TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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THE RATIONALE FOR CONCLUDING THAT "IT'S TIME TO TRY 'A DIFFERENT ROUTE' WHEN SEEKING A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY BECAUSE THE ACTUAL RESULTS OF FOLLOWING THE MOST POPULAR ROUTE FOR 5000+ YEARS HAVE PROVED INEFFECTIVE," Continued
Back during the days when I was still trapped in the role of "The Super Religious One," a man asked about a line in the fictional tale about an Adam and an Eve and a God.
It seems after Adam and Eve had sinned, for the first time ever they covered their genitalia when God paid a visit. The point of the writer? Humanity for the first time was experiencing shame, specifically, "the shame which comes after having offended God." So the writer would have all believe.
At that point, God supposedly asked: "WHO told you that you were naked?"
Of course having always been a game-player and having always exhibited a mean streak (being a Jewish-conceived version of God who was already capable of drowning every person on earth save the members of one family) he was being sly, sneaky, tricky and devious. Per that story, God knew what they had done and wanted them to admit it.
Though the story is total nonsense, it does echo a question that will be asked here momentarily. First, this:
I received a letter from a woman who has finally seen her insanity in all its depth, and much depth it does have, and was reaching out for help (though she has no clue what real, effective help would look like); thus, she went with the old standby: "I want to feel God and peace in my life."
Consider: If you went to a physician with a complaint about the sharpest pain in the abdominal area that you've ever experienced and she or he diagnosed you and reported that your pain was the result of a large gallstone which has become stuck in a tiny duct, would you say, "Well actually I'm sure it's something else that's wrong. I believe that I just have a constipation malady, so the treatment I want from you is for you to shove an air hose inside me from the top and then blow out whatever is causing my bowels to lock. And I will consider no other diagnosis or treatment plan so don't try to change my mind."
You'd be shown the exit, tout de suite, and that is what I had to do with the woman. She was not ready for the actual treatment plan which is far different from what she thinks can heal her mental illness. Is she already so far gone that the non-dual understanding could not treat that condition? That did not seem to be the case, yet the statement that "I want to feel God and peace in my life" made clear that the readiness was not there to even consider a potential solution which is so far "outside the box" which she's been put into via programming, conditioning, etc.
The first instinct was to ask, "WHO told you that 'feeling God' is the proper treatment for a serious mental condition?"
Like the person visiting the physician above who wanted to tell the doctor what treatment is required to stop her pain - though actually it would do nothing to stop her pain - the woman who wrote to me wanted to do the same, saying basically:
"I am in misery and suffering and I know that it's being caused by the psychically-unhealthy state of my mind, so the way I want you to treat my mental illness is by getting me closer to God."
I also knew the answer in her case to the "WHO told you that 'feeling God' is the proper treatment for a serious mental condition?"
After a couple of decades of programming in a step program, she has been convinced that body and mind issues are - indirectly - just spiritual issues. She has been told repeatedly that both body sicknesses and mind sicknesses are really spiritual sicknesses and that if she'll just heal her spirit, then her body and mind will follow suit.
Yet if one admits to being mentally ill, is it not also insane to trust that you - being mental ill - could even remotely know what the proper treatment for that condition is?
Only a few million on the planet are, at any moment, like her and involved with a step program; meanwhile, the 7,081,000,000 who report a religious affiliation are being told the same thing in the venues they visit.
It is clear that a plant food body is never what it appears to be to the non-realized but that, presently, it is real to the extent that elements are real, air is real, and conscious-energy are real.
Similarly, it should be clear that the parts of the brain where information is stored and retrieved - called a "mind" - is an actual part of an elemental brain (notwithstanding the fact that the information now being stored therein is nonsense for the most part).
It should also be clear that after trillions of surgeries have been performed in which every section of elemental plant food bodies have been cut open and in which all sections of the inside of the bodies have been exposed for clear viewing, not one physician has ever reported seeing something not shown to students in medical school and something identifiable as "a soul
" or "a spirit."
Those are made up concepts, dreamed up by delusional or manipulative humans, and nothing just made up or dreamed up can ever treat a body illness or a mind illness.
If even a modicum of scientific facts are looked at objectively, then the resultant clarity could allow all to understand that body problems call for body solutions and mind problems call for mind solutions and that nothing dreamed up or made up or totally fanciful or imaginary or can ever help address either of those problems.
Reach that understanding and then it might become clear why "the actual results of trying for 5000+ years to use noumenal methods to treat phenomenal problems have proved to be totally ineffective."
To be continued.
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