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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Thirty-Seven =
An Inability to Differentiate Between "self" and "Self" and to understand what "the Self" Is and What "the Self" is not and to understand both the not-Self and the not-self.
THERE IS NO REALITY TO EITHER selfness OR SELFNESS
Here, you are invited to never forget that the tendency among humans is to be driven by the agendas of their assumed (1) ego-states - that is, false selves and false Self - and by the (2) egotism which always accompanies the assignment and assumption of ego-states as identities / Identities.
If one witnesses anything other than Love at play, then ego-states and egotism will be the key drivers of whatever is being witnessed.
And if Love is not at play, then what will be at play will be self -importance and what self -importance always engenders, namely, arrogance and conceit and haughtiness; anger; judgmentalism; and acts intended to set apart or separate (either mentally or physically or both) or annihilate.
The result of that is this:
the non-realized masses - made up of the planet's entire human population with only a few exceptions - are being driven by ego and egotism and are then constantly engaged in the mental exercises of upgrading and downgrading:
“This world” is upgraded to "a better world" called “heaven” or “another world where there will be an eternal life of bliss and perennial joy”; or, “this world” is downgraded to "a worst world" called “hell” or “an ongoing series of crappy incarnations or even Naraka.”
“The Husband” self-upgrades to “The Super Husband” and “The Wife” self-upgrades to “The Super Wife” (and in the process, become super obnoxious).
And, yes, “The Religious One” self-upgrades to “The Super Religious One” and “The Super Religious One” will downgraded “others” who are “The Not Religious Ones” or “The Religious Ones Who Are Members of the Wrong Religion or Sect” (and in the process, becomes super obnoxious).
Moreover, “The Spiritual Giant” self-upgrades to “The Super Spiritual Giant” and “The Super Spiritual Giant” will downgraded “others” who are “The Not-Spiritual Giants” or “The Spiritual Ones Who Are Not Nearly Spiritual Enough to be a True Spiritual Giant” (and in the process, becomes super obnoxious).
And “The Self-Inquirer” will eventually self-upgrade to “The One Who Has Come to Know 'the True Self' or 'The Supreme Self' or 'Paramatman' or 'The Self Beyond' or 'The Supreme Spirit' or 'Brahman'” or any of the other identities / Identities which block any and all opportunity to reach the state of “WHO-less-ness” and thereafter give up trying to “Be Something” or "Be Somebody" or “Be Something Special or Supreme” (and in the process, become especially and supremely obnoxious).
Might what was seen here - that religious and spiritual role-playing did not free “floyd” of all identities and all false identities and all false Identities - have been what was also seen to be the case with Maharaj?
And might what was seen here - that religious and spiritual role-playing generated a belief in a whole new set of “new and improved and better” false identities and Identities - have been what was also seen to be the case with Maharaj?
And might what was seen here - that seekers who were exposed to teachings and pointers steeped in dogma and / or super spirituality entered into religious and spiritual role-playing which generated the belief in a whole new set of “new and improved and better” false identities and Identities among those seekers - have been what was also seen to be the case as Maharaj saw the same effects there?
If all of that was seen, then could it not account for Maharaj’s shifts, just as it led to the shifts here, after it became clear that the result of the formation of such ego-based roles and egotism-sustained identities / Identities were often more detrimental – and often more disgusting and obnoxious – than some of the former “bad” roles that had been played?
Let's revisit in more exact detail an example which has been offered in the past and again in a recent post. She described the experience that she and her children had after they, at first, rejoiced when their alcoholic husband / father entered a spiritual program to address his alcohol abuse.
She said that he soon assumed the role of “A Spiritual Giant” and became absorbed in a whole new level of obsessive-compulsive behavior inspired by the group.
She said it was not long thereafter that he self-upgraded to the role of “A Super Spiritual Giant.” She reported that, after witnessing and dealing with “an obsessive ass” for many, many years and then witnessing and dealing with “the obsessive saint” for a little over a year – she and the children all agreed that “the obsessive saint” was even more intolerable and unbearable than was “the obsessive ass.”
Here's another example involving "floyd":
The man who had been addressed as “father” here was raised by a fount of wisdom he called “mother,” the one called here “my Cherokee Grandmother" who was the most influential of all for “floyd.”
She never went to school a day in her life. My dad attended a small country school near their cabin but never even finished the seventh grade. As was the case with Grandmother and father, formal education never factored into Maharaj’s experience, either.
Yet with all three, there were levels of wisdom and understanding and astuteness and insight which would preempt foolishness and ignorance and inanity and folly (which is, in the case of Maharaj, what “Realization” came to be all about:
realizing all that is false, and maybe - in some cases - realizing Truth, though that was not and is not a prerequisite for abiding in a manner which is no longer being driven by the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”).
Had dogma proved to be an antidote for the Ultimate Sickness, Maharaj in his wisdom would have used it to the end; had spirituality and the content of the book I AM THAT proved to be an antidote for the Ultimate Sickness, Maharaj in his wisdom would have recommended both of those to the end. Yet he did not. He recommended that seekers “forget spiritual” and “stop reading I AM THAT.”
Then, an extraordinary concentration of wisdom allowed Maharaj to understand the workings of the human mind (and the faulty and flawed workings of the confused and jumbled minds that are the abnormal norm among humankind). From that point forward, he never again suggested that persons be involved with dogma or spirituality or spiritual practices;
instead, from that point forward, he encouraged seekers to be rid of the mind, advising them to “reach a state of zero concepts.” In the end, he said, “I have no mind” and invited seekers to join him in that state and then abide naturally for the remainder of the manifestation.
Same here.
Freedom being trapped in learned ignorance requires an abandonment of all false self identities ever assigned or assumed and any and every false SELF-Identity ever assumed.
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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