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THE VISION
So one key message from yesterday is this: a key pointer of the non-dual message came during the part of the vision which was illustrated this way:
That message was one which emphasizes the Oneness and the unicity and - as the Transcendentalists said - "the unity beyond the multiplicity":
THE VISION
Let's pause to consider one non-dual message in particular which was offered via the vision and shared yesterday:
In a series from a few months ago there was a discussion of how prevalent the non-dual message is - in movies, in novels, in songs and other poems, in theatrical productions, in some rare political speeches which address unity and a sense of Oneness, in some rare non-political speeches and in a few rare sermons where persons call for an end to arrogance-based beliefs which create a sense of separation and disharmony and chaos throughout entire societies, in some college lectures, etc.
In many of those cases, authors or speakers are being inspired - even though many of them may have never even heard of "advaita" or "non-duality" - by that which is tapped into and enters into the conscious awareness when the channel between the human brain and the inner guru or the inner resource is open.
Yet the masses either ignore the message or reject it as being "out of touch" or as being offered up by a bunch of "liberals who love hogwash" or as being "the irrelevant pie-in-the-sky musings of wimps and pansies and losers and the weak and the cowardly."
If one understands the way that personality controls thoughts and words and actions, then there is no surprise when the masses react in a critical and aggressive manner when they hear a message of unity.
Of the nine basic personality types, only one out of nine has a propensity to reject completely the fake and the false and the inauthentic and image-building, that being the Personality Type Four (Maharaj's type).
Of the nine basic personality types, only one out of nine has a propensity to reject completely the fake and the false and the inauthentic and image-building, that being the Personality Type Four (Maharaj's type).
By contrast, the Perfectionistic Type One generates separation by constantly judging; the always-on-stage seeker of admiration and applause Type Three Performer Type cares only about self; the Type five Seeker of Knowledge isolates to gather more knowledge and "expertise"; the Type Six is forever focused on self as they seek caretakers who will pay their bills and provide all they need and desire; and Type Eights (at the extreme) are sociopaths and psychopaths who have no sense of unity and equality because they are convinced that they are superior to all.
In fact, all nine types generate a sense of separation and competitiveness except in the rare case of a psychically healthy Type Four. The rub: only 1/2 of 1% of all humans on the planet are Type Fours; moreover, as with the case of the Type Four, it can take decades for them to finally reject all that would separate and then focus solely on the unicity alone.
Can the other types realize? Of course, most definitely, as long as "real intelligence" is present (that merely being the capacity to understand). But the interest in the message and an interest in grasping the understanding is not usually innate so the drive to seek does not come as naturally.
So one key message from yesterday is this: a key pointer of the non-dual message came during the part of the vision which was illustrated this way:
That message was one which emphasizes the Oneness and the unicity and - as the Transcendentalists said - "the unity beyond the multiplicity":
"To your left and to your right drift millions of forms, and on closer inspection, You see that they are . . . you! Each looks to be a 'clone' - maybe a transparent 'clone' - but a 'clone' nevertheless of you!"
Today, around the globe, dualistic belief systems are generating conflict and fighting and war. That behavior is as old as the human experience, but the difference today? Humans have developed both small (hand-carried) weapons of destruction and huge (airborne and water borne) weapons which are capable of inflicting mass destruction.
Rather than the non-dual message being "out of touch" or being offered up by a bunch of "liberals" or "irrelevant pie-in-the-sky type wimps and pansies and losers and the weak and the cowardly," it has never been - relatively speaking - so vital and relevant and crucial and so called-for on a global basis.
And "cowardly?" Hardly. Extreme courage is required to offer a message of Oneness to those attached to every form of separation and divisiveness imaginable.
So what is the opposite of the non-dual message? It can be said, "a duality-based message instead"; yet that does not provide the forthright specificity being called for.
