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

THE MIND’S MOVING VANS:

Dissociation, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Escapism, Avoidance, Evasion, Averting, et. al.

Early humans differed little from other “living things”:

1. All were driven by one of the key agendas of the manifested consciousness, namely, automatically desiring the continuity of that consciousness.

2. They were all also driven by other basic instincts such as the drives to satisfy thirst, hunger, and sex.

3. They would all be driven to one degree or another by the drive to bond

4. And all, humans as well as all other living things, shared another trait in common: they functioned under the auspices of the natural brain rather than the originally useful mind because early on they had no mind.

In the case of the no-mind humans (or human-like beings) the brain was about the size of a standard coffee cup nowadays. As humankind evolved, the brain would ultimately reach its current adult size and 3-1/2 cups.

That expansion allowed for the develop of some “new parts” to the brain, specifically, the parts that could, in a computer-like fashion, store data / facts / evidence / truthful information and then retrieve any of that at some future point.

If a member of their community fell from a cliff and died on the rocks below, witnesses in the community could see the cause and effect at place, stored the cause of that death, and avoid the edge of cliffs in the future.

The “use” of the mind mentioned above was to assist with the perpetuation of the species. The mind developed a conscious desire for the continuity of consciousness as opposed to the earlier instinctive, subconscious or unconscious desire for the continuity of the consciousness.

At that point, the mind could have been considered to be an asset as far of the functioning of humans was concerned. Later, that would change.

Later, when language developed and concepts were dreamed up and false identities were assumed and beliefs formed and were stored in the mind, a plethora of falsehoods and lies and myths and superstitions joined data and facts and evidence and other truthful information.

At the point that the false content of the mind began working with the hidden agendas of false identities, they began to drive distorted thoughts and phony words and destructive actions (relatively speaking).

Simultaneously, humans began to move away from valid data and facts and evidence and other truthful information and ended up being driven by the distortions and delusions and phoniness and destructiveness which marked the point when the mind became a liability which it is today rather than an asset.

Maharaj said of the path, “Go back, reverse.” That would also apply to his advice after he abandoned religious and spiritual versions of the Ultimate Medicine and turned his focus to psychological healing instead.

At that point he advised seekers to reach a no-mind state, to go back to abiding under the auspices of the brain rather than being driven by the hidden, unconscious, subconscious agendas of false personality identifications which are stored in the mind.

Go back to the time when humans were not driven by distortions and delusions and phoniness and a drive toward destructiveness which are stored in the now-warped, unnatural mind.

Move back to reality and authenticity and sanity.

Yet most do not and will not move back to those earliest days but - clinging to the mind and the distorted content therein - move somewhere else (to be identified shortly).

Most will utilize “A Moving Van Of The Mind” (such as the mental diversions of escapism or dissociation or avoidance or evasion or averting) to try to avoid unpleasant or boring aspects of one’s “daily life” can sometimes provide temporary “relief”;

yet most always eventually will have to return to same boring and unpleasant routines which were in place prior to the effort to escape, and that will only guarantee more instability.

Rather than going back or reversing to find steady relief,  there are in addition to dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, escapism, avoidance, evasion, averting certain et.al.’s - certain “others” vehicles which are used to try to move to more planet or exciting or stimulating place. They include:

Magical thinking,

Supernatural (religious / spiritual) thinking which leads persons to assign dreamed up supernatural causes to what are merely natural events and . . .

Fantasizing

Idealizing

Wishing

Hoping

Dreaming

Fabricating

Lying (to self)

Programming

Conditioning

Domesticating

Acculturating

Indoctrinating

Manipulating or Begging or trying to control "A Supreme Being" or "Supreme Beings" 

and

Brainwashing.

The problem: those Moving Vans Of The Mind do not have routes that go to places where a sane mind can thrive alongside wisdom and also alongside a garbage-filled mind as well; 

instead, their routes only go to Fantasyland, to FooFoo Land (that is, the Land of the Fools), and to the Land of the Dotards.

Maharaj did not suggest moving away from dreamed up lands of inauthenticity but suggested following the proper path which allows humans to go back / to reverse / to return to a place of “zero concepts” and “no mind.” 

 How far away are humans from that place? Millions of years? No. That place is as close to the time when the consciousness manifested in you and in all of the presently living. 

Finally, the garbage must go before a sane and sound and wisdom-filled brain can replace (to use some of Maharaj’s words) a nonsense-filled, ignorance-filled, stupidity-filled and insanity-filled mind.

To be continued.

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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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