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

When persons verbalize their desires, many say . . .

“I just want to be happy.”

“I just want my children to be happy.”

“I just want peace of mind.”

“I just want to be loved.”

In his song “Flying Without Wings,” Ruben Studdard wrote: “Everybody's looking for that something / One thing that makes it all complete . . . .”

The lyrics suggest “that something” might be one’s children or a lover or a special friendship or time spent with another, etc., all focusing on externals which can supposedly make one happy and make one feel "complete"

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts and scattered them around the planet, condemning them to spend the rest of their lives in search of their "other halves" in order to once again "feel whole" and "feel complete" and stop feeling "split."

(Have you heard some "husbands" faking a sense of modesty by introducing "the wife" as “my better half”?)

Then there is psychological splitting:

“Splitting creates instability in relationships because one person can be viewed as either personified virtue or personified vice at different times, depending on whether they gratify the subject's needs or frustrate them.”

(You can see why splitting is one of the ego-defense mechanisms which is often used by those with the Borderline Personality Disorder: “I love you; I hate you.”

Share a roof with a borderline type and you’ll be guaranteed to spend every evening on the way home wondering if the evening is going to be shared with “Mr. Hug” or “Mr. Slug” or with “Ms. Hug” or“Ms. Slug.”)

So the concept and normalization of humans being engaged in “a lifetime of seeking” has been around for at least 2500 years or so. While few will ever seek to find the answer to “Who / What am I, really?” or “Who / What am I not?” many will seek “that something” in their efforts to try to feel “complete.” The belief that happiness or contentment is not an inside job but is dependent on externals is a formula for misery and suffering in itself.

Were persons to truly understand their hidden agendas, then they might come to understand that it is not being happy or having happy children or having peace of mind or being loved which they really want.

Subconsciously what they seek is a sense of wholeness, of oneness, of the unicity, of the unity beyond the perceived multiplicity.

What most want (but will never realize that they want) is freedom from what they were taught and learned which has led to their dual-mindedness which has, in turn, led to their sense of feeling split and to their states of unrest and disharmony and discontentment with their constantly “feeling torn” or “pulled in opposite directions.” (Remember “Dual-minded persons are unstable in all ways”?)

To be free of all of that requires a different perspective from the one that is handed down to humans nowadays via programming, conditioning, etc. When children are young, their BS detectors are in proper working order and on high alert. As adults, they will have been robbed of a typical child's innate ability to differentiate between truth and BS.

(Ever heard the expression, “Out of the mouth of babes”? A therapist was working with two parents and their eight-year-old daughter. The initial 55-minute session included a 25-minute discussion with all three, a 20-minute session with the child only, and then a 10-minute session with all three again.

As usual, the first 25 minutes were spent with the parents talking non-stop, cataloguing everything that was wrong with their daughter, explaining in detail “how crazy her behavior has become,” and setting forth exactly what the counselor “needed to work on and fix when they drop their daughter off for her future sessions.”

Then in the private session with the child, the child was asked for her perspective on all that had been said. Her reply: “They are right that I’m crazy. Now if you want to know why, leave me out of all future sessions and work on them because they are totally insane and are passing that along to me. My only chance is that I don’t go totally insane before I’m eighteen and can get the hell away from them."

After a few more sessions, the evidence revealed that the daughter’s perspective was the spot-on, accurate one.)

In the eBook entitled GOING CRAZY, GOING SANE

this is shared:

Call it "insanity." Call it "madness." Call it the end result of a personality disorder whereby a person has disintegrated from psychic health to a state of only average psychic health to a state of complete psychic unhealthiness and total mental and emotional degeneration and collapse."

Call it "being so removed from reality that one has lost the ability to know who or what you are." Call it "being out of touch with both reality and Reality." Call it a "state of living unnaturally or trying to live supernaturally / religiously / spiritually rather than merely abiding naturally in the peace and quiet."

Call it "being so mentally and emotionally fragmented that one feels as if she / he is going to shatter into a millions pieces . . . not feeling whole or 'at one' but feeling splintered and split and broken and shattered and divided and falling apart."

Call it "a state marked by anxiety, resentment, anger, despair, depression, misery, pain, suffering, desolation, gloom, dejection, and anguish." Call it "The Ultimate Sickness." Call it "Going Crazy." But no matter what you call it, it is a global epidemic and all will contract it at some point or another.

Of that, Maharaj said, "Insanity is universal. Sanity is rare. Yet there is hope, because the moment we perceive our insanity, we are on the way to sanity. This is the function of the Guru - to make us see the madness of our daily living. Life makes you conscious, but the teacher makes you aware."

Egotism will cause persons to reject outright the message offered in those words. For those not totally trapped in egotism, might those words from Maharaj be seen to have been spot on?

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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