EXCESSIVE PRIDE AND THE PERSONALITY DISORDERS WHICH FOSTER IT AND SUSTAIN IT

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EXCESSIVE PRIDE AND THE PERSONALITY DISORDERS WHICH FOSTER IT AND SUSTAIN IT

Consider some of the personality types which inspire and support excessive pride:

The Perfectionism Disorder: "I'm perfect and you're not. You should be more like me."

The Narcissist Personality Disorder: "I am entitled to be admired and taken care of because of my physical appearance (rated a 10 out of 10) and my talents and my high morals and my ability to attract money."

The Know-It-All Personality Disorder: "I have gathered more knowledge in the last ten years than most will accumulate in a lifetime. If there is anyone who should be listened to, it is I." 

The Sociopath / Psychopath Personality Disorders and The God Complex Disorder: "I am the best there is at running businesses, running a country, and running the world. I want to have unlimited power and control and deserve both. I alone can solve the problems of a country. All should be grateful that I'm even willing to take charge of their lives and their nation. P.S. I also deserve to have the power to decide who lives and who dies."

The was received from another site visitor after some of the previous posts: 

I'm writing to confess that I've obviously been suffering from some self-deceiving pride. 

You've mentioned pride (of the "false" variety) as a trait of fanatics and pride in the previous post as one of the sins which some religious people call "deadly." 

You've also said that more of humanity's problems have been caused by ego-state assumption and the egotism that always comes along with that than anything else. I agree with your point. Too, growing up, I heard "pride comes before a fall" and have continued to agree with that maxim also. 

I've also long seen how pride has blocked me from seeing truth and even being "decent company" for friends and family and co-workers. And I've also seen how many times since I started seeking via non-duality and the nisarga yoga that I thought, "I've finally got it!" only to have some additional awareness comes along and casts light on my pride-based distortion. You did that yesterday. 

I've asked many people the same question that the man you quoted yesterday earlier: "How can these religious people tolerate and even support a man for president who is an admitted sex predator?" 

Yet never once did I see the obvious, meaning, their historic practice of tolerating and supporting their own leaders who have been revealed to be sex predators. There it was, right before my very eyes for decades, yet I didn't connect their support for predatory religious leaders with their support for a predatory political leader. 

I've been on this path for years. Why am I yet so blind? 

The reply: At least you're seeing that you're still not seeing all that can be seen. Many are blind but still believe they see quite well, thank you very much. With you, the "clear perceiver" (the so-called "knower") had been there but does not always send into consciousness what it can perceive ("know").

Consider the relevance of this pointer from Maharaj: 

"Surely you cannot say the knower was absent. The experience of things and thoughts was not there, that is all. But the absence of experience too is experience. It is like entering a dark room and saying ‘I see nothing’. A man blind from birth knows not what darkness means. Similarly, only the knower knows that he does not know. Sleep is merely a lapse in memory. Life goes on." 

Most do not know what they do not know. All that remains for you is some additional time spent with one who sees clearly to point out what you are looking at but not seeing clearly.

Maharaj: "In due course a guru appears to inspire us to practise Yoga (here, the Nisargan Yoga) and a ripening takes place as a result of which the immemorial night of ignorance dissolves before the rising sun of wisdom. But in reality nothing happened. The sun is always there - there is no night to it." 

What did he say is the culprit that makes that happen? "The mind." 

Clear seeing cannot happen unless there is light. It is the darkness of the mind which always blocks out the light. 

I was recently in Austin and my granddaughter and I went for a walk. At one point, she stopped abruptly and pointed toward the landscaping in front a house and said, Look!" I said, "Yes, those are pretty plants, aren't they." She said with a chastising tone, "No! Cat!" and pointed again. 

Botched surgical procedures on my eyes and the subsequent complications have left the sight blurred or distorted. By squinting and looking closely, in the shadows of the plants, there it was . . . a cat. 

