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2. 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.
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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Thirty-Three =
Once Maddened by Duality, The Masses Can Then Go Forth and Madden
In London, since 1247 A.D., there has been a psychiatric institution variously known as Bethlem Royal Hospital and St Mary Bethlehem and Bethlehem Hospital but consistently known by its nickname, "Bedlam."
(The word bedlam means "uproar" and "confusion" and "mayhem" and "pandemonium" and "disorder" and "chaos" and "madness.") Where did the craziness / the insanity of that instituion's inmates originate?
Consider:
Some children at the moment of delivery are brain-damaged; others have normal brains.
Some children will start out with brains which will never produce anything other than less-than-average intelligence; some will arrive with brains which will allow them to display above-average levels of intelligence.
None, however, will be born "insane" or "crazy." That is a taught and learned mental condition or mind condition.
(Thus, children do not arrive with an attachment to "confusion" or "mayhem" or "pandemonium" or "disorder" or "chaos" or "madness." Per Yeshu'a / Jesus, such a state only comes after a state of dual-minded has manifested . . . that is, after dual-mindedness has resulted from having been taught false and nonsensical beliefs by way of programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing and indoctrination.)
While almost all children arrive with a brain, no child arrives with a mind, for the parts of the brain which will form the mind arrive as empty but potential storehouses which will soon be filled . . . filled with nonsense by the ignorance-driven persons with whom the children will be in contact.
Throughout the entire plant food body, there is conscious-energy which will cycle into the body's space via consumption of milk and other foods later on. Conscious-energy will cycle in via food consumption and will shortly thereafter cycle out.
No quantities of "the same conscious-energy" will remain within the space formed by a plant food body. The supply is always having to be replenished.
(If the conscious-energy introduced via food consumption always remained, then humans would never have to eat anything other than their first initial meal.)
Brains are the conductor of an orchestra of organs including hearts and lungs and kidneys and livers, etc., as well as blood and blood vessels and arteries and veins.
Additionally, there is a digestive system which (1) allows the body to break down and absorb food along with conscious-energy and other various forms of energy and which then (2) removes waste.
The functioning of all of that and more is guided by signals from the brain, generated by conscious-energy in the brain and throughout the body. If all other factors are normal, then no one has to cause the heart to pump, cause the lungs to move air in and out of the bodies, etc., etc., etc. It all happens spontaneously and naturally and requires no conscious willingness on anybody's / any bodies part.
Early on in typical cases, the child has a sense of the oneness in that it will put a face to the voice it began hearing during the eighteenth week of pregnancy. The child does not initially differentiate between itself and its mother but identities with the mother. Oneness is at play.
If placed in a nursery early on with children of different skin colors, those colors do not register as a point of differentiation. If that state is reached some day, it is because the child was taught to be prejudiced against any who appear to be different.
By the age of two or so, the child will have discovered its own hands and fingers and feet and toes and will begin to develop a duality-based and duality-engendering sense of self-ness and Me-ness and, conversely, an unconscious but palatable sense of the Not-Me and the Them-ness.
Soon, also as early as the age of two, when engaging with other children who might be visiting, battles over toys will begin and the word "Mine!" will be shouted out more than once.
[By the way, Grandmother told me that the words "my" and "mine" did not exist in the Cherokee vocabulary; nor did such duality-based words as "own," "separation," "possession," or "gain vs. loss."]
All of that duality-based thinking and talking and behaving on the part of a two-year old is driven by what has become stored in the mind-part of the brain as children are exposed to nonsensical, ignorance-based programming, conditioning, etc. The brain did not arrive with all of those false concepts already stored therein.
[Granted, archetypal images which are duality-based (such as a propensity for "up" as opposed to "down") are likely contained in the genetic makeup, so humans arrive with a subconscious predisposition to accept certain dualistic concepts as "normal" or "true." Yet those are minor in number when compared to the number of beliefs which are transmitted consciously and stored in the mind.]
So, children do not arrive with anything close to the eventual number of concepts / beliefs which they will accumulate and which will drive them throughout their entire relative existence.
Moreover, they will begin early on a process of passing along duality-based beliefs / concepts, and that will continue for their entire relative existence unless realization happens.
As a result, their existence will be marked and marred by "uproars" and "confusion" and "mayhem" and "pandemonium" and "disorder" and "chaos" and "madness," all of which they will suffer and all of which they will pass on as well.)
And what is the realization which can free them of all that, per Maharaj? Simply being free of all of the "knowledge" - a.k.a. "learned ignorance" - which has been taught.
Without realization, the alternate process of learning dualistic beliefs and then passing along dualistic beliefs will continue unabated.
The result is that the masses will be maddened by duality and then the masses will go forth and madden others.
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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