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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"]
You Can Be Nothing More Nor Less Than That Which You Are (As Opposed to All of the Things Which Humans Have Been Told That They Are and Opposed to All of the Things Which Humans Usually Take Themselves to Be)
Because “you” (and all) are that which you (and all) have always been (namely, energy / matter) and because “you” (and all) cannot be or become anything other than what you (and all) are and always have been (namely, energy / matter), then to see yourself (much less "Your Supreme Self!") as anything other than that is a total misperception.
Any time that the phrase "I am" is followed by any word that describes a role or a mood is a distortion. If one understands the composite unity of elements-air-energy, then one cannot possibly say, "I was hurt by what they said" ("mood").
Are the elements hurt? Can the air be hurt? Is the energy hurt? Or is there the misperception that an assumed but false identity / ego-state which is operating under the influence of the egotism and fears and desires that always accompany the assumption of an ego-state as an identity is believing - is thinking - that its goals and interests and self-image and public image have been interfered with?
As another example, if one understands the composite unity of elements-air-energy, then one cannot possibly say, "I am a husband" / "a wife" ("role"). Would the "husband" or "wife" be the elemental part, the air part, or the energy part? The answer: none of the above. Is a "husband" or "wife" an elements-air-energy composite? No.
"Husband" and "wife" are merely terms - just false identities and roles - dreamed up by controlling men during the last several hundred years but not existing prior to that. Human-like types have walked the planet for millions of years, but humans who have said, "I am a husband" or "wife" have only walked the planet for a matter of centuries.
Does that mean that persons should not marry? No. One can claim to have "married," after which "husbanding-like" things can happen and "wifing-like" things can happen (and have, for millennia). So "husbanding" or "wifing" can happen in an AS IF fashion without assuming false identities that will trigger the use of egotism and other mechanisms that will generate duality and misery.
Another way to look at that point, and which might clarify, was offered by an acquaintance named Dennis who offered this pointer:
Consider "wood." Wood might be manipulated to take the form of a table, but the result is not a "wooden table." The result is "tably wood."
Take the table to be a concept; take the wood to be the actual, for the sake of discussion; thus, there is no such thing as a wooden cane, a wooden door, a wooden shoe in The Netherlands, or a wooden bat. There are only cases of caney wood, doory wood, shoey wood, and batty wood.
Thus, terms such as "The Oneness" and "The Unicity" etc. refer to that one thing which is shared in common by all, namely, (in the simplest of terms) the energy / matter. That energy / matter can take on all sorts of various "forms" and supposedly-different "appearances," but the commonality is that which all is, at its core.
Take the table to be a concept; take the wood to be the actual, for the sake of discussion; thus, there is no such thing as a wooden cane, a wooden door, a wooden shoe in The Netherlands, or a wooden bat. There are only cases of caney wood, doory wood, shoey wood, and batty wood.
Thus, terms such as "The Oneness" and "The Unicity" etc. refer to that one thing which is shared in common by all, namely, (in the simplest of terms) the energy / matter. That energy / matter can take on all sorts of various "forms" and supposedly-different "appearances," but the commonality is that which all is, at its core.
Another example used here to help clarify that understanding is "H2O."
At various temperatures, H2O does not become something that it is not. It merely takes on a different form or appearance, be that called "a lake," "a river," "a stream," "vapor," "ice," "rain," "sleet," "snow," "floods," "water," etc.
The reason that visitors are invited to reach at least the fourth of seven steps on the "path" to Realization is to be free of ideas and concepts and beliefs and false identities that are at the root of all misery and suffering on the planet.
If that does not happen, then persons behaving as their cultures tell them to behave will assume identities / ego-states. When that happens, the use of ego-defense mechanisms will be triggered, including:
A. egotism and narcissism (which then generate self-centeredness and selfishness and self-absorption at the least and insensitivity and pathological behavior when they manifest in the extreme).
B. rationalization (which involves putting a "spin" on one's behavior or the behavior of another in order to justify and to distort reality).
C. knowledge-gathering and knowledge-sharing and intellectualization (which can reinforce egotism or which can be used to distance oneself from feelings or emotions).
D. denial (which involves the refusal to accept reality or facts).
E. displacement (which involves redirecting feelings and impulses. Angry with the boss or a friend but too afraid to express that anger? Then the anger might be directed at people in traffic, at a pet, at a child, at a parent, or at a spouse).
F. dissociation (which involves losing track of time or daydreaming and, in the extreme, finding another representation of self in order to avoid facing reality).
G. projection (which involves taking one's own negative traits or flaws and assigning them to someone else. The fact: "If you spot it, you've got it; if you can see it, you can be it," so to speak.)
H. regression (involves reverting to an earlier stage of development in the face of uncomfortable thoughts or impulses).
I. repression (involves unconsciously blocking thoughts, emotions and impulses that are deemed unacceptable or that feel uncomfortable).
J. compensation (involves trying to counter-balance perceived weaknesses by emphasizing strengths in other areas).
K. manipulation at one level and assertiveness and aggressiveness at the extreme level. (If used to protect against abusers, assertiveness can be healthy, but if used to try to control and suppress others, it will be most unhealthy.)
L. sublimation (involves trying to redirect or channel impulses or emotions or feeling or behaviors deemed unacceptable by one's culture into more "acceptable" behaviors).
M. upgrading and downgrading (which involve narcissism and / or distortion and magical thinking).
Note how all of the mechanisms - and many more that are not listed - are triggered when an ego-state is assumed as an identity. Note how they all function to separate persons from reality and from facts and from logic and from reason; see how they inspire even more movement toward phoniness and game-playing and distortion and delusion and illusion.
Who could possibly conclude that the use of even one ego-defense mechanism could be "okay"? If one reaches the Child No-Knowing Stage, then there can be no assumption of an ego-state as an identity; as a result, there can be no use of distorting ego-defense mechanisms, either.
If seekers do not return to the Child No-Knowing Stage, then they have no chance at all of being free, and if they are not free, then they will have no chance of knowing bliss and they will have no chance of enjoying a relative existence that is rooted in unconditional happiness.
Take the example above of the assumption of the role of "husband" and "wife." In 50-60% of all cases, those roles will be played for a time and will then stop being played before one or the other or both prefer.
Misery and suffering will mark and mar the "relationship," and misery and suffering will come in waves when the "relationship" ends. And the misery and suffering and ending will all come as a result of
1. not abiding as a No-Knowing Child and, therefore,
2. assuming false roles as actual identities; and
3. abiding under the influence of psychologically-distorted, "mind"-centered forces that (often unconsciously) inspire bogus beliefs, error-laced words, and some of the most bizarre behavior imaginable; and
4. trying to function while detached from reality and while devoid of the clear seeing and perceiving that are prevented when ego-defense mechanisms are driving persons' thoughts and words and deeds.
To be continued upon returning from another brief trip.
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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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