Tuesday, March 31, 2020

MAHARAJ'S RATIONALE FOR CONCLUDING THAT "IT'S TIME TO TRY 'A DIFFERENT ROUTE' WHEN SEEKING A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY BECAUSE THE ACTUAL RESULTS OF FOLLOWING THE MOST POPULAR ROUTE FOR 5000+ YEARS HAVE PROVED INEFFECTIVE

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CONSIDER: 

"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] 

"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within" 
and 
"Heaven and earth shall fade away." 
--Yeshu'a (Jesus) 

 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. See the end of the post for the full meaning and implications of that. 

MAHARAJ'S RATIONALE FOR CONCLUDING THAT "IT'S TIME TO TRY 'A DIFFERENT ROUTE' WHEN SEEKING A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY BECAUSE THE ACTUAL RESULTS OF FOLLOWING THE MOST POPULAR ROUTE FOR 5000+ YEARS HAVE PROVED INEFFECTIVE 
(Continued from earlier posts regarding the rationale for seeking the non-dual, nisargan understanding.)

Humanity has survived because of two key factors: (1) luck and (2) practical behavior (and, additionally, in spite of all of the troubles and obstacles and self-defeating actions which have resulted from thousands of years of what Maharaj called humankind's pervasive "ignorance and stupidity and insanity").

First . . .

The LUCK Factor

Most humans nowadays can recount one or more incidents which constituted a "close call" or a time when they "were nearly killed" or "nearly died." 

Similarly, thousands or hundred of thousands of years ago, some earlier human or human-like being or human ancestor had a close call and almost fell off a cliff as others with him did not fare so well. They fell to their deaths, but he survived and went on to breed, and many humans are alive today only because of his luck and the subsequent chain of breeding which that long ago "survivor" triggered. 

He refused to follower the others and join them in walking on the loose rocks on the side of a cliff, rocks which gave way with their combined weight and cast them all off the side of the cliff where their bodies were dashed to pieces on a rocky shoreline far below.

Next . . . 

The Now-Rare PRACTICAL BEHAVIOR Factor

Other chains of survival, marked by the opportunity to breed and to reproduce, happened because someone was more practical than her or his fellows and did not engage in unnecessary, life-threatening, unnatural, impractical, illogical, irrational, unsound, insane, and / or insensible acts. 

Originally, humans had a brain but no mind. After evolution resulted in the human brain expanding from its earlier 1-cup size to its present 3-1/2-cup size, sections of the brain evolved into existence which had the capacity to store and retrieve information. Those parts form what is not called "the mind." 

Originally, the mind operated in a fairly natural, practical, logical, rationale, sound, sane, and sensible manner, rendering it an asset to humanity. After being exposed to myths and lies and superstitions and nonsense, which was all stored in the mind as well, the mind lost its asset nature and became the liability which it is today. 

The accumulation of knowledge, (a.k.a., "learned ignorance") along with ideas, concepts, notions, perceptions, thoughts, designs, plans, schemes, impressions, images, memories, opinions, views, theories, inklings, and all sorts of other dreamed up nonsense (all of which can be summarized with one word . . . "beliefs"), led humans to engage in unnecessary, life-threatening, unnatural, impractical, illogical, irrational, unsound, insane, and / or insensible acts. 

Eventually, the most influential (and most detrimental) beliefs came from controlling leaders and / or ideologies and / or philosophies and / or institutions and / or dreamed up bodies of dogma and / or notions about "things supernatural"; nowadays, those beliefs have led to the presence of varying degrees of obstacles which either hinder, impede or totally prevent humans from behaving in a natural, practical, logical, rationale, sound, sane, and sensible manner. 

Thus, most seeking nowadays usually involves supposedly supernatural things (which are actually unnatural things). Over the years, after asking, "What are you actually seeking?" the answers have included: 

"a way to avoid eternal punishment or to guaranteed eternal rewards." In other cases, some have reported that they "are seeking to accumulate a vast wealth of knowledge; perfection; purity; love; admiration; a way to move far away from 'the madding crowd'; peace; happiness, security; 

"support; an ability to escape; power and / or 'a Power' and control; an ability to dissociate from anything deemed to be painful or hurtful or troubling; some 'Infinite Self' or 'True Self' or 'Real Self' or some other 'Supreme Self' or 'The Highest Form of Selfness'." 

