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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.:[More will be offered on subject-object witnessing vs. eyewitnessing vs. pure witnessing and also on true identities vs. false identities, but several questions that have been received over the last 48 hours - many in defense of their programmers - will be addressed before moving on.]
As persons are invited to look objectively at their current "condition," who among them is truly willing to admit that they have been imprisoned by the falsehoods they have been taught by those whom they admire, such as family members and political and religious leaders or spiritual advisers or the big name authors they read?
Who among them is willing to admit that they have been imprisoned by the falsehoods which they have been taught by those whom they think they are "the closest to" and who have "done the most for them," such as parents and relatives?
What ego-state, which will automatically become defensive when egotism and other false self defense mechanisms are triggered, can find a way to move beyond the effects of ego-state assumption and of ego-defense mechanism influences and then admit that some truly ignorant - and maybe even insane - conduct has resulted from their programming and conditioning?
And who - especially among persons in the West where they is not even a vocabulary of Realization - will ever have even the slightest clue that their beliefs and ideas and concepts are all nonsense and that they cannot see Truth because the consciousness has been blocked by the learned garbage / ignorance of acculturation and domestication?
Some persons might begin to glimpse that the most negative influence (relatively speaking) on them that has inspired most of their insane thoughts and words and deeds is the parenting they were exposed to (or the psychological and emotional effects of having being abandoned by one or both parents).
Yet the ego / egotism team will inspire the non-Realized to come to the defense of those parents, the belief being, "They obviously did a great job - look how well I've turned out" or "Well, they did the best they could." (Yes, and so did Hitler. He did the best he could to try to kill everyone who was a Jew or homosexual or who was handicapped either mentally or physically. He just didn't succeed. But he did the best he could. And your parents did the best they could. So what?)
The point is that parents need not be hated in order for one to begin to be free of the nonsensical ideas and dogma and concepts that they taught. As one Advaitin supposedly put it a couple of thousand years ago, "They know not what they do" (or, in your case, what they did).
Yet the key to freedom, clarity, Realization, and peace is for you to know what they did, and to then take the seven steps to Realization which you must take in order to neutralize the effects...that is, to move into a position of neutrality when pure witnessing allows the Truth to be seen and understood and then being free forever of the dualistic high's and low's of emotional intoxication.
To reach that position, it must be understood that "they" (all of your programmers and conditioners and acculturators) were a part of the global scheme that is a scheme that is not recognized as a scheme by the participants. They believed every false belief that they taught you; they believed every bizarre idea they passed on to you; and they believed every bogus concept and absolute lie that they taught you.
The following explanation that has been shared previously is relevant here to illustrate the way that persons are set up to operate on "autopilot" (meaning unconsciously) rather than functioning spontaneously (meaning, in a totally awake, aware, and conscious manner yet no longer being driven by learned ignorance):
Some claim that various forms of insanity are genetic, but most insanity is rooted in environment; that is, insanity can become the abnormal norm in cultures where myths are passed along early on as truth to children by persons in their environment who also accepted as truth the lies that they were told to believe as children...and told to believe without question.
The effects of that programming and conditioning are now pervasive and are obvious among those who are walking about unconsciously, trapped in the Dream / Nightmare of the Planet. Consider: a married woman invited her college roommate and the roommate’s husband to spend a weekend with her and her husband. While the men were on the golf course, the women began preparing a roast for dinner that night.
As the hostess was preparing the vegetables that would be cooked along with the roast, she asked her college friend to use the cutting board and a huge knife to cut the roast in half; to season both parts of the roast; to take out two small pans and fill them with several inches of water; and to place the two pans in the oven.
The guest said, “You have a large roasting pan like the one I use at home. Why not put the roast in that for cooking?” The woman said, “I’m not really sure, but mom always cooked a roast in two smaller pans when I was growing up at home.”
The guest said, “I don’t get it,” inspiring the hostess to call her mom and inquire. Her mom explained, “I’m not exactly sure why we've always done it that way; it's just the way your grandmother always cooked roast, so it’s the way I have always cooked roast.”
The hostess then called her grandmother and asked, “Grandmother, you know how you always cut a roast in half and put it into two small pans for cooking? Did you do that to shorten the cooking time, or maybe to help the roast absorb the seasonings? Why have we always done it that way?”
The grandmother said, “I don’t know why you and your mom do it that way, but I always did it that way because we were poor and we only had two small pans—we never had a large roasting pan.”
