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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 Freedom of Reaching the Fourth of Seven Steps, Part “A” (What to realize about focusing on “things noumenal” vs. “things relative”)
Neither being religious nor being a pagan is going to have any positive, long-term effect, much less any effect for eternity.
Neither being a spiritual giant nor being (as Maharaj termed it) “a spiritual pygmy” is going to have any positive, long-term effect, much less any effect for eternity.
Neither finding nor not finding a term that is believed to identify one’s supposedly “Real Self” or “Supreme Self” or “Infinite Self” is going to have any positive, long-term effect, much less any effect for eternity.
Neither completing nor not completing a four-step “journey” or a “seven-step” journey or any other kind of religious, spiritual, philosophical, or ideological “journey” is going to have any positive, long-term effect, much less any effect for eternity.
To the contrary, the history of humankind’s interactions prove that the belief systems of religious fanatics, spiritual fanatics, political fanatics, and all other types of control freaks have generated more “broken relations,” local conflicts, civil wars, and world wars and have generated more mass murderings and genocides than any other contributing factors.
So contrary to the popular beliefs held by “The Super Religious” and by “Spiritual Giants” and by “Super Seekers,” there is nothing that can be done to improve or enhance some dreamed up “after life” because there is no “life after” because there is no “one” that will remain post-mahasamadhi to experience life or rewards or punishment or rebirth or anything else.
The fate of all of the parts of any living thing that presently is - and which among humans is being referred to as “you” or “me” or an “I” - is that the elemental plant food body parts will return to the universal pool of elements; the air part in that body will be exhaled and will return to the universal pool of air; and the conscious-energy (consciousness) part will return to the universal pool of conscious-energy which will no longer be capable of experiencing conscious-of-ness or capable of being conscious of anything else.
Thus . . .
whatever might come of studying and learning more and more dogma; of engaging in all sorts of spiritual workaholism; of constant and endless seeking; of following paths; of completing journeys; of attaching to one philosophy or another; of attaching to one belief system or another; or of aligning with one ideology or another . . .
will have no positive, long-term effect and will more often than not generate a waste of time and energy and in some cases a belief in the concepts of different-from-ment and better-than-ment and a sense of separation and in-fighting and fighting and chaos and misery and suffering and abiding in a most unnatural and insane manner.
Note how unnaturally and insanely persons abide when living under the influence of their false but cherished “good” roles and dogma or spiritual beliefs and practices or philosophical or ideological belief systems:
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better by wearing special clothing or special robes or special jewelry or special adornments; or by burning specially-scented sticks; or by hitting, with a special stick, a special bowl that has been placed on a special pillow;
or ringing special bells; or chanting special chants or humming special hums; or visiting special temples or special geographic sites; or collecting and display expensive pieces of crystal in special ceremonies conducted on special days; or eating special foods.
It is also neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if bowing on special rugs and in one special direction on the compass and to do that five times a day to pray; and it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if trillions of dollars are spent to build opulent edifices where persons can gather and worship their super powerful “Whatever.”
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one goes to a "house of worship" on a daily or weekly basis and makes all kinds of really loud noises; it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one listens to sermons offered in a supposedly-special language which one does not understand;
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one can jabber and natter and chatter and babble and prattle and "speak in unknown tongues" while rolling on the floor of one’s church, all of which supposedly evidences "the presence of the Holy Spirit within" the babbler / roller;
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one wears special, supposedly holy, supposedly protective, magical underwear; it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one uses an "E-Meter to detect spiritual impediments";
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one believes that in order to supposedly be free of their sins, persons must slaughter a chicken onto which their sins have supposedly been transferred;
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one dresses up as a humanoid bird and allows oneself to be hanged by the use of hooks through the skin; it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one drops one's children a distance of fifty feet from atop a mosque and allows other worshipers below to catch their children in sheets, supposedly to show faith and ensure the health of the children;
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one worships relics which include what is supposedly a piece of the cross on which Christ was crucified or which include what is supposedly the foreskin of Christ which was saved for centuries and is now hermetically sealed in a gold and glass tube in the parish church of Calcata near Viterbo in Italy;
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will also be made better by worshipping another relic, namely, the shroud which the body of Christ was supposedly wrapped in after his crucifixion (though scientific dating evidence shows that the shroud was fabricated about 1300 years after Christ died);
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one conducts exorcisms to evict demons or other evil, spiritual entities from a person or place which those demons are believed to have possessed or taken control of;
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one baptizes the dead into one's religion because they believe that unmarried females cannot enter into heaven unless married to a male in their church who can give them the secret code name which they'll have to use to be pulled through the veil into a new world where males, if in good standing with the church at the time of death, have become gods and have multiple wives and are now ruling over their own kingdoms;
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one’s children will be made better if the children are left in the care of religious leaders who have a multi-centuries-long reputation for sexually molesting and even raping children and whose top officials have a centuries-long reputation for denying and covering up the molestation;
it is neither natural nor sane to believe that one will be made better if one denies the most basic medical care for one's children - such as providing a simple round of needed antibiotics to cure an infection - and instead to allow one's children to die because the parents' religion teaches that the use of medicine rather than prayer would be evidence of their lack of faith in God.
And those examples are not from bygone days but are taking place all around the globe right now at the very moment that this blog is being written and read.
With 99.99+% of the persons on this planet having been programming and conditioned and acculturated and domesticated and brainwashed and indoctrinated to try to live “supernaturally” and / or religiously and / or spiritually, a chance to come to an understanding of how to abide naturally in a simple nisargan manner is of little or no interest to the masses.
Instead, the actual effect is that 99.99+% of the persons on this planet are abiding most unnaturally, unquestioning accepting - as a result of their blind faith - all of the nonsense and duality-based body of mental garbage and other BS which they have been taught and which they will continue to pass down from one ignorant and insane generation to the next.
For the few that might be interested, there is neither any freedom nor any lack of freedom post-manifestation - no “one” remaining to experience either - but there is most assuredly either freedom or a lack of freedom right now during the present manifestation.
[No "one" remaining? Maharaj said that someday science would advance to the point that it will substantiate every non-dual pointer he offered. In the pointer regarding "no 'one' remaining," see the scientific proof as set forth in "The Second Law of Thermodynamics."]
If it is understood that freedom or a lack of freedom can only manifest now and never later, should one's focus be on now . . . or later?
More on that tomorrow.
To be continued.
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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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