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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"]
The Relative Effects of Personality Disorders
Post-manifestation, there can be no personality disorders and no possibility of being driven by them to behave in ignorant and insane and neurotic and psychotic ways.
Why? Because the three general components of the composite unity which "you" presently are will have gone their separate ways:
The elements forming the elemental plant food body will have returned to the universal pool of elements, along with the elemental brain and the parts of that brain which make up the human-made mind;
the oxygen which was circulating through the elemental plant food body / space will have returned to the universal pool of oxygen;
and the conscious-energy which was circulating through that space will return to the universal pool of conscious-energy.
There will be no body through which life-sustaining air and food can any longer circulate, and there will be no brain with the mind-parts where false beliefs and false identities were stored.
Thus, post manifestation, there will be no “you” or “You,” no beliefs, no personal identifications, no nothing.
Poof. The composite unity will end, as will the cycling of elements which formed the space for a time along with the various kinds of energy which allowed "doingness" to happen and – in most cases – allowed ignorant and insane thoughts and words to be expressed, well, none of that will remain.
The point, then, is that - as with all other considerations regarding the phenomenal and the Noumenal - attention and focus should only be given to the phenomenal. There is nothing else that a human can impact or change or effect. That is taken care of during the first four steps on the "path" when self-inquiry (not SELF-Enquiry) is completed, and that is why Maharaj said that "it is enough to know who you are not" (meaning all of those false personality identifications which had been assigned or assumed).
Yesterday, some of the many personality disorders in existence were catalogued. Today, the focus will be on their relative effects.
It has been shown how a failure to return to "The Child Ignorance Stage" or the "Child No-Knowing State" triggers
I. the use of ego-defense mechanisms
and
II. the continuing obsession with personality and assumption of false identities.
"I" sets the stage for being driven subconsciously by mental schemings which are obsessed with protecting the ego / the false "I's" / the "not-You's" and which always block the consciousness from ever seeing reality and Reality (that is, the way things are during the relative existence and the way things are, period).
"II" sets the stage for the manifestation of personality disorders which inspire persons to believe they are something that they are not and that they can become something they are not. In the end, untreated personality disorders can develop into neuroses and psychoses and even full-blown madness.
Of the ego-defense mechanisms and the personality disorders that plague the relative existence, one of each combine and result in "The Scourge of Humanity," in a "Double Whammy for Humanity" and lead to a belief in duality, to a false sense of separation and different-from-ment, and to the false sense of better-than-ment.
When those two combine, they generate most of the conflict and instability and chaos that manifest on a global basis and on a daily basis. The ego-defense mechanism in that pair is egotism; the personality disorder in that pair is the Narcissistic / God Complex Personality Disorder.
When persons do not return to at least the fourth step on the seven-step path from identification with the false "I" / "I's" to an understanding of the Absolute, then they will be driven by egotism and by the Narcissistic / God Complex Personality Disorder. The result of the egotism-and-narcissism-combination is always a person who is
a. self-centered
b. self-concerned (but with no concern for anyone else)
c. trapped in self-pity
d. trapped in self-ish-ness
e. involved with self-aggrandizement and self-promotion
f. engaged in self-love
g. trapped in self-absorption, and
h. (among those who take themselves to be "super religious" or "spiritual giants") trapped in SELF-absorption.
What follows when a relative existence is driven by self-identification and the resulting factors listed in "a"-"h"?
i. self-interest
j. self-indulgence
k. self-deception
l. an obsession with self-image
m. self-will
n. an inflated sense of self-worth
o. self-seeking (or an obsession with Self Seeking as referenced in "h" above)
and often, in the end,
p. self-defeating behavior
and / or
q. self-destructive behavior.
Is it clear that the prerequisite for persons to be driven by egotism and narcissism and everything listed in "a" - "q" is the assumption of false identities / roles / ego-states / stage characters / facades / masks / personas?
Is it clear how miserable the relative existence is doomed to be if one is dealing with those persons who have assumed false identities / roles / ego-states / stage characters / facades / masks / personas and thus trigger the manifestation of egotism and narcissism and everything listed in "a" - "q"?
Is it clear how miserable the relative existence is doomed to be if you assume false identities / roles / ego-states / stage characters / facades / masks / personas and thus trigger the manifestation of egotism and narcissism and everything listed in "a" - "q"?
Is it clear why the invitation here is to at least reach the fourth step of seven on the "path" to realization where all identities are forfeited, including the ones that are thought to be "the good ones," including the ones that drive persons to believe that they are "different from," and including the ones that lead persons to believe they are "better-than"?
Is it clear why neither you nor anyone else can be unconditionally happy unless there is a return to the condition that existed the last time unconditional happiness was happening? Is it now clearer why all are invited to return to "The Child Ignorance Stage" or the "Child No-Knowing State"?
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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