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1. I had to reschedule the two pending post-cataract-surgery corrective procedures until October 26th, so postings may continue to happen somewhat sporadically.
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."
THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Five-
Duality produces mental, emotional and physical illness and leads to the widespread manifestation of the Ultimate Sickness. When sick, thoughts, words, and actions of persons of all ages revert to the depths of childishness as one feels sick and depressed and hopeless and a sense that one is dying.
Yesterday:
With the Ultimate Sickness, the greatest levels of misery come when personality identifications are being threatened, as when "The Wife" tells "The Husband" that she is leaving. At that point, "The Husband" can become overwhelmed because that role cannot exist without the co-dependent player of the counterpart role which all ego-states must have in order to appear to actually exist. "Employee" must have "Employer," "The Leader" must have his / her "Followers," etc.
Yet those trapped in the ignorance of the Ultimate Sickness think "they" are dying when the roles they have been playing begin coming to an end.
A sick child needs attention, nurturing, caretaking during its dependency and seeming hopelessness, someone the child thinks it can rely on. And when the masses are behaving as sick children, they seek out leaders whom they think will take care of them, leaders whom they think they can depend on, whom they think they can rely on.
From that state of Sickness, the non-realized (learned-ignorance-driven") masses will seek the "Strong Man" type, and if that type brings some of the traits which Personality Type Eights ("The Bosses" and "The Controllers") bring, fine.
"Just heal things. I'll turn it all over to you to do whatever you want! Just heal me! Just make me feel better! Identify the cause of my problems and then go into a 'seek out and destroy mode!' I'm with you all the way, no matter what!"
Why have sages for ages encouraged the abandonment of personality identifications? Simple: those false identities, roles, ego-states, etc. rob humans of autonomy and their sovereignty, rob them of their independence, rob them of their chance at sufficiency, and rob them of their ability to make conscious choices.
The ignorance generated by entrapment in the Ultimate Sickness allows persons to become subsumed in the insanity of thinking that they are making conscious choices when they are not; instead, they are being driven subconsciously and unconsciously by the hidden agendas of all of the assumed and / or assigned personas.
Because all persons begin with the following nine basic assumed personalities, the odds of their ever being independent and avoiding dependency and co-dependency are almost nil. Consider:
PERSONALITY TYPE ONES are driven by a desire for mass affirmation as a result of being PERFECT.
PERSONALITY TYPE TWOS are driven by a desire to be LOVED and therefore avoid doing anything that might upset others; thus, they follow the crowd.
PERSONALITY TYPE THREES are often narcissists who seek applause and fame and attention and will do whatever is required to get the masses to LIKE THEM, so they too go along.
PERSONALITY TYPE FOURS are the rebels who take a STAND AGAINST authoritarians, dictators, and abusers of powers (but they only account for 1/2 of 1% of the earth's population).
PERSONALITY TYPE FIVES prefer to ISOLATE in their favorite pastime, knowledge gathering, so they are not available to address abuses of power.
PERSONALITY TYPE SIXES are DEPENDENT and CO-DEPENDENT types who are FEAR-DRIVEN and who want PERSONS AND INSTITUTIONS of authority to take care of them (and making up 50% of the planet's population, it is easy to understand why "Follow the Leader" is a game played not only by children but also by the majority of adults all around the globe).
PERSONALITY TYPE SEVENS are escapists, more interested in PLAYING than working.
PERSONALITY TYPE EIGHTS are the BOSSES AND CONTROLLERS who become religious, business, and political leaders, ruling at times with an iron fist because they often becomes malignant narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths. Some might type to control with a facade of "niceness" at times; other times, they show their true colors and control with levels of meanness and ruthlessness which many find appalling but which the weakest and most dependent in any culture often find appealing.
[For example, there were still many Germans who were skeptical of Adolf Hitler when he became chancellor in 1933, but Führer propaganda and lies and military success soon turned him into an idol.
One historian said, "Hitler had succeeded by 1938 in winning the support of 'the great majority of that majority who had voted against him in 1933.' By then, Hitler had united almost the entire German people behind him. More than 90 percent of Germans were by that time 'believers in the Führer'" and ready to follow their leader blindly and unquestioningly.
This has been shared before to illustrate the eventual consequences:
The tools Hitler used to bring about that shift to loyalty: fear, hatred, xenophobia, the persecution of non-Christians, the endorsement of the concept of racial supremacy, and the spreading of the belief in a "Super Race" which included only white Anglo-Saxons. Sound familiar?
All of those tools are rooted in dualistic beliefs.]
PERSONALITY TYPE NINES are the masters of avoidance, wanting to protect not the peace of the community or the planet but only their own "individual, personal peace." They GO ALONG to get along. There are occasions when their often PASSIVE side gives way to occasional lapses into their AGGRESSIVE side.
If it is understood how those nine types manifest in every human to one degree or another and if it is understood how those nine types then determine subconsciously what persons think and say and do - and what they do not think and say and do - then it is easy to understand why the masses most often behave as sheep, following their perceived savior / leader right over the edge of the cliff.
A site visitor sent this pic months ago to illustrate his perspective of what is presently happening in the U.S.:
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 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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