A REVIEW AND SUMMATION OF THE KEY UNDERSTANDINGS WHICH CAME VIA THE VISION AND WHICH WERE REQUIRED FOR FULL REALIZATION

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A REVIEW AND SUMMATION OF THE KEY UNDERSTANDINGS WHICH CAME VIA THE VISION AND WHICH WERE REQUIRED FOR FULL REALIZATION

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What is being quoted (in green) are the revelations that were emanating from the inner resource - that is, via the pure consciousness . . . the inner guru - as the final blockages were falling away and allowing access to that within which had always been known but which had been blocked from being accessed via programming, conditioning, etc.

We have seen the first forty revelations which came via the vision and which - at least in the case here - were required for full realization. Today we will look at the next twenty key understandings which came via the vision and which can reveal to the wise even more about how to (and what to) realize:

The next twenty clarifications that came via the vision follow.

41. Thus, such "good"-role-playing will continue until the raven - representing all of the final roles that are played except for "The Seeker," which will continue to be played for a period - dissolves into the gull, allowing one to return to "The Child No-Knowing Stage" (a.k.a., "The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The No Concepts, No Notions, No Ideas, No Thoughts, No Misperceptions, Zero Concepts, No-Beliefs Stage.") 

42. The vision made clear that (a) the non-realized use the word "I" to refer to a physical body and / or the belief systems stored in their fiction-filled minds, and / or to refer to all of the false identities / personas which they have been assigned or which they have adopted; that (b) the word "I" should never again be used to refer to anything other than the manifested consciousness; and that (c) the closest thing to any "Real 'I'" during than manifestation would have to be the Pure Witnessing.

Note: To understand all that is involved with the non-realized masses' erroneous use of the word "I" is to open the door for some few to understand what a "composite unity" is, namely, a plant food body through which air and conscious-energy can circulate as long as that plant food body continues to breathe and as long as that plant food body continues to eat conscious-energy-bearing plants (or, indirectly, by eating things that ate plants).

43. The vision made clear that the steps are taken in total silence.

[Blah-blah-blah does not enhance the chance to realize. Blah-blah-blah blocks any opportunity to realize. Maharaj used words in the loft which were rooted in the pure, universal consciousness, accompanied by full awareness, offered to be taken into the silence and considered consciously, not unconsciously, that being the original justification for entering into silent meditation. The focus of his plan for the use of his pointers by visitors was far less on the "meditation part" and far more on the "silence part".]

44. The vision made clear that, after the third-leg "return" when "Reality" is subsequently overlaid on the relative, then (A) either the consciousness speaks, or (B) there is the belief that a persona - a false image that has been assumed as an identity - is speaking. 

45. The vision made clear that "A" in #44 points to both Truth and Reality whereas "B" talks nonsense and gibberish, speaking non-truths and babbling on and on while making much ado about nothing and while misperceiving it all. 

46. Next came another quandary, namely, trying to reconcile (a) the newly-found understanding about there being four-legs to the overall "journey" with (b) the pointer that comes at the end of the vision, specifically, THAT is all there is. 

47. Next, this was raised:  

But that's not all there is if the vision is depicting the second leg of "the journey" when Realization happens because there's a third leg which involves "returning" and overlaying Reality upon the relative existence in order to abide for the remainder of the manifestation in a natural and sane and sound and logical and reasonable fashion. So what does that mean? 

48. Then, this clarification came:  

Ah, so the vision provides insight into the second-leg realization process - the going back, the reversing - but it also foreshadows what will happen during the fourth leg which moves one from the physical, elemental plant food body to THAT. It is then that the "THAT is all there is" point will apply to this unmanifesting speck of conscious-energy as it completes all four legs. Got it! 

49. Then once more, peace came, and it was seen that it was not a "peace that surpasses all understanding" but a peace that comes with all understanding . . . with understanding all involved with the functioning of the totality. 

50. At that point, words from Spinoza flashed into the consciousness, explaining that persons who are out of touch with both "Reality" and "reality" and who lack understanding are "ignorant of the causes by which actions are determined." 

