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OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT
“...You are afraid of freedom!”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
[Continued from yesterday]
As you read about some of the ceremonies that persons in the U.S. are subjected
to, you are invited to consider the nationalistic ceremonies which you have
been subjected to where you live:
In the U.S., where persons are highly critical of other nations that subject
children to propaganda early on, the school day cannot begin without school-age
children having to participate in the ceremony of “The Pledge of Allegiance to
the Flag.”
The pledge, which was written by a Baptist preacher, blends religious and
nationalistic propaganda, especially after the U.S. Congress in 1954 added the
words “under God” after a Catholic organization called The Knights of Columbus
pushed for the inclusion of that phrase.
The pledge ceremony, conducted every day that schools are in session, requires
students from the ages of five to eighteen to participate in the ceremony which
attempts to condition children and teens to be patriotic, to love their
country, to believe in the imaginary U.S. / Christian-God linkage, and to
accept anything and everything that will be done during their lifetimes under
the auspices of that flag.
The typical student, with the right hand placed over the heart and facing the flag that is displayed in every classroom, will recite the
words to that pledge nearly 3,500 times before high school graduation (which is
marked with another insipid ceremony which most students would prefer to miss).
They will cite the words that claim the nation is “indivisible,” inspiring them
to ignore the fact that
the nation is divided into 50 different states, and to ignore the fact that
(2) the nation is divided regionally as a result of the animosity which many in the southern states still cling to because their states lost a civil war which ended 155 years ago for some but which has not ended at all for others in that region.
(3) Moreover, it can be seen that the sense of separation has moved throughout all regions of the U.S. as a result of a four-year period from 2016 to 2020 when a national leader in one way or another regularly endorsed divisive concepts and groups including:
U.S. xenophobia: white supremacy; white nationalism; national supremacy; acceptance of neo-nazis and their racist message; normalization of the agendas of home-grown, far-right-wing terrorists;
Christian supremacy; eugenics and its notion that the gene pool among white people is superior to the gene pool of non-white people; and a host of other extremist, anti-democracy, hate groups. As of today, those endorsements have not stopped.
It is such delusion and ignorance, and the inability after 3,500 opportunities
to see that something being said in a daily school ceremony is totally false, which the non-dual understanding would and could address.
Too, a sports event in the U.S. cannot begin without the ceremonial singing of
the national anthem (an anthem with words that glorify fighting in a nation
that already possesses far too much of an Aryan-based warrior mentality to
begin with).
Only a part of the anthem is sung by thousands at a time, but the
full text of the song speaks of:
“the perilous fight” and “ramparts” and “rockets” and “bombs bursting” and “foes”:
and about
“the havoc of war” and “the battle confusion” and claiming “the foes' blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps’ pollution”;
and about:
“nothing will save them from the gloom of the grave” while claiming “this is a
heav'n-rescued land” and calling on all citizens to “praise the Pow'r that hath
made and preserv'd us a nation!” and proclaiming that “this is our motto: 'In
God is our trust' and then ending with “then conquer we must.”
How could the warrior mentality of a nation ever be eradicated when the masses
regularly participate in the ceremonial singing in unison about the glorification of “the perilous
fight” and “ramparts” and “rockets” and “bombs bursting”?
How could the warrior mentality of a nation ever be eradicated when, at
community gatherings and in churches and in schools, the masses participate in
ceremonies which celebrate such “special” war-and-warrior-remembrance holidays
as . . .
the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, VE-Day, V-J Day, Armed
Forces Day, Pearl Harbor Day, Flag Day, and even the National Day of Prayer and
Freedom Day and Loyalty Day and Patriots Day (on 9 / 11, of course).
Yes, in the U.S., there are ceremonies that even celebrate national defeats and
national humiliations such as happened at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and in New York City on
September 11, 2001.
Consider the dishonesty and self-delusion involved when people celebrate such misnomers as “Pearl Harbor Day” and “Patriot Day” when both should be called “When the U.S. Got Its Ass Kicked Day.”
And those
ceremonies are especially effective at generating nation pride over defeat as
well as the perpetuation of national anger and resentment.
Ceremonies, the actual effects of which only a small number will ever
recognize, rob persons of freedom, and that includes freedom from delusion,
distortion, arrogance, anger, resentment, and a host of other effects which
generate personality disorders and even insanity.
But the attachment to (and even love of) ceremonies - be they religious,
spiritual, nationalistic or linked to war and killing - will not be abandoned
except among the few that are realized at any given time on this planet.
Even as the non-realized raise their voices in unison and sing of their freedom, they are totally imprisoned in ways they will never understand.
So it is, yet few on the national and international stage offer clarification around such delusions. One exception is Jim Jefferies in his Netflix comedy special entitled “Freedumb.”
In that special, he shows how “freedom” in the U.S. has become “free-dumb.” [Censorship will be added for the more sensitive readers.]
“You constantly say ‘freedom’ all the time, like you’re 'Oh, we’re so free. We fight for freedom. Freedom. Come to the freedom lounge at the airport'.”
“You know when you’re singing the national anthem at baseball games and the singers hold the note 'free' a little bit longer than they should, until all you Americans ejaculate? ♪ For the land of the free ♪ [grunting] [audience laughing] 'We’re so free. Freedom this, freedom that, free, free, free'.”
“Now, I hate to break it to you, ’cause I don’t think you know this [sighing] but there are 92 free countries on the planet. Democratic, free countries. You are one of them. Every single English-speaking country on earth is free, and most of the [clicks tongue] countries are also free. [Audience laughing and applauding]
“Now, you’re very free. Don’t get upset. And I love America. I truly do. I live here and love it. I have nothing against it. And none of the things I’m about to mention affect you . . . affect me in any way, right, but . . . you may not be the freest place on earth. [audience laughing] Here's a quick example: out of the 92 free countries on the planet, you have the highest rate of incarceration.”
Distortions about “freedom” dominate the political dialogue as well:
“I am free to choose not to wear a mask to possibly prevent my spreading Covid and to possibly prevent my contracting Covid, but if you’re female, you are not free to decide if you have been raped and made pregnant that you do not want to carry your rapist’s baby for nine months.”
Yeshu’a (“Jesus”) began to share certain non-dual pointers during his final years of manifestation. He looked at humankind and we are told, “He wept.”
Well of course he did. So it is, but so it need not be.
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.
