Today's Considerations
Were the results of returning to "The Child Ignorance
Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State” to be understood, some might determine that following the “reverse path” as recommended by Maharaj would be a “no-brainer.”
(Regular visitors to this site understand it would be a “no-minder.”)
Yet he
noted how few would ever do so, first predicting that only 1 in 100,000 would “get
it,” later modifying his guesstimate to 1 in 1,000,000, and eventually
predicting that only 1 in 10,000,000 will ever take the steps required to be free of
body and mind and personality identifications; free of learned ignorance; and
free of the insanity imposed upon them by parents, teachers, politicians,
religious leaders, spiritual leaders, and their entire culture in general.
Yesterday, one of the reasons that humans have no desire to
follow the “path” Maharaj recommended was alluded to in this pointer:
1. Reaching the fourth of the seven steps from (a)
identification with the false "I" to understanding (b) the Absolute
is a step towards de-accumulation, not towards accumulation.
To believe that persons might suddenly find de-accumulation appealing
after having been conditioned to accumulate is to believe that Pavlov’s dogs
would suddenly stop salivating at the sound of a bell after having been conditioned
to do so.
2. Another reason that most will never follow “the path”
Maharaj described is because that would require “seeking,” and those who think
they already know it all will seek nothing. With 97% of the planet’s population
claiming a religious affiliation, and with their having been programmed, conditioned,
etc. to believe with unquestioning blind faith that "all of the answers can be found in our 'holy texts',” most persons are unlikely to ever become motivated
to look outside their religious or spiritual venues for any understanding. Actually, the third step
playing of religious and spiritual roles is usually a requirement along the way,
but even Eastern / non-dual seekers usually fixate at that third step and play those “good”
identities to the end of the manifestation.
3. Next, even non-dual seekers, using what is offered via
the five basic methods of teaching non-duality, will not find a method which
also incorporates the Nisarga Yoga as Maharaj did when he used that yoga with the Direct Path Method of Teaching. (During his later teaching
days, he pretty much ignored the direct path method and taught that yoga only.) So, most will never find a natural means of abidance which allows them to transition
beyond their unnatural (religious) or their supernatural (spiritual) modes of
living. That leads to the fourth reason:
4. Humans hate natural laws. Why? Because of ignorance.
Those trapped in learned ignorance have never understood natural causes. The religious
side effects of not understanding "the law of natural cause" truly took hold of the minds of humans many thousands of years ago when a self-appointed
religious leader explained why the crops were dying: "It is happening because rain is not
falling. Now, you must understand why it is not falling and what we can do about it."
The explanation for the cause did not include a discussion of varying
weather patterns; did not include an explanation of El Niño and La Niña systems
forming in what is now called “the Pacific”; nor did any weather-related discussions explain why hurricanes form off the western coast of Africa and cross what is not
called “the Atlantic”; and they did not include details about polar vortexes.
Instead, the explanation included only a religious, magical-thinking,
supernatural explanation: “It is not raining because the God of Rain is angry. What
calms down an angry male? Sex, of course, so as God’s representative on earth,
I shall take a virgin into the holiest chamber of our temple, shall have sex with
her, and then shall bring her nude body outside and use her in a communion
service so that we will be closer to God by making a sacrifice to him. To that end,
I shall cut out her beating heart and eat her body and drink her blood and then
pass it through the crowd so you can all do the same.”
In addition to offering a totally-bogus explanation for the cause of droughts,
bogus and ignorant explanations were also offered for floods and fires and cold
fronts and warm fronts and defeats in wars over water and territory. To this day,
supernatural explanations for the causes of natural events and human-caused events are still being
offered and are still being taken as fact by the masses who are trapped in their religious and spiritual
beliefs.
Thus, humans are not at all comfortable with natural laws,
with living in harmony with Nature, with preserving the planet’s overall environment
as well as local environments, or with abiding naturally rather than trying to live in
some supernatural / magical / spiritual manner.
Contrary to understanding natural laws and the sanity of abiding naturally, humans have long sought to suspend the laws of nature
and even sought to override them with dreamed up supernatural / religious / spiritual
laws; furthermore, they have not only been taught that but have also been encouraged
to try to do that by their religious and spiritual leaders who teach that they control the course of natural happening. The result?
Rampant arrogance and narcissism and conceit
and a sense of self-importance and haughtiness which are engendered in persons who believe
that they have the power (and access to an other-worldly Power or Powers) and can,
therefore, control and even suspend the laws of nature with prayer, with entreaties to one god or goddess
or another or to the “One True God.”
To that end, they believe that “a loved one” can be free
from the consequences of a terminal illness; that the course of hurricanes can be redirected to avoid them and hit others; that they can bring victory to our troops; that they can protect their children from all harm; that their unhealthy relationship can be made healthy; that persons incapable of love can be made to love; that mental illness can be cured by prayer and that, relatedly, addictive behavior can be cured or controlled by requesting the intervention of a Power; ad infinitum.
