The Pure, Universal Consciousness, Pure Awareness, and a "Proper Perspective"

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The Pure, Universal Consciousness, 

Pure Awareness, 

and a

"Proper Perspective"

“I talk to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.” 

---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Today, billions of people all around the globe are having their emotions ratcheted up by those who are speaking from the perspective of the body and the mind in order to increase the ratings of their news shows or their ranking in political polls. 

Those in both groups are rocketing the present levels of hysteria into a whole new realm. Their words offered not from the perspective of the universal consciousness but from the perspective of the body and the mind are convincing persons all around the globe that their bodies are in eminent danger of being shot or blown up or beheaded.

If a proper perspective were in place, that message could not be sold to the masses, but 50% of the masses are Personality Type Sixes who live perpetually in a state of fear and anxiety and preoccupation every day of their lives, no matter what is being reported in the news and no matter what is happening – or not happening – in their lives.

Want to tap into the largest audience possible and move a news station’s rating up from a 9% share of viewers? Generate fear and you’ll capture the attention of 50% of all persons on the planet. Want to raise your ranking in a political poll above a single-digit number? 

Tap into the fears of Personality Type Sixes, feed their always-present fear and anxiety, and you’ll attract 50% of all voters if you can assuage their fears to even a slight degree by speaking from the perspective of the body and the mind rather than talking from the perspective of the universal consciousness.

Bristle, bluster, harangue, threaten, rant, sermonize, and shout tirades about those who are “different from” and therefore “not as good as” and 50% will all reply, “Amen! There’s a potential leader of our nation who really sees the truth of the danger. There’s someone who can take care of us because he’s the only one who really sees the extent of the threat and because he’s the one who is calling for drastic and radical and extreme and harsh and strong and desperate actions . . . right now!”

The perspective shared with my daughter when she was once in a state of fear: “Consider everything you have ever feared or dreaded. How much of that ever came to be? Almost none of it. 

"Next, consider the things that have happened which, in terms of the relative existence, felt like real blows which generated pain in the body or misery and suffering in the mind for a time. You never saw them coming!

"Then consider the facts surrounding your own experiences and see the reality of what happened and what never happen; then, see that (a) whatever you might dread will seldom manifest and see that (b) what actually manifests comes like a meteor and shatters whatever it hits in a matter of seconds without having been anticipated at all. Then, if you see with a proper perspective the Truth of your own experiences, why would you ever allow yourself to be pulled into a state of fear and dread and anxiety around what – historically and in your own experience – is not likely to ever happen?”

Those 2015 events in Paris which she brought up for us to discuss, via distorted perspective, appear to be the most important happening in the news and seem to be the best indicator of the actions which should be taken in order to guarantee protection of the bodies in other cities all around the globe:

“We need to identify and track all Muslims. We need to close their mosques. We must let only Christians come here. We must clear out all non-Christians and all 'non-American' people and build walls around the nation’s borders. But right now, above all else, we must ban Syrian refugees.” 

If one studies who and what is responsible for harming people in the U.S. (relatively speaking), then none of those suggestions and plans above are based in a clear perspective or even in the most basic understanding of the facts.  

If a clear perspective and facts were to be driving suggestions and plans, then persons would not say  “We need to identify and track all Muslims" but would say instead, "We need to track the insane citizens in the U.S. who are marrying people and then killing their mates." 

(That conclusion is reached although the attackers in Paris were French nationals, and French nationals are free to book passage on any France-to-U.S. flight and enter the U.S. legally . . . right now or later tonight or tomorrow or any day in the future.)

 

If a clear perspective and facts were to be driving suggestions and plans, then persons would not say, "We must clear out all non-Christians and all 'non-American' people" but would say instead, "We better recognize that the people wanting to overthrow the U.S. government and establish a nation that uses the Old Testament as a constitution are chock-full of "Christians" and "Americans."

