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3. Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns. See the end of the post for the full meaning and implications of that.
4. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group."
To review the evidence of the widespread cases of "individualized" magical thinking and "nationalistic" magical thinking, consider what Maharaj said of thinking, period:
"I have eaten up the world and I need not think of it anymore"
and
"Reach a state of zero concepts" and "stop thinking."
Consider also what he shared during this exchange:
Questioner: "How does one go beyond the mind?"
M: "There are many starting points — they all lead to the same goal. You may begin with selfless work, abandoning the fruits of action; you may then give up thinking."
To test the potential validity of, or to realize the actual attributes of, whatever comes into consciousness, note this about thoughts:
1. Among the non-realized masses, thoughts are always of the magical thinking type.
2. Per Maharaj, the non-realized masses are simply those who have not been freed of learned ignorance and whose thoughts and words and actions are, therefore, being determined and driven by the body of ignorance stored in their minds.
3. Thoughts come when in a beta or early alpha state and are invalid and untrue and unfounded and illogical and worthless and ignorant by virtue of the fact that they were implanted in "the mind" by the use of invalid and untrue and unfounded and illogical and worthless and ignorant programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination.
4. As a result, all thinking is always magical and irrational and is often based in ancient myths and superstitions and ignorance which have been passed down for generations and which is presently being passed down all around the globe by persons who are being driven - usually unconsciously - by the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as "ignorance and stupidity and insanity."
Thoughts arise from all of the ideas, concepts, impressions, images, opinions, notions, inklings, and suspicions which has been placed in minds by external forces and which can be summarized in one words: "beliefs."
A vigorous, visceral defense of beliefs can be triggered by hearing someone challenge "your beliefs" which are not yours at all but are "their beliefs" - the beliefs of all who have contributed to the filling of minds with total nonsense / BS / garbage / claptrap by the use of invalid and untrue and unfounded and illogical and worthless and ignorant programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination.
When false identities (a.k.a., ego-states, personas, personality identifications, roles, stage characters, guises, facades, fronts, faces, etc. which are always supported by a host of false beliefs) suddenly feel threatened when the false beliefs in which they are rooted are contested, that can trigger a desire to defend the beliefs in order to sustain the belief in the false identities which persons are convinced can offer some kind of payoff.
Maharaj: Surely "you cannot possibly say that you are what you think yourself to be!"
Most conflict, whether within oneself, in "personal" relationships, in world conflicts, etc., come about because of what persons think themselves to be and then, subsequently, because some dreamed up or assigned or assumed ego-state feels threatened or snubbed or ignored or disrespected.
What irony that all fighting and hostility and combat and struggles and aggression and wars come about because of (a) the mirages which the masses magically think are real and because of (b) all of the lies and deceptions and self-deceptions which persons magically think are true! Talk about a bunch of BS!
Maharaj's advice: "Put no faith in the conscious. Nothing you can see, feel, or think is so."
To continue the review:
5. Always-worthless thoughts come during the beta and alpha states.
6. Dreams come while in a delta state.
7. Visions come while in a theta state.
8. Most abide in a sleepwalking and sleepwalking manner during the beta or alpha states while actually thinking erroneously that they are fully awake and aware and conscious.
9. Most do not reach the deep-sleep delta state, and even fewer tap into the theta state.
As for using anything that is happening in the U.S. as a model, understand that few nations in history have reached the levels of arrogance and egotism and distortion which have always been at the core of a nation which was able to be founded only because of the mass murdering of millions of people.
Since then, the arrogance has led citizens to believe they are citizens of "God's country." Ronald Reagan was a U.S. President who has long been the right-wing's hero and who was in charge of the nation even as he was lost in the depths of dementia and Alzheimers. He was a major reinforcer of the high levels of xenophobia which have long been typical here. To that end, he said:
"America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere." Fertilizer, anyone?
In his farewell address to the nation, he read these words written by one of his speechwriters:
"I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still."
That is total, egotism-based delusion, and certainly not the view of many of his fellow Republicans nowadays.
While traveling for years in Western Europe as well during a trip to South Africa, the expectation was that I would be an advocate of the U.S. and justify all it has done and continues to do. Years ago while visiting with some in Cape Town, they did not expect to hear this:
"As much evidence as I have seen here of remaining beliefs regarding the concept of white supremacy; and as much racial discrimination as I have seen that is still present here today; and, as much division and lack of unity as I have observed here, there is far more dedication to white supremacy and far more racial prejudice and far more division and economic suppression and suppression of human rights in the U.S. than here in South Africa. Those have always been the most cherished concepts of the majority and have always been our chief exports."
I could as easily have said, "Dualistic, magical thinking drives the masses in the U.S. far more than is happening here in South Africa."
Magical, duality-based thinking prevails globally, and to end it and then allow clear seeing to begin, all thinking must end. But how? Simple:
Reject the fictional content of the mind and abide afterwards under the auspices of the elemental, plant food brain. That is what happens with every living thing on the planet except for humans.
To be continued.
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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "God," the "Son of God," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of God in the past was of a weak God, an absentee God, A Santa Claus-type God, a mean, punishing, vindictive God, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring God whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."
The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a God that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring God,' any supposed God that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'God' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.
"That is, a non-narcissistic god / goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'God' and focus on the 'God as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
XX"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places but are states of mind, nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings
which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.
And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?
Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.
The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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