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So here is a short overview of the aspects involved with the source-to-body ID / coming-in “path” which all persons undergo during the existing-manifesting-abiding experience:
Stage One: Field of energy / no confinement / no knowing / no being / no non-being
Stage Two: Manifestation of energy into a confined space
Stage Three: Developing into a "being," into a composite unity with temporary "beingness" Aspect Stage Four: Being without knowing . . . without any knowledge . . . without any learned ignorance
Stage Five: Taught identities / multiple personality disorders / learned ignorance
Stage Six: Mind
Stage Seven: Body
[That is, five through seven involve being assigned and / or assuming body, mind, and personality identifications]
(See yesterday’s post for details of 1, 2 and 3.)
1. THAT: Energy-Matter / Original Nature
2. MANIFESTATIONS
3. BEINGNESS
To continue:
4. A BEING IN THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE / THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE
That "being" was merely being, meaning being without knowing . . . without knowledge. It came with a blank tablet, a brain with no knowledge recorded on it and, therefore, without a mind.
5. THE PERSONALITY IDENTIFICATION STAGE / THE ASSIGNMENT OF MULTIPLE IDENTITIES STAGE
Soon, it would be taught many things, including false identities / multiple personalities which would set up the Multiple Personality Disorder early on.
6. THE MIND IDENTIFICATION STAGE
ORIGINALLY, HUMAN-LIKE “BEINGS” HAD NO MIND
Originally, human-like “beings” had no "mind part" of the brain. They abided under the auspices of the brain. Later, they would abide under the auspices of a mind focused on survival. Eventually, they would abide under the auspices of a nonsense-filled, irrational mind which is bent on self-destruction rather than survival.
Early on, the adult human brain had a one-cup size, and the area of the brain now referred to as “the mind” - where information could be stored and from which information could be retrieved – did not exist.
It was not until the adult human brain evolved from its original one-cup size to its present 3-1/2 cup size that any human ever had "a mind," that is, ever had those areas of the brain where information could be stored and from which information could be retrieved.
So a part of the brain is now capable of storing and retrieving information, and once that part of the mind became filled with nonsense via programming, conditioning, etc., a mind formed.
For years, the information stored in the mind and recalled on occasion was, in terms of the relative existence, an asset because it facilitated the survival of the species.
The earliest version of "the mind" was originally an asset for humanity when it was filled with facts, such as when Thor witnessed Rickback fall off a cliff and break into pieces on the rocks below and then stored in the mind-part of his brain the intuitive message, “Take caution around the edges of cliffs. The potential is an event which will not contribute to the survival of the species.”
Now, however, as a result of distorted and nonsensical programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing, the mind - as Maharaj made clear in multiple warnings - is a liability.
The reason that Maharaj suggested that “ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source” and “Follow the same path by which you came” is because it is during the “coming in leg” when foolishness is added, when, historically, each child is exposed to the hand-me-down ignorance and insanity which is being passed down to all children and which relocates them mentally and emotionally to the Land of Suckerdom.
The “realization” process, Maharaj said, is about nothing more than taking the steps required to be free of the learned ignorance which is taught.
It has been shown repeatedly on this site that "The Causes of the Ultimate Sickness" become "The Symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness" to the degree that "The Causes" (distorted and nonsensical programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing") result in the passing down from one generation to the next the symptoms of the Sickness which Maharaj identified as "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity." Then, once the symptoms manifest in one generation, then those symptoms become the cause of the Sickness being passed down to the next generation.
So the transmission of the Ultimate Sickness now involves entrapment in a cycle of nonsense and what Maharaj called "learned ignorance."
You may have heard someone report something like this: "Well, my son brought home the crud from school, he passed it on the sickness to his brother and sister, they passed the illness to me, and I passed it on to my husband. We're all sick as can be." (Never have persons shared anything that is more accurate without actually knowing just how sick they are and without knowing what the most serious Sickness is which they have contracted.)
