A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday] So, what else do persons have to lose to Realize, and what else will they lose if Realized?
Being oblivious to all except yourself (that is, to “your selves” . . . to the desires of your false selves).
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: RATIONALIZATION
Rationalization involves the twisting of facts, “putting a spin on” the way an event or action is viewed, distorting the truth, or trying to cast into a different light the way an event or action is perceived, especially to try to change others’ perceptions about an event or action as well as one's own.
Examples offered in the past to illustrate the use of this ego-defense mechanism included the husband who claimed that he did not have affairs with four women at work because “he only had oral sex with them” and included another man who called here crying about the fact that his employment had just been terminated - for the fourth time - because of sexual misconduct with subordinates at work.
He was crying the evening he called but by the next morning he had mentally restructured the truth, had distorted the reality of his conduct, had reframed his opinions about his circumstances and actions, had minimized the consequences of his behaviors on himself and the other employees involved who were also fired, so he said cheerfully, “What the heck . . . it’s all good!”
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: SUBLIMATION
Sublimation is often used by persons with warped psyches who are thus driven by thoughts and emotions and urges that are deemed unacceptable in their culture; to try to avoid the consequences of those thoughts and emotions and urges if acted upon, a person might shift her or his focus – by becoming obsessed with physical exercise or spiritual exercises; by being obsessed with attending meetings or worship services; or by obsessively engaging in other activities rather than addressing the core issues that are generating those thoughts and emotions and urges in the first place. Rather than being free of fanaticism, the fanaticism in one area is substituted with fanaticism in another area.
[Consider those who ignore their families because their obsessive minds are driving them to drink alcohol obsessively but who eventually enter into "a program" that can - supposedly - address their problem(s). The result: they continue to ignore their families but now it is because of their new, substitute obsession, namely, their "program" or their "new friends." That is the result of sublimation as a "bad persona" is replaced by a new "good persona" or - more often - by a "really super, really good person" or even by a "Spiritual Giant."]
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: DISPLACEMENT
Displacement is a process by which a person might be angry with “A” but redirects that anger toward “B” instead. The classic example is the man who gets angry at his wife but rather than seek resolution around whatever their argument might involve, he kicks the dog or whips a child instead.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: UNDOING
Undoing is used to try to gloss over a “negative” comment or action by following it will all sorts of “positive” comments to try to “balance out” or counteract what one said or did. Rather than apologize, the attempt by the ego-state is to try to “save face” and avoid admitting to an error. The insulting of a mate, therefore, might be followed by praising the mate’s looks or intelligence (as if that, rather than an apology, can assuage the way the mate feels).
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: COMPENSATION
Compensation is a process whereby an ego-state tries to psychologically counterbalance perceived weaknesses by emphasizing strength in other areas. The result is a reinforcement of a person’s self-image without having to address any actual relative “weaknesses.”
The consequences of duality - including personality identification, personality defense, and personality disorders which can lead to neuroses and psychoses - should be clear.
The disharmony that manifests via the use of ego-defense mechanisms to protect ego-states / personas / false identities will end if the steps are taken to be rid of one’s belief in ego-states / personas / false identities in the first place.
Any wonder - looking at all of the disharmony that follows ego-state assumption and ego-state defense and the personality disorders which follow - that sages had long advised persons to be free of all personality identification.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
8 October 2014
Being oblivious to all except yourself (that is, to “your selves” . . . to the desires of your false selves).
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: RATIONALIZATION
Rationalization involves the twisting of facts, “putting a spin on” the way an event or action is viewed, distorting the truth, or trying to cast into a different light the way an event or action is perceived, especially to try to change others’ perceptions about an event or action as well as one's own.
Examples offered in the past to illustrate the use of this ego-defense mechanism included the husband who claimed that he did not have affairs with four women at work because “he only had oral sex with them” and included another man who called here crying about the fact that his employment had just been terminated - for the fourth time - because of sexual misconduct with subordinates at work.
He was crying the evening he called but by the next morning he had mentally restructured the truth, had distorted the reality of his conduct, had reframed his opinions about his circumstances and actions, had minimized the consequences of his behaviors on himself and the other employees involved who were also fired, so he said cheerfully, “What the heck . . . it’s all good!”
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: SUBLIMATION
Sublimation is often used by persons with warped psyches who are thus driven by thoughts and emotions and urges that are deemed unacceptable in their culture; to try to avoid the consequences of those thoughts and emotions and urges if acted upon, a person might shift her or his focus – by becoming obsessed with physical exercise or spiritual exercises; by being obsessed with attending meetings or worship services; or by obsessively engaging in other activities rather than addressing the core issues that are generating those thoughts and emotions and urges in the first place. Rather than being free of fanaticism, the fanaticism in one area is substituted with fanaticism in another area.
[Consider those who ignore their families because their obsessive minds are driving them to drink alcohol obsessively but who eventually enter into "a program" that can - supposedly - address their problem(s). The result: they continue to ignore their families but now it is because of their new, substitute obsession, namely, their "program" or their "new friends." That is the result of sublimation as a "bad persona" is replaced by a new "good persona" or - more often - by a "really super, really good person" or even by a "Spiritual Giant."]
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: DISPLACEMENT
Displacement is a process by which a person might be angry with “A” but redirects that anger toward “B” instead. The classic example is the man who gets angry at his wife but rather than seek resolution around whatever their argument might involve, he kicks the dog or whips a child instead.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: UNDOING
Undoing is used to try to gloss over a “negative” comment or action by following it will all sorts of “positive” comments to try to “balance out” or counteract what one said or did. Rather than apologize, the attempt by the ego-state is to try to “save face” and avoid admitting to an error. The insulting of a mate, therefore, might be followed by praising the mate’s looks or intelligence (as if that, rather than an apology, can assuage the way the mate feels).
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: COMPENSATION
Compensation is a process whereby an ego-state tries to psychologically counterbalance perceived weaknesses by emphasizing strength in other areas. The result is a reinforcement of a person’s self-image without having to address any actual relative “weaknesses.”
The consequences of duality - including personality identification, personality defense, and personality disorders which can lead to neuroses and psychoses - should be clear.
The disharmony that manifests via the use of ego-defense mechanisms to protect ego-states / personas / false identities will end if the steps are taken to be rid of one’s belief in ego-states / personas / false identities in the first place.
Any wonder - looking at all of the disharmony that follows ego-state assumption and ego-state defense and the personality disorders which follow - that sages had long advised persons to be free of all personality identification.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
8 October 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday] So, what else do persons have to lose to Realize, and what else will they lose if Realized?
Being oblivious to all except yourself (that is, to “your selves” . . . to the desires of your false selves).
It was seen yesterday that pools and streams are tributaries (or “contributors”) which fill rivers, often to overflowing and often with collections of contaminates and blockages; the rivers, in turn, eventually become distributaries / “distributors” of contaminants that pour into oceans and also fill them with contaminants.
With persons / humans / the non-Realized masses, the analogy is this:
Pools of nonsense and “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” gather and then become streams or tributaries (or “contributors”) which fill rivers (minds) to overflowing with contaminates and blockages (i.e., with concepts, ideas, notions, etc. which all combine to create a set of beliefs) which, in turn, allow the non-Realized to become distributaries (distributors) of those contaminants / blockages / nonsense / ignorance / stupidity / insanity in what is now a constant flow of misinformation and myths and superstitions and dogma and beliefs that are nothing more than total twaddle, drivel, gobbledygook, gibberish, babble, jabber, and garbage.
The contaminating garbage includes personality identifications / ego-states and a host of ego-defense mechanisms which persons use to defend their false selves and which keep them “oblivious to all except themselves.”
And most, in fact, are even oblivious to all those “selves” and are certainly oblivious to the hidden, subconscious agendas of every assigned and / or assumed personality / false identification.
To continue, then, with a discussion of the ego-defense mechanisms which seekers should be familiar with in order to (a) spot them when they arise and to (b) turn from them and thus allow them to seek Truth and the Understanding effectively.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: INTELLECTUALIZATION
Among some seekers, it is the tendency to prefer the use of intellectualization to support false identities which attracts some persons to jnana yoga. Many among those believe that their yoga has led them to wisdom when it has actually only led them to a sense of knowing, to accumulating knowledge, to accumulating (dualistically) the “right knowledge,” to accumulating the “true” knowledge, and / or to seeing one’s self as "The Knower" or "The Wise One" or "The Smartest One."
Personality Type Ones and Fives can be especially drawn to intellectualization because both love to use the phrase “I know” and because both love to accumulate strokes and admiration by sharing from their vast storehouse of knowledge (or - as Maharaj called it after he transitioned beyond his jnana yoga phase - “learned ignorance”).
Intellectualization leads to more and more thinking rather than to the zero-concept / no-mind / no-thinking / no-beliefs state which was endorsed by Maharaj. Thus, intellectualization can be used to defend many ego-states and to generate many others;
moreover, in almost all cases it is also a tool which allows persons to avoid touching the deepest truths about their actual condition and to avoid dealing with hurtful feelings that are rooted in the past, especially those involving past abuses of one type or another, thereby enabling them to distance themselves from events or behaviors (but not from the lingering, subconscious effects which are still driving them). Often, this mechanism works hand-in-hand with dissociation.
Seekers who are using intellectualization and who should be focusing on de-accumulation are often the ones who are prone to build up vast personal libraries which are put on display as an outward sign of their inner wealth of knowledge. They are especially prone to collect books by well-known and popular Big Name Teachers and will, therefore, be exposed not to pure non-dual pointers but to a combination of non-dual pointers and false teachings which have mass appeal in order to attract millions.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: REPRESSION
Just as the fears and desires and agendas of personalities all function at a subconscious level, repression also involves the unconscious action of blocking out what one does not want to admit to or deal with. (The beauty of the EMDR method that some few therapists use effectively is that it can reach the “repressed memories” of their clients, memories which are subconsciously driving them but have been blocked out and which are not being recognized as key motivators and controllers of persons.)
Many sages have long pointed to the totally-bogus nature of memories (or “samskaras” or “samskaras”) which are impressions which many live under the impulse of - or under the influence of - without even having a clue that such is happening.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: PROJECTION
Consider a rock tossed by one person at another or "projected" at another person. When an ego-state feels that it is being interfered with or attacked (an act which is as impossible as attacking a mirage but which is nevertheless deemed to be an actual attack by those subsumed by their false personality identifications), the ego-state will usually go on the offensive.
It will inspire the hurling of words at others, and such verbal attacks involve attributing to others all of one’s own “personality liabilities” or “negative, personal traits.” In fact, it is almost always the one projecting those traits who displays them rather than the one being attacked.
(Yes, on some occasions, both may well have the traits or “liabilities.”)
A woman that has been observed over the years is clearly suffering from the Borderline Personality Disorder (P.D.), from the Narcissistic P.D., from the Sociopathic P.D., from the Histrionic P.D., and from the Schizoid-Avoidant P.D.
Recently, however, she did some online research in order to be able to “understand her husband.” She reported that her research revealed that “he is unpredictable and that sometimes he is close but is distant at other times; that he is an egomaniac; that he can be very mean and cruel; that he can’t control his emotions; and that he prefers to escape and avoid the things that he should be dealing with.”
Those familiar with both understand that he displays none of those traits but that it is she who displays them all regularly. (And yes, he does have issues begging to be dealt with - just not her issues which she has projected onto him.)
That is what projection looks like when at play, and its use usually evidences the fact that the one using projection is the one with no real insight and acknowledgement of one’s own “personality traits and liabilities and flaws.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
7 October 2014
Being oblivious to all except yourself (that is, to “your selves” . . . to the desires of your false selves).
It was seen yesterday that pools and streams are tributaries (or “contributors”) which fill rivers, often to overflowing and often with collections of contaminates and blockages; the rivers, in turn, eventually become distributaries / “distributors” of contaminants that pour into oceans and also fill them with contaminants.
With persons / humans / the non-Realized masses, the analogy is this:
Pools of nonsense and “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” gather and then become streams or tributaries (or “contributors”) which fill rivers (minds) to overflowing with contaminates and blockages (i.e., with concepts, ideas, notions, etc. which all combine to create a set of beliefs) which, in turn, allow the non-Realized to become distributaries (distributors) of those contaminants / blockages / nonsense / ignorance / stupidity / insanity in what is now a constant flow of misinformation and myths and superstitions and dogma and beliefs that are nothing more than total twaddle, drivel, gobbledygook, gibberish, babble, jabber, and garbage.
The contaminating garbage includes personality identifications / ego-states and a host of ego-defense mechanisms which persons use to defend their false selves and which keep them “oblivious to all except themselves.”
And most, in fact, are even oblivious to all those “selves” and are certainly oblivious to the hidden, subconscious agendas of every assigned and / or assumed personality / false identification.
To continue, then, with a discussion of the ego-defense mechanisms which seekers should be familiar with in order to (a) spot them when they arise and to (b) turn from them and thus allow them to seek Truth and the Understanding effectively.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: INTELLECTUALIZATION
Among some seekers, it is the tendency to prefer the use of intellectualization to support false identities which attracts some persons to jnana yoga. Many among those believe that their yoga has led them to wisdom when it has actually only led them to a sense of knowing, to accumulating knowledge, to accumulating (dualistically) the “right knowledge,” to accumulating the “true” knowledge, and / or to seeing one’s self as "The Knower" or "The Wise One" or "The Smartest One."
Personality Type Ones and Fives can be especially drawn to intellectualization because both love to use the phrase “I know” and because both love to accumulate strokes and admiration by sharing from their vast storehouse of knowledge (or - as Maharaj called it after he transitioned beyond his jnana yoga phase - “learned ignorance”).
Intellectualization leads to more and more thinking rather than to the zero-concept / no-mind / no-thinking / no-beliefs state which was endorsed by Maharaj. Thus, intellectualization can be used to defend many ego-states and to generate many others;
moreover, in almost all cases it is also a tool which allows persons to avoid touching the deepest truths about their actual condition and to avoid dealing with hurtful feelings that are rooted in the past, especially those involving past abuses of one type or another, thereby enabling them to distance themselves from events or behaviors (but not from the lingering, subconscious effects which are still driving them). Often, this mechanism works hand-in-hand with dissociation.
Seekers who are using intellectualization and who should be focusing on de-accumulation are often the ones who are prone to build up vast personal libraries which are put on display as an outward sign of their inner wealth of knowledge. They are especially prone to collect books by well-known and popular Big Name Teachers and will, therefore, be exposed not to pure non-dual pointers but to a combination of non-dual pointers and false teachings which have mass appeal in order to attract millions.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: REPRESSION
Just as the fears and desires and agendas of personalities all function at a subconscious level, repression also involves the unconscious action of blocking out what one does not want to admit to or deal with. (The beauty of the EMDR method that some few therapists use effectively is that it can reach the “repressed memories” of their clients, memories which are subconsciously driving them but have been blocked out and which are not being recognized as key motivators and controllers of persons.)
Many sages have long pointed to the totally-bogus nature of memories (or “samskaras” or “samskaras”) which are impressions which many live under the impulse of - or under the influence of - without even having a clue that such is happening.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: PROJECTION
Consider a rock tossed by one person at another or "projected" at another person. When an ego-state feels that it is being interfered with or attacked (an act which is as impossible as attacking a mirage but which is nevertheless deemed to be an actual attack by those subsumed by their false personality identifications), the ego-state will usually go on the offensive.
It will inspire the hurling of words at others, and such verbal attacks involve attributing to others all of one’s own “personality liabilities” or “negative, personal traits.” In fact, it is almost always the one projecting those traits who displays them rather than the one being attacked.
(Yes, on some occasions, both may well have the traits or “liabilities.”)
A woman that has been observed over the years is clearly suffering from the Borderline Personality Disorder (P.D.), from the Narcissistic P.D., from the Sociopathic P.D., from the Histrionic P.D., and from the Schizoid-Avoidant P.D.
Recently, however, she did some online research in order to be able to “understand her husband.” She reported that her research revealed that “he is unpredictable and that sometimes he is close but is distant at other times; that he is an egomaniac; that he can be very mean and cruel; that he can’t control his emotions; and that he prefers to escape and avoid the things that he should be dealing with.”
Those familiar with both understand that he displays none of those traits but that it is she who displays them all regularly. (And yes, he does have issues begging to be dealt with - just not her issues which she has projected onto him.)
That is what projection looks like when at play, and its use usually evidences the fact that the one using projection is the one with no real insight and acknowledgement of one’s own “personality traits and liabilities and flaws.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
7 October 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday] So, what else do persons have to lose to Realize, and what else will they lose if Realized?
Being oblivious to all except yourself (that is, to “your selves” . . . to the desires of your false selves).
Nothing on earth, nothing in this solar system, and nothing in the universe is static. All is changing, all is moving about; all is coming together; all that comes together will inevitably come apart; all is constantly in motion; all is constantly in chaos (therefore, so much for "there has to be a God . . . look at the perfect, orderly functioning of the universe, working like a fine timepiece"). No. All is in flux; all is constantly flowing.
What some call “the circle of life” is like a flowing river: on earth, it all began with the sunshine and a little spark of energy manifesting via earth elements; plants form with their many cells and some function as consumable plant food; those plant cells became transformed into other type cells, including deer cells, cow cells, human cells, etc.;
via an act of friction, cells can be transferred from one plant food body to another and if a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell, then another composite unity / human can develop as long as the mother with that impregnated egg eats plant food cells for a nine-month period; eventually, all three sets of those cells (a.k.a., "mother," "father," "child") which have come together will eventually come apart, as will everything else;
the conscious-energy that was manifested therein will return to the universal pool of conscious-energy, the earth elements will return to the universal pool of elements, and the air which was circulating throughout the elemental plant food body will be released and will return to the universal pool of air.
