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

 

GOING . . . GOING . . . GONE! Today we’ll look at a few examples which illustrate what the state of mental "gone-ness" looks like: Millions of people concerned with body image eat food products that have been fried in fake fat in spite of the warning on the packages which say that the side effects of eating fake fat and fake fat products include: cramps, diarrhea, bleeding, gas, cramps, and severe intestinal problems. GOING . . . GOING . . . GONE! Over 1.3 billion people use a product all day long that has a warning on it that says the product: is toxic and causes peripheral vascular disease, emphysema, and mouth, throat and lung cancer; that it will clog your arteries and that it harms unborn babies; that it causes heart disease and stroke; and that it is a leading cause of death. That tobacco product, used unconsciously to relieve anxiety, typically provides only about fifteen minutes of relief before withdrawal symptoms manifest and drive the desire for the next fix. Meanwhile, it allows users to inhale into their bodies over 4000 non-natural chemicals, including 69 known cancer-causing (carcinogenic) compounds and over 400 other toxins. GOING . . . GOING . . . GONE! Billions of humans believe that there is a God who loves them unconditionally but who makes the monthly menstrual periods of women painful and miserable because of the actions of a woman named Eve and who believe that God will cast people into eternal flames and mental and emotional anguish if they engage in the all-natural act of masturbation. GOING . . . GOING . . . GONE! They also believe - contrary to the scientific evidence - that the earth is not billions of years old but is only - according to their interpretation of content in their "holy text" - a little over 6000 years old, meaning that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together. GOING . . . GOING . . . GONE! Over 99% of the people on the planet cannot answer correctly the question, "Who am I, really?" GOING . . . GOING . . . GONE! The same number seek to give meaning to the meaningless: "What is God trying to tell use with those damaging weather events?" GOING . . . GOING . . . GONE! This email was received from a man in Australia who was already GONE! at the time of writing. (I have made no attempt to correct the plethora of grammatical errors.) Hi Floyd, not had time to look at further reading, been ill with psosiris and in hospital, ive noticed somethings since ive been quite ill and not able to attend AA meetings, friend ive spent 16 years with haven't called and not really bothered with me, we were real close, not to distressed by this,  its weird how i now see that for twenty years when i was distressed i would use my fellow ship or meetings to break a cycle of going beyond relief, i know realise that by not breaking a process i see more, and do move passed anger, feelings and into a kind of forgiveness and through a barrenness, and coupled with being very poorly this has ensured ive had other fears to transcend, as normally i prided myself on my fitness (ex military man) i guess this may not make to much sense, but just looking at new stuff beyond what i thought i needed, any comments welcomed mate. F.: “What!?” You wrote: “friend ive spent 16 years with haven't called and not really bothered with me, we were real close” F.: After all the years in and around spirituality-based “recovery” programs, you still are not being honest, but that lack of honesty is with the only one that matters: you.” You wrote: "friend." F.: You lied to yourself there, didn't you? You wrote: "we were real close"? F.: You lied to yourself there didn't you? You wrote you were "not to distressed by this"? F.: You lied to yourself . . . you're writing about it and still involved with it after all this time. You wrote: "just looking at new stuff beyond what i thought i needed.” F.: Really? When have you looked at "new stuff" instead of the same old stuff you've been told to look at? You wrote: "haven't had time to read.” F.: Really? You wrote: “any comments welcomed mate.” You don't need more comments. You've had decades of comments. Might it be time to quit depending on amateur, armchair psychologists and find some professionally-trained help to find out how you can be totally independent and break decades of dependency on people and groups and drugs and alcohol? Moreover, for the last two decades, you've been more dependent on people and groups than on drugs and alcohol. Nothing is going to change unless ALL dependencies are broken. GOING . . . GOING . . . GONE! During the 2011 Republican Presidential Candidate Debate in Florida, a digital journal reporter described one moment in the debate as follows: “Gruesome GOP crowd applauds Rick Perry when he bragged about executing of 234 humans as governor.” There wasn't much excitement in last night's GOP debate until moderator Brian Williams brought up Perry's execution record. What is sickening is that Perry's record setting 234 executions as the self-described “Christian governor of Texas” actually garnered lively applause from the audience. It was perhaps - at least in my own judgment - some of the loudest applause of the night. That's right, the crowd became most lively when it was announced that Perry had a hand in killing 234 human beings. GOING . . . GOING . . . GONE! I want to take a moment here to point out that I am currently a registered Republican. But after hearing their applause, I do not want to be associated with that crowd. I never fit in very well with them, anyway. The applause made me want to run as far away from the Republicans as humanly possible. How can a party that has such blatant and justified mistrust for government intervention and that believes (or claims to believe) that the government fails at most things a party that believes the government isn't even good at helping the poor but then actually believe that this same government is perfect enough, is infallible enough, to take the life of another human being? Isn't that a blatant contradiction? I know, the 234 humans were convicted criminals. Perry was quick to point that out. But, he is also quick to point out that the government is wrong when it comes to Keynesian economics or current federal intervention in the health care market. If the government, which, after all, is made up of imperfect individuals, could be wrong about those things, couldn't it be wrong about others? Isn't it possible that the government got some of those convictions wrong as well? The government, we all know, is not perfect. Thus ended the journalist’s report. As for the masses, the evidence is clear that they have been GOING and GOING insane for a long time and that they are now pretty much GONE! completely. 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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