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Grasping a Clearer Understanding of Non-Dual Terms
This series is focusing on popular but totally false phrases and statements which are presented as non-dual pointers”:
“NOTHING IS REAL” (Continued)
In the third stage of the evolution of his message regarding the roots of the Ultimate Sickness and what the Ultimate Medicine must address in order to treat the Ultimate Sickness, he made clear that the Illness is not caused by “knowing too little dogma” or some sort of enigmatic “spiritual malady.”
Instead, he made clear that the Ultimate Sickness is a mind - a psychological - Sickness with its three key symptoms being “ignorance” (that is, “learned ignorance,” specifically) and “stupidity” and “insanity.”
He did not say “humans are ignorant, stupid, and insane.” He said that their thoughts and words and actions are being driven by and determined by and controlled by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
The teaching of learned ignorance begins with children and young people initially as they are taught by previous generations of humans who are driven by and determined by and controlled by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
Those whose thoughts and words and actions are driven by and determined by and controlled by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” use some highly effective tools to shape the beliefs of the young, namely, by bombarding them with programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination.
Driven into an attachment to their learned ignorance and controlled subconsciously and unconsciously by stupidity and insanity, the masses are eventually trapped in a condition which is marked . . .
by persons not being able to or willing to give up their ignorance-based beliefs,
by persons who exhibit evidence of the textbook definition of stupidity, specifically, “being foolish and dense and dull and unable to understand and displaying a lack of sense” rather than “exhibiting behavior which evidences the presence of wisdom and judgment and reason and logic and being rational,”
and
by persons who are in a state of being seriously mentally ill and who are severely disordered mentally; who are in a state of being foolish and irrational;
who are trapped in a state of lunacy and madness and mania and idiocy; and who are unable to differentiate the true from the false.
Now, if insane person hear some so-called, self-identified “Expert” claiming that “nothing is real,” how could any professional trying to treat a patient’s insanity have any chance of success if the patient believes that nothing is real?
A doctor must come up with a proper diagnosis of a sickness in order to formulate a viable treatment plan in order to bring that illness and its symptoms to an end and to allow patients to be restored to a sense of wholeness and peace and to allow happiness to return.
Similarly, one offering a treatment for the Ultimate Sickness must come up with a proper diagnosis of that Sickness in order to formulate a viable treatment plan.
Almost all persons on the planet suffer from the Ultimate Sickness and its key symptoms (identified by Maharaj as "ignorance, stupidity and insanity”);
unfortunately for them - relatively speaking - is that (1) they do not have a clue that they have that Sickness and (2) if they know that something is seriously wrong and if they are seeking relief they are being offered treatment plans for that Sickness which are ineffective and which are hopelessly off the mark and which are totally useless because the ones offering those treatment plans do not have a clue about what is at the root of the Sickness.
Again, what is at the root of the Sickness is not a deficiency of dogma and is not a sick spirit or a “spiritual malady”; instead, the root is . . . the mind;
thus, the Sickness is a mental illness which includes a personality identification element and elements of neuroses and psychoses, so neither religions nor spiritual programs and methodologies (which fill the mind with nonsensical beliefs and which inspire the mind to engage in all sorts of magical thinking and which generate near endless supplies of personality identifications) can possibly eradicate the mind-and-personality-based roots of the Sickness.
Indeed, all assigned and assumed personalities (roles, identities, ego-states, selves, characters, personas, a Self, a Supreme Self, etc.) give sustenance to those three key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness as identified by Maharaj, namely, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”).
Some site visitors are aware that an uncle of mine was the chief administrator of the mental hospital in Rusk, Texas for many decades.
In addition to the “criminally-insane” who were incarcerated there, others with serious mental illnesses - including multiple personality disorders which had deteriorated into varying degrees of neuroses and psychoses - were also hospitalized there.
The entire population of that facility was made of persons who could not differentiate the true from the false. If their doctors and counselors had said, “Nothing is real,” every patient would likely respond, “No joke, Sherlock!”
During some of my pre-teen summers when I was living with Grandmother in her cabin in East Texas, that uncle would drive out to her homestead and pick me up and take me to his home in Rusk for a visit with him and my aunt and some of my cousins.
At least one day during those visits, he took me with him to work for a day and allowed me to see first-hand the end result of the mental issues which so many persons suffer from but which are seldom treated with a truly viable treatment plan.
One fellow there thought he was
Napoleon reincarnate. Another thought he was President of the United States and
that the opposition party had conspired to have him locked away so they could
take over the government in spite of the fact that he had actually been
elected president.
(Sound familiar? Definitely a harbinger of what was to come in the U.S. and an early prognosticator of what can happen when lunacy is not ended but is reinforced by a major political party joining forces with “QAnon.”)
I came to see that the people who are trapped in the depths of insanity have in common the fact that they do not know who they are and that they believe they are someone or something that you are not. And how many on planet earth walk about in that condition every day, 24 / 7? Almost all.
Such is the case with billions of
persons all around the globe. People believe that they are the job they have
been hired to do. Couples believe that they can enter a religious edifice or an
office of a Justice of the Peace as a single man and a single woman but can
walk out thirty minutes later being “A Wife” and “A
Husband.” A short time afterwards, they can believe that they are “A
Super Wife” or “A Super Husband.”
As Maharaj noted in terms of “relationships,” couples go through life playing out time and again a string of roles which involve supposedly being “strangers, acquaintances, friends, lovers, spouses, the 'better spouse,' 'the best spouse' or 'a super spouse,' then enemies, then mortal enemies,” only to start over again and again and again that same sequence of role-assumption and role-playing. So, the Ultimate Sickness is marked by, among other symptoms, insanity.
A lawyer would put it this way if explained in a legal brief:
WHEREAS, persons who do not know who they are (or what they are) are certifiably insane;
and WHEREAS billions of persons think that they are something or someone that they are not;
now THEREFORE, let it be ordained that billions of persons are insane
and THEREFORE, are suffering from symptoms brought on by having had the Ultimate Sickness passed on to them.
And what is that insanity about?
More on that tomorrow.
To be continued.
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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."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
