Friday, December 31, 2021

WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD

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WHY MAHARAJ ABANDONED RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL VERSIONS OF THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE AND TURNED HIS FOCUS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALING INSTEAD

EGO-DEFENSE MECHANISMS WHICH INSPIRE PREVARICATION

Psychologists for years have recognized the existence of what they call “ego-defense mechanisms”: behaviors which humans use in order to preserve and to protect the ego (that is, the false self / selves adopted as actual identities). The mechanisms are almost always either fear-based or desire-based.

The words that those mechanisms inspire as a result of the desire to protect and sustain persons' false images (or assumed egos or ego-states or roles or characters being played) must also be false words because they are based in an effort to affirm that which is false, nothing more than lies told to sustain lies . . . o sustain something that is itself false.

Those include:

6. Psychological Projection (defined as "unconsciously ascribing to others one’s own ideas, impulses, or emotions; finding and pointing out in others the faults that persons most hate in themselves").

[An example: A woman (who has internalized a Personality Type Eight Controller / Boss which drives her to display extreme anger and even sociopathic behavior at times) raged about her Personality Type Nine husband, hating him because, in her words,

"He is a Type Nine so he is a spineless doormat who will not help me control our out-of-control son, who is also a Type Eight who is breaking laws, causing car wrecks while driving under the influence, and being arrested repeatedly."

Yet she allowed partners at work to take funds that should be hers, accepted the fact that they are not honoring agreements that were entered into when they began their partnership, and tolerated their charging her more for office space than the amount originally agreed to.

Now, she hates her husband because he is displaying in the home the same traits with her and the son that she is exhibiting in the workplace.]

In the book linked, A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE, this is shared:

"Some try to pigeonhole these teachings and claim that Advaita (or Vedanta or Advaita Vedanta) is a religion; some claim it is a philosophy; some claim it is a compilation of precepts and principles by which people should live. Here, the most that is said is that

a. it is a set of suggestions and considerations that point the way to the truth which can be known but not stated; and

b. it is a set of guideposts along a "path" (offered by one that has traveled that "path") which leads - in a step-wise, clear-cut manner - to an understanding which allows the remainder of the relative existence to unfold in a sound and sane and logical and steady manner."

Maharaj’s revised “game plan” which is the game plan here is that seekers need not find “the Self” but should focus on finding what one is not . . . should find all of the false selves which  have been assumed as identities and which are blocking the seeing of truth.

Similarly, as noted above, "suggestions and considerations that point the way to the truth that can be known but not stated" might be offered, but if seekers are ever to see the Truth that is being pointed to, then they most first see

A. that which is reinforcing their belief in falsehoods,

B. that which is driving them to participate in the dissemination of falsehoods, and

C. that which is blocking the ability to differentiate the true from the false.

“The realized” understand that few problems exist on the planet which are not rooted in the "mind" (which is nothing more than the storehouse of fiction, false beliefs, bogus concepts, myth-and-superstition-based dogma, nonsensical ideas, distortions, delusions, falsehoods, and illusions, all of which can be summarized as “beliefs.”)

Along "the parent continuum" - which can run from "well-meaning-but-ignorant" to "borderline" to "totally psychotic" - John Locke's "Blank Tablets" are being trashed with programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination, brainwashing, dogma, spiritual mumbo-jumbo, magical thinking, and a host of personality disorders.

The personality disorders then use their "toolkit" of warped personality traits and reasoning fallacies and ego-defense mechanisms to support the monologues and dialogues and diatribes that are delivered around the globe nowadays by actors / performers / role-players on the stage of "The Theater of the Lie" that this planet has become.

The realized are first able to differentiate true from false in the relative existence, are later able to know truth, and then eventually come to understand the functioning of the totality.

Some realized might share pointers, and if they do so, they can guide the seekers in whom the readiness has manifested . . .

to see that the masses cannot differentiate the true from the false,

to see that it is possible to neutralize the effects of a distorting or an insane upbringing and become able to differentiate the true from the false in the relative existence,

to see how the totality functions, and

and, eventually, to see truth.

Earlier, it was noted that prevarication and distortion have become commonplace on the planet because whatever the masses say or teach is always rooted in the hidden agenda of personality (and, therefore, personality defects).

Next, it was noted that:

psychologists for years have recognized the existence of what they call “ego-defense mechanisms”: behaviors that humans practice in order to preserve and protect the ego [the false self]. The mechanisms are often fear-based or desire-based.

The words which those mechanisms inspire as a result of the desire to protect and sustain persons' false images (or assumed egos or ego-states or roles or characters being played) must also be false words because they are based in an effort to affirm that which is false, nothing more than lies told to sustain a lie . . . to sustain something that is itself false.

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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