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THE CONSCIOUS PART OF “THE JOURNEYS”: JOURNEY ONE, JOURNEY TWO AND JOURNEY THREE
[Continued from yesterday]
Next, there is the need to understand that the Direct Path Teaching Method - combined with the Nisargan yoga - deal with a “journey” of three legs which can happen during the manifestation.
The triggering of the first leg is not optional if an act of friction results in one outcome over the other. A woman’s egg might be available to be fertilized.
One possible outcome:
If no sperm is around to fertilize the egg, it moves through the uterus and disintegrates. The female body automatically sheds the thick lining of the uterus and “a period” begins.
The other possible outcome:
On the other hand, if one sperm does make its way into the fallopian tube and burrows into an egg, then it fertilizes the egg and a process of cycling earth elements is triggered. (See? There is no "creating elements" or "creating a baby" or "creating a new life." What already was, is and shall be is merely cycling. There is only the cycling of elements which have always existed.)
Again, if fertilization happens, then everything that happens during the nine-month gestation period among humans happens automatically.
The male’s part is done. The female’s part happens automatically if she eats plant food or eats something that ate plants. Under normal and natural conditions, she need not take any conscious actions to make lungs develop, to make a brain develop, etc. All will happen automatically.
Also, no supernatural third party (or “Power“ or “god”) has to intervene to trigger the formation of lungs, the formation of a brain, etc. It all just happens on its own.
Nothing about pregnancies and the subsequent manifestations of composite unities are of a ménage-a-trois nature. There is no god / human female / human male three-way involvement. It's a two-human-process from beginning to end.
If all progresses normally and naturally, then the manifestation of a composite unity will happen automatically and spontaneously. The first “leg” will have begun.
The triggering of that leg happens without any conscious interference or input during the nine-month process during which already-existing elements are being cycled as the plant food cells consumed by a pregnant woman are converted naturally and automatically into human cells.
The only requirements on her part involving consciousness are that the consciousness must continue to be manifested in her elemental plant food body by consciously consuming food. Nothing else is required from her if the pregnancy continues, without complications, in a normal manner.
So that’s the way the first leg begins. Shortly after, the role of parental consciousness on the part of both parents - if both are present - will soon go into high gear as they will sooner-than-later begin programming, conditioning, domesticating, acculturating, brainwashing, and indoctrinating the “child.”
As for legs two and three, those are never likely to happen among the masses on the planet. Most among the masses will never realize, that is, will never abandon their attachment to their learned ignorance and will never be free of ever-worsening degrees of insanity and other symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which will be passed down to them.
Should any persons begin seeking and find a guide to lead them through legs two and three, they might become free of the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness. That will require the highest level of consciousness if the higher level of awareness is to manifest.
Either way, the fourth leg will happen post-manifestation. When? Post-mahasamadhi. All humans will unconsciously be pulled into that fourth leg as the functioning of the body ends at which point the elements will return to the universal pool of elements, the air will return to the universal pool of air, and the conscious-energy will return to the universal pool of energy.
So, to review. That three-legged "journey" has been explained thusly:
Consider again Maharaj's statements
“ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source”
and
“Follow the same path by which you came”
and note that those pointers seem at first glance to point to a two-leg "journey":
A speck of awareness-without-aware-of-ness-energy manifested as consciousness in a body-cum-consciousness. After a brief period of just being as a child who was devoid of language, a mind, concepts, beliefs, and ideas, the child was subjected to programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination.
Identities were assigned and information ("learned ignorance") was stored, so a mind began to form in certain parts of the brain. Around the age of two, the child's sense of oneness (with its mother) ended as the child became self-conscious and began to focus on itself and its fears and its desires: "I want this; I want that"; "give me that and that and that, too" along with, "Agh! That's scary!" and "Agh! That is hurting me (i.,e., hurting the body that I am").
Soon, the child will only be identified with its body and that - as well as the roles assigned and adopted – will develop in the child a false sense of "I-ness."
That total separation from reality (and “Reality”) is the end of the first leg, the "coming in" leg. Most will live out the remainder of the manifestation in that “conscious-while-being-totally-unconscious-and-totally-asleep” condition. It is a very Sick state, an Ultimately Sick state.
