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THE ADDITIONAL, VERY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES WHICH CAME VIA THE VISION
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It was also recalled that he said that which "he" is had always been and had, therefore, been present for the imploding and exploding of all universes.
It was clear that none of that need be understood in order to realize, but it did make clear that one point must be understood if one is to move beyond the third step where the false identities of religious and spiritual roles are played:
Since no creation ever occurred, no "Creator" exists; therefore, in this case, "a negative" can be proved, scientifically.
What cannot be proved is that which is dreamed up by men who present only "their faith" as evidence of their claim that what they have conceptualized into their imaginings-based dogma is true.
By the age of 5 and 6 and 7, I was questioning the lessons about God and Jesus and Heaven and Hell and creation and Adam and Eve and mass-murder-by-way-of-a-great-flood and all the other tales being set forth by Miss Myrtle (the Baptist Sunday School teacher of children).
Finally, with the vision, scientific proof came that the doubts of a 5 or 6 or 7-year-old had been based in fact:
if all is energy-matter, and if neither energy nor matter can be created or
destroyed, then nothing has ever been created; therefore, there is no Creator.
End of the story, and the end of ever again having to consider the stories . .
. the myths . . . the superstition-based nonsense dreamed up and passed on by
hundreds of sky cults over the millennia, many of which are still quite active
around the globe even today, thriving with 97% of the earth's population
believing their dreamed-up fiction.
The vision made clear that the early doubts of a 6-year-old had been spot on.
As for "beginninglessness," the vision made clear that because All has always been, infinitely, no beginning happened and no end will happen.
[That is, though the composite unity will end, what will not end are the elements, the air and the conscious-energy which mobilized and energized that unity during the manifestation.]
So the only thing which will come to
"an end" is the composite unities - things that have come together
during the relative existence but that will most assuredly come apart
eventually - per the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
In fact, it is happening even now with this elemental plant food body: elements are coming together, elements are coming apart. "Skin" comes and goes monthly; "stomachs" are being replace throughout the month. Plant cells convert to humans cells, they are cast off, and more cells take their place . . . or not. Cycling. Cycling. Cycling.
The vision made clear that infinity is infinity and was “as infinite” before the manifestation of the consciousness as it will “be infinite” following the unmanifestation of the consciousness. Thus is explained the "beginninglessness" (and also the "endlessness") of the energy-matter that is at play during the relative existence but that will return to the universal pool from it came and to which it has always eventually returned. See? Cycling.
The second part of the vision made clear the role of the brain in Realizing and the role of "the mind" in preventing Realization.
The vision made clear that "intellect" (meaning "that which provides a capacity to understand") is a requirement for Realization but that the content of "the mind" will prevent persons from moving beyond even the second step on the seven-step "path."
The vision made clear that - with obvious exceptions of deformities - the brain at the outset is typically natural and normal; moreover, it is required throughout the manifestation for normal and natural functioning.
Every time I've been involved with the purchase of a house, I've gone to a title company for the signing of all of the necessary documents and the closing of the deal. They have always provided me with an amortization schedule listing every payment amount that I will be required to send to the lender for either 180 months or for 360 months; the date each payment will be due;
how much of each monthly payment
will be applied to reducing the principal owed and how much will be applied to
the interest being charged on the loan; and what the ending balance will be on
my account after each of those payments is made.
They are very clear and forthright when identifying the steps I must take for
the next 15 or 30 years in order to purchase the home being financed. In short,
they tell me all of the steps up front that the process will require before I
even begin.
Likewise, before beginning a trip along a route I've never traveled, I can visit a website and put in my current location and my intended destination and they will provide a printable, step-by-step guide for my journey, identifying and numbering each step on the journey, town by town and mile by mile, which the journey will entail.
Yet who that is a religious leader or guide will tell you in advance how many steps are going to be required on the journey they are endorsing? Hardly any, but their steps (depending on how long a follower lives) can number in the hundreds of thousands or in the millions.
The main point: their plan for your journey is never intended to end during your lifetime. You will always be required, per their plans, to do this each day - or even five times per day - and do that several times a week and also do this each week and do this annually and do that throughout all of the days and weeks and months and years of your life.
Or who that is a spiritual leader or guide or guru or sponsor will tell you in advance exactly how many steps are going to be required on the journey which they are endorsing?
Few, but depending on the method being used by any given
leader / guide / guru and depending on how long a follower lives, the actual
number of steps required will be in the hundreds of thousands or in the
millions, but never really just "12". Their plan for your journey is
never intended to end until the relative existence ends.