It’s all just flowing like a river, forever in motion, cycling through one season after another; through one decade after another; through one millennium after another.
Streams flowing into a river are called "tributaries." Then rivers flow into oceans. At the end, each river “comes apart,” so to speak, resulting in the formation of "distributaries" that flow into river deltas.
The rivers do not cease to exist because nothing can be created and nothing can be destroyed. The waters of the oceans will evaporate and rise, will form clouds which dump water in areas all around the globe, and will become tributaries which freed rivers; the rivers then dump their waters into the oceans and the process cycles, over and over and over.
That’s the way it is with humans when a composite unity comes onto the scene:
The rains fall in the form of programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination. Those rains are tantamount to the “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” that Maharaj cited as key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
A child’s brain early on will be flooded – will be inundated – as concepts function like tributaries, forming a river of “knowledge” (learned ignorance) that will flow into the child’s brain and is stored in the part called “the mind.” Those concepts are the infectious carriers of “ignorance and stupidity and insanity,” and they will flow through the mind for an entire manifestation if steps are not taken to be rid of them.
As they flow about inside the minds of persons (“persons” being those who have been assigned or who have assumed personas or personalities or ego-states as supposedly real identities), eventually those tributaries that formed the mind will become distributaries and all of the content of the mind will be dumped on other persons and will block the consciousness from seeing clearly, from seeing Truth. Only “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” will be seen, and those then spread like wildfire, like the most contagious and poisonous pandemic imaginable.
The “ignorance and stupidity and insanity”-based concepts will then flow out of the mouths of persons and then those thoughts and words will act in tandem to determine and control and drive behaviors. Chaos will reign.
What are the deltas in that analogy? They are the brains (and the lives) of the billions of persons into which the River of Ignorance flows, into which the River of Stupidity drains, and into which the River of Insanity is dumped. They are the people who have to deal with persons who are walking in their sleep and dumping their contamination into the environments of the people who are coming into contact with sleepwalkers.
How is that? All along the way as they flow forever toward the sea, rivers become more and more contaminated, filled with pollutants . . . made impure . . . become completely tainted. The same happens among the non-Realized masses: they become infected with the germs of the Ultimate Sickness that are carried – unknowingly – by almost every human on the planet and then dumped on the people around them.
Not to minimize the effects on the thousands who will not survive an Ebola infection or the Enterovirus D-68 virus, but while billions who are in fear of sicknesses that kill hundreds or thousands annually, those same billions are oblivious to the most widespread sickness of all - the Ultimate Sickness - which they have already contracted but about which they could care less.
They are ignoring the personality disorders that flow from the assignment and assumption of false identities; they are asleep to their use of ego-defense mechanisms to try to perpetuate their false identities and protect their phony public images; they allow the hidden agendas of their personas / ego-states to drive subconsciously their every thought and word and action which, in turn, generate throughout their relative existence the most destructive behaviors imaginable;
and they could care less about the relative effects on those having to deal with them. Being oblivious to all except themselves (to the desires and fears of their false “selves”) they could care less about the effects generated by their personas and their use of ego-defense mechanisms. That will result in their taking themselves very seriously.
Why not ask, "How much fun am I to be around, really?" Those types also take what I say very seriously (and send threatening emails when I tweak their personas on the nose). And they, like a river that has been contaminated all along the way from its source to the delta where it finally dumps all its contamination, they dump their contamination on the people around them all day long. No fun at all; thus, the wise for ages have suggested to seekers that they discard all personality identification, all of the content of the mind, and all use of ego-defense mechanisms.
If freed of personality identification, one is then freed from the use of egotism, denial, regression, dissociation, compartmentalization, and a host of other ego-defense mechanisms that sustain the high levels of Sickness that are plaguing the relative existence of humanity.
TOMORROW: More of the ego-defense mechanisms which persons use to defend their false selves and which keep them “oblivious to all except themselves.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
6 October 2014
Being oblivious to all except yourself (that is, to “your selves” . . . to the desires of your false selves).
Nothing on earth, nothing in this solar system, and nothing in the universe is static. All is changing, all is moving about; all is coming together; all that comes together will inevitably come apart; all is constantly in motion; all is constantly in chaos (therefore, so much for "there has to be a God . . . look at the perfect, orderly functioning of the universe, working like a fine timepiece"). No. All is in flux; all is constantly flowing.
What some call “the circle of life” is like a flowing river: on earth, it all began with the sunshine and a little spark of energy manifesting via earth elements; plants form with their many cells and some function as consumable plant food; those plant cells became transformed into other type cells, including deer cells, cow cells, human cells, etc.;
via an act of friction, cells can be transferred from one plant food body to another and if a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell, then another composite unity / human can develop as long as the mother with that impregnated egg eats plant food cells for a nine-month period; eventually, all three sets of those cells (a.k.a., "mother," "father," "child") which have come together will eventually come apart, as will everything else;
the conscious-energy that was manifested therein will return to the universal pool of conscious-energy, the earth elements will return to the universal pool of elements, and the air which was circulating throughout the elemental plant food body will be released and will return to the universal pool of air.
It’s all just flowing like a river, forever in motion, cycling through one season after another; through one decade after another; through one millennium after another.
Streams flowing into a river are called "tributaries." Then rivers flow into oceans. At the end, each river “comes apart,” so to speak, resulting in the formation of "distributaries" that flow into river deltas.
The rivers do not cease to exist because nothing can be created and nothing can be destroyed. The waters of the oceans will evaporate and rise, will form clouds which dump water in areas all around the globe, and will become tributaries which freed rivers; the rivers then dump their waters into the oceans and the process cycles, over and over and over.
That’s the way it is with humans when a composite unity comes onto the scene:
The rains fall in the form of programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination. Those rains are tantamount to the “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” that Maharaj cited as key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
A child’s brain early on will be flooded – will be inundated – as concepts function like tributaries, forming a river of “knowledge” (learned ignorance) that will flow into the child’s brain and is stored in the part called “the mind.” Those concepts are the infectious carriers of “ignorance and stupidity and insanity,” and they will flow through the mind for an entire manifestation if steps are not taken to be rid of them.
As they flow about inside the minds of persons (“persons” being those who have been assigned or who have assumed personas or personalities or ego-states as supposedly real identities), eventually those tributaries that formed the mind will become distributaries and all of the content of the mind will be dumped on other persons and will block the consciousness from seeing clearly, from seeing Truth. Only “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” will be seen, and those then spread like wildfire, like the most contagious and poisonous pandemic imaginable.
The “ignorance and stupidity and insanity”-based concepts will then flow out of the mouths of persons and then those thoughts and words will act in tandem to determine and control and drive behaviors. Chaos will reign.
What are the deltas in that analogy? They are the brains (and the lives) of the billions of persons into which the River of Ignorance flows, into which the River of Stupidity drains, and into which the River of Insanity is dumped. They are the people who have to deal with persons who are walking in their sleep and dumping their contamination into the environments of the people who are coming into contact with sleepwalkers.
How is that? All along the way as they flow forever toward the sea, rivers become more and more contaminated, filled with pollutants . . . made impure . . . become completely tainted. The same happens among the non-Realized masses: they become infected with the germs of the Ultimate Sickness that are carried – unknowingly – by almost every human on the planet and then dumped on the people around them.
Not to minimize the effects on the thousands who will not survive an Ebola infection or the Enterovirus D-68 virus, but while billions who are in fear of sicknesses that kill hundreds or thousands annually, those same billions are oblivious to the most widespread sickness of all - the Ultimate Sickness - which they have already contracted but about which they could care less.
They are ignoring the personality disorders that flow from the assignment and assumption of false identities; they are asleep to their use of ego-defense mechanisms to try to perpetuate their false identities and protect their phony public images; they allow the hidden agendas of their personas / ego-states to drive subconsciously their every thought and word and action which, in turn, generate throughout their relative existence the most destructive behaviors imaginable;
and they could care less about the relative effects on those having to deal with them. Being oblivious to all except themselves (to the desires and fears of their false “selves”) they could care less about the effects generated by their personas and their use of ego-defense mechanisms. That will result in their taking themselves very seriously.
Why not ask, "How much fun am I to be around, really?" Those types also take what I say very seriously (and send threatening emails when I tweak their personas on the nose). And they, like a river that has been contaminated all along the way from its source to the delta where it finally dumps all its contamination, they dump their contamination on the people around them all day long. No fun at all; thus, the wise for ages have suggested to seekers that they discard all personality identification, all of the content of the mind, and all use of ego-defense mechanisms.
If freed of personality identification, one is then freed from the use of egotism, denial, regression, dissociation, compartmentalization, and a host of other ego-defense mechanisms that sustain the high levels of Sickness that are plaguing the relative existence of humanity.
TOMORROW: More of the ego-defense mechanisms which persons use to defend their false selves and which keep them “oblivious to all except themselves.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
6 October 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday] So, what else do persons have to lose to Realize, and what else will they lose if Realized?
Being oblivious to all except yourself (that is, to “your selves” . . . to the desires of your false selves).
To review: THE CURSE OF HUMANITY
The wisest of all ages have long recognized that the curse of humanity is arrogance, a sense of entitlement, a sense of rightness in the right vs. wrong debate.
Narcissism and malignant narcissism (that being the kind of narcissism that is often exhibited by psychically unhealthy Personality Types Eights, many of whom exhibit one degree or another of sociopathic behavior) are among the key curses of humanity, and they are preceded by personality assignment and / or assumption and then being driven subsequently by the agendas of the various ego-states that persons assumed as identities.
If there is no ego-state, there will be no use of ego-defense mechanisms,
[Remember, personality forms in childhood, so ego-defense mechanisms are learned during childhood and are used from early on.]
If there were no use of ego-defense mechanisms, there would be no egotism, among others.
No ego = no egotism
It can be seen, therefore, that “being oblivious to all except yourself” continues because of
the use of ego-defense mechanisms
which can only come after
assuming ego-states as supposedly real selves / identities.
So the next questions are:
1. “What other ego-defense mechanisms will ego-states use to try to support and sustain themselves and to try to convince persons to believe that those false identities are actually real?”
and
2. “In addition to perpetuating the condition of ‘being oblivious to all except yourself,’ what are the other consequences of using ego-defense mechanisms?”
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES - IN ADDITION TO EGOTISM - IS DENIAL
Denial leads to a refusal to accept the truth and the facts about one’s relative existence and about one’s flaws. A common example of denial that is often cited involves alcoholics / addicts who have major problems but who can deny for years that they have any problem at all and who claim that they would do just fine if everyone else would leave them alone and stop picking on them.
As with all ego-defense mechanisms, certain of the nine basic personality types are at play, coming to the defense of other assumed identities as well. Type Ones, who think they are perfect, are especially prone to the use of denial.
When discussing the result of an enneagram personality inventory, many Enneagram coaches will gloss over liabilities and accent assets in order to keep clients hanging on and to keep the cash flow going. Here, only the facts and the truth will be shared (cash flow be damned); thus, it is quite common for those who are invited . . .
. . . to look at their flaws objectively in order
. . . to be free of those traits
to disappear after one session.
If persons have a high Type One (“The Perfectionist”) score, they are not going to view themselves objectively and they are going to attack or run away as fast as possible from anyone inviting them to consider the actual facts and the actual truth surrounding their words and behaviors.
Personality Type Threes are the kings and queens of denial, forever “putting a spin” on any fact or truth regarding them that does not enhance their image or that might interfere with their receiving applause and admiration from the masses.
Personality Type Sevens, the most prone to develop the Addictive Personality Disorder, are – as mentioned above – also quite prone to the use of denial.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: REGRESSION
An adult facing an uncomfortable truth or fact can “regress,” that is, can "return to one's childhood" and, thus, to childish behaviors. In the previous example where perfectionists are invited to see the error of their thoughts and words and actions, if they use regression to protect themselves (their “selves”) they will – like a child – run away from the facts and the truth.
Regression can also drive some persons to regress to the childish behaviors of going to bed and staying there or sulking or pouting or throwing a tantrum.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: ACTING OUT
Acting out is used by those who have no willingness to sit down and calmly discuss with others any issues that need to be resolved; instead, they turn to physical responses. The NFL player who has abused two sons on two different occasions – most recently beating a four-year old with a stripped tree branch and a belt to the point that the child required medical care – was using this ego-defense mechanism, sustaining the image of “The Disciplinarian,” “The Great Parent,” “The One in Control,” etc.
Personality Types Two are prone to such histrionic conduct, as are Type Eight Bosses, Control Freaks, etc. Consider mates who punch holes in sheetrock when they are arguing with a mate, or who even punch the mate in the face with a fist, or who throw an object at the mate, or who throw a temper tantrum, or who fire four pistol shots through the door of the bathroom where their mate is hiding from them.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: DISSOCIATION
Personality Type Nines are especially prone to using dissociation, comparable in some ways to denial but far more subtle. Here, in the cases of some that have been worked with, Enneagram test results, metabolic body rates, and observation have all combined to expose a very high rate of depression, yet some – when that is shared – either deny the fact or are so dissociated from reality that their actual condition does not register.
Thus, they have been heard to say: "I am NOT depressed!" (sounding like death-on-a-cracker even as they cannot see their own truth which others can readily see). Those playing the role of "The Spiritual Giant" or "The One Who Has Attained Perfect Peace" are very likely to dissociate from their depression or anger or lack of peace.
Those using dissociation can say, “I had a great childhood, a really happy childhood” when all of the facts show that the exact opposite is the case. It has been said that “people who have a history of any kind of childhood abuse (or neglect) often suffer from some form of dissociation. In extreme cases, dissociation can lead to a person believing they have multiple selves” (a.k.a., the Multiple Personality Disorder”).
It has also been said that “people who use dissociation often have a disconnected view of themselves in their world. In this manner, a person who dissociates can 'disconnect' from the real world for a time and live in a different world that is not cluttered with thoughts, feelings or memories that are unbearable.”
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: COMPARTMENTALIZATION
It has been said of compartmentalization that it “is a lesser form of dissociation, wherein parts of oneself are separated from awareness of other parts and behaving as if one had separate sets of values." An example might be a person who has two totally-different value systems “that are distinct and un-integrated while remaining unconscious of the cognitive dissonance.”
An example might be someone who has built up a positive image in the community - only seen as being kind and caring and loving when in public - but behind closed doors their families only see a tyrant and a bully. (That is a common scenario with Personality Type Twos who also have a high Type Eight score: the Two is seen as a kind and generous helper but, when stressed or “holy,” disintegrates to the worse of a Type Eight and behaves like a sociopath . . . with varying degrees of severity among those types.)
Remember, the typical sociopath is not "a Ted Bundy, serial killer type." The typical sociopath is the controlling spouse, the overly-aggressive boss, the raging mate, or the unpredictable partner who can be kind and charming one moment but angry and hostile the next.
In a discussion fairly recently of what was revealed by a set of Enneagram test results, the Eight score was “through the roof,” but when that (and its implications) were pointed out to the person, she used compartmentalization, denial, and – finally – regression. The result: gone in a flash.
[Interestingly, the full-blown, truly-sociopathic Type Eights I’ve worked with have typically been quite willing to admit to all of the negative traits that manifest with that type, even laughing at how "spot on I nailed them" and their thought and behavior patterns. They just don’t care. But if a high Eight also has a high One score, then the self-concept of being perfect will result in what was just described above: those with that combination who are exposed to their facts and their truth are gone in a flash, driven to preserve the image they hold of themselves, namely, being flawless.]
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
5 October 2014
Being oblivious to all except yourself (that is, to “your selves” . . . to the desires of your false selves).
To review: THE CURSE OF HUMANITY
The wisest of all ages have long recognized that the curse of humanity is arrogance, a sense of entitlement, a sense of rightness in the right vs. wrong debate.
Narcissism and malignant narcissism (that being the kind of narcissism that is often exhibited by psychically unhealthy Personality Types Eights, many of whom exhibit one degree or another of sociopathic behavior) are among the key curses of humanity, and they are preceded by personality assignment and / or assumption and then being driven subsequently by the agendas of the various ego-states that persons assumed as identities.
If there is no ego-state, there will be no use of ego-defense mechanisms,
[Remember, personality forms in childhood, so ego-defense mechanisms are learned during childhood and are used from early on.]
If there were no use of ego-defense mechanisms, there would be no egotism, among others.
No ego = no egotism
It can be seen, therefore, that “being oblivious to all except yourself” continues because of
the use of ego-defense mechanisms
which can only come after
assuming ego-states as supposedly real selves / identities.
So the next questions are:
1. “What other ego-defense mechanisms will ego-states use to try to support and sustain themselves and to try to convince persons to believe that those false identities are actually real?”
and
2. “In addition to perpetuating the condition of ‘being oblivious to all except yourself,’ what are the other consequences of using ego-defense mechanisms?”
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES - IN ADDITION TO EGOTISM - IS DENIAL
Denial leads to a refusal to accept the truth and the facts about one’s relative existence and about one’s flaws. A common example of denial that is often cited involves alcoholics / addicts who have major problems but who can deny for years that they have any problem at all and who claim that they would do just fine if everyone else would leave them alone and stop picking on them.
As with all ego-defense mechanisms, certain of the nine basic personality types are at play, coming to the defense of other assumed identities as well. Type Ones, who think they are perfect, are especially prone to the use of denial.
