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

One of the most cited phrases which is used to point toward persons with warped perspectives came into being after the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912, resulting in the drowning of more than 1,500 passengers and crew. 

As the ship was sinking, certain of the British crew members who exhibited the typical English rigid, stiff-upper-lip, order-obeying-without-questioning attitude followed the command to proceed as if everything is all quite normal. The ship's band members followed the same command.

Therefore, the band continued to play music even as the ship began to tilt. As the ship began to tilt even more, deck chairs began to slide about. Crew members hasten to straighten those chairs, trying to keep them in the nice, neat rows they had been in when first set out on the deck.

That led to the use of the expression “You’re rearranging the deck chairs” or “They’re all rearranging the deck chairs” whenever a person or a group of persons are exhibiting a totally warped perspective. 

More than one hundred years later, the phrase is still used to describe the actions of persons with totally skewed and warped perspectives, referring to people who make what they take to be "well-meaning but negligible adjustments to an endeavor that is doomed to fail" or referring to person who 

(a) have a totally warped perspective and who are focusing on "the little stuff" while missing out completely on seeing the big picture 

or who 

(b) are focusing on minutiae to the exclusion of focusing on what is far more significant, relatively speaking. 

It is as if they are looking at events through the wrong end of a telescope and, therefore, have no proper perspective at all. The wise would have said to the crew members, “Helloooo! This ship is sinking! To hell with those damn deck chairs! There are lifeboats leaving with hundreds of empty seats on them. Go help people get aboard the lifeboats!”

Here, there are no national or international news channels being subscribed to or being watched, but that does not mean that persons are not forwarding to the inbox here a steady stream of what they are focused on in the news. 

Years ago on a Friday, 14 persons were killed and 21 people were injured in what was being called “an act of terrorism” in California, and the reporting on that event had dominated the news cycles for a week. 

Meanwhile, being ignored are these numbers during the same week: 293 other people were killed by guns in the U.S. during that same week and 1,630 were injured, probably with little or no attention at all from national news outlets.

Those numbers include 59% of the women killed annually in the U.S. by a “Spouse” or “Lover.” The numbers also include children who were killed in drive-by shootings and include those killed in gang-related shootings. 

And that Friday, another 185,000 guns were sold in the U.S. in one day, meaning that one of the most popular Christmas gifts in the U.S. this year was . . . a gun.

As noted, others are exhibiting astounding levels of warped perspectives as they look at their relationships. By the end of that month in 2015, over 1,640,000 people divorced. And for at least 820,000 of those (or half, maybe), the announcement that “I’m leaving” likely came as a total surprise, supposedly “out of the blue.” (The "half" are most often males).

But for many, the comparison to the old observation about owning a boat among the masses might be relevant. That piece of wisdom notes that "the two most wonderful days involving boat ownership are the day you bought your boat and the day you sold your boat."

Such is the case which almost all high maintenance items, so for some, the two greatest days of over 50% of the marriages in the U.S. (that is, the percentage which "fail") are the day that you . . . well, you get it.

A 2015 study revealed that the 16,000,000 who began the year in misery and suffering related to tobacco use, 480,000 of those will be gone by the end of December. To those 480,000, one might have asked: 

“So you’re actually focused on the possibility of being killed by a foreign terrorist? Wake up. See the truth. Yes, you’re more likely than not to die this year, but it’s going to be by slow, self-inflicted suicide, not a terrorist’s bullet.”

A proper perspective can only come if someone is talked to from the perspective of the universal consciousness and if one listens to what is heard from the perspective of the universal consciousness. 

Then such persons might finally "get it" - might get the message:

The message? Stop worrying about straightening the chairs on the deck of your own Titanic (your own relative existence), and take the steps required to be free of your warped perspectives (which no one asked for but which all have been given as a result of the warped programming and warped conditioning and warped domestication and warped acculturation and warped brainwashing and warped indoctrination which all are exposed to).

And to watch "the news" is to have one's warped perspective reinforced by the newscasters’ warped perspectives. A news crew in Houston, Texas will race past eight houses a day where a mate has just shot a mate because reporters and their camera crews will rush to the scene of that day's car fire to have film for the local evening news report which will show all of the smoke rising into the air and covering parts of the city.

“Smoke and fire” of a variety of types are the essence of news reporting.

“Smoke and mirrors” are the essence of those walking about in their sleep, talking in their sleep, watching newscasts while in their sleep, and extending “thoughts and prayers” while in their sleep.

Only “talk from the perspective of the universal consciousness” can wake a person up, but who that is as soundly asleep as the masses are will really and truly want to be awakened? Maharaj eventually found the answer to that question: “Few. Very few.”

What about you? What about those you've listened to for much of your existence? Have they been talking to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness? Or were they talking from some other ego-generated, mind-based, warped perspective?

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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