A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday. You may gain a deeper understanding if you read yesterday's post and if you read "The Vision" at floydhenderson.com before reading today's post.]
I dissolved into the light and saw the beginning of this universe and of all universes. The Functioning of the Totality was revealed and understood completely. At that moment, I knew the perfect peace, the bliss of the Oneness and the Real-ness, the joy — no, the ecstasy — of Full Awareness. An exhausting search that had lasted a lifetime was completed with the joyous end of searching ... with the blissful end of the illusion of a false timeline involving birth-this-life-this-world-death-judgment-an-afterlife ... and even with the merry end of time itself.
What did not end at that moment was the AS IF existence. What has not ended are the happenings that happen. The True I - the re-purified consciousness, the Pure Witnessing - now simply observes this space (still called "floyd" by most) as it trudges onward through a relative existence that (to use some of the words of the Realized poet Shakepspeare) "signifies nothing"; that is disassociated from any belief in the "tales told by idiots"; that has been, in fact, freed of all concepts, ideas, notions, (a.k.a., "beliefs); and that is invested not at all in that which actually amounts to nothing more than "much ado about nothing."
All now happens without any basis; all that happens is a result of all causes and has nothing to do with a "me" (with any "self") at all; all merely happens spontaneously and without the slightest worry or attachment to outcome.
And so it shall be as long as the elements cycle into and out of the thousands of ever-changing bodies called "floyd" which the non-Realized mistakenly take to be the one, same body. And so it shall be with this composite unity until those elements reunite with the pool of the universal elements, until the breath is released and rejoins the universal air, and until the consciousness is freed from the space and returns to the universal pool of energy wherein it had "rested" prior to manifestation.
It is the detachment from all that deals with the body and mind and personality that explains why one of O’Neill’s characters was not insane but was sane when he suggested that one " . . . must always be a little in love with death." When John Donne asked, "O Death, where is thy sting?" he was not insanely suicidal. He was Realized, fully aware of the truth that death has no sting but also fully aware that "life" has no sting either . . . if Realized.
How many times have you felt stung by "this life," by events in "your life"? Has the effort to point toward the joy of Realization struck the cord of pure consciousness which You Are? Is that conscious-energy now vibrating with an awareness of the restrictions of the body-mind-personality triad and, conversely, with the freedom of (a) limitless beingness and (b) limitless non-beingness and (c) That which is beyond both of those?
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 23, 2013
I dissolved into the light and saw the beginning of this universe and of all universes. The Functioning of the Totality was revealed and understood completely. At that moment, I knew the perfect peace, the bliss of the Oneness and the Real-ness, the joy — no, the ecstasy — of Full Awareness. An exhausting search that had lasted a lifetime was completed with the joyous end of searching ... with the blissful end of the illusion of a false timeline involving birth-this-life-this-world-death-judgment-an-afterlife ... and even with the merry end of time itself.
What did not end at that moment was the AS IF existence. What has not ended are the happenings that happen. The True I - the re-purified consciousness, the Pure Witnessing - now simply observes this space (still called "floyd" by most) as it trudges onward through a relative existence that (to use some of the words of the Realized poet Shakepspeare) "signifies nothing"; that is disassociated from any belief in the "tales told by idiots"; that has been, in fact, freed of all concepts, ideas, notions, (a.k.a., "beliefs); and that is invested not at all in that which actually amounts to nothing more than "much ado about nothing."
All now happens without any basis; all that happens is a result of all causes and has nothing to do with a "me" (with any "self") at all; all merely happens spontaneously and without the slightest worry or attachment to outcome.
And so it shall be as long as the elements cycle into and out of the thousands of ever-changing bodies called "floyd" which the non-Realized mistakenly take to be the one, same body. And so it shall be with this composite unity until those elements reunite with the pool of the universal elements, until the breath is released and rejoins the universal air, and until the consciousness is freed from the space and returns to the universal pool of energy wherein it had "rested" prior to manifestation.
It is the detachment from all that deals with the body and mind and personality that explains why one of O’Neill’s characters was not insane but was sane when he suggested that one " . . . must always be a little in love with death." When John Donne asked, "O Death, where is thy sting?" he was not insanely suicidal. He was Realized, fully aware of the truth that death has no sting but also fully aware that "life" has no sting either . . . if Realized.
How many times have you felt stung by "this life," by events in "your life"? Has the effort to point toward the joy of Realization struck the cord of pure consciousness which You Are? Is that conscious-energy now vibrating with an awareness of the restrictions of the body-mind-personality triad and, conversely, with the freedom of (a) limitless beingness and (b) limitless non-beingness and (c) That which is beyond both of those?
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 23, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday]
Visitor: Since you realized after reading Maharaj I would like to know what you read - I AM THAT I guess. Anything else? If you read more than one book of his talks to realize, what was the order of the readings?
F.: Sorry. It can't happen the way your query implies, and here, it certainly did not work that way at all.
Reaching a state of complete impersonality came not after reading Maharaj but came, instead, after a vision that revealed the seven-step "path" from identification to abiding as the no-identity Original State.
Did reading some of Maharaj's earlier talks plant the seeds for that vision? Maybe. Maybe not. Did Maharaj provide all that was required to travel the seven-step "path" and then Realize Fully? No.
Did he, in fact, ever lay out a step-by-step explanation of how to move along the "path"? No. That was not his teaching style. Did he discuss in detail - though not in a specific order - the steps that came to me in the vision. Yes.
After the vision and after seeing the seven steps required to traveled the entire "path," did Maharaj provide the additional clarification required to abide in a fully independent manner - that is, that brought to an end not only unnatural living but also ended previous efforts to try to abide supernaturally? Yes.
After the vision and after seeing the seven steps required to traveled the entire "path, "did Maharaj provide the additional clarification required to abide in a fully natural mode of living? Yes. [If interested, you can visit floydhenderson.com and read the content of that vision.]
The process and results have been explained this way:
After studying the pointers offered by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a vision revealed the multiple degrees of separation that block an understanding of what "The True Self" is (which has not a whit to do with anything deemed "personal" or "Personal").
Though Maharaj spoke of "stages" that had to be transitioned, nowhere were they delineated. The understanding of the stages and of exactly what had to occur for Full Realization to manifest came via the content of a vision. Of course, all of the preparation and all of the studying of those words played an integral part in bringing about the full understanding.
The vision came one afternoon when the consciousness settled into the Theta state, and it was the vision that revealed the entire, direct "path" (step-by-step) and the exact order in which the direct path had to be followed if Realization was to happen.
Here, in the end, after months of reading Maharaj, most of the BS beliefs that had previously been so prized were revealed to have been nothing more than BS (though M.'s early talks about "spirituality" - which he would abandon later - did cause some of the BS beliefs in that regard to linger). Thus, many of the prior nonsensical beliefs were discarded but the Truth and the specific steps on the "path" were still not seen until the vision came, and that came via the inner resource.
Once the vision came, it was understood how the void to energy to awareness to manifested consciousness to blocked consciousness happened. The vision then revealed the way to back out of that mess.
After the vision, when Maharaj was read, his pointers were finally understood perfectly. Then his later, no-religious-and-no-spiritual teachings paved the way for Nisarga / AS IF living. (You can use the search feature at the top right of this page to search AS IF for more explanation.)
Then, the following became clear (but some parts of the discussion below will only make sense if you read the description of the vision first):
Truth cannot be stated. Nor can words even begin to describe the bliss of Realization and the type of existence that could happen if all were in touch with Reality. Yet the effort will be made to try to capture in words - to at least some degree - what the moment of Realization is like and what AS IF living is like afterwards.
Realization happened just after 9 o’clock PM one spring evening a little more than twenty-four years ago as I lay prone on a love seat in the silence of contemplation. Years of "studying" the non-dual teachings had passed, but then the vision came and laid out in a specific, clear-cut order the exact steps that had to be followed to Realization. Thus, it happened.
After decades of being out of tune with the music of the universe, I felt the rhythm for the first time ever and fell into a harmonious step that corresponded with All. After decades of being out of step with Reality (and after decades of trampling about chaotically as a result of being out of tune with All) I was lifted up from this physical-realm-only and felt the metrical cyclings of the harmony of the universe.
I finally heard its silent melody and felt in tune with All. The decades of suffering as a result of having been "out of sync" ended and evaporated into a synchronicity with Reality, with Self and, therefore, with All. The illusion of "I" had died, and in the fleeting moments during the death throes that brought to a final conclusion that imaginary "physical and mental floyd," the fictitious elements of a life of lies passed across the screen of consciousness. It was seeing that play for what it had been—nothing more than the Drama of the Lie—that killed off all of the false notions about "me" and killed off the belief in the false "I."
In losing the illusory "me" and "I," the concept of "my life" was also lost. With that, all notions about a "birth" came to an end. And in losing "birth" and "my life," I lost "death." With the lost of the concept of "death," all fear ended as well, including the earlier fear of living.
I was set free by that liberator called "Awareness." The breath was seen to be leaving the body like a hazy fog and dissolving into the universal air; the physical body was witnessed as it dissolved into the elements from which it came. Like an eagle soaring above, I saw clearly as I had lost every component of my "self." I was free.
[Free of what? Free especially of the ignorance and stupidity and insanity that were a result of ignorant and stupid and insane programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing. Thus, I was free of distortion and delusion and illusions as well as all identification(s). I was also free of all that is misunderstood by the masses about the body, about the mind, and about personality / personalities.]
In the absence of a physical body, I witnessed those elements that had wrongly been taken to be Me as they dissolved into the trees, the mountains, the stream running across a desert floor, and into thin air. Then the Pure Witness watched the At-one-ment unfold as I came to know I Was All, I Am All, and I Shall Forever Be That Which All Is. In losing self, I found Self at the fifth step, yet there was still more to be realized.
In losing the uniqueness of "floyd," in losing all self-consciousness, I gained the limitless expanse of Self-Consciousness and an understanding of exactly what is beyond even the Self. I understood the true unicity beyond the perceived multiplicity; I knew the illusion of past and future and came to know the truth of Now; and the functioning of the totality became clear.
I saw the insignificance of humankind’s pettiness ... of persons’ fears and desires and identification with body and mind and personality. I saw the suffering that evolves from the egotism that is used to sustain imaginary ego-states. I saw that which inspires a belief in separation and duality. I saw the darkness of ignorance and arrogance.
The rear curtain was pulled back on the mystery of the Drama of the Lie and that allowed all falsehoods to be seen for what they are; the light shown down and cast away the darkness in which the enigma had flourished and in an instant the riddle of "life" was solved.
In seeing that all the lies of all cultures have been nothing more than personal fabrications, I was able to see that the greatest lie had been the lie of my self. I had not been living a lie, as some had suggested. "I" was the lie. I saw the lies about the body, the lies about the mind, the lies about being religious or spiritual, and the lies about the advantages thereof. I saw the truth of the Child Ignorance stage via a seagull in a vision and knew that being a no-knowing, concept-less gull would have been so much more wonderful than believing I was the person / persona / personas that I had thought I was.
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 21, 2013
Visitor: Since you realized after reading Maharaj I would like to know what you read - I AM THAT I guess. Anything else? If you read more than one book of his talks to realize, what was the order of the readings?
F.: Sorry. It can't happen the way your query implies, and here, it certainly did not work that way at all.
Reaching a state of complete impersonality came not after reading Maharaj but came, instead, after a vision that revealed the seven-step "path" from identification to abiding as the no-identity Original State.
Did reading some of Maharaj's earlier talks plant the seeds for that vision? Maybe. Maybe not. Did Maharaj provide all that was required to travel the seven-step "path" and then Realize Fully? No.
