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

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The Pure, Universal Consciousness, 

Pure Awareness, 

and a

"Proper Perspective"

"Insanity is universal. Sanity is rare.”

 ---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

A child arrives with "a blank tablet" rather than with "a mind with nonsense written all over it."

What is written on the tablet to form a mind is "written" via faulty programming, conditioning, etc.

So what fills a mind is faulty, and it is all of that which is faulty which determines what one believes.

What one believes, in turn, determines the thoughts which constantly race about inside the mind, whether awake or asleep.

Relatedly, one of the traits which is unique to the human species is that eventually, a human cannot distinguish between those two states, so a human can believe that she or he is awake though actually asleep and can actually be asleep while believed to be awake and moving about and talking and doing all sorts of things.

So what persons are taught determines what they believe; what they believe controls their perspectives; their perspectives reinforce what they believe and determine what they say; and what they say leads to what they do.

And that's why a proper perspective is called for and why seekers are invited to be free of all of their warped perspectives which were taught and which now control them unless they realize (which means, per Maharaj, being free of ignorance as well as free of insanity, both of which are key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness).

Here, early on, the perspective was a very different perspective, meaning one which was different from the perspective of those among the masses who were – and are – driven by the symptoms of the Sickness;

therefore, early on, that different perspective triggered the innate BS detector which all Personality Type Fours have early on and which inspires “rebellious children” to challenge the nonsense they are being taught, first in the home, next in religious venues, next in schools, and finally throughout one’s culture as a whole.

Here, by the age of 5 or 6, where did more of the challenging take place than anywhere else? Where more nonsense is spread than anywhere else. In the case here, that was in an ultra-conservative, ultra-ignorant Southern Baptist Church, especially where Ms. Myrtle was using the materials provided to her to be used to teach the young boys and girls in her First Grade Sunday School Class. And what was taught? Ignorant and insane myths which were taken to be “The Gospel Truth.”

BS was seen to be BS. Over the years, the forces that are operative in all cultures combined to deactivate that BS Detector, allowing clarity and authenticity and logic and reason to be rendered dormant and allowing the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness to manifest. 

Extreme levels of chaos followed, allowing previously unimaginable depths of misery and suffering to manifest. The result: a "journey" back to that earlier state of being in touch with both reality and Reality was inspired. Eventually, a "trip" along a "path" was taken in order to return to that original, clear-perspective state.

It was soon understood - again - that all of the myths of pagan religions (a.k.a., “their dogma”) which were dreamed up and passed down became the myths which are also being taught now by the modern religions (which are nothing more than modern versions of the ancient pagan religions which thousands of years ago taught their ignorant and insane and myth-based beliefs to ignorant and insane people who then became ignorant and insane “Believers” of ignorant and insane myths).

Those same ignorant and insane teachings are still being taught in organized venues to more than 97% of the people all around the globe to this very day.

Unlike the "rebellious Type Fours" (such as Maharaj), many of the non-challenging persons are among the 50% of the planet’s population who are Personality Types Sixes who are devoutly devoted to all authority figures and who unquestioningly accept with blind faith whatever they are told by the authorities running religious and political institutions as well the very largest business venues.

They are the ones who were labeled early on “the good little boys and girls.” Later on during their adult years, their cultures continued to label them as such as they "fell into line" (as still happens now) and as they sought out jobs in the armed forces, with police forces, with security companies, with other government jobs, in the “justice” system, in the corporate world if they could associate with those deemed to be “winners” and “the big shots of industry,” or in any of the other authoritarian institutions or establishments which give fear-based, dependent, and codependent persons a sense of power and security and which meet persons' needs for clothing, housing, medical care, food, etc. in a “cradle-to-grave” manner.

The mafia’s appeal to Type Sixes – who became their enforcers and hit men - was rooted in the fact that the mob paid livable wages to those willing to take up arms and to use their guns to kill people they don’t even know but whom their leaders identified as “the enemy.” (Compare those hit men with the current members of any of the armed forces operating all around the globe nowadays.) 

The power of the mob was reduced by governments’ wars on crime. Eliminating the mobs resulted in governments being able to take over the mobs' numbers rackets (now, “the state lottery”); to take over the mobs’ prostitution business, now involving governments (see the legal and taxed brothels in Nevada, in Amsterdam, and in cities all around the globe);  

to take over the mobs’ alcohol sales in some cases (with many Southern states in the U.S. owning liquor stores after prohibition was repealed and with many law enforcement officers taking bribes from those engaged in illegal alcohol production and sales); as well as to take over certain parts of the mobs’ drug operations (many drugs including pot and even heroin in some nations) now being provided by governments. So the government became the new mob.

The other result of governments restricting mob activity and taking over their business enterprises? Governments set the stage for far-less-disciplined street gangs to come into existence. The mobs organized and divided up their separate territories; when they killed, it was done more often in an up-close, accurate, bullet-in-the-back-of-the-head manner. 

