THE DARK TRIAD

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THE DARK TRIAD

Philosophy can be quite “deep” (and, therefore,) quite “heavy” at times: 

“What is the purpose and meaning of life?” 

“Why are we here?” 

“Why am I here?” 

“Who am I, anyway?” 

“Is the universe real or it is just something imagined?” 

“Looking at the vastness of the universe and space, I wonder why in the midst of all of the things out there, there is really even more nothingness?” 

“In fact, why is there something at all rather than nothing?” 

Eventually, organized religion came along and for over 5000 years, religious leaders have claimed to have the answers to such questions (except when they don’t “because God works in mysterious ways”); thus, they explain: 

“Everything happens for a reason” (so there is Something / Some One in charge who is controlling everything and allowing some things to happen and not allowing others things to happen).

“So, do we have free will, or is there some kind of determinism at play, or do we not have free will, or is there a combination of some free will at play though – simultaneously - everything ultimately is ‘God’s will’ and we and all events on earth are being controlled by some Power or Powers residing in another world but controlling everything that happens in this world?” 

“So do gods and goddesses or ‘One True God’ exist or not, and if there is 'One True God,' why hasn’t He shown Himself at least one time to end – once and for all – any and every doubt about His existence? I mean, what’s His big hang-up with ‘faith’?” 

“Is there life after death, and – if so – is there one “birth-life-death-afterlife sequence, or are there many sequences?” 

“What is the single best moral code of conduct which everyone should follow, and what is the best set of religious practices and beliefs? Should I knell or not, chant or not, roll on the floor or not, speak in unknown tongues or not, eat real body and blood or just eat pretend body and blood?

Should I smell smoke or not, have special water tossed on me or not, play bingo or not, drink wine or not, dance or not, cut my hair or not, wash the feet of others or not, tolerate our priests having sex with children or not, kill members of other religions or not, and drink the Kool-Aid or not?” 

Then other persons come along who think that there is a higher plane than the religious plane and that it is not dogma which should be understood but there are, instead, a host of more lofty and towering and elevated and grand and noble and exalted concepts to be understood which can help persons realize that they are "Something Supreme" or that they are actually a "Higher Self" than they have understood all along and that there are spiritual exercises which should be done regularly in place of activities which are merely “religious” in nature.” 

Ah yes, oh so deep. Oh so weighty. Oh so important. Oh so significant. Oh so vital. Oh so imperative. Oh so central. Oh so essential. Oh so critical. Oh so crucial. 

Oh how truly of great consequence. Oh how truly of great magnitude. Oh how worthy. Oh how eminent. Oh how heavy. Or – on the other hand - might this conclusion more accurately apply: “Oh what a total crock of BS!”? Or this one: "What a bunch of much ado about nothing that all is!"

In “The Child Ignorance Stage” or “The Child No-Knowing State,” how much of that ever comes into consciousness? None. How much is any of that is ever considered? None. And how consequential is any of that to a child? None. With a child, none of that ever comes into consciousness and none of that is ever considered? A child is merely being, not being this or being that, so a child is not burdened with having to find answers to dreamed up questions that are deep and heavy. 

In February of 2014, visitors to this site were first introduced to Kayden, a young girl who was enjoying her first experience with rainfall. If interested, join the hundreds of thousands who have watched Kayden as she plays in the rain for the first time and enjoys herself immensely. See what unconditional happiness looks like, and then try to recall the last time you honestly and truly experienced that degree of joy and abandon which comes with unconditional happiness:

Next, notice that Kayden did not put off experiencing her pleasure and joy and happiness until she found the answers to those questions: “Before I play in the rain, will you please explain first what rain is and how it forms and where it comes from and what its purpose is and what the meaning of rainfall is?” 

And she did not ask, “How can I become the most knowledgeable person on the planet when it comes to weather conditions and cloud formations and constantly changing cycles of heat and cold and dryness and wetness and fronts and high's and low's and storms and hurricanes or typhoons?” 

“And explain first why hurricanes go where they go and strike the lands that they strike and the people whom they strike. And is it possible that such devastating storms are being used by Punishing Powers in other worlds to kill people with bad karma or who are just very bad people?” 

None of that happened. What did happen was this: 

Kayden simply enjoyed a relative event happening as a part of her relative existence. She enjoyed feeling a sense of lightness and joy rather than heaviness and doom. Why was that possible for her? 

Because she had not yet been confused and had not yet been strapped with a sense of heaviness. She had not yet been programmed to believe that she needed to reform the world; or needed to help needy people in order to get the love she did not get early on from an absentee or "emotionally-unavailable" father; or needed to perform in order to get applause and affirmation; and did not need to escape reality and did not need to know it all; 

and did not need someone to be dependent on and co-dependent with in order to get someone to take care of her instead of her taking care of herself; and did not need to develop addictions because she had no coping skills; and did not need to become a control freak and abuse others after having been abused; and did not need to try to avoid and deny and dodge relative responsibilities and reality. All of that comes with personality identifications.

More specifically, all of that comes because every child develops to varying degrees the nine basic personality types; and all of those types manifest after children are taught that they really are the scores of roles which they are assigned and will assume;

and all of those false identities come when a no-concept, no thought, no-mind period of peace ends because children are taught thousands of concepts and beliefs which will cause a mind to form, after which that mind will generate an endless stream of deep and heavy thoughts which end up sounding like the chatter of a thousand monkeys between one’s ears. 

Kayden in the rainfall verbalized nothing, asked nothing, understood nothing, questioned nothing, and tried to figure out nothing. She was free of all of that, and only if free of all of that can anyone be free at all. 

A friend of my daughter Ashley sent to her a video clip of the friend’s daughter saying hello to Ashley. It went like this: 

The mom: “Say ‘hi’ to Ashley.” 

The child: “Uh ouh, Ah e.” 

The mom: “Close enough.” [Send] 

Yet how many anal, uptight parents can’t accept anything short of perfection? How many - instead of saying, “Close enough” - say, “No! That’s not what I said. I told you to say, ‘Hell. O. Ash. Ley’? Now try it again. We’re going to do this over and over until you get it right?” 

Pity the persons who end up marrying the resulting anal, uptight, critical, OC-D perfectionists who are “produced” by such parenting. 

The Direct Path Method, if used in conjunction with the Nisarga (Natural) Yoga, combine to offer an invitation to be rid of all of the effects of programming, conditioning, etc. and then relax and take it easy. Stop hating. Stop controlling. Stop abusing. Stop killing. Stop accepting unquestioningly the concepts and beliefs which were adopted in the vacuum generated by blind faith. Lighten up. 

Of course, those are just "suggestions." Ha.

More tomorrow on supposedly becoming “Something” instead of merely enjoying the nothingness, the identity-less-ness, the non-deep-ness, the non-heaviness.

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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