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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. 

Next: 

THE NON-DUALITY MESSAGE AS OFFERED IN FILM 

From "The Matrix" 

[Note: In Greek mythology, "Morpheus" was "The God of Dreams," able to appear in the dreams of mortals and offer messages or clarity. The Greek word "morphe" means "to form," so Morpheus was the one who shaped and formed or altered humans' dreams.]

From the film:

"Within the prison of your world appears a man who tells you that the world of painful contradictions, which you have created, is neither continuous nor permanent and is based on a misapprehension. He pleads with you to get out of it, by the same way by which you got into it. You got into it by forgetting what you are and you will get out of it by knowing yourself as you are." 

"Do not try to bend the spoon. It is not the spoon that bends. It's the self that bends." 

"Now he is starting to believe. There is a difference between knowing about the Path and walking the Path." 

"You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there - like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me."

Morpheus: "The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth." 

Neo: "What truth?" 

Morpheus: "That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison . . . for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is - you have to see it for yourself." 

Neo: "What are you doing?" 

Morpheus: "Your muscles have atrophied. We're rebuilding them." 

Neo: "Why do my eyes hurt?" 

Morpheus: "You've never used them before." 

"Your appearance now is what we call residual self-image. It is the mental projection." 

OTHER MOVIES WITH NON-DUALITY THEMES 

Being There (1979 version) 

One critic said that “this movie has sparked years of discussion” as persons seek to understand the message. Indeed, that is usually the case when a non-dual message in offered without informing the audience that “this is a film with a non-dual message!” 

Overall, the movie illustrates how much misunderstanding there is on this planet, one analyst having said: 

“Every piece of dialogue is double-layered” 

and asked: 

Does the film show that the lead character’s “lack of intellect” is mistaken by the masses to actually be “supreme wisdom”? 

The message about the widespread lack of authenticity and misunderstandings is clear: the lead character is of extremely low intelligence and entirely devoid of wisdom; nevertheless, he looks good, dresses well, and speaks in platitudes so the masses take him to be someone involved “in deep contemplation.” 

The masses interacting with him constantly makes false assumptions about his statements which expose a total lack of awareness, not to mention a total lack of wisdom. 

One said that the audience is forever waiting for someone to wake up to the fact that when the lead character says, “I can’t read” he really means that he can’t read; instead, those hearing him think that they can relate, drawing a false conclusion and saying that they, too, are far too busy to find time to read anymore. 

In fact, his entire worldview is derived from watching totally inane television shows, then repeating the nonsense he observed, after which the masses relate to all that he says (which is actually just being regurgitated from that electronic source of ignorance and banality which is in most homes). 

Thus pointers throughout the movie note that . . . 

“success isn’t about what you know” 

and 

illusions among the masses are taken to be the real (including walking on water) 

and 

false perceptions are the abnormal norm of this planet 

and 

images and misperceptions reign supreme 

and 

“anyone can do anything so long as one is not limited by learned restraints ."

The movie also invites persons to consider how accurate (or actually how inaccurate) are the perceptions which they have of themselves. 

At the movie’s end, the pointer is offered that “life is a state of mind.” Indeed, among the non-realized masses, that is consistently the case.

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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of the "Awakening Together" satsang session with Regina and Jacqueline referenced earlier, 18 MARCH 2018 

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of that session.