She saw easily what I was barely able to see at all. So it is with "the fully realized." They see easily what others are not able to see easily or at all, even though all might be looking at the same thing. 

Thus the stage can be set for conflict as a result of faulty seeing: 

One says, Look at that scoundrel." 

Another looks at the same person and says, "He is my hero, my idol, my deity personified." 

Let's revisit an illustration used in the past to emphasis the point. Suppose I show you this picture: 

and ask, 

F.: "What do you see?" 

The answer might be: "A beautiful ocean-side vista at sunset."

F.: "Okay. And did you notice the rock duck in the picture as well?"

The reply might be, 

V.: "I don't see any duck - not a wood duck, a mallard duck, or a rock duck, whatever that is." 

F.: "Well look again at this version of the picture: 

"Oh, that's what you were talking about. I was looking out in the water and in the distance sky. I didn't see what was right in front of me that you were inviting me to see. I didn't even understand the basic term. You weren't talking about a real duck but were seeing the likeness of a duck in the rock formation." 

"The fully realized," free of all of the blockages which had been stored in the mind, can see clearly and can see things - as did my granddaughter - which others don't see or never even notice at all. 

Two doctors - to cover their ineptness - have told me that once I have "the next procedures" on my eyes, then I will see very clearly. 

Similarly, as you continue along the path, someday your vision may well become sharper and sharper. 

Maharaj said: "To know that consciousness and its content are reflections - changeful and transient - is the focusing of the real. The refusal to see the snake in the rope is the necessary condition for seeing the rope." 

[Yet many who are naive or ignorant because of their mind-content-blocked consciousness and their resultant poor seeing also refuse to see the snake that appears to be a rope.] 

Consider: 

Questioner: "When do I know that I have discovered truth?" 

Maharaj: "When the idea ‘this is true’ / ‘that is true’ does not arise. Truth does not assert itself; it is in the seeing of the false as false and rejecting it. It is useless to search for truth, when the mind is blind to the false. It must be purged of the false completely before truth can dawn on it" 

and 

"There is no such state as seeing the real. Who is to see what? You can only be the real — which you are, anyhow. The problem is only mental. Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren’t any."

To be continued.

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"From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality");

"Consciousness / Awareness: The Nature of Reality Beyond SELF-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding As the Absolute)";

"From the Absolute to the Nothingness";

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“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”

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“Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full”

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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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IMMODERATION AND FANATICISM VS. MODERATION AND BALANCE

TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS

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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.

3. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.)

4. Some prefer paperback books even if they have to wait a day or so to receive it and have to pay more for a printed book and its shipment. Now, 10 paperback books by Henderson are in print and available in two anthologies through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and over 40,000+ booksellers around the globe including in the Americas, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, China, Spain, Brazil and South Korea. See the end of this post in red text for details.

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IMMODERATION AND FANATICISM VS. MODERATION AND BALANCE

Many among "the religious" speak of Seven Deadly Sins, as in "these will kill you"? 

Or as in "These are unforgivable by our forgiving god," added to "the other unforgivable sin of using His name in vain"?

Their seven sins considered to be "deadly" are:

lust 

anger 

greed 

pride 

envy 

gluttony 

and 

sloth. 

Yet were there not some degree of lust, would not the human species come to an end when the last person presently alive expired? Some lust is required in order for persons to engage in the sex act which perpetuates the continuation of the human species. 

[Additionally, the irony involved with that deadly sin is that the church leaders who are criticizing lust have a very long history of engaging in lustful acts with both adults and child-age parishioners. When a man asked me, "How can these religious people tolerate and even support a man for president who is an admitted sex predator?"

I chuckled and said, "You've either kidding me or showing how unaware you are. Those are the same people who have been tolerating and even supporting their religious leaders who are also known sex predators and are the same people who continue to fund their institutions, right up to yesterday when reports were published that the sexual conduct continues to happen. Ha."] 