I have asked that question for nearly thirty years, and what no one has ever answered is, "I am seeking the ability to live consistently in a natural, practical, logical, rationale, sound, sane, and sensible manner." 

The invitation here is to ask, of all of the things listed above which person have said they are seeking . . . . 

How practical or natural is it ask some other-worldly power to "bring peace to you" or "bring peace on earth" when he that power - for eternity - has allowed chaos and war and disease and rape and assault and abuse and torture and killing in "His, Her / Its Name" to flourish and to reign supreme? 

How practical or natural is it to think, to believe, that what they are seeking can be found if they can only hear enough of the ringing which comes when a supposedly special metal bowl, sitting on a supposedly special pillow, is struck with a supposedly special stick? 

Or might the case be that there is nothing practical or natural about those who wear special clothing or special robes or special jewelry or special adornments; or who burn specially-scented sticks; or who ring special bells;

or who chant special chants or hum special hums; or who visit special temples or special geographic sites; or who collect and display pieces of crystal in special ceremonies conducted on special days; or who eat special diets? 

Or might the case be that it is neither practical nor natural to bow on special rugs and in one special direction on the compass and to do that five times a day to pray; that it is unnatural to collect trillions of dollars to build thousands of opulent edifices where persons can gather and worship their supposed Savior (ignoring the fact that the one they claim to be worshiping and following said that poverty is preferable to focusing solely on wealth accumulation)? 

And might the case be that it is neither practical nor natural for men to castrate themselves when told to do so by their cult leader in order to prepare themselves to rendezvous with a spaceship that will whisk them away to heaven, a spaceship that is traveling along behind a comet in order to remain out of view of all of the other people on planet earth; or that it is unnatural to drink poisoned Kool-Aid because their cult leader told them to do so? 

And might the case be that it is neither practical nor natural to go to "houses of worship" on a daily or weekly basis and to be very noisy; that it is unnatural to listen to sermons offered in a language which one does not understand;

that it is unnatural for English-speaking seekers to pay $10,000 to go to a retreat in South America where the retreat is conducted in Spanish, (and even though the ones going to those retreats do not speak a word of Spanish, they have assured me afterwards that they "know what is being said, basically"); 

And might the case be that it is neither practical nor natural to jabber and natter and chatter and babble and prattle in order to make sounds which worshipers claim are evidence of their members' ability to "speak in unknown tongues" which evidence "the presence of the Holy Spirit within";

or that it is unnatural to wallow about and flounder about and roll around on the floor in their "holy" buildings to prove to observers by way of their rolling and dancing and shaking and other boisterous movements that they have "truly fallen under the influence of the Holy Spirit"? 

And might the case be that it is impractical and unnatural to wear special, supposedly holy, supposedly protective underwear; or that it is unnatural to roll about on leftover food; or that it is unnatural to use "E-Meters to detect spiritual impediments";

or that it is unnatural to believe that in order to supposedly be free of their sins, persons must slaughter a chicken onto which their sins have supposedly been transferred? 

And might the case be that it is impractical and unnatural to dress up as a humanoid bird and allow oneself to be hanged by the use of hooks through the skin; or that it is unnatural to drop one's children fifty feet from atop a mosque and allow other worshipers below to catch their children in sheets, supposedly to ensure the health of the children? 

And might the case be that it is impractical and unnatural to worship relics which include what is supposedly a piece of the cross on which Christ was crucified or which include what is supposedly the foreskin of Christ which was saved and is now hermetically sealed in a gold and glass tube or which include what is supposedly the shroud which the body of Christ was wrapped in after his crucifixion (which has been shown by radiocarbon tests to have been fabricated about 1300 years after Christ died)? 

And might the case be that it is impractical and unnatural to conduct exorcisms to evict demons or other evil, spiritual entities from a person or place which those demons are believed to have possessed or taken control of;

or that it is unnatural to baptize the dead into one's religion because they believe that unmarried females cannot enter into heaven unless married to a male in their church who can give them the secret code name which they'll have to use to be pulled through the veil into a new world where males, if in good standing with the church at the time of death, have become gods and have multiple wives and are now ruling over their own kingdoms? 