When discussing the result of an enneagram personality inventory, many Enneagram coaches will gloss over liabilities and accent assets in order to keep clients hanging on and to keep the cash flow going. Here, only the facts and the truth will be shared (cash flow be damned); thus, it is quite common for those who are invited . . .
. . . to look at their flaws objectively in order
. . . to be free of those traits
to disappear after one session.
If persons have a high Type One (“The Perfectionist”) score, they are not going to view themselves objectively and they are going to attack or run away as fast as possible from anyone inviting them to consider the actual facts and the actual truth surrounding their words and behaviors.
Personality Type Threes are the kings and queens of denial, forever “putting a spin” on any fact or truth regarding them that does not enhance their image or that might interfere with their receiving applause and admiration from the masses.
Personality Type Sevens, the most prone to develop the Addictive Personality Disorder, are – as mentioned above – also quite prone to the use of denial.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: REGRESSION
An adult facing an uncomfortable truth or fact can “regress,” that is, can "return to one's childhood" and, thus, to childish behaviors. In the previous example where perfectionists are invited to see the error of their thoughts and words and actions, if they use regression to protect themselves (their “selves”) they will – like a child – run away from the facts and the truth.
Regression can also drive some persons to regress to the childish behaviors of going to bed and staying there or sulking or pouting or throwing a tantrum.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: ACTING OUT
Acting out is used by those who have no willingness to sit down and calmly discuss with others any issues that need to be resolved; instead, they turn to physical responses. The NFL player who has abused two sons on two different occasions – most recently beating a four-year old with a stripped tree branch and a belt to the point that the child required medical care – was using this ego-defense mechanism, sustaining the image of “The Disciplinarian,” “The Great Parent,” “The One in Control,” etc.
Personality Types Two are prone to such histrionic conduct, as are Type Eight Bosses, Control Freaks, etc. Consider mates who punch holes in sheetrock when they are arguing with a mate, or who even punch the mate in the face with a fist, or who throw an object at the mate, or who throw a temper tantrum, or who fire four pistol shots through the door of the bathroom where their mate is hiding from them.
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: DISSOCIATION
Personality Type Nines are especially prone to using dissociation, comparable in some ways to denial but far more subtle. Here, in the cases of some that have been worked with, Enneagram test results, metabolic body rates, and observation have all combined to expose a very high rate of depression, yet some – when that is shared – either deny the fact or are so dissociated from reality that their actual condition does not register.
Thus, they have been heard to say: "I am NOT depressed!" (sounding like death-on-a-cracker even as they cannot see their own truth which others can readily see). Those playing the role of "The Spiritual Giant" or "The One Who Has Attained Perfect Peace" are very likely to dissociate from their depression or anger or lack of peace.
Those using dissociation can say, “I had a great childhood, a really happy childhood” when all of the facts show that the exact opposite is the case. It has been said that “people who have a history of any kind of childhood abuse (or neglect) often suffer from some form of dissociation. In extreme cases, dissociation can lead to a person believing they have multiple selves” (a.k.a., the Multiple Personality Disorder”).
It has also been said that “people who use dissociation often have a disconnected view of themselves in their world. In this manner, a person who dissociates can 'disconnect' from the real world for a time and live in a different world that is not cluttered with thoughts, feelings or memories that are unbearable.”
ANOTHER EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISM USED BY PERSONAS / EGO-STATES: COMPARTMENTALIZATION
It has been said of compartmentalization that it “is a lesser form of dissociation, wherein parts of oneself are separated from awareness of other parts and behaving as if one had separate sets of values." An example might be a person who has two totally-different value systems “that are distinct and un-integrated while remaining unconscious of the cognitive dissonance.”
An example might be someone who has built up a positive image in the community - only seen as being kind and caring and loving when in public - but behind closed doors their families only see a tyrant and a bully. (That is a common scenario with Personality Type Twos who also have a high Type Eight score: the Two is seen as a kind and generous helper but, when stressed or “holy,” disintegrates to the worse of a Type Eight and behaves like a sociopath . . . with varying degrees of severity among those types.)
Remember, the typical sociopath is not "a Ted Bundy, serial killer type." The typical sociopath is the controlling spouse, the overly-aggressive boss, the raging mate, or the unpredictable partner who can be kind and charming one moment but angry and hostile the next.
In a discussion fairly recently of what was revealed by a set of Enneagram test results, the Eight score was “through the roof,” but when that (and its implications) were pointed out to the person, she used compartmentalization, denial, and – finally – regression. The result: gone in a flash.
[Interestingly, the full-blown, truly-sociopathic Type Eights I’ve worked with have typically been quite willing to admit to all of the negative traits that manifest with that type, even laughing at how "spot on I nailed them" and their thought and behavior patterns. They just don’t care. But if a high Eight also has a high One score, then the self-concept of being perfect will result in what was just described above: those with that combination who are exposed to their facts and their truth are gone in a flash, driven to preserve the image they hold of themselves, namely, being flawless.]
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
5 October 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Continuing with the discussion of the differing effects on humanity of the three perspectives referred in the series title above, more answers will be offered for consideration regarding the invitation “to find out who You are inside your body – what You are inside your body. What have you got to lose?”
This question was posed: Indeed, “what have you got to lose?” Then, this observation was presented: There is much that one has got to lose if one is to be restored to sanity and enjoy a stable existence that can only come if wisdom manifests.
So, what else do persons have to lose to Realize, and what else will they lose if Realized?
They will lose another effect of having been bizarrely programmed and conditioned and acculturated and domesticated and brainwashed and indoctrinated and, slowly but surely, put to sleep even while believing that they are awake. That additional effect: being oblivious to all except themselves (that is, to “their selves” and to the desires of those selves).
THE CURSE OF HUMANITY
The wisest of all ages have long recognized that the curse of humanity is arrogance, egotism, a sense of entitlement, a sense of rightness in the right vs. wrong debate, a sense of different-from-ment, and a sense of better-than-ment.
The chaos and misery and suffering and pain that are experienced by persons all around the planet are rooted in that curse which has led to a global pandemic as the Ultimate Sickness has now spread to every continent, every nation, every state, every city, and inside the walls of every home.
Persons are panicking over this virus or that virus or this disease or that disease while ignoring the most pervasive and costly illness of all: the Ultimate Sickness which all but a few have already contracted and are now spreading in their willy-nilly fashion.
And it all started thusly:
STEP ONE: First came the “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” which were rooted in dreams, that is, in dreamed up myths and superstitions and nonsense.
STEP TWO: Dreamed up myths and superstitions and nonsense – passed down generationally - evolved into widespread and widely-held beliefs and belief systems.
STEP THREE: Those set the stages for believing in the additional nonsense of body and mind and personality (ego-state) identifications.
STEP FOUR: The assignment and / or assumption of ego-states as identities led to the use of ego-defense mechanisms – such as egotism - to support and defend and “sustain” persons' beliefs in their personas / ego-states / false identities (which constantly feel as if they are under assault). Thus the concerns: “Are they buying into my image?” and “Are they believing that I am what I am pretending to be?” and “Should I stop being such as damn phony and seek authenticity?” which is a question that comes during a momentary break along the “defend my ego-states and my phoniness at all costs” continuum which is almost instantly repaired with the answer to that question then being, “Naaaawww.”
STEP FIVE: Such egotism led to arrogance, to a sense of entitlement, and to a sense of rightness in duality's right vs. wrong debate.
STEP SIX: That, and all other duality-based beliefs – have now led to global chaos and misery and suffering and pain.
DEFINING “RIGHT” AND “WRONG”: The Standardization, Normalization, and Codification of Duality
The various types of dogma (with 97% of the persons on the planet buying into one set of dogmatic beliefs or another) were originally spread by word of mouth. With the development of printing, the various sets of dogma of various religions were arranged into a systematic code.
That code was then written and published into various supposedly “holy” books and used by the various leaders of the various religions to define exactly “What you should do, what you can do, what you cannot do, and what the consequences will be if you do not do what you should do or if you do what you should not do."
All of the content of the “holy” books was supposedly “the inspired word of gods and goddesses” (or later, “the one, true God”) and the detailed defining of "right" vs. wrong" and "good vs. evil" removed once and for all any “gray” areas as religious commandments and laws and regulations and rules and decrees and edicts and directives and principles and orders and demands and instructions and mandates were set down in black and white.
All that was needed at that point for chaos and misery and suffering and pain and the effects of the Ultimate Sickness to take root all around the globe was for persons to be indoctinated and programmed and conditioned and brainwashed
(A) so they would believe that the content of so-called "holy" books, which were written by men with controlling agendas,
(B) were really written by their gods and goddesses or by their "one, true God" via the hands of "God's chosen representatives on earth."
THE NEW ROLES THAT EVOLVED: “The Judge,” “The Juror,” “God’s Representative on earth,” and “The Executioner”
The earliest religions taught that there are multiple gods and goddesses, each with varying duties. They were divided into three basic groups: “Creator gods and goddesses,” “Sustainer gods and goddesses,” and “Destroyer gods and goddesses.” Later, the first totally schizo God would be dreamed up when Abraham said that “there is only one god and he is a male” and the people said “Okay, but he’ll have to do what all of the other gods and goddesses were doing, so he must be an all-in-one creator / sustainer / destroyer.”
Thus evolved the notion of a creator God who supposedly “loves you unconditionally” but – because of his “Destroyer” persona’s duties - will "kill you and then punish you forever." [Talk about the insanity of duality.]
The message: "Want to avoid destruction and eternal punishment? Then be pleasing in the sight of a schizophrenic, sometimes loving god who is also sometimes cruel and mean" (meaning that their god suffers from a serious case of the Borderline Personality Disorder as well as the Co-Dependent Personality Disorder since people can make him pleased or can make him really angry). "Make him happy and do not make him angry and then you’ll be just fine."
Because most parents - then and now - were and are raised to be “godly,” they now behave just like that imaginary, schizo god and will sometimes play the role of loving parents who will also at other times play their version of the cruel and mean god. (Now that will inspire those parents who give their children the kind of beatings discussed recently, one which resulted in a child having open, bleeding wounds all across his back, his buttocks, his legs and his scrotum. And that often leads to hearing some really schizo comments like, "I did that because I love you.")
[Hummm. Wonder what kind of people the children who are treated in that manner will be attracted to when they reach adulthood? Maybe mates who say "I love you" even as they pile on loads of abuse? See how the ignorance and stupidity and insanity are handed down from one generation to the next?]
Gee, wonder why Christ, after receiving the non-dual message, whipped the money changers in the temple, left behind his priests, left begin their Torah, left organized religion completely, began sharing some non-dual pointers on hillsides and in private homes, and hung out with prostitutes and corrupt tax collectors and thieves?
Here, having spend time around those labeled as "the godly" and those labeled as "the godless," it was nature that was turned to for an example of the way to abide sanely and naturally. Looking at every living thing in nature, it was seen that the deer and the birds and the snakes and the spiders and the fish and all else – as except humans - were godless.
Among all of the millions and billions of life forms that have come and gone and among all that survive today, it was seen that all - except for humans - were godless; that all - except for humans - had no beliefs about any god or goddess or a “One, true God”; that - except for humans - none believed in a god or goddess or God and all were doing just fine. It was then seen that it was humans - who believe in gods and goddesses or in a God - who were also the only ones with hang-ups and fears and desires; that it was humans who were killing each other in the name of God; and then, it became clear that - as with Christ - hanging with the godless would be the only sane way to go.
In a discussion of various “self deceptions” in the eBook below entitled “Casting Light on the Dark Side of Relationships,” this was offered:
SELF-DECEPTION #5: Four Additional Versions Of "The Switch": The Saint To Scoundrel, The Scoundrel To Saint, The Whore To Nun, The Nun To Whore
"One’s personality type can integrate the best traits of one other personality type or can disintegrate into the worst traits of one other personality type. Ken said, “I don’t get it. I married a woman who was hot as can be. She was dynamite in the bedroom, but then she got religion and turned into a saint. She became picky and judgmental and perfectionistic. Things I had done all along were suddenly no longer acceptable. I married a woman who turned into someone completely different.” Ken was close to being right in his assessment. 'The Hot One; reformed and turned into 'The Nun.'
"In another example, Carole’s husband was the perfect man, a deacon in his church and a pillar of that community. He was saint-like, right up until he sold his SUV and bought a sports car and used it to drive his secretary away from both of their spouses and families. 'The Saint' became 'A Scoundrel.'
"Now, people will talk about how horrible it is when saints like Ken become scoundrels. But fewer are aware of how disgusting whores can also be when they become nuns and how revolting scoundrels can be when they become saints. Enneagram research shows that people disintegrate into the worst of a corresponding personality type under two circumstances: when they become stressed or when they become super holy.
"When people become stressed, a qualified counselor can often help. When people become Religious Giants or Spiritual Giants, there’s little reasoning with them. If you suggest counseling to get some help with the problems coming about as a result of the shift, you’ll likely be dismissed as some kind of “New Age Agent of Satan," as happened here. In war, nations label their enemies in order to 'de-humanize' them and to make destroying them more palatable. Once a Religious or Spiritual Giant starts labeling you, you’ve been 'de-humanized' in their minds. Punishment, or even destruction, will follow."
It plays out like this: “Open wide,” says the godly one. “Time for you to get your medicine.” "God’s Representative on Earth," assuming the schizo God’s “Destroyer” role, is ready to dole out the punishment which you deserve, in their opinion.
Now that will get you judged and critiqued; that will get you some beatings in childhood by "The God-Like Executioner"; that will get you some broken relationships when one’s mate refuses to attend worship services with him or her; and that will get you some public beheadings.
Since religions have developed and codified exactly what is supposedly “right” and what is supposedly “wrong,” it has fed the arrogance and allowed for the playing of the role of “The Judges” who critique others, the playing of the role of “The Jurors” and determining who is believed to be “right” or who is believed to be “wrong,” and then the playing of the role of “God’s Representatives on Earth” and the assumption of the related role of “The Executioners” who begin dispensing, right now, the punishment for all who have been determined to be “wrong” or "bad" or "evil."
Not being content with the notion of “the wrong” being allowed to wait for their eternal punishment to begin later when it is administered by gods / goddesses / a God, persons who assume that they are "godly" or who have assumed the role of “God's Representatives on Earth” will go about their task of doling out punishment now, immediately.
THE RESULTS OF BELIEVING IN A CO-DEPENDENT GOD WHO CAN BE MADE SAD OR WHO CAN BE MADE GLAD
The original “communion service” began as a process by which an angry Rain God was to be appeased in a process conducted by a priest (acting as “God’s representatives on earth”). The belief: What can result in calming an angry male more quickly than the experiencing of sexual release, which is always followed by a period of being soothed and relaxed?
Thus, the priests in the earliest communion services (acting as “God’s representatives on earth”) raped virgins before cutting out their hearts and eating the body and the blood and then passing it among the crowd for them to do the same.
Thereafter, the formerly sad God, once made glad, should send rain for the crops. Doesn't happen immediately? Select another virginal woman and repeat the process until rain does come.
THE KEY WORD: ACTING
Above, there was reference to those “acting” like “The Judge,” “The Juror,” “God’s Representative on earth,” “The Executioner,” “The Saint,” “The Scoundrel,” “The Nun,” and “The Whore.”
Those all deal with “actors,” with those trapped in false personality identifications. Those all deal with roles being acted out, roles which are rooted in the dualistic notion of “good” vs. “bad.”
Maharaj: “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.” See? Both concepts - “virtue” and “sin” - must be cast aside in order to cast aside the assumption of all of those “good” vs. “evil” roles that are assigned and / or assumed and then played out in ways that bring chaos and misery and suffering and pain to billions.
Again, when "Christ the Advaitin" looked at those role players, which ones did he move away from and which ones did he associate with?
TOMORROW:
Narcissism and malignant narcissism (that being the kind of narcissism that is often exhibited by psychically unhealthy Personality Type Eights, many of whom exhibit one degree or another of sociopathic behavior) are among the key curses of humanity, and they are preceded by personality assignment and / or assumption and then followed by persons who are being driven by the agendas of the various ego-states that persons assume as identities.
If there is no ego-state, there will be no use of ego-defense mechanisms.
[Remember, personality forms in childhood, so ego-defense mechanisms are also learned during childhood and are used from early on.]
If there were no use of ego-defense mechanisms, there would be no egotism.
And if there had been no egotism, well, then there would have been no Catholic Inquisition; no American Holocaust perpetuated by Christians; and no European / Jewish Holocaust, also perpetuated by Christians. Heads would stay on shoulders instead of being lopped off every Friday in stadiums from Saudi Arabia to Kabul and all in between or in desert areas which are presently under the control of fanatics.
No ego = no egotism
No egotism = no judging
No judging = no fighting; no condemning; no battles in the home or streets or between parties or states or nations or religions; no summary executions on the streets of the U.S. and all around the globe; no broken relations; no wars; and no lopping off of hands or chopping off of feet or severing of heads from torsos as is happening right now, around the globe.
Such are the results of ego (of a false identification) and the use of egotism to support such ego-states.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
4 October 2014
This question was posed: Indeed, “what have you got to lose?” Then, this observation was presented: There is much that one has got to lose if one is to be restored to sanity and enjoy a stable existence that can only come if wisdom manifests.
So, what else do persons have to lose to Realize, and what else will they lose if Realized?
They will lose another effect of having been bizarrely programmed and conditioned and acculturated and domesticated and brainwashed and indoctrinated and, slowly but surely, put to sleep even while believing that they are awake. That additional effect: being oblivious to all except themselves (that is, to “their selves” and to the desires of those selves).