Yes, the scenario the mother described above is the very pattern by which the Ultimate Sickness is transmitted. Because no one can give away anything other than what one has, then entrapment in "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" will lead to those persons passing down the "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" they have to the next generation, those in that generation pass down the "ignorance, stupidity, and insanity" they have to another generation, ad infinitum.
And what do distorted and nonsensical programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing generate? A mind. Now this is a key point in understanding what the Sickness is about and how it is to be treated:
If persons were to all become reasonable and rationale in a flash, they would see that the greatest challenge being faced but ignored all around the globe is to stop being fooled and to stop acting the way that those playing the role of "The Complete Fool" act.
The following has been shared on this site periodically as the topic of "avoiding foolishness" has been discussed throughout the 15 years that posts have been offered here:
Reaching the fourth of the seven steps from (a) identification with the false "I" body to (b) understanding the Absolute / Your Original Nature is a step towards de-accumulation, not towards accumulation.
That means not accumulating more knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance"); not accumulating more religious knowledge; not accumulating more spiritual knowledge; not accumulating "good" and "Special" Noumenal Identities;
that means not accumulating more accouterments (such as special pillows on which special bowls can be placed so that they can be struck with special sticks, or such as special sticks covered in special coatings that can be burned, or such as special bells that can rung,
or such as special water that can be sprinkled, or such as special crystals which can arranged in special patterns on especially-spiritual days of the year, ad infinitum).
That means as well not accumulating more things, more stuff, or more externals. That means as well not accumulating special robes or special turbans or special beards or special things to hang around one’s neck.
That means not accumulating special books that are deemed to be “holy” or special books by special authors who have achieved special fame (including those Maharaj referred to as "The Big Name Teachers" whom he warned seekers to avoid at all costs. That means not accumulating special pyramids to sit beneath.
That means not accumulating the items which some persons have reported that they have “used effectively over the years,” including ritual bags, spell kits, spirit offering bags, skeleton key talisman necklaces, prayer beads and rosaries,
conjure bags and medicine bags, divine union kits, love kits, dream pillows, purification kits, tranquility kits, ritual bath kits, astrology mojo bags, and – as the ultimate antithesis to the suggestion to de-accumulate – prosperity and abundance kits.
Consider this observation: "There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase most likely spoken by David Hannum, in criticism of both P.T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid-19th century, and his customers. The phrase is often credited to Barnum himself. It means "The masses are foolish and will likely always be fools."
First, no one is "born" because all that is actually happening in that regard is that elements are cycling. That aside, though, suckers and fools are not born, either. They are made, and - yes - they are being made every minute, all around the globe.
As mentioned earlier, an elemental plant food body might arrive nine months after conception with one or more of a variety of mutation-generated defects; it might arrive with brain damage; it might arrive with a learning disability;
it might arrive with a very low IQ; it might arrive with missing or deformed body parts; and I met a child who arrived with a cleft lip and palate, looking as if someone had used a surgical tool shaped like an ice cream scoop to dip out the center of his face.
While all of those conditions can mark a newly-formed composite unity, no child has ever already been a full-blown “sucker” or “fool” at the moment of arrival.
Not one has ever arrived as a neurotic or as a psychotic. Not one has ever arrived with fully-developed personalities, so not one has ever arrived with full-blown personality disorders.
(Yes, research is showing that arrivals can be marked by certain tendencies and propensities, some of which are genetic and some of which involve chemical imbalances set up in the womb because pregnant women abused drugs or used alcohol during their pregnancies or consumed unhealthy, chemical-laden foods, etc. But no child begins its relative existence as a complete and total and all-out “sucker” or “fool").
Being a sucker or a fool involves having a mind filled with foolishness, and while almost every child usually arrives with a brain, no child arrives with a mind at all.
No one can be a sucker or a fool unless one was taught to be a sucker or a fool, and that teaching process is never begun with the intent of making a sucker or a fool.
