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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 point in this series is that the non-dual message has long been widespread but has seldom been understood either then or now.
To continue:
THE NON-DUALITY MESSAGE AS IT HAS BEEN OFFERED IN NON-FICTION
Ralph Klein
A short-term goal is for persons “to understand that they are not the way they appear to be.”
[Eliminating personality and addressing the accompanying disorders] “involves a mourning . . . for the loss of the illusion . . . for the loss of an identity, the false self, which the person constructed and with which he or she has negotiated much of his or her life. The dismantling of the false self requires a relinquishing of the only way of being that the [person] has ever known . . . .”
Physicist Barbara McClintock
"Basically, everything is one."
Physicist Erwin Schrodinger
"Quantum physics thus revels a basic oneness of the universe."
Physicist Fritjof Capra
“Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units.
"As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated 'building blocks' but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way.
"The human observer constitutes the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.”
Physicist Niels Bohr
Isolated material particles are abstractions."
Physicist David Bohm
"The new form of insight can perhaps best be called 'Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Movement' (or, 'holomovement')."
"In this movement, there is NO THING. Rather, things are abstracted out of the movement in our perception and thought, and any such abstraction fits the real movement only up to a point, and without limits. Some ‘things’ may last for a very long time and be fairly stable, while others are ephemeral as the shapes abstracted in perceptions of clouds."
"The best image of process is perhaps that of the flowing stream, whose substance is never the same. On this stream, one may see an ever-changing pattern of vortices, ripples, waves, splashes, etc, which evidently have no independent existence as such. Rather, they are abstracted from the flowing movement, arising and vanishing in the total process of the flow."
" . . . To emphasize undivided wholeness, we shall say that what ‘carries’ an implicate order is the holomovement, which is an unbroken and undivided totality. In certain cases, we can abstract particular aspects of the holomovement (e.g., light, electrons, sound, etc), but more generally, all forms of the holomovement merge and are inseparable.
"Thus, in its totality, the holomovement is not limited in any specifiable way at all. It is not required to conform to any particular order, or to be bounded by any particular measure. Thus, the holomovement is undefinable and immeasurable."
" . . . Mind and matter are abstractions from the universal flux."
"Instead of saying, ‘An observer looks at an object’, we can more appropriately say, ‘Observation is going on, in an undivided movement'."
The observation going on is "involving those abstractions customarily called 'the human being' and “the object he is looking at'.”
Marvin Kaye
“The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.”
S.H. Sharp
“To be a great magician, one must be able to present an illusion in such a way that people are not only puzzled, but deeply moved.”
"Griffin"
"It is only very recently in the millions of years of human history that the break from nature has become so complete.
"Each one of us is a wild animal suffering. Conditioning makes us dependent and weak, but we still yearn for the freedom of wildness and the deep satisfaction of living out our feral destinies as a part of the community of life.
"How to heal from our self-perpetuated domestication:
"relearn the life skills that allow us to shed our dependence on civilization and put new trust in the Land to provide for us;
"release our addictions to the many activities and substances that make civilized life bearable;
"relearn how to live with others;
"reawaken our atrophied senses and experience the full lushness of life;
"see the damage from the trauma of domestication; then live in balance."
"It takes years of socializing to subdue the power and beauty of a child’s primal instincts. This process is reversible. It is possible to become feral by overcoming the numbness of the civilized condition."
Paul Krassner
" . . . Life on earth was the result of inconceivable coincidence rather than conscious design."
" . . . My own conception was the result of inconceivable coincidence."
Ken Kesey
"My energy is what I do. My image is what other people think I do."
Native America Wisdom
"If in doubt, be still and wait."
"That which is inhaling and exhaling is an illusion; truth can only be found in the empty space of the absolute quiet and the empty moments in between."
"Peace can only be found in the silence; once found, it can remain under any conditions."
"It is possible to be alone and truly like the company kept in the empty moments."
"Only excursions into that which is natural can reveal truth."
"Even the seasons form a great circle, but they always come back again to where they were."
"The life of a human is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where energy moves."
"There is no birth. There is no death. There is no creation. There is no destruction. There are only the cyclings of elements, air, and energy; there is no body-mind-personality continuity."
"Harmony with all things is possible, but it cannot manifest in the presence of inner turmoil or in the absence of Full Realization."
"I saw more than I can tell, and I understood more than I saw, for I was seeing the shape of all shapes living in harmony as one."
"We are but one thread."
"Peace comes from within when oneness with the universe is realized."
"It was seen that power need not be sought except for the strength required to fight the greatest enemy—self."
"It was seen that when self has been eliminated, no more power or strength is required."
"It came to be known that another can be disappointed if that is required in order to be free of dual-mindedness and to be true to self."
"It was seen that, to be trustworthy, one must first be faithless."
"I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments."
"Earth, teach me humility; Earth, teach me to forget myself."
"We are but one."
“Walk in balance."
"Above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace which is within.”
“It appears that where marriage is solemnized by the church and blessed by the priest, it may at the same time be surrounded with customs and ideas of a frivolous, superficial, and even prurient character. ‘Love’ between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking.”
“I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to your self . . . if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.”
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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