Maharaj made clear that the last time that you were not being driven
by ignorant and insane thoughts was during "The Child Ignorance” or
"The Child No-Knowing” phase of your relative existence when you were “knowledge”-free
and therefore free of the effects of learned ignorance; when you were free of
the belief in any and all false identities (including the "good" or "Special" or "Supreme" or "Infinite ones adopted); when you had not yet been driven insane by having
modeled for you the neurotic and psychotic tendencies of the adults around you;
when you had no-mind and were therefore abiding in the “zero-concept” state
that Maharaj recommended you return to; and when you were abiding as Your Original
(all-natural) Nature rather than as “an unnatural nature” or as “a supernatural /
spiritual nature.”
5. And what might well be a primary reason that humans do not seek
change is because they hate change. At the root of that: the primary drive of
the consciousness is for continuity, "eternal life," and uninterrupted existence.
Because false identities are a part of the play of consciousness, persons also want
their ego-states to have continuity, “eternal life," and uninterrupted existence as
well.
“Husband” wants to be husband forever, even when in certain cases
his desire to continue to play that role provides evidence of the fact that he is being
driven by totally-insane thoughts and beliefs. Examples are always offered after certain pointers, so here you go:
A man recently shared that he is working three
jobs because his wife ran up $250,000 in debt, mostly buying clothes. After her
father paid off that debt for them, she ran up another $250,000, and her employer agreed
to pay that off for her. (After I asked the obvious question, he answered angrily,
“Of course her boss did not expect anything in return! They are just friends,
you ass!”)
As that friendship with the boss seemingly progressed, the
wife cut off all sexual relations with the husband. She has since run up another
$100,000 in debt, which the husband has agreed to pay off; meanwhile, she has told him she hates his guts; she has moved out (and her
boss’s car can be seen at her home many mornings); and she wants a divorce. His
mindset, even after all of that? “I have got to figure out a way to get her
back.”
He hated the second response more than the first: “Really? Once
I was cured of colon cancer, I never wanted to get my polyps back, so I actually
cannot relate to the way you’re thinking. And even if I could, I would not
agree to join you as you try to formulate a strategy by which you can get back the
cancer that has been growing on your life.”
Which brings us to reason #6:
6. Denial. Ignorance cannot spot ignorance. It denies it. Insanity
cannot spot insanity except on the rarest of occasions, and hanging on to that
awareness is usually short-lived if it does happen momentarily. Usually, it
denies it. An ego-state's unlimited desire for continuity engages the mind even as it
disengages the brain.
In another example, an intervention was organized for a woman who said that “She
did not have post-partum depression because she worships regularly and counsels
regularly with her pastor, and I had no right to share with her family that she
confessed to fantasying often about putting her son in a stroller and taking
him to a busy intersection and pushing him in front of a bus or truck.” See? Denial.
Another man shared with me that he had told his wife the night before that he wanted to
toss her off the third floor balcony of their apartment. Two days later, he
said, “You know, Floyd, she really is a good woman.” How distorted in his thinking? He stole money from his mother’s
bank account which he had access to, but told her three months later, “I’m proud
of the fact that I am self-sufficient.”
Next, visitors to this site from South America, Europe, and the
Far East are asking, “Floyd, what the heck is the deal with [Republican
Presidential front-runner Donald] Trump?” There is no deal with Trump, just as
there was no deal with Hitler or Mussolini. There is a deal with huge segments
of the U.S. population who are trapped in astonishingly high levels of ignorance
and insanity and are supporting him, just as astonishingly high levels of ignorance
and insanity were commonplace among the German masses in the 1930’s and 1940’s
and just all there were astonishingly high levels of ignorance and insanity in Italy
during that same period.
The reason that Maharaj abandoned the first two versions of
the Ultimate Medicine which he used and then settled on a third psychological /
non-dual compounded version of the Ultimate Medicine to address the curse of
humanity – the Ultimate Sickness – was because he came to see that the problems
of humankind are not rooted in having too little dogma and are not rooted in a “spiritual malady”;
instead, he came to understand that the problems of
humanity are rooted in widespread ignorance and insanity and that the so-called “path to
realization" is nothing more than "a path to being freed of ignorance" and a path back to being in touch with reality as was the case when the existence was not encumbered with the burden of
having had a mind filled chock full of nonsense and magical thinking and warped perspectives which inspire the normalization
of heaviness as opposed to Lightment / lightness.
The consideration is this:
Is the goal to play the role of “The Enlightened One”? Or is
the goal to stop taking oneself so seriously and to lighten up?
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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