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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?

Ignorant and Insane Assignments of Causation

[Continued from yesterday]

“Most humans have no understanding at all about the way that personality-agenda-controlled interests cause them to think what they think, to say what they say, and to do what they do;

so, how could they possibly have even the slightest clue about what has caused - and continues to cause - any and all happenings in this universe? 

They cannot. Yet the masses sleepwalk through every day of their relative lives assigning blame or cause and then forming resentments and hatred for ‘the other’ whom they blame for all of their troubles and for all of the troubles of humankind. 

That’s ultimate ignorance at play. That’s ultimate insanity at play.”

 --Floyd Henderson

Insanity is evidenced by the fact that the insane masses cannot differentiate between true and false. As a result, they cannot differentiate between reality and myth; between reality and superstition;

between fact and fiction; between roles being played vs. what is happening outside “The Theater of the Lie”; and between the unity and their perceived multiplicities. 

The insanity of ego, in its extreme, often manifests as the Sociopathic Personality Disorder and / or the Psychopathic Personality Disorder, both of which support unrestrained arrogance and limitless entitlement, all steeped in duality and all generating such beliefs as: 

“I have the right to take everything we own and leave.” 

“I have the right to decide who is moral and who is not.” 

“I have the right to control people I live with, work with, meet in traffic, encounter in stores . . . in fact, I have the right to control everyone.” 

“I have the right to decide which single religion is the right one, making clear that all of the other religions are the wrong ones.” 

“As a lawmaker, I have the right to vote the way that my financial supporters want me to vote, not the way that the majority of the people want me to vote.” 

“I have the right to have sex with whomever I choose, even if I must rape to get it.” 

“I have the right to decide who lives and who dies.” 

Relatively speaking, there is not a more lethal combination on the planet than (a) the Sociopathic or Psychopathic Personality Disorder combined with (b) unchecked arrogance and boundless entitlement. 

Note: A sociopath's personality disorder inspires antisocial behavior; a psychopath is a person who also has the antisocial personality disorder, but the disorder manifests in a way that is marked by aggressive, perverted, or criminal behavior without any empathy or remorse at all. 

And the prerequisite for those and all disorders is personality. If there is no false identity / personality at play, then there can be no sociopathic or psychopathic behavior, there can be no arrogance, there can be no sense of entitlement, there can be no bombing of crowds, there can be no slaughter of children, and there can be no bombing of other nations while bragging about the fact that your military is going to “shock and awe” the people of another nation (that is, a nation of “others”).
 
Again, Maharaj said, “After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are but hearsay.” 

It is those persona-based “further acquisitions” that set the stage for all insane thoughts; moreover; insane thoughts lead to insane words, and it is from insane words (including the ones that happen when personas “speak”) that insane deeds evolve. 

Thus, the point again: whatever one might take to be “the ills of the planet and its people,” the ills all fall not under the over-simplified umbrella of “good vs. evil” but under the umbrella of the Ultimate Sickness.

Moreover, those that understand the roots of that Sickness know that “the ills” are not caused by one thing (namely, “evil”) but are caused by all things. The cause of all is . . . all. 

Non-dual teachers have, at times, assigned mantras to seekers, all of which were to be taken into silent contemplation along with any and all pointers received, and the most frequently-assigned non-dual mantra came with the instruction to “stay with the I AM.” 

Why? Following the words “I am” with any word or words does not generate “evil”; instead, following the words “I am” with any word or words generates what Maharaj called “ignorance” and “stupidity” and “insanity.”

To follow “I am” with any word is to reinforce a false identity, and false identities (personalities) - in turn - will support not only “ignorance” and “stupidity” and “insanity” but also every possible personality disorder that exists. 

To follow “I am” with any word, therefore, can also reinforce the Sociopathic Personality Disorder and / or the Psychopathic Personality Disorder as well as unrestrained arrogance and limitless entitlement. 

It also leads to upgrading and downgrading, which sets the stage for a sense of “different from-ment” and “better-than-ment” (which can then be used to judge persons and all “others” from different parts of the city or the nation or the globe or all “others” who have a different appearance or a different religion). 

The result: assumed personas are upgraded and then generate chaos, including the personas revealed in such beliefs as:

“I am the Super Spouse.” 

“I am the Super Christian Who Has Been Told by My Holy Book That My Job Is to Spread My Beliefs to 'the Four Corners of the Earth.” 

“I am the Super Muslim Who Has Been Told That My Job Is to Assure That Everyone Follows the Teachings of Islam.” 

“I am the Super Reformer Who Will Not Leave People Alone But Who Must Change Everyone Instead.” 

“I am a Citizen of the Greatest Country on Earth So I Have the Right to Make the Rest of the World Accept Our Economic System, Our Political System, Our Main Religion, Our Way of Doing Business, Our Lifestyle, Our Philosophy, and Our Ideology . . . or Pay One Hell of a Price For Not Doing So.” 

“I Am The Super Lawman Who will Make Everyone Pay If They Do Not Follow My Laws.” 

“I am the Super Avenger Who Has the Right to Kill Those Whose Beliefs Are Not Aligned with My Beliefs.”

“I Am the Super Jihadist.” 

“I Am The Loser Who Is Ignored and Who Will Do Something So Dramatic That No One Will Ever Ignore Me Again.” 

“I am the No-Name Nobody, but I Will Do Something That Will Result in My Name Being Known by Everyone When I Become the Greatest Mass Murderer in History.” 

I am The One Who Has Been Bullied At School So I Am The One Who Has The Right To Go Into The School And Kill Everyone I Cross Paths With, Whether They Were Among My Bullies Or Not.”

“I Am The Good Ole Boy Who Wants My Country Back and I Am Willing to Attack Anyone Who Stands in the Way.” 

“I am the Angry Religious Person Who Does Not Really Adhere to the Teachings of My Religion But Who Will Strike Out at Others Who Are Different From Me.” 

See, it's the insanity of ego and egotism, not “evil.” 

What persons deem to be a result of “the evil in the world” or “the evil forces at play” or “the evil generated by Satan” or “the evil that children are sometimes born with that must be exorcised” does not exist.

The concept of “evil” is one part of the dreamed-up dualistic lie of “good vs. evil,” and what is “evil” is being defined by the most arrogant on the planet who have assumed personas, who believe that they are among “the good,” and who believe that all “others” who are different from them are “evil.” 

Again, the advice from Maharaj to those who assume imaginary personas as real identities and then allow imaginary things to control and drive their thoughts and words and actions: 

“There is no such thing as a person.” 

“See that you are not what you believe yourself to be.” 

“Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not.” 

“Refuse to think of yourself in terms of this or that.” 

“There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation.” 

Suffering is a call for enquiry . . . . ”

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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