Today's Considerations
To review:
1. Discussions are offered here which have allowed some to shift
from the false “I” to the Absolute, but . . . that is not said to be “the end goal.”
2. There must be a completion of the "third leg of the journey."
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3. Certainly, an understanding of the unicity might impact a
false sense of pride and arrogance and egotism which come with a belief in the opposite
of understanding the unicity, namely, a belief that one is “different-from”
and, therefore, also “better-than.”
4. Edgar Wallace: “The trouble with you is that you have no
sense of unimportance.”
5. Next, in order to be free of a false sense of pride rooted
in one’s sense of importance, and to be freed from even the false sense of some
Grand Identity (“My Supreme Self,” “The Supreme Self,” or even “I am God”)
there must be a shift, not just from the “I” to the Absolute but from the Absolute to an understanding of the Nothingness.
6. In the end, the process involves being free of all identities
as well as any Identity. Why? Because the process is about eliminating all identification
and Identification since any ego-state (or Ego-State) will trigger the use
of ego-defense mechanisms (such as egotism and arrogance and entitlement and
amazing levels of a sense of importance) which perpetuate identity and / or
identity assumption and distortion and delusion.
7. Maharaj endorsed identitylessness and Identitylessness
and a sense of the nothingness because he witnessed first-hand the ways that religion and
spirituality and “being Supreme” foster a mind and thereafter assure that a mind shall be
filled with concepts and ideas and notions and perceptions / misperceptions
(a.k.a., “beliefs”) which, in turn, have fostered a global sense of
“different-from-ment” and “better-than-ment” which, in turn again, has led to the widespread duality and ignorance and insanity and instability and chaos which plague the
masses all around the globe.
8. The problem with all humans is their entrapment in identities
or in an “Identity,” meaning both personal identifications as well as some
lofty “Personal Identification.”
[That is discussed in detail in the eBook, “There is Nothing That is Personal (Including You and Including God.”]
9. Religions, while giving lip service to humility, do
anything but lead to “a sense of unimportance,” what with their false personal identifications
such as “The Reverend”; “The One Anointed as God’s Representative on earth” and
“God’s Anointed People” and “God’s Chosen People”; “The Senior Pastor”; “The
Supreme Leader”; or this official title of the one considered to be the most
important of all Catholics: “His Holiness, Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ,
Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal
Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, and Servant of the servants of God” as well as "The Holy Father" and “Father
of Fathers” and "His Holiness the Pope"; or in Buddhism, “His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama”; or, among some
Easterners and “non-dualists”: “The Master”; “One’s Universal Self”; “The True
Self”; “The Real Self”; “The Supreme Self”; “The Pure One”; “The Divine Power”; “The Highest”;
the “Supreme"; “Parama Siva”; “The Absolute” (meaning literally “one than whom
nothing is higher” rather than referring simply to a field of energy which
might or might not manifest temporarily as conscious-energy); “paramAtma”; “ParaBrahman”;
and even “God” (as in “I Am God” or “I am at one with God”) or whatever other title
or status state might be assumed.
10. In such cases, one personality disorder is merely exchanged
for another. Some come to see that they have long suffered from the ramifications
of personality identification which led to the development of personality
disorders such as: the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (P.D.), the
Addictive P.D., the Narcissistic P.D., the Borderline P.D., the Bi-Polar P.D., the
Antisocial / Sociopathic P. D., the Pathological P.D., the Sadistic P.D., the
Schizoid P.D., the Passive-Aggressive P.D., the Dissociative P.D. or many
others.
11. Among many who feel they have transcended all personality
identification and have been freed from the effects of any and all past
disorders, does it make any sense to trade one disorder for another by claiming
that they are now “The Supreme Self” or have become “God,” only to be trapped
in another personality disorder, namely, the God Complex or Narcissistic
Personality Disorder (which is marked by a pattern of grandiosity and a
grandiose sense of self-importance, a need for admiration, a lack of empathy, arrogance,
egotism, a sense of entitlement, preoccupation with controlling others, fanaticism,
megalomania, etc.)?
12. Does it really make any sense at all to enter into a
process or to adhere to the teachings of a philosophy or ideology or religion or spiritual
movement and then say, “I am going to be free of all egotism and pridefulness and arrogance caused by personal identifications, and to achieve that I am going to replace all of those various identities with just one truly Lofty or Grand or Holy or Sacred or
Hallowed or Divine or Saintly or Pious or Virtuous or Sublime or Supreme Identity"?
13. Next, consider the vocabulary which has been developed and which is now being used by those who “have no
sense of unimportance”: important, valuable, that which is the main, chief,
principal, prime, paramount, significant, central, prized, needed, powerful,
influential, high-ranking, prominent, eminent, preeminent, noteworthy,
distinguished, esteemed, respected, prestigious, celebrated, famous, great,
momentous, major, pivotal, weighty, etc., etc., etc. So much for any more than
just a few seekers ever “having a sense of unimportance.”
14. The problem Maharaj faced are the same being faced here
today when inviting persons to transcend the third of seven steps on the seven-step
“path” (where religious or spiritual personas are assumed as identities) and to leave behind both religious and spiritual role-playing and to focus
instead on addressing the problems which are being generated by warped and nonsensical minds.
15. To invite some Eastern-oriented seekers to “reject both
identifications and any 'Identity' as well" would seem as foreign to them as it would be to ask Christians to “reject
Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and as the One Who will be returning to
earth any day now”; as it would be to invite some Buddhists to “re-consider if the Dalai Lama is really holy”; or as it would have been to have asked
some past cult members, “Do you really believe you should drink that spiked Kool-Aid?”
or “Do you 'Applegaters' really believe that you need to castrate yourself and commit suicide in
order to meet up with aliens who are trailing along behind a comet?”
16. Programmed is programmed. That applies to all, whether their
programming has been of a Western style or of a Mid-Eastern style or of an Eastern
style. It is all programming, and being programmed preempts any chance to be awake
and aware and conscious.
17. Thus, the restoration of sanity can only come by seeing
and then eliminating all traces of one’s former programming, conditioning, domestication,
acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination which have resulted in a mind which is presently packed chock full of Western nonsense and “learned ignorance and insanity,” chock full of Mideast nonsense and “learned ignorance and insanity,” and chock full of Far Eastern nonsense and “learned ignorance and insanity.”
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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