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To continue with observations about Stage III since so many seekers fixate there.
Stage III: The Forest Dweller Stage (continued)
Notice the way that entrance into the Forest Dweller Stage gives the search an inward rather than outward focus, shifting the seeker's focus away from the subject matter of dogma and myth.
There is also a shift away from the contemporary big name authors and lecturers, including their books that focus on relative desires and issues such as "ambition and meaning"; "changing your life by changing your thoughts";
"finding your ultimate calling or finding the incredible you or finding inspiration"; "learning the secrets to success" or "how to gain power through intentions" or "how to advance your spirit or find your purpose";
and including talks about "an infinite Self" or "gaining power now" or "finding the way to love" or "attaining an ageless body and timeless mind" or "fulfilling desires" or "learning spiritual laws" or "fulfilling dreams" or "knowing god" or "loving everything that is" (no matter how perverted or warped it might be);
or "changing bad thinking patterns to good thinking patterns," all of which Maharaj classified as nonsense. See that all of that deals only with the relative exclusively and that, if truly immersed in the Forest Dweller Stage, then none of that will be paid even the slightest attention to any longer.
Immersed thusly, there are none of the relative and unnatural and supernatural distractions that previously blocked the ability to see that which is natural. The often-life-long preoccupation with that which is unnatural and supernatural and phony gives way to focusing upon that which is natural and authentic.
Notice how the shift to the Forest Dweller Stage, as described earlier, allows a seeker to focus on the way that consciousness drives persons to seek eternal continuity of body and mind and personality; on the way that personality controls behavior unconsciously;
how the differentiation in actual vs. perceived threats can happen; how one can distinguish between the perversion of abnormal and supernatural living and come to understand natural abidance instead; and how the seeker can focus on that which is within rather than that which is without.
In order to make a point about “clear perspectives vs. warped perspectives,” an earlier reference was made to two instances when "floyd" felt threatened by two different females.
In one case, the posture of a cub-guarding bear was a truly threatening posture, relatively speaking.
In the second case, the posture of a departing "wife" was a truly non-threatening posture that was perceived to be even more threatening than being charged by an angry bear.
Earlier: That bear’s standing up, growling and then charging could be considered a truly threatening posture in nature, relatively speaking. I felt threatened, and the sensation of feeling threatened by that female was a natural response.
In the second case, when “floyd’s wife” said, “I’m leaving you” and then got into a car and drove away, the “floyd”-in-reversion also felt threatened by a female.
[The “floyd”-in-reversion? Yes, just as Maharaj explained, one can be live for stretches of time with a Cherokee Grandmother in her rudimentary cabin in an East Texas forest and can be introduced while there to non-dual pointers and experience a “shift,” only to be pulled back into the distortions of duality when returning "home" and experiencing the chaos generated by unstable parents and by a gang-infested, poverty-ridden, squalid and overcrowded urban community;
then one can attend college and be in a community where certain non-dual understandings could be discussed without one being judged as being insane, only to eventually accept employment in one of the largest insurance companies in the U.S. where the abnormal norm among the cold-blooded and heartless management had a singular focus on their monthly capitalistic sales goals and their greed and the making of huge profits no matter the effects on their customers and where any sense of oneness fell to the wayside with the constant exposure to their “us vs. them” mentality;
then one can retouch the sense of the unicity and - as a result - quit that job by refusing to deliver to a widow the proceeds of the life insurance policy from her recently-deceased husband and by refusing the boss’s demand that she be manipulated into reinvesting a chunk of those proceeds into a paid-up, whole life insurance policy on herself and then move to another state to start over from scratch while enjoying the kind of relativistic) integrity which comes with dealing with people when the sense of oneness prevails;
then one might again fall prey to the foolishness of urges and become driven - in order to gain a new identity such as “The Husband” - to play once more the duality game as demanded by a new spouse who appeared to be the épitomé of this culture’s definition of “beauty” as well as the épitomé of dual-minded and the Ultimate Sickness’s insanity which involved six major personality disorders, only to eventually pay what seemed at the time to be a colossal toll (relatively speaking) in order to be free and independent and then return alone to the state of authenticity which Grandmother had originally introduced me to.
How did Maharaj explain the insanity and instability which was obviously driving me at the time and allow appearance and form to blind me to the substance and truth which should have been so evident?
[Here it is noted that the statement “love is blind” is not accurate and that a more accurate statement might be, “Love is color blind - it prevents the seeing of red flags.” Little is as blinding as the distortions which follow baseless “idealization.”]
