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1. Following eye surgery, clear focusing has not returned and eye strain results from anything other than a brief exposure to a computer screen; moreover, two follow up procedures must be arranged to "fine tune" the effects of the surgery; hence, postings may happen sporadically for awhile.
2. [See the offer following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj]
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."
A REVIEW AND SUMMATION OF THE ADDITIONAL CLARIFICATIONS AND UNDERSTANDINGS WHICH CAME VIA THE VISION
Yesterday:
205. In addition to showing the seven steps on the "path," the vision made clear "five stages." [Note: Any such enumeration and separation into steps or stages in for the sake of discussion and for bringing clarity only.]
206. The five stages provided an overview that showed how persons are programmed and showed what is required to reach Realization and AS IF living.
On Friday here will be a paraphrasing of the explanation of the stages as offered in the non-duality-based, fictional mystery / adventure novel, "The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders."
Here is that explanation:
207. Stage One includes ages 1-20 when person are conditioned, indoctrinated, and programmed to accumulate, to get.
208. Stage Two is ages 20-40 when persons unconsciously do what they were programmed to do, repeating what they were programmed to say, and believing what they were programmed to believe. Most never transcend that stage. For those who undertake "the journey" and follow the Advaita "path," they enter a Third Stage.
209. At that stage, some begin a "self-inquiry" (seeing all that they are not) and a Self-Inquiry (seeking that which they truly are). Some say at that point, "This life is shallow, hollow, unfulfilling. There must be more. I don’t even know who I am—who am I?"
210. If they come to understand the True Self - and what it is and what it is not - they begin to de-accumulate in the Fourth Stage. De-accumulation is the mark of one becoming free of the programming. [It also became clear that "liberation" is about being liberated from the influence of personality / personas which subconsciously drive thoughts and words and actions.]
211. After that, one can live in an AS IF fashion throughout what can be termed "Stage Five" (again, for the sake of discussion only), meaning, living as if this life is the real but understanding what is actually Real and what is not; then, with that understanding, they can then enjoy whatever remains of this life, truly free for the first time (including free of educational indoctrination, free of religious and / or spiritual indoctrination, free of political indoctrination, free of economic indoctrination). Free. Independent. Period.
212. It was made clear that AS IF living means that the Realized know that this relative existence should be taken as nothing more than an amusement, not as anything that is really serious.
213. After the vision came, and after much consideration of its content led to so many revelations and led the understanding to flood into awareness, three things also became clear:
a. The masses prefer magical thinking, dogma-driven thinking, and spiritual-driven thinking (which Maharaj classified as really nothing more than a “kindergarten” level of understanding what “spirituality” is, or more accurately, what “spirituality” is not) so most would not be interested in a study of the content of the vision and then Realized Fully;
b. and it was seen that, of the few who do seek the non-dual understanding, so many stop after being encouraged to focus upon a text (which puts them in company with those accepting or adopting and then playing a religious persona and also revering what they take to be a “holy” text); or, those who abandon seeking because they accept the neo-Advaitin approach and come to a belief about what can be known or not known while ignoring what can be revealed and understood; or who accept one of the other popular but bogus versions of non-duality or pseudo-Advaita;
c. and it was seen, after reflecting on Maharaj’s own circuitous “journey” to reach the understanding which eventually came here via the vision, that many parallels in his "journey" and the one here existed (detailed farther down this page).
Then these awarenesses came:
He was wealthy, and my current employment is also providing a very high income as well;
he set that aside (which is not a requirement necessarily); he became freed from a wife who was totally absorbed in traditional religious teachings (and in playing the personas that engenders) and who was forever discontented over the fact that he would not be pressed into returning to his religious roots; and then he focused on offering the understanding that came to him via a long and arduous “path.” It was then asked:
Might it be possible for me to leave a tenured position with a guaranteed income and excellent healthcare benefits and other perks, a job that only required working 180 days a year, and to focus as Maharaj did on sharing the understanding that came via the vision … an understanding that eventually led to freedom from beliefs, freedom from the assumption of false identities, and freedom from the instability and chaos that always accompanies dual-mindedness?
Thus the decision was made: I will abandon that job - ten years sooner than the age of full retirement is reached – and share these teachings and see what happens.
What happened? What happened is what happened with Maharaj: great wealth has not returned, but always there have been those – some wealthy and some not – who have shared in order to allow these teachings to go on. Some of the regular visitors to this site came forth again recently to assure that what is required for the message to be disseminated ... a message that gave them clarity and that they would have other seekers find as well.
Those over the years have included Andy G. and Sim D. and Mac and Bob R. and many others. So now, the postings and writings continue. Periods of considerable challenge have come during the years since the decision was made, just as they come to all humans moving through this relative existence, but the understanding that came with the vision has allowed all challenges to be witnessed objectively and without attachment and without emotional intoxication or desire or fear.
Never once has the “the road not taken” been looked back on with doubt, much less regret. Never once since Realization has there been a desire for anything other than this relative existence that now always unfolds spontaneously and naturally since Reality was overlaid upon it. If You use the content of the vision to Realize as well, the same can be “your present reality” and Your Reality as well. That is what the summative statement “I AM THAT; I AM” points to.
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
"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 crime families are included? The Mafia . . . La Cosa Nostra, of course; however, what international crime families are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with more than 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. The masses must demand they step down and shut down, and there's the real problem because the crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who remain involved with them and who give them money and who support them and who aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and who 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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