Did he, in fact, ever lay out a step-by-step explanation of how to move along the "path"? No. That was not his teaching style. Did he discuss in detail - though not in a specific order - the steps that came to me in the vision. Yes.
After the vision and after seeing the seven steps required to traveled the entire "path," did Maharaj provide the additional clarification required to abide in a fully independent manner - that is, that brought to an end not only unnatural living but also ended previous efforts to try to abide supernaturally? Yes.
After the vision and after seeing the seven steps required to traveled the entire "path, "did Maharaj provide the additional clarification required to abide in a fully natural mode of living? Yes. [If interested, you can visit floydhenderson.com and read the content of that vision.]
The process and results have been explained this way:
After studying the pointers offered by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a vision revealed the multiple degrees of separation that block an understanding of what "The True Self" is (which has not a whit to do with anything deemed "personal" or "Personal").
Though Maharaj spoke of "stages" that had to be transitioned, nowhere were they delineated. The understanding of the stages and of exactly what had to occur for Full Realization to manifest came via the content of a vision. Of course, all of the preparation and all of the studying of those words played an integral part in bringing about the full understanding.
The vision came one afternoon when the consciousness settled into the Theta state, and it was the vision that revealed the entire, direct "path" (step-by-step) and the exact order in which the direct path had to be followed if Realization was to happen.
Here, in the end, after months of reading Maharaj, most of the BS beliefs that had previously been so prized were revealed to have been nothing more than BS (though M.'s early talks about "spirituality" - which he would abandon later - did cause some of the BS beliefs in that regard to linger). Thus, many of the prior nonsensical beliefs were discarded but the Truth and the specific steps on the "path" were still not seen until the vision came, and that came via the inner resource.
Once the vision came, it was understood how the void to energy to awareness to manifested consciousness to blocked consciousness happened. The vision then revealed the way to back out of that mess.
After the vision, when Maharaj was read, his pointers were finally understood perfectly. Then his later, no-religious-and-no-spiritual teachings paved the way for Nisarga / AS IF living. (You can use the search feature at the top right of this page to search AS IF for more explanation.)
Then, the following became clear (but some parts of the discussion below will only make sense if you read the description of the vision first):
Truth cannot be stated. Nor can words even begin to describe the bliss of Realization and the type of existence that could happen if all were in touch with Reality. Yet the effort will be made to try to capture in words - to at least some degree - what the moment of Realization is like and what AS IF living is like afterwards.
Realization happened just after 9 o’clock PM one spring evening a little more than twenty-four years ago as I lay prone on a love seat in the silence of contemplation. Years of "studying" the non-dual teachings had passed, but then the vision came and laid out in a specific, clear-cut order the exact steps that had to be followed to Realization. Thus, it happened.
After decades of being out of tune with the music of the universe, I felt the rhythm for the first time ever and fell into a harmonious step that corresponded with All. After decades of being out of step with Reality (and after decades of trampling about chaotically as a result of being out of tune with All) I was lifted up from this physical-realm-only and felt the metrical cyclings of the harmony of the universe.
I finally heard its silent melody and felt in tune with All. The decades of suffering as a result of having been "out of sync" ended and evaporated into a synchronicity with Reality, with Self and, therefore, with All. The illusion of "I" had died, and in the fleeting moments during the death throes that brought to a final conclusion that imaginary "physical and mental floyd," the fictitious elements of a life of lies passed across the screen of consciousness. It was seeing that play for what it had been—nothing more than the Drama of the Lie—that killed off all of the false notions about "me" and killed off the belief in the false "I."
In losing the illusory "me" and "I," the concept of "my life" was also lost. With that, all notions about a "birth" came to an end. And in losing "birth" and "my life," I lost "death." With the lost of the concept of "death," all fear ended as well, including the earlier fear of living.
I was set free by that liberator called "Awareness." The breath was seen to be leaving the body like a hazy fog and dissolving into the universal air; the physical body was witnessed as it dissolved into the elements from which it came. Like an eagle soaring above, I saw clearly as I had lost every component of my "self." I was free.
[Free of what? Free especially of the ignorance and stupidity and insanity that were a result of ignorant and stupid and insane programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing. Thus, I was free of distortion and delusion and illusions as well as all identification(s). I was also free of all that is misunderstood by the masses about the body, about the mind, and about personality / personalities.]
In the absence of a physical body, I witnessed those elements that had wrongly been taken to be Me as they dissolved into the trees, the mountains, the stream running across a desert floor, and into thin air. Then the Pure Witness watched the At-one-ment unfold as I came to know I Was All, I Am All, and I Shall Forever Be That Which All Is. In losing self, I found Self at the fifth step, yet there was still more to be realized.
In losing the uniqueness of "floyd," in losing all self-consciousness, I gained the limitless expanse of Self-Consciousness and an understanding of exactly what is beyond even the Self. I understood the true unicity beyond the perceived multiplicity; I knew the illusion of past and future and came to know the truth of Now; and the functioning of the totality became clear.
I saw the insignificance of humankind’s pettiness ... of persons’ fears and desires and identification with body and mind and personality. I saw the suffering that evolves from the egotism that is used to sustain imaginary ego-states. I saw that which inspires a belief in separation and duality. I saw the darkness of ignorance and arrogance.
The rear curtain was pulled back on the mystery of the Drama of the Lie and that allowed all falsehoods to be seen for what they are; the light shown down and cast away the darkness in which the enigma had flourished and in an instant the riddle of "life" was solved.
In seeing that all the lies of all cultures have been nothing more than personal fabrications, I was able to see that the greatest lie had been the lie of my self. I had not been living a lie, as some had suggested. "I" was the lie. I saw the lies about the body, the lies about the mind, the lies about being religious or spiritual, and the lies about the advantages thereof. I saw the truth of the Child Ignorance stage via a seagull in a vision and knew that being a no-knowing, concept-less gull would have been so much more wonderful than believing I was the person / persona / personas that I had thought I was.
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 21, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday] Maharaj's dismissal of religion and spirituality notwithstanding, it has been made clear on this site for eight years that (A) there are seven steps on the "path" from identification with the false "I" to abiding as one's Original Nature and that (B) the third step is the one where religious and / or spiritual roles are assumed and played and that (C) most will take that as the end of the "path" to Full Realization when they have not even made it to the midpoint.
[Maharaj made clear that (1) most seekers who think they have arrived at the end of the "path" are really practicing nothing more than "kindergarten spirituality" and that (2) most are standing in the dull light of dawn but thinking that they are being bathed in the light of the noonday sun.
Furthermore, point (D) has also been offered regularly: while the assumption and playing of religious and / or spiritual roles is only the third of seven steps on the "path," those false identities / roles must - in most cases - be assumed and played for a time.
In that regard, this was shared in the summer of 2006:
Humans that once strolled about in peace now race about in crisis. Humans that once experienced a sense of peace by sitting in the quiet and watching a sunset now try to reach that peaceful state by humming, by kneeling, by genuflecting, and by kissing holy rings; by reading “holy” texts or reading “wise” words written by supposedly “holy” or “knowledgable” men;
by making pilgrimages to “holy” shines and “holy” lands; by using drugs or alcohol to excess; by praying to imaginary powers in other realms; by talking to — and listening to — human-like but invisible superpowers; by reading “spiritual” books; by trying to live “spiritually” rather than naturally; by burning incense or by slinging water droplets; by placing special bowls on special pillows and striking the special bowls with special sticks;
by sacrificing time and valuables to imaginary Powers or for “good” causes; by listening to arrogant men who dress in elaborate costumes; by assuming roles and playing those roles in special, “holy” buildings erected on “consecrated ground,” ad infinitum.
If the normal (meaning, “unprogrammed and sane”) humans who had lived in a normal (meaning "unconditioned and unenculturated") fashion for millions of years could witness what is now-typical human behavior and now-typical human thinking, those earlier humans would know that they were watching the most outrageously absurd show in the history of this planet. Such is now the case.
Persons today — driven insane by modern programming and enculturation which inspires them to believe the most illogical beliefs — can be restored to sanity if they happen to cross the path of a Realized One and if they happen to be able to hear pointers and then consider them in a logical fashion. They can take the words of an “outer guru” and use them as intended: to guide them to tap into the inner resource, into the inner guru.
That inner guru can help detect all of the insanity and lies and concepts that have been dreamed up by controlling men and that now form a “mind.” The insane can become sane in an instant . . . in the instant that they realize, “My gosh! It was all nonsense!” Then, having seen all the lies as lies, the movement along a specific “path” can happen and the functioning of the Absolute can be understood, and then one will be free of the search to find “peace of mind.”
("Peace of mind" will never happen because the “mind” is what robs persons of peace.) Yet few will be able to hear pointers or consider them objectively because the very programming that persons need to be free of has resulted in the assumption of ego-states that have a vested interest in the lies that are believed to be truth.
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 20 2013
[Maharaj made clear that (1) most seekers who think they have arrived at the end of the "path" are really practicing nothing more than "kindergarten spirituality" and that (2) most are standing in the dull light of dawn but thinking that they are being bathed in the light of the noonday sun.
Furthermore, point (D) has also been offered regularly: while the assumption and playing of religious and / or spiritual roles is only the third of seven steps on the "path," those false identities / roles must - in most cases - be assumed and played for a time.
In that regard, this was shared in the summer of 2006:
Humans that once strolled about in peace now race about in crisis. Humans that once experienced a sense of peace by sitting in the quiet and watching a sunset now try to reach that peaceful state by humming, by kneeling, by genuflecting, and by kissing holy rings; by reading “holy” texts or reading “wise” words written by supposedly “holy” or “knowledgable” men;
by making pilgrimages to “holy” shines and “holy” lands; by using drugs or alcohol to excess; by praying to imaginary powers in other realms; by talking to — and listening to — human-like but invisible superpowers; by reading “spiritual” books; by trying to live “spiritually” rather than naturally; by burning incense or by slinging water droplets; by placing special bowls on special pillows and striking the special bowls with special sticks;
by sacrificing time and valuables to imaginary Powers or for “good” causes; by listening to arrogant men who dress in elaborate costumes; by assuming roles and playing those roles in special, “holy” buildings erected on “consecrated ground,” ad infinitum.
If the normal (meaning, “unprogrammed and sane”) humans who had lived in a normal (meaning "unconditioned and unenculturated") fashion for millions of years could witness what is now-typical human behavior and now-typical human thinking, those earlier humans would know that they were watching the most outrageously absurd show in the history of this planet. Such is now the case.
Persons today — driven insane by modern programming and enculturation which inspires them to believe the most illogical beliefs — can be restored to sanity if they happen to cross the path of a Realized One and if they happen to be able to hear pointers and then consider them in a logical fashion. They can take the words of an “outer guru” and use them as intended: to guide them to tap into the inner resource, into the inner guru.
That inner guru can help detect all of the insanity and lies and concepts that have been dreamed up by controlling men and that now form a “mind.” The insane can become sane in an instant . . . in the instant that they realize, “My gosh! It was all nonsense!” Then, having seen all the lies as lies, the movement along a specific “path” can happen and the functioning of the Absolute can be understood, and then one will be free of the search to find “peace of mind.”
("Peace of mind" will never happen because the “mind” is what robs persons of peace.) Yet few will be able to hear pointers or consider them objectively because the very programming that persons need to be free of has resulted in the assumption of ego-states that have a vested interest in the lies that are believed to be truth.