And might the case be that it is impractical and unnatural if nude worshipers claim that they are not nude but are "clothed in the environment"; or that it is unnatural to leave children in the care of religious leaders who have a multi-century-long reputation for molesting children and whose top officials have a centuries-long reputation for denying and covering up the molestation;

or that it is unnatural to continue to give money to a church that uses that money to pay off the victims and the families of victims who were molested by priests and thus enable the molestation to be covered up and to continue? 

And might the case be that it is impractical and unnatural to deny the most basic medical care for one's children - such as a simple round of antibiotics to cure an infection - and to allow one's children to die because the parents' religion teaches that the use of medicine rather than prayer would be evidence of their lack of faith in God? 

Moreover, while other religious and spiritual persons will claim that all of the above is indeed evidence of the "ignorance, stupidity and insanity" which Maharaj spoke of, they will claim that their own particular religion is "mainstream" and has no ignorant, stupid and / or insane practices and that they engage in no ignorant and stupid and insane mimicking of rituals which were dreamed up thousands of years ago by persons being driven by the highest levels of ignorance, stupidity and insanity imaginable. 

To understand the history of humankind and what has been effective in terms of the perpetuation of the species is to understand that such perpetuation has lain not in counting solely on "luck" but has lain in being rid of the content of the mind which blocks humanity's ability to abide in a natural, practical, logical, rationale, sound, sane, and sensible manner.

And abiding in that manner does not come about by adding even more beliefs to what has already been accumulated in "the mind." It happens when all of the content of the mind is discarded and one reaches the condition which Maharaj called "the no-mind, no-beliefs, zero-concept state."

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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Monday, March 30, 2020

MAHARAJ'S RATIONALE FOR CHOOSING SCIENTIFIC FACTS OVER THE EMOTIONAL INTOXICATION GENERATED BY RELIGIOUS / SPIRITUAL FANATICISM

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2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.

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CONSIDER: 

"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] 

"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within" 
and 
"Heaven and earth shall fade away." 
--Yeshu'a (Jesus) 

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. See the end of the post for the full meaning and implications of that. 

MAHARAJ'S RATIONALE FOR CHOOSING SCIENTIFIC FACTS OVER THE EMOTIONAL INTOXICATION GENERATED BY RELIGIOUS / SPIRITUAL FANATICISM: 
While Religion and Science Are Not Always Incompatible, Logic and Reason and Wisdom Make Clear That If a Choice Between The Two Is To Be Made, Only One Choice Is the Sane Option 

So, Maharaj’s bottom-line on religion has been seen: “Take all of the pictures of your gods and deities and put them in the sea." 

So too has his bottom-line on spirituality been seen: “Stop reading (the 'spiritual classic') I AM THAT and listen to my later talks” 

and 

“Give up spirituality.” 

And his bottom-line on “SELF-Inquiry” has also been seen: “You do not need to find the answer to ‘Who am I?' It is enough to find out who you are not.” 

In the U.S. each year, 59% of all women killed are killed during the break up of their relationships with their “lovers” or “husbands” or “partners” or “spouses” or “mates” or whatever roles the men whom they were involved with had assumed as real identifiers. 

What Maharaj and the wisest sages before him understood is how amazingly the tenor and tone of the relative existence would be altered if only persons were freed from belief in their 

personality identifications and freed from living under the influence of the hidden agendas of their assumed personas or ego-states which subconsciously drive the thoughts and words and actions of every human on the planet who has not addressed the issues which evolve from their nonsense-filled minds, minds filled with nonsense and "ignorance and insanity" as a result of ignorant and insane programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and indoctrination and brainwashing. 

Consider how different the relative experiences of those woman killed annually would have been if no one had been taught to accept false identities as real and if no one believed that personality identifications such as “lover” or “partner” or “spouse” or “mate” were real. 

The reason that Maharaj urged visitors to move on to the fourth step if they had become fixated at the third of seven steps on the “path” from identification with the false “I” to understanding the unicity and being freed of the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness (which he identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”) was this: 

It is at the third step where religious and / or spiritual roles are played, and the belief by those role-players is that their roles are “good” and that other roles are “bad” or “not as good.” How can anyone move beyond duality and their dualistic thinking patterns if they have not moved beyond the belief in “good vs. bad” people and beyond the belief that there is a world that is dominated by “good vs. bad” forces or that "this is a world where good and evil forces are at war"? 

