NON-DUALITY AND THE NISARGAN YOGA vs. BEING DRIVEN BY FANATICISM AND THE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER

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Now, the discussion with turn to a different topic:

NON-DUALITY AND THE NISARGAN YOGA 

vs.

BEING DRIVEN BY FANATICISM AND THE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER

Yesterday: 

Fanaticism can often manifest around attachments involving sports, athletes, musicians, actors, etc.; around anything which persons become addicted to; around politics; and around religions and spiritual movements and ideologies and philosophies. 

Yeshu'a (Jesus) warned persons about that when he said, "A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways," so when fanaticism manifests, it brings with it duality; dual-mindedness; a tendency to be frenzied; a propensity for ragingly and being furious; attach to places dedicated to attaining power / a Power / Powers which reinforce personas preoccupied with being holy; and, since holy means "different," a propensity to believe that one is different-from-others and better-than-others. 

More accurately, when there is a belief in dualities and when there is personality-identification-inspiring dual-mindedness, then duality-based "us" and "them" thinking manifests; shortly after duality-based "us" and "them" thinking manifests, then personality-driven fears and desires will guarantee that "us vs. them" fanaticism comes. And when fanaticism comes, it is accompanied by . . .

a tendency among humans to be frenzied;

a propensity for ragingly and being furious;

an attachment to places dedicated to attaining power / a Power / Powers which reinforce personas preoccupied with being holy;

and, (since "holy" simply means "different")

a propensity to believe that one is different-from-others and, based in that difference alone, to believe that one is better-than-others. 

Consider the message revealed via some of the pictures taken during the "Unite the Right Rally" which occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia from August 11th to the 12th, 2017 when protestors who were members of the far-right, white supremacist groups, the alt-right, neo-Confederates, members of the KKK, neo-Nazis, and militias gathered to protest the removal of statues honoring traitors - Confederate soldiers - who started a war against the U.S. Government - nearly 160 years ago - in an effort to preserve the institution of slavery. 

One-hundred and sixty years ago? Yes. That's a long time to be in a frenzied state, but that has been the case, especially in many of the southern states in the U.S. whose ancestors lost the war and lost their supply of near-free labor; that's also a long time to rage and a long time to be furious

and a long time to hold onto the hatred of the government which ended the private sale and ownership of humans; that's also a long time to carry a grudge and a long time to carry around and fly and otherwise display the flag of traitors' in the Southern, Confederate states that lost the war they started

(along with - if you notice in the pic below) displaying and flying the flag of German Nazis from nearly ninety years ago who also overthrew their former government in Germany and who also lost the war they started:

Author Sinclair Lewis warned that . . .

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Or a Bible?

Maybe like this?

 

And maybe like this?

In his 1935 novel on the subject, Lewis discusses a senator with fascist beliefs who is running for the office of the President of the U.S. He describes him thusly, aware that most fanatical and ignorance-driven citizens cannot recognize a fascist when they see one:

The senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman of church furniture.

Certainly, there was nothing exhilarating in the actual words of his speeches, nor anything convincing in his philosophy. His political platforms were only wings of windmill. 

But he was an actor of genius. There was no more overwhelming actor on the stage, in the motion pictures, nor even in the pulpit. He would whirl his arms, bang tables, glare from mad eyes, and vomit Biblical wrath from a gaping mouth; 

but he would also coo like a nursing mother, beseech like an aching lover, and in between tricks would coldly and almost contemptuously jab his crowds with figures and fact-figures and facts that were inescapable even when they were entirely incorrect.

Below this surface stagecraft was his uncommon natural ability to be authentically excited by and with his audience, and they by and with him. He could dramatize his assertion that he was neither a Nazi nor a Fascist [while comparing himself to Jefferson and Lincoln and while making his followers see him veritably defending the Capitol against barbarian hordes].

Some might ask, "Was that really written 85 years ago, or was it written yesterday?

The title of his book of warning:

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

What Will Happen When America Has a Dictator?

So an accurate explanation of the fanaticism / duality phenomenon is this: 

First comes duality and belief systems based in dualistic beliefs; then comes fanaticism and the chaos and hatred and fighting and anger and rage which manifests alongside fanaticism. 

Then comes such acts as driving one's car into a crowd of counter-protestors and killing one and injuring scores,

attacking or killing those who reject the duality-based beliefs of the members of such groups as the far-right, as white supremacists, as the alt-right, as neo-Confederates, as members of the KKK, as neo-Nazis, and as the members of militias who also hate persons who have brown skin; who have black skin; who are not Christians; or who support the government's having brought an end to slavery.

Then comes (in an age of Ultimate Sickness) that which Maharaj identified as key the symptoms of that Sickness, namely, being driven by ignorance, stupidity and insanity and a president who says, "There are good people on both sides."

What comes first among frenzied and raging and hate-filled persons is the duality-based belief that one is different from "the other" and therefore better than "those people," and when such duality-based egotism manifests, then of course chaos will come; of course fighting will come, of course killing will comes; and of course raging about a war that ended slavery nearly 160 years ago can come and continue.

That same duality-based arrogance and hatred and rage led to a civil war in the U.S. in which 620,000 people killed each other, and 160 years later, there remain large segments of the U.S. population who are longing for another civil war in which "the South will overthrown the federal government"; in which "the South will rise again"; and in which the new Southern leaders will use the Old Testament as a Constitution, providing the laws which will govern the people of the new nation, including:

killing those of  religions which are not the one approved by the state;

stoning to death those whose sexual preference is different from the majority;

persecuting and / or killing those who do not believe that there is a non-human Being in another world who is controlling everything in this world;

putting on trial those who fail to follow the laws of the church (which will run the theocratic government);

killing those who want liberty rather than accepting the bondage imposed by religious or spiritual leaders; 

killing those who do not believe in supposedly supernatural causes of what are actually natural events;

persecuting women who do not submit themselves to the rule of their husbands;

etc., etc., etc.

So here is the recipe for disaster which humankind has been mixing up and serving for thousands of years:

Take one part duality-based beliefs; add the preference for separation which that brings (including "America First" and "Down with blacks and browns and yellows" and "White Supremacy forever," etc.); allow that to steep for a while until fanaticism is thoroughly brewed; allow that fanaticism to strengthen; and then kiss peace and freedom goodbye. 

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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