THE CURSE OF HUMANITY
The wisest of all ages have long recognized that the curse of humanity is arrogance, egotism, a sense of entitlement, a sense of rightness in the right vs. wrong debate, a sense of different-from-ment, and a sense of better-than-ment.
The chaos and misery and suffering and pain that are experienced by persons all around the planet are rooted in that curse which has led to a global pandemic as the Ultimate Sickness has now spread to every continent, every nation, every state, every city, and inside the walls of every home.
Persons are panicking over this virus or that virus or this disease or that disease while ignoring the most pervasive and costly illness of all: the Ultimate Sickness which all but a few have already contracted and are now spreading in their willy-nilly fashion.
And it all started thusly:
STEP ONE: First came the “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” which were rooted in dreams, that is, in dreamed up myths and superstitions and nonsense.
STEP TWO: Dreamed up myths and superstitions and nonsense – passed down generationally - evolved into widespread and widely-held beliefs and belief systems.
STEP THREE: Those set the stages for believing in the additional nonsense of body and mind and personality (ego-state) identifications.
STEP FOUR: The assignment and / or assumption of ego-states as identities led to the use of ego-defense mechanisms – such as egotism - to support and defend and “sustain” persons' beliefs in their personas / ego-states / false identities (which constantly feel as if they are under assault). Thus the concerns: “Are they buying into my image?” and “Are they believing that I am what I am pretending to be?” and “Should I stop being such as damn phony and seek authenticity?” which is a question that comes during a momentary break along the “defend my ego-states and my phoniness at all costs” continuum which is almost instantly repaired with the answer to that question then being, “Naaaawww.”
STEP FIVE: Such egotism led to arrogance, to a sense of entitlement, and to a sense of rightness in duality's right vs. wrong debate.
STEP SIX: That, and all other duality-based beliefs – have now led to global chaos and misery and suffering and pain.
DEFINING “RIGHT” AND “WRONG”: The Standardization, Normalization, and Codification of Duality
The various types of dogma (with 97% of the persons on the planet buying into one set of dogmatic beliefs or another) were originally spread by word of mouth. With the development of printing, the various sets of dogma of various religions were arranged into a systematic code.
That code was then written and published into various supposedly “holy” books and used by the various leaders of the various religions to define exactly “What you should do, what you can do, what you cannot do, and what the consequences will be if you do not do what you should do or if you do what you should not do."
All of the content of the “holy” books was supposedly “the inspired word of gods and goddesses” (or later, “the one, true God”) and the detailed defining of "right" vs. wrong" and "good vs. evil" removed once and for all any “gray” areas as religious commandments and laws and regulations and rules and decrees and edicts and directives and principles and orders and demands and instructions and mandates were set down in black and white.
All that was needed at that point for chaos and misery and suffering and pain and the effects of the Ultimate Sickness to take root all around the globe was for persons to be indoctinated and programmed and conditioned and brainwashed
(A) so they would believe that the content of so-called "holy" books, which were written by men with controlling agendas,
(B) were really written by their gods and goddesses or by their "one, true God" via the hands of "God's chosen representatives on earth."
THE NEW ROLES THAT EVOLVED: “The Judge,” “The Juror,” “God’s Representative on earth,” and “The Executioner”
The earliest religions taught that there are multiple gods and goddesses, each with varying duties. They were divided into three basic groups: “Creator gods and goddesses,” “Sustainer gods and goddesses,” and “Destroyer gods and goddesses.” Later, the first totally schizo God would be dreamed up when Abraham said that “there is only one god and he is a male” and the people said “Okay, but he’ll have to do what all of the other gods and goddesses were doing, so he must be an all-in-one creator / sustainer / destroyer.”
Thus evolved the notion of a creator God who supposedly “loves you unconditionally” but – because of his “Destroyer” persona’s duties - will "kill you and then punish you forever." [Talk about the insanity of duality.]
The message: "Want to avoid destruction and eternal punishment? Then be pleasing in the sight of a schizophrenic, sometimes loving god who is also sometimes cruel and mean" (meaning that their god suffers from a serious case of the Borderline Personality Disorder as well as the Co-Dependent Personality Disorder since people can make him pleased or can make him really angry). "Make him happy and do not make him angry and then you’ll be just fine."
Because most parents - then and now - were and are raised to be “godly,” they now behave just like that imaginary, schizo god and will sometimes play the role of loving parents who will also at other times play their version of the cruel and mean god. (Now that will inspire those parents who give their children the kind of beatings discussed recently, one which resulted in a child having open, bleeding wounds all across his back, his buttocks, his legs and his scrotum. And that often leads to hearing some really schizo comments like, "I did that because I love you.")
[Hummm. Wonder what kind of people the children who are treated in that manner will be attracted to when they reach adulthood? Maybe mates who say "I love you" even as they pile on loads of abuse? See how the ignorance and stupidity and insanity are handed down from one generation to the next?]
Gee, wonder why Christ, after receiving the non-dual message, whipped the money changers in the temple, left behind his priests, left begin their Torah, left organized religion completely, began sharing some non-dual pointers on hillsides and in private homes, and hung out with prostitutes and corrupt tax collectors and thieves?
Here, having spend time around those labeled as "the godly" and those labeled as "the godless," it was nature that was turned to for an example of the way to abide sanely and naturally. Looking at every living thing in nature, it was seen that the deer and the birds and the snakes and the spiders and the fish and all else – as except humans - were godless.
Among all of the millions and billions of life forms that have come and gone and among all that survive today, it was seen that all - except for humans - were godless; that all - except for humans - had no beliefs about any god or goddess or a “One, true God”; that - except for humans - none believed in a god or goddess or God and all were doing just fine. It was then seen that it was humans - who believe in gods and goddesses or in a God - who were also the only ones with hang-ups and fears and desires; that it was humans who were killing each other in the name of God; and then, it became clear that - as with Christ - hanging with the godless would be the only sane way to go.
In a discussion of various “self deceptions” in the eBook below entitled “Casting Light on the Dark Side of Relationships,” this was offered:
SELF-DECEPTION #5: Four Additional Versions Of "The Switch": The Saint To Scoundrel, The Scoundrel To Saint, The Whore To Nun, The Nun To Whore
"One’s personality type can integrate the best traits of one other personality type or can disintegrate into the worst traits of one other personality type. Ken said, “I don’t get it. I married a woman who was hot as can be. She was dynamite in the bedroom, but then she got religion and turned into a saint. She became picky and judgmental and perfectionistic. Things I had done all along were suddenly no longer acceptable. I married a woman who turned into someone completely different.” Ken was close to being right in his assessment. 'The Hot One; reformed and turned into 'The Nun.'
"In another example, Carole’s husband was the perfect man, a deacon in his church and a pillar of that community. He was saint-like, right up until he sold his SUV and bought a sports car and used it to drive his secretary away from both of their spouses and families. 'The Saint' became 'A Scoundrel.'
"Now, people will talk about how horrible it is when saints like Ken become scoundrels. But fewer are aware of how disgusting whores can also be when they become nuns and how revolting scoundrels can be when they become saints. Enneagram research shows that people disintegrate into the worst of a corresponding personality type under two circumstances: when they become stressed or when they become super holy.
"When people become stressed, a qualified counselor can often help. When people become Religious Giants or Spiritual Giants, there’s little reasoning with them. If you suggest counseling to get some help with the problems coming about as a result of the shift, you’ll likely be dismissed as some kind of “New Age Agent of Satan," as happened here. In war, nations label their enemies in order to 'de-humanize' them and to make destroying them more palatable. Once a Religious or Spiritual Giant starts labeling you, you’ve been 'de-humanized' in their minds. Punishment, or even destruction, will follow."
It plays out like this: “Open wide,” says the godly one. “Time for you to get your medicine.” "God’s Representative on Earth," assuming the schizo God’s “Destroyer” role, is ready to dole out the punishment which you deserve, in their opinion.
Now that will get you judged and critiqued; that will get you some beatings in childhood by "The God-Like Executioner"; that will get you some broken relationships when one’s mate refuses to attend worship services with him or her; and that will get you some public beheadings.
Since religions have developed and codified exactly what is supposedly “right” and what is supposedly “wrong,” it has fed the arrogance and allowed for the playing of the role of “The Judges” who critique others, the playing of the role of “The Jurors” and determining who is believed to be “right” or who is believed to be “wrong,” and then the playing of the role of “God’s Representatives on Earth” and the assumption of the related role of “The Executioners” who begin dispensing, right now, the punishment for all who have been determined to be “wrong” or "bad" or "evil."
Not being content with the notion of “the wrong” being allowed to wait for their eternal punishment to begin later when it is administered by gods / goddesses / a God, persons who assume that they are "godly" or who have assumed the role of “God's Representatives on Earth” will go about their task of doling out punishment now, immediately.
THE RESULTS OF BELIEVING IN A CO-DEPENDENT GOD WHO CAN BE MADE SAD OR WHO CAN BE MADE GLAD
The original “communion service” began as a process by which an angry Rain God was to be appeased in a process conducted by a priest (acting as “God’s representatives on earth”). The belief: What can result in calming an angry male more quickly than the experiencing of sexual release, which is always followed by a period of being soothed and relaxed?
Thus, the priests in the earliest communion services (acting as “God’s representatives on earth”) raped virgins before cutting out their hearts and eating the body and the blood and then passing it among the crowd for them to do the same.
Thereafter, the formerly sad God, once made glad, should send rain for the crops. Doesn't happen immediately? Select another virginal woman and repeat the process until rain does come.
THE KEY WORD: ACTING
Above, there was reference to those “acting” like “The Judge,” “The Juror,” “God’s Representative on earth,” “The Executioner,” “The Saint,” “The Scoundrel,” “The Nun,” and “The Whore.”
Those all deal with “actors,” with those trapped in false personality identifications. Those all deal with roles being acted out, roles which are rooted in the dualistic notion of “good” vs. “bad.”
Maharaj: “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.” See? Both concepts - “virtue” and “sin” - must be cast aside in order to cast aside the assumption of all of those “good” vs. “evil” roles that are assigned and / or assumed and then played out in ways that bring chaos and misery and suffering and pain to billions.
Again, when "Christ the Advaitin" looked at those role players, which ones did he move away from and which ones did he associate with?
TOMORROW:
Narcissism and malignant narcissism (that being the kind of narcissism that is often exhibited by psychically unhealthy Personality Type Eights, many of whom exhibit one degree or another of sociopathic behavior) are among the key curses of humanity, and they are preceded by personality assignment and / or assumption and then followed by persons who are being driven by the agendas of the various ego-states that persons assume as identities.
If there is no ego-state, there will be no use of ego-defense mechanisms.
[Remember, personality forms in childhood, so ego-defense mechanisms are also learned during childhood and are used from early on.]
If there were no use of ego-defense mechanisms, there would be no egotism.
And if there had been no egotism, well, then there would have been no Catholic Inquisition; no American Holocaust perpetuated by Christians; and no European / Jewish Holocaust, also perpetuated by Christians. Heads would stay on shoulders instead of being lopped off every Friday in stadiums from Saudi Arabia to Kabul and all in between or in desert areas which are presently under the control of fanatics.
No ego = no egotism
No egotism = no judging
No judging = no fighting; no condemning; no battles in the home or streets or between parties or states or nations or religions; no summary executions on the streets of the U.S. and all around the globe; no broken relations; no wars; and no lopping off of hands or chopping off of feet or severing of heads from torsos as is happening right now, around the globe.
Such are the results of ego (of a false identification) and the use of egotism to support such ego-states.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
4 October 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday]
The Realized lose tolerance for - and what is even at times the gluttony for - the burdens of multiples.
When operating a photography business and studio, the burdens which are guaranteed to accompany "multiples" became clear. After having photographed someone, the proofs from the sitting were soon delivered to the studio and there would follow a meeting with the client to view the proofs and to make selections to be enlarged and printed. Packages offered 5x7’s and 8x10’s or even framed portraits that were 18x24, 20x30, 24x36 or larger.
With single-subject proofs, the process was usually simple and easy, seldom took much time, and went smoothly overall.
When sittings were arranged for engagement portraits or couples photographs, the situation usually became a bit more complex: he liked shot “A” but she didn’t care for the angle of her mouth in that one; when she liked shot “B,” he might not have liked the way that his drooping right eye looked in that one. Trying to please two rather than one was more complicated.
When sittings involved a husband, a wife and a child or two, the problems increased exponentially; add in the family’s beloved pet and the situation became even more complicated. If there was a multi-generational portrait with 8 to 10 subjects or more, the difficulties became far more convoluted.
Singles? Easy. Couples? A bit more complex. Multiples? Forget it. And that's exactly what I finally did.
"Are you telling me that you’ll do a sitting for my sister and her boyfriend but you won’t do a sitting for me with my husband and three children?"
F.: "Righto. That’s what I’m telling you."
“Well up yours, you jerk!” [Click]
See, some suggest that, if Realized, one should “accept all.” Some say that “acceptance is the key to happiness.” One Big Name Teacher suggests that you should go beyond acceptance and “love what is”:
“Nazis toss your child into an oven? Don’t just accept it. Love it.” A woman who came here to be de-programmed and freed from the effects of years of listening to that teacher said that the woman told her that “to address your resentment, you should ask your rapist over for dinner . . . prepare a meal for him and serve him.” Really?
No. Do not invite your rapist to your home for dinner unless you are prepared to be raped again. Such advice and “teachings” amount to nothing more than one giant, heaping pile of insane BS, yet persons are paying thousands of dollars to hear that message which basically advises: “Don’t do what is really required to move beyond what happens to you, and don’t seek professional help with processing what has happened to you and is still impacting you; instead, just love it all.”
That comment is not unlike another statement that comes from persons who, like that teacher, are also Personality Type Threes: their favorite statement, used constantly to spin the truth and avoid facing reality, is: “It’s all good.” No. No it’s not. That’s not only more duality, it is more insanity being offered up in the cloak of “non-dual, recovery-related wisdom.”
Maharaj cared enough about the seekers that came his way to warn them about that kind of nonsense that was being spread by Big Name Teachers. Here, that same level of caring exists, so those who might be susceptible to listening to a Big Name Teacher like that have now been duly warned.
The facts are:
1. once Realized, there is no longer any “putting a spin” on the facts involving one’s reality / relative existence which is begging to be altered; and
2. the tolerating of burdens, manipulation, mistreatment, exploitation, battering, and abuse of all kinds (verbal, mental, emotional, physical, sexual, etc.) will no longer be deemed “normal” or “okay” or “acceptable,” much less “loved.”
Only those who have suffered extreme trauma, especially during childhood, will mentally normalize abuse (even into and throughout their adulthood) and will perceive mistreatment as something that is “tolerable” or “acceptable” or “okay” or as “something that will make you stronger or better.”
Once Realized, that which had been normalized is viewed without the filtration of programming, conditioning, etc. and is seen clearly via the light of sanity and is thus avoided, which is natural. The deer, which prefer the quiet, move away from the noisy teens in this area. They do not hate them. They simply move away and return to the silence of the forest.
Nor do the deer work at becoming “acclimated” to noise; nor do they develop relationships with the teens who throw rocks or sticks at them or otherwise try to hurt them. That would evidence insanity.
Similarly, with the Realized, there is a movement away from the burdens of multiples, from abusive types, from user types, from those who would manipulate, and from those who are trapped in ignorance and insanity and chaos and instability but who have no inclination to be free of any of that.
If Realized, one can make choices that are based in wisdom, and a sign that wisdom is at play is that all decisions result in a simplification of the relative existence. When driven by the hidden agendas of personalities - which all desire more and have a propensity for multiples of everything - one is sure to end up with a relative existence that will be marked and marred throughout by complications and complexities and convolutions.
TOMORROW: What else is lost via Realization? The tendency among the non-Realized to be oblivious to all except themselves (that is, to “their selves” and to the desires of those selves).
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
3 October 2014
When operating a photography business and studio, the burdens which are guaranteed to accompany "multiples" became clear. After having photographed someone, the proofs from the sitting were soon delivered to the studio and there would follow a meeting with the client to view the proofs and to make selections to be enlarged and printed. Packages offered 5x7’s and 8x10’s or even framed portraits that were 18x24, 20x30, 24x36 or larger.
With single-subject proofs, the process was usually simple and easy, seldom took much time, and went smoothly overall.
When sittings were arranged for engagement portraits or couples photographs, the situation usually became a bit more complex: he liked shot “A” but she didn’t care for the angle of her mouth in that one; when she liked shot “B,” he might not have liked the way that his drooping right eye looked in that one. Trying to please two rather than one was more complicated.
When sittings involved a husband, a wife and a child or two, the problems increased exponentially; add in the family’s beloved pet and the situation became even more complicated. If there was a multi-generational portrait with 8 to 10 subjects or more, the difficulties became far more convoluted.
Singles? Easy. Couples? A bit more complex. Multiples? Forget it. And that's exactly what I finally did.
"Are you telling me that you’ll do a sitting for my sister and her boyfriend but you won’t do a sitting for me with my husband and three children?"
F.: "Righto. That’s what I’m telling you."
“Well up yours, you jerk!” [Click]
See, some suggest that, if Realized, one should “accept all.” Some say that “acceptance is the key to happiness.” One Big Name Teacher suggests that you should go beyond acceptance and “love what is”:
“Nazis toss your child into an oven? Don’t just accept it. Love it.” A woman who came here to be de-programmed and freed from the effects of years of listening to that teacher said that the woman told her that “to address your resentment, you should ask your rapist over for dinner . . . prepare a meal for him and serve him.” Really?
