TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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THE EVOLUTION OF MAHARAJ’S MESSAGE:
From dogma to spirituality to psychology
"Science will someday advance to the point that it will confirm the validity of the non-dual teachings."
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
[Continued from yesterday]
One particularly disturbing fact to "ultra-conservatives," to "the highly religious," and to many with far-right belief systems is - as discussed earlier - the setting forth of the fact that the universe and the earth did not both come into existence at the same moment exactly 6,024 years ago.
Set forth by science is the proof that the universe is about 13.8 billion years (with a +/- margin of error of about 59 million years) and that the earth is at least 4.543 billion years old (with a +/- margin of error of about 50 million years).
Paleoanthropologists from the University of Johannesburg have uncovered new information from their study of the Ballito Bay child fossils - first discovered in Durban, South Africa - which indicate modern humans are much older than initially thought. The paleoanthropologists report:
"Up until now the understanding of humans and evolution of Homo sapiens was always believed to have started at around 200,000 years ago, but based on these individuals we can now show that Homo sapiens split off possibly as far back as 350,000 years ago.]
As noted, those estimates of the age of the universe and planet earth are considerably different from the Bible-based estimate that "the world" is only about 6000 years old.
Religion also came up with such debates as, "Can several angels be in the same place at once?" and "How many angels can dance on the point of a needle."
[The answer as for as dancing on the point of a needle is concerned?
As best I've been able to calculate by listening to religious beliefs over the years, it depends on the religious affiliation that the human / angel-to-be had prior to dying and becoming a half-human, half-bird, gauzy but invisible angel:
For Catholics, the correct answer would seemingly have to be "two" and - while alive - one of the pair would have had to be a male and the other would have had to be a female because it is only be acceptable for people of the same sex to dance according to that religion.
If Evangelical or Baptist, the correct answer would be "none." Why? Because it is only the Devil who approves of dancing . . . of people putting their bodies against each other and gyrating rhythmically in order to be tempted to do something vile, like getting turned on and having sexual relations."
(In the Evangelical / Southern Baptist Church in which I was raised, the joke we told was, "Why can't Baptists have sex standing up? The answer: Because someone might see us and think we're dancing.")
If Orthodox Jewish, the correct answer would also be "none because contact between men and women in public is forbidden."
If a Muslim, Salafist or Wahhabi, the correct answer would also be "none" because one person dancing with another is generally deemed to be haram (forbidden); thus, their traditions also prohibit contact between men and women in public (especially those not married to each other, “formerly known among Evangelicals as “The Billy Graham Rule” and now known as "The Mike Pence Rule" in the U.S.)
In some Muslim societies, men and women can either dance separately or the men can dance in large groups and the women can only watch because they are forbidden to dance.]
The "Catch-22" around Maharaj's largely-ignored recommendation to use science is this:
Science, as he noted, can assist with the removal of ignorance, but those trapped in ignorance hate science. Quite the conundrum, yes?
Yet his recommendation notwithstanding, Maharaj also made clear that both science and spirituality have only a temporary place in your process of moving to realization, that is, to freedom from ignorance.
Confucius said:
Thus Maharaj made clear that one cannot begin with finding truth or seeing truth or knowing truth. Indeed, he noted that one must begin by seeing the false:
The Newer
Cult Of Ignorance shares
many common goals with the ancient cults of ignorance:
Stamp out science
Understand that scientists would have you accept beliefs which will cast you into the eternal fires of hell
Promote blind faith and never questioning what one is told or taught by authority figures or what one is given to read by authority figures
(Ignorance-based cults have long claimed that God is the Highest Authority and
that those among the "approved religions" who are speaking for God and quoting God are the Highest Authorities on
earth)
Take pride in ignorance when the option is a "liberal" or "progressive" public school education or college education
What you might consider doing when charged with being ignorant is look to the first letters in that word 'ignorant' and . . . "i-g-n-o-r e those people and their assessment.
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"
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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