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 20 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Nowadays, the belief in a God, or in gods and goddesses, continues to dominate every aspect of the relative existence of almost every human on the planet: that belief determines how they start a meal; where they go in a futile effort to be in a place that is "different from" or "more holy than" where they already are;
what they do with a large portion of their money or possessions or "valuables"; how they feel about the future and what they dread or what they seek to gain in an imaginary life "after this life";
which politicians they vote for; what legislation those elected officials try to push through governing bodies in order to control people; and in labeling who is "good" and who is "bad", who is "right" or "wrong," who is "moral" or "sinful," ad infinitum.
This was received from a site visitor yesterday, along with the response:
Questioner: Reading a new mag called "The Sun" and on a page of quotes was this one by Joseph Campbell: "We keep thinking of diety [sic] as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendance [sic] and mystery. The mystery is what's important."
F.: Why?
Where is there room for "transcendence" when there is nothing to transcend and no one to transcend?
Where is there room for "mystery" when the understanding allows for an understanding of the functioning of the totality?
Maharaj never once replied to any query with the statement that, "It's a mystery to you and to me and to all of us"; nor did he ever say, "Well, God works in mysterious ways. Some things that He does we just can't understand right now."
Why waste time redefining "God" or any other piece of fiction that controlling men dreamed up thousands of years ago? Would it be anything other than a useless exercise to redefine the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy? Would it be anything other than a useless exercise to discuss the "mystery" of the workings of the lucky horseshoe, the four-leaf clover, or the rabbit's foot?
>
Q.: If "Nothingness" replaced "mystery" would you agree with what he said? Or, is this a step towards Realization?
F.: No and No.
So how did the shift happen here that facilitated an end - once and for all - to abiding under the effects of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, and the resultant ignorance, stupidity and insanity that generated delusion and distortion and belief in the fiction and myths and superstitions that most have believed in for millennia and that most continue to believe in even today?
How did relief finally come from the resulting discontentment and the efforts to try to escape and avoid the widespread ignorance, stupidity and insanity that plagues humanity and that plagued "floyd"?
How did the need of all of the searching finally come to an end? How did all of the imprisonment of "the mind" finally end?
That only happened not after finding "Advaita Vedanta" but it happened instead after chancing upon the Direct Path Method of teaching non-duality when combined with the Nisarga yoga. That combination was required to end decades of tremendous misery and relentless seeking.
Some take a dry, flavored powder and stir a spoonful of it into a glass of water to make a tasty drink that will refresh them on a hot day. The powder alone is not the least bit tasty and offers no relief to a dry mouth. The glass of water is fine as far as water goes, but where is the flavor, the sweetness, the essence of that which brings the taste of nectar?
See, both parts are required for the full effect to manifest: both the water and the powder; both the Direct Path teachings and the Nisarga yoga.
After searching for God; after trying to redefine God; and after trying for years to "believe" (by trying unsuccessfully to deny the early awareness that came at Southside Baptist Church when a teacher was telling us to love the very Power that she said was also totally willing to destroy us and to make us suffer for eternity), there was the crossing of "floyd's" path with the path discussed by Maharaj who offered these pointers for consideration and enlightenment:
"Later I understood the meaning of spirituality and came to the conclusion that it is as discardable as dishwater; therefore, I am in no way concerned with spirituality"
and
"There is no such thing as spirituality. Whatever is, is only this worldly life in the five-elemental play"
and
"The sum total of my spirituality now is nothing; even the word 'nothing' is not there, so there is no spirituality left"
and
"Put your awareness to work, not your mind. The mind is not the right instrument for this task. The timeless can be reached only by the timeless. Your body and your mind are born subject to time; only awareness is timeless, even in the now"
and
“When you understand what You Are, both knowledge and ignorance disappear”
and
"Give up all this trash ... whatever you are studying in the name of religion ... in the name of spirituality ...."
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 18, 2013
what they do with a large portion of their money or possessions or "valuables"; how they feel about the future and what they dread or what they seek to gain in an imaginary life "after this life";
which politicians they vote for; what legislation those elected officials try to push through governing bodies in order to control people; and in labeling who is "good" and who is "bad", who is "right" or "wrong," who is "moral" or "sinful," ad infinitum.
This was received from a site visitor yesterday, along with the response:
Questioner: Reading a new mag called "The Sun" and on a page of quotes was this one by Joseph Campbell: "We keep thinking of diety [sic] as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendance [sic] and mystery. The mystery is what's important."
F.: Why?
Where is there room for "transcendence" when there is nothing to transcend and no one to transcend?
Where is there room for "mystery" when the understanding allows for an understanding of the functioning of the totality?
Maharaj never once replied to any query with the statement that, "It's a mystery to you and to me and to all of us"; nor did he ever say, "Well, God works in mysterious ways. Some things that He does we just can't understand right now."
Why waste time redefining "God" or any other piece of fiction that controlling men dreamed up thousands of years ago? Would it be anything other than a useless exercise to redefine the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy? Would it be anything other than a useless exercise to discuss the "mystery" of the workings of the lucky horseshoe, the four-leaf clover, or the rabbit's foot?
>
Q.: If "Nothingness" replaced "mystery" would you agree with what he said? Or, is this a step towards Realization?
F.: No and No.
So how did the shift happen here that facilitated an end - once and for all - to abiding under the effects of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, and the resultant ignorance, stupidity and insanity that generated delusion and distortion and belief in the fiction and myths and superstitions that most have believed in for millennia and that most continue to believe in even today?
How did relief finally come from the resulting discontentment and the efforts to try to escape and avoid the widespread ignorance, stupidity and insanity that plagues humanity and that plagued "floyd"?
How did the need of all of the searching finally come to an end? How did all of the imprisonment of "the mind" finally end?
That only happened not after finding "Advaita Vedanta" but it happened instead after chancing upon the Direct Path Method of teaching non-duality when combined with the Nisarga yoga. That combination was required to end decades of tremendous misery and relentless seeking.
Some take a dry, flavored powder and stir a spoonful of it into a glass of water to make a tasty drink that will refresh them on a hot day. The powder alone is not the least bit tasty and offers no relief to a dry mouth. The glass of water is fine as far as water goes, but where is the flavor, the sweetness, the essence of that which brings the taste of nectar?
See, both parts are required for the full effect to manifest: both the water and the powder; both the Direct Path teachings and the Nisarga yoga.
After searching for God; after trying to redefine God; and after trying for years to "believe" (by trying unsuccessfully to deny the early awareness that came at Southside Baptist Church when a teacher was telling us to love the very Power that she said was also totally willing to destroy us and to make us suffer for eternity), there was the crossing of "floyd's" path with the path discussed by Maharaj who offered these pointers for consideration and enlightenment:
"Later I understood the meaning of spirituality and came to the conclusion that it is as discardable as dishwater; therefore, I am in no way concerned with spirituality"
and
"There is no such thing as spirituality. Whatever is, is only this worldly life in the five-elemental play"
and
"The sum total of my spirituality now is nothing; even the word 'nothing' is not there, so there is no spirituality left"
and
"Put your awareness to work, not your mind. The mind is not the right instrument for this task. The timeless can be reached only by the timeless. Your body and your mind are born subject to time; only awareness is timeless, even in the now"
and
“When you understand what You Are, both knowledge and ignorance disappear”
and
"Give up all this trash ... whatever you are studying in the name of religion ... in the name of spirituality ...."
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 18, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Seldom does a day pass here without being contacted by persons who admit that they "have lived a troubled life from childhood, through their teen years, and throughout their adulthood."
Seldom does a day pass without being contacted by persons who admit, upon thorough and honest reflection, that they are seeing that "their behavior has been stupid most of their lives" or by persons reporting that they are "seeing how insane they can be at times."
In all cases, I can relate. Reading their summations of what their relative existence has been like and what truly ignorant or stupid or insane things they have done for years, I can relate. In fact, if they have been totally thorough and truthful in recounting what they take to be their most ignorant or stupid or insane acts (to use Maharaj's words), most of them have lived out their existence in a far less ignorant or stupid or insane manner than "floyd" did.
Was I "born" ignorant or stupid or insane? No, but I was surely made ignorant and stupid and insane. How did that happen? That condition came about through three steps that took only about eight years total:
Step One:
Allow the child to be raised in a family with a set of parents who had both been severely abused and traumatized. The result was that I was raised by two parents who suffered from more than a few personality disorders. When that is the case, a child's programming, domestication, acculturation, and conditioning will be marked by ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.
Though children might begin with certain chemical predispositions toward one temperament or another, and while some suggest that they may be predisposed toward a certain personality type, for the most part the primary personality is formed in response to a child's efforts to "survive" in what is perceived to be a threatening and dysfunctional environment in which the adults are being driven, unconsciously and by multiple personalities, to behave in ignorant and stupid and insane ways.
Step Two:
Enroll the child in "Sunday School classes" at the ultra-conservative, pro-conformity, fundamentalist Southside Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana and hand the child over two times on Sunday and one time on Wednesdays to "Sunday School teachers" whose beliefs were marked by ignorance, stupidity, and insanity. In that case, a child's programming, acculturation, domestication, and conditioning will be marked by ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.
Outrageous ideas and concepts and dogma - all based in myth and superstition and accepted with blind faith - will be presented as truth (as "gospel truth" in fact) which, if questioned, will supposedly guarantee eternal punishment.
I questioned, and I was punished. That is enough to break the willingness to question in most; with Personality Type Fours, however, that approach only assures that more rebellion and questioning will take place.
Step Three:
Enroll the child in Atkins Elementary School in what was at the time a gang-infested, lower economic section of town that would be called "an urban blight that inspired bankers and businesses and civic leaders to subject the area to 'redlining'," assuring that the squalor there would continue for decades.
The area was destitute, and so were the occupants. Like everyone else in that area, we were deprived, needy, and poverty-stricken. I was hungry most days and was considered rude by many of the other moms in the neighborhood when I asked if they had anything I could eat.
For ten years, my parents used one of the two bedrooms in our home, my sister used the second. After outgrowing the crib, I slept on the couch for the first ten years of my existence until my sister left for college.
Being situated in that area, Atkins Elementary was staffed by some of the same people who taught on Sundays at Southside Baptist Church; others on the staff were equally driven by ignorance, stupidity and insanity to offer lessons that taught the most ignorant, insane and stupid concepts imaginable. Lessons were laced with religious and xenophobic messages and contained fiction presented as fact that could not have withstood even the slightest scrutiny by someone with even a basic understanding of scientific facts.
The principal, having made a paddle with 3/4" thick wood that was about 2-1/2 feet long, used corporal punishment to try to drive rebellious or questioning pupils back into line, and on the first day of school each year the warning from my father was the same offered by all of the fathers in that area: "If you get a whipping at school, you're going to get another one when you get home. Behave yourself, do what you're told, and don't cause trouble." Double doses of corporal punishment occurred regularly.
After (A) eight years in a dysfunctional home; and after (B) eight years in a church where some the craziest beliefs imaginable were taught and seen by "floyd" to be the craziest beliefs imaginable (and where punishment was doled out for arguing and questioning their nonsense); and after (C) two years in an elementary school where another set of the craziest beliefs imaginable were taught, the die was cast.
It only took all of them eight years to take the mind's originally-blank tablet and scribble on it the most ignorant, stupid, and insane concepts and ideas to assure that a child would spend years behaving in ignorant and stupid and insane ways.
That's the guaranteed formula for manifesting ignorance, stupidity, and insanity: confinement in a dysfunctional home where personalities are assigned or assumed; church attendance; and school attendance.
That insured that learned ignorance would prevail. And of the three sources of ignorance, stupidity, and insanity above, the most outrageous and most nonsensical ideas and concepts and notions came out of an ultra-conservative church with its evangelical, ultra-pious, fundamentalist ideology.
