Tuesday, March 22, 2022

FREEDOM FROM INSTABILITY AND SHIFTING

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FREEDOM FROM INSTABILITY AND SHIFTING

“It is natural to be stable, and it is unnatural to be unstable.

It is also unnatural to try to live supernaturally.”

--floyd

To follow up on an earlier pointer, notice the following:

Certain shifts throughout the month are natural to the degree that they deal with (a) the physical, (b) the intellectual and (c) the emotional aspects of the relative space.

Yet you are not the physical body. As pain happened when cancerous cells were growing in “floyd the elemental plant food body,” it was possible to witness those waves of pain as they rose and fell. During that event, I was not the body but the witnessing consciousness.

Was treatment for the body’s cancer refused as a result of not identifying with the body? No, but the doctors practicing traditional, mainstream medicine were fired and an alternative approach happened, which resulted in the elimination of the cancerous cells once and for all.

Too, the intellect, if functioning under the auspices “the mind,” will hinder the happening of full realization.

Furthermore, all emotional intoxication is only believed to be a real experience by the blocked consciousness that allows the “mind” to take the misidentified “Self” as another false identities (or roles, characters, images, ego-states) while other false identities are feeling hurt or interfered with or terminated as a result of the actions of a former co-dependent that was helping to sustain a false image / false identity.

Organic and chemical aspects (along with not following the food plan that is proper for your particular body type) can trigger mood swings and depression and anxiety and many personality disorders, yet you are not your personality.

Another factor that can result in instability is the belief in linear time. That can result in focusing on “past” roles that can no longer be played as a result of the absence of the other co-dependent player who had once made the playing of that role possible.

It will cause a perceived but fictitious sense of differentiation in the times of days, months, seasons and years. Dualistically, some seasons will be considered “the most wonderful time of the year” and others will be considered “bad seasons or days or months or years.”

Instability and mood swings can result when it is not understood that whatever gives you pleasure in the relative existence will eventually give you pain and that whatever gives you the greatest pleasure will eventually give you the greatest pain (be that booze, a role being played, a partner in the co-dependency games that persons play, drugs, nicotine . . . whatever).

Nothing in the relative will be permanent, and the illusion that something in the relative can be permanent will cause suffering and misery when it ends.

You will be miserable and will suffer instability or alternating periods of happiness and unhappiness if you do not see the typical pattern of dualistic “relationships” (wherein “this” is believed to be relating to “that”).

In fact, the pattern of role-playing in “relationships” is always shifting and in flux, moving from “OK” to “not OK” as the roles being played will shift (in the majority of instances now). To paraphrase the way Maharaj explained it:

Persons shift from “stranger” to “acquaintance” to “friend” to “best friend” to “lover” to “spouse” to “one’s beloved” to, eventually, “an irritating and disappointing spouse,” and then back to “stranger” (as in, “I don’t even know who you are anymore”) and then to “enemy,” to “ex-spouse,” and to “mortal enemy.”

Unhappiness will happen (a) as long as “others” are seen as persons (rather than as contaminated specks of consciousness) and (b) as long as one’s own assumed personas take themselves to be real . . . or to have been real in “the past.”

Consider one case when a woman claimed that “Mike” had “treated her worst than anyone in her life.” Her take: “I just can’t get past the horrible things that Mike said and did when we were married, the things he stole from me, the things he destroyed that were so precious.”

In that regard, the answers to the following questions can move one along the “path” to realization and therefore to freedom and happiness:

WHO” is this “Mike” you mention? Peace comes when you realize that there is no such thing as “Mike.” (Relatively speaking, might he be considered by many persons to be have played the role of “one of the grandest jerks of all times”? Possibly, but peace will never be found as long as that relative assessment prevails and as long as the absolute reality is not seen.)

What is taken to be “Mike” is nothing more than a composite of images: the one he had of himself; the one he showed you; and the one you formed of him (without basis).

Yet the problem lies not in the phony images which he developed and which he worked to sustain. The problem can be revealed by finding the answer to these questions: Which of your personas believes that it was your real identity?

Which believes that it was destroyed? Which now believes that it makes sense to be angry with a plant food body called “Mike” about the fact that one of your false ego-states . . . one of your false identities . . . came to an end?

Which of your personas believes that it is real (or was real) and that it makes sense to be angry with a fictional “mind” that resulted when a speck of consciousness that is called “Mike” was programmed and conditioned by warped specks of consciousness called “his family” and warped specks of consciousness that are called “his society” and “his culture?

Which of your personas believes it is real (or was real) and is now angry with another fictional persona? And which of your personas feels as if it were threatened or hurt or interfered with or terminated by that which you call “Mike”?

In every case, nothing is happening except that the manifested consciousness is engaged in object witnessing is deluded . . . is perceiving inaccurately. What most take to be “you” - which can be described as an elemental plant body circulating air and conscious-energy - is not “bothered.”

What is “bothered” is a fiction-and-lie-filled “mind” and several fictional personas that thought they were real, that still think they were real, and that think they were not treated in the manner expected or deserved.

Were the consciousness to be re-purified, it would perceive the facts behind the questions above and it would stabilize in the peace and joy and freedom . . . freedom from being jerked around by false beliefs and false perceptions and phony images of what “was” or what “could have been” or “what should have been.”

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.

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