"-ISM'S" and BELIEFS Rooted in Personality

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YOKO ONO, JOHN LENNON, AND THE NON-DUAL MESSAGE REGARDING "-ISM'S"

Excerpts from the book entitled FREEDOM from BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers") will continue with the a discussion of the way that personality-invoking "-ism's" are another source which generates a plethora of distortion-riddled beliefs: 

("-ism's," Part "E")

"-ISM'S" and Beliefs Rooted in Personality 

It can be seen, therefore, that attachment to personality is not only fueled by "-ism's" but also reinforced by the ideas, concepts, etc. ("beliefs") which are at the root of all "-ism's." 

As long as thoughts and words and deeds are being driven subconsciously by the hidden agendas of false identities and by belief in the concepts that are promulgated by "-ism's," then every aspect of one's relative existence will be tarnished by the insanity of belief in "-ism"-based dualities and will be spoiled by the personality-induced trance that leaves them unawake, unconscious, and unaware. 

In that condition, persons will claim that they "really do, most assuredly, have free will" when in fact they are thinking and talking and walking about in their sleep while feeling certain that they are awake. Where in that scenario is there even the slightest chance for "free will" to be exerted? 

Maharaj: "In Hinduism, the very idea of 'free will' is non-existent, so there is no word for it. 'Will' is commitment, fixation, bondage." 

Maharaj taught, therefore, that the purpose of the teachings is to free persons from their fixations and bondage; is to eliminate mind-driven chaos; is to put to an end once and for all personality-driven instability; is to free persons from the "-ism"-driven volatility that marks their existence. 

He taught that the aim of the teachings is to eradicate culture-based ignorance and personality disorders and "stupidity" and "insanity" and "to liberate man from the thraldom of chaos and the burden of sorrow." 

How offensive his words were (and are) to those trapped in ego-states and egotism. 

How in error they assumed his teachings to be when he reported that they had no free will at all. How deluded the non-realized are, then, when they believe that they are abiding under the auspices of free will. 

With that belief in place, they give themselves "credit" for the "good" things they accomplish via their "free will" or they blame themselves for the "bad" things that happen when they "do not hold their free will" in check. 

Or, depending on their programming and conditioning, they will speak of other types of "will" that have been conjured up by their "religious leaders" or "spiritual guides" and which are even more magical and are of a totally fictitious character, namely, "God's will" or "the will of the universe." 

The fact is, nothing is unfolding according to the will of any god or goddess. All is energy-matter, and neither can be created nor destroyed; thus, there is no creator at all to exert his / her will. Nor is anything unfolding under the supervision of "the universe." Nothing is happening per the auspices of some "plan" or "divine plan." 

To study history and to see humankind's penchant for meanness and cruelty and ignorance and insanity is evidence enough to confirm that if there were someone or Someone planning what is happening on this planet, that plan could never be rightly classified as "divine." It could only be classified as "a very mean and cruel and ignorant and insane plan." 

The fact is, instead, that persons are driven by the unconscious fears and desires of their personalities; are driven by the concepts that are promulgated and broadcast by their "-ism's"; are driven by the residual effects of trauma that are stored at a cellular level throughout their bodies; 

are driven by the learned ignorance that they accumulated via programming, conditioning, domestication, and acculturation; and are driven by the personality disorders that mark and mar their relative existence. 

All sorts of processes are going on that determine thoughts and words and that subconsciously drive actions, processes which persons haven't the slightest awareness of: 

Maharaj: "A tremendously complex work is going on all the time in your brain and body. Are you conscious of it? Not at all." 

Moreover, all thoughts and words and deeds that are driven by the sick "minds" of the non-Realized which - from the age of two years and onward are contaminated with the germs of the Ultimate Sickness - leave persons in a prison while believing that they are free. 

The prison is located between their ears, and each bar of the prison is a personality-based fear, a personality-based desire, or an "-ism"-based" concept or belief that is totally false but that is wholeheartedly believed to be true. 

What - other than ignorance and insanity - would convince a person in prison that he or she is free or has the "free will" to choose? Again, to be "driven" in a car is to be in the passenger seat, the back seat, or the trunk (boot) but is to be precluded from being behind the steering wheel and freely choosing where one is going to go, how one is going to go, when one is going to go, etc. 

"Free will" and "being driven" cannot co-exist.  

To be driven by entrapment in a personality trance - and to allow "-ism-based" concepts and beliefs to determine thoughts and words and deeds - is to block any chance for free will to manifest. 

What - other than ignorance and insanity - would prevent persons from seeing that, according to Maharaj, they "are using things and people for purposes alien to them" and are playing "havoc with the world and yourself." 

Such is the way it is when personalities and "-ism's" are in charge: they rob persons of free will, of the ability to consciously choose, and of the ability to behave in a sane manner. 

And that is why all available tools (including the Enneagram) are employed here to allow seekers to identity the personality types that are driving them and to thereby have a chance to be free.

Only with the completion of the third step on the "path" from identification with the false "I" to understanding the Absolute can seekers move on to the total freedom that comes with the post-belief, post-concept, post-persona, post-personality assumption, post-full realization manner of abiding from the position of being fully awake, fully aware, and fully conscious. 

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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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