Monday, December 27, 2021

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

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

Consider the way that personality sets the stage for disintegration that can move a person through levels of mental and emotional deterioration, moving from mild to average to serious personality-related problems. 

The Enneagram Institute explained how one type can move from being psychically healthy at some point and then developing a full-blown case of the Sociopathic Personality:

 
 

At a certain level, the following is observable:

 

Self-sufficiency, financial independence, and having enough resources are important concerns among sociopaths: they become enterprising, pragmatic, "rugged individualists," wheeler-dealers. They engage in risk-taking and hard work and denying their own emotional needs. 

 

Their ego hates the silence. By this point, Personality Type Eight Sociopaths become noisy. Because thought precedes both words and actions, then the ego-dominated “mind” can tolerate neither the stillness nor the silence.

 

As disintegration continues, the following can be seen:

 

Sociopaths begin to dominate their environment, including others. They want to feel that others are behind them, supporting their efforts. They become swaggering, boastful, forceful, and expansive: the "boss" whose word is law. They are excessively proud, egocentric, and want to impose their will and vision on everything, not seeing others as equals or treating them with respect.

 

Later, the following can be witnessed:

 

They become highly combative and intimidating in order to get their way. They become confrontational and belligerent, creating adversarial relationships. Everything is a test of wills, and they will not back down. They use threats and reprisals to get obedience from others, to keep others off balance and insecure. However, unjust treatment makes others fear and resent them, possibly also band together against them.

 

As even more psychic unhealthiness manifests, the following can be witnessed:

 

Defying any attempt to control them, they become completely ruthless and dictatorial, convinced that "might makes right." They become the criminal and outlaw, the renegade, and the con-artist. They are hard-hearted, immoral and potentially violent.

 

As more disintegration occurs, the following can be seen:

 

They develop delusional ideas about their power, invincibility, and ability to prevail. They develop megalomania, feeling omnipotent and invulnerable. They recklessly over-extend themselves.

 

Finally, this state of extremely serious disintegration can happen:

 

If they get in danger, they may brutally destroy everything that has not conformed to their will rather than surrender to anyone else. They are extremely vengeful, barbaric, and murderous.

 

Another definition of insanity is this: not being able to tell the true from the false. Some people intentionally lie. That does not mean they are insane. Some people pass on the lies that they were told without ever checking to see if what they were told - and what they are telling - is true or false.

 

That form of prevarication might evidence ignorance more than insanity, except when what they are passing on is totally nonsensical.

 

Back to the definition of "insanity." One definition explains that insanity involves "extreme foolishness and / or irrationality; a state of serious mental illness; or, a state of total madness."

 

At best, passing on nonsense is foolish, the mildest form of insanity according to some definitions.

 

But the masses are prepared to accept - without any questioning and based in blind faith only - the foolishness which they are told and the lies and the mythical and superstitious nonsense and nonsensical dogma which is passed down.

 

Last Friday, 2.3 billion people celebrated what they believe was a virgin birth. The guess is that 99.9% of those 2.3 billion Christians believe that their savior was born of a virgin while not having a clue that “the Virgin Mary” - whom many of them also worship - was not the first to make such a claim.

 

In fact, at the time, her claim that her child-later-to-be-a-savior was conceived via the process of parthenogenetic (no-physical-sex) fertilization made her the 23rd to make such an assertion.

 

And - as was the case with many others - her child was conceived out of wedlock and she knew that she was likely to be stoned to death if she did not come up with her tale of virgin birth.

 

Berwyn Lewis explained it this way:

 

Thoughts [recently] turned to a famous baby on Wednesday. He was [said to have been] conceived through parthenogenesis, a sort of asexual fertilisation process which avoids messy exchanges of bodily fluids and can lead to a virgin birth by a woman. It also avoids troubling questions of paternity.

 

History is littered with parthenogenesis or virgin births and they’re not all miraculous.  [He noted that there’s] nothing new about virgin births. History is littered with them.

 

A virgin rollcall might include Romulus and Remus, twin founders of Rome, born of the virgin Rhea Silvia. In ancient Egypt, Ra (the Sun) was born of a virgin mother, Net. Horus was the son of the virgin Isis.

 

The Phrygo-Roman god, Attis, was born of a virgin, Nana, on December 25. It resonates because he went on to be killed and was resurrected.

 

In ancient Greece, Dionysos was the son of either the virgin Semele or the virgin Persephone. Persephone was also the virgin mother of Jason. And Plato’s mother, Perictione, was a virgin.

 

The list goes on. Hinduism, Buddhism and ancient China all have their share of them and none is more or less believable than any other myth, fable or symbol.

 

Virgin births are all about the hymen, a membrane, and whether or not it is intact.

 

But there’s a dark underbelly to virgin-birth stories. Claims of divine intervention aside, virgin births may have a more human explanation - a tragic demonstration of the extreme measures women have been forced to take to save themselves and their reputations. 

 

Consider: Over 2.0 billion humans on this planet believe there is such a thing as virgin birth. Over 1.8 billion Muslims believe that when men die and go to heaven, they will be given seventy-two virgins, thousands of whores, and thousands of wives, all wired and ready to satisfy the men sexually for eternity.

 

If nearly 4 billion humans can buy into those claims, what other outlandish pronouncements would billions NOT also believe in if such pronouncements were presented as part and parcel of a religion’s teachings?

 

The “dark underbelly” of humanity is the “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” which Maharaj explained is near-universal among the human masses on planet earth who are contaminated with the Ultimate Sickness but which most have no clue at all that they have contracted, passed down to them by other older humans.

 

What would be the 180-degree opposite reaction (as discussed yesterday) to accepting such nonsensical claims as truth? How about this?

 

“The one we worship as our savior was born of a virgin.”

 

Bullshit.

 

“In our heaven, every man gets 72 virgins and a lot of whores and wives.”

 

Bullshit.

 

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.

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