Were there not some degree of anger being felt, and if persons throughout history had to deny or suppress their anger and refuse to feel it when things are done which normally evoke anger, then persons would be like doormats, allowing themselves to be walked on and abused. 

If there were not some degree of greed, then persons might never be inspired to work in order to meet their basic needs. The same applies to some degree of gluttony. 

If there were not some degree of pride, then no job would be well done. 

If there were not some degree of envy, then persons might never be inspired to take any action to excel or exert themselves. 

If there were not some degree of sloth, then persons would never relax and allow their physical and mental and emotional batteries to be recharged. 

The point is not to succumb to the influences of the "Goldilocks Syndrome" and expect that nothing should ever be too hot or too cold or too hard or too soft but to see, nevertheless, that balance is the key to peace; that balance alone can set the stage for feeling contentment; and seeing that . . .

rather than extremes of mania and depression, or 

rather than extremes of feeling eagle high sometimes but whale caca low at other times, or 

rather than experiencing the effects of the Borderline Personality Disorder and loving someone sometimes but hating him or her at other times 

actually seeing that balance is the only sane way to go. 

For decades I have provided financial counseling to individuals, couples and businesses, either (a) setting them up on a budget which is sane and sensible or (b) formulating a strategy for them to be able to live within their means in a manner which is based in financial sanity rather than in the more commonplace financial insanity which drives most persons' spending habits.

The goal, therefore, is to have "a balanced budget," meaning one in which total revenues equal or exceed total expenses. 

The same applies to . . . everything. 

One report suggests that at least 13% of all humans presently suffer from full-blown alcoholism and that 12-13% can be classified as "hard drinkers" who abuse alcohol the same way that alcoholics do. There are also surveys which report that 30% of all humans do not consume alcoholic beverages at all. 

That suggests that about 50% of all humans drink alcohol but drink moderately. Their consumption is "balanced" so they drink alcoholic beverages but they do not do not suffer the mental and emotional and physical problems which are alcohol-related and which non-moderate drinkers suffer.

See? Balanced (although in the case of alcoholics, balanced drinking is not an option because of the combination of a physical, pancreas-related, sugar -related allergy and an obsessive mind). 

Yesterday, one of the traits displayed by fanatics was "immoderation." 

One dictionary defines "moderation" as "the avoidance of excess or extremes, especially in one's thoughts and words and behaviors or in one's political opinions or religious beliefs." 

The deer in this neighborhood display the essence of the natural, Nisargan mode of living which Maharaj endorsed: 

They are not concerned with dogma or the state of a dreamed-up "soul." They display balanced and moderate degrees of lust, anger, greed, pride, envy, gluttony and sloth. 

They have sex and procreate; they can become angry and greedy and prideful and envious and gluttonous, especially during mating season. 

They can be slothful and - as Maharaj endorsed - willing to lie about and "rest in the cool, blue shade" and do . . . nothing. 

By any stretch of the imagination, could one accurately conclude that those traits - manifesting to the moderate degree to which they are manifesting in the deer - be considered "deadly" for them? 

To see a manner of abidance which is natural and sane and balanced and moderate, one best not look for that among the human masses. 

To see what abidance looks like when it is natural and sane and balanced and moderate, one best look to nature. Look long enough and eventually one will be able to find a model there.
 
To be continued.

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as opposed to delivering digital books. 

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For NON-DUALITY AUDIENCES
 

The Advanced Seekers' Series (344 pages) is an anthology of four books that share Advaita-based, non-duality pointers that can guide seekers to abide as their original nature. Included in the anthology are

"From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality");

"Consciousness / Awareness: The Nature of Reality Beyond SELF-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding As the Absolute)";

"From the Absolute to the Nothingness";

and

"The Final Understanding."

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from BARNES AND NOBLE by clicking here
or (sometimes less efficiently nowadays in terms of paperback delivery)

from AMAZON by clicking here.

