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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Sixteen-
A Normalization of, and An Addiction to, Commotion, Disorder, Turmoil, Chaos, and Madness
Some of you might recall from your elementary school days a model of the earth sitting on the corner of a teacher's desk. Rather than being "squared up" and "sitting straight" on the stand, the planet was always leaning in order to accurately illustrate what is referred to in layman's terms as "the planet's tilt."
At some point during the develop of the universe, the earth was likely perpendicular with its plane of orbit; that is, there was no tilt. So how did the tilt come about?
For millions of years there was near-limitless chaos happening in the part of the universe where the Milky Way would form - the Milky Way being the galaxy which contains our solar system including planet earth.
Eventually, there would come a "settling" into the current conditions in our solar system in which a series of bodies began rotating around the sun with certain predictability and regularity, but during the more chaotic times, smaller planets (called protoplanets) were racing about and one of those struck the planet now called "earth" and that led to the tilt.
When that Mars-size object collided with earth 4.5 billion years ago, it knocked off a chunk that would become the moon and it tilted earth sideways so that the planet now orbits the sun on a slant. That slant results in seasons and makes the earth habitable.
Were that not the case, humans could not have survived the continuous winter of the high latitudes so humans would have likely congregated in the planet's tropical midsection. If the "habitable world" had been limited to a humid tropical zone like the rain forests of the Congo, unrelenting rainfall would quickly erode soil in any areas cleared for farming and would leach nutrients down below root level, swiftly rendering tilled land infertile for crops. Humanity would not have survived long term.
The seasons changed, but they changed with a predictable orderliness to their patterns which came with earth's movements around its axis; therefore, earth has seasons because our planet's axis of rotation is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees relative to our orbital plane – the plane of earth's orbit around the sun.
Presently, the earth's axis is tilted 23.5 degrees from the plane of its orbit around the sun. But this tilt changes. During a cycle (which averages about 40,000 years), the tilt of the axis varies between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees. Because this tilt changes, the seasons as we know them can become exaggerated.
While seasonal changes vary as the tilt varies, humans in the last decades have allowed money-making ventures to generate other environmental consequences in addition to the effects of the tilt changes.
The combination of the two is generating more extreme changes and more consequences which are not advantageous to the human experience overall.
The point? In the relative existence, there will forever be change, and in many cases, there are causes outside psychological issues which can bring those - and chaos - about:
1. The changes in the earth's tilt can actually have effects on humans' moods and attitudes (not unlike the way that the moon can affect moods, one's menstrual cycle, the early triggering of labor, etc.)
2. Seasonal changes caused by the tilt can have the same effect (see "SAD" - Seasonal Affective Disorder can manifest during longer winter nights when humans are exposed to less sunshine and extended periods of darkness)
and
3. even "Daylight Savings Time" changes have been shown to have a serious impact on human health and behavior.
and
3. even "Daylight Savings Time" changes have been shown to have a serious impact on human health and behavior.
Some are more adept at adjusting to change than others, but some changes cannot - and should not - be adapted to (relatively speaking).
And such changing - and moving from stability to chaos - happens throughout all aspects of the relative existence: the relationship with one's self; the relationships with partners in a home or in a business; the relationships with fellow employees or customers at work; the relationships with those in one's community, one's state, one's nation or with persons living in other nations.
What is forever changing? Most common is the development of "a sense of hatred" toward one that was supposedly "loved" originally. Thus, businesses fail; marriages fails; the employment one enjoyed for a time in the workplace might fail; political leaders who seemed to be adept on the local or state or national or international stage might eventually fail; what one's religious once offered that seemed to "work" might eventually be seen to have failed; etc., etc., etc.
Having dealt with thousands of persons over the years, including persons who shared some of the most private or intimate details of their lives, far too many stories have been heard about how "all seemed to be great at first but then my partner / spouse became abusive . . . verbally, mentally, emotionally, physically, etc. Peace left and chaos reigned."
Many times, the lives of persons on earth begin with a "tilt." They have been slammed into early on and experience all sorts of abuse which is rooted in ignorance and insanity and the singularly self-centered interests of those around them.
Shakespeare spoke of the "sound and fury" which far too often marks and mars the relative existence of persons. His character Hamlet, under the pressures of familial and political chaos, considers suicide, wondering whether
a. "'tis nobler . . . to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune"
or
b. "to take arms against a sea of troubles, and - by opposing - end them?"
Some never experience the calmness or the peace or the "love" of a healthy, steady life. Some of those develop a perspective which normalizes commotion, disorder, turmoil and madness, those elements being the only thing they've been exposed to.
Many will develop an addiction to chaos. Those are the ones who are so bored that they seek out or cause pandemonium in order to break the cycle of monotony and dullness and ennui or "world-weariness" in which they are trapped.
[A spouse said to me that she "liked to fight because it made her feel alive and also gave her a chance to experience the rush of making up." I asked if one couldn't just skip the first part and go straight to the fun enjoyed during what she deemed to be "make up" sessions.]
She would go on to defeat Jennifer Lopez in the multiple marriage arena and would finally admit that she "had come to understand that part of the cause of her getting into and out of so many relationships was that she absolutely loved falling in love but did not like being in love."]
Happenings or events or circumstances beyond psychological issues can also bring about chaos and its sense of instability and disjointedness (as referenced in the non-dual pointer offered by Yeshu'a / Jesus: "A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways"), including:
4. Duality-based thinking and talking and behaving.
5. A bastardized food supply which can affect "the mind" as much as the body. (See "Spinoza.")
6. The effects which can come about as a result of the changes in politics and political leaders and geo-political events on state, local, national and international levels.
7. On top of the psychological effects that come with the changing tilt of the earth and weather patterns and seasonal changes and a chemically-and-hormonally-corrupted food supply, there is the instability of those we encounter with on a daily basis. (Ever heard of a partner or spouse saying to a mate, "I don't even know who you are anymore?" Surprise. You never knew who they were and you don't even know who you are, but whatever changes are being referred to might surely enough be exerting an effect.)
And then, there's this impact:
8. Dealing with unstable and insane leaders who are currently running religions and businesses and politics.
The psychological effects of WWI and WWII, for example, cannot be overestimated. Lives were disrupted all around the globe, and 80 million lives actually came to an end.
Also, by way of example, insiders report that the man in charge of the U.S. government cannot focus on anything for more than a matter of minutes. He is constantly bored and has revealed his addiction to chaos via both word and deed. They note he "prefers chaos to a staid sense of order" and that he "embraces his impulses in an ever-chaotic administration."
When one has the ability to affect or to change global events with a few ill-chosen words, the results will nevertheless be felt. Persons in "positions of power" can cause a variety of "tilts" and, as shown, tilts can have mental and physical and emotional effects on humankind.
No single person is going to change the above circumstances, so the non-dual invitation is to reach an understanding which can set you, unwaveringly, in a position where you can witness objectively without being pulled into their realm by persons who are obviously suffering from emotional intoxication and from an addiction to commotion, disorder, turmoil, chaos, and madness.
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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