TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
"Science will someday advance to the point that it will confirm the validity of the non-dual teachings."
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
and
Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who
wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be
free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed to believe so that you can be free, period.
--Floyd Henderson
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[Continued from yesterday]
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Today in the U.S., many altruistic groups such as "The Innocence Project" are working to use DNA evidence to free thousands of people in U.S. prisons who are incarcerated as a result of 1. improper science which is often combined with 2. false statements by self-serving persons, misconduct and lies by the police and other authorities, and by misidentification.
Hundreds of people who have been locked away in prison for 10 or 20 years or more have been exonerated by the use of DNA evidence, and thousands more are awaiting their opportunity to present evidence that will clear them and show that they have been wrongly imprisoned.
Those imprisoned persons are a microcosm of the billions of non-realized persons on the planet who are presently imprisoned, captives to their limited and limiting identification with the body, caged in the prison of the "mind," and interned by the fears and desires of the many constrictive personalities that they have assumed.
As with those literally imprisoned in the U.S., the masses are also similarly imprisoned by improper science, false statements by self-serving persons, misconduct by authorities, and by misidentification.
IMPROPER SCIENCE
Maharaj predicted that, someday, science would prove the validity of every pointer he offered. Scientific discoveries have advanced to that point, yet most persons will never understand the science / pointer connection because most persons do not have a mastery of science beyond the fourth grade level.
Just as it is with the many people in U.S. and other prisons around the globe who have been wrongly convicted, so it is with the non-realized masses who are also suffering as a result of improper science, that is, because of a failure to understand the most basic principles of science which debunk the belief systems which are imprisoning them in the darkness and misery of ignorance.
It is science which could eliminate the ignorant beliefs about . . .
1. an other-world, supernatural entities / entity which plays an active role in human impregnation
and the ignorance-based belief that . . .
2. twenty-three of the "saviors" or prophets which are being worshipped in scores of religions or quasi-religions were actually all born of virgins;
and
3. that this entire manifestation is supported by a "Creator" (or "Creator gods") and by a Sustainer god (or Sustainer gods and goddesses) rather than by an electrical current which is set up by the sun and which is driving the life-force;
and the ignorance-based belief involving . . .
4. not one but two conflicting versions of "how the world was created" which appear in the Judaeo-Christian writings in "The Torah" / "The Book of Genesis."
[Note: It is likely that not even 1% of Jews and Christians know that there were two different versions circulating thousands of years ago about "how the world was created"; it is likely that not even 1% of Jews know that the writer of the Torah included both of those Creation-story versions in their supposedly "holy word";
it is also likely that not 1% of Christians know that their
"Old Testament" is a copy of the ancient Jewish writings and, therefore, also gives not one but two conflicting versions about "how the world was created"; and it is likely that not 1% of all Jews and Christians understand the specific, scientific details about what scientists call "the genesis vacuum" and how scientists have duplicated in the laboratory the act whereby - from a state of non-existence and non-beingness and nothingness - a particle can manifest, proving that what is called "this entire universe" began with the instantaneous manifestation of an atom which split and fused and formed another atom until those atoms crashed together and generated a big bang;
and it is likely that not even 1% of Jews or Christians know that the reported exploits of the Jews' prophet Moses (and the freeing of Jewish slaves in Egypt and forty years of wandering through a desert, etc.) are not corroborated in so much an a single contemporaneous historical document; and it is not likely that even 1% of Jews and Christians know that most of the concepts on which their religions are based were plagiarized from religions and philosophies which taught concepts which had first been dreamed up and reported and recorded by persons in the Far East.
How is it that millions and billions of Jews and Christians have "come and gone" without knowing that a reading of the first few pages of their supposedly infallible scriptures contain a fallacy, sharing two contradictory and thus fallible versions of "how the world was created" in the very beginning of their books?]
And it is science which could eliminate the ignorant belief that . . .