Moreover, their bizarre beliefs and practices still adhered to today differ little from the beliefs and practices of those ancient pagans who behaved almost as cruelly and ignorantly and stupidly and insanely as any notorious despot in history.
Yesterday, mention was made of ancient beliefs regarding "creator gods and goddesses," "sustainer gods and goddesses," and "destroyer gods and goddesses." "Sacrificing" was also referenced.
In some cenotes in Central America - cenotes being natural pools or deep sinkholes which were thought by some to be the home of the water / rain gods - archeologists have found jewelry made from gold or jade that had been tossed into the pit as a gift to the gods to appease them and to inspire them to continue to provide life-sustaining water for the people. Additionally, the desire to commune with gods and goddesses (or, after Abraham) with "the One True God" in order to be rewarded eternally was noted.
All of those concepts were rooted in ancient religious or spiritual beliefs, but they are still believed in nowadays just as much as they were in prior times of ignorance and superstition.
Among Aztecs and others - and to a lesser degree among the Mayans - the "sacrifice" often involved humans, including virgins from the community or slaves who had been taken from outside the community.
Those acts are depicted in their early art:
Then, those were people who believed that their actions kept things in the universe running "correctly."
Today, billions of religious and / or spiritual persons still believe that certain actions must be taken to "please God" - to assure that God is happy rather than angry. (Psychologists today label as "co-dependency" the mental illness or personality disorder suffered by people whose happiness or unhappiness is dependent on what others do or do not do.)
Today, billions still believe in a God that created them, that will sustain them, but that will punish them eternally if they disappoint "Him."
Today, billions still believe that sacrificing to a God is a good thing and that not sacrificing to a God is a bad thing.
Today, billions still believe that they can commune with God by eating body and drinking blood. (For some, the body and blood are symbolic; for others, they believe that wine and bread actually become real blood and real body by virtue of a priest's religious ritual. They never realize that their religious communion service models ancient cannibalism and vampirism.)
And today, as was the case with those ancients who believed that their actions kept things in the universe running "correctly," the same holds for those who believe in a god (or gods and goddesses); who believe that a god (or gods and goddesses) want something which they must provide if things in the universe are to run "correctly";
who believe they know what that god (or those gods and goddesses) want, and who believe that it is up to them to impose their moral concepts on all others in order to assure than things are "correct" vs. "incorrect" ... "moral" vs. immoral" ... "virtuous vs. sinful," ad infinitum.
All of those judgments, of course, are a conglomeration of foolish, duality-based beliefs and also include concepts about what is good vs. bad, about what makes a god happy vs. angry, about gods or a God vs. lesser mortals, about natural vs. supernatural, etc.
The non-dual understanding in this regard was offered by Maharaj regarding those persons who visited his loft: "Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 17, 2013
Seldom does a day pass without being contacted by persons who admit, upon thorough and honest reflection, that they are seeing that "their behavior has been stupid most of their lives" or by persons reporting that they are "seeing how insane they can be at times."
In all cases, I can relate. Reading their summations of what their relative existence has been like and what truly ignorant or stupid or insane things they have done for years, I can relate. In fact, if they have been totally thorough and truthful in recounting what they take to be their most ignorant or stupid or insane acts (to use Maharaj's words), most of them have lived out their existence in a far less ignorant or stupid or insane manner than "floyd" did.
Was I "born" ignorant or stupid or insane? No, but I was surely made ignorant and stupid and insane. How did that happen? That condition came about through three steps that took only about eight years total:
Step One:
Allow the child to be raised in a family with a set of parents who had both been severely abused and traumatized. The result was that I was raised by two parents who suffered from more than a few personality disorders. When that is the case, a child's programming, domestication, acculturation, and conditioning will be marked by ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.
Though children might begin with certain chemical predispositions toward one temperament or another, and while some suggest that they may be predisposed toward a certain personality type, for the most part the primary personality is formed in response to a child's efforts to "survive" in what is perceived to be a threatening and dysfunctional environment in which the adults are being driven, unconsciously and by multiple personalities, to behave in ignorant and stupid and insane ways.
Step Two:
Enroll the child in "Sunday School classes" at the ultra-conservative, pro-conformity, fundamentalist Southside Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana and hand the child over two times on Sunday and one time on Wednesdays to "Sunday School teachers" whose beliefs were marked by ignorance, stupidity, and insanity. In that case, a child's programming, acculturation, domestication, and conditioning will be marked by ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.
Outrageous ideas and concepts and dogma - all based in myth and superstition and accepted with blind faith - will be presented as truth (as "gospel truth" in fact) which, if questioned, will supposedly guarantee eternal punishment.
I questioned, and I was punished. That is enough to break the willingness to question in most; with Personality Type Fours, however, that approach only assures that more rebellion and questioning will take place.
Step Three:
Enroll the child in Atkins Elementary School in what was at the time a gang-infested, lower economic section of town that would be called "an urban blight that inspired bankers and businesses and civic leaders to subject the area to 'redlining'," assuring that the squalor there would continue for decades.
The area was destitute, and so were the occupants. Like everyone else in that area, we were deprived, needy, and poverty-stricken. I was hungry most days and was considered rude by many of the other moms in the neighborhood when I asked if they had anything I could eat.
For ten years, my parents used one of the two bedrooms in our home, my sister used the second. After outgrowing the crib, I slept on the couch for the first ten years of my existence until my sister left for college.
Being situated in that area, Atkins Elementary was staffed by some of the same people who taught on Sundays at Southside Baptist Church; others on the staff were equally driven by ignorance, stupidity and insanity to offer lessons that taught the most ignorant, insane and stupid concepts imaginable. Lessons were laced with religious and xenophobic messages and contained fiction presented as fact that could not have withstood even the slightest scrutiny by someone with even a basic understanding of scientific facts.
The principal, having made a paddle with 3/4" thick wood that was about 2-1/2 feet long, used corporal punishment to try to drive rebellious or questioning pupils back into line, and on the first day of school each year the warning from my father was the same offered by all of the fathers in that area: "If you get a whipping at school, you're going to get another one when you get home. Behave yourself, do what you're told, and don't cause trouble." Double doses of corporal punishment occurred regularly.
After (A) eight years in a dysfunctional home; and after (B) eight years in a church where some the craziest beliefs imaginable were taught and seen by "floyd" to be the craziest beliefs imaginable (and where punishment was doled out for arguing and questioning their nonsense); and after (C) two years in an elementary school where another set of the craziest beliefs imaginable were taught, the die was cast.
It only took all of them eight years to take the mind's originally-blank tablet and scribble on it the most ignorant, stupid, and insane concepts and ideas to assure that a child would spend years behaving in ignorant and stupid and insane ways.
That's the guaranteed formula for manifesting ignorance, stupidity, and insanity: confinement in a dysfunctional home where personalities are assigned or assumed; church attendance; and school attendance.
That insured that learned ignorance would prevail. And of the three sources of ignorance, stupidity, and insanity above, the most outrageous and most nonsensical ideas and concepts and notions came out of an ultra-conservative church with its evangelical, ultra-pious, fundamentalist ideology.
Moreover, their bizarre beliefs and practices still adhered to today differ little from the beliefs and practices of those ancient pagans who behaved almost as cruelly and ignorantly and stupidly and insanely as any notorious despot in history.
Yesterday, mention was made of ancient beliefs regarding "creator gods and goddesses," "sustainer gods and goddesses," and "destroyer gods and goddesses." "Sacrificing" was also referenced.
In some cenotes in Central America - cenotes being natural pools or deep sinkholes which were thought by some to be the home of the water / rain gods - archeologists have found jewelry made from gold or jade that had been tossed into the pit as a gift to the gods to appease them and to inspire them to continue to provide life-sustaining water for the people. Additionally, the desire to commune with gods and goddesses (or, after Abraham) with "the One True God" in order to be rewarded eternally was noted.
All of those concepts were rooted in ancient religious or spiritual beliefs, but they are still believed in nowadays just as much as they were in prior times of ignorance and superstition.
Among Aztecs and others - and to a lesser degree among the Mayans - the "sacrifice" often involved humans, including virgins from the community or slaves who had been taken from outside the community.
Those acts are depicted in their early art:
Then, those were people who believed that their actions kept things in the universe running "correctly."
Today, billions of religious and / or spiritual persons still believe that certain actions must be taken to "please God" - to assure that God is happy rather than angry. (Psychologists today label as "co-dependency" the mental illness or personality disorder suffered by people whose happiness or unhappiness is dependent on what others do or do not do.)
Today, billions still believe in a God that created them, that will sustain them, but that will punish them eternally if they disappoint "Him."
Today, billions still believe that sacrificing to a God is a good thing and that not sacrificing to a God is a bad thing.
Today, billions still believe that they can commune with God by eating body and drinking blood. (For some, the body and blood are symbolic; for others, they believe that wine and bread actually become real blood and real body by virtue of a priest's religious ritual. They never realize that their religious communion service models ancient cannibalism and vampirism.)
And today, as was the case with those ancients who believed that their actions kept things in the universe running "correctly," the same holds for those who believe in a god (or gods and goddesses); who believe that a god (or gods and goddesses) want something which they must provide if things in the universe are to run "correctly";
who believe they know what that god (or those gods and goddesses) want, and who believe that it is up to them to impose their moral concepts on all others in order to assure than things are "correct" vs. "incorrect" ... "moral" vs. immoral" ... "virtuous vs. sinful," ad infinitum.
All of those judgments, of course, are a conglomeration of foolish, duality-based beliefs and also include concepts about what is good vs. bad, about what makes a god happy vs. angry, about gods or a God vs. lesser mortals, about natural vs. supernatural, etc.
The non-dual understanding in this regard was offered by Maharaj regarding those persons who visited his loft: "Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 17, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Maharaj made clear that the scourge of the planet - the "Ultimate Sickness" - is rooted in duality and that duality is rooted in "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
A prime sustainer of "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" is blind faith ... that is, the unwillingness to question any of the learned ignorance that persons have been taught by persons who are, or were, also suffering from "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity." That attachment to blind faith and to an aversion to question objectively is itself rooted in programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication.
Yet even the most intelligent can behave in the most ignorant ways imaginable. Last week, a highly-regarding U.S. scientist, while discussing the way that blind faith typically inspires the refusal to accept scientifically-proved facts as being factual, began his response with this: "I don't have a problem with people believing what they are taught by their religions, but ...."
He was interrupted at that point by the interviewer who said, "Wait. Stop. What do you mean 'you don't have a problem with people believing what they are taught by their religions, but ....'? There is no 'both this and that' possibility in this case; either one functions under the influence of blind faith or one accepts that proven facts are really facts."
This was also written by a journalist last week who had interviewed several scientists for an article:
"Meteors that streak across Earth's sky mostly are fragments of the asteroids that lie between Mars and Jupiter. Meteorites can be rich in organic compounds, including some found among life on Earth.
"Recently, scientists have unexpectedly discovered the ingredients for life — organic molecules never seen before in meteorites — inside a chunk of space rock that fell to Earth over California last year, scientists say.
"The discovery comes from an analysis of the so-called 'Sutter's Mill Meteorite' which lit up the California night sky with a dazzling fireball in April of 2012. Meteorite fragments from the event may shed light on the primordial ooze that helped give rise to life on Earth, researchers said."