No. Do not invite your rapist to your home for dinner unless you are prepared to be raped again. Such advice and “teachings” amount to nothing more than one giant, heaping pile of insane BS, yet persons are paying thousands of dollars to hear that message which basically advises: “Don’t do what is really required to move beyond what happens to you, and don’t seek professional help with processing what has happened to you and is still impacting you; instead, just love it all.”
That comment is not unlike another statement that comes from persons who, like that teacher, are also Personality Type Threes: their favorite statement, used constantly to spin the truth and avoid facing reality, is: “It’s all good.” No. No it’s not. That’s not only more duality, it is more insanity being offered up in the cloak of “non-dual, recovery-related wisdom.”
Maharaj cared enough about the seekers that came his way to warn them about that kind of nonsense that was being spread by Big Name Teachers. Here, that same level of caring exists, so those who might be susceptible to listening to a Big Name Teacher like that have now been duly warned.
The facts are:
1. once Realized, there is no longer any “putting a spin” on the facts involving one’s reality / relative existence which is begging to be altered; and
2. the tolerating of burdens, manipulation, mistreatment, exploitation, battering, and abuse of all kinds (verbal, mental, emotional, physical, sexual, etc.) will no longer be deemed “normal” or “okay” or “acceptable,” much less “loved.”
Only those who have suffered extreme trauma, especially during childhood, will mentally normalize abuse (even into and throughout their adulthood) and will perceive mistreatment as something that is “tolerable” or “acceptable” or “okay” or as “something that will make you stronger or better.”
Once Realized, that which had been normalized is viewed without the filtration of programming, conditioning, etc. and is seen clearly via the light of sanity and is thus avoided, which is natural. The deer, which prefer the quiet, move away from the noisy teens in this area. They do not hate them. They simply move away and return to the silence of the forest.
Nor do the deer work at becoming “acclimated” to noise; nor do they develop relationships with the teens who throw rocks or sticks at them or otherwise try to hurt them. That would evidence insanity.
Similarly, with the Realized, there is a movement away from the burdens of multiples, from abusive types, from user types, from those who would manipulate, and from those who are trapped in ignorance and insanity and chaos and instability but who have no inclination to be free of any of that.
If Realized, one can make choices that are based in wisdom, and a sign that wisdom is at play is that all decisions result in a simplification of the relative existence. When driven by the hidden agendas of personalities - which all desire more and have a propensity for multiples of everything - one is sure to end up with a relative existence that will be marked and marred throughout by complications and complexities and convolutions.
TOMORROW: What else is lost via Realization? The tendency among the non-Realized to be oblivious to all except themselves (that is, to “their selves” and to the desires of those selves).
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
3 October 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Continuing with the discussion of the differing effects on humanity of the three above-referenced perspectives, more answers will be offered for consideration regarding the invitation “to find out who You are inside your body – what You are inside your body. What have you got to lose?”
This question was posed: Indeed, “what have you got to lose?” Then, this observation was presented: There is much that one has got to lose if one is to be restored to sanity and enjoy a stable existence that can only come if wisdom manifests.
So, what else do persons have to lose to Realize, and what else will they lose if Realized?
Linked to the discontinuation of excessive accumulation, the Realized also lose their tolerance for - and what was even at times their gluttony for - the burdens of multiples.
The non-Realized think that they are most happy when they are able to store up multiples, a propensity which – like all of their propensities – is rooted in personality.
Consider the nine basic personality types: most persons are strongly driven by 3 to 5 types. All are also being influenced to one degree or another by the other 4 to 6 types. (The results of thousands of personality inventories have been seen, but what has never been seen is even one instance in which someone scored a “0” in any given type. All are being influenced, to at least some degree, by all nine types.)
In terms of the linkage involving the “propensity for multiples” and "being rooted in personality," everyone is driven to one degree or another by the hidden agendas of each of the nine basic types that are especially interested in multiples:
Type One Perfectionists want many people to see that they are right and that they all could be reformed for the better if all people would follow their advice.
Two’s want multiple persons to love them in order to compensate for the diminished or absent love that their fathers did not provide to the degree desired.
Three’s want multiple admirers and want the multitudes to applaud them and give them “attagirl’s” or “attaboy’s.”
Fives, like Ones, want multiples in the form of many people recognizing how knowledgeable they are.
Sixes want multiple sources of income or multiple supporters, including individuals as well as institutions.
Sevens want multiples of whatever they eventually become addicted to.
Eights want multiple sources of power, including all of the various instruments of power available in “this world” (and sometimes even “other-worldly” Power / Powers as well).
Nines want multiple sources of caretaking so they do not have to work.
Only Fours, accounting for only ½ of 1% of the entire planet’s population, are wired to be independent and comfortable in the solitude (or, in some less healthy cases, when isolated), so they are prone towards "less-ness" (except when it comes to their seeking which usually ends up involving multiples as well).
The Persona of “The Lover” and the Type Two “Love Addict” can both seek multiples, namely, multiple people who supposedly “love” them or “accept” them in order to try to overcome the subconscious beliefs which those personas share in common and which include the beliefs that “I am not enough” and “I am not good enough” so “I will never have enough.” The subconscious driver: "I need multiples – more and more – to overcome my sense of inferiority and the sense that I need more love."
“The Good Citizen” or “The Good Child” are a bit different, being less likely to co-habitate with one person after another but will usually marry one person after another instead. Multiples. Multiples. Multiples.
Many especially fanatical Muslim men are “willing to die for the cause” so they will receive in paradise not only 72 virgins but also “thousands of virtuous wives” and “thousands of shameless, licentious concubines” as well. Multiples. Multiples. Multiples.
Some religious people want to receive “an eternal reward” so they can have not multiple days to live but an infinite number of days to live, specifically, forever. Others expect to live multiple lives until they finally reach a state of Nirvana. Multiples. Multiples. Multiples.
Other persons have multiple jobs though they could pay their bills with the income from one job if they were financially sane; many have multiple houses; some have multiple wives or husbands, all at the same time; as noted, some have multiples but at different times; and many have more and more children in order to . . .
“have more children to work the fields” (for those living in farming communities);
“to please my religious leaders who oppose the use of birth control (and want us to add to the membership rolls of the church);
“to feel like a real man”;
“to get all kinds of positive attention when people see our large family” (certain families even featured on nationally-broadcast morning shows in the U.S. each time they add another child to the mix);
“to receive additional financial support”;
“to share what I have” (as if sharing must involve only immediate family members?);
“to leave a legacy to the world”;
“to satisfy my tremendous love of babies”;
(and this, which was heard a month ago) “to receive attention and pampering from everyone each time I give birth”;
(and this, which was heard several years ago) "to make sure my husband can never afford to leave now that he’d have to pay alimony AND child support";
“to keep the family name alive” / “to pass down the family name”;
“to have more and more who will be dependent on me and thus love me, unconditionally” (which is called “emotional incest” by professionals who understand the perversity of stockpiling children and using them to try to get the love that one is not getting from a spouse, the love that one did not get from parents, etc.).
[A man recently shared / commiserated: “My wife is emotionally unavailable, and I loved having my son there to run to me and greet me when I came home in the evenings. I thought, ‘If that feels this good, then having a second child to join him and have both of them greet me will be doubly good.’ Now, I walk in to one case after another of sibling rivalry and the ensuing fights they have. Or I walk in and they are in the back room playing games or watching DVD’s and ignore me completely. Didn’t quite turn out the way I imagined. The bills have more than doubled, and the chaos has more than doubled, and my wife has moved farther and farther away from all of us, emotionally.” Then, after a long sigh: “I just don’t know what I was thinking.”
Exactly. Maharaj’s words - which had been shared before but which the man had not grasped - were shared once more. Maharaj noted that the “world” exists only as a dream in one’s consciousness, and dreams are, indeed, nothing more than that . . . mere dreams, never reality and never Reality.]
Maharaj was also into multiples at one point (or, more accurately, bought into the desires of a spouse who was driven by her desires for multiples). What did he later realize about the propensity to multiply in order to fulfill the agenda of one or more personas? “The ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection, preservation and multiplication of one's own body.”
He said, “To be selfish means to covet, to acquire, to accumulate . . . .”
Of more interest to non-dualists, though, is humanity's tendency to accumulate multiple personalities, which is itself a major psychological disorder and which might possibly be the most common mental disorder among humans because of the influence of duality and because of the early exposure to dysfunctionalism in childhood environments (which drives the develop of personalities).
That mental illness, once called "the Multiple Personality Disorder," is now called "the Dissociative Identity Disorder," which results in two or more split identities.
Early on, some who attempted to treat those with addictions spoke of the clients with more serious challenges as being “dual addicted.” Some therapists also spoke of clients with “dual personalities.” Two? Hell, two would be a piece of cake. It has already been shown that all persons are driven by the hidden agendas of all nine of the basic personality types to one degree or another and then all are usually assigned, or will adopt, 40 to 80 other identities or roles if they live fifty or sixty years.
Nowadays, some speak of “Dual Diagnosis” or “Dual Diagnosis Addiction” which is a term used to describe people with a mental illness (or with mental illnesses) who also have co-existing problems with drugs and / or alcohol.
That diagnosis of mental illness(es) points more toward the reality of those who come their way, as well as they who never come their way but would still be similarly diagnosed if they did. Multiples. Multiples. Multiples.
Maharaj said: “In name and shape we are different, but there is no separation. At the root of our being we are one.”
Jesus reportedly said, after he was introduced to the non-dual teachings, “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
MAHARAJ:
“There is no ‘my self’ and ‘his self’. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves. We both are the self.”
“The one witness reflects itself in the countless bodies as ‘I am’. As long as the bodies, however subtle, last, the ‘I am’ appears as many. Beyond the body there is only the One.”
“I am one, but appear as many.”
“The basic unity operates in spite of all.”
“The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.”
“Love is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.”
The Transcendentalists: “There is a unity beyond the multiplicity” (or, more accurately, beyond the "perceived multiplicity").
Were one to truly understand the pointers offered above, and if one were to truly grasp the truth behind those pointers, then those alone should be enough to inspire one to take whatever steps are necessary in order to lose one’s tolerance for - and what is even at times one’s gluttony for - the burdens of multiples.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
2 October 2014
Later, the term would simply refer to a mental disorder. Eventually, the term would be used to refer to mental disorders, personality disorders, a variety of neuroses of varying degrees, and a variety of psychoses of varying degrees. In a non-dual discussion, the focus is on arrested, psychic development and on mind-based distortion, both of which are a result of interference from personality (or more often, personalities) and from the many personality disorders that evolve from personality assignment and assumption.
The irony: those that had mastered the non-dual understanding had long been aware of what was at the root of humanity’s mental problems, disorders, neuroses, and psychoses long before any of those labels had been generated by the medical and psychological and psychiatric communities.
It is now clear that personality develops during childhood as children react to the dysfunctionalism that they encounter in their homes. A cycle begins that will follow persons throughout their entire relative existence if Realization does not happen (which is rare):
As a defense against the often critical, often hostile, often abusive, and – yes – often even dangerous environment in which many children are raised, personality develops. The irony? When personality (ego-states) develop, ego-defense mechanisms are triggered and are used to defend and support the false identifications that are assigned or assumed (mechanisms which include egotism, denial, projection, rationalism, regression, repression, suppression, etc.) Those mechanisms, in turn, help perpetuate the attachment to false identifications.
The effect of personality development, which is often in place by the age of six, is that children fixate at that point, experience little psychic development beyond that age, and thus enter adulthood while still being driven by three or four or five of the basic personality types and styles that were formed during the pre-adolescent period.
Personality, once set, determines and controls all thoughts and words and actions, so it remove the ability to choose, removes the ability to weight options or facts and then make conscious and wise decisions, and removes all ability to behave in a fashion that is any different from the manner which was set in place during childhood.
Hence, the result is a planet which is filled with persons who are in one of two groups:
(1) there are some persons who are the actual, chronological age of a child and act like, say, a six-year old;
and
(2) there are the remainder who are the chronological age of adults but who think and talk and behave like children who are six years of age, or thereabouts.
What kind of planet would you guess is going to exist when that is the case?
Maybe one where people beat or otherwise abuse or even kill mates whom they claim they love?
Maybe one where persons believe they are different from others and better than others who have a different color skin or who are in a different economic class or who live in a different country?
Maybe one where people, in the name of God, invade a continent and kill 98% of the inhabitants and confiscate 99% of their land and confine the few, remaining survivors on “reservations”?
Maybe one Where a British Empire developed that covered a quarter of the Earth's land area and controlled one fifth of its population?
Maybe one where other nations formed empires and controlled at one time or another almost all of the populated lands and the people of the planet?
Maybe one where religions developed and have since accounted from more killing and murder (again, in the name of their god) than all other causes of death combined except for natural causes?
Maybe one where hierarchies are formed as a result of ego and egotism and where those at the top believe that they have the right to determine who is treated well and who is not; to decide who is a person and who is 3/5’s of a person; who is to be enslaved and who is not; who is allowed to marry and who is not; to decide what kind of sex is okay among willing partners and what kind is not; to decide that no one should be allowed to use birth control; to determine who deserves equal pay for equal work and who does not; to declare who can vote in a “democracy” and who cannot; and even to decide who is allowed to live and who is not?
Maybe one where, as Maharaj reported, almost all persons and their thoughts and their words and their actions are driven and controlled and determined by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”?
Are you seeing what arrested development is really about, what causes it, what its consequences are, and how to be freed from the perverted agendas of personality, once and for all?
Are you seeing why the sages have begged, cajoled, encouraged, or invited persons to abandon all sense of "personhood" and to take the steps required in order to be freed from being driven by the hidden, subconscious agendas of their assigned or assumed personality identifications?
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
1 October 2014
This question was posed: Indeed, “what have you got to lose?” Then, this observation was presented: There is much that one has got to lose if one is to be restored to sanity and enjoy a stable existence that can only come if wisdom manifests.
So, what else do persons have to lose to Realize, and what else will they lose if Realized?
Linked to the discontinuation of excessive accumulation, the Realized also lose their tolerance for - and what was even at times their gluttony for - the burdens of multiples.
The non-Realized think that they are most happy when they are able to store up multiples, a propensity which – like all of their propensities – is rooted in personality.
Consider the nine basic personality types: most persons are strongly driven by 3 to 5 types. All are also being influenced to one degree or another by the other 4 to 6 types. (The results of thousands of personality inventories have been seen, but what has never been seen is even one instance in which someone scored a “0” in any given type. All are being influenced, to at least some degree, by all nine types.)
In terms of the linkage involving the “propensity for multiples” and "being rooted in personality," everyone is driven to one degree or another by the hidden agendas of each of the nine basic types that are especially interested in multiples:
Type One Perfectionists want many people to see that they are right and that they all could be reformed for the better if all people would follow their advice.
Two’s want multiple persons to love them in order to compensate for the diminished or absent love that their fathers did not provide to the degree desired.
Three’s want multiple admirers and want the multitudes to applaud them and give them “attagirl’s” or “attaboy’s.”
Fives, like Ones, want multiples in the form of many people recognizing how knowledgeable they are.
Sixes want multiple sources of income or multiple supporters, including individuals as well as institutions.
Sevens want multiples of whatever they eventually become addicted to.
Eights want multiple sources of power, including all of the various instruments of power available in “this world” (and sometimes even “other-worldly” Power / Powers as well).
Nines want multiple sources of caretaking so they do not have to work.
Only Fours, accounting for only ½ of 1% of the entire planet’s population, are wired to be independent and comfortable in the solitude (or, in some less healthy cases, when isolated), so they are prone towards "less-ness" (except when it comes to their seeking which usually ends up involving multiples as well).
The Persona of “The Lover” and the Type Two “Love Addict” can both seek multiples, namely, multiple people who supposedly “love” them or “accept” them in order to try to overcome the subconscious beliefs which those personas share in common and which include the beliefs that “I am not enough” and “I am not good enough” so “I will never have enough.” The subconscious driver: "I need multiples – more and more – to overcome my sense of inferiority and the sense that I need more love."
“The Good Citizen” or “The Good Child” are a bit different, being less likely to co-habitate with one person after another but will usually marry one person after another instead. Multiples. Multiples. Multiples.
Many especially fanatical Muslim men are “willing to die for the cause” so they will receive in paradise not only 72 virgins but also “thousands of virtuous wives” and “thousands of shameless, licentious concubines” as well. Multiples. Multiples. Multiples.
Some religious people want to receive “an eternal reward” so they can have not multiple days to live but an infinite number of days to live, specifically, forever. Others expect to live multiple lives until they finally reach a state of Nirvana. Multiples. Multiples. Multiples.
Other persons have multiple jobs though they could pay their bills with the income from one job if they were financially sane; many have multiple houses; some have multiple wives or husbands, all at the same time; as noted, some have multiples but at different times; and many have more and more children in order to . . .
“have more children to work the fields” (for those living in farming communities);
“to please my religious leaders who oppose the use of birth control (and want us to add to the membership rolls of the church);
“to feel like a real man”;
“to get all kinds of positive attention when people see our large family” (certain families even featured on nationally-broadcast morning shows in the U.S. each time they add another child to the mix);
“to receive additional financial support”;
“to share what I have” (as if sharing must involve only immediate family members?);
“to leave a legacy to the world”;
“to satisfy my tremendous love of babies”;
(and this, which was heard a month ago) “to receive attention and pampering from everyone each time I give birth”;
(and this, which was heard several years ago) "to make sure my husband can never afford to leave now that he’d have to pay alimony AND child support";
“to keep the family name alive” / “to pass down the family name”;
“to have more and more who will be dependent on me and thus love me, unconditionally” (which is called “emotional incest” by professionals who understand the perversity of stockpiling children and using them to try to get the love that one is not getting from a spouse, the love that one did not get from parents, etc.).