What the opposite of the non-dual message is a message of . . .
nationalism
white supremacy
prejudice
isolation
hatred
"us first" / "me first"
division (along lines of race, sexual preference and orientation, economics, skin color, arbitrary societal rankings, etc.)
and
the use of the following "tools of the trade" of sociopaths and psychopaths and dictators and tyrants and would-be rulers seeking unchecked power and authority and control, namely, lies, gossip, arrogance, egotism, slander, arguing, criticism, judgmentalism, a sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment, political divisiveness,
religious divisiveness, corporate divisiveness, greed, the will to suppress, the will to kill, nepotism used to consolidate power, patriotism (with a plethora of differing definitions and requirements), military might, xenophobia, fear vs. Love, attacks against all messages of the Oneness, the unicity, and the unity beyond the multiplicity and a host of so many other "tools" that a complete listings is impossible.
As for non-duality" being an "irrelevant" message. Nothing is farther from the truth.
Never in the history of humankind has there been - again, relatively speaking - a message that is so timely, so relevant, so germane, so appropriate, so suitable, so proper, so fitting but, at the same time . . .
so ignored.
Yes, that has always been the case, but the potential consequences are so significant nowadays that never before has there been a time when the non-dual understanding is so needed.
But will the population of the planet get that? Ha. Fat chance.
So it is, but so it need not be.
Recall just one example of what is more likely:
A fellow name Yeshu'a (known to illiterates as "Jesus") offered the non-dual message in his final days, and it was actually that offering of the non-dual message which helped make those his last days.
No wonder "He wept."
To be continued.
Today, around the globe, dualistic belief systems are generating conflict and fighting and war. That behavior is as old as the human experience, but the difference today? Humans have developed both small (hand-carried) weapons of destruction and huge (airborne and water borne) weapons which are capable of inflicting mass destruction.
Rather than the non-dual message being "out of touch" or being offered up by a bunch of "liberals" or "irrelevant pie-in-the-sky type wimps and pansies and losers and the weak and the cowardly," it has never been - relatively speaking - so vital and relevant and crucial and so called-for on a global basis.
And "cowardly?" Hardly. Extreme courage is required to offer a message of Oneness to those attached to every form of separation and divisiveness imaginable.
So what is the opposite of the non-dual message? It can be said, "a duality-based message instead"; yet that does not provide the forthright specificity being called for.
What the opposite of the non-dual message is a message of . . .
nationalism
white supremacy
prejudice
isolation
hatred
"us first" / "me first"
division (along lines of race, sexual preference and orientation, economics, skin color, arbitrary societal rankings, etc.)
and
the use of the following "tools of the trade" of sociopaths and psychopaths and dictators and tyrants and would-be rulers seeking unchecked power and authority and control, namely, lies, gossip, arrogance, egotism, slander, arguing, criticism, judgmentalism, a sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment, political divisiveness,
religious divisiveness, corporate divisiveness, greed, the will to suppress, the will to kill, nepotism used to consolidate power, patriotism (with a plethora of differing definitions and requirements), military might, xenophobia, fear vs. Love, attacks against all messages of the Oneness, the unicity, and the unity beyond the multiplicity and a host of so many other "tools" that a complete listings is impossible.
As for non-duality" being an "irrelevant" message. Nothing is farther from the truth.
Never in the history of humankind has there been - again, relatively speaking - a message that is so timely, so relevant, so germane, so appropriate, so suitable, so proper, so fitting but, at the same time . . .
so ignored.
Yes, that has always been the case, but the potential consequences are so significant nowadays that never before has there been a time when the non-dual understanding is so needed.
But will the population of the planet get that? Ha. Fat chance.
So it is, but so it need not be.
Recall just one example of what is more likely:
A fellow name Yeshu'a (known to illiterates as "Jesus") offered the non-dual message in his final days, and it was actually that offering of the non-dual message which helped make those his last days.
No wonder "He wept."
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.)
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all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership
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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.
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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
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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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