How Dualistic Thinking Reinforces Ignorance, Justifies Inaction, and Prevents the Understanding of Causation

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How Dualistic Thinking Reinforces Ignorance, Justifies Inaction, and Prevents the Understanding of Causation

Have you noticed that . . .    

as much as the pre-pandemic populations around the globe were being especially driven by three of the Ultimate Sickness’s symptoms which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” that . . .

the post-pandemic populations around the globe are being driven by even greater levels of what many are labeling “higher levels of evil than ever” while some of the more aware are seeing more frequent instances where “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” are at play.

Some with hidden agendas are trying to disguise the problems generated by persons suffering from the Ultimate Sickness with the use of lies; arguments rooted in deceit and deception;

distortions; misdirections; misrepresentations; and dogma-centered belief systems by suggesting that the problems are rooted in humankind’s ancient duality-based conundrum of “good” vs. “evil.”

Two Republican leaders in the House of Representatives - Steve Scalice of Louisiana and Louie Gohmert of Texas – said yesterday, “If everyone had prayed more, 19 children and two teachers might not have been massacred by a gunman  in Uvalde Texas.”

Both tout the A+ rating of their voting records given to them by the gun lobby.

Such self-interest-based comments and the additional magical thinking being exhibited strikes a cord with their followers who show no ability to understand factual causation and who, therefore, turn to their religious programming to explain the sources of criminal behavior.

Yet consider the following facts regarding some of the causes of what the masses deem to be “criminal behaviors”:

“While brain abnormalities may increase the likelihood of criminal behavior, the impact of environment, early life experiences (especially including childhood trauma), genetics and epigenetics cannot be understated many factors contribute to the development of a criminal.”

So, one plan might be to test all children before they enter school to measure and find the exact degree to which they are being affected by environment, by early life experiences (especially including childhood trauma), by genetics and by epigenetics.

Then, once those with the potential to develop into “full-blown criminals” are identified, then they will have to submit to being tracked annually and will have all sorts of restrictions imposed upon them throughout their lives.

So who would pay for that? And which parents would allow a child to be tested and would allow their child (with a brain-set scenario which predisposes them to be become criminals) to have that child’s rights limited from an early age and throughout adulthood?

On the other hand, a different plan might be for legislators - made aware of the fact that such scenarios exist - to take culture-wide steps to limit access to all children and all adults and to remove their ability to own anything which a person predisposed to “criminal behavior” could use against members of their societies.

That not happening, here are some pointers on what most cultures are facing because their leaders are driven by the desire to auction their power off to the highest bidder:

SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ: 

“This is our stupidity, verging on insanity.” 

“Ignorance causes sorrow.” 

“Realization is but the opposite of ignorance. To take the world as real and one’s self as unreal is ignorance, the cause of sorrow.” 

“An ignorant man is ignorant of his ignorance.” 

“Enquire: 'WHO is ignorant?' and ignorance will dissolve like a dream.” 

“There is nothing that can help the world more than your putting an end to ignorance.” 

“To love and worship a god is also ignorance. My home is beyond all notions, however sublime.” 

“In your ignorance you make mistakes and cause pain to yourself and others, but the urge is there and shall not be denied.” 

Next, please consider:

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them abide unnaturally except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them abide supernaturally / spiritually except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have to seek peace except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have what is called “a mind” except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them misunderstand and misperceive except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them work at being something different from what they are except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have beliefs - beliefs based in myths and superstitions and ignorance - except for humans. 

Thus, there are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them believe in dualities and use them to judge and separate and reinforce arrogance and narcissism except for humans. Consider one of the most uncomplicated of all life-forms. The fact are these:

There are no good amoebas vs. bad amoebas; there are no sinful amoebas vs. virtuous amoebas; there are no amoebas that think they are better than other amoebas; 

there are no amoebas that think they need to kill other amoebas; there are no amoebas that are labeling all other amoebas as either good or bad; and there are no amoebas suffering from ignorance or stupidity or insanity. Why?

Because there are no amoebas that have been perversely programmed and conditioned and domesticated and acculturated and indoctrinated and brainwashed by other amoebas that are suffering from ignorance, stupidity, and insanity. 

Similarly, there are no ignorant persons, stupid persons, insane persons, good persons, or bad persons. But there are persons who think they are good and who think that “others” are either good or bad. Those same persons believe that they can judge others and determine which are good and which are bad. 

In the process of over-simplifying motives and causes by reducing them to a single cause - and by applying the religious or spiritual or ideological labels of “good” vs. “bad” to explain motive and cause - all actual understanding of motive and cause is lost. 

What greater example is there of ignorance and stupidity and insanity than for one to believe that she or he knows exactly why other persons do what they do when he or she does not really have a clue? 

And what greater example is there of ignorance and stupidity and insanity than for one to believe that everything that other persons do is done simply because they are either “good” or “bad”? 

The content of this series will address the ignorance of over-simplification and offers an understanding of the chain of causation involved with any thought or word or behavior. 

Some say, “You can only be completely free after your last secret is revealed.” The “realized Nisargan” will assert that “you are only free when your last belief is relinquished.” 

The “realized non-dualist will assert that “you are only free when you discard the last vestige of body identification; when you detach from the last vestige of the mind (and all of its content that was placed there by others, not by you); and when you reject as real the last personality that you were assigned or that you have assumed.”

A “fully realized guide” will assert that “you are only free when you divest yourself of dependence on any external locus of control or so-called 'power' or Power,' both of which are illusions as used by the non-realized masses.”

So the question here again is, “How free do you really want to be?” Most, if honest, would have to admit, “Not really too free at all” or “A lot free, but not totally free.” Why?

Because they want to hang onto some of the concepts that they have always used as bargaining chips to “get something now” or to “assure they'll have a shot at getting something later” to “be someone now” or to “hang onto the person who is willing to keep playing the codependent counterpart role that must be played in order for me to sustain one or more of my remaining, favorite identities.”

This series is not for every seeker. It is only for those seekers who have divested themselves of 95% of their beliefs; who have abandoned 95% of the roles that they have played; who are 95% beyond body identification; 

who have been freed of belief in 95% of the content of their minds; who are 95% sure that no loving and efficient “Power” could possibly be running this planet; 

who are 95% sure that all dualities are lies (including the belief that there are some sinful people and some virtuous people); and who know this without a doubt: 

If you have passed 95% of the way through the exit door of a prison, you are still not free at all.

One cannot be 95% pregnant, and one cannot be 95% free.

This series is not about offering you more of anything or inviting you to believe something new or to understand some teachings or concepts or ideas that you have not understood before. 

It is an invitation to be rid of all that has been accumulated if the accumulations have anything to do with body or mind or personality identification or anything to do with even the slightest lingering belief in the validity of any dualistic pair. 

This series is going to be for those willing to question it all, even if there is only 5% of the above that remains. 

This series is for those ready to risk it all in order to be free of it all - that is, in order to be totally and unequivocally free.

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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