Street gangs, by contrast, have begun to flourish, and rather than putting a bullet in the back of a mob member’s head, the street gangs most often use drive-by shootings, so their killings come with far less discipline and discrimination;

hence, while thousands of adults in Chicago have been killed in the last few years as their street gangs fight for control of the drug trade, hundreds of children standing near targeted adults have also been gunned down during indiscriminate drive-by shootings. 

Now, to the role that dualistic, warped perspectives played in all that:

The perspective in the U.S. was this: “J. Edgar Hoover is a hero. He’s taking on the mobsters and wiping them out and eliminating crime and making us all safe.” 

A different perspective might be: “BS. Governments have never been able to legislate morality and will never be able to do so, and for all the government's efforts, mob-style crime has not been reduced but has steadily increased. And the money from what was formerly known as 'mob crimes' now often goes into the coffers of the governmental agencies that took over the mobs' enterprises.”

Another perspective in the U.S. has been: “We can use our military forces to get rid of foreign leaders who don’t do business with us the way we like; to build nations with replacement leaders who will work with us as we advance our economic interests; and to put into power leaders who will let us take their nations' resources for a pittance of what they are worth so that we can reap huge profits.” 

A different perspective might be: “BS. From (1) Vietnam in the 60’s and 70’s to (2) the failed U.S. Central America policies which generated wars and corruption to (3) the Middle East to this very day, we have failed miserably in every instance where we have intervened militarily and have tried to control others?"

"With what goal? With the goal of trying to satisfy our own greediness and hidden agendas and allowing religious influences to lead the U.S. to pick the side of Jewish or Christian governments  even when they have been the more abusive regimes and even if they were forging a mini-holocaust-like scenario of their own making as long as it involved Jews or Christians who are opposed to Islam.”

[Teach the children from early on to . . .

cite a pledge of allegiance before they even understand what a "pledge" is or what "allegiance" is 

and 

teach them early on to . . .

sing a national anthem before they understand what a "nation" is and what an "anthem" is 

and the result will be . . .

another generation of automatoms who will engage in pledging and singing in their sleep and wanting to destroy all who do not join in with their sleep-talking, sleep-singing nonsense.]

People on every part of the planet - from firsthand experience - have long been aware that if they see automatons arriving (especially the ones who are displaying a British or U.S. or Christian flag) that they best kiss goodbye any chance they had for "peace on earth."

For the "patriotic" xenophobes in the U.S. who hate such non-duality-based pointers, here's another version of the message offered by a U.S. actor, comedian, writer and producer named Dennis Leary:

Asshole

Folks, I'd like to sing a song about the American Dream
About me, about you
About the way our American hearts beat way down in the bottom of our chests

About that special feeling we get in the cockles of our hearts
Maybe below the cockles
Maybe in the sub cockle area
Maybe in the liver, maybe in the kidneys
Maybe even in the colon, we don't know

I'm just a regular Joe with a regular job
I'm your average white, suburbanite slob
I like football and porno and books about war
I got an average house with a nice hardwood floor
My wife and my job, my kids and my car
My feet on my table and a Cuban cigar

But sometimes, that just ain't enough to keep a man like me interested
(Oh, no, no way, uh-uh)
No, I gotta go out and have fun at someone else's expense
(Whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I drive really slow in the ultra fast lane
While people behind me are going insane

I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, such an asshole)

I use public toilets, and I piss on the seat
I walk around in the summertime, saying, "How about this heat?"

I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)

Sometimes, I park in handicapped spaces
While handicapped people make handicapped faces

I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole (He's a real fucking asshole)

Maybe I shouldn't be singing this song
Ranting and raving and carrying on
Maybe they're right when they tell me I'm wrong . . . ?
Nah

I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)

You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible
Hot pink with whale skin hubcaps
And all-leather cow interior
And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights (Yeah)
And I'm gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour
Gettin' one mile per gallon

Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonald's
In the old fashioned non-biodegradable styrofoam containers
And when I'm done sucking down those greaseball burgers
I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag
And then I'm gonna toss the styrofoam containers right out the side
And there ain't a goddamn thing anybody can do about it
You know why? 

Because we've got the bomb, that's why
Two words: nuclear fucking weapons, okay?
 

Russia, Germany, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want
They can have a big democracy cakewalk
Right through the middle of Tiananmen Square
And it won't make a lick of difference
Because we've got the bombs, okay?
 

I'm gonna get a case of whiskey
And drive down to Texas and
(Hey! You know, you really are an asshole!)
Why don't you just shut up and sing the song, pal?

I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)

A-S-S-H-O-L-E

Everybody

A-S-S-H-O-L-E

I'm an asshole, and I'm proud of it.

 Ah, what a refreshing change:

Truth (instead of an anthem) being sung to a musical tune.

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

Coming soon: CONSCIOUSNESS vs. AWARENESS

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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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