MAHARAJ'S FINAL PLAN: REALIZING WITHOUT DOGMA, WITHOUT CONTINUOUS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES, AND WITHOUT A PREOCCUPATION WITH “THE NATURE OF REALITY AND THINGS NOUMENAL”

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[CORONAVIRUS POINTER #4:]

The challenge for those in the U.S. and in other nations who have a person at the top of their government who is like the one we have here is this: 

If a leader surrounds himself with those types whom Maharaj said are driven by “ignorance and stupidity and insanity” - and if that leader listens most to those type of persons while simultaneously ignoring the few wise and cerebral and sane who ended up around him or her - then nowadays the nation being lead by that politician is more likely than not to lose what is being called “the war against the coronavirus.” 

Why? Because those types generally prefer to conduct the battle by calling upon a dreamed-up “God” or a “Lord” or a “Savior” or some “Power of the Universe” rather than relying on science and scientific facts. 

How close to the past concept of “normal” might the U.S. or other nations be able to return to? Maybe not especially close at all, but a tolerable existence might come if therapies and treatments and vaccines are developed and made available en masse. 

And such therapies and treatments and vaccines will not come from Gods or Lords or Saviors but will come from scientists. 

Again, Maharaj said that someday science will advance to the point that it will offer proof that the non-dual teachings are true. Thus, he turned his focus toward science and the psychological problems of the human mind which science can address and turned away from his earlier promotion of religion and spirituality as valid parts of the Ultimate Medicine.That time arrived.

Hence the key premise of this series is that it was Maharaj’s later plan for treating the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness (namely, ‘ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”) which called for the use of science in order to realize as opposed to the use of dogma and / or spiritual practices. 

Neither of those two will solve a problem which will only be addressed by science and facts, if addressed at all.

(Covig-19 pointers on this site: 7 April 2020, 6 April 2020, 3 April 2020, and 18 March 2020.)

Now to continue with the series:

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 

"Who am I," some ask, "to speak about religious or spiritual fanaticism?" The replies: 

"One who was as lost in obsessive-compulsive-driven fanaticism to levels that few can even imagine"

and

"One who was trapped in the bondage of religious indoctrination and programming and conditioning; who later accepted as a proper treatment for that form of fanaticism the bondage of being trapped in spiritual fanaticism"; 

and 

"One who came to understand the hypocrisy and lack of authenticity involved with speaking of non-duality but endorsing all sorts of dualistic concepts which inspired speaking not by what of the pure universal consciousness but by speaking through the warped consciousness 'The Super Religious One' and, later, 'The Super Spiritual Giant'." 

[The same happened with Maharaj though flashes of his later teachings showed up when he said, "First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you."] 

The duality of humans vs. Super Power(s) and the duality of heaven vs. hell and the duality of good vs. evil were all carried about in the kits of "The Super Religious One" and, later, "The Super Spiritual Giant" and the tools in that kit were too-readily shared with any who would listen to the tales rooted in ancient myths and superstitions which I shared as if I were the one who came up with those concepts rather than their having being dreamed up by ignorant persons who started the telling of those tales more than 5000 years ago when ignorance was universal. 

And while I deemed myself at one point to be "The Super Christian" that I was told throughout my childhood that I most assuredly was (or, more often, was told that's what I needed to become), I totally ignored the words of Yeshu'a ("Jesus") when he said: 

"When you speak of Me, speak of Me as I AM" and "Before Abraham was, I AM" and "Cleave a piece of wood and I am there; lift up the stone and you will find Me there" 

and 

"Whoever drinks from my mouth shall become as I AM and I myself will become he, and the hidden things shall be revealed to him." 

When I asked pastors and priest what they meant, all suggested that I "ignore those comments and focus only on the messages offered from the pulpit." Really? So I was not to really be a "Christian" but was to be a "Pastorian" and was not really to be a "Christ Follower" but was to be a "Priest Follower." Hummm. 

The same happened with these other quotes attributed to Yeshu'a (Jesus): 

"No one shall ever see the kingdom of heaven - it is within" 

and with 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away" 

and with 

"I will give you what the eye has not seen, and what the ear has not heard, and what the hand has not touched, and what has not arisen in the heart of man" 

and with 

"If they say to you, 'From where have you originated?' say to them, 'We have come from the light, where the light originated through itself'" 

and with 

"If they ask you, 'What is the sign of your father in you?' say to them, 'it is a movement and a rest'" 

and with 

"I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword" and "I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law" and "A man’s enemies will be the members of his household" 

and with 

"A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways." 

I noticed too that most among the 1.2 billion Catholics who give lip service to the idea that "the Pope is infallible" (and that he is most assuredly "The Bishop of Rome, The Vicar of Jesus Christ, The Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, The Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, The Primate of Italy, The Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, The Sovereign of the Vatican City State, The Servant of the servants of God") some popes have nevertheless been deemed to be quite fallible and imperfect and in error when they said: 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places but are states of mind, nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men" (Pope John Paul II) 

and 

"There is no hell" (Pope Francis in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari]. 

Ignoring their popes, their belief is, "By dang, if I'm a Catholic or even some other brand of Christian, I gotta have me some hell." 

See, contradictions and inconsistencies and ambiguities and hypocrisies have long been part and partial of the inner workings of the religious mind among the ignorant and insane masses. 

So, once again: 

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. 

Meaning? 

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 to be focused on should be the 'loving and caring' part. 

"That is, a non-narcissistic god / 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." 

So, 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" 

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away." 

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places but are states of mind, nothing more than concepts dreamed up by men" 

and 

"There is no hell."

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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