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, another excerpt from the book A Different Perspective:

Another perspective which differs from that held by the masses will manifest if the non-duality teachings are understood and then combined with an understanding of what Nisarga Yoga offers:

One will feel, but one will not emote.

While many might assume that there is no difference between feeling and emoting, the two have nothing in common in terms of the Advaita understanding. Here, the differences in emoting vs. feeling and in emotions vs. feelings are explained this way:

"to feel" = to perceive; the quality of, or an impression from, something perceived through feeling; an instinctive aptitude'

"to emote" = to express emotion, especially in an excessive or theatrical manner; to display exaggerated emotion, as in acting; to behave theatrically; to give expression or emotion to, as in a stage or movie role; to behave in a histrionic manner; to be driven by the hidden agendas of ego-states / personas and, therefore, to fail to be in charge of one's thoughts and words and actions; to behave unreasonably or illogically or irrationally or even insanely.

There are several reasons for the differentiation here between feelings and emotions.

The "realized" feel but do not emote because that is the way it is when Reality has been overlaid on the relative, when abidance is happening as the original nature rather than as the ever-in-motion consciousness, and when an understanding of "the Oneness" leads to feeling Real Love. Another different perspective is this:

The "non-realized" emote but do not feel.

To feel requires an understanding of the Oneness, which the non-realized do not understand; thus, the non-realized emote and become emotionally-intoxicated, but whatever they seem to be "feeling" is really nothing more than a displaying of the extreme sensitivity that results when an ego-state takes itself, and its agendas, to be real. 

Note: An ego-state is that “state” in which a persona seemingly exists, where persons take false roles to be a real identities. An ego-state is always identified by placing a word after “I am” (such as, “I am a spouse”; “I am a lover”; “I am an employee,” “I am a teacher,” etc.) 

[Understand the difference in "ego" and "egotism":

In order for emotional intoxication to happen, there must first be the assumption of an ego. "Ego" in Latin = "I" (non-duality's false "I"), and "I" is a pronoun used to point to any false self, any false "I," as used by those who believe false identities to be real. The terms "ego" and "persona" can be used interchangeably, but the terms "ego" and "egotism" are not interchangeable. 

As noted, "ego" refers to the false "I"; egotism, on the other hand, is one of many ego-defense mechanisms used to defend an assumed ego (or false self); other defense-mechanisms include projection, rejection of others, justification, victimization, blame, rationalization, grandiosity, excessiveness, and many more.]

A person / persona being driven by one or more of its false identities will spend almost every waking hour emoting, that is, in a state of hypersensitivity and hypertension, forever anticipating interference, hurts, attacks, assaults, or threats against the false roles that they take to be real. The connection between (1) the assumption of personas / false identities and (2) warped perspectives should be clear.

Such persons will forever be engaged in one struggle after another in their efforts to uphold the false images that they are projecting and wanting others to accept as authentic. 

The "corrupted" or blocked consciousness - when in that incapacitated state - functions erroneously as the supposed knower of concepts, thinker of thoughts, accepter of lies as truth, emoter of emotions, experiencer of pain and suffering, accepter of ideas rooted in myths, and the believer of false beliefs.

[Note: "Believers of false beliefs" are a relic of the Neanderthal and caveman days. Of course, comparing some of the artistic cave dwellers of the past to modern days caveman or Neanderthal types is an insult to those ancients.

Neanderthals and cave dwellers believed what they believed out of ignorance; their modern counterparts - which in the U.S. number 75 millions or more - believe what they believe out of a mix of, yes, (a) ignorance combined with the addition of (b) their hidden agendas, using lies to reinforce their beliefs and those hidden agendas.

Neanderthals practiced cannibalization and ritual de-fleshing and believed in an "afterlife." Modern day Neanderthals usually believe in an afterlife as well but are also as barbaric as their cannibalistic and de-fleshing forebearers, often being quite ready and willing to kill anyone who does not believe exactly what they believe, right down to the fact that no one should be wearing a mask during a pandemic and believing, if they do so, that they are due a mighty asskicking.]

Similarly, the non-realized - being constantly emotionally-intoxicated - are driven to act . . . and to act in what is often an extreme manner. When an ego-state thinks it has been offended or is being interfered with, then it will act. Only an ego-state can drive a person to be emotional and to succumb to fluctuations between happiness vs. depression or anger or fear or rage. 

For the most part, only witnessing happens among the realized. When actions happen - as they will throughout the waking hours - they will always happen spontaneously but they will never be undertaken from a state of emotional intoxication. So, ego-states emote. The realized feel. That is the distinction, and a major one it is.

Moreover, when persons are programmed, conditioned, etc. to accept roles as identifiers of who they are, they live the rest of their lives as if they are on stage, in the spotlight, and the center of attention. In accepting the lie as truth, they will live in a state of emotional intoxication, their ideas and subsequent behaviors will be histrionic, and they will be plagued by over-acting and over-reacting.

Personas / persons "live" on stage, constantly playing one role after another and taking their roles to be their real identity / identities. Just as an actor can take his part too seriously and internalize the role as an identity, so too can programmed and conditioned persons act out their roles so often and so seriously that they take the drama that they are a part of to be the real. 

That delusion will always generate even more drama which will mark and mar the relative existence when it is played out on the stage of the "Theater of the Lie." 

There, persons believe that the play-acting they are engaged in is not play-acting at all, behaving as if the roles they are playing actually define who they are and behaving as if the roles being played by others truly define who they are. 

It’s all a lie, and lies are distortions which - like cancerous cells - replicate and reproduce themselves and bring about even more sickness (Sickness) and distortion and warped perspectives and delusion and illusion and misperceiving. 

Tomorrow, we’ll consider a couple of examples of the results of listening to people with a warped perspective when they speak; the results of believing people who have a warped perspective; the results of thereafter having a warped perspective; and the results of being not only driven by ignorance and insanity but also by abiding in a constant state of emotional-intoxication.

To be continued.

Please enter into 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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