 

They would say, "We better recognize that the most dangerous people (relatively speaking) whom we may cross paths with are 'Christian Reconstructionists' and right-wing evangelicals and Christians of many similar ilks; they are radical, fanatical extremist groups and right-wing militias of self-proclaimed Christians and white supremacists who include members of the U.S. military and U.S. police forces; and they are so-called 'proud American patriots'."

They would recognize that those people, after setting up a military-junta-style theonomy / theocracy in the U.S. have written that once they take control, they will enforce God's laws regarding what should be treated as capital offenses; furthermore, they have put in writing that God approves the death penalty not only for murder, but also for homosexuality, adultery, incest, witchcraft, blasphemy, lying about one's virginity, being transgender as well as for a host of other offenses for which God wants his earthly servants to kill people.

 

They would not say, "Build walls around the nation’s borders to keeps all of those 'others' out" but would say instead, "Hell's bells. The real danger of any wall built around the U.S. would be that it keeps the millions of ignorant, stupid and insane U.S. citizens in, not out."

 

Such awarenesses come not when listening to the loudest voices in any nation but when listening to the quiet voice which, as Maharaj said, "talks to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.” 

 

Some might recall the way that a cartoon character called “Pogo” revealed the truth about misperceptions and warped perspectives which are rooted in duality and which are generated by distorted perspectives about who is "good" and who is "bad" . . . about who is "for us" and who is "against us":

 

Hundreds of books, movies, essays and reports exist with the title "The Enemy Within." Those who have written such works "get it"; that is, they understand that throughout history, the enemies within have been able to generate far more (relative) harms than the enemies from without.

And humankind's most prevalent enemy within nowadays is . . . ? The content of humans' minds.

Those who speak from the perspective of a body and mind, and those who listen to persons who speak from the perspective of a body and mind, will become trapped in a series of hysterical reactions and actions of the type which would inspire a farmer to try to lock imaginary predators out of his hen house even as he provides unfettered access to his own hens by those who actually attacked hens in other houses.

Distorted perspectives are the compost heap which fuel the growth of fear and ignorance and insanity and nonsense and self-contradictions and the drawing of erroneous conclusions because the clear seeing of facts is blocked by emotional intoxication and fear and anxiety, all of which can only be experienced by an ego-state.

Maharaj: “What contradicts itself has no being. Or it has only momentary being, which comes to the same. For what has a beginning and an end has no middle. It is hollow. It has only name and shape given to it by the mind, but it has neither substance nor essence.”

Maharaj: "Learn to separate yourself from the image and the mirror."

As in

Maharaj also said: "Keep on remembering: I am neither the mind nor its ideas.”

More to the point, I am neither their minds or their ideas, so I need not be driven by their minds and their ideas.

See? The enemy is within . . . within the mind; thus Maharaj said:

"There is no chaos in the world except the chaos which your mind creates."

"Whatever is conceived by the mind must be false.”

" . . . The mind obscures and distorts."

"It is the mind that creates illusion."

"Abandon the wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . ."

"To know that you are a prisoner of your mind - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom."

Those are suggestions which were offered by one “talking to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness.” Such talk will free you. 

If you are listening to those who are “talking to you from the perspective of the body and the mind,” then you will be imprisoned by their words. 

There are outer / external resources of influence and inner / internal resources of influence. Which type has been allowed to become your primary nexus of power? Are you being guided by an internal nexus of influence or by an outer nexus of influence? 

To reject the influence of all external nexuses of influence leaves one free to then address the inner influences which were set in place by external influencers who programmed and conditioned and domesticated and acculturated and indoctrinated and brainwashed you (which means that all in your mind was also put there by external nexuses of influence). 

The invitation is to be free of being influenced by all those external nexuses of power which are speaking from the perspective of a body and a mind; to be free of being influenced by all of the internal nexuses of power which were set in place by programmers, conditioners, etc.; and to then abide naturally without being afraid of things dreamed up by nonsense-filled minds (be they your minds or be they their minds).

To be continued.

Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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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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