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

[Continued from yesterday]:

Former Republican U.S. President Ronald Reagan shared his perspective about that invasion and genocide this way in June of 1952: "I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a promised land.”

And there’s the rub: that belief came from “his own mind,” the same mind that came up with a statement in 1980 using a Biblical allusion to describe “American values”:

“I believe [there's that distortion-signaling term again] that Americans are every bit as committed to that vision of ‘a shining city on a hill’ as were those long ago settlers.” 

See? Perspective: Just “settlers,” not “slaughtering invaders.” 

That spin is quite similar to one set forth by those currently affiliated with Reagan’s political party who are presently warping the truth about the human slave trade by including in current Texas school textbooks a passage that has recast “slaves” as “workers.” 

See? Sneaky little users of word deceptions to hide and confound their real agenda, huh? Yet the wise understand that warped perspectives always warp facts and truth.

Thus, these are some other examples of commonplace warped perspectives:

“Let’s invade that land across the ocean to the west and kill 98% of the ‘Indian Natives’ there and take 99% of their land and let’s say we’re going to kill the millions of people already living there because they are heathens and because we are building ‘a Christian nation for God!’”
“OKAY!!!” 

“Lets’ have a religious inquisition run especially by English, Spanish, and French Christians who were inspired by the financial success enjoyed by Portuguese slave traders. In the ‘New World,’ we’ll kill in the name of God all those irreligious, ungodly indigenous peoples who are not behaving as we want them to! It will require us to conduct a North, Central and South American Holocaust to kill off 150 million of those indigenous peoples to get total control of the lands. That's a small price to pay to have access to, and total control of, the resources there.”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s round up Africans and ship them to that ‘New World’ in order to provide a free labor force in order for the businesses there to maximize profits!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s create a three-legged enslavement journey called ‘The Triangular Trade’ by which British enslavers sail from the U.K. to West Africa and exchange brandy and guns and other trade items for African slaves who will eventually number 12,000,000 total; then we’ll take them on ‘the Middle Passage’ to be sold in the West Indies and North America. We’ll allow for the fact that our overhead costs will include the 2,000,000 Africans who die on the trip across the Atlantic (understanding that their deaths really amount to ‘quality control’ since the weak ones will not sell for much money, anyway); and then once the Africans are unloaded, we’ll bring back a cargo of rum, sugar, and other raw goods to be sold in the U.K. Also, during the 17^th-19^th century, we’ll let the Dutch join in on the action and we’ll generate even greater profits for us and for the Dutch as well.”

“Let’s invade all of the nations surrounding Germany and gather up all of the Jews as well as the mentally-and-physically handicapped and the homosexuals and the deformed and send them all off to concentration camps and gas them or work and starve them to death!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s invade Vietnam!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s invade Grenada!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s invade Nicaragua!”
 “OKAY!!!”

“Let’s invade El Salvador!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s invade Iraq!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s tell the Iraqis that subdividing a country is totally unacceptable and that we will never allow them to re-divide their country into the three regions / states that existed before the British invaders re-drew their national map and created the present boundary lines for Iraq!”
 “OKAY!!!”

“But while we tell them that it’s not acceptable to subdivide a country into parts, let’s ignore the fact that we in the U.S. have subdivided our country into fifty states!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s invade Afghanistan!”
 “OKAY!!!”

“Let’s invade Iraq again!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s invade Syria!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s invade the nation of Georgia!”
 “OKAY!!!”

“Let’s invade Ukraine!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s drink the poisonous Kool-Aid!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let's teach those in our Christian churches that we drink the real blood and eat the real body of Christ. Let’s drink it and eat it because that will let us commune with God and because it will please God and because it will make us closer to Him, and let's ignore the fact that we're recommending to the membership of our churches to practice both vampirism and cannibalism!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s go on a pilgrimage in the Far East where the chances are great that we’ll be killed in a human stampede!” 
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s tell the membership of our religions that God loves them unconditionally!”
“OKAY!!!”

“But let’s also tell them that he is willing to burn them in hell forever if they displease him!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Similarly, let’s tell our children that the reason we whip them and even beat them is also because we love them!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s abuse anyone who is a member of a minority, and let’s do that all around the globe!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s kill all who are not members of our religious sect!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s mock Muslims for separating their religion into 2 competing sects while we separate our Christian religion into 41,000 different denominations!”
“OKAY!!!”

“Let’s be like sheep that are followers and are willing to be led off a cliff!”
“OKAY!!!” 

Sheep follow the leader, even if the leader jumps to its death off a cliff. The “non-realized” – trapped into being controlled by their hand-me-down warped perspectives - are just as capable of doing the same.

And those controlled by the warped perspectives which their religious and political and business leaders hand down to them will always willingly and happily drink one or more versions of poisoned Kool-Aid which those three types of leaders encourage them to drink (or, more recently, will drink the poisonous Clorox which their preferred political leader recommended as a treatment for the Covid-19 virus).

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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