Maharaj: "This is our stupidity, verging on insanity." Meaning? To blindly do what has been modeled for you, no matter how senseless it might be. To blindly believe what you believe without ever stopping to question any of it. To blindly say what you say and to think what you think without ever investigating the roots of your thoughts and words. To live unconsciously and insanely and unreasonably and illogically on autopilot rather than functioning spontaneously and consciously and sanely and reasonably and logically.
Why have you believed what you have believed? Why did you not question the things that could have been seen as totally senseless if you had investigated objectively? What stifled your willingness to investigate objectively? (Usually, threats of punishment accompany the charge to accept teachings with blind faith, and even if a child is curious enough to inquire, inquiries are soon stymied.)
What inspires the widespread acceptance of nonsense as fact? Why do persons accept it, without question, when persons claim that natural events (hurricane, earthquakes, floods, etc.) have some supernatural cause and some Supernatural Causer and some Supernatural Motive?
And why would they continue to "love" a Causer who behaves in so cold and calloused and destructive a fashion? What is their desire or fear that would motivate continued allegiance to "Some Entity" behaving thusly?
If you still accept as truth the 5000-year-old myths that were dreamed up by totally ignorant persons, then is it not time to begin a thorough investigation that is free of the constraints of the “blind faith” that has left you mentally and emotionally handicapped because of faulty programming and conditioning?
Is there any hope at all for a sane existence to happen, is there any hope at all for one to stabilize in the Am-ness, if your thoughts and words and deeds are being driven by your belief in lies and in fictional entities and in supernatural causes being assigned to natural events?
As persons are invited to look objectively at their current "condition," who among them is truly willing to admit that they have been imprisoned by the falsehoods they have been taught by those whom they admire, such as family members and political and religious leaders or spiritual advisers or the big name authors they read?
Who among them is willing to admit that they have been imprisoned by the falsehoods which they have been taught by those whom they think they are "the closest to" and who have "done the most for them," such as parents and relatives?
What ego-state, which will automatically become defensive when egotism and other false self defense mechanisms are triggered, can find a way to move beyond the effects of ego-state assumption and of ego-defense mechanism influences and then admit that some truly ignorant - and maybe even insane - conduct has resulted from their programming and conditioning?
And who - especially among persons in the West where they is not even a vocabulary of Realization - will ever have even the slightest clue that their beliefs and ideas and concepts are all nonsense and that they cannot see Truth because the consciousness has been blocked by the learned garbage / ignorance of acculturation and domestication?
Some persons might begin to glimpse that the most negative influence (relatively speaking) on them that has inspired most of their insane thoughts and words and deeds is the parenting they were exposed to (or the psychological and emotional effects of having being abandoned by one or both parents).
Yet the ego / egotism team will inspire the non-Realized to come to the defense of those parents, the belief being, "They obviously did a great job - look how well I've turned out" or "Well, they did the best they could." (Yes, and so did Hitler. He did the best he could to try to kill everyone who was a Jew or homosexual or who was handicapped either mentally or physically. He just didn't succeed. But he did the best he could. And your parents did the best they could. So what?)
The point is that parents need not be hated in order for one to begin to be free of the nonsensical ideas and dogma and concepts that they taught. As one Advaitin supposedly put it a couple of thousand years ago, "They know not what they do" (or, in your case, what they did).
Yet the key to freedom, clarity, Realization, and peace is for you to know what they did, and to then take the seven steps to Realization which you must take in order to neutralize the effects...that is, to move into a position of neutrality when pure witnessing allows the Truth to be seen and understood and then being free forever of the dualistic high's and low's of emotional intoxication.
To reach that position, it must be understood that "they" (all of your programmers and conditioners and acculturators) were a part of the global scheme that is a scheme that is not recognized as a scheme by the participants. They believed every false belief that they taught you; they believed every bizarre idea they passed on to you; and they believed every bogus concept and absolute lie that they taught you.
The following explanation that has been shared previously is relevant here to illustrate the way that persons are set up to operate on "autopilot" (meaning unconsciously) rather than functioning spontaneously (meaning, in a totally awake, aware, and conscious manner yet no longer being driven by learned ignorance):
Some claim that various forms of insanity are genetic, but most insanity is rooted in environment; that is, insanity can become the abnormal norm in cultures where myths are passed along early on as truth to children by persons in their environment who also accepted as truth the lies that they were told to believe as children...and told to believe without question.
The effects of that programming and conditioning are now pervasive and are obvious among those who are walking about unconsciously, trapped in the Dream / Nightmare of the Planet. Consider: a married woman invited her college roommate and the roommate’s husband to spend a weekend with her and her husband. While the men were on the golf course, the women began preparing a roast for dinner that night.
