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

THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

THE CAUSES

The causes of The Sickness are centered in every mind after being programmed, conditioned, domesticated, acculturated, brainwashed and indoctrinated. The result: those influences inspire persons to distort reality, to spin facts and the truth, and to suffer from an inability to perceive anything as it actually is.

Those influences also result in persons believing that lies and myths and superstitions are true and result in the assumption of false identities and the subsequent belief that they are real.

THE SYMPTOMS

Persons suffering from this Sickness will walk about in their sleep and will talk in their sleep but will believe that they are awake; they will spend all of the twenty-four hours in a day and all of the seven days in a week being unawake, unaware, and unconscious;

they will regularly exhibit what Maharaj called their "learned ignorance," their "stupidity" and their "insanity"; throughout the relative existence, they will eschew the silence and will exhibit a preference for noise and talking;

they will be destructive, self-destructive, and self-defeating; they will be, also relatively speaking, mean, cruel, arrogant, (false)-self-absorbed; (false)-self-centered; (false)-self-regarding; narcissistic, egocentric, egotistical, and selfish . . . preoccupied with the desires and fears of their false self / selves;

they will believe that they are making choices when they are being subconsciously and unconsciously driven by the hidden agendas of every false persona that they adopt as an actual identity;

they will believe that they are wise when they are totally ignorant (a high level of intelligence among many of them notwithstanding and the extensive "knowledge" that they have accumulated notwithstanding);

they will deny facts that are presented clearly to them; they will often prefer faith over science; they will think magically; they will abandon natural living and will live unnaturally or will try to live supernaturally - preoccupied with “Higher Powers and Higher Worlds”;

with birth and rebirth and reincarnation; with karma; with "The Universe" which controls - according to their magical thinking - what happens to them and others in "this world"; and with their belief in imaginary hierarchies that they want to climb;

they will be totally out of touch not only with the realities of the relative but also with the Reality of the Absolute; they will believe that they are "really something" when they are really nothing; they will unconsciously tell lies and believe that they are true, or they will consciously tell lies to try to preserve an image or a false role;

they will be insane and believe that they are "just fine"; they will be unable to differentiate the true from the false; they will be depressed and swear that they are happy, or they will be depressed and admit it but take no steps to be free of that depression;

they will attach to the abnormal and swear that it is normal; they will judge and rage and fight and "break relations" and enter into wars and will kill; they will invade territories and kill the population and claim that they are establishing a nation for God;

they will join the other 97% of the earth's population and will unquestioningly believe everything contained in the dogma that they are exposed to and will challenge none of the parts of their dogma that make no sense at all; they will hate or attack or even kill anyone whose religious beliefs differ from their own;

trapped in personality, they will exhibit resentment, anger and fear; they will be opinionated and will be absorbed in self-pity, self-justification, and self-importance at times but in self-condemnation and guilt at other times;

they will be evasive and dishonest and impatient and prideful and phony; they will be driven by denial and jealousy and envy and neediness; they will behave as lazy seekers of shortcuts and as procrastinators;

they will be dependent users - trapped in their sense of entitlement - and will be inconsiderate and insincere and negative and intolerant and controlling and critical and judgmental and greedy.

And yet in spite of those overwhelming odds against ever being restored to sanity and then being able to abide naturally, there are these teachings that - if understood completely and if applied throughout the relative existence - can (in some cases) serve as the antidote for all of those symptoms of The Ultimate Sickness.

Note in the few examples cited so far in the series, however, how entrenched the ignorance and insanity are:

1. there are adults who do not know how the babies that "they think they made" actually came about;

2. there are adults who do not think a pregnancy involves nothing more than an act of friction between a male and a female but who think that a third party - a supernatural god living in another world - mystically had something to do with an all-natural event in this realm;

3. the huge majority of persons on the planet believe that a body made of the elements of the earth can rot or be burned but can then re-form into kind of mysterious, subtle body that is recognizable as being "them" and which will be half-person and half-bird and can fly or float about; that can have the same mind and personality that supposedly existed prior to being "re-born"; and they believe that they can exist for infinity as such;

4. there are adults who believe that they are that which they are not and who, simultaneously, do not know That Which They Actually Are;

5. there are persons who hate in others what they accept or even love in themselves;

6. it was shown yesterday that there are adults whose minds and perspectives have been so distorted that they are convinced that oral sex is not sex (call it "The Clinton Spin" if you like);

7. there are billions of persons who believe that they can control natural weather patterns by invoking the power of Someone from another world (whom they believe is "supernatural" and "omnipotent") to intervene in their behalf, begging that "Power" to make it rain, or - on other occasions - to make it stop raining so much;

pleading that their "Power" will redirect the path of a hurricane from where they live to somewhere else (where others live);

and believing that, as a result of their faith in a never-seen Power, they can be blessed and thereby protected from the ravages of tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, etc. if they beseech that Power with enough faith (all subsequent evidence which exposes the total ineffectiveness of their prayers and beggings be damned).

NEXT: The Treatment

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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