SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?

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SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?

“Billions of humans are each living a life that is nothing less than a totally staged, performative act. Understanding that, it can be understood why sages throughout the ages have suggested that seekers prioritize the search for authenticity (which actually requires abandoning phoniness).”

“A false identity (being false) can only speak the false; the pure universal consciousness - on the other hand - can only speak the truth.”

--Floyd Henderson

To continue:

So the reasons that persons are seeking is seldom the reason WHY they should be seeking.

As for WHAT they are seeking (or would be seeking, if wise enough), most haven’t a clue.

Again, why? Because they are seeking what they are being told they need to seek by what Maharaj warned against, namely, Big Name Teachers. Why not seek with those persons? 

Because they are Big Names, that is, "popular." Why are they popular? Because they share a populous message, a message that will have mass appeal which will translate into mass sales, as opposed to a message of Truth. 

Maharaj warned that, with them, one or more ego-states are always talking. Never is it the consciousness that speaks.

Many seekers are also seeking that which was suggested by friends or relatives with the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCD PD) who have “very long spiritual bucket lists of things to do before they die” and who are, therefore, recommending one special book to read after another or one special (or “holy” or “spiritual”) place after another that “must be visited before one dies.”

In fact, most are seeking without any clue about why they are seeking . . . really; and without any clue about what they are seeking . . . actually; 

and without any clue about how to go about finding that which they would actually be seeking if wise enough; and how to go about that search (which could be oh, so simple were they shown the way).

When persons come here for a retreat, one of the first questions asked of them is, “So what do think you would like to accomplish during this visit?” 

Most cannot truly explain exactly what they are seeking, and few can answer the question in a brief, short, simple way. Most of their answers go on for a considerable period of time - as happened during “floyd’s” visit with the chief - and most talk all around a real answer to the question.

Many of the answers are rote, answers merely adumbrating what some Big Name Teacher wrote or what a friend or relative recommended (and often those recommendations are well-intended and might also be spot on, even though the friend or relative cannot explain exactly what is being called for by the one they are sending here).

But the bottom line is this: while there are a few among the realized that visit here or call just for the sake of “Dancing Lightly” with what might be called (only for the sake of discussion) “a realized partner to dance with for a few moments,” no one who is still earnestly or obsessively seeking is free of all personality identifications; 

thus, that elimination is the first task to be addressed and why, with Maharaj as well as with the seven-step approach used here, the body and mind and personality identifications must also be addressed and purged first. 

So anyone still seeking earnestly and obsessively is first seeking as a result of personality. Often the last three false roles to go are a religious and / or a spiritual role and, finally, the role of “The Seeker” who usually self-promotes to the status of “The Super Seeker.”

[The woman who is so certain that she is now pure (and therefore ready to take mahasamadhi and transition beyond the birth-life-death-rebirth cycles which she believes in) nevertheless just paid a small fortune for an airline ticket and flew what ended up being a fifty-hour flight - one way, one-hundred hours total - to another continent in order to spend four weeks at a special event being held at an ashram. Really? 

Why, if one is 100% pure, totally realized, and unequivocally ready for the Am-ness to end so that a better existence in a better place can begin, engaging in that doingness? See, “The Super Seeker” - lodged firmly in her endlessly-busy, always-restless, always-unfulfilled, always-generating-a-sense-of-incompleteness, always-frustrated mind - is still “alive and well,” (or more accurately "flourishing" and "sick" as the case might be). 

And that trip is only one example of all of the spiritual going and doing and zooming that she has undertaken in the past twelve months, her talk about “full realization” and having attained a state of “100% pure consciousness” notwithstanding. 

Actually, what could be more delusional than searching for one's misplaced car key, finding it, and then spending the rest of the day still searching for that key? 

In such a case, either distortion and delusion reign or the person has not actually found the key at all. If one has truly found what was being sought, then one will stop searching.]

Many know that there are nine basic personality types which all persons show evidence of to one degree or another. 

The main types are set in place during early childhood (and if the relative existence lasts for several decades, there will be an additional seventy to ninety other personas assigned or assumed and accepted and thought to be real and then played for periods of time as well).

Note on the enneagram pictograph - as illustrated by connecting lines - the types that connect to the Type Four, which is the type that is most likely to seek authenticity and realization:

Note that the Type Four can shift to the Type Two if disintegrated and if psychically unhealthy. If that happens, the search for authenticity will never manifest and the person will then play the role of “The Rescuer” or “The Savior” or “The Helper” (all in order to be “loved”); 

Or, a Type Four can shift to the Type One. The Type One score will provide a measurement of the level of the OCD PD that is at play. While an average score in any of the nine types is a “16,” the woman above scored a “26” in the Type One. 

That means, on a 100-scale, that she scored at the 125-percentile level (that is, "off the charts," 25 points higher than the top of the measuring scale). 

That is a level of OCD PD which will ensure that whatever is being focused on will be focused on obsessively, fanatically, neurotically or psychotically, and zealously.

If one’s obsession is food, then one will eventually increase one's overall poundage, often to lethal levels; if one’s obsession is using nicotine to treat anxiety, then smoking will happen continuously throughout one’s waking hours; 

if one’s obsession is using alcohol to try to “escape” because one lacks the coping skills to address issues from a sober state, then in both cases above one will use nicotine or alcohol obsessively, fanatically, neurotically or psychotically, and zealously;

if one’s obsession is spirituality, then one will certainly engage in spiritual going and doing and zooming to an obsessive, fanatical, neurotic or psychotic and zealous degree; 

if one’s obsession is patriotism and xenophobia, then one will "serve" her or his country obsessively and fanatically and neurotically or psychotically and zealously by killing all persons they are told are “enemies” of their country or by supporting obsessively those who do the killing;

and if one’s obsession is religion, then one will certainly engage in religious going and doing and zooming to an obsessive, fanatical, neurotic or psychotic and zealous degree and can become willing to die for God or to kill for God or to kill for one’s religion or to kill for one’s sect.

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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