[A man recently shared / commiserated: “My wife is emotionally unavailable, and I loved having my son there to run to me and greet me when I came home in the evenings. I thought, ‘If that feels this good, then having a second child to join him and have both of them greet me will be doubly good.’ Now, I walk in to one case after another of sibling rivalry and the ensuing fights they have. Or I walk in and they are in the back room playing games or watching DVD’s and ignore me completely. Didn’t quite turn out the way I imagined. The bills have more than doubled, and the chaos has more than doubled, and my wife has moved farther and farther away from all of us, emotionally.” Then, after a long sigh: “I just don’t know what I was thinking.”
Exactly. Maharaj’s words - which had been shared before but which the man had not grasped - were shared once more. Maharaj noted that the “world” exists only as a dream in one’s consciousness, and dreams are, indeed, nothing more than that . . . mere dreams, never reality and never Reality.]
Maharaj was also into multiples at one point (or, more accurately, bought into the desires of a spouse who was driven by her desires for multiples). What did he later realize about the propensity to multiply in order to fulfill the agenda of one or more personas? “The ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection, preservation and multiplication of one's own body.”
He said, “To be selfish means to covet, to acquire, to accumulate . . . .”
Of more interest to non-dualists, though, is humanity's tendency to accumulate multiple personalities, which is itself a major psychological disorder and which might possibly be the most common mental disorder among humans because of the influence of duality and because of the early exposure to dysfunctionalism in childhood environments (which drives the develop of personalities).
That mental illness, once called "the Multiple Personality Disorder," is now called "the Dissociative Identity Disorder," which results in two or more split identities.
Early on, some who attempted to treat those with addictions spoke of the clients with more serious challenges as being “dual addicted.” Some therapists also spoke of clients with “dual personalities.” Two? Hell, two would be a piece of cake. It has already been shown that all persons are driven by the hidden agendas of all nine of the basic personality types to one degree or another and then all are usually assigned, or will adopt, 40 to 80 other identities or roles if they live fifty or sixty years.
Nowadays, some speak of “Dual Diagnosis” or “Dual Diagnosis Addiction” which is a term used to describe people with a mental illness (or with mental illnesses) who also have co-existing problems with drugs and / or alcohol.
That diagnosis of mental illness(es) points more toward the reality of those who come their way, as well as they who never come their way but would still be similarly diagnosed if they did. Multiples. Multiples. Multiples.
Maharaj said: “In name and shape we are different, but there is no separation. At the root of our being we are one.”
Jesus reportedly said, after he was introduced to the non-dual teachings, “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
MAHARAJ:
“There is no ‘my self’ and ‘his self’. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves. We both are the self.”
“The one witness reflects itself in the countless bodies as ‘I am’. As long as the bodies, however subtle, last, the ‘I am’ appears as many. Beyond the body there is only the One.”
“I am one, but appear as many.”
“The basic unity operates in spite of all.”
“The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.”
“Love is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.”
The Transcendentalists: “There is a unity beyond the multiplicity” (or, more accurately, beyond the "perceived multiplicity").
Were one to truly understand the pointers offered above, and if one were to truly grasp the truth behind those pointers, then those alone should be enough to inspire one to take whatever steps are necessary in order to lose one’s tolerance for - and what is even at times one’s gluttony for - the burdens of multiples.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
2 October 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Continuing with the discussion of the differing effects on humanity of the three above-referenced perspectives, more answers will be offered for consideration regarding the invitation “to find out who You are inside your body – what You are inside your body. What have you got to lose?”
This question was posed: Indeed, “what have you got to lose?” Then, this observation was presented: There is much that one has got to lose if one is to be restored to sanity and enjoy a stable existence that can only come if wisdom manifests.
So, what else do persons have to lose to Realize, and what else will they lose if Realized?
Something else which persons are strapped with and which they have to lose – and will lose, if Realized – are the near-life-long effects of the arrested development which . . .
. . . happens to every person during childhood;
which
. . . results in persons developing personalities / false identities;
which
. . . results in the arrested development which everyone has experienced not only during childhood but are now also experiencing throughout adulthood as well;
and which
. . . has left the planet with an all-child or all-childish population of persons who are either actually child-aged or who are adult-age but who are totally childish in terms of their thoughts and words and actions.
And all of that revolves around personality, which is why the sages for ages has warned seekers about the ramifications of abiding under the auspices of personality and why the sages have begged, cajoled, encouraged, or invited persons to abandon all sense of "personhood" and to take the steps required in order to be freed from being driven by the hidden, subconscious agendas of their assigned or assumed personality identifications.
The term "arrested development" was originally used by some members of the medical community to refer to physical issues. The term was used in that regard with my childhood friend Frankie.
In a period of seven days, Frankie went from being the seven-year-old fellow who could run as fast as anyone else in the neighborhood, who often won games of “Chase” and “Hide and Seek” and “Race You to the Corner and Back” to experiencing muscle aches, then to an overall feeling of weakness, next to losing his reflexes, and then finally to having loose and floppy arms and legs.
His doctors informed his parents that Frankie had contracted the most serious form of polio (paralytic polio) and told them that his would be a case of “arrested development” and that he would eventually face “paralysis and an early death.”
Meanwhile, they said he might be able to walk for a period if he responded to physical therapy and treatment; if those worked, then he would wear braces in order to walk but he would still face the likelihood of losing the ability to walk and would eventually have to be placed in an “iron lung” for the remainder of his relative existence:
Later – as the medical and scientific community began to understand more about the symptoms and causes of mental illnesses, the term “arrested development” came to be used to refer to a severe mental impairment which resulted in what they thought at the time was “a lack of intelligence.” [It is now clear that such is not the case and that some of the craziest-acting persons on the planet are also quite intelligent.]
This question was posed: Indeed, “what have you got to lose?” Then, this observation was presented: There is much that one has got to lose if one is to be restored to sanity and enjoy a stable existence that can only come if wisdom manifests.
So, what else do persons have to lose to Realize, and what else will they lose if Realized?
Something else which persons are strapped with and which they have to lose – and will lose, if Realized – are the near-life-long effects of the arrested development which . . .
. . . happens to every person during childhood;
which
. . . results in persons developing personalities / false identities;
which
. . . results in the arrested development which everyone has experienced not only during childhood but are now also experiencing throughout adulthood as well;
and which
. . . has left the planet with an all-child or all-childish population of persons who are either actually child-aged or who are adult-age but who are totally childish in terms of their thoughts and words and actions.
And all of that revolves around personality, which is why the sages for ages has warned seekers about the ramifications of abiding under the auspices of personality and why the sages have begged, cajoled, encouraged, or invited persons to abandon all sense of "personhood" and to take the steps required in order to be freed from being driven by the hidden, subconscious agendas of their assigned or assumed personality identifications.
The term "arrested development" was originally used by some members of the medical community to refer to physical issues. The term was used in that regard with my childhood friend Frankie.
In a period of seven days, Frankie went from being the seven-year-old fellow who could run as fast as anyone else in the neighborhood, who often won games of “Chase” and “Hide and Seek” and “Race You to the Corner and Back” to experiencing muscle aches, then to an overall feeling of weakness, next to losing his reflexes, and then finally to having loose and floppy arms and legs.
His doctors informed his parents that Frankie had contracted the most serious form of polio (paralytic polio) and told them that his would be a case of “arrested development” and that he would eventually face “paralysis and an early death.”
Meanwhile, they said he might be able to walk for a period if he responded to physical therapy and treatment; if those worked, then he would wear braces in order to walk but he would still face the likelihood of losing the ability to walk and would eventually have to be placed in an “iron lung” for the remainder of his relative existence:
Later – as the medical and scientific community began to understand more about the symptoms and causes of mental illnesses, the term “arrested development” came to be used to refer to a severe mental impairment which resulted in what they thought at the time was “a lack of intelligence.” [It is now clear that such is not the case and that some of the craziest-acting persons on the planet are also quite intelligent.]
Later, the term would simply refer to a mental disorder. Eventually, the term would be used to refer to mental disorders, personality disorders, a variety of neuroses of varying degrees, and a variety of psychoses of varying degrees. In a non-dual discussion, the focus is on arrested, psychic development and on mind-based distortion, both of which are a result of interference from personality (or more often, personalities) and from the many personality disorders that evolve from personality assignment and assumption.
The irony: those that had mastered the non-dual understanding had long been aware of what was at the root of humanity’s mental problems, disorders, neuroses, and psychoses long before any of those labels had been generated by the medical and psychological and psychiatric communities.
It is now clear that personality develops during childhood as children react to the dysfunctionalism that they encounter in their homes. A cycle begins that will follow persons throughout their entire relative existence if Realization does not happen (which is rare):
As a defense against the often critical, often hostile, often abusive, and – yes – often even dangerous environment in which many children are raised, personality develops. The irony? When personality (ego-states) develop, ego-defense mechanisms are triggered and are used to defend and support the false identifications that are assigned or assumed (mechanisms which include egotism, denial, projection, rationalism, regression, repression, suppression, etc.) Those mechanisms, in turn, help perpetuate the attachment to false identifications.
The effect of personality development, which is often in place by the age of six, is that children fixate at that point, experience little psychic development beyond that age, and thus enter adulthood while still being driven by three or four or five of the basic personality types and styles that were formed during the pre-adolescent period.
Personality, once set, determines and controls all thoughts and words and actions, so it remove the ability to choose, removes the ability to weight options or facts and then make conscious and wise decisions, and removes all ability to behave in a fashion that is any different from the manner which was set in place during childhood.
Hence, the result is a planet which is filled with persons who are in one of two groups:
(1) there are some persons who are the actual, chronological age of a child and act like, say, a six-year old;
and
(2) there are the remainder who are the chronological age of adults but who think and talk and behave like children who are six years of age, or thereabouts.
What kind of planet would you guess is going to exist when that is the case?
Maybe one where people beat or otherwise abuse or even kill mates whom they claim they love?
Maybe one where persons believe they are different from others and better than others who have a different color skin or who are in a different economic class or who live in a different country?
Maybe one where people, in the name of God, invade a continent and kill 98% of the inhabitants and confiscate 99% of their land and confine the few, remaining survivors on “reservations”?
Maybe one Where a British Empire developed that covered a quarter of the Earth's land area and controlled one fifth of its population?
Maybe one where other nations formed empires and controlled at one time or another almost all of the populated lands and the people of the planet?
Maybe one where religions developed and have since accounted from more killing and murder (again, in the name of their god) than all other causes of death combined except for natural causes?
Maybe one where hierarchies are formed as a result of ego and egotism and where those at the top believe that they have the right to determine who is treated well and who is not; to decide who is a person and who is 3/5’s of a person; who is to be enslaved and who is not; who is allowed to marry and who is not; to decide what kind of sex is okay among willing partners and what kind is not; to decide that no one should be allowed to use birth control; to determine who deserves equal pay for equal work and who does not; to declare who can vote in a “democracy” and who cannot; and even to decide who is allowed to live and who is not?
Maybe one where, as Maharaj reported, almost all persons and their thoughts and their words and their actions are driven and controlled and determined by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”?
Are you seeing what arrested development is really about, what causes it, what its consequences are, and how to be freed from the perverted agendas of personality, once and for all?
Are you seeing why the sages have begged, cajoled, encouraged, or invited persons to abandon all sense of "personhood" and to take the steps required in order to be freed from being driven by the hidden, subconscious agendas of their assigned or assumed personality identifications?
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
1 October 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: [Continued from yesterday]
So, what else does one have to lose to Realize, and what else will one lose if Realized?
An inability to see clearly, to focus, to witness objectively, and to see true colors (such as “red flags”). What is lost is misperceiving; what comes is a clear perception of all.
Maharaj, from yesterday: “Purify your vision” and “Clear your vision.”
He advised: “Learn to see instead of staring”
and
“see the dream as dream.”
And then he asked, rhetorically, “What can I do beyond showing you the way to improve your vision?”
He said: “Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror.”
Next, he suggested: “Go beyond the personal and see”
and
if you Realized, then “you see everything much clearer.”
He said: “I see what you too could see, here and now, but for the wrong focus of your attention. You give no attention to Your Self. Your mind is all with things, people and ideas, never with Your Self. Bring Your Self into focus, become aware of your own existence. See how you function, watch the motives and results of your actions. Study the prison you have built around yourself, by inadvertence.”
And finally, “Neither your facts nor ideas are mine. What I see is beyond. Cross over to my side and see with me.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
30 September 2014
No, that silly act is the habit of
(1) individual humans
and
(2) human couples
And above all else, what inspires humans - all programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, brainwashed and indoctrinated from very early on – to bury their heads in the sand (that is, to refuse to see)?
Truth. Since the age of 5 or 6, that has been observed to be the case, and it has been noted here on occasion that “the truth can set you free, but it will piss you off first!” Why? Two reasons:
1. Because one key effect of programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing and indoctrination is that the word of one having assumed the role of “The Authority” or the word of those playing the role of “The Authorities” is taken by the masses to be true - unquestioningly - based in blind faith alone; and
2. because seeing the truth would require escapists and avoiders to face reality; to stop putting a spin on reality; to see one’s truth rather than dissociating from it; to have to take the action that the truth is showing should be taken; to abandon some of their favorite roles; to stop whitewashing the darkness that surrounds them; and to admit that they have been blind and color blind.
And nothing drives all of that like the nine basic personality types which visitors to this site are familiar with:
Some will remember the response from the Type Eight and Type One man whose counselor was trying to help him see the effects that his sexual conduct was having on his marriage: “I did not have sexual affairs with those four women at work. They only gave me oral sex, dammit!”
Type One Perfectionists are forever spinning the truth about the liabilities that accompany that personality type, as are Type Threes who usually see themselves as being perfect.
The following was said to a marriage counselor who asked a Type Three to "give me a ball park estimate – using percentages – of how much of the trouble in your marriage you've caused over the years and how much of the trouble was caused by your husband."
Counselor: “Please explain.”
She: “He has caused 95% of all of the troubles we’ve ever had.”
Counselor: “You don’t really believe that.”
She: “Yes I do.”
Counselor: “No, you’re just being nice, some might say, falsely modest. You really believe that he is 100% to blame for everything that has gone wrong in your relationship.”
She, with her primary Personality Type Three and her huge Type One Perfectionist which both joined forces with her vicious Type Eight, said: “You want the truth? That’s right! He’s caused every problem we’ve ever had!”
The narcissism of Types Twos and Threes results in being blind to the liabilities that their personalities bring.
Non-Realized Fours are escapists, as are Type Sevens (who are most likely to develop addictions).
Type Fives are the Kings and Queens of avoidance, as are their cohorts, Type Nines.
Type Sixes avoid if the confronting of issues might jeopardize the deal they have going with the people and institutions which they have formed dependent and co-dependent relationships with, trying to keep their caregivers attached at all costs.
Eights, being fighters and bossy and confrontational – and even sociopathic at times – are the only ones who don’t hide from the truth that they can be mean and cruel and sadistic. They just don’t care.
Most persons, therefore, have no willingness at all to see truth. Some time back, there was the sharing here of the story of a woman whose husband was hitting her, but she minimized that activity by saying, to paraphrase: “He says that those are love taps and that husbands who never get upset don’t care about their wives. He said if he wasn't emotionally invested in me, he couldn’t get as upset as he does.” Blind.
A husband recently admitted that his wife’s diagnosis (that she is a full-blown narcissist who is also bipolar, borderline, and sociopathic) was spot on; admitted that she really is damaging the psychic and physical health of their children; and admitted that he was going to have to leave her and the insanity-filled environment of their home and marriage.
He broached the topic of leaving with the children, and it was then that she revealed she had spoken to a lawyer and he had told her that “she would win custody of the children, that she would get a huge percentage of the money he earned, that all of their property would be sold and the funds divided, and that she could ruin him financially for life”).
He screamed, “I’d like to throw you off the balcony!”
He said, "And she just smiled . . . one those Gotcha, sucker! kind of smiles."
Had all of the signs of her mental illness been there from early on? Yes. Did friends and family warn him? Yes. Did he marry her and breed with her anyway? Yes. Why? Not only because he was blinded by the hidden agendas of his personality and by the early abandonment by a parent but also because he could not see true colors. Huh?
The red flags were there from the beginning, obvious to any and all, except him. His personas and would-be personas drove him full speed ahead.
Two days after wanting to throw her off a balcony, he told his mother that he was staying with his wife, that after really thinking about it, “I see that at her core she really is a good woman.”
Maharaj: See "your world" as it is, "not as you imagine it to be" and what is “true in essence” is not true “in appearance.”
“Be free of desires and fears [which are all rooted in personality] and at once your vision will clear and you shall see all things as they are.”
Maharaj also said: "Look at the net [at your “personal” world] and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love, happiness and work hard to create pain, hatred and war. You want longevity and overeat, you want friendship and exploit. See your net as made of such contradictions and remove them"; then, "your very seeing will make them go."
One-hundred-and-sixty-five years ago, Thoreau suggested that most people “lead lives of quiet desperation.” Today, the desperation is still there among the masses, but it is no longer quiet. It is very loud indeed.
