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THE SEEDS OF DUALITY WHICH PRODUCE DUALITY'S PROGENY:
Offspring Number Fifty-one =
No Interest in Being Truly Free and Independent
THE MASSES PREFER DEPENDENCY AND CODEPENDENCY AND ATTACHMENT TO THE THINGS WHICH ROB PERSONS OF THEIR FREEDOM
Today the discussion of ways that persons are robbed of their freedom by programming and conditioning people to participate in ceremonies which brainwash and indoctrinate them continues with the sharing of additional pointers from the book Overcoming the Fear of Being Totally Independent will be shared.
DEFINING FREEDOM - CONVENTIONAL SOURCES (cont.)
To review: It was noted that one dictionary defined freedom as "the absence of ceremony and the ability to live naturally. "
Ceremonies are intended to inspire the masses to recite in unison; to knell and rise in unison; among some religions, to drink blood and body (symbolically for some, actually for some); and to march in lockstep - including physically and mentally and emotionally and spiritually.
Cultures find anathema those who take the road less traveled, who march in a relaxed manner to the beat of a different drummer, or who look widespread insanity and mass ignorance in the eye and shout: "NO!"
In cultures around the globe, uniformity is rewarded, phoniness is rewarded, participation in ceremonies is rewarded, acceptance of commonly-held (but false) beliefs is rewarded, form over substance is rewarded, the unnatural is rewarded, and the supernatural is rewarded. Spurned are authenticity, genuineness, the endorsement of substance over form, realness, and that which is natural.
Visitors from sixty-two different nations have made contact with this site; therefore, the invitation again is to see what ceremonies are being used in those sixty-one other cultures to block freedom and peace and sanity as the discussion here deals with the adverse effects of U.S. ceremonies.
Consider the part of the definition above which suggests that freedom involves the ability to live naturally rather than ceremonially and unnaturally. Consider the difference in the relative existence as lived by those who are restricted, uptight, retentive, and unnatural vs. the unrestricted, the relaxed, the free and the natural.
For example, how natural is it to engage in ceremonies which require persons to walk the way soldiers walk: to be stiff, to be anal-retentive, to think and talk and walk and behave in a lockstep fashion?
Do you think these people are taut and inflexible and severe and intense enough as they “stand at attention,” as it is called?
What about these who have assumed the position of what they call “parade rest”?
Do they look as if they are at rest, or are they obviously almost as taut and inflexible and severe and intense as those standing at attention? Is that as much as they are allowed to relax while being programmed, conditioned, indoctrinated, and brainwashed in the Pavlovian way that leaders program, condition, indoctrinate, and brainwash their sleepwalking followers?
That’s resting?
And when the leaders whom they want to impress are pleased to see their followers displaying such physical stiffness, what might you guess the end result is when it comes to their mental and emotional posture . . . when it comes to how those persons feel and think and talk and behave after they are trained and programmed and conditioned and brainwashed and indoctrinated to be that stiff and rigid and inflexible and after they are praised for being that stiff and rigid and inflexible?
Eventually, they cannot compartmentalize their stiffness and rigidity and inflexibility only to the times when they are standing; instead, that stiffness and rigidity and inflexibility permeates all aspects of their existence and controls unconsciously the way that they think and talk and behave. So much for independence.
Yet that is also the way that the masses in general are programmed and conditioned and brainwashed and indoctrinated. The result is that the entire populations of some nations (especially those in Western cultures), end up being unconscious 24 / 7, end up sleepwalking 24 / 7, and end up being so uptight 24 / 7 that they turn to using their drugs of choices (or actually their "drug of no-choice") and engage in all sorts of escapism and avoidance or join others in the ways that they are expressing their culture-wide angst and anger and rage.
Are you appreciating how effectively leaders - always the type to want to command others and to control the way that others think and talk and feel and behave – use ceremonies and rites and rituals and observances and all sorts of formal procedures and events in order to . . .
. . . program and condition and brainwash and indoctrinate huge masses of persons to think the way their leaders want them to think, to talk the way their leaders want them to talk, to feel the way their leaders want them to feel, and to act (and react) the way their leaders want them to act?
By contrast, see how, in nature, such stiff and uptight and inflexible and laborious and anal behavior does not happen at all.
Would sane people want to gather together and participate in ceremonies which endorse cookie-cutter-type dressing and walking and thinking and behaving in a stiff and rigid and inflexible manner, as soldiers and police and others do? Or would sane people rather gather together and relax and take it easy?
Could stiff and rigid ceremonial behavior ever be considered natural, or would relaxing be more "according to nature"?
Could taut and inflexible ceremonial behavior, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered natural?
In each of the pairs of options above, the first illustrates the way that the non-realized move through the relative existence; the second shows the natural way, the way that the “realized nisargan” functions throughout the remainder of the post-Realization relative existence.
Of course the nisargan (natural) manner is not only about lying back, sleeping and relaxing; however, no matter what happens - working, husbanding, wifing, driving, walking, parenting, whatever - all happens in that same relaxed, non-retentive, laid back fashion.
Why do cultures dream up such stiff and rigid ways of walking / marching? Because if they can encourage some persons in the culture to look alike, dress alike, and walk alike, then they can train then to think alike, talk alike, and behave alike.
Then, the leaders in the culture can report that those people are heroes because they follow orders exactly and without question and are willing to die (but preferably kill) for whatever the culture defines as valuable and necessary.
Afterwards (after programming and conditioning and brainwashing and indoctrination), they can put those persons on display in local and national ceremonies and parades as they model, for all to see, their rigid and stiff and retentive manner, subliminally giving widespread credibility to their totally unnatural way of functioning / performing.
The leaders / programmers / conditioners can have those persons put on public display and demonstrate the way that the onlookers should also think in unison, talk in unison, and behave in the same rigid and unbending and uniform manner, questioning nothing and following orders and never relaxing.
How interesting that the term "standing at attention" actually requires a rigidity that removes all ability to pay any attention at all as some lock their knees and cut off circulation and faint. And that is a metaphor for the way that the masses function:
they are programmed and conditioned to be rigid, to be puppet-like, to be clones of their leaders and turned into automatons by their religious and spiritual and political and bosses / business leaders, to become "locked up" (i.e., not free and not natural) and to lose the ability to circulate freely and actually lose all consciousness in the end.
How long can the difference in "free and natural" vs. "locked up and unnatural" be ignored? For most, until the end of the manifestation. For you, the difference can be understood if you complete in order all of the steps that can shift the consciousness from identification with the false to an understanding of the Oneness and the natural functioning of the totality.
Then, and then only, can you be free and abide in the nisarga (natural) fashion.
Meanwhile, the masses will continue to march in their lock-step manner to the beat of the same kinds of drummers; only a few will ever realize and thereafter march to the beat of a very different drummer.
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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