TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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THE RATIONALE FOR REACHING A "NO-BELIEF," "ZERO CONCEPTS," "NO MIND" STATE AS RECOMMENDED BY MAHARAJ AND THEN ABIDING UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ELEMENTAL BRAIN RATHER THAN THE DISTORTED, FICTION-FILLED MIND, Part Four
From about 1915 until 1980, about 1 in every 50 babies was a twin. Now, 1 out of every 30 babies is a twin. Yet twins are still the exception rather than the rule.
In "The Vanishing Twin," Davis Lagercrantz reported the following:
"As many as one in eight may begin as a twin pregnancy, although sometimes one of the embryos does not thrive and is reabsorbed into the gestational sac. This is knows as Vanishing Twin Syndrome, or V.T.S.
"Some twins lose a sibling after birth because of adoption, or, more rarely, a mix-up in the maternity ward. Some meet for the first time only as adults; others never meet at all.
Many people feel they are missing someone."
Around the age of two, children begin to develop a sense of individuality and begin to separate from the mother and begin to see themselves as a separate self and to see their body as a separate body as well as an identity. Regarding that, the following was shared on this site seven years ago this month:
It was seen that the beginning of a child's sense of individuality, sense of separateness, and sense of a personalized identity is also the beginning of obnoxious behavior (a.k.a., "Terrible Two's."). As long as a sense of individuality, a sense of separateness, and the sense of a personalized identity continues, so too will obnoxious behavior, no matter what one's chronological age might be.
Furthermore, the sense of individuality, sense of separateness, and sense of a personalized identity will lead to the assumption and reinforcement of personality / personalities, and all personalities come with a basic fear and a basic desire.
The key desire among the non-realized will eventually become an overwhelming but unconscious longing to recapture the sense of Oneness, wholeness, fullness, and completeness which was lost when the discomforting drive for individuality, separation, and personalized identity replaced the earlier, comforting sense of Oneness, wholeness, fullness, and completeness.
This pattern has been occurring for thousands of years, and thousands of years ago the Greeks were well aware of the same longing for oneness, wholeness, fullness and completeness that is being discussed here.
Like the ignorance-driven masses today, though, they explained this phenomenon the same way that the ignorance-driven masses then and the ignorance-driven masses now have always explained the phenomenon, namely, that everything is caused by the gods (or more often today, God) that controls all and causes all (except for evil, which is credited to another supernatural source).
The Greek's explanation of the source of restlessness and irritability and discontentment was said to be a result of humanity's "spiritual malady" - that is, humanity's failure to be totally dependent on the gods / God. That failure to be dependent supposedly caused the gods / God to be displeased which then drove the gods / God to cause humanity to suffer and to be displeased and even miserable.
(That is still the key message presented to billions of religious persons and to the millions around the globe who attend meetings in what they take to be their "spiritual groups": "It is your failure to be dependent on God that causes your misery and suffering, so become dependent. And if you are already dependent on something, substitute dependency on God in its place.")
So the Greeks explanation went something like this in one version: Unlike the gods who had a pair of arms, a pair of legs, one head, and one face, humans originally had four arms, four legs, one head, two faces (that is, humans were "two-faced") and both male and female components that allowed for self-reproduction and complete independence.
And independence was something the gods could not tolerate, so to this day, religious and spiritual persons usually picture a god or their gods as a Supreme Being or Beings who want humans to be dependent on him / her / them.
[Note that non-duality offers independence; additionally, those who take themselves to be religious persons or spiritual persons, functioning at the third step of the seven-step "journey" to full realization, foster dependency and co-dependency.]
The Greek tale continued: the God Zeus, fearing that their extra appendages and a sense of independence might make humans more powerful than the gods and might allow humans to be less dependent on the gods with fewer appendages, supposedly split all humans in two . . . in half. (So another lie of duality was generated and disseminated by religious and spiritual persons.)
As a result of a jealous and fearful (yet "all-powerful"?) god, the story goes that the resulting sense of separation from some part of "self" or "Self" condemned humans to spend their lives in search of their "other halves" (which gave way to the ultra-dualistic concept of one's "better half" as well).
