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THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE WHICH PROVIDES
AN UNDERSTANDING OF "NO YOU-NESS," Part Four

This point was offered yesterday: 

7.37 billion persons report that they are affiliated with one religion or another. Millions more report proudly and even arrogantly that they "are not religious1" but "are spiritual instead." The only difference? The religious engage in delusional and distorted thinking while the spiritual engage in magical and supernatural thinking. 

As many of you know, I have over the years occasionally joined a group of counselors and psychologists and therapists at their monthly luncheon. A few months ago, I polled them to find out how the challenges presented by their clients have changed in recent years. 

Almost unanimously, their answers dealt with the "far greater levels of distortion and delusion and magical thinking being exhibited by their adult-age clients and far greater levels of resistance to abandoning their distortions and delusions and magical thinking."

That came as no surprise because I am witnessing the same with the persons I'm dealing with nowadays. So, why is that the case?

The world population is up 

and 

the levels of BS and nonsense are up 

and the use of social media - which is a key source used nowadays to spread BS and nonsense - is up 

and 

though the number of persons who are ending their affiliation with organized religion is falling, the number still engaged is in the billions and,

though many are leaving religion, many of them are joining so-called "spiritual groups"

so, 

of course, the end result of all of that is that the number of persons with the Ultimate Sickness is up 

so 

the number of persons trapped in ignorance and insanity is up. 

Add in the fact that for the first time ever human activity and global warming have caused a shift in the tilt of the earth which is having some effect on the mental and emotional state of humanity and therefore on humankind's behavior; 

[for comparison, consider the way that the moon's gravitational pull affects tides and moods and can cause pregnant women to begin contractions and enter into earlier-than-planned delivery and the effects of "the tilt" should be more plausible]; 

add in the fact that the food supply is now almost totally bastardized and that the organs - including the brain - are not receiving all that they need for effective functioning (which Maharaj addressed many years ago); 

and add in the fact that there are three body types and 1/3 of humans can function well enough on a vegetarian only food plan but 1/3 require mainly meat and protein in order to function effectively while the other 1/3 need a combination of both, then see that more and more persons are allowing spiritual advisers to demand that their followers eat plants only, leaving many of them deficient; 

and add in the fact that all of the above increases stress and anxiety levels; 

and add in the fact that more and more generations have received more and more totally warped and insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination; 

then factor in the fact that all of above is generating more delusional and distorted and magical and supernatural thinking than ever before and then it should be clear why I was not surprised by the answer that those professionals at the luncheon gave to my query. 

And that should also help explain why more adults than ever are thinking and talking and behaving like persons with a fourth grade level of education - or less - and why more and more persons have, as noted yesterday, "no more than a ten-year-old's understanding of why it is that every living thing on the planet abides nisargally / naturally except for humans who do not, abiding unnaturally and / or supernaturally instead." 

Also add in the fact that the basic personality types which are often "set in stone" by the age of six all have hidden, subconscious agendas which determine thoughts and words and actions (while the masses have no clue that they are being driven thusly) and it should be clear why so many adult-age persons are acting like six-year-olds instead of like mature, logical, reasonable adults. 

Moreover, all of that helps sets the stage for the distortion and delusion and magical thinking which drives persons to accept lies as truth and which blocks them from understanding the most basic facts about their bodies 

and 

which blocks them from understanding how they come into being and 

which blocks them from understanding how they cycle elements and energy and "produce" other composite unities and 

which blocks them from understanding what happens after the body ends and 

which blocks them from understanding how the nonsense they are taught will reinforce a belief in "me-ness" and "you-ness" and "WHO-ness" and 

which blocks them from understanding body and mind and personality identifications which are total - but highly influential - fiction and

then it should be clear why distortion and delusion and widespread belief in myths and lies and fiction 

leave most among the masses without a clue about what has happened and what has not happened; about is happening now and what is not happening now, and about what is going to happen and what is not going to happen.

Moreover, all of the above should make clear that the statement "There's a sucker born every minute" is not accurate; instead, what is accurate is that a sucker is made every minute, every day, all year long, all around the globe via the use of foolish and insane programming, conditioning, etc.

Krishna used the term "fool" rather than "sucker." Maharaj also frequently discussed the foolishness which results from foolish thoughts and foolish words which result in foolish actions.

Maharaj said, "All you have to do is to give attention to the obstacles created by the foolish mind."

Note how the suckers and fools in Nazi Germany gathered to cheer for and give adulation to a sociopathic, pyschopathic, white supremacist, victimization-reinforcing, duality-driven, duality-spreading, hate-and-egotism-filled leader.

Note how many people - inspired by his words, were whipped into a rage-filled psychotic state of emotional intoxication.

Note how his words inspired discontentment, anger, beatings, killings and eventually mass extinction.

Then note how the same is happening today.

What could possibly deserve more attention today than "the obstacles created by the foolish mind"?

Because of that advice from Maharaj "to give attention to the obstacles created by the foolish mind," more related to all of the above will be discussed in the next post.

[Meanwhile, consider how much of the support given to any sociopathic, pyschopathic, white supremacist, victimization-reinforcing, hate-filled leader involves the supporters' beliefs about their own ego-states and belief systems;

about the way they share their common beliefs with the leader and the way they identify with that leader's sense of who-ness and their own sense of who-ness; and how they can so easily relate to the traits and thoughts and words and actions of such a leader. 

Indeed, be it in Nazi Germany ninety years ago or in arenas in the U.S. or certain other Western nations almost every week nowadays, the fact is that the support given to hate-mongering megalomaniacs says far less about the psychic disintegration of any such leader and says far more about the psychic disintegration of the leader's supporters.]

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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