Maharaj addressed the circumstances by which the understanding can become clouded or even lost entirely and can lead to a reinstatement of extreme chaos which can re-manifest and mark and mar one’s relative existence for many years even after the non-dual message had been received.
He said, explaining why persons seem to grasp the understanding and then seemingly “lose” it:
“You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”
Or, he could have said, “You can be so driven once more by the hidden agendas of the personality identifications which you desire that - even when having once been free of the desires of false identities and even while enjoying the higher state of freedom which only comes with unassailable authenticity - your baser urges can inspire you to try to cling to false identities again.”
If there are those here today that have a more literary bent, maybe a reminder of a theme which had appeared throughout the history of literature might be relevant.
That theme involves individuals who succumbed to temptation and “struck a Faustian bargain” which entails the “selling of the future ownership of oneself to 'the devil' for personal gain now,” or (less religiously) “being willing to sacrifice anything and everything to satisfy a limitless desire for knowledge or power” or some desired personal identification.
Now, back to “The Story of Warped Perspective, the Bear, and the Wife”:
So contrast the facts of the second case with the first:
In the first instance with the bear, a female was running at me in what certainly seemed to be an attack mode. She outweighed me by over 800 pounds; she was at least four feet taller when standing; and whereas I could run ten miles an hour in a short burst, she could run 35 miles per hour over a very long distance.
Those among her species have been known to kill humans easily and readily, so during her charge, that is a case where a female was a real, natural threat as far as the relative existence is concerned, and the fear—and the reactions that the fear inspired—were quite natural; thus, the (relative) threat I felt from that female was palatable and understandable and logical and reasonable.
In the second case, a female was walking away from me. She weighed about fifty pounds less; she was five inches shorter; and she could not run nearly as fast as I could; yet in the second case, I felt even more threatened by the actions of that female than I did by the actions of the female in case #1.
In that second case, the threat I felt from that female seemed to be a real and palatable threat, but – in fact – my reactions to her actions were totally illogical and unreasonable.
When a shorter, lighter-weight female is walking away from a larger male, that is one of the most non-threatening postures in nature, yet how many millions of persons have felt threatened under those same circumstances and have reacted to a non-threat as if it were a real threat?
The fact that I felt threatened by what was a non-threatening posture in nature was a totally unnatural reaction. To have felt threatened in that case could be seen as an insane act with no possible explanation at all unless one understands the effects of programming and conditioning and acculturation etc. that lead to the assumption of false identities.
In the end, the role of “The Happy Husband” had been replaced by the assumption of the role of the co-dependent, counterpart player to “Mrs. Hug” and “Mrs. Slug” which cleft me having no idea at all about which one of those will be there to greet me when I walked into the house on any given evening.
Clear perspective only comes when free of the distorting effects of the Ultimate Sickness.
Number one, I had to redevelop a clear perspective and see that one who allows herself or himself to be controlled by someone who is batshit crazy must also be . . . batshit crazy.
Secondly, I had to return to a state which consistently allowed a clear perspective to manifest once more. If not seeing clearly, then being given the wonderful gift of a fabulous present can be perceived to be a theft, that is, can be viewed as if something grand is being stolen and taken away when it was actually never grand at all.
The actual message I failed to perceive at the time was . . .
“I am giving you the greatest gift you will ever receive. I am giving you the gift of freedom from an environment where you have been playing really sick dependent and co-dependent roles, trying to deal with the chaos generated by your own issues as well as the six major personality disorders of a partner which have disintegrated into an endless series of seriously-neurotic-and-psychotic episodes.
“I am giving you the gift of freedom from being seen as, quote, ‘A New Age Agent of Satan’ (what?!) anytime you share anything dealing with the non-dual message of avoiding judgmentalism and the arrogant sense of thinking one is different from others and therefore better than others;
“I am giving you the gift of freedom from being attacked when you defend the right of gays to love each other and to marry if they want to and the freedom of not being shunned when you announce that 'it's none of our business what they do'; freedom from being criticized when you refuse to go to weekly “Pray Away the Gay” meetings; and freedom from being criticized when you claim that all people are equal, regardless of skin color.”
But I did not hear those messages. I heard:
“I am taking away your very raison d'être, namely the (false) roles of homeowner, furniture owner, art owner, other land owner, father, parent, business owner, retirement fund owner, investment fund owner, savings account owner, lover, and probably at least seventy more BS, egotism-driven, false identities.”