As is the case with a "terminal illness," their various treatment plans for the
Ultimate Sickness offer no effective and finale healing (or restoration to
sanity and freedom from learned ignorance) but are merely stopgap processes
instead. Their plans include no cures at all for what truly ails you, and some
even admit that the most they can provide for anyone is "a daily
reprieve."
Daily reprieves do not address the core causes of anyone's problems, and like
addictive opiates, they only mask the symptoms (humans' pain and suffering)
rather than eliminating the actual causes of humanity's misery and suffering.
Some of you know that I told a doctor a few years ago who was passing on a
not-especially-pleasant diagnosis that
"My perspective is this: quality of life is key, and if that can't be,
then I'm prepared to bid farewell to the remainder of an existence which can't
offer that." He was shocked and said that "not giving up" and
"being willing to fight for my life" and "staying positive"
were vital to recovery. I chuckled and then smiled and said, "We'll see
what happens, Doc. We'll see."
That discussion was about physical, plant food body issues, but on the journey
when freedom and peace and unconditional happiness were being sought, similar
circumstances prevailed in every venue I visited and with all the person I
visited who were offering one method or another which they said would take care
of what ailed me. They all lied.
I reached a point where I refused to associate with any who were offering
hollow promises and daily reprieves and more concepts and ineffective treatment
plans which were being touted as "the best means" or "the only
way" available for addressing the kinds of boredom or depression or
joylessness or chaos or misery and suffering which are commonplace among the
masses.
I saw that some among the self-identified "non-dual teachers" (or
Advaitin or Advaita Vedantin or Neo-Advaitin or Neo-Vedantin or Pseudo-Advaitin
teachers) were claiming that their teaching method only required one
step.
I saw that Maharaj originally discussed seven different, sequential steps when using the Direct Path, SELF-Enquiry Method he initially recommended but that - later on - he made clear that taking only four steps using the Direct Path, (false) self-Enquiry Method would be "enough."
No matter what way is being presented, you deserve to understand upfront - just as when one buys a house - what the entire process is going to entail; however, most seekers - religious, spiritual, or otherwise - are most likely to find someone offering a process which is, again, never intended to end.
Most, instead, will endorse a method which only promises (but does not actually deliver) a 24-hour break from symptoms and which calls for daily work and daily reading and daily this and daily that for what ails persons; yet they never offer a complete cure.
Many plans are also steeped in irony, so if one is suffering from the effects of a Dependent Personality Disorder, rather than addressing that mental disorder, their treatment for dependency is to recommend that you find . . . a new dependency! "Be dependent on the group or on a particular person or on God." What?
How about being independent? How about being free, once and for all? How about then just being? "No! That won't work. No way," they say. "The way you are wired, you will always be dependent on something, so find something good to depend on instead of something bad."
Were that plan recommended in the case of a physical sickness - "Just accept that you'll never be cured and that we don't have a viable treatment plan and that all you'll ever have is a short respite" - the wise would seek a second opinion, or a third, or a fourth.
But with the Ultimate (Mental) Sickness, most seekers go along with the "as-long-as-you-live-method" being offered by most preachers and priests and rabbis and ayatollahs and imams and sponsors and gurus and a host of other cult and sky-cult and cult-like leaders.
Having tried most of the religious approaches and a variety of spiritual methodologies and a variety of supposedly "non-dual" methods, I came to a point where the seeking shifted and the search became one for something outside any and all of the established venues and beyond what was generally being offered. A vision also came which redirected the search to the inner resource and another level of clarity came.
Here, that had to be the case. All else had failed. Having tried their methods of accumulating and learning more and more of what they were teaching, but receiving no relief from the Sickness, I was prepared for a different perspective, a perspective which offered for consideration the notion that - rather than learning more - maybe I needed to learn a helluva lot less. Then the turning point came with the realization that "In fact, maybe I need to un-learn everything that I have ever been taught"
and that
"Maybe I need to see that it was all nonsense, all BS, and that - for a real change - I did not need someone who (like all the others) wanted to teach me more when an 'un-teaching process' was what was actually being called for."
Eventually, I found that, and all seeking ended. Nowadays, I share what I found with the few that are interested in a similar, simpler, finite treatment plan for the Sickness so that the treatment can be received and so that the remainder of the existence can then be spent in mere beingness rather than in being entrapped in religious or spiritual workaholism and in all sorts of dogmatic and / or spiritual going and doing and zooming and toiling.
To be continued.
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THE EXPLANATION
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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