It always begins with the intention of making a child “good”; of making a child “a faithful Christian / Jew / Muslim / Hindu / Buddhist" etc.; and of making a child “virtuous” so as not to be "sinful” (or at least "behaving properly" and being "good" in order to make the life of parents easier).
[Recall what Maharaj said in that regard: “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.”
But where did a person’s notions about “virtue” and “sin” begin? While certain archetypal images may come “preloaded genetically,” the specific beliefs about what makes someone virtuous as opposed to being sinful is taught and learned. Being a sucker or a fool never begins when a child is “born.” It begins when ignorant and insane and foolish programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination processes begin.]
Again, Maharaj said "knowledge" comes to each child after its arrival, not before, and that the knowledge which is passed down to a child after its arrival amounts to “learned ignorance.”
Once suckers and fools are made, if they later reach the age of a teen or an adult and procreate, then those suckers and fools are most likely to start making their own suckers and fools.
Regarding his son who had just been arrested for theft and drug use, a man lamented, “I don’t know how that boy turned out the way he did.” The reply: “Really? You really don’t know? Then I suppose you would not be interested in my explaining exactly how that happened, would you?” (His reply came not with words but with a symbolic gesture made with his middle finger.)
The reason that Maharaj suggested that “ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source” and “Follow the same path by which you came” is because it was during the “coming in leg” when foolishness was added, when each child is relocated early on to the Land of Suckerdom.
Again, the “realization” process, Maharaj said, is about nothing more than taking the steps required to be free of the learned ignorance which was taught.
On the child's “path” coming in from the source, it was
after parents who had been taught ignorance
and
who accepted without questioning a plethora of falsehoods as fact
and
who then passed down the learned ignorance of previous generations to their next generation
that their child was snatched from the peace of the "The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State” and was taught volumes of ignorance and was assigned all sorts of false identities.
7. THE BODY IDENTIFICATION STAGE
Early on, the child identified with the parent or parents and sensed the oneness, but eventually it would discover its hands, and then later its feet, and then later the rest of its body.
It would then stop identifying with the parent(s) and would identify with itself, meaning, with its own body. That is as far removed as one can get from its original nature, creating seven steps of separation from what it truly is (energy) and what it takes itself to be.
In the end, it becomes understood that what is . . . is beyond both beingness and non-beingness.
Consider: Those who do not understand might be driving through a desert region in a car and look down the road and say, "Look, there's a mirage up ahead in the road." (In other words, the belief is that there is a mirage that is . . . "being").
Once the point along the highway is reached where it appeared earlier that a mirage was there - that a mirage was being - the passengers might agree: "Look. Now, the mirage is gone." (In other words, the mirage is no longer "being").
Yet that is all total nonsense. That which never was cannot be said to have had "beingness"; nor can it be said that it is now "not being."
Thus, it cannot be said post-manifestation that "Once, 'floyd' was but now 'he' no longer is."
That which "was, is, and shall be" is only energy / matter, so it would be inaccurate to say that . . .
"There was a Floyd before that came eventually into being";
nor can it be said accurately that . . .
"Floyd was, for a time. For a time, Floyd was in a state of beingness";
nor can it be said accurately that . . .
"Floyd was, for a time but now Floyd is no longer - he is in a state of non-beingness."
Maharaj said: "That 'I Am' is a concept is to be understood while the concept is there. Once it merges in the original state, who (or what) is there who wants to know? The illusory entity has disappeared."
He continued: "The basic reason for all this great cause is that you exist, so find the nature of that. All these acts are done by the child of a barren woman."
This notion of a "floyd" or "Floyd" doing and being or of a "you" doing and being or of a "You" doing and being is as nonsensical as believing that there was a child of a barren woman that was being for awhile but now the child has taken mahasamadhi and has entered a state of non-being."
Krishna made the point that only the fully realized understood that he was beyond both beingness and non-beingness, adding, "All others are fools."
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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