5. A "Supreme Being" made "the world" and everything in it rather than understanding that the so-called "beginning of this universe” can be traced to an event that is similar to what is playing out continuously within what is called “the sun,” namely, this scenario:
A. At the core of the sun, four hydrogen nuclei fuse together to form one helium nucleus, and that happens over and over, and it is that action which happened "in the (fictionalized) beginning" of this universe and which led to the bang which, in turn, generated "this universe."
[Why a fictionalized beginning? Because there was no "beginning" and because nothing was "created" because all is matter-energy and matter-energy cannot be created or destroyed and because that which was not created and because it has always existed has been infinite and because that which is infinite has no beginning or end. That energy-matter is what is infinite. What is not infinite? Any "you" or "supposed "You" or supposed "Self" or some dreamed up "Supreme Being" or "Supreme Self" or "Infinite Self."]
B. The part of the energy which that process releases (as "light") travels in both particle and wave form. Land plants evolved on earth (not 6000 years ago as some believe and not 500 million years ago as some originally estimated but closer to 700 million years ago for plants and closer to 1.3 billion years ago for land fungi).
C. The stage was set for plants to convert a form of energy which cannot be usable for animals and humans into a form which could be usable. Plant photosynthesis, in turn, set the stage for the manifesting of energy-consciousness or conscious-energy.
D. See? It is science which can show where this supposed "you" were in the days and weeks prior to conception; which can show how nothing is created and which can show that all is merely cycling instead; which can show how there is only energy / matter; which can show how energy / matter can neither be created nor destroyed; which can show how the Second Law of Thermodynamics proves that whatever comes together will eventually come apart;
which can show how the body is nothing more than a plant food body formed of elements which will eventually return to the universal pool of elements; and which can show how a specialized form of energy called "consciousness" can manifest and unmanifest, how it can only witness, and how it can do nothing beyond that.
FALSE STATEMENTS MADE BY self-SERVING PERSONS
From the time that a child is old enough to be taught, there will begin a process whereby self-serving persons will make false statements (which they nevertheless believe to be true) in order to program the child to think and talk and behave as the programmers think and talk and behave; whereby the child will be conditioned by repetition to begin to behave blindly, without logic or reason, as if asleep;
whereby the child will be domesticated in the way by which animals have been domesticated as pets and to be of service to their owners; whereby the child will be acculturated, taught to believe all of the concepts which are thought to be unquestionable truths throughout the culture, such as:
a. "We are the greatest nation on earth";
b. "we have the best medical care system on the planet";
c. "our soldiers are to be honored and respected,"
and
d. "they only kill in order to protect our nation and never for conquest, for colonialism, or for nation-building as we try to remake all other nations in our image and never for political purposes, never for the hidden agendas of big business or big religion or big government, and never to punish thousands or millions in an area or region for what a few from there did to offend our culture."
Righttttttttttt.
The hundreds of thousands of false statements which a child is exposed to before the age of eighteen are made by preachers and priests and imams and rabbis and ayatollahs and ideologists; by school teachers and, yes, even by gurus and by the famous, big name teachers, especially; by governmental leaders;
by the wealthiest persons in every culture (the rich being more likely to be given a platform from which to speak); by military leaders; by the police and other authority figures; by the pundits and commentators in the media; and by parents and relatives and neighbors and friends throughout the culture.
And everything they teach the child is taught in order for persons to protect the identity of their own false self / selves, and all of the false concepts and ideas and beliefs are rooted in the fear-and / or-desire-based agendas of their personalities, that is, in their egotism-supported ego-states.
No other institution has come up with more concepts which have generated more false identities and more false beliefs than have cults and sky cults and the ancient pagan religions which have evolved into modern religions.
Moreover, no institution has been more anti-science than the institution which has been led historically by ignorant men and women who have felt threatened by the truth even as they purport to be the speakers of truth.
If truth is being pointed to, it is being pointed to when the pure universal consciousness speaks, never when the blocked consciousness speaks and never when a programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed person speaks.
To be continued.
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