TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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The reason that my Cherokee grandmother and her relatives and those in her community so cherished that which they pointed to with the terms "Mother Earth" and "Father Sky" was because of what they understood.
They understood the functioning of the totality, the way that sunshine / light interacts with plants and allows for the manifestation of consciousness within a composite unity . . . that is, within an elemental plant and then within an elemental plant food body.
They also understood that the composite unity must circulate clean air and that the composite unity circulates conscious-energy via the regular consumption of healthy, non-contaminated plant food.
Even when they ate the meat of deer, they knew that the deer had survived by eating plants and was passing on to them the consciousness-sustaining energy provided by the consumption of healthy plants.
In other words, they intuitively understood science.
Maharaj said, "Someday science will advance to the point that it validates all of the non-dual teachings."
Grandmother, having received no "formal education and learning," was prepared to receive the wisdom passed down to her, so she would have understood the words of the scientist Szent-Gyorgyi when he said, “What drives life is . . . a little electric current, set up by the sunshine."
She understood the functioning of the totality without having to learn scientific words or principles, and she understood the necessity of healthy plants and sunshine and clean water in the process which she was temporarily a part of.
Want to worship "A Creator" or what is supposedly "A Creator?" Such a "one" cannot exist because nothing can be created or destroyed; therefore, the closest you could come would be to worship . . . the sun.
While that is not recommended, it does point to the scientific fact that there has never been "A Creator" or "creator parents." Interestingly, even the least intelligence among us would not leap to the conclusion that a farmer "creates" his crops.
The fact is that he or she doesn't even really "grow" the crops. The farmer merely plants seeds of crops which had already grown naturally and spontaneously and automatically with the sun and rain (a.k.a., "nature") playing their roles and with the consciousness in the plants controlling what happens and what does not happen.
[An acorn does not need any external guidance to participate in the process which results in a forest. The consciousness within knows all that is required for that process to happen.]
When Grandmother - at the age of 75 - plowed her one-acre garden with her mule and then planted seeds, everything after that happened naturally and spontaneously and automatically. The same applies with humans when a seed is planted via an act of friction: science makes clear that all else happens naturally and spontaneously and automatically.
There is no "other world" contribution to that process except for the sunshine which comes from beyond the earth, and there is no "other world" contribution to any other process which is a part of the functioning of the totality.
That is why Maharaj stopped inviting persons to use dreamed up dogma-based concepts and dreamed up "spiritual" concepts in an effort to understand the functioning of the totality and instead invited seekers to find the answers via science and facts.
So, to review what the Science of Manifestation and Beingness reveals about . . .
(1) a field of energy and (2) no confinement prior to the manifestation of energy into a confined space and (3) the development into a "being," (that is, into a composite unity with temporary "beingness" which is marked by being without knowing . . . by being without knowledge)
as well as what the Science of Psychology reveals about . . .
the development of - the assignment and / or assumption of - false identification with personalities and a mind and a body; about the assurance of multiple personality disorder development among the masses; and about the assurance that all will develop the Ultimate Sickness and will suffer from its key symptoms which Maharaj identified as (learned) "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity."
Consider these stages:
THAT: Energy-Matter / Original Nature
All in the universe is energy-matter. As for matter, dark matter and ordinary matter are examples of the types of matter. As for energy, there are many types and forms of energy: Chemical; nuclear; gravitational; mechanical; potential energy (which refers to any type of stored energy); kinetic; thermal as well as awareness-energy and conscious-energy.
(RE: gravitational, see "space-time." The gravitational field can have three different types of energy density: dark energy, curvature and gravitational radiation). The point for non-dualists: awareness-energy and conscious-energy are not "special" and cannot make anyone or anything special. Both are just forms of energy, so THAT is nothing special (or "Special" or "Supreme" either).
Awareness is just a particular form of energy which is not aware of itself unless manifested as the unblocked consciousness which can come to understanding what I am saying right now. Consciousness is manifested awareness which is capable of being conscious-of and which has an intimation of that which is immortal or lasting, namely, that awareness-energy but which will soon have no awareness of awareness of conscious-as-energy either; thus, the consciousness is also nothing more than a particular form of energy, capable of being conscious-of. From that field of energy can come, strictly at random, . . .
MANIFESTATION
In the case of composite unities called "humans," an egg with conscious-energy manifested and a sperm cell with conscious-energy manifested and were united as a result of an act of friction and conscious-energy manifested within the resulting space of formed by plant food elements. As more and more food with consciousness was consumed by the so-called "mother," more and more elements formed in the womb so that another elemental plant food body begin to develop.
BEINGNESS
Those developed into what is called "a being"; that is, another case of "beingness" began and the result was the formation another three-part composite unity of elements, air, and conscious-energy. Nothing was created. It all just cycled. That is what happened with this universe and all other universes, and it is what happened in the case of what is called "a baby." Parents created nothing; they were just participants in the natural process of cycling elements.
A "BEING" IN THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE / THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE
That "being" was merely being, meaning being without knowing . . . without knowledge. It came with a blank tablet (archetypes notwithstanding), with a brain with no knowledge recorded on it and, therefore, without a mind.
THE PERSONALITY IDENTIFICATION STAGE / THE ASSIGNMENT OF MULTIPLE IDENTITIES STAGE
Soon, it would be taught many things, including false identities / multiple personalities which would set up the Multiple Personality Disorder early on.
THE MIND IDENTIFICATION STAGE
A part of the brain is now capable of storing and retrieving information, and once that part of the mind became filled with nonsense via programming, conditioning, etc., a mind formed.
THE BODY IDENTIFICATION STAGE
Early on, the child identified with the parent or parents and sensed the oneness, but eventually it would discover its hands, and then later its feet, and then later the rest of its body. It would then stop identifying with the parent(s) and would identify with itself, meaning, with its own body. That is as far removed as one can get from its original nature, creating seven steps of separation from what it truly is (energy) vs. what it takes itself to be.
Note that nothing is farther removed from reality / Reality than body identification, and note than nothing is farther removed from truth than that which ignores science and facts and which is the stock and trade of con-men and con-women who control persons (and their money) via the cons' fabrications and lies and untruths, whether those are part and parcel of the concepts taught by the 4,200 religions currently active on the planet;
whether those are part and parcel of the spiritual movements and programs which teach their concepts to millions of members; whether those are part and parcel of the advertising campaigns of businesses which distort the facts and truth about the products they are selling; whether those are part and parcel of the brainwashing which the military-industrial complex spreads; whether those are part and parcel of the lies which political leaders spread; or whether those are part and parcel of any other persons or institutions which easily manipulate persons because they are trapped in their magical, distorted and ignorance-based thinking.
The anti-science, anti-facts crowd can shout it as much as they like from the rooftops or from within their temples and churches and synagogues and mosques and via their podcasts and television shows but their false words do not change the fact that neither this universe nor any other was "created" in six days by a "Creator God"; do not change the fact that planet earth is not 6000 or so years old;
do not change the fact that "making babies" is not a ménage-a-trois process whereby a man and a woman and a god join together to "create a new life"; do not change the fact that there is no "Arbiter in the Sky" who is tracking whether you are sinful or virtuous and therefore not deserving of an eternal reward or desiring of said reward;
and do not change the fact that when a composite unity comes to an end, the elements return to the universal pool of elements and the conscious-energy returns to the universal pool of conscious-energy and the air returns to the universal pool of energy and shall never exist again as one or another kind of entity.
To be continued.
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