Today's Considerations
Mind and personality cannot be separated. They are the conjoined twins of all deception and distortion. For freedom and
peace to manifest, the mind must go, and if the mind goes, so does the belief in
any false identity (or “Identity” or “Supreme Identity”).
If the mind does not go, then one will be driven by (a) the
belief systems which were set in place by “others” and will be driven by (b) the subconscious
agendas of all of the false identities which have been assigned or assumed.
Because of mind and personality identification, humans no longer have the
ability to make conscious choices. The longer they live, the fewer choices they will be
able to make because (1) the more mind content there will have been accumulated and because (2) the more false identities with
subconscious agendas they will have accumulated.
An old adage is, “Monkey see, monkey do”:
That applies in terms of religious affiliations; political affiliations; beliefs about
race and people of different skin color; attitudes about national pride and xenophobia; in fact, about every belief that has been passed down from one generation to the next and accepted with blind faith as being "the truth."
A recent study provided the percent of people raised in a particular religion who reported that they are still currently members
of that same religion:
Protestant: 90.4%; Jewish: 86.6%; and Catholic: 82.3. Numbers in the Middle East and Far East are much higher. (Some
shifts and exceptions are now happening in the U.S. Twenty years ago, the numbers of those adhering to their parents' religion were
all in the 95%+ range. In recent decades in the U.S., the number claiming to be Christian has
fallen to 70%. Worldwide, however, there are still 97% claiming a religious affiliation,
and most of those affiliations are with the religion passed on to their parents and then passed on to them.)
One writer wrote: “Many people claim that they believe in
their faith because they claim to intrinsically ‘know’ it to be absolutely true” but “a certain
percentage of people believe what they were raised to believe regardless of
what it might be.”
The seekers Maharaj worked with initially were almost still highly
influenced by their Hindu roots. Almost all at Jonestown drank the Kool-Aid. All
but one of the members of Marshall Applegate’s cult committed suicide in order
to link up with a spacecraft that was supposedly trailing Comet Hale-Bopp in
order to be transported to "a level of existence above human" in both
“both physical and spiritual” terms. All of the dead members of the cult were found to have a five-dollar bill and
three quarters in their pockets—said to be needed in order to pay "the interplanetary toll that was going to be charged while on their journey."
Monkey see, monkey do. That is the abnormal norm among
humanity now and it happens because of mind and personality.
Some excerpts from the book “There’s No Such Thing As Peaceof Mind” (There Is Only Peace If You Are Out Of Your Mind) are being shared.
The discussion will now continue with excerpts from “CHAPTER
EIGHT”, entitled “MIND and PERSONALITY: What Cultures Consider ‘Assets’ Are
Actually ‘Liabilities,’ Part One”
This is offered in that chapter:
“Mind” and “personality” cannot be separated since the
former generates belief in the latter. The latter, in turn, generates all
emotional intoxication. [While the Realized can witness feelings rise and fall,
only ego-states—only assumed personas—emote. When personas believe that they
are experiencing some slight, hurt, threat or interference, a series of actions
and reactions are inspired that trigger emotional intoxication as well as
destructive and / or self-destructive behavior.] When persons are trapped in
the agendas of their false roles, then emotions will always overwhelm cognitive
functioning, so now a new pointer is available:
It has been seen that the “mind” can override the
constructive functioning of the brain; now it is seen that persona-generated
emotionalism can also subdue the manner in which nature had originally intended
that the brain should function. Now the degree of wisdom behind the Advaitin
pointer that one must relinquish identification with the “mind” and the
personality as well as with the body becomes clear. Review the evolution of the
brain in regards to this latest understanding:
Humans functioned with a mind-less brain for hundreds of thousands of
years. The brain evolved, developing an area for storing memories and an organ
that could retrieve memories. Those two areas of the brain were intended to
help humanity survive and to behave constructively. No personas were taken to
be identities.
As language developed, information being stored in the brain was less and less of the character of things observed and became filled more and more with the remembering of things told. To observe a friend who touched a burning log, to see his pain, to file away that memory, and to recall that memory when next in the presence of a burning log produced behavior that would be considered “sane.” To the contrary, to observe crops dying as a result of the lack of rain, and then to be told that the rain is being withheld by an angry god who wants a priest to fornicate with a virgin and who wants the priest to cut out her beating heart with a sharp-edged rock and pass it through the crowd during a commune-with-god service produced behavior that would be considered “insane.”
The result of thousands of years of being conditioned to
believe in whatever one is told rather than witnessing objectively and
believing in that which is observable and provable has resulted in a planet
that is populated with masses of sheep-like persons who unquestioning go along
with almost anything that they are told by persons who are labeled as “their
leaders” or as so-called “experts” in their cultures. After centuries and
millennia of such conditioning, the ability among persons to distinguish true
from false has been lost. The result is an appearance that the earth’s masses
are all insane because they have abandoned natural living and are living
unnaturally or supernaturally (that is, trapped in magical thinking that tries
to explain naturally-occurring events with supernatural explanations that
amount to nothing more than fantasies).
In modern cultures, however, such phrases as “Look at that
idiot” or “That’s guy’s insane” are usually off the mark. A more accurate
diagnosis would be, “Look at that space that has assumed a persona which is
inspiring idiot-like behavior” or “Look at that space that has assumed a
persona which is inspiring insane-like behavior.” The distinction must be made:
the teachings of the Advaita philosophy cannot address the most serious mental illnesses. The
teachings address the far more common condition in which persons appear to be
suffering a mental illness when in fact they are merely trapped in
identification with personas that were assigned by members of a culture or that
have been adopted by persons living under the influence of a culture. Thus, an
earlier quote can now be expanded:
“Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is
rooted in the elements. The ‘mind’ is rooted in wrong programming and faulty
conditioning and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods.
Personas are rooted in programmed minds and are sustained by the ego-based lies
and by the learned ignorance that are being taught in most modern cultures.”
Since the most serious mental illnesses cannot be addressed by philosophical
teachings, the difference in being truly insane and in merely functioning under
the auspices of a warped “mind” (and under the influence of believing that
personas are real identities) must be made clear. The pointer is often offered
that it certainly appears insane when one does not know Who / What He / She Truly
Is. Now the clarification can be offered that, technically, that is not
insanity. That is nothing more than evidence of the power of programming. For
example, it certainly appeared insane when Pavlov’s dogs salivated at the sound
of a bell rather than as a result of smelling the aroma of meat. But those dogs
were not insane. They were programmed and conditioned.
Such is the case with almost all of humanity today, so while
most who do not know Who / What They Truly Are would be considered insane, the
"not-knowing" is understandable when it is clear that programming and
conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination combine to set persons up . . .
to (A) adopt or accept false identities as real;
to (B) have no clue about what they are not (which they nevertheless believe that they are);
and
to (C) believe whatever nonsense that they are told while having not even the slightest willingness to question anything.
To be continued.
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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