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 The Rationale:

There have been millions of religious and spiritual and philosophical and ideological and Eastern and, yes, even non-dual concepts / beliefs which billions of humans have taken to be “awesome.” None of them were, and none of them are. 

This series is offering a different perspective about those concepts / beliefs / pointers / whatever.

[Continued from yesterday]

THE SPIRITUAL MALADY, Part Three, The Conclusion

Imagine persons whose families of origin have been telling them for years that they have some major mental health issues and they need to get some help. 

Imagine those persons marry and their spouses and / or children join the chorus shouting, “You’re nuts! You’re crazy! I’m leaving you!”

Next, imagine if the persons who have been displaying mental issues have a history of problems or conflicts or failures in the workplace or in stores or in traffic.  

Then imagine their relative problems become so compounded and severe that those persons finally go to seek help. 

Imagine they go to a place where they are told to share with the people they meet there considerable information which reveals that they have indeed been exhibiting an ever-worsening pattern of insane behavior.

Imagine that they had begun to get an inkling that they have a troubled mind that had been showing the presence of many personality disorders, of neuroses, of psychoses and showing the fact that they have long been driven on a subconscious level by warped, ignorance-based programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.

Then imagine that the people there say,

“Well yes, you’ve being behaving insanely, but you are not insane. Your real problem is that you have a spiritual malady.”

“Really? So what do I do?”

“What you do is you become a spiritual giant. Get close to God. Turn everything over to God. He will heal you and restore you to sanity."

“Really?!”

“Really.”

“So how do I become a spiritual giant?”

“That’s our job, to show you how and to guide you through the process.”

“What a deal. Thank goodness!”

“No. Thank God. Just like a politician once said, 'He is the only one who can fix all of the problems'.”

So those persons with mental issues leave that place and contact their family members and employers etc., and tell them, “I have found an explanation for why I’ve been behaving the way I have been behaving and I’ve found some people who know all about my condition and assure me that they have a solution, a day-at-a-time, lifetime treatment plan. You’re going to see a whole new and completely different me! It’s like I’ve been reborn!!”

If those family members and employers have even an iota of wisdom, they might ask, “So the God who sat back for years and let you behave like a maniac and abuse your family and spouse and children and neighbors and everyone else whose path you've crossed for decades is now going to suddenly get up off his rear end and take some action and change you? So why didn’t He do that decades ago?”

“Hey, don’t be a smart ass, and don’t rain on my parade! I’m feeling hopeful, really hopeful!”

“Sure you do, because you don’t have to go to the trained, licensed professionals we recommended and allow them to share scientifically-based, professional treatment plans. All you have to do not is sit on your butt and talk about your problems and talk about God and then you’re healed? Sorry, but I call BS on that.”

To tell persons who have serious mental and emotional issues and then offer a misdiagnosis claiming that the effects of those mental and emotional issues were a result of not being close to God and telling them that they will be healed if they just get close to God is often a death sentence or, at best, a new guiding belief that will delay or prevent persons from ever receiving the actual professional treatment which they really need.

Now, to continue with the series.

In review:

The problem: Sometimes persons spend consider amounts of time and energy to try to treat an illness or sickness or condition which they are told they have but which is actually based in a misdiagnosis which applies a label to a condition which they do not have at all.

Medical “experts” and psychiatric “experts” and religious “experts” and spiritual “experts” have been misdiagnosing what ails persons for thousands of years and continue to do so to this day.

So far, it has been shown that - far from being “awesome concepts or teachings” - there is actually no validity or logic at all to such concepts or teachings as . . .

continuity;

WHO-NESS and / or who-ness;

“SELF-Actualization”;

“SELF-Realization”;

 “self-realization” (unless referring to the fact that one has realized that all assigned or assumed selves are illusions as are all assumed Selves as well)

and

liberation

and

enlightenment, awakening, and spiritual awakening,

and

the “Spiritual Malady.”

Today, the discussion will focus on the concept of “Higher Consciousness.”

If there is any single issue which has been given the most undue status of being “awesome,” “noble,” “other-worldly,” “extraordinary,” “exceptional,” “distinctive,” and “exclusive,” it may well be “consciousness.”

Few understand that the term “consciousness” simply refers to “conscious-energy,” one of the many types of energy existing in this universe.

Some other examples include thermal energy, radiant energy, chemical energy, nuclear energy, electrical energy, motion energy, sound energy, elastic energy and gravitational energy and, yes, conscious-energy.

How many times a day do humans pay attention to chemical energy and pause to adore it, to ennoble it, to elevate its rank to the level of having some sort of supreme position?

How many times a day do humans approach the wall plug where their coffee pots are plugged in and pause to pay regards to the electrical energy and even worship the electrical energy available inside the wall? Probably only when it is not available for a time.

No, most persons pay no attention at all to the various forms of energy in the universe except for conscious-energy. But that’s all it is. It exists on one form: conscious-energy. There is “higher form” of it and there is no “lower” form of it.

There is conscious-energy which has been blocked or contaminated as a result of the effects of warped, ignorance-based programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination, but that does not make the conscious-energy deteriorate into a “lower form.” Conscious-energy is always simply the way it is, period. Not sometimes "higher"; not sometimes "lower."

Yet just as a bastardized, totally inefficient, and totally vulnerable national power grid such as that in the U.S. can determine whether nor not the electrical energy will function normally, so the condition of a mind can determine whether or not the conscious-energy will functional normally and naturally.

Being a form of energy, conscious-energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Also, it does not “set up” inside the space of something called “a human” and stay there until the body forming the space comes to an end. The quantity of conscious-energy inside your body today is not the same quantity that was manifested therein last month.

Just as the outer skin on a body is “replaced” (actually cycles) every 28 days or so, the case is that conscious-energy is also always cycling.

If it did not do so, then one would never have to eat again. The same quantity of conscious-energy there at age four would be there at age forty-four. But that is not how it functions.

So, again, the invitation is to see that a simple message has been complicated and bastardized by persons who have attached “awesome,” “noble,” “other-worldly,” “extraordinary,” “exceptional,” “distinctive,” and “exclusive” status to key parts of the message and who have attached all sorts of extraneous and fictional concepts as well.

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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