Maharaj understood that it is "ignorance and stupidity and insanity" which drive persons' thoughts and words and actions. He understood that the issues of humankind are far too complex to be explained away by simply concluding they are caused by "bad" people or that they are a result of "evil forces at work in the world." 

To that end, Maharaj informed seekers that “self-inquiry” (the process whereby persons can see that the "selves" which they have been assigned and assumed are false) is enough. He saw that “SELF-Inquiry” – when it leads persons to accept a new, assigned Identity or to adopt a new Identity which is even beyond “good” or “great” and is believed to be “Supreme” – also leads to a level of arrogance based in a sense of different-from-ment and a sense of better-than-ment. 

He saw that the level of that type of arrogance is gigantic (as in “Spiritual Giantism”) when compared to the arrogance generated by the self-concepts which come with believing that false selves are real. 

Recall his words: "Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end." 

Did Maharaj . . . 

kick people out of the loft whose thoughts and words exposed the false selves which they were playing, 

or . . . 

did he kick people out of the loft whose thoughts and words exposed the fact that they had arrogantly assumed the false SELF Identity of Someone or Something that is of a supposedly “Supreme” nature? 

When a visitor exposed a false-self persona, Maharaj address that and tried to make clear that the role being played was not real. When a visitor exposed a false, Supreme-Self Persona, Maharaj wasted no time in sending them down the stairs and out into the street. 

He realized over the years that he might be able to change the perspective of those trapped in “commonplace” identities, but experience showed him that he was not likely to have any such effect on those trapped in a supposedly “uncommon” or “extraordinary” or “special” or “exceptional” or “supreme” role. 

Recall, too, that he said those types with a self-concept of being "virtuous" were also the ones who were going to be blind to their “hypocrisy” which is “extraordinary” and “exceptional” and “supreme” (the lip service given to their "humility" and "unassuming nature" notwithstanding). Maharaj never bought into any identity or Identity, no matter how “good” or “bad” his culture considered any identity or Identity to be. 

So why did he say that “self-inquiry” instead of “SELF-Inquiry” would be enough? "SELF-Inquiry" can lead to a belief in a "Supreme Self." Consider what “supreme means”: 

“Supreme” = “the highest in rank or authority, paramount, sovereign, and chief”;

and 

“of the highest quality, degree, character, and importance”;

and 

“that which is the greatest, the utmost, the most extreme, and the ultimate." 

Really? That’s what some take their “You” or "Self" to be? And believing that about a “Self” is preferable to any other beliefs about a “self” or “selves”? 

What an irony: The very process which is supposed to eliminate all sense of "you-ness" and "You-ness" and arrogance and egotism has been warped into a process which now reinforces a sense of "You-ness" and which expands arrogance and which inflates egotism.

In the end, the closest that Maharaj came to anything either “supreme” or “Supreme” was maybe . . . supreme disgust, specifically, supreme disgust with any and all arrogance and conceit and haughtiness and a sense of superiority and a sense of being supreme and pride and self-importance and condescension and superciliousness and every other trait or attitude or belief which reinforces a sense of duality and which generates a sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment.

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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MAHARAJ'S RATIONALE FOR CHOOSING SCIENTIFIC FACTS OVER THE EMOTIONAL INTOXICATION GENERATED BY RELIGIOUS / SPIRITUAL FANATICISM

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"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] 

"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within" and "Heaven and earth shall fade away." 
 --Yeshu'a (Jesus) 

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. See the end of the post for the full meaning and implications of that. 

MAHARAJ'S RATIONALE FOR CHOOSING SCIENTIFIC FACTS OVER THE EMOTIONAL INTOXICATION GENERATED BY RELIGIOUS / SPIRITUAL FANATICISM: 
While Religion and Science Are Not Always Incompatible, Logic and Reason and Wisdom Make Clear That If a Choice Between The Two Is To Be Made, Only One Choice Is the Sane Option 

Of the 7.7+ billion humans presently living on planet earth, 7.469 billion of those persons' claim to be affiliated with one organized religion or another. Most claim to be "Christian" (2.3 billion); "Muslim" (1.8 billion); "Hindu" (1.1 billion); or "Buddhist" (500 millions) with the remainder scattered about among the other 4,196 religions which currently exist.

While a few Christians might hear - and then promptly ignore - certain of the non-duality-based statements attributed to Yeshu'a (a.k.a. "Jesus" or "the Christ"), the likelihood of any of the 7.469 billion self-identified "religious" persons on the planet ever being exposed to and understanding non-dual pointers is practically nil. 

