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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 “COMING IN” PROCESS
[From yesterday]
As is the case with the Rubik’s Cube, so the case is with the human mind:
the most direct way to restore both the cube and the human mind to its original nature or state would be to repeat, in reverse, each step which was taken to create the disordered arrangement and thereby provide what is required to allow a human to abide now as it did as its original, natural state of order . . . as THAT.
To that end, it is required that persons understand how they got into their current mental maze before they can reverse, go back, and return to the original state or the original nature from which they came.
Thomas DeMichele wrote: “The universe and everything in it, including humans, is mostly “empty space.” However, space is not actually “empty” because it’s filled with quantum fields and dark energy.
"In other words, even though the universe and everything in it is mostly empty (to the extent that the human race could fit in a very heavy sugar cube with the space removed), true empty space (a perfect stable vacuum) can’t actually exist in nature."
When this (which is erroneously believe to be “floyd” by many) eventually takes mahasamadhi, this physical, elemental, plant food body through which air and conscious-energy will have been coming and going for 72 years if it holds together until this September, will be cremated. The remaining ashes will be placed into a small urn and will be scattered about beside the lake which surrounds the Walden community.
The smallness of the urn is evidence of how little there is to this body and how much of it is merely space. It is a microcosmic mirror of the universe.
1. So the universe is mostly space with various forms of energy (one of which is conscious-energy) moving freely throughout that space without confinement but also - in the case of conscious-energy - without knowing and (in terms of so-called “humanness”) with no being and with no non-being either.
2. If a cycle of manifestation is triggered by way of an act of friction, then various forms of energy can manifest within a confined space (such as a human womb or an oak tree of a rock). One such form of energy is conscious-energy / consciousness.
3. In the case of humans and most living things, there can be a development into a "being" . . . into a composite unity with temporary "beingness."
4. There is initially beingness without knowingness . . . simply being without any knowledge (or as Maharaj labeled it, “learned ignorance”).
5. Once programming, conditioning, etc. begins, then learned ignorance will be taught and then stored in the mind part of the brain. Among the body of learned ignorance, the most debilitating include personal identities / personality identifications / false ego-states / roles which trigger the development of the Multiple Personality Disorder which, in turn, eventually triggers psychic deterioration and the emergence of a series of neuroses and psychoses.
6. The mind part of the brain expands as more and more nonsense is taught by parents and relatives and friends and neighbors and schools and governments and religious institutions and spiritual movements and programs. All of the nonsense which they all teach is usually accepted with blind faith as truth without any questioning at all except among the ½ of 1% of the planet’s population which is wired to question and to rebel against the ignorant authorities who run most the show for the sheep-like masses who are wired to follow.
7. Eventually, when as far removed from the original “free-ranging” state as one can be, then identification is primarily with the body only.
The details:
1. THAT: Energy-Matter / Original Nature
All in the universe is energy-matter. As for matter, dark matter and ordinary matter are examples of the types of matter. As for energy, there are many types and forms of energy: Chemical; nuclear; gravitational; mechanical; potential energy (which refers to any type of stored energy); kinetic; thermal as well as awareness-energy and conscious-energy.
(RE: gravitational, see "space-time." The gravitational field can have three different types of energy density: dark energy, curvature and gravitational radiation).
The point for non-dualists: awareness-energy and conscious-energy are not "special" and cannot make anyone or anything special. Both are just forms of energy, so THAT is nothing special (or "Special" or "Supreme" either).
Awareness is just a particular form of energy which is not aware of itself unless manifested as the unblocked consciousness which can come to understanding what I am saying right now. Consciousness is manifested awareness which is capable of being conscious-of and which has an intimation of that which is immortal or lasting, namely, that awareness-energy but which will soon have no awareness of awareness of conscious-as-energy either; thus, the consciousness is also nothing more than a particular form of energy, capable of being conscious-of. From that field of energy can come, strictly at random, . . .
2. MANIFESTATIONS
An egg with conscious-energy manifested and a sperm cell with conscious-energy manifested were united as a result of an act of friction and conscious-energy manifested within the resulting space of formed by plant food elements. As more and more food with consciousness was consumed, more and more elements formed in the womb so that another elemental plant food body begin to develop.
3. BEINGNESS
Those developed into what is called "a being," that is, another case of "beingness" began and the result was another three-part composite unity involving elements, air, and conscious-energy. Nothing was created. It all just cycled. That is what happened with this universe and all other universes, and it is what happened in the case of what is called "a baby." Parents created nothing; they were just participants in the natural processing of cycling elements.
4. A BEING IN THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE / THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE
That "being" was merely being, meaning being without knowing . . . without knowledge. It came with a blank tablet, a brain with no knowledge recorded on it and, therefore, without a mind.
5. THE PERSONALITY IDENTIFICATION STAGE / THE ASSIGNMENT OF MULTIPLE IDENTITIES STAGE
Soon, it would be taught many things, including false identities / multiple personalities which would set up the Multiple Personality Disorder early on.
6. THE MIND IDENTIFICATION STAGE
A part of the brain is now capable of storing and retrieving information, and once that part of the mind became filled with nonsense via programming, conditioning, etc., a mind formed.
7. THE BODY IDENTIFICATION STAGE
Early on, the child identified with the parent or parents and sensed the oneness, but eventually it would discover its hands, and then later its feet, and then later the rest of its body.
It would then stop identifying with the parent(s) and would identify with "itself," meaning, with its own body. That is as far removed as one can get from its original nature, creating seven steps of separation from what it truly is (energy) and what it takes itself to be.
In the end, it becomes understood that what is . . . is beyond both beingness and non-beingness.
Consider: Those who do not understand might be driving through a desert region in a car and look down the road and say,
"Look, there's a mirage up ahead in the road." (In other words, the belief is that there is a mirage that is . . . "being").
Once the point along the highway is reached where it appeared earlier that a mirage was there - that a mirage was being - the passengers might agree:
"Look. Now, the mirage is gone." (In other words, the mirage to their view is no longer "being").
Yet that is all total nonsense. That which never was cannot be said to have had "beingness"; nor can it be said that it is now "not being."
Thus, it cannot be said post-manifestation that "Once, 'floyd' was but now 'he' no longer is."
That which "was, is, and shall be" is only energy / matter, so it would also be inaccurate to say that . . .
"There was a Floyd before that came eventually into being";
nor can it be said accurately that . . .
"Floyd was, for a time. For a time, Floyd was in a state of beingness";
nor can it be said accurately that . . .
"Floyd was, for a time but now Floyd is no longer - he is in a state of non-beingness."
Maharaj said: "That 'I Am' is a concept is to be understood while the concept is there. Once it merges in the original state, who (or what) is there who wants to know? The illusory entity has disappeared. "
He continued: "The basic reason for all this great cause is that you exist, so find the nature of that. All these acts are done by the child of a barren woman."
This notion of a "floyd" or "Floyd" doing and being or of a "you" doing and being or of a "You" doing and being is as nonsensical as believing that there was a child of a barren woman that was being for awhile but now the child has taken mahasamadhi and has entered a state of non-being."
Krishna made the point that only the fully realized understood that he was beyond both beingness and non-beingness, adding, "All others are fools."
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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