MAHARAJ AND THE RELIGION VS. SCIENCE DEBATE

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MAHARAJ AND THE RELIGION VS. SCIENCE DEBATE

"Science will someday advance to the point that it will confirm the validity of the non-dual teachings."

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

and

“The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind.” 

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

and

Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed to believe so that you can be free, period.  

--Floyd Henderson 

[Continued from yesterday]

Excerpts from the book entitled FREEDOM from BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")

will continue with the a discussion of the way that personality-invoking "-ism's" are another source which generates a plethora of distortion-riddled beliefs:

"-ISM'S," Part "B" 

So, the dysfunctionalism to which every child is exposed during its earliest years (and onward) triggers the assumption of what will become the child's basic personality type as well as the adoption of other personalities that it will internalize or disintegrate to. The basic type is typically set firmly in place by the age of six, and once personality types are firmly in place, then the assurance of developing personality disorders is also in place. 

Next, misunderstanding and learned ignorance will bring about an attachment to personality (i.e., false selves, false identities, the assumption of abiding in imaginary states-of-being-"this" and imaginary states-of-being-"that"). The personalities which are assumed are rooted in (and reinforced by) attachment to "-ism's," and those "-ism's" are the repositories of the counterfeit concepts and false ideas and bogus beliefs that will join with personality to drive thoughts and words and actions. 

Both personality styles and "-ism's" will be taught via programming, conditioning, accumulation, and domestication; then, they will support each other, usually for the remainder of one's entire relative existence because so few will ever realize and be free of the influence of personalities and "-ism's." 

It has been noted that the Enneagram test (along with a thorough explanation of what is revealed via the test results by one versed in the use of that instrument) can uncover for a seeker exactly which personalities are driving her or his thoughts, words, deeds, fears and desires. In almost all cases, that must be understood to be completely free of being driven by personality. 

Moreover, persons must see which "-ism's" they have been attached to and controlled by if they are ever to be free of the influences of the counterfeit concepts and false ideas and bogus beliefs which every "-ism" erroneously disseminates as "truth" and "fact" and "right" and "best." 

No other source has dreamed up more - and spread more - false, duality-based beliefs and ideas and concepts over the last 5,000 years than the source that dreamed up the dualities that are dominant even today: "right vs. wrong"; "good vs. bad"; "moral vs. immoral"; "reward vs. punishment now"; "reward vs. punishment forever"; ad infinitum. 

The "-ism's" in that group include: 

Judaism; Protestantism / Catholicism / Jesuitism / Anglicism; Islamism; Mormonism; Buddhism; Hinduism; Talmudism; Jainism; Sikhism; Shintoism; Taoism; baptism; clericalism; congregationalism; cultism; Deism; creationism; theism; montheism; polytheism; exorcism; 

dogmatism; druidism; fundamentalism; paganism; predestinarianism; proselytism; puritanism; revivalism; spiritualism; supernaturalism; evangelism; televangelism; messianism; monasticism; moralism; mullahism; mysticism; moralism; occultism; salvationism; separatism; symbolism; ritualism; and many more. 

Those "-ism's" account for much of the false sense of separation and "different-from-ness" and "better-than-ment" because over 6.79 billion of the 7 billion persons on the planet claim affiliation with either an organized, duality-based religion or with some duality-based "spiritual movement" or with some duality-based "spiritual program" or with some duality-based "religious-oriented or spiritually-oriented philosophy." 

Alignment with any of those "-ism's" (which give lip-service to "unity" and "love" but which inspire behaviors that expose an underlying sense of pride and superiority that results in a belief in "different-from-ment" and "better-than-ment" ... along with the resultant, duality-based sense that "we are the ones who are most right and the rest are mostly wrong") generates arrogance that also supports these "-ism's": alienism; anthropocentrism; anthropomorphism and separatism. 

As the programmed and acculturated child develops into a programmed and acculturated adult, then the cultural and social "-ism's" begin to exert their influence in developing more personalities and more attachments and more beliefs and more driving forces, including, 

relativism; charlatanism; activism; ostracism; materialism; traditionalism; vigilantism; dysfunctionalism; opportunism; barbarism; tribalism; biculturalism; multiculturalism; traditionalism; sexism; individualism; institutionalism; intellectualism; irrationalism; ceremonialism; 

racism; multiracism; colonialism; regionalism; territorialism; more ritualism; sensationalism; conceptualism; conformism; constitutionalism; credentialism; exceptionalism; exclusivism; scapegoatism; reformism; and, of course, dualism. 

As more and more personalities are assumed, then more and more personality disorders and psychological disorders manifest and these "-ism's" become driving forces as well: 

dysfunctionalism; chauvinism; personalism; radicalism; reformism; divisionism; syncophantism; irrationalism; egocentrism; egoism; egotism; elitism; emotionalism; escapism; ethnocentrism; perfectionism; personalism; fanaticism; radicalism; relativism; utopianism; externalism; extremism; alcoholism; workaholism; more symbolism; 

more scapegoatism; vegetarianism (even though two-thirds of all people have body types that require a combination vegetarian-protein or a protein-only food plan for all organs to function optimally); idealism; sadism; masochism; sadomasochism; mentalism; narcissism - and that list could go on and on. 

Eventually, government-dreamed up and government-inspired "-ism's" exact their toll, those "-ism's" including: 

authoritarianism; establishmentarianism; terrorism and antiterrorism or counterterrorism; more territorialism; patriotism; superpatriotism; heroism; nationalism; militarism; xenophobianism; bilateralism and multilateralism; bipartisanism; bolshevism; monarchism and royalism; 

landlordism; nepotism; medievalism and feudalism; imperialism; republicanism; constitutionalism; cronyism; tzarism; despotism; fascism; factionalism; favoritism; federalism; totalitarianism; pluralism; and many more. 

After governments form, they form economies, and economies give rise to these and other "-ism's" that are to be believed in and touted by the populace if they are to earn the labels of "good" and "productive" and "patriotic" citizens: 

capitalism; commercialism; communism; consumerism; mercantilism; nepotism; socialism; mutualism; corporatism; neo-colonialism; more opportunism; and much more. 

Sages for generations have invited seekers to be free of all "-ism-based" ideas, concepts, etc. ("beliefs") as a part of the process of being free of personality and being free of the subconscious agendas of personality and "-ism's" which drive thoughts and words and deeds and which generate usually-baseless fears, often-unmet-and-therefore-frustrating desires, and most of all . . . the belief in dualities.

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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