THE DARK TRIAD

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THE DARK TRIAD

In the book Sri Nisargadatta and His Evolution, 

this is offered: 

[Of course there was no "Maharaj" that "evolved." What evolved over the years during which he offered non-pointers was the understanding which Maharaj shared and which led the message he shared to change and evolve.] 

Maharaj never adhered to one type of yoga consistently until he finally settled into what might be called an "all-nisarga" approach. On some level, the evolution of Maharaj's understanding might be understood by seeing the following shifts in what he offered:

FROM 

guru-bhakti and bhakti 

TO 

bhakti and jnana (and mention of "atma") 

TO 

jnana and nisargan 

TO 

the nisargan exclusively.

All of that was a “journey” to authenticity with stopovers in The Clothing Store of Life where one garment after another is tried on; bought - often at a high price; worn for a time; eventually becomes uncomfortable; and is discarded, only to continue to shop in what is actually an effort to try to find what fits or where one might "fit in";

to find one’s name; to find the answer to “Who Am I?”; and to find oneself while lost in an ocean of people who want to know why you are changing (and not being like you were when you were buying into the fashions which were popular in your culture). 

When Maharaj changed from the use of a religion / non-dual version of the Ultimate Medicine, the locals criticized him for changing. When he changed from the use of a spirituality / non-dual version of the Ultimate Medicine, self-defined “Spiritual Giants" from around the globe criticized him for changing. For example, these critiques followed his “changing” / evolving: 

"The later books of Maharaj do not enjoy the same clarity as 'I Am That'. It seems that he himself got complicated or rather evolved himself or declined maybe as happens to many teachers. It is also the lack of quality of translation in the level of "I Am That" 

and 

"He deteriorated from one of the great spiritual men of all times to one of the least spiritual people of all times." 

What actually happened was that he tried over a period of years all of the favorite fashions of his culture, but eventually he stripped himself bare and was totally authentic, influenced only by what he came to understand “did not work” and only by what he came to understand about the true, mental roots of the Sickness and why a psychological approach is required to address psychological defects and liabilities and issues. 

In the Tuesday post, this was shared: 

Maharaj tried to redirect seekers to focus less on gaining knowledge, (their "knowledge" being nothing more than “learned ignorance” anyway, he said) and focus more on being fully authentic. 

He said: “You need something much more intimate and deeper than mediate knowledge, to be yourself in the true sense of the word. Your outer life is unimportant. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn.

It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself. The only way to learn is by practice. Right away begin to be yourself. Discard all you are not and go ever deeper. If you ask me: 'Who are you?' My answer would be: 'Nothing in particular'.” 

Frequent visitors to this site understand, as Maharaj came to understand, that the psychological effects of programming, conditioning, etc. develop personality identifications and the assumption of false names, identities, roles, etc., playing multiple parts . . . playing a variety of characters strutting across the stage of “The Theater of the Lie.” 

Those visitors also understand that the Type Four must be cultivated if one is ever to be authentic (the Personality Type Four being either “The Romantic Escapist” or “The Authentic One”) 

Consider how heavy it is to accept false roles and then work to maintain them, to feed them, to nurture them, to work and work and work to preserve and sustain all of those phony roles. 

The Type Four has an early propensity for realizing and for trying to understand, as was the case with the Personality Type Four Maharaj. The earliest longings of that type involve a desire to escape, to get away from the insanity and inanity of the masses. If Fours can shift away from isolating and tap into their inclination to be able to enjoy the solitude, then in the quiet, clarity might come. 

At some point, they declare their independence and become firmly fixed in the lightness and ease which come with full and true authenticity and its accompanying freedom. No more shopping for cloaks to cover themselves as they walk to the beat of a different drummer;

no more shopping for outer garments to cover up all about them which sets them poles apart from the masses; and no more shopping for that which can hide everything about them which is so uncommon when compared to the ways of the masses. 

Frequent visitors also understand that all develop by the age of five or six to varying degrees the nine basic personality types which all persons display. How early do those propensities and tendencies begin among Type Fours? 

They began very early for Maharaj. They began very early here, by the age of five or six. And they are beginning very early with Grace VanderWaal. 

Who the heck is Grace VanderWaal? Just one of the rare Type Fours (making up only 1/2 of 1% of the planet's population) who - in her case - displayed her Four-ness to millions on the television show “America’s Got Talent” where she performed several years ago and made clear that names, including her own, mean nothing but that discarding all that is phony and false and then finding one's authentic self is all. The twelve-year-old sang on national television this song which she wrote:

I DON’T KNOWN MY NAME 

I don’t know my name. 

I don't play by the rules of games, 

So you say I'm just trying . . . 

Just trying. 

So I heard you are my sister’s friend. 

You get along quite nicely.

You ask me why I cut my hair 

And change myself completely. 

I am lost . . . 

Trying to get found 

In an ocean of people.

Please don't ask me any - 

But, I don't know my name.

I don't play by the rules of game.

So you say I'm just trying 

Just trying.

I now know my name! 

I don't play by the rules of game! 

So you say, I'm not trying 

But I'm trying . . . 

To find my way! 

Note the Type Four-style pointers: 

“I don’t know my name” points to a search from self. 

“I don't play by the rules of game” points to the tendency of Fours to march to the beat of a different drummer. 

“You ask me why I cut my hair / And change myself completely” points to the inanity which Fours recognize in their cultures which drive persons to focus on meaningless images and pay no attention at all to anything authentic. 

"Please don't ask me any -" shows some restraint because a Four being asked such shallow questions as her sister’s friend asked about her appearance (rather than about what is inside and about what is far more meaningful that the trite and stale and pedestrian and hackneyed and banal topics which the “non-realized” consider important and focus on) might lead a Four to say, “Please don't ask me any . . . of your stupid, dull, trivial questions!” 

“I am lost” points to the sense which Fours have from early on, a sense that they “don’t fit in” and that they "don’t belong in 'this world' at all." 

“Trying to get found in an ocean of people” reveals the way that Fours often feel, surrounded by far too many people who block the Four’s need to spend time some time each day in the quiet, alone, “far from the madding crowd” as Thomas Hardy called it. 

The last verse builds to a crescendo as Grace begins to realize who she is – or more to the point, all that she is not – and declares that all of her actions which she is being questioned about are part of the process she must undertake to “find her way.” 

The likelihood of her succeeding is indicated. The “journey” is seldom "light" for the Four, or any other type for that matter, but the lightness does await. 

If you care to hear Grace sing the song she wrote and performed on a Tuesday night a little more than four years ago, you may do so here: 

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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