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DE-AWESOMEFYING NON-DUAL TERMINOLOGY

I will be offering in upcoming posts certain pointers which I have never discussed in detail or in a unified and consolidated manner. Why? Because I have witnessed that the words and writings of so many seekers and self-identified "non-dualists" are so far off the mark.

In fact, many of the terms used during the discussion of pointers rooted in Eastern religion and Eastern philosophies and Eastern ideologies and Eastern spiritual movements / cults have actually become obstacles to . . .

 

-Realizing

 

-Understanding

 

-Abiding with “one’s feet firmly planted on the ground” rather than having thoughts and words and actions being controlled by a “heads-in-the-clouds” Foo Foo Land-type existence, separated from “the realities of the relative existence”

-       and

- -Being freed from living in a dreamy, supposedly-lofty but irrational, illogical, foolish, silly, ungrounded, eccentric, "I'm dropping out and becoming totally alienated from reality" manner.

Where did I read anything about the above premise? Nowhere. Everything included in the upcoming discussion is being shared from “personal” (persona-driven) experiences when my thoughts and words and deeds were rooted in supposedly-lofty but irrational, illogical, foolish, silly, and ungrounded beliefs which had been passed along to me via guides and gurus and authors and Big Names Teachers who had perverted the “non-dual and Eastern teachings” (which had already been previously perverted throughout the centuries) and which I had accepted as being somehow based in some “beyond this realm Reality.”

After having called “BS!” on the Christian evangelical nonsensical dogma and teachings to which I had been exposed throughout my childhood years and after having chastised those adults around me for being ignorant sheep who accepted with blind faith whatever they were told by the church without any questioning of their seriously-ignorant and insane and impossible claims, I left organized religion ASAP (as did the one called “The Christ”) and began seeking from Eastern-based  sources (as did “The Christ)” and continued to do so until I came across the non-dual teachings and focused specifically on those (as did “The Christ”).

Then I began accepting with blind, unquestioning faith what the Big Name (Not-Really-Non-Dual) Teachers were offering in their million-seller books and in their multi-thousand-dollar seminars and retreats in the exact same why that the evangelical sheep of my youth had done. You know . . . the ones I had judged and criticized and told to go to their hell.

I came to see that such disdain for hypocrites and their ignorance (or their brilliant manipulation skills?) was rooted in my own psychological projection.

I was still seeking teachers and seeking to learn and to accumulate more and more “non-dual, spiritual knowledge.” And where was I seeing? In a venue that gave lip service (and lip service only) to . . . de-accumulating! Talk about settling for being driven by what was nothing more than a different form of organized ignorance, stupidity and insanity.

Yet I had shifted from my early attachment to relative, phenomenal “success” and “achievement” and “purpose” and began focusing only on noumenal, superior “stuff” (that is, you know, on dreamy, supposedly-lofty but irrational, illogical, foolish, silly, ungrounded, and eccentric “stuff”).

It would be years before I would see that BS does not treat an all-BS-based sickness / Sickness.

So what were some of the dreamy, supposedly-lofty but irrational, illogical, foolish, silly, ungrounded, eccentric concepts which I spent years trying to grasp the meaning of while using an approach which was endorsing the abandonment of all concepts?

They included (to use the Western terms pointing to Eastern-based concepts) . . .

Liberation

Enlightenment 

Awakening

Spiritual Awakening

Realization

Self-Realization

True Self

Noble Truths

Deliverance

Pure Consciousness

Higher Consciousness

Pure Awareness

The Spiritual Malady

Mindfulness

Karma

Birth-Death-Rebirth Cycles

Peace of Mind

Bliss

Becoming Who You Are

Advancing Your Spirit

Finding Your Life’s Purpose

The Infinite Self

The Power of Now

Having an Ageless Body and Timeless Mind

How to Know God

and on, and on, and on, and on . . .

ad infinitum.

To be driven to focus one’s “seeking efforts and energy” only on things believed to be “awesome” is to block one from seeing how spot on Maharaj was when he said “this is all really so simple (and should be).”

Hence, the invitation to de-awesome-fy what so many seekers (and Super Seekers) have been programmed and conditioned to believe are surely the awesome concepts which they should spend all of their energy seeking to understand.

Some of those concepts will be discussed in more detail for those that might be interested in being truly and totally free, meaning free of belief in all false ideas and concepts and then to finally - for the first time ever - become free to make sane and sound choices throughout the remainder of the manifestation.

Can that happen via accumulating more teachings and by learning more and more concepts? No. Why? Because ultimately this deal is about un-learning all . . . about being un-taught all.

To be continued.

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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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