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

To continue with the discussion of not only how to realize but also what to realize as well:

Yesterday, this was offered:

Let's pause to talk about three non-dual messages which have been offered by the use of car imagery or car symbolism.

1. During my childhood years, I would usually get one gift at Christmas.

One year I got a small car, a wind up toy, which would give me hours of pleasure. Here's the way it worked:

A small "key" came with the car which could be inserted into a hole in the bottom of the car. It could wind up the car's internal spring; then, once the car was set down on the floor, it would race full-speed-ahead until it hit an immovable object. When that happened, the car would back up a foot, would turn ninety degrees to the right, and would race off again until it ran into something else, backed up, turned, and repeated the process until the tension in the spring wound down. 

I would see this years later: that is exactly the way most persons - including myself for a time - live their entire lives.

The non-dual message offered by seeing the way that the toy car functioned is this: 

That car was "programmed" to behave the way it did. Its pattern was one of futility and senselessness, find for entertaining a young child but certainly not a model for the way that any sane human would live. In fact, the car had no choice about what it did. It could not decide that it was no longer going to go and do and zoom and crash and burn and always turn to the right and always ram head first into obstacles until it could ram no more.

Similarly, most persons have no ability to make conscious choices because unconscious and subconscious forces are controlling their every thought and word and action. 

Tomorrow, we'll look at

car message #2 which involves the way that most persons travel through the relative existence while being forced to ride as if in a car without every having an opportunity to sit in the driver's seat 

and at

car message #3 in which that Maharaj used a car metaphor to share a key non-dual understanding.

So today,

Car message #2:

Multiple influencers drive persons, subconsciously determining every thought and word and action. Those "influencers" and "controllers" remove any and all ability to make conscious choices. They include:

Identification with personalities and being driven by their hidden agendas and their basic fears and desires

Bogus belief systems passed down via programming, conditioning, etc.

Family influences

Cultural influences

And much more.

One method offered in the past to clarify what it means to be driven is this:

See yourself in an automobile in which you are being driven. In that scenario, there are three places in the car you can be, and there is one place you cannot be:

If you are being driven, then you might be in the passenger seat; you might be in the back seat; or you might be locked away in the truck (a.k.a., the boot). Where you absolutely cannot be is in the driver's seat behind the steering wheel.

That is what it is like to be driven: You have no ability to determine where you go, when you go, how you go, whether you will go fast or slow, whether your trip will be calm and enjoyable or conducted at a breakneck speed, or whether you stay in the proper lane or run off the road and crash.

That's exactly the way persons live if abiding under the influence of personalities (and any other subconscious influencers and controllers) because each personality and every false role has a primary fear, a primary desire, and a hidden agenda that is driven by subconscious motives which are intended to perpetuate the myth that the false identities are real.

When abiding under the influence of personalities - that is, when being driven by the fears and desires of personalities - there is no ability to make any conscious choices because the hidden, subconscious agendas of the personalities determine every thought which is thought which leads to every word that is spoken which leads to every action taken.

Car message #3:

Maharaj asked: "When you travel in a car, are you the car?"

The understanding he was trying to shared by using car symbolism is this:

A car is a physical construct. It is possible for whatever is inside it to move about or to be moved about. But that does not mean that during the time those things are inside the car that they ARE the car.

Similarly, conscious-energy can be circulating inside an elemental plant food body if one eats plants or eats things which ate plants. Among the realized, that conscious-energy - which, post-realization, is not hampered any longer by the blocking of the consciousness and which allows for seeing clearly and with a proper, accurate perspective - might speak via the pure universal consciousness and say,

"I am not my body, I am not defined by the nonsensical content which fills the typical human mind, I am not any persona or role or stage character, etc.

The "I" doing the speaking is the conscious-energy - the pure, universal consciousness - and allows for the understanding that it has neither any personal identification nor any "Supreme" or "Special" Identification, either.

No self.

No SELF.

The use of car symbolism in those three cases offers three different ways for seekers to grasp some of the key, non-dual understandings and to grasp the messaging which came here via the vision.

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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