TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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This point was offered yesterday:
7.37 billion persons report that they are affiliated with one religion or another. Millions more report proudly and even arrogantly that they "are not religious1" but "are spiritual instead." The only difference? The religious engage in delusional and distorted thinking while the spiritual engage in magical and supernatural thinking.
As many of you know, I have over the years occasionally joined a group of counselors and psychologists and therapists at their monthly luncheon. A few months ago, I polled them to find out how the challenges presented by their clients have changed in recent years.
Almost unanimously, their answers dealt with the "far greater levels of distortion and delusion and magical thinking being exhibited by their adult-age clients and far greater levels of resistance to abandoning their distortions and delusions and magical thinking."
That came as no surprise because I am witnessing the same with the persons I'm dealing with nowadays. So, why is that the case?
The world population is up
and
the levels of BS and nonsense are up
and the use of social media - which is a key source used nowadays to spread BS and nonsense - is up
and
though the number of persons who are ending their affiliation with organized religion is falling, the number still engaged is in the billions and,
though many are leaving religion, many of them are joining so-called "spiritual groups"
so,
of course, the end result of all of that is that the number of persons with the Ultimate Sickness is up
so
the number of persons trapped in ignorance and insanity is up.
Add in the fact that for the first time ever human activity and global warming have caused a shift in the tilt of the earth which is having some effect on the mental and emotional state of humanity and therefore on humankind's behavior;
[for comparison, consider the way that the moon's gravitational pull affects tides and moods and can cause pregnant women to begin contractions and enter into earlier-than-planned delivery and the effects of "the tilt" should be more plausible];
add in the fact that the food supply is bastardized and the organs - including the brain - are not receiving all that they need for effective functioning (which Maharaj addressed many years ago);
and add in the fact that there are three body types and 1/3 of humans can function well enough on a vegetarian only food plan but 1/3 require mainly meat and protein in order to function effectively while the other 1/3 need a combination of both, then see that more and more persons are allowing spiritual advisers to demand that their followers eat plants only, leaving many of them deficient;
and add in the fact that all of the above increases stress and anxiety levels;
and add in the fact that more and more generations have received more and more totally warped and insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination;
then factor in the fact that all of above is generating more delusional and distorted and magical and supernatural thinking than ever before and then it should be clear why I was not surprised by the answer that those professionals at the luncheon gave to my query.
And that should also help explain why more adults than ever are thinking and talking and behaving like persons with a fourth grade level of education - or less - and why more and more persons have, as noted yesterday, "no more than a ten-year-old's understanding of why it is that every living thing on the planet abides nisargally / naturally except for humans who do not, abiding unnaturally and / or supernaturally instead."
Add in the fact that the basic personality types which are often "set in stone" by the age of six all have hidden, subconscious agendas which determine thoughts and words and actions (while the masses have no clue that they are being driven thusly) and it should be clear why so many adult-age persons are acting like six-year-olds instead of like mature, logical, reasonable adults.
Moreover, all of that helps sets the stage for the distortion and delusion and magical thinking which drives persons to accept lies as truth and which blocks them from understanding the most basic facts about their bodies
and
which blocks them from understanding how they come into being and
which blocks them from understanding how they cycle elements and energy and "produce" other composite unities and
which blocks them from understanding what happens after the body ends and
which blocks them from understanding how the nonsense they are taught will reinforce a belief in "me-ness" and "you-ness" and "WHO-ness" and
which blocks them from understanding body and mind and personality identifications which are total - but highly influential - fiction and
then it should be clear why distortion and delusion and widespread belief in myths and lies and fiction
leave most among the masses without a clue about what has happened and what has not happened; about is happening now and what is not happening now, and about what is going to happen and what is not going to happen.
That will be discussed in the next post.
To be continued.
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