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

[To continue from where we left off with “The Vocabulary of ‘Mind-Language’”]

FROM A SITE VISITOR: My wife’s sister in law, a real nut if I were into labeling people and things, has hit a financial crisis since her husband just lost his job. She said the weird thing is that she "turned it all over to God" and now is not worried. You know, when I have "bottomed out" I have done that in the past and felt relief. What has happened, I realize, is that she simply stopped her mind from driving her crazy / from worrying.

The reply to him: The old adage is that if you want to manipulate someone to think about an elephant, tell them to “do everything possible right now to avoid thinking about an elephant.” Boom. They’re thinking about an elephant.

Using a far more direct but still manipulative approach, the puritanical minister Jonathan Edwards delivered his “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” sermon time and again throughout the New England area of the U.S. in the late 1700’s in order to influence persons to think about what he wanted them to think about and to think the way he wanted them to think.

[Some claim the influence of those early Puritans is still the prevailing force in the U.S., which has admittedly looked quite like a theocracy in recent years. John Knowles in 1959 pointed out that “the problem with Americans” is the duality in which they are trapped.

On one hand, there is the still-highly-influential and exceedingly-strong religious, puritanical influence which generates guilt and shame and discourages the enjoyment of pleasure.

On the other hand, Knowles said, there is a “germ of wildness” which would inspire persons to break away from the puritanical influences of the past which still creep into the present.

The fact is, it is not just the groups that are the modern day descendants of the Puritans - groups such as Baptists and Presbyterians and Evangelicals - that yet cling to the beliefs expressed in those early teachings;

most among the “super religious” and even some claiming to be “super-spiritual” still believe the same nonsense that Edwards taught, still talk in a way that Edwards would approve of, and still behave in ways that he would endorse.]

And that is exactly why those who would control the masses plant nonsensical thoughts in the “minds” of persons and inspire them to speak nonsensical words, because nonsensical thoughts and words - selected from “The Vocabulary of ‘Mind-Language’” - will behave exactly as programmed and conditioned and acculturated via the use of emotional constructs and mental implantations.

In that sermon, Edwards reminded congregants that “there is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment in time”; that “the wicked deserve to be cast into hell, so . . . divine justice never stands in the way [and] makes no objection against God's using his power at any moment to destroy them”; that “they are now the objects of that very same anger and wrath of God that is expressed in the torments of hell”;

that God is “very angry with them, as he is with many of those miserable creatures that he is now tormenting in hell”; and that “God has laid himself under no obligation by any promise to keep any natural man out of hell one moment.”

Is it any wonder that children hearing his words screamed in reaction to the fear that the minister was using to manipulate them? Is it any wonder or any wonder that adults fainted during the presentation of the sermon delivered in the verbiage of “mind-speak”?

While the content of that sermon is used nowadays in some university-level courses on reasoning fallacies (many of which are evident in the sermon), other right-wing religious colleges still use the sermon as an example of what should be contained in an effective religious message.

Either way, the point is that reasoning fallacies can be heard daily as they come from the mouths of persons who talk like Edwards about their “God” or “gods” while speaking via the vocabulary of “mind-language” today.

Such persons are as trapped in magical thinking and psychological manipulation as the members of the Puritan congregations were in the 1770’s. The obstacles that block clear seeing - that prevent the pure consciousness from recognizing nonsense and seeing truth - are as dominant today as they were two and three centuries ago in the U.S. and as dominant as they were four and five thousand years ago around the globe.

Thus, the “mind-speak” in the e-mail above written about his wife’s sister-in-law, provide modern-day examples of the type of reasoning fallacies used by Jonathan Edwards: a woman has “turned it over to god and is not worrying” and “I have done that in the past and felt relief.”

Mail arrives regularly, and some merely comment on certain posts and order books related to the subject. More are received from “legitimate” seekers, and they ask questions or they ask for clarifications - sincerely engaged in the search for authenticity and truth and open to receiving the guidance which can move them to the next step on the “path.”

Some write to share what has happened as a result of a certain awareness that came while reading a post. Those are entertaining, a part of the dance shared here; however, far more e-mails are received without any questions at all but are chock full of pronouncements, with declarations of what the writers think they understand, with attempts to put their knowledge of non-duality or the Vedas on display.

Some write to challenge a pointer with which they disagree, but others write to endorse the dogma of their religion, to point out the rightness of their ideology, to affirm that I am an agent of satan, or to report that I am going to burn in hell forever.

Others write just to be writing, taking a brief respite from the talking they engage in all day long. The content is readily seen to have been written in the vocabulary of mind-language, and their writings are much ado about nothing (which they take to be something) and are inspired by the motives of any number of ego-states that are still very much “at work” via a “mind.”

When roles are assumed, mind-speak must follow. Personality-driven words must be spoken in an effort to support identity. When ego-states go, silence comes. The deer make little noise, having nothing to prove, having no mind-language with which to think, having no vocabulary with which to engage in mind-speak. That is what nisarga functioning looks like.

Today, you are invited to witness your self / your false selves as talk happens. Was everything that was said really necessary? What was the motive behind the words spoken? What are you trying to prove?

Why does talking and impressing have more appeal than the quiet? WHO (what ego-state, false identity, role, or personality) feels the need to speak, to be "loved," to be admired, to be respected, or more often, just to be heard?

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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