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How Dualistic Thinking Reinforces Ignorance, Justifies Inaction, and Prevents the Understanding of Causation
[Continued from yesterday]
[PLEASE NOTE: The problem with discussing Mary and those like her who have entered into deep levels of non-attachment or detachment from reality or escapism or avoidance or
Of interest to seekers of the non-dual understanding, be aware of the fact that persons working in various fields of detachment from reality now use a term that non-dualists can relate to. It’s called “derealization”:
“Derealization is a mental state where one feels detached from her or his surroundings.” But here is a key point offered by professionals: “Even so, many are aware that this altered state isn't normal.”
They add: “Depression and anxiety are two of the most common causes. Severe levels of acute elevated stress or nervousness can also trigger feelings of emotional numbness. Post-traumatic stress disorder, which can be tied to depression and anxiety, can cause one to feel numb, too.”
They also state that “emotional detachment may be voluntary. Some people can choose to remain emotionally removed from a person or situation. Other times, emotional detachment results from trauma, abuse, or a previous encounter. In these cases, previous events may make it difficult to be open and honest with a friend, loved one, or significant other.”
Finally, it is noted that in the U.S., more than 50% have likely experienced this mental condition (or are likely to at some point) so the warning is to avoid letting the ego conclude, “Well, Mary is screwed royally. At least I’m not that bad.”
The fact: Persons who are sleepwalking can walk in front of a speeding bus, regardless of whether their sleepwalking has placed them in a heavy trance or a light trance.]
That said, we can continue.
Earlier, in a facility in New York City, at about 11:45 A.M.
CST, an assistant approached a woman named Mary who had been standing at a
window for almost three hours. Mary had not used the chair that had been placed
within reach.
(There are many cases where people in Mary's condition can sit down and assume
the most uncomfortable position imaginable and remain that way for hours. For
Mary, that manifests as an ability to stand for hours at a window without
moving.)
At 11:46 A.M., the attendant guided Mary to her place in the queue just down
the hall from the Dutch door where a noontime dosage of psychotropic drugs
would assure that Mary's narcosis-like state would continue unabated, as if she
needed any assistance to remain in the condition that she was in when she was
first institutionalized about four decades ago.
Her earlier breakfast routine was repeated as “her lunch routine,” after which
Mary returned to the window. Later, the Dutch door routine was repeated, after
which “her lunch routine” morphed into “her dinner routine.”
At the end of another turn at the window that had gone on for several hours,
the lights of Manhattan had come on in the buildings across from Mary's
hospital.
All else was dark - for both the city and for Mary. Just darkness, both outside her window and inside her body and mind and heart.
The assistant finally guided Mary down the hall and back to her room; assisted
her into her bed clothes; led her to the bathroom and then to her bed; walked
to the door; looked back once at Mary; turned off the lights; and closed the
door most of the way while leaving a six-inch gap so that the night shift
workers could pass by and be certain that Mary had not left her bed.
As if they
needed to check. Some would say that Mary's case is one of the most
pitiful they have heard. Yet consider: exceedingly reticent though she is, she
is not - on the other hand - excessively verbose, talkative, long-winded, and
rambling like most non-realized persons on the planet who cannot tolerate the
silence and who use incessant talking as the main weapon employed in their
constant assault on the quietness.
Moreover, though extremely and enormously and abnormally quiet, Mary is not
forever talking in her sleep, interrupting others, nor disturbing the peace of
all who are around her.
Specifically, she is not exhibiting any of the
personality defects that manifest when one or more of the basic personality
types (Types One through Type Nine) inspire in persons the following behaviors
that Mary is not exhibiting. For example:
1. she is not exhibiting Type One traits and judging others and criticizing
them and trying to reform them;
2. she is not exhibiting Type Two traits and forever helping others with a
hidden, self-serving motive, trying to get others to love her in order to
compensate for the love not received during childhood from her aloof and
distant and detached and cold and unavailable parents;
3. she is not exhibiting Type Three traits and forever on stage, trying to get
applause and admiration, working on creating and maintaining a public image of
success;
4. she is not exhibiting Type Four traits and scanning the globe in an
exhaustive “search for Self,” and she is not assuming the persona of “The Super
Seeker” at all;
5. she is not exhibiting Type Five traits and accumulating knowledge in order
to share that in an effort to impress others with her intelligence and with her
vast storehouse of information;
6. she is not exhibiting Type Six traits and being rigid or defensive;
7. she in not exhibiting Type Seven traits and engaging in behaviors that are
rooted in an addictive personality;
8. she is not exhibiting Type Eight traits and trying to control others and
treat people as inferiors, and she is not being domineering and aggressive and
combative the way that Type Eights do;
and
9. she is not exhibiting Type Nine traits and being passive-aggressive.
Now there is no suggestion at all that one should allow her or his relative
existence to follow the route that Mary's has taken, but the invitation is see
that Mary is functioning in a state not unlike that of one in the Child
No-Knowing Stage (or in the Child Ignorance Stage, as some call it) and that
there is indeed something to be said for that as opposed to the billions who
are . . .
a. displaying one of more of the behaviors listed in 1 through 9 above, all of
which are rooted in personality and self-ish-ness and who are
b. functioning under the auspices of their personality trance which leaves
billions of persons - to one degree or another - almost as “out of it” as Mary
because their personality trances are unconsciously driving their thoughts and
words and actions without their being able to choose to do - or not do - what
they are doing, even as they are convinced that they are making choices.
See, a trance is a trance.
It makes no difference if one is in a trance like Mary's or if one is in a
personality trance, which is the case with billions of persons on the
planet.
A trance is a trance.
If one realizes that he / she is among the billions who are walking about in a
trance because that person is being driven subconsciously by the hidden agendas of
their personalities that determine and control their every thought and word and
action, then one can understand why the sages have long advised seekers to be
rid of body and mind and personality identification.
In fact, the more salient point is to heed the invitation to care for the
temporary-body-cum-consciousness but to be rid of the mind and personality /
personalities completely, if one would be free of the trance that mind and
personality generate.
The fact is, with billions living under the influence of the trances generated
by their multiple personalities (see “Multiple Personality Disorder”), they
have no more ability to make conscious choices than does Mary.
Yet if they read
about Mary, those billions might shake their heads, might “tsk-tsk-tsk,” but
then they will continue to abide in their own trance without relating to Mary
at all.
The fact is, they are all Marys, but they do not know it.
Also, there is another parallel between Mary and the billions of non-realized
persons on the planet who are also suffering from a variety of personality
disorders that have developed into neuroses and psychoses.
The other similarity
is that - as with Mary - they have no awareness at all of their actual
condition. They have no clue that they are is the throes of the Ultimate
Sickness, that they too are in a trance, or that they are as powerless as Mary
is to make any conscious choices about anything.
The difference: Mary (though not talking at all) is actually less insane than the
billions who ARE talking . . . talking to an invisible, imaginary Power (or
Powers) and to a Supreme Being (or Beings) and asking and pleading for special
favors and special treatment.
Consider it: Who is really crazier? Mary, who is confined? Or the masses, who
are roaming about and thinking that they are free though they are really just
as confined as Mary in their minds and in their personas?
Coming: When Mary's shift away from being in touch with reality (and Reality)
began, and when the shift away from being in touch with reality (and Reality)
began for billions of others as well.
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."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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