Saturday, January 01, 2022

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

(Continued)

Yesterday, this sixth ego-defense mechanisms on our list here was discussed:

6. Psychological Projection

Today the discussion continues with the following:

7. Distortion: (defined as "the act or an instance of distorting; the condition of being distorted; a statement that twists fact; a misrepresentation; the modification of unconscious impulses into forms acceptable by conscious or dreaming perception; a misperception").

8. Denial: (defined as "an unconscious defense mechanism characterized by a refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts, or feelings; the act of disowning or disavowing; the conscious use of a lie to sustain one or more ego-states").

A recent example: some visitors to the site know that during the week, one source of employment here involves working as a consultant with counselors and their clients. In some cases, the consulting involves addressing the number one source of divorce ("money issues"); includes setting up budgets for couples; and entails explaining the mental roots of financial problems as well as explaining the personality roots of financial problems.

In other cases, enneagram test results are shared and analyzed and discussed in order to allow clients to understand how their personality types will inspire them to enter into a personality trance that removes any and all ability to choose because the hidden agendas of personality types determine thoughts and words and deeds among the non-Realized masses.

Some time back, a couple showed up at the request of the husband whose wife had said that she was leaving him after having discovered four instances of infidelity on her husband's part. For his part, he claimed that he was there "to save his marriage";

actually, he was there to try to save his many false identities (husband, homeowner, father, lover, finance man, outstanding man in the community, the honorable law enforcement officer, etc.)

Consider, then, the distortion and denial that came into play when the wife asked, "Can you tell the truth at least one time in your life and admit that you have had four affairs?"

His reply: "The bad news is that, yes, I have been with four other women since we married, but the good news is that I never had sexual relations with them."

Her reply: "Excuse me?! I read some of the emails they sent you that you left open on our computer."

His response (using what some now call “The Bill Clinton I-Did-Not-Have-Sex-with-That-Woman Denial”) was: "Swear to God, I'm telling the truth. Nothing happened with any of them except they gave me oral sex."

Her reply as she walked out: "You are insane!"

Sitting in the office with a totally confused look on his face, he held out his hands and said, "What?! Do you see now what I'm up against?"

It was clear that he was so embroiled in distortion and denial that he was nowhere near ready for truth and that there was nothing he would be able to realize or grasp or comprehend from any further discussion, so the session ended with my telling him, "I am seeing very clearly what you are up against, but you do not see it at all."

9. Egotism: (defined as "the excessive use of 'I,' 'My,' 'Me;' self-conceit; selfishness; narcissism; the habit of thinking or talking too much of oneself; the tool used after an ego-state has been assumed in order to upgraded and sustain the illusion that that ego-state is real and is wonderful.)

A recent example: The case of another couple that was being worked with evolved thusly: the roles of "The Wife" and "The Husband" had been assumed in a church ceremony. As always happens after an ego-state has been assumed, the ego-defense mechanism of egotism was triggered. Soon, she had upgraded her false identity to "The Super Wife" and he had upgraded his to "The Super Husband."

All that "The Wife" needed to "exist" was "The Husband," and all that "The Husband" needed to "exist" was "The Wife." (That is always the case when an ego-state is assumed: a false identity will always require a codependent player to play the counterpart role for an ego-state to be "sustained." Duality is guaranteed.) After the egotism-inspired upgrading, neither was content any longer with "what / who they had."

After her "self"-upgrading to "The Super Wife," she needed "A Super Husband" in order to "be" what she thinks she is; same with him. At that point, all that was being dealt with in the session were two egomaniacs - trapped in arrogance and superciliousness and self-importance and condescension and conceit of the highest order - arrogance which is now driving them both to downgrade the other (whom they had once upgraded and idealized).

As with those suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder, there was an unwarranted idealization followed by an unwarranted degrading. The distortion came first as each idealized and upgraded the other - their "pro / con lists" (as in the case of another couple mentioned recently) uncovering no negatives but only a wealth of positives instead.

The prognosis: there might be a slight chance for their "relationship" if each comes to the non-dual understanding which offer freedom from a sense of separation; freedom from a sense of "better-than-ment" and the practice of judging (which always accompanies the "better than" mindset);

and freedom from the continuing assumption of false identities that will always trigger the use of ego-defense mechanisms as well as the offensive stances and actions that are taken when one's false identities are challenged or not supported by the counter, codependent role-player that is required in every case of false identity assumption.

However, if their dualistic idealizing on one hand but downgrading on the other hand is evidence of the presence of the Borderline Personality Disorder in one or both, their case is likely hopeless.

A treatment center that worked with men and women who were suffering from multiple addictions hired me to give each the personality inventory survey, to analyze the results, and to show each the hidden agendas which were driving their every thought and word and actions. Talk about “powerless.”

All had been traumatized prior to using alcohol and / or drugs to try to escape the misery of their trauma. Their escapism - the desire to escape rather than confront and address the roots of their problems - was a primary driver of their behavior.

I have seen over the last thirty-two years of offering pointer to the non-dual understanding that many non-dual seekers were being driven by the same agenda as those addicts in the treatment center:

Exactly like those addict, many seekers actually desire to escape the reality of the challenges of the relative existence. They end up being drawn to the wide variety of “the Eastern teachings” which can guide them into the Land of Om or into farthest reaches of Foo-Foo Land.

There is no difference in abusing substances in order to try to escape the realities of the manifestation and in abusing “teachings” which are also used to try to do the same.

Being out of touch with reality (to refer to the realities of the manifestation) and being out of touch with “Reality” (to refer to the truth regarding the functioning of the totality and being able to differentiate the true from the false and the real from the fake) are both the stuff of an Addictive Personality-driven mind and the stuff of escapism-driven Eastern “teachings” as well as the stuff of escape-promising religions and escape-promising spiritual movements and escape-promising politicians and escape-promising philosophies and escape-promising ideologies.

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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