Also for NON-DUALITY AUDIENCES

This anthology (438 pages) contains the six books that make up what has been called The Blissful Abidance Series for those seeking to live blissfully and happily for the remainder of the manifestation, including:

“What BLISS is and what BLISS is not”

“There’s No Such Thing As Peace of Mind (There’s Only Peace If You’re ‘Out of Your Mind’)”

“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”

“Freedom from Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness”

“Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full”

and

“When REALITY Is Overlaid on the RELATIVE.”

Order a PAPERBACK copy of The Blissful Abidance Series 

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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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“How Can I Spot Fanatics and Avoid Them Rather Than Continuing to Deal With Them Over and Over?”

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A person who is beginning to see her pattern of continuously making the same mistake in forming relationships confessed: "You're right, Floyd! I have a broken picker!"

Then she asked:

"How can I spot fanatics and avoid them rather than continuing to deal with them over and over?"

Yesterday this was discussed: 

A site visitor said: "Everyone is fanatical about something - Maharaj was fanatical about non-duality - you're fanatical about non-duality." 

The fallacy of that belief was shown. To further clarify, most of the following manifest alongside fanaticism and they were not observable in Maharaj once he reached a fully-realized state: 

bigotry 

extremism 

hatred 

intolerance 

zeal 

zealotry 

arbitrariness 

bias 

dogmatic 

faction 

frenzy 

immoderation 

infatuation 

madness 

monomania 

obsessiveness 

obstinacy 

partiality 

partisanship 

prejudice 

rage 

single-mindedness 

stubbornness 

unruliness 

violence 

willfulness 

incorrigibility 

unreasonableness 

As for fanatics or for those fanatics whom you might be dealing with, consider those traits and characteristics or attributes or mannerisms. If you're considering making a commitment with someone or to someone (such as a relationship commitment, a business commitment, a partnership commitment of any kind), might it be wise to take an objective look at that person and see if any of those traits are manifesting? 

Some are aware that I work with businesses and use the results of a personality inventory test to determine on a specific 1 to 100 scale the degree to which personality disorders are manifesting and to predict what kind of employee a prospect might be.

I have also worked with current employees to show them what the test results reveal about them and to point out certain issues they might address in order to make their work life and their private life more stable and sane and peaceful. 

I have worked with counselors in countries all around the globe - from the U.S. to the U.K. to Germany to Australia, to name a few - and take the test results they send to me and then provide them and their clients with reports which contain an analysis of the test results to find what is driving the clients and to provide a treatment plan to address all which the results reveal. 

In some cases, couples take the test before marrying in order to find areas of compatibility as well as potential conflict which are likely to manifest as their personality types insert themselves into their relationship over time.

Many who take advantage of such cutting-edge analysis and insight understand that it is better to avoid falling off a cliff rather than accepting a fall off a cliff as "a risk worth taking" with the hope of avoiding major injury or with the belief that effective treatment for the subsequent injuries will be readily and easily available. 

There is no better tool available than awareness of what will otherwise be hidden or disguised.

As proof, how many times have you seen cases post-commitment (when it is often too late) where a supposed "Mr. Right" was revealed later on to actually be "Mr. Oh-So-Unbelievably Wrong"?

Or how many times have you seen cases post-commitment (when it is often too late) where a "A Devil in Disguise" appeared to be "An Angel - A Truly Pure and Charming and Delightful Angel," only to reveal later on that the supposed "angel" was instead a vicious, unnatural force best avoided?

On the personality inventory I use, the results of that test are revealing the levels of fanaticism and the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder have increased geometrically over the last 10-15 years in both frequency and degree. Both are now highly prevalent; therefore, the list above begs to be used prior to the making of any commitments.
 
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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.]

Here's

the direct link to the VIDEO VERSION 

of the "Awakening Together" satsang session with Regina and Jacqueline referenced earlier, 18 MARCH 2018

or

You can click on the picture link which has now been added for video "Number Ten" in the upper right-hand column on this page.

If preferred, here's

the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION. 

You may click here to visit

Floyd's bookstore

which offers both digital and paperback books.