Of the few who are exposed to non-dual messages (or to what persons are claiming to be non-dual messages), that exposure will have happened because they aligned themselves with persons whom Maharaj called "The Big Name Teachers" who are filling auditoriums and stadiums or ashrams and who are selling millions of copies of their various "popular" books. Maharaj advised his visitors to avoid all of those teachers.

Fewer still will find their way to the messages offered by Maharaj, and even fewer still will continue to investigate his final version of the Ultimate Medicine which was devoid of religious elements and spiritual elements and SELF-Enquiry and which focused on the mental aspects of the Ultimate Sickness;

focused on the "ignorance and insanity" which that Sickness always generates; and focused on self-inquiry only in order to allow persons to recognize and then discard all self / personality identifications which generate unfounded fears and often unmet desires and always misery and suffering.  

Why do so many resist Maharaj's suggestion that, instead of engaging in years of “SELF-Inquiry,” one might as well complete only the “self-inquiry” process, thereby seeing what one is not, then being free of all identifications, and then enjoying the remainder of the relative existence by abiding in a natural, no identification (and also no Identification) manner? 

Why do church-goers and temple-goers and mosque-goers and meeting-goers and other religious-goers and spiritual-goers (who often go to places where they are separated from their mates and children) almost always balk at the invitation to give up their religious and / or spiritual going and doing and zooming and to be free of all identifications and then enjoy the remainder of the relative existence by abiding in a natural manner with their mates and families? 

Why do so-called spiritual persons balk at that invitation, including those who join spiritual groups and go to spiritual meetings and who only have barbecues with their select spiritual friends and who play amateur sports with their spiritual friends and who go to monthly celebrations with their spiritual friends and who go on weekend retreats with their spiritual friends and who visit "special, holy or spiritual sites" with their spiritual friends? 

Why do they actually balk at the suggestion that they might consider giving up all of their spiritual going and doing and zooming and be free of all identifications and then enjoy the remainder of the relative existence by abiding in a natural manner with their mates and families? 

Once again, it’s not about anything religious or spiritual but is often rooted in factors which are totally psychological. (There we are, back to Maharaj’s eventual understanding.) 

It has been witnessed here that sometimes that balking is driven by a (psychological) attachment disorder. Consider the person who leaves work and goes to a bar and gets home drunk every night of the week at 10 or 11 or 12 PM or later, ignoring the mate and family. Then consider what often happens when one decides to join a spiritual group in order to quit drinking: 

that person often leaves work (if working), goes to "a meeting," stays after to visit, goes out to dinner with other "spiritual members" of the "spiritual group" during the week and gets home late; additionally, such a person also goes to Saturday meetings and then breakfast with spiritual friends, goes to Sunday meetings and then breakfast with their spiritual friends, etc. 

What is the difference in that person's behavior toward family whether drinking or not drinking? Nothing. In both cases, the person is being driven by an inability to express intimacy and an inability to connect and by an attachment disorder and a desire to escape and avoid. 

And all of that blocks off any opportunity to sense the unicity and any chance for “bonding” with a mate or one’s children. To go and do and zoom, especially if the going and doing and zooming involves one's religious or spiritual role and involves one's focus on “self” improvement, provides just one more justification for not being available. 

See? It’s not about religious or spiritual health or wellness at all. It’s about the psychological factors which are driving one’s thoughts and words and actions, and those psychological factors involve personality disorders which can only manifest after personality identifications have been assumed. 

Of the nine basic personality types . . . 

Psychically Unhealthy Personality Type One Perfectionists are prone to suffer from the Obsessive-Compulsive P. D., the Depressive P.D., and the Narcissistic P.D. 

Psychically Unhealthy Personality Type Two Helpers / Saviors are prone to suffer from the Histrionic PD and the Narcissistic P.D. and the Depressive P.D. 

Psychically Unhealthy Personality Type Three Performers are prone to suffer from the Narcissistic P.D. and the Depressive P.D. 

Psychically Unhealthy Personality Type Fours are prone to suffer from the Avoidant P.D., the Depressive P.D., the Narcissistic P. D., and the Borderline P.D. (if combined with a high Type Six score). 