As the hostess was preparing the vegetables that would be cooked along with the roast, she asked her college friend to use the cutting board and a huge knife to cut the roast in half; to season both parts of the roast; to take out two small pans and fill them with several inches of water; and to place the two pans in the oven.
The guest said, “You have a large roasting pan like the one I use at home. Why not put the roast in that for cooking?” The woman said, “I’m not really sure, but mom always cooked a roast in two smaller pans when I was growing up at home.”
The guest said, “I don’t get it,” inspiring the hostess to call her mom and inquire. Her mom explained, “I’m not exactly sure why we've always done it that way; it's just the way your grandmother always cooked roast, so it’s the way I have always cooked roast.”
The hostess then called her grandmother and asked, “Grandmother, you know how you always cut a roast in half and put it into two small pans for cooking? Did you do that to shorten the cooking time, or maybe to help the roast absorb the seasonings? Why have we always done it that way?”
The grandmother said, “I don’t know why you and your mom do it that way, but I always did it that way because we were poor and we only had two small pans—we never had a large roasting pan.”
Maharaj: "This is our stupidity, verging on insanity." Meaning? To blindly do what has been modeled for you, no matter how senseless it might be. To blindly believe what you believe without ever stopping to question any of it. To blindly say what you say and to think what you think without ever investigating the roots of your thoughts and words. To live unconsciously and insanely and unreasonably and illogically on autopilot rather than functioning spontaneously and consciously and sanely and reasonably and logically.
Why have you believed what you have believed? Why did you not question the things that could have been seen as totally senseless if you had investigated objectively? What stifled your willingness to investigate objectively? (Usually, threats of punishment accompany the charge to accept teachings with blind faith, and even if a child is curious enough to inquire, inquiries are soon stymied.)
What inspires the widespread acceptance of nonsense as fact? Why do persons accept it, without question, when persons claim that natural events (hurricane, earthquakes, floods, etc.) have some supernatural cause and some Supernatural Causer and some Supernatural Motive?
And why would they continue to "love" a Causer who behaves in so cold and calloused and destructive a fashion? What is their desire or fear that would motivate continued allegiance to "Some Entity" behaving thusly?
If you still accept as truth the 5000-year-old myths that were dreamed up by totally ignorant persons, then is it not time to begin a thorough investigation that is free of the constraints of the “blind faith” that has left you mentally and emotionally handicapped because of faulty programming and conditioning?
Is there any hope at all for a sane existence to happen, is there any hope at all for one to stabilize in the Am-ness, if your thoughts and words and deeds are being driven by your belief in lies and in fictional entities and in supernatural causes being assigned to natural events?
Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
Much of what Louise has shared has resonated with many site visitors. to that end, some have inquired recently if Louise offers the online Advaita Internet Course. The answer is, "Yes."
Whether taking the course with Louise or Floyd, the price of the course includes all 11 of the Advaita eBooks, questions sent after completion of the assigned readings, replies to your answers, and follow-up as required.
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With either teacher, you will be guided through all seven of the steps, in order, that lead from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute (and beyond). For more specific information and details about the course, you may click on the link to the right.
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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.
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[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]
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 (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
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(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.)
For more information or to order, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or 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 me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
[It is recommended that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]
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 (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.)
You may visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.
3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
Received 19 August 2010 from one that just completed the entire course:
I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.
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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.
3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
Received 19 August 2010 from one that just completed the entire course:
I would like to extend deepest appreciation towards you for these teachings that you have offered. It has been most valuable towards what may not have been revealed throughout this manifestation labeled "anthony." Understanding Truth and finding words for gratitude are one as is all. Thank you again for pointing "me" to THAT and the understanding that came as well. Hopeful for future "contact"! Sincerely, Anthony M. W.
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.
The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders offers the non-duality message by way of a mystery-adventure novel, discussing the movement from pain to healing to awakening to peace.
From Dr. R.F. Maley, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Houston: "Floyd Henderson's book, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, is a fun read and an interesting mystery, but perhaps more importantly it serves as a vehicle for blending Eastern Philosophy and Native American Spirituality to make an intellectually challenging novel. The book's insights into both relationships and authoritarian conditioning of people in our society make it a must read, tracing the roots of narcissistic, sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors to the very core of the culture. This truly witty and politically-incorrect study of the aggressive nature of 'the American character' offers not only a diagnosis but also a treatment plan, making the book an excellent supplemental reading in courses such as psychology, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and counseling."
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