Maharaj's pointers above contain a reference to the second, "going back out" leg which only a few, but not very many, will undertake.
For the masses, the manifestation-to-mahasamadhi process is distorted as a result of their having been programmed with dogma and principles and precepts and having completed only one leg of a three-leg "journey" (which they take to be a "birth-to-life-to-death-to-judgment-to-eternal-life-and-eternal-reward-or-eternal-punishment" journey).
For the masses, their one-leg-only "journey" entails (a) manifestation, (b) undergoing the step-seven process of disintegration that moves one from the awareness-energy / Absolute state to (c) being left in a delusional condition which is as far removed as possible from “Reality” (as opposed to the realities of the temporary beingness). That condition? The body-identification-only state.
Completing that one leg of what is actually a three-leg "journey" is all that will happen with most persons because they will never seek. On the "coming in" leg, most will be assigned religious and / or spiritual personas and will be guided by their programmers to play their roles to the end of the manifestation.
Their "guides" (parents, cultures, priests, rabbis, preachers, imams, ayatollahs, sponsors, some gurus, spiritual mentors, spiritual life coaches, etc.) will only guide them as far as the third of seven steps - the religious or spiritual step discussed earlier - so 97% of the people on the planet now claim an affiliation with some religion and another 2% proudly brag, "I am spiritual, not religious!"
The "first leg" of the "journey in" had been completed in seven stages, and each of those seven steps farther removed the child from its Original Nature as the Absolute, as a part of that vast field of energy that is not aware but has the potential to manifest and be conscious of and, if realized, be fully aware of also.
Maharaj, by saying, “ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source” and “Follow the same path by which you came,” introduced seekers to the second leg of the "journey": the "going back out" leg . . . the "reversing" leg . . . the "follow back out the same 'path' by which you came in" leg of the "journeys."
Back out of this mess you are in, Maharaj was saying. Restore the consciousness, he was saying, to its pre-programmed, pre-conditioned, pre-domesticated, pre-acculturated, pre-brainwashed, pre-indoctrinated, pre-concepts, pre-ideas, pre-beliefs, pre-duality, pre-manifestation, pre-self-absorbed, pre-self-conscious, totally unblocked and totally pure condition.
For the few who do seek realization via non-duality, many undertake only a two-leg "journey," having first undergone the "coming in" leg and then completing the "going back" leg and thereafter claiming that they abide "there" or as THAT alone.
They finish out the manifestation in a FooFoo Land-type of existence.
What many seekers miss (along with their teachers and guides and all of the other so-called "experts" that persons listen to) is the key fact that there is not one passage that is to be completed but that there are actually three in total. (Even if one wants to claim that there is but "one journey," then it must be understood that the journey has three legs.)
Those who read only I AM THAT will miss the point as well. In the book available below which deals with Maharaj's Evolution, it is made clear that Maharaj's early emphasis was not solely on the ultimate "goal" of abiding naturally. The "totally unadulterated version of a purely nisargan message" came years later.
So in the process of seeking via non-duality, there has been in most cases a fruitless search for "the exact path," an unsuccessful search for the exact way to follow that "path," a futile search for the means by which "the journey" could finally be completed once and for all, and an unproductive search for the way to reach the final destination of "the journey" and remain there.
Here, it took a vision that came one afternoon while leaving the delta level of consciousness and entering into a theta state of consciousness to finally "break the code" being used by so many teachers and understand
** what the entire three-leg "journey" involves,
** how only one-leg of "the journey" happens with the masses,
** how an entire three-part "journey" must happen if one would realize fully;
and
** what happens after "the journey" is completed so that the remainder of the relative existence can happen in a not-insane, non-stupid, not-ignorant, non-fluctuating, non-chaotic, not-unstable, but totally steady and logical AS IF manner instead.
That manner is marked either by (1) freedom and joy and peace and / or (2) an ability to merely witness whatever events which the relative existence might toss one's way and which might fall outside the categorization of "perfectly tranquil happenings."
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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