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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: To review the offspring of duality we've witnessed and discussed so far:
1. When functioning under the auspices of duality, thoughts among the non-realized masses are always of the magical thinking type. (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.)
2. There is a belief that the drama being projected onto screens (or the drama being acted out on the stage of the global theater of the lie) is real and true.
3. In addition to a conscious preference for ignorance over awareness and understanding; a conscious preference for anti-intellectualism, anti-fact, anti-science; and an unconscious preference for the illogical over the logical, there is also a normalization of fragmentation and splintering vs. understanding the unicity and seeking a sense of unification.
4. There is the long-standing preference for racial supremacy; a preference for religious supremacy (such as Christian supremacy / Jewish supremacy / Muslim supremacy, Hindu supremacy, etc.); a preference for national supremacy and extreme xenophobia. Sexism and racism in general prevail, along with misogyny in some cultures.
The next offspring of duality involves the fact that duality produces mental, emotional and physical illness and leads to the widespread manifestation of the Ultimate Sickness. When sick, the thoughts, words, and actions of persons of all ages revert to the depths of childishness as persons feel sick and depressed and hopeless and have a sense they are dying.
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, needs someone whom 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, leaders whom they think they can rely on.
From that state of Sickness, the non-realized ("the 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!"
"We are among the financially strapped. What's that you're saying is the cause? The top 1% of the most wealthy people among us need to be given even more money? Then they'll be able and willing to take care of us? Let's do it!" Divergence and misdirection and redirecting their focus always works with the sleepwalking masses.
Or,
"The leaders in your institution have a centuries-long history of raping children. What's that you're saying is the cause? The DEVIL? Not the humans who have participated in the acts and not the negligent leadership that has been involved in the coverup for centuries? So what needs to be done? We need ANGELS to come to change things, you say? So we don't need to take any action except to pray for angels to intervene? Then let's do it!" Divergence and misdirection and redirecting their focus always works with the sleepwalking masses.
More on 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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