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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.
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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."
THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Six-
Blindness and It's Cousin Magical Thinking
(1) Duality produces blindness, and - ironically - (2) blindness often also results during the seeking of non-duality as well.
(1) A key part of duality-generated blindness involves an inability to see and to understand what was shared yesterday, specifically, an inability to see that all persons are assigned or assume a host of false identifications (personality identifications, personas, ego-states, roles, stage characters, etc.);
involves having no ability to see and to understand that every persona has a primary but subconscious agenda which generates thoughts and words and actions which are related to the desires and fears of that persona; and involves having no ability to see and to understand that all thoughts and words and actions are determined by the assigned and assumed personas, thus removing any ability to make conscious choices.
Such blindness also removes . . .
. . . any and all ability to undertake a "self-inquiry" to see and to understand all of the false "selfs" which have been assigned or assumed;
. . . any and all ability to undertake a "self-inquiry" to see and to understand the role which false "selfs" are playing in one's existence and how they generate and perpetuate a false sense of separation; and
. . . any and all ability to undertake a "self-inquiry" to see and to understand how ego-states inspire the use of egotism and other ego-defense mechanisms which foster arrogance and a sense of different-from-ment and a sense of better-than-ment and a sense of superiority.
And when the blindness of the masses manifests alongside the magical thinking which the masses use, then persons are all but guaranteed to abide in an unconscious, unawake, and unawake manner throughout the entire relative existence.
For example, consider what was revealed in a conversation last week with a neighbor who is blind to the way her false identities are driving her thoughts and words and actions and how her magical thinking assures that her blindness - and her husband's blindness - shall continue:
I was on a walk through the neighborhood and crossed paths with a woman who is married to a cop. She walks frequently and over the years she has stopped me on occasion to talk. Now I understand her husband far more than she ever shall. He too goes on walks but never with her. I encountered him on my walks and greeted him in the beginning. When all I received in return was an angry glare, I stopped speaking.
Another neighbor said that she was asked by the cop's wife if she would take them out on the neighbor's boat sometime. The two couples did so, and the neighbor told me that she and her husband could hardly wait to get the cop and his wife back to the marina and allow them to disembark.
They said the man refused to speak to them, was angry as hell, occasionally muttered profanities under his breath, and pretty much confirmed that he was one very angry and hostile and aggressive (and likely insane) person.
In uniform, his cop cap covered his head, but on the boat ride without his hat, they said they felt intimated when they saw that he wore a mohawk hairdo down the center of his otherwise-shaved head and had a skull tattoo on one side of the strip of hair and a knife dripping blood on the other side.
Now some months ago when the cop's wife stopped me to talk, she explained that she was highly stressed because her husband had just been fired by his police chief. She said that the police force was corrupt and that he did not "play their games" the way they wanted him to so they ran him off.
Right.
Weeks later, she told me her husband had gotten a new job with another police force and was doing much better. Then last week, she explained that after a couple of months in that new job, he was again having problems with his police chief.
Well of course he was.
She said her husband was constantly asking her why people were picking on him; why he was having so many problems; and why he was so miserable all of the time.
Now those question often indicate the potential readiness to seek and to find how one's ego-states and thoughts and words and actions are not proving to be beneficial in a quest for a peaceful and enjoyable existence. But her magical thinking shut down any chance for "self" inquiry and understanding.
She told me she said to him, "You need to stop asking those kinds of questions and realize that God is in charge and that whatever is happening is happening for a reason and it is all part of His plans, so you need to just shut up and wait for God's will and God's plan for you to be revealed."
I explained that I had an upcoming appointment and was going to have to move along. I did not explain that the upcoming appointment was inside my house where I was going to meet up with freedom from listening to nonsense and where I was going to continue with the earlier meeting I had been in where I was engaging with peace and quiet and solitude and a respite from hearing insane and ignorant comments.
Magical thinking will always block any effort to see one's "selfs" at play and then become free of their insane and ignorant influence. Neither she nor her husband are ever likely to wake up to the factors which are driving their misery and their entrapment in the darkness of their ignorant programming, conditioning, etc. They are not likely to ever seek truth.
Yet even those who do seek truth or seek a non-dual understanding are often just as blind because of their attachment to their "SELF-Inquiry" process.
That tomorrow.
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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