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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 green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
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The focus here will now turn to how widespread and pervasive the non-dual message is – and has been – not just from the 8th century when an Indian philosopher and theologian began writing commentaries on the Upanishads, Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita but from much earlier.
In fact, non-dual pointers have been widely circulated for thousands and thousands of years, though many who shared such pointers - or repeated such pointers which they heard or read - did not grasp the non-dual understanding at all.
Tradition credits a man called “Moses” as the author of Genesis as well as the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and most of Deuteronomy; however, modern scholars increasingly view those five books as plagiarisms of earlier texts dating back to the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. and were likely written not by "Moses" but by a composite of writers who were actually drawing from those more ancient texts.
The point regarding when the summative statement of non-duality was being circulated in the Middle East is this:
It is known that some version of non-dual teachings had likely reached the Middle East thousands of years before Jesus arrived on the scene and before he would begin offering certain non-dual pointers as well.
How is that known? Because “Moses” (or whoever really wrote the Jewish scriptures which Christians call “the first five books of our Old Testament”) actually plagiarized the summative statement "I AM THAT; I AM" in the book of Exodus; left off the semicolon; and then put the words into the supposed mouth of God / "a burning bush."
So the writer / writers misidentified as “Moses” might have written the texts in the Torah 3,400 years ago but the summative statement of non-duality was being circulated as far back as the 6th and 5th century B.C.
(While the dogma of Hinduism may have first been spread orally for centuries, some scholars believe that Hinduism formally started somewhere between 2300 B.C. and 1500 B.C., making its codified version some 4,300 years old while its pre-codification version may have been around for 5,000 or so years. Again, all of those numbers are subject to debate which shall not be entered into here.)
The point: it may be that the non-dual message and the summative statement of non-duality have been in circulation for 2,900 to 4,300 years or more.
If those quoting the non-dual pointers credited to Yeshu’a (“Jesus”) were accurate, then it is known too that he was also sharing the non-dual message nearly 2000 years ago.
Indeed, the non-dual message has long been widespread but it has seldom been understood, either then or now.
Yeshu’a (a.k.a., “Jesus”) left organized religion and eventually began offering non-dual pointers which were repeated and circulated orally and shared in written letters / epistles, hand-copied texts, etc. and would later be included in the Bible.
So why do so few Christians have any clue at all about the non-dual message which their supposed “Savior” offered?
Because (1) they own a Bible but do not read it and (2) because they rely on ministers to tell them what is in the Bible as well as what parts are to be focused on while ignoring the non-dual parts completely.
Quotes were recently offered from my works, from Maharaj, and from Dennis along with the lyrics of a currently-popular song which offers a non-dual message.
This new series will continue to offer quotations from thousands of years ago up to the present that contain non-dual messages which have been circulated on a widespread basis.
How many understand that those are non-dual pointers? Few.
How many understand the non-duality which the sources are pointing to? Fewer still, most likely.
Nevertheless, it will be shown that the non-dual message has been shared via “scriptures” and in ancient texts and by the indigenous peoples of the Americas and by well-known philosophers and song writers and poets
as well as
by well-known novelists and in movies and by some politicians or national leaders and by popular modern novelists and by well-known scientists and in many other venues where, again, the non-dual message is presented but seldom heard or understood.
We’ll being tomorrow with a discussion of some of the 2000-year-old non-dual pointers credited to Yeshu’a (“Jesus”).
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) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); 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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