51. It was seen that understanding the functioning of the totality and understanding that the cause of all is all is most comforting. 

52. It was seen that energy / matter "comes" and "goes" but is neither created nor destroyed; that composites come together naturally and come apart naturally; and it was seen that there is not the slightest pain or suffering involved at the end of the final unmanifesting process.

It was seen that there is most assuredly no pain or suffering or punishment post-manifestation (that fact mentioned here with a hopefully-comforting smile to those who want a post-manifestation "reward," especially to those so lost in the Dream of the Planet that they actually, mistakenly believe that praising "Someone" of "Something" 24 / 7 for eternity could possibly be a reward rather than understand what an endless, boring, tiresome punishment that activity, in and of itself, would be; furthermore, should it not be asked, "After all those years on planet earth when controlling, dominating men demanded that their egos be stroked and that their self-aggrandizement be indulged and reinforced, can I really believe that doing the same thing on a 24 / 7 basis for eternity with a narcissistic, praise-seeking, worship-demanding god even remotely be considered "a reward?").

The vision showed, to the contrary, that what follows the unmanifesting is the Void, is the Nothingness. To the truly realized, that might well prove to be quite soothing, quite calming, quite comforting. 

53. Then this came:  

And when was the last time you felt totally soothed, totally calm? Was it not during the gull stage?

And the answer followed:  

Yes, it was. 

54. The vision made clear that blocked specks of manifested consciousness (blocked via programming, conditioning, etc.) soon become identified with that body left outside the arch at the beginning of the vision. It was obvious that transcending body identification was the first step on the "journey" to realization. 

55. The vision showed that the effects of the blocking of the consciousness include persons being rendered unable to see that . . .

. . . the relative "i" could refer to nothing more than a temporarily-manifested speck of conscious-energy which was rendered unable to understand that the body is nothing more than earth elements that are cycling to maintain the body in which I - the previously-pure, previously-unblocked consciousness - AM presently manifested. 

56. The vision made clear that conscious-energy is cycling into and out of the body as much as the air is, that eating happens in order to replenish the supply, and that the notion that the same quantity of consciousness has always been manifested in the same body is a falsehood that is rooted in illusory samskaras. 

57. The vision showed that specks of conscious-energy exist forever because energy can cycle but cannot be created or destroyed. A plant food body does not last and cannot last because all that comes together on this planet will eventually come apart (as proved scientifically and factually by the Second Law of Thermodynamics). 

58. The vision made clear that blocked specks of consciousness "come to a wall" (or to a stone arch) because so few understand that a speck of energy could still exist even after the (elemental plant food) brain has gone, but it must be understood that the conscious-energy is manifested in every cell of the body, not just in the brain. 

59. Then this came:  

Of course the elements must return to the universal pool of elements because elements cannot be created or destroyed. Also, the conscious-energy must be released when the elements are no longer joined in a configuration that is presently called "a body," but that energy cannot be destroyed, so it will last though the specific body will not. 

60. The vision then made this clear:

Via the "dissolution" or the "discontinuation" of the previously-joined together and previously-circulating body elements, all of the the elements return to the universal pool of elements, the previously-circulating air will be released into the universal pool of air, and the previously-circulating manifested conscious-energy will be released into the universal pool of conscious-energy.

Once conscious-energy is no longer manifested in a body, it will assume its pre-manifestation form of "Awareness That Is Not Aware Of."

Moreover, in terms of "forever cycling," the manifesting and un-manifesting of quantities of conscious-energy differ not at all from the manifesting and un-manifesting of the plant elements which form temporary bodies and which "come" and "go" constantly throughout the entire relative:

the outer skin of human bodies is replaced every 28 days or so; cells forming the lining of their stomach are replaced every 3-5 days; etc., etc., etc.

How could there possibly be any definable "you" when that which most among the non-realized masses take to that "you" are "coming and going" on a daily basis? There cannot.

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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