As noted here on occasion, all is energy-matter and neither energy nor matter can be created or destroyed. They have existed forever, though their presence in what is called "this universe" only began about 13.8 billion years ago. (Not 6000 years ago, which is the belief of many Christians who accept as literal truth every word and statement included in the five books of Moses - "the Pentateuch" - which are a part of what they call their "Old Testament"? No. Not 6000 years. 13.8 billion years ago. Now, many "education boards" in the U.S. - especially in the South - are once again trying to remove all references to evolution in science textbooks and replacing those teachings with the religion-based theory of "creationism." Much of the "ignorance and stupidity and insanity" which Maharaj spoke of perpetuates the false concept of "creation" and the false concept of "A Creator.")
There is no need at this point to speak of how a (misnamed) "universe" begins, but as is always the case, energy-matter cycles. Energy matter does not appear and disappear along a man-made timeline of a beginning-middle-end-judgment-an-eternal-reward-or-an-eternal-punishment continuum.
And because that which always was, always is, and always shall be cannot possibly have a beginning or a "creation," then this must logically follow:
Because there was no "creation," there cannot possibly have been "A Creator." That is not speculation. That is a knowable fact that can be reached by the use of simple, syllogistic reasoning.
A syllogism is an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given facts, resulting not in the blind acceptance of more and more "beliefs" but in the manifestation of logic and reason which leads to the purging of all false beliefs:
1. "A" = "B"
2. "B" = "C"
therefore,
3. "A" = "C"
or
1. All is energy-matter
2. Neither energy nor matter can be created or destroyed
therefore,
3. Nothing has been created so there cannot possibly have been "a creation"
[That is also why no one has ever been "born" and why no "parents" have ever "created" a "child." That which is - energy / matter - is merely cycling.]
and
1. All is energy-matter
2. Energy-matter have always existed so nothing has been created
therefore,
3. Because nothing have ever been created, there cannot be "A Creator"
and
1. There was no "creation"
2. There was not - and is not - a creator
therefore,
3. there could not have been any creation "in his own image" (or "their own image," according to some religions that believe in multiple gods and goddesses)
The dogma of many ancient religions includes the belief that there were - or are - three types of gods and goddesses, each with specialized skills and tasks:
A. "creator gods and goddesses,"
B. "sustainer gods and goddesses,"
and
C. "destroyer gods and goddesses"
After Abraham's declaration that "there is only one god," then in the three religions founded on his teachings (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) the earlier beliefs about those godly, specialized tasks remained but they were all rolled into one deity who is taken to be not only a creator and a sustainer but also a destroyer. The present version of a schizophrenic, unstable, sociopathic god that creates and sustains but will - ironically - also destroy and / or punish eternally, is a result of the old god-and-goddesses-theory being blended with the newer theory of a single, male god. Any god that is supposedly loving but is also willing to destroy and punish eternally would be suffering from both the Borderline Personality Disorder and the Sociopathic Personality Disorder.
The follow can be understood if you first understand the manner in which the totality functions:
1. If you want a "reward" / happiness / peace / etc., then take the steps to finds that now; there will be no later for "you," there is only now, so that which you would enjoy must be enjoyed now.
2. There is no punishment awaiting you. Fear not. (After Jesus Realized, he reportedly taught this: "No one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven. It is within." Want to enjoy whatever you were taught about a wonderful life that awaits? It does not. Enjoy whatever is to be enjoyed now.)
3. Been taught that you must give 10% of everything you earn to religion or that you must sacrifice things to your gods and goddesses or that you must go here or there and pay homage to this god or that goddess? Keep your money and spend both it and your time meeting the basic needs of the plant food body and engaging in whatever entertainment you might enjoy now.
4. Chill. Relax.
5. Abide naturally, not un-naturally and not super-naturally.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 7, 2013
A prime sustainer of "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" is blind faith ... that is, the unwillingness to question any of the learned ignorance that persons have been taught by persons who are, or were, also suffering from "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity." That attachment to blind faith and to an aversion to question objectively is itself rooted in programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication.
Yet even the most intelligent can behave in the most ignorant ways imaginable. Last week, a highly-regarding U.S. scientist, while discussing the way that blind faith typically inspires the refusal to accept scientifically-proved facts as being factual, began his response with this: "I don't have a problem with people believing what they are taught by their religions, but ...."
He was interrupted at that point by the interviewer who said, "Wait. Stop. What do you mean 'you don't have a problem with people believing what they are taught by their religions, but ....'? There is no 'both this and that' possibility in this case; either one functions under the influence of blind faith or one accepts that proven facts are really facts."
This was also written by a journalist last week who had interviewed several scientists for an article:
"Meteors that streak across Earth's sky mostly are fragments of the asteroids that lie between Mars and Jupiter. Meteorites can be rich in organic compounds, including some found among life on Earth.
"Recently, scientists have unexpectedly discovered the ingredients for life — organic molecules never seen before in meteorites — inside a chunk of space rock that fell to Earth over California last year, scientists say.
"The discovery comes from an analysis of the so-called 'Sutter's Mill Meteorite' which lit up the California night sky with a dazzling fireball in April of 2012. Meteorite fragments from the event may shed light on the primordial ooze that helped give rise to life on Earth, researchers said."
As noted here on occasion, all is energy-matter and neither energy nor matter can be created or destroyed. They have existed forever, though their presence in what is called "this universe" only began about 13.8 billion years ago. (Not 6000 years ago, which is the belief of many Christians who accept as literal truth every word and statement included in the five books of Moses - "the Pentateuch" - which are a part of what they call their "Old Testament"? No. Not 6000 years. 13.8 billion years ago. Now, many "education boards" in the U.S. - especially in the South - are once again trying to remove all references to evolution in science textbooks and replacing those teachings with the religion-based theory of "creationism." Much of the "ignorance and stupidity and insanity" which Maharaj spoke of perpetuates the false concept of "creation" and the false concept of "A Creator.")
There is no need at this point to speak of how a (misnamed) "universe" begins, but as is always the case, energy-matter cycles. Energy matter does not appear and disappear along a man-made timeline of a beginning-middle-end-judgment-an-eternal-reward-or-an-eternal-punishment continuum.
And because that which always was, always is, and always shall be cannot possibly have a beginning or a "creation," then this must logically follow:
Because there was no "creation," there cannot possibly have been "A Creator." That is not speculation. That is a knowable fact that can be reached by the use of simple, syllogistic reasoning.
A syllogism is an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two given facts, resulting not in the blind acceptance of more and more "beliefs" but in the manifestation of logic and reason which leads to the purging of all false beliefs:
1. "A" = "B"
2. "B" = "C"
therefore,
3. "A" = "C"
or
1. All is energy-matter
2. Neither energy nor matter can be created or destroyed
therefore,
3. Nothing has been created so there cannot possibly have been "a creation"
[That is also why no one has ever been "born" and why no "parents" have ever "created" a "child." That which is - energy / matter - is merely cycling.]
and
1. All is energy-matter
2. Energy-matter have always existed so nothing has been created
therefore,
3. Because nothing have ever been created, there cannot be "A Creator"
and
1. There was no "creation"
2. There was not - and is not - a creator
therefore,
3. there could not have been any creation "in his own image" (or "their own image," according to some religions that believe in multiple gods and goddesses)
The dogma of many ancient religions includes the belief that there were - or are - three types of gods and goddesses, each with specialized skills and tasks:
A. "creator gods and goddesses,"
B. "sustainer gods and goddesses,"
and
C. "destroyer gods and goddesses"
After Abraham's declaration that "there is only one god," then in the three religions founded on his teachings (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) the earlier beliefs about those godly, specialized tasks remained but they were all rolled into one deity who is taken to be not only a creator and a sustainer but also a destroyer. The present version of a schizophrenic, unstable, sociopathic god that creates and sustains but will - ironically - also destroy and / or punish eternally, is a result of the old god-and-goddesses-theory being blended with the newer theory of a single, male god. Any god that is supposedly loving but is also willing to destroy and punish eternally would be suffering from both the Borderline Personality Disorder and the Sociopathic Personality Disorder.
The follow can be understood if you first understand the manner in which the totality functions:
1. If you want a "reward" / happiness / peace / etc., then take the steps to finds that now; there will be no later for "you," there is only now, so that which you would enjoy must be enjoyed now.
2. There is no punishment awaiting you. Fear not. (After Jesus Realized, he reportedly taught this: "No one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven. It is within." Want to enjoy whatever you were taught about a wonderful life that awaits? It does not. Enjoy whatever is to be enjoyed now.)
3. Been taught that you must give 10% of everything you earn to religion or that you must sacrifice things to your gods and goddesses or that you must go here or there and pay homage to this god or that goddess? Keep your money and spend both it and your time meeting the basic needs of the plant food body and engaging in whatever entertainment you might enjoy now.
4. Chill. Relax.
5. Abide naturally, not un-naturally and not super-naturally.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 7, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: In recent posts these pointers have been offered:
F.: In recent posts these pointers have been offered:
1. All roles will generate misery and suffering eventually, no matter how much pleasure they seem to provide early on.
2. Role assignment and / or assumption is at the root of what Maharaj identified as the blight of humanity: "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity." And those do not make "ignorant or stupid or insane persons" but they do constantly generate ignorant or stupid or insane actions all day long, every day, all around the globe.
3. The roles of A "Husband" and "Wife" and "Employee" and "Employer" and "Christian" and "Jew" and "Hindu" and "Muslim Jihadists" and "Christian Warrior" and "Shia" and "Sunni" and "Super Child" and "Super Parent" and every other role that persons play are as bogus as being the child of a barren woman (and of a virgin woman as well).
4. By contrast, understanding the nothingness can end all arrogance-based nonsense and upgrading. No one Fully Realized has ever said, "Not only am I nothing, but I am actually 'Super Nothing'."
And this was shared in a 2007 post:
5. As soon as an ego-state is assigned or adopted, ego-defense mechanisms elevate that role to “Super Status”: If hired by a school district, “The Teacher” immediately becomes “The Super Teacher” and cannot exist without super students. She or he will rant and rave when non-super students appear to threaten that false ego-state’s existence.
When a man in a robe pronounces a man “Husband,” he immediately become “The Super Husband” and cannot exist without a super wife; and when a woman accepts the cultural assignment of being “The Wife,” she immediately upgrades the illusion to “The Super Wife” and can never be happy unless she has a super husband.
When he appears to be super, she can be content, but when chinks in the armor appear, she will be unhappy. Such is the instability of a relative existence that is being played out on a stage where co-dependent roles are being assumed as identities.
After such widespread distortion of the consciousness, it is no wonder that egotism (and its accompanying misery and suffering) so dominate the planet. When wives inform husbands that “they are leaving,” many husbands cry out, “But I have been a good husband. Why would you want to leave me?” (Again, there is an upgrade of the childhood illusion that "I am a boy," which becomes "I am a good boy" which becomes "I am a man" which becomes "I am a husband" which becomes "I am a good husband" who is shocked if "Wife" does not see it that way.)
Some divorced females have admitted in sessions that their conviction was that “I was a good wife, a great wife, in fact.” Their belief was, “You have not provided what someone as good as I am deserves.” (Again, there is the upgrading of an illusion: “I am a human” becomes “I am a wife,” and I am a wife” is eventually upgraded to “I am ‘The Super Wife’ who deserves this, this, and that.”)
Some divorced men who have visited here have made the same claim about being a "Really Good Husband" ... a "Fabulous Husband" in fact.
Those whose relative experiences have included the ill fortune of working for "The Super Boss" know what misery ego-state assumption can generate; those who have worked in an office with "The Super Employee" know what misery ego-state assumption can generate; those whose relative experiences have included the ill fortune of dealing with "The Super Husband" or "the Super Wife" know what misery ego-state assumption can generate.
