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ENTERING INTO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE"
OR
"THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
[Included are excerpts from the book entitled The Relative Results of Returning to "The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State"]
All "Good and New and Improved" Ego-States Are a Detriment to Realization
With the prospect of (1) being restored to sanity and (2) enjoying thereafter the plethora of relative “benefits” which come with being free of false personality identifications and with the prospect of (3) not having one’s every thought and word and action determined and controlled by the hidden agenda of a host of imaginary identities, why do so few reach the fourth step on the “path” and return to the peace of abiding as happened previously during “The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State"?
Again, it’s all about the willingness of unquestioning persons to accept the false identities assigned to them or assumed by them because of the influence of the Ultimate Sickness’s symptoms of “ignorance, stupidly, and insanity” and because the Sickness abounds in most homes, schools, churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, ashrams, and cultures as a whole which have political and religious leaders who almost all display a preponderance of neuroses and psychoses along with their sociopathic and psychopathic thoughts and words and actions.
So, if Maharaj's estimates were spot on, [that few will ever realize fully] then you too might ask: "If Maharaj was right and almost none who seek to understand ever will, why even try?"
Again, completion of even four of the seven steps can make the effort worthwhile, as far as the relative existence is concerned. At the third of seven steps on the "path" to realization (that is, on the path to being freed of belief in false identities and learned ignorance as well as varying degrees of insanity), persons often begin shifting away from those roles that their cultures deem to be "bad" ones or cling whole-heartedly to the “good” ones they have already assumed or been assigned.
Reaching the third super religious or super spiritual or super seeker step (or at least a point where there is a shift in focus from "things phenomenal" that have been valued to a focus on "things noumenal") removes identification with a host of false identities - even scores in most cases - that reinforced self-absorption and that blocked any concern about "others" except to the extent that those "others" were willing to play the necessary, co-dependent counterpart roles that are always required to sustain any assumed role:
"The Employee" cannot exist without someone willing to play "The Employer"; "The Husband" cannot exist unless there is someone willing to play "The Wife," and vice-versa; and "The Super Spouse" cannot exist for long unless there is the perception that one's mate is also a "Super Spouse."
In addition to the three “biggies” which persons cling to at the third step, other powerfully-influential, supposedly “good” ego-states must also be abandoned if one is to move to the fourth of the seven steps to realization. In addition to "The Devout and Earnest Seeker" or "The Super Religious Person" or "The Spiritual Giant," some of the other supposedly "good" identities which must be cast aside in order to move to the fourth step include:
"The Ultimate" or "The Supreme" or "The Sacred Self" or "The Divine One" or "The Newly-Reformed One" or "The Purposeful One" or "The One Who Has Been Reformed for More Years than Others" or "The Righteous One" or "The Really Good One" or "The Knower" or "THAT only" or "Brahman," etc.
Some might recall the example shared before which shows the effect on those around persons who assume such roles:
A few years ago, a spouse whose husband had reached the third step by way of a so-called "spiritual program" share her view of his assumption of a new, spiritual role. After he had assumed most of those bogus identities listed above, and many others as well, and after she had a few years to experience what it was like living with the "new and improved version of 'him'," she said:
"Now that I’ve seen both options, I think I could tolerate the former jerk more than this boring, arrogant saint that has shown up. It’s about time to move on.”
Once more, truth can be known but cannot be stated, so to say "I have become better" or "I have become something really 'good'" or "I am now super religious or super spiritual" or "I have found ‘my True Self’ and it is something very special" cannot be true. The very verbalization of the claims should make clear that the claims are false.
And once more, such claims differ not at all from the same kind of deception and self-deception which plagues the totally non-realized masses and which triggers use of the same ego-defense mechanisms (such as egotism and arrogance) employed by anyone assuming an ego-state as an identity.
When "Spiritual Giants" made contact here in the past to display how much they know (which is happening more frequently than ever before), the reply included a point offered by Maharaj when he said: "Indeed, this speck of consciousness called 'Floyd' is a spiritual pygmy compared to you." Nowadays, of course, only one key - the delete” key - is used in those cases.
Again, because truth can be known by not stated, to claim that "egotism and arrogance and narcissism have been replaced by humility and modesty" is just more evidence of egotism and arrogance and narcissism among those who are proud of their newly-found humility and modesty.
If one makes such claims, the question to be asked is, "What happened to neti-neti? You know, to the understanding that there is no 'who' - no 'person' - to be either arrogant or modest? WHO - what assumed persona - is claiming to be humble and modest?" If the composite unity is understood, then it is also understood that the earth elements forming a temporary plant food body cannot be humble and modest;
it is understood that the oxygen circulating through a temporary plant food body cannot be humble and modest; and it is understood that the conscious-energy that is temporarily-manifested in a plant food body cannot be humble and modest. Understand that and then the answer to one query received is also understood:
Questioner: "In your book From the Absolute to the Nothingness, you state: 'In fact, when a ‘state’ of zero concepts is reached, it is understood that there is no ‘identity’ at all. It is also realized from that ‘state’ that there is nothing deserving any esteem at all, contrary to the tendency among the non-realized to demand that they be shown ‘the honor they deserve.' If there is 'no identity at all, then WHO can be offended or feel threatened? Moreover, if there is 'no identity at all,' then WHO is doing any understanding or realizing?"
The answer: "There is no 'WHO.' Who-ness is a false concept . . . as much an illusion as a person or persona or anything personal. Realized, the consciousness knows itself and, with full realization, awareness is aware of itself."
[NOTE TO CLARIFY: For now, the manifested consciousness knows the "I AM" and the awareness-energy that is presently manifested as conscious-energy suddenly becomes aware of itself . . . aware of the "I AM THAT." Post-realization, the unmanifested consciousness will know nothing and will merge into that field of unmanifested energy called "Awareness" which - also - will not be aware of anything.]
Is it becoming clear why completion of even four of the seven steps can make the effort worthwhile? It is after the third step that all identification is cast aside, including what is taken to the "good" roles as well as the "bad" roles. It is after the third step that it should be understood that "there is no who" and that "whoness is a false concept" and that any notions about being "a person or a persona or anything personal" are also false.
To return to a state of unconditional happiness, the requirement is that one transition beyond the belief that one has become “better,” beyond the belief that one has become spiritual, and beyond the belief that one has stopped being something that was "bad" and has now become something that is "good."
By shifting into the Child Ignorance Stage or the Child No-Knowing Stage, you once again become as a child to the degree that there are no beliefs and ideas and concepts that are driving thoughts and words and actions. There is no assumption of any persona / personality which needs . . . which needs someone else to assume the identity of a persona / personality and which needs that person to play the co-dependent counterpart that is required for any persona to continue to believe (a) that it is and (b) that it is real.
If one reaches that fourth step, then unconditional happiness can once again manifest as a result of once again being free of all that generates conditional happiness and unhappiness, namely: ideas; concepts, etc. (a.k.a., “beliefs”); all of the insane effects of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation; learned ignorance; personality-based fears and desires; personality disorders; and personality disorders that eventually reach neurotic levels of insanity or psychotic levels of full-blown madness.
To review, even if Maharaj's estimate is accurate - that only one in ten million will ever realize fully - then it should nevertheless start becoming clearer by this point in the discussion why even reaching the fourth of seven steps is still worthwhile, relatively speaking.
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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