Psychically Unhealthy Personality Type Five Analysts and Knowers are prone to suffer from the Schizoid Avoidance P.D. and the Schizotypal P.D. 

Psychically Unhealthy Personality Type Sixes who are loyal to those taking care of them are prone to suffer from the Passive-Aggressive P.D., the Paranoid P.D., the Dependent P.D., the Co-Dependent P.D., one degree or another of the Avoidance P.D., and the Borderline P.D. (if combined with a high Four score). 

Psychically Unhealthy Personality Type Seven Adventurers are prone to suffer from the Addictive P.D., the Bipolar P.D., and the Narcissistic P.D. 

Psychically Unhealthy Personality Type Eight Controllers / Bosses / Fighters are prone to suffer from the Antisocial / Sociopathic P. D., the Pathological P.D., and the Sadistic P.D. 

Psychically Unhealthy Personality Type Nine Avoiders are prone to suffer from the Schizoid P.D., the Dependent P.D., the Passive-Aggressive P.D., and the Dissociative P.D. 

Religion does not address personality disorders or the neuroses or psychoses which personality can disintegrate into. 

Spirituality, contrary to the claims made by many “Spiritual Giants,” does not address personality disorders or the neuroses or psychoses which personality can disintegrate into. 

“SELF-Inquiry” might remove some of the personality identifications which result in personality disorders or the neuroses or psychoses which personality disorders can disintegrate into, but they can simultaneously generate a whole different set of issues which result after the assumption of "Special Identities” and which also generate arrogance and egotism which can come with that as well as the senses of different-from-ment and better-than-ment which can come with that. 

Maharaj said, “This is really so simple,” but complicated, convoluted minds hate the simple and love the complex and convoluted and complicated and drawn-out. The questions for those types are: 

"Absorbed in your SELF concept, how much fun are you to be around, really?" 

"How available are you, really?" 

"While you claim to be 'fully in touch with Reality,' how in touch with reality are you? That is, are you ignoring one-half of the summative statement of non-duality ('I AM THAT; I AM') and focusing on the THAT-ness to such an extent that you are not fully in touch with the AM-ness as well?" 

That said, just as persons need not play religious roles or spiritual roles or assume roles supposedly revealed via "SELF-Inquiry," so too persons need not grasp an understanding of the unicity if they could be free of the effects of beliefs regarding personality identification and personality assumption (which lead to a sense of different-from-ment and better-than-ment which leads - in turn - to being arrogant, to judging, and to concluding that one has the right to "play god" and decide who is to die and who is to be allowed to live). 

Relatedly, such vanity leads to a sense of entitlement, and a sense of entitlement leads to misery because entitled types never receive all that they think they are entitled to. A simple “self-inquiry” could expose the way that “The Spouse” has expectations of a partner but could also show how the role of “The Super Spouse” generates a whole new level of expectations when vanity and egotism drive that ego-state’s thoughts and words and actions. 

With that mindset of being "super," there is never enough; there is always too little of that which is believed to be deserved that is actually being received; thus, such persons never feel that they are being treated special enough; they never feel as if they have enough; they will always be trapped in a lifestyle where accumulation rules; and, ultimately, they will always feel empty inside. 

See? Again, there’s the psychological aspect, and personality assumption and the chaos which that generates are always rooted in psychological issues. Maharaj came to understand that the reason why sages for ages have recommended to seekers that they be free of all personal identifications was to allow them to then be freed from being driven by the subconscious agendas of personalities. 

Because religion leads to the assumption of multiple identifications and because spirituality leads to the assumption of multiple identifications (or to “One Really Special or Supreme Identity”) then they cannot be the solution to the problems which come with any identifications (or with “a Special Identification”). Whatever generates more identification - instead of eliminating all identification - cannot possibly eliminate humankind's problems which are all rooted in identification. 

So Maharaj revealed his take on religion when, as noted yesterday, he suggested to a friend that he take all of his pictures of gods and deities and toss them into the sea. 

Of spirituality, he said: “Give up spirituality.” 

Of “the spiritual classic” entitled I AM THAT, he eventually told people to stop reading that book and to listen instead to his later talks. 

Of “SELF-Inquiry,” he said that it is not really required, and he pointed out that “self-inquiry” - which can reveal all of the false selves that are being assumed and can reveal who you are not - is enough. 

