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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.
Consider some of the philosophers and poets and song writers who have shared non-dual pointers and consider where on the globe they were when sharing those pointers and the claim here that the non-duality message has long been widespread is further substantiated:
To move on with the remaining quotations from Transcendentalists Thoreau as well as from Whitman and Brad Thor:
MISCELLANEOUS QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS WHICH ARE ROOTED IN NON-DUALITY BY TRANSCENDENTALISTS AND A POPULAR U.S. AUTHOR
Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
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"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust."
"To be awake is to be alive."
"My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers, which, however, I did not promise to do. Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partition shouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, "Think of it! He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak, but he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers."
"The frontiers are not east or west, north or south but wherever a man 'fronts' a fact."
"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line."
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
"Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores."
In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated; my life is unspeakably mean [i.e., “humble” or “average”]. No amount of gold or respectability would in the least redeem it - dining with the Governor or a member of Congress!! But alone in the distant woods or fields, in unpretending sprout-lands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, like this, when a villager would be thinking of his inn, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that cold and solitude are friends of mine. I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing and prayer. I come home to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful. I have told many that I walk every day about half the daylight, but I think they do not believe it. I wish to get ‘the Concord,’ ‘the Massachusetts,’ ‘the America,’ out of my head and be sane every day."
[How controlling and how crafty are the ignorant and insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination to which the masses have been exposed?
So crafty that the masses do not even understand that those are controlling their every thought and word and action, preventing any chance for conscious choices to be made;
so crafty that the masses will never be awake to the fact that they have no ability to make conscious choices because they are being driven daily by the unconscious and subconscious motivators / beliefs which have been taught and stored in their minds;
and
so crafty that they cannot see that the detrimental, insane stuff which they have been taught and which is now stored in their minds is blocking out the brain’s natural and constructive and sane functioning.
It took comparatively little time for me to get out the cancerous growths in my colon; it took me longer to get out of my life those who were manipulating me and who were trying to control me and who were trying – as Cicero said – to elevate themselves by crushing me;
on the other hand, so crafty was the conditioning and acculturation to which I had been exposed that it took me decades to get out “the America” in my head.
So to those visiting the site from the other nations, have you got “the U.K.” out of your head? Have you got “the India” out of your head? Have you got “The France” and “The Italy” and “The Swiss” out of your head? To all, have you got “The Catholic” or “The Baptist” or “The Evangelical” or “The Buddhist” or “The Taoist” or “The Advaitin” out of your head?
Have you got“The Supremacist” or “The Nazi” or “The Neo-Nazi” or “The Conspiracy Theorist” out of your head? Have you got “The Super Spouse” or "The Perfectionist" or "The Super Caretaker" or "The Phony Performer" or "The Escapist" or "The Super Analyst" or "The Dependent One" or "The Co-Dependent One" or "The Addict" or "The Controller" or "The Avoider" out of your head?]
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."
"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."
"The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-travelled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime."
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust."
"Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe."
Transcendentalist Walt Whitman
“Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her, it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.”
"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains."
"I accept reality and dare not question it."
" . . . A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
" . . . I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep."
"I exist as I am . . . . "
"Re-examine all that you have been told . . . . "
"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."
"To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."
Brad Thor
"He started by using his wealth to co-opt anyone who could have an impact on popular culture or public opinion. Newspapers, actors, journalists, publishers, politicians, business people, unions - you name it. The idea was to be able to control the media, as well as any other voices Americans trusted. It's ideological subversion, plain and simple. To get it to take hold, though, they needed to begin planting this new way of thinking in the most fertile minds that could get a hold of."
The reply: "Which means kids."
"Precisely. But it wasn't enough to simply plant this new ideology. For it to blossom, it had to grow without being challenged."
The reply: "Couldn't they be deprogrammed? I'm sure it'd be a monumental task, but . . . . "
"No. They're completely immune to anything that deviates from their ideological perception of reality and what they have been taught is the 'real' truth. The lens they look through life at has forever been altered. It's both terrifying and brilliant in its totality."
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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