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Disorders of Consciousness

The Ultimate Sickness is a most innocuous and seldom heard of sickness among the general population of the planet.

Some persons might better understand the Ultimate Sickness if they understand other more common disorders of consciousness which happen among the masses and which more humans have heard of or have experienced or who have at least heard about other humans having experienced.

A concussion is defined as “the state which can come about when an impact to the head results in temporary unconsciousness or confusion." The use of “temporary” can be misleading because concussions can lead to longer periods of unconsciousness and can have long term effects.

In more technical terms, it can be said that “a concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury - or TBI - caused by a blow or jolt to the head or by a hit to the body that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth.”

As for TBI’s, it has been explained that “a traumatic brain injury is an injury which affects how the brain works. TBI’s are a major cause of death and disability in the United States each year. Anyone can experience a TBI, but data suggest that some groups are at greater risk for getting a TBI or having worse health outcomes after the injury.”

So we can pause for a comparison between commonly-recognized brain injuries which impact key parts of the brain and issues involving on parts of the brain which make up “the mind,” that is, the parts which allow for information to be stored and recalled. The latter mind issues involve the Ultimate Sickness more than any overall brain issues. 

For comparison, a concussion can result in temporary unconsciousness or confusion. The Ultimate Sickness can result in the same. 

Also, the use of “temporary” can be misleading because the Ultimate Sickness can lead to longer periods of unconsciousness and can have long term effects. In fact, most who have had the Sickness passed down to them will experience life-long effects.

It has been reported that “traumatic brain injury often occurs as a result of a severe sports injury or car accident” and that “immediate or delayed symptoms may include confusion, blurry vision, and concentration difficulty.”

With the Ultimate Sickness, the same applies, leading to confusion, leading to faulty vision which does not allow clear seeing or an ability to see things as they really are, and leading to concentration difficulties.

 

To clarify, in medical terms, a disorder of consciousness or impaired consciousness is a state in which consciousness has been affected by damage to the brain. In non-dual terms, the Ultimate Sickness’s impact is limited primarily to “the mind.”

 

Next, TBI’s are caused by physical events whereas the Ultimate Sickness is caused by more obscure events involving the imposition of ignorant and / or insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination, and brainwashing.

 

Consciousness involves both wakefulness and awareness. While those who have suffered a serious physical injury resulting in a severe concussion may be clearly observed to be unawake, unconscious, and unaware, the irony is that those suffering from the Ultimate Sickness who have been rendered unawake, unconscious, and unaware can appear to be awake and conscious and aware.

 

In fact, they are not, and that condition applies to 97% or more of the humans on planet earth who - as a result of having the Ultimate Sickness - can sleepwalk and sleep talk throughout an entire relative existence though they are totally unawake, unconscious, and unaware.

 

The main disorders of consciousness - including the disorders associated with the Ultimate Sickness - are:

A coma,

a vegetative state

and

a minimally-conscious state.

A coma is when a person shows no signs of being awake and no signs of being aware.

 

Those with the Ultimate Sickness are as debilitated as persons in a coma because neither are capable of making conscious choices or capable of caring for themselves in a wise manner.

 

Persons both in a coma or abiding under the influence of the Ultimate Sickness can live with their eyes closed and do not respond to their environment, to voices, or to (relatively-speaking) self-destructive pain and suffering.

 

A coma usually lasts for less than 2 to 4 weeks, during which time a person may wake up or progress into a vegetative state or minimally conscious state.

 

As for those in the Ultimate Sickness’s coma-like state, that condition can last throughout an entire relative existence.

 

A vegetative state is when a person is awake but is showing no signs of awareness. That can be a result of having experie4nced a TBI or as a result of having been exposed to ignorant and / or insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination, and brainwashing.

 

A person in either a vegetative state or a person in the grip of the Ultimate Sickness can both . . .

open their eyes,

wake up and fall asleep at regular intervals,

and

have basic reflexes but do not show any meaningful responses.

 

But a person in such a vegetative state - be it induced by a physical blow to the head or by a blow to the head that involves ignorant and / or insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination, and brainwashing - may as well both be in a coma.

 

While capable of experiencing emotions / emotional intoxication, those in a vegetative state - as well as those abiding under the influence of the Ultimate Sickness - can both show no signs of experiencing feelings.

 

If a person is diagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state (or in a permanent Ultimate Sickness state) recovery is extremely unlikely.

 

A person who shows minimal or inconsistent awareness is classified as being in a minimally-conscious state.

 

If one is abiding under the influence of the Ultimate Sickness, - that is, abiding under the influence of ignorant and / or insane programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination, and brainwashing - then they may as well be in a coma.

 

The above might bring the causes and effects of the Ultimate Sickness into perspective for a few and help a few to understand why sages for ages have been far more concerned with the mental and emotional effects of the Ultimate Sickness than with physical blows to the head.

 

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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