Have you ever stubbed a toe as you walked into a door or the bed frame or some other piece of furniture while trying to move through your house or apartment / flat at night in the dark? Did you shout out very loudly? That’s what always happens when moving about in the dark. Pain and misery and suffering come, and people end up shouting at the top of their lungs.
Maharaj:
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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An inability to see clearly, to focus, to witness objectively, and to see true colors (such as “red flags”). What is lost is misperceiving; what comes is a clear perception of all.
Maharaj, from yesterday: “Purify your vision” and “Clear your vision.”
He advised: “Learn to see instead of staring”
and
“see the dream as dream.”
And then he asked, rhetorically, “What can I do beyond showing you the way to improve your vision?”
He said: “Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror.”
Next, he suggested: “Go beyond the personal and see”
and
if you Realized, then “you see everything much clearer.”
He said: “I see what you too could see, here and now, but for the wrong focus of your attention. You give no attention to Your Self. Your mind is all with things, people and ideas, never with Your Self. Bring Your Self into focus, become aware of your own existence. See how you function, watch the motives and results of your actions. Study the prison you have built around yourself, by inadvertence.”
And finally, “Neither your facts nor ideas are mine. What I see is beyond. Cross over to my side and see with me.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
30 September 2014
A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Continuing with the discussion of the differing effects on humanity of the three above-referenced perspectives, more answers will be offered for consideration regarding the invitation “to find out who You are inside your body – what You are inside your body. What have you got to lose?”
This question was posed: Indeed, “what have you got to lose?”
Then, this observation was presented: There is much that one has got to lose if one is to be restored to sanity and enjoy a stable existence that can only come if wisdom manifests.
So, what else does one have to lose to Realize, and what else will one lose if Realized?
An inability to see clearly, to focus, to witness objectively, and to see true colors is lost; what comes is an ability to see, to focus, to witness objectively, and to see true colors. What is lost is blindness and color blindness; what comes is clear sightedness and an ability to see red (explained below). What is lost is misperceiving; what comes is a clear perception of all.
The ostrich receives a bad rap, the myth being that an ostrich – if scared - will bury its head in the sand.
That’s not true. An ostrich often appears to have its head buried in the sand when it tends to its eggs that are buried in the sand. Sticking its head into the nest and turning the eggs to give them a more-even distribution of heat results in the appearance of the bird’s head being buried in the sand.
This question was posed: Indeed, “what have you got to lose?”
Then, this observation was presented: There is much that one has got to lose if one is to be restored to sanity and enjoy a stable existence that can only come if wisdom manifests.
So, what else does one have to lose to Realize, and what else will one lose if Realized?
An inability to see clearly, to focus, to witness objectively, and to see true colors is lost; what comes is an ability to see, to focus, to witness objectively, and to see true colors. What is lost is blindness and color blindness; what comes is clear sightedness and an ability to see red (explained below). What is lost is misperceiving; what comes is a clear perception of all.
The ostrich receives a bad rap, the myth being that an ostrich – if scared - will bury its head in the sand.
That’s not true. An ostrich often appears to have its head buried in the sand when it tends to its eggs that are buried in the sand. Sticking its head into the nest and turning the eggs to give them a more-even distribution of heat results in the appearance of the bird’s head being buried in the sand.
No, that silly act is the habit of
(1) individual humans
and
(2) human couples
And above all else, what inspires humans - all programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, brainwashed and indoctrinated from very early on – to bury their heads in the sand (that is, to refuse to see)?
Truth. Since the age of 5 or 6, that has been observed to be the case, and it has been noted here on occasion that “the truth can set you free, but it will piss you off first!” Why? Two reasons:
1. Because one key effect of programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing and indoctrination is that the word of one having assumed the role of “The Authority” or the word of those playing the role of “The Authorities” is taken by the masses to be true - unquestioningly - based in blind faith alone; and
2. because seeing the truth would require escapists and avoiders to face reality; to stop putting a spin on reality; to see one’s truth rather than dissociating from it; to have to take the action that the truth is showing should be taken; to abandon some of their favorite roles; to stop whitewashing the darkness that surrounds them; and to admit that they have been blind and color blind.
And nothing drives all of that like the nine basic personality types which visitors to this site are familiar with:
Some will remember the response from the Type Eight and Type One man whose counselor was trying to help him see the effects that his sexual conduct was having on his marriage: “I did not have sexual affairs with those four women at work. They only gave me oral sex, dammit!”
Type One Perfectionists are forever spinning the truth about the liabilities that accompany that personality type, as are Type Threes who usually see themselves as being perfect.
The following was said to a marriage counselor who asked a Type Three to "give me a ball park estimate – using percentages – of how much of the trouble in your marriage you've caused over the years and how much of the trouble was caused by your husband."
The reply: “95 / 5.”
Counselor: “Please explain.”
She: “He has caused 95% of all of the troubles we’ve ever had.”
Counselor: “You don’t really believe that.”
She: “Yes I do.”
Counselor: “No, you’re just being nice, some might say, falsely modest. You really believe that he is 100% to blame for everything that has gone wrong in your relationship.”
She, with her primary Personality Type Three and her huge Type One Perfectionist which both joined forces with her vicious Type Eight, said: “You want the truth? That’s right! He’s caused every problem we’ve ever had!”
The narcissism of Types Twos and Threes results in being blind to the liabilities that their personalities bring.
Non-Realized Fours are escapists, as are Type Sevens (who are most likely to develop addictions).
Type Fives are the Kings and Queens of avoidance, as are their cohorts, Type Nines.
Type Sixes avoid if the confronting of issues might jeopardize the deal they have going with the people and institutions which they have formed dependent and co-dependent relationships with, trying to keep their caregivers attached at all costs.
Eights, being fighters and bossy and confrontational – and even sociopathic at times – are the only ones who don’t hide from the truth that they can be mean and cruel and sadistic. They just don’t care.
Most persons, therefore, have no willingness at all to see truth. Some time back, there was the sharing here of the story of a woman whose husband was hitting her, but she minimized that activity by saying, to paraphrase: “He says that those are love taps and that husbands who never get upset don’t care about their wives. He said if he wasn't emotionally invested in me, he couldn’t get as upset as he does.” Blind.
A husband recently admitted that his wife’s diagnosis (that she is a full-blown narcissist who is also bipolar, borderline, and sociopathic) was spot on; admitted that she really is damaging the psychic and physical health of their children; and admitted that he was going to have to leave her and the insanity-filled environment of their home and marriage.
He broached the topic of leaving with the children, and it was then that she revealed she had spoken to a lawyer and he had told her that “she would win custody of the children, that she would get a huge percentage of the money he earned, that all of their property would be sold and the funds divided, and that she could ruin him financially for life”).
He screamed, “I’d like to throw you off the balcony!”
He said, "And she just smiled . . . one those Gotcha, sucker! kind of smiles."
Had all of the signs of her mental illness been there from early on? Yes. Did friends and family warn him? Yes. Did he marry her and breed with her anyway? Yes. Why? Not only because he was blinded by the hidden agendas of his personality and by the early abandonment by a parent but also because he could not see true colors. Huh?
The red flags were there from the beginning, obvious to any and all, except him. His personas and would-be personas drove him full speed ahead.
Two days after wanting to throw her off a balcony, he told his mother that he was staying with his wife, that after really thinking about it, “I see that at her core she really is a good woman.”
Maharaj: See "your world" as it is, "not as you imagine it to be" and what is “true in essence” is not true “in appearance.”
“Be free of desires and fears [which are all rooted in personality] and at once your vision will clear and you shall see all things as they are.”
Maharaj also said: "Look at the net [at your “personal” world] and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love, happiness and work hard to create pain, hatred and war. You want longevity and overeat, you want friendship and exploit. See your net as made of such contradictions and remove them"; then, "your very seeing will make them go."
One-hundred-and-sixty-five years ago, Thoreau suggested that most people “lead lives of quiet desperation.” Today, the desperation is still there among the masses, but it is no longer quiet. It is very loud indeed.
Have you ever stubbed a toe as you walked into a door or the bed frame or some other piece of furniture while trying to move through your house or apartment / flat at night in the dark? Did you shout out very loudly? That’s what always happens when moving about in the dark. Pain and misery and suffering come, and people end up shouting at the top of their lungs.
Maharaj:
“Purify your vision.”
“Clear your vision.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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A DAILY CONSIDERATION FOR YOU
F.: Continuing with the discussion of the differing effects on humanity of the three above-referenced perspectives, more answers will be offered for consideration regarding the invitation “to find out who You are inside your body – what You are inside your body. What have you got to lose?”
This question was posed: Indeed, “what have you got to lose?” Then, this observation was presented: There is much that one has got to lose if one is to be restored to sanity and enjoy a stable existence that can only come if wisdom manifests.
So, what else does one have to lose to Realize, and what else will one lose if Realized?
1. A relative existence that was complex is lost and a very simple existence manifests; and
2. a relative existence that was unnatural or (supposedly) supernatural is lost and a natural existence manifests; and
3. the inability to choose is lost as the ability to choose manifests.
(1) A RELATIVE EXISTENCE THAT WAS COMPLEX IS LOST AND A VERY SIMPLE EXISTENCE MANIFESTS
Maharaj said of this understanding, “It is all so simple.”
And it is. What has made seeking into such a long and arduous process nowadays? Find the answer to that and you will abandon all other venues and accept what can manifest by understanding this simple process which was laid out for seekers in a Bombay loft (at least in Maharaj’s later talks) and which are laid out here for you.
Received from a site visitor after he read the post from yesterday: “Beautiful blog post today! Just reading it I feel I can breathe easier and freer. I have nothing to get but much to lose (although it is much less to lose than I once had, thanks to you! Walter”)
Why might he be breathing freer and easier? Because it is when this simple understanding comes that all of the BS and nonsense and unnatural and supernatural going and doing and zooming come to an end.
Because when this simple understanding finally comes, persons stop making a second job out of what could be a simple manner of living which became complicated by religious doingness, religious fighting, and all of those spiritual exercises that “Spiritual Experts” require their protégés to engage in regularly.
And because, therefore, spiritual workaholism finally comes to an end as the third of seven steps is finally transcended. Then what Maharaj said would happen really happens:
One can then follow his advice to “live a simple . . . life.”
Some visitors to the site might recall that the one who was called "Floyd's father" at the end of the day in the cotton fields of east Texas was barely able to pull along the weight of the two burlap bags containing the cotton that he has accumulated each day by the time that the scorching sun had set.
Similarly, most persons move through the relative existence convinced that what they have accumulated - knowledge, financial wealth, beautiful people, fame, religious concepts, spiritual concepts, etc. - is all very “enriching.” In fact, it's all as burdensome as Dad’s overloaded burlap bags that were being dragged along by him. How could one possibly “breathe easier and freer” with the burden of such accumulations? One cannot.
Scientist Szent-Gyorgyi noted that “what drives life is a little electric current set up by the sunshine.”
See? It really is so simple. It is humans - with their concepts and beliefs - that complicate the existence.
In the 300's A.D., religious leaders met to consider the content in what they called "The Holy Bible." At their councils, they determined that 1,000 chapters that spoke of the humanity of the one called "Jesus Christ" had to be removed from all copies and had to be burned in order to have only versions that supported the conceptualized "divinity" of the man.
One other complicating change they made had an impact that continues to this day: in the still-continuing debate about why an all-powerful God could not stamp out evil and why "bad things happen to good people," they determined that they would introduce the concept of a second god, a god of evil.
They modeled him after the ancient evil gods of Greece and Rome, so he too had a pitchfork and a tail and horns. They took the Hebrew word for "the enemy," namely "satan" (often also used originally to refer to "egotism") and they took the pagan name for a god of insects ("beelzebub") and they capitalized those and invented the idea of a second god.
That second god they claimed was a god of evil named "Satan" or "Beelzebub," and they explained that the bad, rebellious god was the reason that evil existed in spite of there being a supposedly all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful god. They reported that there is a battle going on across the heavens as the two fight "for the hearts and souls and minds" of humankind.
Then, one priest pointed out a line in their "holy" text that they concluded had to be removed from a book that millions believe is infallible because it was "written by God," but that line they expunged because it contradicted the newly-dreamed-up fiction about a "god of evil, a Satan" who is responsible for all evil in the world. Obviously, that particular line was "the exception," one that was sneaked into the scriptures without having been inspired by God, so they concluded.
That original line said: "You have been given a simple life. Man's complex problems are of his own making."
Not the makings of a god of evil? No. Not the makings of "Satan"? No. So of course that line had to be removed. It pointed to the truth rather than supporting their newest, dreamed-up lie that would eventually be spread around the entire globe.
A friend in the early 1970’s began his career as a Christian minister. He became disillusioned with the actual effects of religion that he saw, so he left that job and began offering marriage / couples counseling.
He said he could no longer provide a total of the huge numbers of couples who came to him and who were involved in relationships in which two persons were angry and resentful and intent on punishing each other and so hell-bent on making their partner miserable.
He said that if he reached a point where it became clear that their relationship was beyond repair, he would often be honest enough to say, “This will be our last session. I’ll not try to be your ‘guide’ any longer through this very complex maze that your relationship has become. I am going to offer you one consideration to take with you and suggest you let this be your guide henceforth. The consideration for each of you is this: ‘Am I better off or worse off with this other person'?"
Then he would say, "Of course, if you have any hidden agendas about ‘a better lifestyle’ or concerns about ‘your public image’ or concerns about ‘whether your parents will approve or disapprove of you’ or issues about ‘what some god will or will not think or will or will not approve of,’ then you will not find the true answer to that question at all’.”
He said just before he retired that that he had seen far too much misery in his thirty years of working with couples, misery which came about in many cases because they were in three-way relationships (with “God” being the third party).
It was in the early ‘70’s that he said something that will be paraphrased, but it was something very close to this: “Some come to me because one person has suddenly become ‘spiritual’ and the partner no longer meets 'the new, required standard.' Others come because their religious training has handicapped them with a near-countless number of hang-ups about masturbation; sex; sex for fun rather than procreation; about staying in unhealthy or dangerous relationships because they actually believe that God would cast them into the fires of hell if they divorced, etc., etc., etc. I have tried to offer all of those types a way out that is based in logic and in what is reasonable rather than on something based in their parents’ or their grandparents’ magical thinking.”
So should marriage be avoided? That happens with some among the Realized and does not happen with others, but if a marriage continues, it will not continue as it has before if two persons suddenly Realize. Maharaj explained it this way:
[“There will be marriage, there will be children, there will be earning money to maintain a family; all this will happen in the natural course of events; [but] you will go through it without resistance, facing tasks as they come, attentive and thorough, both in small things and big. But the general attitude will be of affectionate detachment, enormous goodwill, without expectation of return, constant giving without asking. In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the Love between the two. You are the clarity and kindness that makes everything orderly and happy.”]
So the counselor’s own experience showed that religious concepts and spiritual concepts complicate relationships and make lives more complex, but what can you see on your own as well?
Consider events happening all around the globe right now and, if you witness honestly and objectively, could you possibly conclude that persons’ who are “in a close relationship with God” are living lives that are (A) simpler rather than lives that are (B) as complex and complicated as they can possibly be?
Here, when stuck at the third of seven steps on the “path” to Full Realization (that is, to fully realizing how nonsensical beliefs had been driving thoughts and words and actions and then finally being free of their influence), life became very simple and far less complex when the third step was finally transcended and “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” roles were discarded and abidance began happening naturally in the absence of all of that third-step magical thinking and role-playing.
(2) A RELATIVE EXISTENCE THAT WAS UNNATURAL OR (SUPPOSEDLY) SUPERNATURAL IS LOST AND A NATURAL EXISTENCE MANIFESTS
It is at the third of seven steps to Realization where religious and spiritual role-playing happens. What did Maharaj say about that?
“Even 'faith in God' is only a stage on the way. Ultimately, you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.”
At that point, if one moves beyond the third step “good roles,” religious doingness and religious fighting and religious killing and spiritual exercises and spiritual workaholism come to an end. A simple life begins, and you “breathe easier and freer.” You relax and take it easy, no matter what is going on, or not.
(3) THE INABILITY TO CHOOSE IS LOST AND THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE MANIFESTS
Choice is a conscious act, but as it occurs among the Realized, it happens naturally and spontaneously and instinctively, not mentally or emotionally. Choice among the Realized exhibits evidence of brain-inspired logic and reason without any influence from a mind-driven thought.
Thought is the stuff of a mind, and the Realized are mindless. Among the non-Realized masses, thought is also the stuff of personality, as are words and deeds, all the result of being driven by the unconscious, hidden agendas of a personality rather than by awareness.
Freedom only comes in one variety: “Freedom without personality.” There is no such thing as "freedom with personality." How could a person possibly be “free” if that person is a captive of – is being driven unconsciously by - the hidden agendas of multiple personalities? A person cannot.
An example used to assist seekers in understanding that pointer involves riding in a car. If you are in a car and are being driven, there are three places in the vehicle where you can be and one place in the vehicle where you cannot be.
This was shared earlier:
Remember the movie “Driving Miss Daisy”? Where was Miss Daisy in the car, always? And where was Morgan Freeman in the car, always?
If one is being driven, the three places in the car where that person can be are in the passenger seat, in the back seat, or locked away in the trunk / the boot. The one place where a person who is being driven cannot be is . . . behind the steering wheel. You're being driven, not driving, when abiding under the influence of personality.
So, if driven, you cannot be in the driver’s seat. You cannot be the one deciding where you go, when you go, or how you go. You cannot keep the car on the road rather than it being run into the ditch if the driver decides that’s where the car needs to go.