After seeing that “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” are at the core of the Ultimate Sickness, he came to see that those three key symptoms all deal with the mind rather than with one having mastered too little dogma or having a “heart problem.” Further, he came to see that those three key symptoms all deal with the mind rather than with a “spiritual problem” or a “sick spirit” or a “spiritual malady.” 

He saw that the Sickness is about a sick mind (that is, a mind filled with nonsensical beliefs) and that the problems of humanity all center in the mind. He saw which version of the Ultimate Medicine provides an opportunity to address the real issue - the mind problems - and which versions of the Ultimate Medicine have nothing whatsoever to do with the real problem . . . the mind problem. 

Seeing that the version which can address the mind problem is the wise version to use is what also led him to recommend that seekers reach a state of “zero concepts” and to join him and be rid of the mind totally by purging it of its attachment to all ideas and concepts and notions (a.k.a, “all beliefs”).

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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"GOOD vs. EVIL?" or "IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, and INSANITY?"

The content of this eBook deals with one of the most common but erroneous beliefs that the non-Realized masses cling to and which they will fight about (and even kill over), namely, that there is a planet-wide duel going on between “the forces of good and evil” in the universe.

Either (1) the ancient view is spot on: that the "ills of the planet" are rooted in evil people, in people not being religious enough or spiritual enough, and are caused solely by bad morality; or, (2) the "ills of the planet" are rooted in ignorance, stupidity and insanity and "being good" or "being moral" does not put an end to ignorance, does not eliminate stupidity, and does not treat insanity in any way.

II.
"THE VISION"

Comments regarding the free eBook entitled “THE VISION”:

“My thanks to you and Andy.” – Andrew “Mac” McMaster

“Thanks so much for the book! And, by the way, it is brilliant and the most effective pointing that you have done. It has served to help clear the remaining blockages.” – Stan Cross

“Greatly appreciate having “THE VISION” added to my Henderson resource library that is situated on the right side of my bed for easy access! Eternally grateful for what was received and what was given.” – Robert Rigby

“‘THE VISION’ is such a well-written, condensed version of the Nisarga Yoga approach to understanding and enjoying Reality that I feel it can serve as a must-read ‘meditation guide’ for all earnest seekers.” – Andy Gugar, Jr.

III.
"Sapolsky, Maharaj, and the Non-Dual Teachings"

Dr. Robert Maurice Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist; a professor of biology, neuroscience, and neurosurgery at Stanford University; a researcher; an author; and a Research Associate at the National Museums of Kenya.

There is much that a non-dualist or Advaitin or Nisargan can relate to by comparing and contrasting what Sapolsky reveals about the way certain troops of baboons live in Africa with the way that humans abide all around the globe.

This 152-page eBook catalogues the common, non-dual message shared by Sapolsky and Maharaj and reveals the ways that Sapolsky’s scientific research supports the non-dual pointers offered by Maharaj.

IV.
Seeking

In “PART ONE” it will be seen that most persons on the planet are not seeking, and most will never seek, but for those who are seeking, most will face several obstacles:

In “PART TWO” of this book, it will be seen why many criticized Maharaj for “changing his message in his later talks.” It will be seen that the changes were not about changing the message per se as much as about changing his methodology as he experimented with one version of the Ultimate Medicine after another in order to try to find an effective means for addressing the Ultimate Sickness.

He tried a religious version of the Medicine, a Spiritual version of the Medicine, and finally settled on a version which addressed to Sickness at its core . . . at the mental and emotional level.

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"THE MOST DANGEROUS BELIEF OF ALL"

“Dangerous” is a term that can only apply during the relative existence, but of those who do commit suicide, for example, how many shoot themselves in the foot over and over until they “bleed out”? None. They shoot themselves in the head. Why? In order to try to stop the noise - to try to stop the chatter of a thousand monkeys – to stop the noisy mind which is the area that stores the ideas, notions, concepts, mind-stuff, etc. which drives them into the depths of insanity.

And what are those ideas, notions, concepts, etc. called, collectively? "Their beliefs." The irony? They are not their beliefs at all. They are the beliefs of “others” that were set in place via programming, conditioning, etc. and which persons then think are their own.

And what are those beliefs rooted in, and what reinforces those beliefs and convinces persons that they are sacred and worth fighting over and even sometimes worth dying for? Blind faith.

This 337-page eBook discusses those issues in detail.

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