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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"]
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The wise come to see that "what they are" is not “the body.”
Furthermore, the wise come to see that they cannot be defined by the content of the mind (that is, by their “beliefs”) because they have no beliefs of their own at all; instead, what they have is a stored-in-the-mind accumulation of the beliefs of others, passed down from one generation to the next and traceable back to the darkest ages of widespread ignorance and belief in fictional myths and superstitions and baseless tales dreamed up and then often recorded in supposedly “holy” texts.
The wise also come to see that they are not the phony roles and false identifications which they have been assigned or which they have adopted and which are actually just bogus labels dreamed up by humans who were subjected to amazingly “ignorant and stupid and insane” programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination.
None of the distortions dealing with a belief in false identifications and a belief in fictional myths and superstitions and false tales collected into supposedly “holy” volumes or beliefs passed along via “ignorant and stupid and insane” programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination are seen by the non-realized masses (that is, per Maharaj, those among the masses who still believe all of the “learned ignorance” which they were taught),
However, all of those erroneous beliefs and misperceptions can disappear with the completion of only about 60% of the steps on what was originally a seven-step "path" used by Maharaj, substantiating the earlier pointer that completion of even four of the seven steps is worthwhile, relatively speaking.
Consider:
1. How different would your relative existence have been if you had never fallen under the influence of those persons who are versed in the assumption and maintenance of false identities?
2. How different would your relative existence have been if you had never been fooled by those who have made an art form of using pretense, cover-up, deception, disguise, posing, impersonating, pretending, concealing, scheming, plotting and masquerading in order to manipulate and control and fulfill the desires of their egos and satisfy their egotism?
3. More significantly (because you cross paths with those types on occasion but are with "yourself" 24 / 7), how different would your relative existence have been if you had never fallen under the influence of assumed but false identities?
4. More significantly (because you cross paths with those types on occasion but are with "yourself" 24 / 7), how different would your relative existence have been if "they" had never fooled you and if you had never been driven to fool yourself and / or others by making use (often unconsciously and sometimes consciously) of pretense, cover-up, deception, disguise, posing, impersonating, pretending, concealing, scheming, plotting and masquerading in order to manipulate and control and in order to fulfill the desires of your assumed egos and to satisfy the egotism that always accompanies ego-state assumption?
The Realized poet / songwriter John Lennon invited the masses to "imagine." The focus here is to witness reality - to witness what actually IS and to see all exactly as it IS; however, for the sake of possibly expanding the understanding of the relative effects of reaching the Child No-Knowing Stage, why not try to imagine . . . if only for a moment . . .
a. how different the relative existence would have been for you
and
b. how different it could be for you starting right now
and
c. how different it could be for all on the entire planet,
if the correct answers to 1-4 above provided a new level of clarity, of perceiving accurately, of logic, of rationality, of reason, of genuineness, of authenticity, of non-duality, of Loving.
The fact is, as Maharaj stated, few will ever realize fully (that is, be totally free of all learned ignorance) but imagine how different your relative existence could be - starting right now - if you commit to transitioning beyond all role-playing (including any and all "good" roles you've been assigned or have assumed and including all such false identities in that "good identity group" such as . . .
"The Super Religious One," "The Spiritual Giant," "The Most Earnest Seeker of All," "The Truly Realized One," "The Knower," "The Wise One," "The Super Advaitin," "The Super Buddhist," "The Super Christian," "The Super Jew," "The Super Muslim,"
or
"The Super Ideologue," "The Super Taoist," "The Super Native American," "A Member of the Super Race," "The Citizen of the Number One Town or the Citizen of the Best State or the Citizen of the Greatest Nation," ad infinitum, ad nauseum.)
Those manifest and remain if only 40% of "the journey" is completed because persons fixate in their religious and / or spiritual role and their role-playing. While the third step must be completed, it is not - as so many believe - the end of the "path."
So what will the relative existence be like if one does return to the "The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State"?
1. The abidance for the remainder of the relative existence can unfold in a nisarga, natural fashion (as opposed to trying to live in a supernatural fashion (which is an unnatural manner)
2. The abidance - unfolding in an ego-less fashion, can happen without the use of ego-defense mechanisms
3. The abidance - unfolding in a personality-less and no-false self identifications - can happen without the chaos and insanity of being driven subconsciously by the agendas of personality disorders.
4. And if you only reach the fourth of seven steps, you will nevertheless be free of foolish notions such as "I am this" or "I am that"; then, you can relax in the cool blue shade of "I AM" only . . . in the lightness of being only instead of constantly embroiled in the heavy work of trying to "be this" or "be that" and the even heavier work of trying to convince all other persons who have contact with you that "this" or "that" is really who you are.
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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