OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT

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OVERCOMING THE FEAR OF BEING TOTALLY INDEPENDENT

“...You are afraid of freedom!”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

WHEN FREEDOM and TRUTH ARE LOST through SHARING “CONVENTIONAL WISDOM” AND BELIEFS in GROUPS AND INSTITUTIONS

[Continued from earlier]

Frequently on this site, persons are invited to take an inventory of the levels of the Narcissism Personality Disorder (and its partners, the Sociopathic Personality Disorder and the Psychopathic Personality Disorder) which are clearly manifesting via the personality identifications in themselves, in their state, in their region, in their nations, and all around the globe.

Along with that invitation, persons are encouraged to see how the assumption of an ego-state / personality as an identity will trigger the use of ego-defense mechanisms including egotism.

Then it is shown how freedom and truth are lost when the beliefs held and espoused by the members of certain groups and institutions control those members. How?

By setting the stage for the thoughts and words and actions of the masses to be driven by their own self-interests which result in their thinking in their sleep, talking in their sleep, and taking actions while sleepwalking through life and thereby allowing their groups' beliefs to control them.  

All of that was on display again in the U.S. this week after the latest instance of a teen buying a military assault weapon and going into an elementary school and killing children and adults. 

On Wednesday, U.S. Republican Senator Ted Cruz spoke to Mark Stone, a U.S. correspondent for the U.K.'s Sky News, at a vigil in Uvalde, Texas.

Stone asked: “Is this the moment to reform gun laws?”

Cruz said: “You know, it’s easy to go to politics.” 

That is one of the lines which the U.S. Gun lobby (the National Rifle Association, the NRA) wants delivered; thus, they have given Cruz over $442,000 dollars in the last year and have paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of attack ads against his opponents.

Stone continued: “But it’s important. It’s at the heart of the issue.”

Cruz: “I get that that’s where the media likes to go.”

Stone said he was aware that “Cruz spoke almost daily about 'American exceptionalism' but that the U.S. is more exceptional than all other nations in mass shootings.”

[In recent years, the U.S. has had 288 school massacres; Mexico, by contrast, on has had 8 in the same time period. France and Canada have only had two each, Germany, China and Russia have only had one each, and the U.K. and Australia have had none.

Since 1970, the U.S. has had 2,012 school massacres (and counting), and the NRA and the Republican Party have stopped every effort to pass local and state and federal legislation to address the issue. Note the “institutions” and “groups” doing what they do to take away freedom and truth.]

Stone continued: “Many people around the world just cannot fathom, ‘Why only in America? Why is this American exceptionalism so awful?’”

Cruz said: “You know, I’m sorry you think American exceptionalism is awful.”

Stone said he thought “this aspect of it” was awful.

“You’ve got your political agenda,” Cruz said, putting his hands on the reporter’s shoulders, saying “God love you” and started walking away.

Stone and another reporter pursued, asking, “I just want to understand why you do not think that guns are the problem in America” and “Why is America the only country that makes this kind of mass shooting?”

Cruz ignored the questions, so Stone said: “You can’t answer that, can you, sir?”

Cruz turned. Leaning close to the reporter and jabbing his finger, he said: “Why is it that people come from all over the world to America? Because it’s the freest, most prosperous, safest country on earth. And save me the propaganda.”

The safest? Really? And it's the U.K. reporter who is the one spreading propaganda? 

Here's the non-dual message regarding personality identification / selfishness / self-interest / and egotism:

1. Living with someone who is “perfect” is highly overrated, those with that belief being highly imperfect.

2. One with the Perfectionistic Personality Disorder will be blind to truth, be it in their “personal relationships” or in their nationalistic self-concepts or in their “world concepts.”

3. If you are dealing with someone who says of their nation, “We live in the greatest country on earth,” then expect inordinate quantities of other types of egotism-driven BS to flow from their minds and through their mouths. 

4. Maharaj cared enough to warn seekers to stay away from “Big Name Teachers,” the master purveyors of the Ultimate Sickness. Those who care enough nowadays will also warn seekers to stay away from narcissists, egomaniacs, sociopaths and psychopaths who are spokespersons for institutions and groups which have paid top dollar to control the leaders in both.

Ironically, it was yesterday, (only three days after the Uvalde massacre in Cruz's home state) that he delivered one of the opening pro-gun addresses to the NRA convention held in Houston, a short drive from the site of the mass shooting in Uvalde. It was the least he could do in light of the $442,000.00 to $600,000.00+ take he has received from them this year. 

Former president Trump was also there to delivery his pro-gun message since it was the least he could do to repay the NRA for the $33,000,000.00 they contributed to his presidential race in 2016. Yes, that's not a typo - 33 million dollars is correct.

A word used often by Maharaj which his translators censored from his talks was “bullshit.” George Carlin said, “When it comes to bullshit, big-time major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe, in awe, of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims . . . religion.”

Okay, but running a close second is any politician who has been bought and paid for by an institution or group or super-rich individual and any advertiser who works with the institutions who are major-league advertising distributors of BS.

Groupthink, a term from George Orwell's novel 1984, is defined as, “a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for conformity in the group and with the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.”

More accurately, though is the fact that, once someone engages in the groupthink being employed by self-interested groups and self-interested institutions, then their followers are incapable of making any decisions. 

Another non-dual message is this: when the beliefs of others are their driving force, then persons will have no choice about what they think, say, or do.

Groupthink is a key tool used by those who would control the masses in order to assure that the masses allow then to cling to power and control and wealth. 

Their latest effect is on display in last week's incident in Uvalde, Texas. 

Oops, no wait. That's not the latest. Since then, a 16-year-old was arrested for posting that he was going to conduct “a massive shooting” at Bellport High School New York. So that's the latest.

Oops, no wait. That's not the latest as of now. Since then, a student was arrested in Maryland for bringing a ghost gun into his school, so that's the latest.

Oops, no wait. That's not the latest any more. Since then, there have been this week since the Uvalde massacre at least six threats against other schools in Texas.

Well, with the success rate in the U.S. and Texas especially of being exceptional in terms of the mass murdering of children, it's just so dang hard to keep up with all of the murderous happenings.

It seems that the current manifestations of the Ultimate Sickness can hardly be logged into and kept up-to-date in the U.S. massacre record book. It also seems that they can hardly be overstated.

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.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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