Those who have had to suffer through a visit from "The Super Parent" types discussed in the past post know the discomfort (or even disgust?) that those ego-states can generate; and those, on the other hand, who have dealt with "The Super Disciplinarian" rather than the indulgent parent, know what misery ego-state assumption can generate.
And those who have dealt with "The Super Patriot," "The Super Soldier," "The Super Cop," "The Super Christian," "The Super Muslim," "The Super Hindu," "The Super Advaitin," "The Super AA-er" / "The Super Twelve-Stepper," "The Super Religious One," or "The Super Spiritual One" (and have lived to tell about it) know what misery ego-state assumption can generate.
In fact, all whose relative experiences have included the ill fortune of lengthy exposure to one playing the role of a persona that has upgraded itself to "Super Status" will all know what misery ego-state assumption can generate.
Again, no one Fully Realized has ever said, "Not only am I nothing, but I am actually 'Super Nothing'." And no one Fully Realized has any belief at all, including the belief that she or he is a "Super" version of anything.
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 8, 2013
2. Role assignment and / or assumption is at the root of what Maharaj identified as the blight of humanity: "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity." And those do not make "ignorant or stupid or insane persons" but they do constantly generate ignorant or stupid or insane actions all day long, every day, all around the globe.
3. The roles of A "Husband" and "Wife" and "Employee" and "Employer" and "Christian" and "Jew" and "Hindu" and "Muslim Jihadists" and "Christian Warrior" and "Shia" and "Sunni" and "Super Child" and "Super Parent" and every other role that persons play are as bogus as being the child of a barren woman (and of a virgin woman as well).
4. By contrast, understanding the nothingness can end all arrogance-based nonsense and upgrading. No one Fully Realized has ever said, "Not only am I nothing, but I am actually 'Super Nothing'."
And this was shared in a 2007 post:
5. As soon as an ego-state is assigned or adopted, ego-defense mechanisms elevate that role to “Super Status”: If hired by a school district, “The Teacher” immediately becomes “The Super Teacher” and cannot exist without super students. She or he will rant and rave when non-super students appear to threaten that false ego-state’s existence.
When a man in a robe pronounces a man “Husband,” he immediately become “The Super Husband” and cannot exist without a super wife; and when a woman accepts the cultural assignment of being “The Wife,” she immediately upgrades the illusion to “The Super Wife” and can never be happy unless she has a super husband.
When he appears to be super, she can be content, but when chinks in the armor appear, she will be unhappy. Such is the instability of a relative existence that is being played out on a stage where co-dependent roles are being assumed as identities.
After such widespread distortion of the consciousness, it is no wonder that egotism (and its accompanying misery and suffering) so dominate the planet. When wives inform husbands that “they are leaving,” many husbands cry out, “But I have been a good husband. Why would you want to leave me?” (Again, there is an upgrade of the childhood illusion that "I am a boy," which becomes "I am a good boy" which becomes "I am a man" which becomes "I am a husband" which becomes "I am a good husband" who is shocked if "Wife" does not see it that way.)
Some divorced females have admitted in sessions that their conviction was that “I was a good wife, a great wife, in fact.” Their belief was, “You have not provided what someone as good as I am deserves.” (Again, there is the upgrading of an illusion: “I am a human” becomes “I am a wife,” and I am a wife” is eventually upgraded to “I am ‘The Super Wife’ who deserves this, this, and that.”)
Some divorced men who have visited here have made the same claim about being a "Really Good Husband" ... a "Fabulous Husband" in fact.
Those whose relative experiences have included the ill fortune of working for "The Super Boss" know what misery ego-state assumption can generate; those who have worked in an office with "The Super Employee" know what misery ego-state assumption can generate; those whose relative experiences have included the ill fortune of dealing with "The Super Husband" or "the Super Wife" know what misery ego-state assumption can generate.
Those who have had to suffer through a visit from "The Super Parent" types discussed in the past post know the discomfort (or even disgust?) that those ego-states can generate; and those, on the other hand, who have dealt with "The Super Disciplinarian" rather than the indulgent parent, know what misery ego-state assumption can generate.
And those who have dealt with "The Super Patriot," "The Super Soldier," "The Super Cop," "The Super Christian," "The Super Muslim," "The Super Hindu," "The Super Advaitin," "The Super AA-er" / "The Super Twelve-Stepper," "The Super Religious One," or "The Super Spiritual One" (and have lived to tell about it) know what misery ego-state assumption can generate.
In fact, all whose relative experiences have included the ill fortune of lengthy exposure to one playing the role of a persona that has upgraded itself to "Super Status" will all know what misery ego-state assumption can generate.
Again, no one Fully Realized has ever said, "Not only am I nothing, but I am actually 'Super Nothing'." And no one Fully Realized has any belief at all, including the belief that she or he is a "Super" version of anything.
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
September 8, 2013
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Duality is simply a perspective, a means of "seeing," yet it is a means of "seeing" in a distorted fashion.
Innately, a sense of the Oneness Is. If a child is raised by the one whose voice was heard from the womb, that child for a year-and-a-half or more will find that person to be more than familiar: the child will find that person to be itself. That is the innate sense of Oneness.
Around the age of two, the child will have discovered its own foot and hand and body and will develop an awareness of its body that is now no longer "a part of" but is "apart from" ... that is now "separate from." The child detects the concept of "two-ness" as opposed to advaita (meaning "not two"). Even before language allows for the teaching of the thousands of dualistic concepts that the child will eventually hear, body / self-identification begins the process of buying into a belief in two-ness.
Here in the States, there is a term discussed in more detail elsewhere on this site. The term is "The Terrible Two's." That is the period when the previously cooperative and dependent child begins to break away, to rebel, to be less cooperative, and to be less dependent.
When walking, the child no longer wants to walk with the parents and hold a parent's hand; instead, the child wants to run ahead of the parent or parents. Hating the child's rebelliousness and independent nature (which should be allowed to blossom naturally to the degree that safety allows), a battle of the wills begins instead.
The belief among most is that the child's rebellious nature must be squelched. The child must conform. And if the parents are not successful in bringing that about, in a few years there is a school that awaits which will assure that such conformity manifests and is maintained.
The child will be put in desk 3 on row 6 and will stay there in that same spot for a school year. Rules will be discussed on day one and then written and posted on a bulletin board. They will be strictly enforced in some schools and poorly enforced in others, yet uniformity will be the overall goal culture-wide.
And that uniformity will include a dualistic viewpoint or point of view that is learned, not innate. That brief sense of Oneness that was manifest earlier on will remain in the subconscious, and much of what some persons do throughout the relative existence will involve a quest to find again that which is "missing," though "what that / THAT is" is not identifiable in most cases.
There will be an inner longing, a sense of disconnect and brokenness and separation and detachment, and among those that have "an intimation of the authenticity that once was," there will be a drive to fight the programming and conditioning that inspire disengagement and division and a false sense of separation.
Yet that is a small minority, headed up by Personality Type Fours who account for 1/2 of 1% of the planet's population but joined by a few more types who are - like Type Fours and children aged two to three - willing to question authority and not crater in the face of authority's continuous efforts to reshape and remold and remake the rebel into a docile individual.
And indeed, most children and adults as well will be broken by "the system" which is rooted in duality and which fosters duality and which disseminates duality via concepts (and misconceptions) and ideas and notions and thoughts and perceptions (that is, misperceptions) and theories (all of which amount to one's accumulated "beliefs").
And beliefs are the nourishment that sustains fools, those who have been fooled and who now take their accumulated personalities (which are the basis of the planet's widespread instances of Multiple Personality Disorder) to be real. If they don't believe that they are the children of barren women, there are still 97% of the earth's population who are foolish enough to believe that their "holy prophet" or their "savior" or their "founding sage" was born of a virgin without any required sexual activity.
And some wonder why the motto of religions and many philosophies and ideologies of the planet is, "If it feels good, stop it!" When the best and purest came into being without sex, then all others "born" of - or participating in - sexual activities are less than pure.
It was shared earlier that duality is simply a perspective, a means of "seeing," yet it is a means of "seeing" in a distorted fashion. What does that look like in practice? In order to see just one example, look at that concept dealing with "sex and purity and impurity" which suggests that sexual activity is a less-than-pure activity.
While every living thing on the planet engages in natural, guiltless, pleasurable sexual activities, humans are different. And in that unnatural difference, sexual problems and sexual dysfunction and sexual frustration drive much of the angst and fighting on the planet.
It inspires religious and spiritual and political leaders to tell others what they can and cannot do with their bodies; to suggest that the sex act must be for procreation only; and drives Catholic missionaries in Africa to tell people who have a greater than usual chance of contracting AIDS that they must nevertheless refrain from using condoms because birth control is contrary to "the Will of God."
Duality not only generates distortion and relatively-destructive behaviors; it does indeed, as Maharaj said, foster "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" all around the globe.
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
alcoholism treatment, enneagram, Enlightenment, addiction, Mark Houston, non-duality, non-duality ebooks, Realization, self-help, peace, Nisargadatta Maharaj, working the twelve steps, oneness.
Innately, a sense of the Oneness Is. If a child is raised by the one whose voice was heard from the womb, that child for a year-and-a-half or more will find that person to be more than familiar: the child will find that person to be itself. That is the innate sense of Oneness.
Around the age of two, the child will have discovered its own foot and hand and body and will develop an awareness of its body that is now no longer "a part of" but is "apart from" ... that is now "separate from." The child detects the concept of "two-ness" as opposed to advaita (meaning "not two"). Even before language allows for the teaching of the thousands of dualistic concepts that the child will eventually hear, body / self-identification begins the process of buying into a belief in two-ness.
Here in the States, there is a term discussed in more detail elsewhere on this site. The term is "The Terrible Two's." That is the period when the previously cooperative and dependent child begins to break away, to rebel, to be less cooperative, and to be less dependent.
When walking, the child no longer wants to walk with the parents and hold a parent's hand; instead, the child wants to run ahead of the parent or parents. Hating the child's rebelliousness and independent nature (which should be allowed to blossom naturally to the degree that safety allows), a battle of the wills begins instead.
The belief among most is that the child's rebellious nature must be squelched. The child must conform. And if the parents are not successful in bringing that about, in a few years there is a school that awaits which will assure that such conformity manifests and is maintained.
The child will be put in desk 3 on row 6 and will stay there in that same spot for a school year. Rules will be discussed on day one and then written and posted on a bulletin board. They will be strictly enforced in some schools and poorly enforced in others, yet uniformity will be the overall goal culture-wide.
And that uniformity will include a dualistic viewpoint or point of view that is learned, not innate. That brief sense of Oneness that was manifest earlier on will remain in the subconscious, and much of what some persons do throughout the relative existence will involve a quest to find again that which is "missing," though "what that / THAT is" is not identifiable in most cases.
There will be an inner longing, a sense of disconnect and brokenness and separation and detachment, and among those that have "an intimation of the authenticity that once was," there will be a drive to fight the programming and conditioning that inspire disengagement and division and a false sense of separation.
Yet that is a small minority, headed up by Personality Type Fours who account for 1/2 of 1% of the planet's population but joined by a few more types who are - like Type Fours and children aged two to three - willing to question authority and not crater in the face of authority's continuous efforts to reshape and remold and remake the rebel into a docile individual.
And indeed, most children and adults as well will be broken by "the system" which is rooted in duality and which fosters duality and which disseminates duality via concepts (and misconceptions) and ideas and notions and thoughts and perceptions (that is, misperceptions) and theories (all of which amount to one's accumulated "beliefs").
