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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 Fifty-nine =
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
Originally, there were seven steps on the path along which Maharaj guided those seeking freedom.
Some say, “They were not seeking freedom. They were seeking ‘Realization’.”
Well, Maharaj would eventually define “realization” as “freedom from learned ignorance.” That can come in four steps.
Along the way, he modified that approach and advised seekers that "You need not find the answer to 'What am I?" It is enough to know what you are not.”
[Note that he did not say, "You need not find the answer to 'Who am I?’ It is enough to know who you are not.” He recognized no “who-ness” or “Who-ness,” only “That-ness” or “What-ness.” What this “you” - which “you” are referred to as - is merely a three-part composite unity including a temporary, elemental plant food body which forms a space through which air and conscious-energy circulate.
Neither elements nor air nor energy involve any who-ness. They are all “that’s,” not “who’s” and are all energy-matter, which cannot be created or destroyed. Energy / matter has been, is, and shall be, eternally.]
I’ve shared that my Uncle Brooks was head of what was insultingly and derogatorily called at the time “the largest insane asylum in Texas.”
During the summers when I was staying with my Cherokee Grandmother, he would drive out to her cabin and pick me up and take me to his home to spend a few days with him. He was another of my mentors and the one who often offered clear alternatives to my foggy perspectives.
In that facility, I saw raging lunatics who had a variety of neuroses and psychoses but who had one thing in common: they did not have a clue regarding “who they were.”
Among the masses on planet earth, they should be grateful because that condition - not having a clue regarding who or what they are - is not grounds for locking persons away. Why? Because 99.9% of the planet’s population would be incarcerated in an asylum. They haven’t a clue about who they are or – more accurately – what they are, and they haven’t a clue about who others are or – more accurately – what others are.
When that condition is observed by those with the non-dual understanding, they refer to those suffering from that phenomenon as being “non-realized” or “asleep” and driven by a warped mind and delusional perspectives.
When that condition is observed by professionals such as psychiatrists or psychologists or counselors who encounter such persons, they see that condition as a psychiatric disorder which they sometimes diagnosis as “Capgras Delusion.”
The “Capgras Delusion” is defined as "a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member (or pet) has been replaced by an identical imposter."
The Capgras Delusion is classified as a delusional misidentification syndrome, a class of delusional beliefs which involves the misidentification of people, places, or objects.
It can occur in acute, transient, or chronic forms.
The delusion most commonly occurs in individuals diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia but has also been seen in brain injury or dementia.
Much research and effort has also been put into trying to understand delusional misidentification syndrome, but the realized have long recognized that those with the Ultimate Sickness have a case of “delusional misidentification syndrome,” have a mental / psychiatric disorder, have no clue what they really are, and have no clue what others really are.
It could be that the masses might not be diagnosed by professionals as suffering from the Capgras Delusion, but it is obvious that the masses are definitely suffering from delusions and distortions as well as beliefs in illusions, figments of the imagination, fantasies, apparitions, images, misapprehensions, misperceptions, false impressions, misconceptions, myths, superstitions.
All of those preempt any chance of enjoying freedom.
The non-dual understanding can - in some cases - free persons of those delusions, distortions, etc.
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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