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 

How long does it take to fill a mind with the learned ignorance and the stupidity and the insanity which Maharaj identified as three of the key indicators which are present if one has the Ultimate Sickness?

Forty years? Thirty years? Twenty years? Ten years? Or what about as few as . . . four to six years?

Yesterday, I offered to the several hundred visitors to the site a totally bare, totally exposed, totally unvarnished and totally transparent view of the machinations of my delusional and ignorance-filled mind which had been produced via exposure to the programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination to which I had been subjected by the age of six.

I shared only a few of the insane thoughts I was having by the ages of 4 and 5 and 6 (which were still popping into my warped consciousness even into my teen years) in order to illustrate how easy it is to totally bastardize the blank tablet mind - the blank slate mind, the tabula rasa mind which John Locke referenced - by writing nonsense and lies and distortions all over the tablet and then not providing an eraser to relieve the one who then suffers (usually throughout an entire manifestation) from what that warped, ignorance-and-insanity-driven mind generates.

Beginning on day one of a manifestation, the process begins and then intensifies for the next few years to convert a child’s normal mind into a totally abnormal mind filled with anxiety (hell awaits) fear (eternal torture awaits), paranoia (about being watched and judged 24 / 7), and duality-based contradictions (such as, "Our God loves you unconditionally, but he will burn your ass all day and all night long for eternity if you disappoint him or make him angry." The conclusion: “Oh my gosh! Dad is god!")

So how warped was my mind by the ages of 4 and 5 and 6? Let’s review what was revealed about the effects of early programming, conditioning, etc. using the “Oh be careful” admonition which we all sang at least by the age of 5:

O be careful little eyes what you see
For the Father up above is looking

The warped thinking: 

(First off, I’m being watched every second by someone who can be easily displeased and send me to hell. Damnation! Next, I have to be sure I don’t look at what I should not look at but what if I see what I should not see before I know that I’m about to see something in the “Don’t-look-at-that!” category?)

O be careful little ears what you hear
For the Father up above is looking. 

The warped thinking: 

(So, I have to be sure I don’t hear what I should not hear but what if I hear someone say something before I know that I’m about to hear something in the “Don’t-hear-at-that!” category?)

O be careful little tongue what you say
For the Father up above is looking 

The warped thinking: 

(“So do you guys have a list of what I am not supposed to say so I’ll know everything that I’m what to not say that could send me into an eternity of punishment involving pain and suffering and misery?” But wouldn’t I be punished if I read the list per the “O be careful little eyes” rule / warning?)

O be careful little hands what you do
For the Father up above is looking 

The warped thoughts: 

(First, what a creep! What a total perv!) 

(Ok. I’ve reached my teen years after trying for a decade to dodge all of the “be careful bullets.” My girlfriend and I have some privacy and she suddenly takes off her blouse and bra and my eyes dang near pop out of my head. I’ve worked diligently on all the eyes, ears, tongue, feet, heart and mind rules. The conclusion? “The hands rule is gonna have to be put on pause for a short while tonight.” Is the Father above going to look down from above and watch what I’m about to do? Surely not. Surely He follows His own rules and will look away. Yeah! That’s the ticket! He’ll probably never even know! Ok, God, turn away! Incoming porn on the way! Be careful what your little eyes see. Then, in case He did peek, then later tonight I can ask for forgiveness and I’m back to “clean slate status” anyway. Full speed ahead, O hands! Enjoy!) 

As for . . . 

O be careful little feet where you go

and

O be careful little heart whom you trust 

and

O be careful little mind what you think

. . . the warped thinking around all of that was being challenged by the ages of 5 and 6. A belt used to beat my ass was used to provide punishment for my lack of unquestioning blind faith.

(Then, as I aged, I saw that those last three warnings about where I go and whom I trust and what I think really were warnings about -  more than anything else - the SOB’s who taught me all of their nonsense to begin with.

The conclusion early on: 

I would make sure that my feet never again took me into a place where ignorance-and-insanity-driven religious fanatics gather; 

and

I would make sure not to ever again trust anything they said to me;

and

I would make sure that the thinking generated from within my delusional mind was going to be purged of the nonsense which a bunch of ignorance-and-insanity-driven fanatics had placed therein.)

Indeed, O be careful with those who would implant more stupidity in your mind rather than invite you to take the necessary steps to be rid of it all.

So, have you been willing to be as naked as I was yesterday in exposing the state of your mind which they passed down to you? Have you admitted unequivocally to yourself and then to someone with wisdom that it was early on that “they” treated your mind like a baked potato and loaded it up with big dollops of supernatural BS, with lies, with myths, with distortions . . .

with nonsense, with fear, with anxiety, with doubt, with twisted perspectives, and with the most contradictory and insane beliefs imaginable? Have you reached the point where you are willing to admit that your mind was turned into their landfill where they dumped all their garbage for years?

Are you seeing that it was the acceptance of their nonsense as truth that led to a lifetime of fear, of anxiety and even angst, of confusion, of doubt, of twisted perspectives, and endless searching for something without knowing that "something" is the peace which can only come with the removal of all of the BS they planted in your mind?

If not yet, then when might the readiness manifest? The light awaits. Peace awaits. Wisdom awaits. Sanity awaits. A sense of unity awaits. That is what is in “the pot of gold” at the end of your “journey.” Bon voyage!!

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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