And beliefs are the nourishment that sustains fools, those who have been fooled and who now take their accumulated personalities (which are the basis of the planet's widespread instances of Multiple Personality Disorder) to be real. If they don't believe that they are the children of barren women, there are still 97% of the earth's population who are foolish enough to believe that their "holy prophet" or their "savior" or their "founding sage" was born of a virgin without any required sexual activity.
And some wonder why the motto of religions and many philosophies and ideologies of the planet is, "If it feels good, stop it!" When the best and purest came into being without sex, then all others "born" of - or participating in - sexual activities are less than pure.
It was shared earlier that duality is simply a perspective, a means of "seeing," yet it is a means of "seeing" in a distorted fashion. What does that look like in practice? In order to see just one example, look at that concept dealing with "sex and purity and impurity" which suggests that sexual activity is a less-than-pure activity.
While every living thing on the planet engages in natural, guiltless, pleasurable sexual activities, humans are different. And in that unnatural difference, sexual problems and sexual dysfunction and sexual frustration drive much of the angst and fighting on the planet.
It inspires religious and spiritual and political leaders to tell others what they can and cannot do with their bodies; to suggest that the sex act must be for procreation only; and drives Catholic missionaries in Africa to tell people who have a greater than usual chance of contracting AIDS that they must nevertheless refrain from using condoms because birth control is contrary to "the Will of God."
Duality not only generates distortion and relatively-destructive behaviors; it does indeed, as Maharaj said, foster "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" all around the globe.
[To be continued]
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
You can also scroll down through the book section below if interested in receiving a free copy of the eBook
entitled
"GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?"
Submit to:
Therefore, another movement or shift is happening here spontaneously after reflecting on the more than two decades since the teachings were first offered here and looking at the results of Maharaj sharing pointers in his loft and looking at the results of "Floyd" sharing pointers in this electronic loft: Looking objectively at his results, Maharaj's satsang method of sharing - in the end and by his own admission (only "one out of 10,000,000") - did not produce the intended outcome.
* * * * * * *
RELATED TOPICS: alcoholism treatment, enneagram, addiction, Mark Houston, non-duality, non-duality ebooks, liberation, enlightenment, liberation, realization, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, unity, oneness.
entitled
"GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?"
Questions?
Submit to:
Comments?
Just hang on to those please.
Just hang on to those please.
SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part One
A "movement" or "shift" happened here that added another parallel to the many parallels in terms of the phenomenal "experiences" and the noumenal revelations that "Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj" and "Floyd" share in common. (Many visitors over the years have said that they also shared the same parallels with "Maharaj" and "Floyd" as well.)
In the case of "Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj" and "Floyd":
1. both grew up in very poor families 2. both moved to populated areas to seek employment opportunities 3. both exhibited business skills that led to their opening and operating many businesses and to their having a large number of employees working for them 4. both succeeded financially 5. both became attached to accumulating; 6. both married and had a family 7. both were initially religious 8. both moved away from organized religion and became interested in "spiritual" matters, finding and following the teachings of a big name teacher (or, in "Floyd's" case, many big name teachers) 9. both had highly religious wives who were quite displeased with the shift away from religion and toward "spirituality" 10. both began to feel empty in spite of all of their "spiritual seeking" and in spite of all of their accumulated "spiritual knowledge";
1. both grew up in very poor families 2. both moved to populated areas to seek employment opportunities 3. both exhibited business skills that led to their opening and operating many businesses and to their having a large number of employees working for them 4. both succeeded financially 5. both became attached to accumulating; 6. both married and had a family 7. both were initially religious 8. both moved away from organized religion and became interested in "spiritual" matters, finding and following the teachings of a big name teacher (or, in "Floyd's" case, many big name teachers) 9. both had highly religious wives who were quite displeased with the shift away from religion and toward "spirituality" 10. both began to feel empty in spite of all of their "spiritual seeking" and in spite of all of their accumulated "spiritual knowledge";
11. both began to de-accumulate after both saw that they could survive quite well on a fraction of the income they had been making
12. both had wives who were unhappy when the de-accumulation stage was entered and both had wives who became unhappy about their husbands' focus on non-duality and who blamed their unhappiness on no longer having a religious husband
(The facts be known, in both cases the unhappiness involved the fact that their husbands were no longer interested in - or willing - to work 80+ hours per week and that their husbands were no longer interested in accumulating wealth and possessions and providing the rich lifestyle to which their wives had grown accustomed)
13. both eventually came to see that the religious and spiritual states were also ego-states, and both saw that there are far more steps on the "path" to complete after reaching the religious and spiritual steps and after playing those roles which are the third of seven steps on the entire "path" 14. both "lost" their wives (one via "death," the other through divorce); 15. both accelerated their seeking; 16. both entered into the "forest dweller stage" 17. both Realized 18. both began to de-accumulate even more
19. both began sharing the teachings 20. for years, both answered questions in whatever order those questions were received, though both said that the movement from identification with the false "I" / "I's" involved an exact, step-wise manner of moving along a "path" that involved "going back" in the same (but reverse order) of the way they "came in" - that is, the way that the manifestation happened and the way that the consciousness was blocked through seven stages that resulted in their becoming identified solely with their false personas, with the content of the "mind," and eventually, with the body. But the most significant awareness that finally came to both after years of offering satsang and after having answered thousands and thousands of questions was this: After years of "Maharaj" offering satsang in his loft, and after years of "Floyd" offering satsang in meeting halls and in his home and via what one site visitor called "Floyd's electronic loft," this fact became obvious to both: "Maharaj" came to see in the 1970's and into 1980 and 1981 that his approach was not working and "Floyd" finally came to see the same.
13. both eventually came to see that the religious and spiritual states were also ego-states, and both saw that there are far more steps on the "path" to complete after reaching the religious and spiritual steps and after playing those roles which are the third of seven steps on the entire "path" 14. both "lost" their wives (one via "death," the other through divorce); 15. both accelerated their seeking; 16. both entered into the "forest dweller stage" 17. both Realized 18. both began to de-accumulate even more
19. both began sharing the teachings 20. for years, both answered questions in whatever order those questions were received, though both said that the movement from identification with the false "I" / "I's" involved an exact, step-wise manner of moving along a "path" that involved "going back" in the same (but reverse order) of the way they "came in" - that is, the way that the manifestation happened and the way that the consciousness was blocked through seven stages that resulted in their becoming identified solely with their false personas, with the content of the "mind," and eventually, with the body. But the most significant awareness that finally came to both after years of offering satsang and after having answered thousands and thousands of questions was this: After years of "Maharaj" offering satsang in his loft, and after years of "Floyd" offering satsang in meeting halls and in his home and via what one site visitor called "Floyd's electronic loft," this fact became obvious to both: "Maharaj" came to see in the 1970's and into 1980 and 1981 that his approach was not working and "Floyd" finally came to see the same.
21. Both saw that many who heard the teachings are not going to understand (Maharaj reporting that "only 1 in 100,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding)
22. both soon saw that even more than expected of those who heard the teachings were not going to understand (Maharaj modifying his "guesstimate" and reporting that "only 1 in 1,000,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding)
23. eventually both saw that even far more than expected of those who heard the teachings were not going to understand (Maharaj eventually concluding that "only 1 in 10,000,000 are going to 'get' this" understanding). And the failings were not the fault of seekers.
A "one -in-ten-million" estimate is proof that satsang was not working for most seekers, and the evidence here lately is proof of the same.
Both "Maharaj" and "Floyd" invited seekers to focus on the exact, step-wise "path." Yes, during satsang, "Maharaj" sometimes alluded to the steps while discussing them in no particular order - but he never once laid out the steps in the exact order in which they had to be completed. That was not his teachings style or approach.
Therefore, another movement or shift is happening here spontaneously after reflecting on the more than two decades since the teachings were first offered here and looking at the results of Maharaj sharing pointers in his loft and looking at the results of "Floyd" sharing pointers in this electronic loft: Looking objectively at his results, Maharaj's satsang method of sharing - in the end and by his own admission (only "one out of 10,000,000") - did not produce the intended outcome.
Looking objectively at the results here when using an "electronic loft" satsang method of sharing has not produced the intended outcome nearly as often as any of the three "face-to-face" methods used with seekers by which they have been led through the seven steps in order.
Here, the body is growing older, of course. Mahasamadhi could be taken today, or it could be taken in twenty years.
Obviously, that cannot be known. But the decision here has been made that whatever amount of the relative existence remains shall be spent in sharing the teachings in the ways that have been seen over the last 20+ years to be the most effective methods.
Looking back over the list of those that have truly received the understanding, it is seen that Robert R. read all of the books, then took the online Advaita course and then completed some face-to-face Skype sessions to receive the final clarifications required. It was seen that Mac read all of the books, completed the online course, and then attended a retreat where he was guided through the seven steps. Mac said that the online course work inspired him to attend the retreat in order to be able to receive the final "pieces." It was seen that Andy Gugar, Jr. read all of the books, then came here for a retreat and was taken through the seven steps in order, and then returned once more for the final clarifications required. After reviewing the shifts that happened with him after attending two retreats, he reaffirmed this past week his commitment to helping spread the non-duality, nisarga understanding as presented here. As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what had not "worked" as well - changes will be made.
SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part Two
Looking back over the list of those that have truly received the understanding, it is seen that Robert R. read all of the books, then took the online Advaita course and then completed some face-to-face Skype sessions to receive the final clarifications required. It was seen that Mac read all of the books, completed the online course, and then attended a retreat where he was guided through the seven steps. Mac said that the online course work inspired him to attend the retreat in order to be able to receive the final "pieces." It was seen that Andy Gugar, Jr. read all of the books, then came here for a retreat and was taken through the seven steps in order, and then returned once more for the final clarifications required. After reviewing the shifts that happened with him after attending two retreats, he reaffirmed this past week his commitment to helping spread the non-duality, nisarga understanding as presented here. As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what had not "worked" as well - changes will be made.
SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part Two
In "Part One," examples were given of seekers that were led to Realization not by satsang but by following the various protocols outlined farther down this page which provide the understanding in the step-wise, orderly, required fashion which moves seekers along a "path" that is as prescribed by Maharaj ... "going back" in the "reverse order" by which the consciousness manifested and became blocked.
However, conversations with some that just read the majority of the books have revealed that they certainly seem to have grasped the understanding and Realized as well.
As a result of seeing what has "worked" during the last 20+ years of sharing the non-duality understanding - and seeing what has "not worked" as well - changes are being made.
There are seven specific steps that happen when awareness-energy is "pulled" into a cycle of manifestation. When that energy manifests as conscious-energy, that formerly pure and unadulterated energy becomes "corrupted" (or "blocked" from seeing clearly) via programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, and brainwashing. Soon, there is a belief in the not-Real as a result of seven degrees of separation from an understanding of the Real.
Using the method that was also employed by his contemporaries - a method which focused on offering non-duality pointers via satsang - Maharaj addressed questions in the order in which they were received. He might receive a question from a seeker at the third step and his reply would include what amounted to an invitation to move to the fourth step. The next question might come from a seeker at the first step, and the reply would include an invitation to move to the second step.
The information offered to the second seeker would seemingly contradict what was offered to the first seeker, so visitors who have come here for decades have asked questions which showed how confused they were by the fact that Maharaj's statements to each visitor in his loft were "level-appropriate" yet were provided in no precise order, resulting in what seemed to be an inconsistent message.
So the process overall was confusing in that
seekers were told to follow the "path back" in the same way that they "came in," except in reverse order,
but
pointers were not given in a specific, step-wise order at all.