As visitors here know, Yeshu’a (“Jesus”) said: “Dual-minded persons are unstable in all ways,” so image the effect on “floyd” who has disintegrated over the years into a state of "eighty-part-mindedness.”
What had been “so clear” at one point went to hell in a handbag as I entered into a Faustian bargain but was the only one to keep my end of that bargain.
For the sake of a handful / mindful of ego-states, I (like those characters who throughout literary history had struck a Faustian bargain) had also "sold out" and then paid a high relative price. In the end, it was seen that the bargain making and consequences had not a thing to do with "her" but had everything to do with "me," with the false "me's" which were driving my every thought and word and action.
[Sorry, Grandmother. You did your part. I "lost" the gift you gave me. At that point, it became up to me to find it again and to re-gift it to myself.]
Eventually, I returned to the use of the non-dual process in order to become fixed once more in the stability of the non-dual understanding.
The non-dual process is similar to “psychological processing” if the latter results in seeing the false as false. It was seen that, in Case #2, there was no threat to me. to the "authentic me." That which was perceiving (imagining) a supposed threat was "the not-me's", namely:
the ego-states of “The Husband” and “The Lover” and “The Father” and “The Family Man” and “The House Owner” and “The Finance Man” and “The Man With Retirement Accounts” and “The Owner of Rental Property” and “The Owner of Land” and “The Person With Savings Accounts.” It was all about the illusions of owner, owner, owner, all about the illusions of self, self, self, ad infinitum.
Is it seen that the threat in the second case only seemed real because a person was trapped in the false identities of many ego-states which, when they thought they were being threatened, triggered all sorts of ego-defense mechanisms and mis-perceptions and unfounded fears?
Peace comes when any lie which is taken to be the truth is seen for what it is. Peace can come if the anger or misery experienced around a perceived “loss” comes to an end because it is seen that one never "had" in the first place what an ego-state is thinking it “lost.”
The processing of “the lie of a non-threat”—of an illusory mis-perception being generated by a false identity—can take weeks or months or years among the non-realized. Among the realized, abiding as the natural state and merely witnessing all, there is no "one" to be pulled into the sturm und drang of relativistic non-threats such as those that are perceived by the non-realized to be actual threats.
Consider: in the second case, lost in the “Dream of the Planet,” nearly twenty years had been spent on a stage, playing multiple phony roles in “The Drama of the Lie.”
For most, when the curtain falls abruptly and the play is brought to an unwanted end, the need for processing is indicated. The lie had been taken to be the truth; the truth had never before been seen. Only full realization brought to an end the need to process anything as the “one” that was processing disappeared.
In the first case with Momma Bear, little processing was required. After the danger faded and the bear moved away with her two cubs, the adrenals once again began functioning naturally; the brain determined that the threat had ended; blood pressure returned to a normal range, as did the heart rate.
That is the way the relative existence can unfold if realized: relative, natural threats can be witnessed; if a natural action is indicated, it can happen; and feelings can rise and fall and be witnessed without triggering emotional intoxication or unnatural reactions.
Non-threats (which only ego-states can “experience”) are never taken to be real. When exposed to a lie, differentiation between true and false happens automatically and instantly; furthermore, those supernatural threats mentioned earlier, which can generate untold delusions and fears, are never a factor.
There is no fear based in threats about “eternal damnation,” about “the never-ending pain and torture of fire to which a physical body will be subjected,” and there is no fear of “being punished and deprived now and forevermore.”
Among the realized, abiding as THAT which is body-less, mind-less, and persona-less, natural actions and reactions can happen around an event like the one described in Case #1 above, but what will not happen ever again—post-realization—are the unnatural actions and reactions and emotions that persons experience if dealing with a happening like that described in Case #2.
Until realized, understand that processing will be required; it might happen with a few but might never happen with most.
If it happens, then post-realization, you are not subject to the pain and misery of dealing with relativistic happening which are so often erroneously taken to be real; therefore, long periods of processing will no longer required.
Processing is only required when clear seeing is not happening and when steps must be taken to attain a clear, accurate perspective around something that is being misperceived.
If realized, clear seeing happens automatically, so any effort to see clearly will be a moot issue.
Clear seeing happens automatically if fully realized (that is, if fully free of belief in all of the learned ignorance that was taught).
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 their god / their 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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