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Grasping a Clearer Understanding of Non-Dual Terms
Here, a frequent consideration offered to each site visitor is to pause long enough to objectively see if she / has shown a tendency to accept the words of a religious or spiritual or political leader or any other kind of leader and determine truthfully if . . .
any visitors have ever blindly accepted the words of any of those leaders
and
to determine if they have even accepted the words of such leaders with unquestioning faith.
To that end, I have always included my words among those which should never be accepted blindly and / or with unquestioning faith.
That said, let’s consider or reconsider what has been offered in recent posts regarding some widely accepted concepts:
BIRTH-LIFE-DEATH CYCLES and KARMA and CONTINUITY and / or CONTINUITY OF A SOUL and ETERNAL EXISTENCE for ANY KIND OF ETERNAL SELF and CREATORS or a CREATOR. (con’t.)
Maharaj said, “Science will advance someday to the point that it will validate all of the non-dual pointers offered,” referring to the true and factual pointers, not the bogus nonsense offered by cons or by the thoughts and words of those driven by learned ignorance.
So, rather than believe my words, what does science prove about the pointers offered here which deal with BIRTH-LIFE-DEATH CYCLES and KARMA and CONTINUITY and / or CONTINUITY OF A SOUL and ETERNAL EXISTENCE for ANY KIND OF ETERNAL SELF and CREATORS or by a CREATOR.
THE CREATORS / CREATOR MYTH
So let’s allow the scientific facts to address the issue of creator gods and goddesses as well as Abraham’s myth of a single god because it is so simple to understand:
KEY FACT #1:
Science makes clear that, at the most basic level, “Everything in the universe is made up of matter and energy.”
Here, the designation “energy / matter” is used because energy and matter are really the same thing. Remember Einstein’s formula?
Whatever energy / matter there is was, is, and always has been. Science proves that nothing can be created or destroyed, including energy and including matter.
(If one can buy into the concept that gods or goddesses or a god has always been and was not created, then where’s the problem with understanding that it’s no great leap to grasp the fact that energy / matter has always been and was never created?)
The Greeks and Romans and others had a large group of gods and goddesses which were grouped into three categories because each governed only one primary aspect of humans’ existence, not all aspects; thus, they believed in “Creator Gods / Goddesses,” “Sustainer Gods / Goddesses,” and “Destroyer Gods / Goddesses.”
Abraham came along and said, “There’s only one god and he’s a male. There is no group of gods and there are certainly no goddesses.” His idea caught on, but what about “creating and sustaining and destroying”?
Abraham explained that his one god took care of it all; thus was generated the concept that the same god that created you - if you keep him happy - will sustain you, but if you make him angry he will destroy you.
Thus also came the concept of a God . . .
1. who is co-dependent (since his moods, happy or angry, can be determined by humans)
and
2. who has the Borderline Personality Disorder (since he can shift from “I love you” to “I hate you” to “I love you again” so easily)
and
3. who, therefore, also has such a severe case of the Borderline disorder that he has the same traits as other Borderlines, such as “self-image issues,” “difficulty managing his emotions” (see the effects of the Great Flood and the Sodom and Gomorrah tantrums), and “a pattern of unstable relationships.”
His “creator god role” can say, “I brought you in and I love you unconditionally” even as his “destructive god role” can say, “You’ve angered me so I’m going to kill you and send you into a place of eternal punishment where you will burn forever and suffer misery forever, unconditional love notwithstanding!”
[That “Heavenly Father” sounds like a lot of “earthly fathers” I’ve known who behaved the same way and who were also afflicted with the disorders above in addition to the Assoholism Personality Disorder.]
Now, today most humans have realized that the Greeks and Romans just dreamed up their gods and goddesses; therefore, most humans no longer believe that there is or ever was a Zeus or a Mars or an Aphrodite or an Apollo, etc., though Hindus still believe in multiple gods and goddesses even as there is confusion among some as to their exact number;
however, most today do not realize that Abraham just dreamed up his single, mentally-ill God and that the widespread belief in what he dreamed up is what led to the organizing of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, all of whom recognize Abraham as the founder of their religions.
["So you are all the children of Abraham. Now go forth and kill each other."]
THE CONTINUITY and / or CONTINUITY OF A SOUL MYTH
Either there are humans who were “created by God in his own image” or there is no Creator God who created anything; moreover, no humans created other humans, either.
Again, nothing can be created or destroyed. There are no other-worldly Creators, and there are no “this world” creators.
What is called “a baby” was not “created” since babies are a result of already-existing matter / energy simply being cycled / recycled as long as what is called “the mother-to-be” eats plant food or eats something which ate plant food.
Thereafter, the body of the mother-to-be can function as a confined location wherein plant food cells can
a. be consumed and altered into humans cells,
b. where a respiratory system can form which will allow air / oxygen to be independently circulated in the future,
and
c. wherein conscious-energy / consciousness can manifest.
And that shows that if what is called “a baby” should happen to leave or be taken from that location in a timely fashion, then what exists is a three-fold combination of
(1) elements
which can
(2) circulate air / oxygen
and which
(3) can provide a location for consciousness to manifest (temporarily).
That can happen as long as a supply of conscious-energy is regularly introduced by consuming foods.
Rather than being seen as “a human,” it should be seen that what is existing and functioning temporarily is a three-part “composite unity”;
moreover, if any one of those three parts - the elements, the oxygen, the conscious-energy - should no longer be available, then the “composite unity” will no longer function.
At that point, the three parts will go their separate ways,
a. the elements returning to the universal pool of elements,
b. the air returning to the universal pool of air,
and
c. the conscious-energy returning to the universal pool of that type of energy (where it will no longer be "conscious of" anything.).
Note that no “soul” is present to make a fourth part which can “live forever.”
Trillions upon trillions of composite unities have been cut open by surgeons and scientists; by artists and art students studying the inner components of composite unities;
by medical students; by anatomy students; by pathologists and those practicing forensic medicine; by those working in morgues;
by students in courses of biology, botany, zoology, and veterinary science; by researchers trying to find treatments or preventions for diseases; etc., etc., etc.
Out of the trillions upon trillions of instances where the insides of a composite unity have been seen, not even one of the members of those groups has ever come across something totally unidentifiable inside an elemental plant food body and brought in a group of professionals who conducted a peer review and who concluded that - for the first time in human history - a soul has been found.
Those being the scientific facts, the following should be understandable:
When a composite unity stops functioning because one or more of the three basic components of a composite unity stopped functioning,
then at that point
the three basic parts of that composite unity will go their separate ways and never the twain shall meet.
And if never the twain shall meet, which part of that no-longer-functioning composite unity shall go to a place of reward or punishment?
The elemental plant food body cannot register either pain or pleasure without conscious-energy / consciousness;
the conscious-energy cannot be conscious of anything if not manifested within a confined space and without being replenished regularly;
and
the oxygen cannot be circulated in the absence of an elemental plant food body.
Ergo, science (and logic) prove that there can be no continuity of a body or mind or personality and no continuity of a soul and no continuity of a self and no continuity of a Self.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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