to control everyone and everything.

When some things still remain outside their control, they buy into tales told by others who are also addicted to control. Those tales discuss all sorts of outer resources and purport to identify a power (or many powers) in other worlds that would-be controlling persons can tap into in order to attain the necessary power in order to be able, in turn, to have control.

So in 2010, there are still persons all around that globe that pray regularly and selfishly to an outer resource or to outer resources for:

wealth; for health; for "love"; for a reformed "world"; for all people to accept their god or gods as the only "true and real and right one(s)"; for more rain (at times) or for less rain (on other occasions) per the influence of the "Goldilocks Syndrome," wanting everything to be "just right" and nothing else;

for victory in their wars against other individuals, other political parties, other states or regions, other tribes, other races, other nations, and other religions; for victory over their addictions while continuing to exert every ounce of energy available to appease their addiction to power and their addiction to control;

for victory over an addiction to drugs or alcohol while not addressing a half dozen other substitute addictions; for victory over ill economies; for victory over floods and hurricanes and tornadoes and typhoons and earthquakes;

for victory over death in order to assure the continuity of body and mind and personality; and for victory over "evil" (which often includes anything or anyone that differs from their ideas and opinions and concepts and beliefs and skin color and class and creed).

Yesterday's post ended with a reference to the millions in some groups and billions in other groups who ignore the message in their own literature and mistake the inner resource for an outer resource.

Consider the literature of the millions who use what they call "The Big Book." As with all religious people who claim that their text is "holy," most will never read the text themselves.

They will hear talk of a "He" and a "Him" that is their "Higher Power"(there it is again, the concept of "power" and the duality of "higher vs. lower"), but they will not read the final word on what that supposedly "higher power" really is (as reported in these words in the back of their own book):

"With few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves." [Bold added]

So for all the "god-talk" in their meetings, the founders clarified in their own text the identity of that "higher power," explaining that "the power greater than themselves" (than their false selves) is the inner resource that can know its True Self and that can know Truth instead of continuing to believe the lies of their cultures and instead of continuing to believe the insane thoughts generated by their fiction-filled "minds."

They call that the essence of the "the spiritual experience" which, per their own explanation, is an experience which (1) has nothing to do with anything "spiritual," which (2) has nothing to do with a god, and which (3) has nothing to do with any conceptualized "outer resource."

They are pointing to an experience that leads to an awareness (or consciousness of) the inner resource which is all that their members must tap into in order to be free of their belief in false concepts and bogus ideas that drive their insane, destructive behaviors.

Their literature tries at the end to make clear that their "plan" of attack against insanity involves (A) tapping into an inner resource, not an outer resource; and they try to make clear at the end that (B) "spirituality" really involves tapping into the inner resource, not into some imaginary outer resource.

So clear did they want to make it that "the spiritual experience" involves nothing more than becoming conscious of the inner resource (and that it does not involves tapping into an outer resource / God) that they went even further:

they stated unequivocally that it is only "our more religious members" who call it “God-consciousness.” So there is the inner resource of pure consciousness which their religious members misidentify as an "outer resource" or as "God-consciousness" rather than as "Pure Consciousness."

Yet millions of members of such groups never understand that key point in their own literature; however, the millions in those groups who are trapped in the ignorance of believing in an outer resource hardly compare at all to the billions of non-Realized persons around the globe who claim that their literature provides a means for them to tap into the power of an outer resource (be that a personal god or personal gods or their personal or semi-personal "universe").

Those tomorrow.

Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)