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FREEDOM FROM INSTABILITY AND SHIFTING To review: The notions about humans experiencing biorhythmic shifts through cycles of varying length (23 days, 28 days, and 33 days) are rooted in what some conclude to be scientifically-measurable shifts and what others consider to be “pseudoscientific ideas.” Either way, the fact remains that no humans can go 23 days without feeling any shift in levels of physical energy or strength or weakness; cannot go 28 days without feeling some emotive shifts; and cannot go 33 days without experiencing some intellectual shifts. Are the 23-day cycle, the 28-day cycle, and the 33-day cycle scientifically verifiable to be fixed in those exact lengths? That’s not a debate to be entered into here. The point is that certain shifts are going to happen, that they are going to happen in the physical and emotional and intellectual realms, but that they can also happen in other aspects of the human relative experience. That being the case, then some shifting could be deemed to be “natural” though the effects might well be unnatural. In some cases, shifts happen because of the consumption of certain foods. For example, head lettuce can shift the body’s acid-alkaline balance toward excessive alkalinity, and when the alkalinity levels of a human body are high, then one can experience a sense of lethargy and moods can swing downward. Shifts also happen when humans experience trauma, and that is natural though not the ideal. The trauma should be addressed with a professional, but most people are in denial about trauma. I’ve asked people to describe their childhood years and tell me about any traumatic experiences they had. More often than not, they will claim, “Oh I had no trauma in childhood, Floyd. My parents really did a great job raising us and our family was as normal as can be.” That’s always the signal for me to croak out a fake cough to cover the phrase “BS” being hacked out in response. Just as current distortions will be “future memories,” so past distortions will be your “current memories.” Either way, one’s perspective will be rendered warped and distorted and will amount to one big self-deceptive lie. At any rate, there is no way that humans can fixate for any length of time in the exact same physical mode, emotional mode, intellectual mode, attitudinal mode, etc. Yet the other types of shifts which come - especially when a person is being driven by the Borderline Personality Disorder, the Dissociative Personality Disorder, the Bipolar Personality Disorder, and / or the Addictive Personality Disorder to name a few - then shifting can put persons and those around them in literal, (relative), physical danger. Earlier, it was seen that the concept of “linear time” is based in duality, that it can generate a sense of division and separation, and that it can control the moods of persons (a.k.a., their “frame of mind”) throughout what they see as “different hours and days and weeks and months and seasons.” This pointer was offered as well: Again, just as current distortions will be “future memories,” so past distortions are your “current memories.” If persons know that they are not fully realized at this point, then they should know that their present “thoughts” are distorted because those thoughts are being generated by a “mind” which is (1) an accumulation of concepts and ideas which are all based in untruths and which is (2) precisely what is blocking the pure consciousness from perceiving in a non-distorted fashion. Thus, any (distorted) perception that is being formed right now will be filed away in the memory section of the brain for storage in either the short-term memory areas or in long-term memory areas. At some point in the “future,” that memory can be triggered (to use Louise’s term) and thus retrieved, at which point it will be taken to be “an accurate view” rather than “a distorted perception that is being recalled from memory.” Should even the slightest inkling of one parents’ inadequacies in child rearing arise, it will usually be minimized or dismissed with this: “Well, Floyd, they did the best they could, damn you! And they must have done a pretty good job if you look at what all I’ve accomplished in my life so far!” As for the accuracy of retrieved memories, it should be clear that the memory-functions of the brain are unreliable at best. Names of people met only the day before can be forgotten. A non-dual pointer that was read and understood one day is not remembered the next or can be discarded if someone comes along and offers a counterpoint.” Names of places or things can be erroneous: “Was that place where we ate called “Tom’s Restaurant?” “No, it was called ‘Tony’s Restaurant’.” “Was that in Minneapolis?” “No, it was in Houston.” Yet even though the faulty nature of memory is revealed on a regular basis, persons ignore that evidence and continue to believe that “past” events really were as they are being recalled (but misperceived) in the present. One woman was abused for years (mentally, emotionally, and physically) but after the funeral for her husband, her perceptions about their marriage began to be re-framed. Five holiday seasons later, the “bad” memories of her marriage were filtered, her “mind” told her that they had enjoyed a "good" marriage, and now she experiences misery and depression during every “holiday season,” missing her abuser and regretting the fact that they are “not together during the holidays anymore.” That is the type of personality-based insanity which Maharaj said could be addressed via non-dual pointers. [For the full discussion of that topic, see the book “THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS, THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE”]. The realized understand that all of those classifications of “good” or “bad” are based in faulty perception and warped (or obscured) consciousness. The way that one especially candid seeker in a session described the relative phenomenon of “holiday delusions” was thusly: “To spend an entire day with certain friends or family members that you only see once or twice a year is a clear reminder of why the occurrence of such visits happens with such infrequency.” Of course, all memory-based misery is experienced by some ego-state and not at all by you, the Pure Witnessing Consciousness; therefore, all memories are memories of mirages. Because extreme levels of denial were at play, things “then” were not as perceived “then,” so they certainly are not being seen “now” in any realistic fashion. Suppose right now that certain misperceptions among non-realized persons are being filed away in storage areas of the brain, and in “the future,” some of them will be retrieved and taken to be an accurate view of “the way things were back then.” The person recalling those past happenings in future years will really believe that those memories are accurate memories of “the way things were.” In fact, all memories being filed away right now among the non-realized are distortions which will generate distorted memories at some point in “the future,” will inspire some distorted belief, and will result in unhappiness or misery or suffering or depression or suicide. Now some would label the state described by Louise in the earlier discussion as “a period of freedom from the bondage of ego” and the subsequent condition she described as “the result of the reconstruction of the ego.” Of course both views are fallacious since they assume that the ego is real, but it is not. By definition, it is “the false ‘I’.” The terminology above that some employ suggests that (1) a mirage could actually hold you in bondage and that (2) a mirage could reconstruct and determine the way that you think or believe or react or emote. Such could never happen in reality and is only imagined to be real among persons who are not fully realized and whose emotional states are being controlled by their erroneous belief in warped memories. Freedom from mirage-generated misery manifests when a mirage is seen to be a mirage. The more accurate assessment of the conditions mentioned by Louise would be this: she described “a period during which no ego-state was being assumed as an identity” and then described the condition when “a memory of one or more ego-states which were assumed as identities in the past have once again been taken to be real.” To be continued. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. |
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