CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS: “Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?

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CAUSATION and RELATIVE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORS: 

“Evil?” or “Ignorance, Stupidity, and Insanity”?

A REVIEW OF THE KEY POINTERS REGARDING THE DUALISTIC BELIEF IN “GOOD” VS. “EVIL”

(Continued)

65. Again, to listen to anyone who is intoxicated is a display of ignorance and stupidity and insanity; yet who are the 7,760,000,000 persons on the planet who until recently were claiming an affiliation with one religion or another (or the millions who claim an affiliation with one spiritual organization or another) listening to for advice and guidance and for their “marching orders”?

[Over the last 15 years or so, those 7,760,000,000 persons who were claiming an affiliation with one organized religion or another has reportedly fallen to 6,640,000,000. Yet their programming lingers in many cases in the U.S. as revealed by some of these stats:

only 60% support a woman’s right to abortion - or a molested child’s right to an abortion or a woman’s right to an abortion when her life is in danger - with 40% opposing all three; those same percentages apply to those for vs. those against same sex marriage; only 78% approve the use of contraception while 22% oppose; 94% do support interracial marriage with only 6% opposing.

Here, with both virtue and sin having come to an end, there is no “moral stand” about any of those issues, pro or con. There is a sane and logical dedication to understanding that people's decisions regarding any and all of those are none of my business.]

66. Those programmed by and attached to rigid dogma are listening to religious and / or spiritually-intoxicated leaders (and, therefore, to thoughts and words that are rooted not in fighting “immorality” but in defense of ignorance and stupidity and insanity and the addiction to control all other people).

67. What (to use Maharaj's words) provides more evidence of ignorance and stupidity and insanity than listening to any intoxicated person for advice and guidance and for one's “marching orders”? The answer: nothing (except believing their thoughts and words and then acting on them). 

68. The Nisarga Yoga invites seekers to abide naturally; to conceptualize nothing; to be driven by no beliefs; to listen to the silence before listening to the thoughts and words of fanatics and maniacs; and to rest in the cool, blue shade rather than being steamed by the heated rhetoric of zealots and ideologues or by anyone who is obsessing over anything.

69. Most never seek because most (97%, according to research) never move beyond the religion that was assigned to them by their parents. Because of the “Goldilocks Syndrome” (which inspires persons to want to find something that is “just right”) some will change churches or temples or mosques.

Fewer still might try a different denomination or sect within the same religion. And some claim that their seeking has moved them beyond religion and that they have become “spiritual.” 

70. The conclusion is never reached that “Holy Smoke! They're ALL acting ignorantly and stupidly and insanely! I've got to get away from ALL of them and what they are teaching!”

At best, there might be some “mini-movements” rather than a full and final movement away from the sources of ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.

71. Yet that is exactly how realization comes - with a full and final “movement away from” - as it did here one night twenty-four years ago this summer after finding evidence that long-held belief “A” was false and long-held belief “B” was false and long-held belief “C” was false, etc. (The problem with that approach: no one will ever live long enough to research and then knock down each and every belief, one at a time. Something else - namely, that moment of peripetia - must come and eliminate it all in one huge flash.) 

72. Such is what happened one evening twenty-four years ago, and it came like one of the torrential downpours that hit here in the spring and that wash away the pollen and antigens and irritants and ragweed and others contaminates that accumulate in this area between one rainfall and the next. 

73. Similarly, the Light came upon the final vestiges of mental darkness that had been accumulated and that were clogging the gutters of a “mind” and - like a torrential downpour of Truth - it washed away any and all remaining concepts and ideas and notions and thoughts and designs and impressions and images and opinions and views and perceptions and perspectives and theories and inklings (a.k.a., “beliefs”) and left the consciousness in its original and unblocked pure state. 

74. That allowed the Original Nature of Awareness to be seen clearly. 

75. Especially in his later talks, Maharaj offered the proper treatment - the Ultimate Medicine - which had nothing to do with the spirituality which he spoke of early on but which he later advised seekers to “give up.” 

76. The key point here is that the road to misery and suffering on planet earth is paved with misdiagnoses. Because of that, the popular treatment plans offer nothing more than inappropriate, ineffective, and unsuitable schemes. Why?

Because the actual causes of the Ultimate Sickness are rooted in ignorance, stupidity, and insanity, not in “evil” or “bad people” or “bad morals” (which is what the popular schemes focus on).

77. Any competent, all-powerful God would have surely cleaned up the mess by now, and the fact that such has not happened is evidence of the additional fact that the most popular means of trying to treat the ills of the relative existence (namely, being religious and / or spiritual and / or praying or begging a god or gods for relief) is not working to address the Sickness. 

78. Whether the problem deals with addiction, emotional illness, personality disorders and neuroses and psychoses, trouble with “relationships,” health problems, family crises, financial predicaments, physical pain, endless misery and suffering, grief, guilt, shame, and / or resentment, the problems are ultimately rooted in body issues, mind issues, and personality issues. 

79. And the false body-mind-personality identifications are a key element in the chain of causation that has led to the planet-wide manifestation of the Ultimate Sickness, and in many cases, the Ultimate Medicine can bring healing and relief. 

80. The most serious problems that humans face throughout the relative existence are rooted in delusions that evolve from body and mind and / or personality identifications and the issues that evolve from ignorant and stupid and insane beliefs that personas are willing to fight and die and even kill to protect or support. 

81. Such issues are not going to go away by praying to a myth-and-superstition-based entity. Praying to a myth-and-superstition-based entity actually reinforces personality identifications and beliefs which are rooted in ignorance and stupidity and insanity and ancient folklore and fallacies. 

82. Because all is matter-energy, and because matter-energy can neither be destroyed nor created, then there is no Creator. And if there is no creator or Creator or Creator-God, then there is also no Sustainer-God or Destroyer-God either. 

83. Prayer, therefore, is an exercise in delusion and deception. 

84. In the book SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler offers professional insight into the connection between religion and mental disorders and, in the process, also offers insight into certain non-duality understandings: 

85. “Psychosis” refers to a way of thinking and speaking. It depicts an apparent failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real. People are labeled psychotic when they refer to mental representations of the world as if they were substantive and real. Another example of confusion is the description of the “voice of conscience” as the literal voice of another being / Being (known as “hearing voices”). 

86. The failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real may be intentional (artistic license) or strategic (lying) or the result of a cognitive inability to differentiate between fantasy and reality. There are three ways of using “psychosis” to refer to people speaking and behaving in certain ways: 

a. Psychosis is used to refer to the state of mind wherein symbolic representations of the world (and metaphors) are confused with the real (literal) things they represent. 

b. Psychosis is an applicable label when one ascribes confused speech to something else. 

c. Finally, the term psychosis is also used to describe abnormal speech and behavior. 

To be continued.

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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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