(And if you look at any life that's been a total wreck, you can now understand why that was the case. They weren't driving. They were being driven.)
Assume all the power and all the ability to make decisions that you want, but if a personality is driving you, then you have no choice and you have no ability to decide anything consciously. Unconscious desires and fears and motives will be driving your every thought and word and action. And for one to think she or he is in the driver’s seat when he or she is actually being driven is a result of either ignorance or insanity.
If the non-dual understanding leads to Realization, then that will put You in the driver’s seat. You will no longer be driven by the subconscious motives and aims and agendas and fears and desires of false identifications.
If no longer driven, there will be no one who thinks he or she is living supernaturally (a.k.a., "other-worldly," “spiritually,” “religiously,” or “magically”); there will be no one abiding unnaturally (wearing special clothes, chanting, humming, or mucking up one’s environment with noisy bells and noisy leaders and noisy speakers and noisy, incessant talkers);
Instead, the relative existence will unfold naturally and spontaneously. The non-dualist Thoreau said of the twenty-five months that he spent in retreat at Walden Pond, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Look up “deliberately” in a dictionary and you will see that it means “consciously.” Understand everything that comes forth from the motives of personality and you will understand all that is "non-essential" and differentiate that from the basic "essential facts of life." There will no longer be any belief in the phony, dreamed up "needs" of false personas.
And if all beliefs go, then what will be lost is the following and what will be found is the following:
A relative existence that was complex is lost and a very simple existence will manifest; a relative existence that was unnatural or (supposedly) supernatural will be lost and a natural existence will manifest; and the inability to choose will be lost as the ability to choose manifests.
You’ll live a simple life, and living simply, you’ll “breathe freer and easier.”
Of course, those who generate chaos to try to escape boredom and those addicted to control and power and those who prefer complexities and complications and those who are driven by hang-ups and fixations and neuroses and psychoses and phobias and obsessions of the mind will continue to abide unnaturally or will continue to try to abide supernaturally. So it is.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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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.
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This question was posed: Indeed, “what have you got to lose?” Then, this observation was presented: There is much that one has got to lose if one is to be restored to sanity and enjoy a stable existence that can only come if wisdom manifests.
So, what else does one have to lose to Realize, and what else will one lose if Realized?
1. A relative existence that was complex is lost and a very simple existence manifests; and
2. a relative existence that was unnatural or (supposedly) supernatural is lost and a natural existence manifests; and
3. the inability to choose is lost as the ability to choose manifests.
(1) A RELATIVE EXISTENCE THAT WAS COMPLEX IS LOST AND A VERY SIMPLE EXISTENCE MANIFESTS
Maharaj said of this understanding, “It is all so simple.”
And it is. What has made seeking into such a long and arduous process nowadays? Find the answer to that and you will abandon all other venues and accept what can manifest by understanding this simple process which was laid out for seekers in a Bombay loft (at least in Maharaj’s later talks) and which are laid out here for you.
Received from a site visitor after he read the post from yesterday: “Beautiful blog post today! Just reading it I feel I can breathe easier and freer. I have nothing to get but much to lose (although it is much less to lose than I once had, thanks to you! Walter”)
Why might he be breathing freer and easier? Because it is when this simple understanding comes that all of the BS and nonsense and unnatural and supernatural going and doing and zooming come to an end.
Because when this simple understanding finally comes, persons stop making a second job out of what could be a simple manner of living which became complicated by religious doingness, religious fighting, and all of those spiritual exercises that “Spiritual Experts” require their protégés to engage in regularly.
And because, therefore, spiritual workaholism finally comes to an end as the third of seven steps is finally transcended. Then what Maharaj said would happen really happens:
One can then follow his advice to “live a simple . . . life.”
Some visitors to the site might recall that the one who was called "Floyd's father" at the end of the day in the cotton fields of east Texas was barely able to pull along the weight of the two burlap bags containing the cotton that he has accumulated each day by the time that the scorching sun had set.
Similarly, most persons move through the relative existence convinced that what they have accumulated - knowledge, financial wealth, beautiful people, fame, religious concepts, spiritual concepts, etc. - is all very “enriching.” In fact, it's all as burdensome as Dad’s overloaded burlap bags that were being dragged along by him. How could one possibly “breathe easier and freer” with the burden of such accumulations? One cannot.
Scientist Szent-Gyorgyi noted that “what drives life is a little electric current set up by the sunshine.”
See? It really is so simple. It is humans - with their concepts and beliefs - that complicate the existence.
In the 300's A.D., religious leaders met to consider the content in what they called "The Holy Bible." At their councils, they determined that 1,000 chapters that spoke of the humanity of the one called "Jesus Christ" had to be removed from all copies and had to be burned in order to have only versions that supported the conceptualized "divinity" of the man.
One other complicating change they made had an impact that continues to this day: in the still-continuing debate about why an all-powerful God could not stamp out evil and why "bad things happen to good people," they determined that they would introduce the concept of a second god, a god of evil.
They modeled him after the ancient evil gods of Greece and Rome, so he too had a pitchfork and a tail and horns. They took the Hebrew word for "the enemy," namely "satan" (often also used originally to refer to "egotism") and they took the pagan name for a god of insects ("beelzebub") and they capitalized those and invented the idea of a second god.
That second god they claimed was a god of evil named "Satan" or "Beelzebub," and they explained that the bad, rebellious god was the reason that evil existed in spite of there being a supposedly all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful god. They reported that there is a battle going on across the heavens as the two fight "for the hearts and souls and minds" of humankind.
Then, one priest pointed out a line in their "holy" text that they concluded had to be removed from a book that millions believe is infallible because it was "written by God," but that line they expunged because it contradicted the newly-dreamed-up fiction about a "god of evil, a Satan" who is responsible for all evil in the world. Obviously, that particular line was "the exception," one that was sneaked into the scriptures without having been inspired by God, so they concluded.
That original line said: "You have been given a simple life. Man's complex problems are of his own making."
Not the makings of a god of evil? No. Not the makings of "Satan"? No. So of course that line had to be removed. It pointed to the truth rather than supporting their newest, dreamed-up lie that would eventually be spread around the entire globe.
A friend in the early 1970’s began his career as a Christian minister. He became disillusioned with the actual effects of religion that he saw, so he left that job and began offering marriage / couples counseling.
He said he could no longer provide a total of the huge numbers of couples who came to him and who were involved in relationships in which two persons were angry and resentful and intent on punishing each other and so hell-bent on making their partner miserable.
He said that if he reached a point where it became clear that their relationship was beyond repair, he would often be honest enough to say, “This will be our last session. I’ll not try to be your ‘guide’ any longer through this very complex maze that your relationship has become. I am going to offer you one consideration to take with you and suggest you let this be your guide henceforth. The consideration for each of you is this: ‘Am I better off or worse off with this other person'?"
Then he would say, "Of course, if you have any hidden agendas about ‘a better lifestyle’ or concerns about ‘your public image’ or concerns about ‘whether your parents will approve or disapprove of you’ or issues about ‘what some god will or will not think or will or will not approve of,’ then you will not find the true answer to that question at all’.”
He said just before he retired that that he had seen far too much misery in his thirty years of working with couples, misery which came about in many cases because they were in three-way relationships (with “God” being the third party).
It was in the early ‘70’s that he said something that will be paraphrased, but it was something very close to this: “Some come to me because one person has suddenly become ‘spiritual’ and the partner no longer meets 'the new, required standard.' Others come because their religious training has handicapped them with a near-countless number of hang-ups about masturbation; sex; sex for fun rather than procreation; about staying in unhealthy or dangerous relationships because they actually believe that God would cast them into the fires of hell if they divorced, etc., etc., etc. I have tried to offer all of those types a way out that is based in logic and in what is reasonable rather than on something based in their parents’ or their grandparents’ magical thinking.”
So should marriage be avoided? That happens with some among the Realized and does not happen with others, but if a marriage continues, it will not continue as it has before if two persons suddenly Realize. Maharaj explained it this way:
[“There will be marriage, there will be children, there will be earning money to maintain a family; all this will happen in the natural course of events; [but] you will go through it without resistance, facing tasks as they come, attentive and thorough, both in small things and big. But the general attitude will be of affectionate detachment, enormous goodwill, without expectation of return, constant giving without asking. In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the Love between the two. You are the clarity and kindness that makes everything orderly and happy.”]
So the counselor’s own experience showed that religious concepts and spiritual concepts complicate relationships and make lives more complex, but what can you see on your own as well?
Consider events happening all around the globe right now and, if you witness honestly and objectively, could you possibly conclude that persons’ who are “in a close relationship with God” are living lives that are (A) simpler rather than lives that are (B) as complex and complicated as they can possibly be?
Here, when stuck at the third of seven steps on the “path” to Full Realization (that is, to fully realizing how nonsensical beliefs had been driving thoughts and words and actions and then finally being free of their influence), life became very simple and far less complex when the third step was finally transcended and “The Super Religious One” and “The Spiritual Giant” roles were discarded and abidance began happening naturally in the absence of all of that third-step magical thinking and role-playing.
(2) A RELATIVE EXISTENCE THAT WAS UNNATURAL OR (SUPPOSEDLY) SUPERNATURAL IS LOST AND A NATURAL EXISTENCE MANIFESTS
It is at the third of seven steps to Realization where religious and spiritual role-playing happens. What did Maharaj say about that?
“Even 'faith in God' is only a stage on the way. Ultimately, you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.”
At that point, if one moves beyond the third step “good roles,” religious doingness and religious fighting and religious killing and spiritual exercises and spiritual workaholism come to an end. A simple life begins, and you “breathe easier and freer.” You relax and take it easy, no matter what is going on, or not.
(3) THE INABILITY TO CHOOSE IS LOST AND THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE MANIFESTS
Choice is a conscious act, but as it occurs among the Realized, it happens naturally and spontaneously and instinctively, not mentally or emotionally. Choice among the Realized exhibits evidence of brain-inspired logic and reason without any influence from a mind-driven thought.
Thought is the stuff of a mind, and the Realized are mindless. Among the non-Realized masses, thought is also the stuff of personality, as are words and deeds, all the result of being driven by the unconscious, hidden agendas of a personality rather than by awareness.
Freedom only comes in one variety: “Freedom without personality.” There is no such thing as "freedom with personality." How could a person possibly be “free” if that person is a captive of – is being driven unconsciously by - the hidden agendas of multiple personalities? A person cannot.
An example used to assist seekers in understanding that pointer involves riding in a car. If you are in a car and are being driven, there are three places in the vehicle where you can be and one place in the vehicle where you cannot be.
This was shared earlier:
Remember the movie “Driving Miss Daisy”? Where was Miss Daisy in the car, always? And where was Morgan Freeman in the car, always?
If one is being driven, the three places in the car where that person can be are in the passenger seat, in the back seat, or locked away in the trunk / the boot. The one place where a person who is being driven cannot be is . . . behind the steering wheel. You're being driven, not driving, when abiding under the influence of personality.
So, if driven, you cannot be in the driver’s seat. You cannot be the one deciding where you go, when you go, or how you go. You cannot keep the car on the road rather than it being run into the ditch if the driver decides that’s where the car needs to go.
(And if you look at any life that's been a total wreck, you can now understand why that was the case. They weren't driving. They were being driven.)
Assume all the power and all the ability to make decisions that you want, but if a personality is driving you, then you have no choice and you have no ability to decide anything consciously. Unconscious desires and fears and motives will be driving your every thought and word and action. And for one to think she or he is in the driver’s seat when he or she is actually being driven is a result of either ignorance or insanity.
If the non-dual understanding leads to Realization, then that will put You in the driver’s seat. You will no longer be driven by the subconscious motives and aims and agendas and fears and desires of false identifications.
If no longer driven, there will be no one who thinks he or she is living supernaturally (a.k.a., "other-worldly," “spiritually,” “religiously,” or “magically”); there will be no one abiding unnaturally (wearing special clothes, chanting, humming, or mucking up one’s environment with noisy bells and noisy leaders and noisy speakers and noisy, incessant talkers);
Instead, the relative existence will unfold naturally and spontaneously. The non-dualist Thoreau said of the twenty-five months that he spent in retreat at Walden Pond, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Look up “deliberately” in a dictionary and you will see that it means “consciously.” Understand everything that comes forth from the motives of personality and you will understand all that is "non-essential" and differentiate that from the basic "essential facts of life." There will no longer be any belief in the phony, dreamed up "needs" of false personas.
And if all beliefs go, then what will be lost is the following and what will be found is the following:
A relative existence that was complex is lost and a very simple existence will manifest; a relative existence that was unnatural or (supposedly) supernatural will be lost and a natural existence will manifest; and the inability to choose will be lost as the ability to choose manifests.
You’ll live a simple life, and living simply, you’ll “breathe freer and easier.”
Of course, those who generate chaos to try to escape boredom and those addicted to control and power and those who prefer complexities and complications and those who are driven by hang-ups and fixations and neuroses and psychoses and phobias and obsessions of the mind will continue to abide unnaturally or will continue to try to abide supernaturally. So it is.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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Maharaj said of each that visited his Bombay loft, “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.” He also said that the problems of humankind are problems associated with the Ultimate Sickness and that three of the key traits of the Ultimate Sickness are "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
To that end, either (1) the ancient view is spot on: that the "ills of the planet" are rooted in evil people, in people not being religious enough or spiritual enough, and are caused solely by bad morality; or, (2) the "ills of the planet" are rooted in ignorance, stupidity and insanity and "being good" or "being moral" does not put an end to ignorance, does not eliminate stupidity, and does not treat insanity in any way.
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While in South Africa in 2011, I was introduced to A Primate’s Memoir (2002) by Dr. Robert Maurice Sapolsky. Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist; a professor of biology, neuroscience, and neurosurgery at Stanford University; a researcher; an author; and a Research Associate at the National Museums of Kenya.
A Primate’s Memoir (which documents Sapolsky’s years in Africa while studying baboons), was recommended because there is much that a non-dualist or Advaitin or Nisargan can relate to by comparing and contrasting what Sapolsky reveals about the way certain troops of baboons live in Africa with the way that humans abide all around the globe. The book also portrays an unconventional way of studying neurophysiology to determine the effects of stress on life expectancy. (And the reduction or elimination of stress among humans is one of the aims of the non-dual understanding.)
Now Sapolsky’s recent findings are offered in a documentary film entitled “Stress: Portrait of a Killer.” [The 56-minute film is available on YouTube in many countries.]
This 152-page eBook catalogues the common, non-dual message shared by Sapolsky and Maharaj and reveals the ways that Sapolsky’s scientific research supports the non-dual pointers offered by Maharaj.
SHIFTING THE FOCUS FROM THAT WHICH DOES NOT WORK TO THAT WHICH DOES, Part One
A Primate’s Memoir (which documents Sapolsky’s years in Africa while studying baboons), was recommended because there is much that a non-dualist or Advaitin or Nisargan can relate to by comparing and contrasting what Sapolsky reveals about the way certain troops of baboons live in Africa with the way that humans abide all around the globe. The book also portrays an unconventional way of studying neurophysiology to determine the effects of stress on life expectancy. (And the reduction or elimination of stress among humans is one of the aims of the non-dual understanding.)
Now Sapolsky’s recent findings are offered in a documentary film entitled “Stress: Portrait of a Killer.” [The 56-minute film is available on YouTube in many countries.]
This 152-page eBook catalogues the common, non-dual message shared by Sapolsky and Maharaj and reveals the ways that Sapolsky’s scientific research supports the non-dual pointers offered by Maharaj.
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.
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THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (THERE IS ONLY PEACE IF YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR MIND)
FREEDOM FROM SHIFTING BETWEEN STATES OF HAPPINESS AND UNHAPPINESS
THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS / THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE
PROGRAMMING, CONDITIONING, DOMESTICATION, AND ACCULTURATION (THE SOURCES OF THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS; THE NON-DUALITY TREATMENT)
"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?"
THE MYTH OF "DEATH"
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS: THE SIMPLICITY OF REALIZATION
FINDING REAL LOVE IN AN UNREAL WORLD
CASTING LIGHT ON THE DARK SIDE OF RELATIONSHIPS
OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
THE NON-DUALITY POINTERS OFFERED BY YESHU'A ("JESUS THE CHRIST")
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[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.]
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE ADVAITIN
WHEN ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN (THE "FINAL" TALKS OF FLOYD HENDERSON)
I AM THAT (vs. "This Is Who I Think I Am")
QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS DEALING WITH NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA, AND MORE
DANCING LIGHTLY
THE PATH TO FREEDOM VS. THE PATH TO MISERY
THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS PERSONAL (INCLUDING YOU AND INCLUDING GOD)
LIBERATION (ATTAINING FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY VIA REALIZATION)
WHY YOU MUST BE EMPTY IF YOU WOULD BE FULL
FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")
WHEN REALITY IS OVERLAID ON THE RELATIVE
THE RELATIVE RESULTS OF RETURNING TO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
WHAT BLISS IS AND WHAT BLISS IS NOT
THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS
LESSONS IN NON-DUALITY FROM TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIRST STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SECOND STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE THIRD STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FOURTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE FIFTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SIXTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
A SERIES OF ESSAYS DISCUSSING THE SEVENTH STEP ON THE SEVEN-STEP PATH TO REALIZATION
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (RECOVERING WHAT RELIGIONS LOST)
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (AND WHY KNOWING IT SETS YOU FREE)