The belief in the myth that "when you find that other half, the power of love makes you feel complete" preempts the understanding that you are complete and inspires this most common pattern today among the non-realized masses:
they look externally for something to provide a sense of completeness, they look externally for something to depend on that will address their perceived need for protection, and they look externally for the false version of Real Love as they try to find happiness via the fictional, dualistic, subject-object version of love - which is the only version most will ever know.
So, "Many people feel they are missing someone, especially if a twin was in the picture at some point." In other cases, far more - the "non-realized masses" in general - feel as if they are missing something or some things or someone or many persons who are needed in order to feel whole and complete and "adequately loved."
So strong is the feeling that there is general a surge in suicides during the so-called "Christmas season" or during some other "holiday seasons" when a sense of loneliness manifests among those who no longer have "family" to celebrate with."
But instead of the vanishing twin syndrome or the lost family syndrome, far more misery and suffering among humankind has been rooted
a. not in the notion that something or someone has supposedly been lost or that something is supposedly missing
as it has been rooted
b. in the acculturation of roles and identities along the way which set persons up for misery.
And why is that?
Because all roles will eventually come to an end (if not during and throughout the manifestation, then certainly when the manifestation ends either for the role-player or the ones who had enabled the role-player to play the roles that were played). Meaning?
Roles cannot exist independently (so those who play roles can never be truly independent . . . can never be truly free). It was explained this way in a 2013 post:
No ego-state (persona, personality, false identity, role, stage character, facade, etc.) can exist in a vacuum. All ego-states are co-dependent and dependent. All are dependent on another person also willing to assume a false identity and to play the co-dependent counterpart for any imaginary, assumed identity to be sustained in the mind:
"The Wife" cannot "be" without "The Husband" and vice-versa, while "The Super Wife" cannot "be" without "The Super Husband" and vice-versa; "The Employer" cannot "be" without "The Employee" and vice-versa, while "The Super Employer" cannot "be" without "The Super Employee" and vice-versa;
"The Teacher" cannot "be" without "The Pupil" and vice-versa, while "The Super Teacher" cannot "be" without "The Super Pupil" and vice-versa; "The Sponsor" cannot "be" without "The Protégé" and vice-versa while "The Super Sponsor" cannot "be" without "The Super Protégé" and vice-versa;
and
"The Seeker" cannot "be" without "The Teacher" and vice-versa; and "The Super Seeker" cannot "be" without what Maharaj called "The Big Name Teacher" and vice-versa.
In the realm of genetically-transferred archetypal images, there can be no "up" without the counterpart called "down"; there can be no "light" without the counterpart called "darkness"; and there can be no "good" without the counterpart called "evil."
Similarly, in the realm of the duality-dominated masses, there can also be no "good" without the counterpart called "evil"; there can be no "morality" without the counterpart called "immorality"; there can be no "virtue" without the counterpart called "sin";
there can be no "righteous person" without the counterpart of "a wicked person"; there can be no "worthy person" without the counterpart of "an unworthy person"; there can be no "honorable person" without the counterpart of "a dishonorable person";
there can be no "upright person" without the counterpart of "a corrupt person"; there can be no "honorable person" without the counterpart of "a dishonorable person"; and there can be no "virtue" without the counterpart of "sin."
Moreover, the arrogance-and-delusion-and-duality-based self-love, which is the prime infatuation among the masses (self-love that is reinforced by the illusion of being virtuous and righteous and worthy and honorable and moral and upright and different from and better than), will guarantee that non-Realized persons will also absolutely love their belief in the concept of evil and will, therefore, come up with arrogance-and-delusion-and-duality-based comments such as “the good outnumber you [evil people], and WE always will.”
And all of the above duality-based beliefs - and all duality-based nonsense - are based in duality-based concepts, notions, ideas, etc. (a.k.a., "beliefs") which are stored in "the mind" and which block persons from abiding under the auspices of the elemental brain rather than under the influence of the content of - that is, the beliefs stored in - the distorted, fiction-filled mind.
And that provides the rationale for reaching a "no-belief," "zero concepts," "no mind" state as recommended by Maharaj and then abiding under the auspices of the elemental brain rather than the distorted, fiction-filled mind.
To be continued.
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