Maharaj did recognize the seven steps that are taught here, but by offering the teachings in an order that was dictated by the order in which questions were received from seekers who were at different steps on the "path," the result was this:
a pointer about moving beyond the fourth step might be followed by a pointer about moving beyond the first step, and that pointer might be followed by a pointer about how to move beyond the sixth step.
The same was done on this site for seven years. The result is a collection of 1,800 or so essays discussing almost every non-duality topic that can be discussed, and the search button on the top right side of this page will now allow seekers with a question about a specific topic to find an explanation. That method, however, will never provide the manner in which the seven steps on the "path" must be transmitted and received in order to Realize Fully.
An objective study of the history here of more than twenty years of offering non-duality pointers reveals this: seekers that were given pointers in the exact order in which they needed to receive them were the ones that Realized.
They read the books, then they completed the online course and / or completed seven Skype or telephone sessions or came here for a retreat (or watched the downloadable DVD version of an actual retreat, available below).
Some found that which they were seeking by reading the author's book that deal with non-duality subject matter. Via all of those venues, the steps are taught in their proper order.
The essays available on this site will remain for those interested in searching for a discussion of a particular non-duality topic without charge, but the focus here until mahasamadhi is taken is going to be on offering the teachings in the step-wise fashion that has been seen to work.
THESE PAPERBACK BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH AMAZON.COM
(Four by Floyd Henderson and two by Dennis Waite. Click the picture for more information or to order)
(Four by Floyd Henderson and two by Dennis Waite. Click the picture for more information or to order)
* * * * * * *
ALL EBOOK AND PAPERBACK VERSION OF HENDERSON'S NON-DUALITY BOOKS
and
RECOVERY LITERATURE
and
FINANCIAL BOOKS
are available at
Floyd Henderson's Website
International buyers: note the separate option for those outside the continental U.S.
II. BY READING the explanations offered in the collection of non-duality books that are available on this site and at www.floydhenderson.com.
III. 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
IV. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
V. BY ARRANGING a one-hour session via Skype or telephone with Floyd. (Skype is a free service.)
Click the button to pay and you will be contacted to arrange a date and time for the call.
VI. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING BOOKS are available at
Floyd Henderson's Website
Within minutes of purchase you can be reading any of the eBooks below on your mobile devices, including an iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, Android phone, laptop, home computer or on a Kindle reader.
For Apple and Android, either download the eBook directly onto your device or email the eBook file to your mobile device and open the file from your email. For Kindles or other similar devices, use your USB cable to transfer the eBook to your reader.
FOR THOSE SEEKING FURTHER EXPLANATION OF THE NON-DUALITY UNDERSTANDING, AS NOTED ABOVE, SOME SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED BY USING THE METHODS BELOW, OR A COMBINATION OF THE METHODS:
FOR THOSE SEEKING FURTHER EXPLANATION OF THE NON-DUALITY UNDERSTANDING, AS NOTED ABOVE, SOME SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED BY USING THE METHODS BELOW, OR A COMBINATION OF THE METHODS:
WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
I. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk, Seven-Hour Video (DVD) Set of an advaita retreat, or the downloadable file version. To find out more or to purchase the DVD or downloadable computer file version of the retreat, DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
I. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk, Seven-Hour Video (DVD) Set of an advaita retreat, or the downloadable file version. To find out more or to purchase the DVD or downloadable computer file version of the retreat, DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
International buyers: note the separate option for those outside the continental U.S.
II. BY READING the explanations offered in the collection of non-duality books that are available on this site and at www.floydhenderson.com.
III. 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
IV. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat with floyd and being guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
V. BY ARRANGING a one-hour session via Skype or telephone with Floyd. (Skype is a free service.)
Click the button to pay and you will be contacted to arrange a date and time for the call.
VI. ALL OF THE FOLLOWING BOOKS are available at
Floyd Henderson's Website
and
ALL CAN BE SENT TO FRIENDS OR FAMILY MEMBERS AS GIFTS
[details at floydhenderson.com. Once on that site, click on the picture of the book you would like to send as a gift for details]
This anthology of four books by Floyd Henderson contains the volumes that make up what has been called "The Advanced Seekers' Series" for those seeking Realization via the Advaita teachings
This anthology contains the six books that make up what has been called "The Blissful Abidance Series" for those seeking to live blissfully and happily for the remainder of the manifestation, including these books
This book can be read as a "Stand-Alone eBook" or as a "Companion Piece" or "Follow-Up" to be read after "When Only Three Hours of Manifestation Remain."
After having guided over 8,000 people through the Twelve Steps, the focus eventually turned toward working with the few who have been seeking recovery for some time but sense that "there must be something more" or who have said, "I am still not where I want to be." A few - even with double-digit "sobriety" - have said, "I don't want to drink ... I want to die."
NOW ACCEPTING REQUESTS FOR FREE COPIES OF THE FOLLOWING EBOOK:
A free copy of the 278-page eBook entitled
"GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?"
is available to be sent to you and anyone else you choose.
The book will be emailed to you as a PFD attachment upon request
Gift copies can also be sent to your friends and relatives. The eBook
can be read on any computer (using Adobe, for example) or can be
transferred to any electronic reader or tablet or phone for reading.
Open the attachment via the email on your iPad or Android tablet or
phone and begin reading.
[Please note: When the Direct Path Teaching Method is offered in conjunction with the Nisarga Yoga, something unique results when compared to what happens via the approach used by religions, spiritual movements, philosophies, ideologies, etc.:
rather than inviting seekers to learn more, the invitation here is to unlearn all; rather than offerings teachings, what is offered are unteachings; rather than offering to provide seekers more of anything, seekers will find that the process will take away everything. And via that process, the bliss of Your Original Nature will manifest and remain until mahasamadhi is taken.
To that end, the content of this book will seem radical to the seekers of more, but for those truly ready to be totally free and totally independent - and for those who are truly ready to abandon efforts to accumulate and to de-accumulate instead - the pointers in this book might be relevant.]
To receive your free copy, or to have us send a free copy to your friends or relatives, send your email address (or their addresses) to the following:
(Sorry, but for security reasons, we no longer have a clickable link. You will have to type in our gmail address above. By the way, your email addresses will never be used to contact you or your friends or relatives and email addresses will never be shared with anyone else.)
Simply state in your email that you want the book sent as a gift to you (or as a gift from you to as many people as you like. Copies are now ready to be sent.)
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE: A Seven-Step Journey to the Absolute
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
CONSCIOUSNESS / AWARENESS
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE FINAL UNDERSTANDING
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE ADVANCED SEEKERS' SERIES
This anthology of four books by Floyd Henderson contains the volumes that make up what has been called "The Advanced Seekers' Series" for those seeking Realization via the Advaita teachings
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE BLISSFUL ABIDANCE SERIES
This anthology contains the six books that make up what has been called "The Blissful Abidance Series" for those seeking to live blissfully and happily for the remainder of the manifestation, including these books
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ AND HIS EVOLUTION
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE FINAL FIFTEEN TOPICS DISCUSSED BY SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
This book can be read as a "Stand-Alone eBook" or as a "Companion Piece" or "Follow-Up" to be read after "When Only Three Hours of Manifestation Remain."
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
A TWELVE-STEP JOURNEY TO SELF-TRANSFORMATION
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
A GUIDE FOR WORKING THE STEPS (IN THE MANNER USED BY THE FOUNDERS)
The author of this book is also the co-author of a book with Mark Houston entitled "A Twelve-Step Journey to SELF-Transformation" 
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE TWELVE STEPS AND ADVAITA / NON-DUALITY: A 21-DAY PLAN FOR A PSYCHIC CHANGE
After having guided over 8,000 people through the Twelve Steps, the focus eventually turned toward working with the few who have been seeking recovery for some time but sense that "there must be something more" or who have said, "I am still not where I want to be." A few - even with double-digit "sobriety" - have said, "I don't want to drink ... I want to die."
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
SELF-TRANSFORMATION MEDITATION GUIDE (VOLUME ONE)
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
SELF-TRANSFORMATION MEDITATION GUIDE (VOLUME TWO)
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
WHY NISARGA YOGA IN ADDITION TO THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS?
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE via the Non-Duality Teachings and the Nisarga Yoga
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
YOUR ORIGINAL NATURE
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
GOING CRAZY / GOING SANE
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
INSTABILITY / INSANITY: WHAT THE ADVAITA TEACHINGS CAN (AND CANNOT) ADDRESS
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (THERE IS ONLY PEACE IF YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR MIND)
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
FREEDOM FROM SHIFTING BETWEEN STATES OF HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS / THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
PROGRAMMING, CONDITIONING, DOMESTICATION, AND ACCULTURATION (THE SOURCES OF THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS & THE NON-DUALITY TREATMENT)
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?"
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE MYTH OF "DEATH"
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS: THE SIMPLICITY OF REALIZATION
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE NON-DUALITY POINTERS OFFERED BY YESHU'A ("JESUS THE CHRIST")
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
NOW ACCEPTING REQUESTS FOR FREE COPIES OF THE FOLLOWING EBOOK:
A free copy of the 278-page eBook entitled
"GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?"
is available to be sent to you and anyone else you choose.
The book will be emailed to you as a PFD attachment upon request
[Please note: When the Direct Path Teaching Method is offered in conjunction with the Nisarga Yoga, something unique results when compared to what happens via the approach used by religions, spiritual movements, philosophies, ideologies, etc.:
rather than inviting seekers to learn more, the invitation here is to unlearn all; rather than offerings teachings, what is offered are unteachings; rather than offering to provide seekers more of anything, seekers will find that the process will take away everything. And via that process, the bliss of Your Original Nature will manifest and remain until mahasamadhi is taken.
To that end, the content of this book will seem radical to the seekers of more, but for those truly ready to be totally free and totally independent - and for those who are truly ready to abandon efforts to accumulate and to de-accumulate instead - the pointers in this book might be relevant.]
To receive your free copy, or to have us send a free copy to your friends or relatives, send your email address (or their addresses) to the following:
(Sorry, but for security reasons, we no longer have a clickable link. You will have to type in our gmail address above. By the way, your email addresses will never be used to contact you or your friends or relatives and email addresses will never be shared with anyone else.)
Simply state in your email that you want the book sent as a gift to you (or as a gift from you to as many people as you like. Copies are now ready to be sent.)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE ADVAITIN
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
WHEN ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN (THE "FINAL" TALKS OF FLOYD HENDERSON)
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am")
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS DEALING WITH NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA, AND MORE
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
DANCING LIGHTLY
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE PATH TO FREEDOM VS. THE PATH TO MISERY
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS PERSONAL (INCLUDING YOU AND INCLUDING GOD)
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
LIBERATION (ATTAINING FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY VIA REALIZATION)
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE RELATIVE RESULTS OF RETURNING TO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
WHAT BLISS IS AND WHAT BLISS IS NOT
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
LESSONS IN NON-DUALITY FROM TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIRST STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SECOND STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE THIRD STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FOURTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIFTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SIXTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SEVENTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (RECOVERING WHAT RELIGIONS LOST)
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (AND WHY KNOWING IT SETS YOU FREE)
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
RELATED TOPICS: alcoholism treatment, enneagram, addiction, Mark Houston, non-duality, non-duality ebooks, liberation, enlightenment, liberation, realization, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, unity, oneness.
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (THERE IS ONLY PEACE IF YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR MIND)
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
TWO BOOKS THAT EXPLAIN IN DETAIL THE PROCESS OF BEING FREE OF FALSE BELIEFS AND FREE OF THE BOGUS CONTENT OF "THE MIND":
FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")
For more information on this book, or to purchase a copy now, click:
