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(Believers, Non-Believers, and “No-Belief-ers”)
(The Problem, the Invitation to Seekers, and “The Opportunity” For Readers and Seekers)
“ISM’S,” continued
From “Give Peace A Chance:
“This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m”
by
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Until a recent planet-wide drop in religious membership, ninety-seven percent of the persons on the planet reported that they are affiliated with one religion or another, and millions more are claiming that they “are not religious but are spiritual.”
In all of those cases, those persons have assumed the role of “believers.” They are taught ideas and concepts and beliefs that they are required to accept by fact-free, inquiry-free faith if they are to avoid the ominous threat of eternal punishment and to be rewarded not only “now” but also “forevermore.”
Some others have assumed the role of “non-believers,” meaning those who have looked at the ideas and concepts and beliefs (a) being taught by so-called “faith-based institutions” or “spiritual groups” and (b) being disseminated by “believers.” The “non-believers” have rejected those beliefs after objective questioning and impartial examination.
By contrast, the fully realized - abiding as the no-concept, no-belief, no-identity, non-dual Reality - cannot be said to be either “believers” or “non-believers.” For the sake of discussion only, they can be pointed to with the label “no-belief-ers” (though, of course, they accept no labels of any kind at all).
Sages throughout the ages - as well as any truly realized guide that are offering pointers nowadays - have invited seekers to realize first and foremost that they have no mind of their own at all.
The “mind” is an accumulation of all of the ideas and concepts and beliefs and “-ism’s” that have been dreamed up, accumulated, and then passed on from one generation to the next . . . in some cases for centuries and in some cases for thousands of years.
A “child” that exits a plant-food body in which plant food elements formed
its body - and is said to have been “born” - has a brain; however, the child
does not initially have anything stored in that part of the brain which will
later store and retrieve information and which will be called “a mind.”
(As noted here, the brain is rooted in the elements; the “mind” is rooted in
the faulty programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination to
which the child will be subjected.)
Eventually, that “mind” will be filled with ideas and concepts and beliefs that
are not the child’s ideas and concepts and beliefs but are the ideas and
concepts and beliefs of the child’s programmers, conditioners, domesticators
and acculturators;
thus, any talk about “my mind” or “your mind” is flawed, for
every “mind” today is actually “their mind” to the degree that “they” have
passed along the content of “their minds” to fill a new generation of “minds”
with ideas and concepts and beliefs and “-ism’s” that can be traced back to
ancient myths and superstitions and non-facts and nonsense.
Follow the chain of the transmission of learned ignorance back to “their minds”
and see that those were also not really “their minds” but were the “minds” of
those who came before them.
The earliest guides were those who dreamed up all sorts of ignorance-based “-ism’s” and ideas and concepts and beliefs and passed those along to their followers,
who passed those along to their offspring and
to their followers, who passed those along to their offspring and to their
followers, over and over and over, from “then” to “now.”
Today, there are thousands of “-ism’s” that are (1) the breeding ground of
future misery and suffering; that are (2) the petri dishes where the bacteria
flourish that will eventually cause the “The Ultimate Sickness”; and that are
(3) the nesting grounds for the continuation and proliferation and
dissemination of the “-ism’s” that nurture duality; distortion; illusion;
delusion; learned ignorance; varying degrees of psychic unhealthiness as a
result of personality disorders; a variety of neuroses; an assortment of
psychoses and full-blown insanity; and the resulting inability to be in touch
with reality or Reality either one.
How many “-ism’s” can you name that you have been attached to at one time or
another? Can you see that those “-ism’s” planted within the “mind” certain
beliefs and ideas and concepts that have since proved to be totally false?
If not, would you at least be willing to look at the “-ism’s” that have influenced your thoughts and words and deeds and reevaluate their effects on your relative existence?
If so, then the invitation is to make a list of the “-ism’s” that
you were subjected to or that you adopted and then assess objectively the
effects.
So, the dysfunctionalism to which every child is exposed during its earliest years (and onward) triggers the assumption of what will become the child’s basic personality type as well as the adoption of other personalities that it will internalize or disintegrate to.
The basic type is
typically set firmly in place by the age of six, and once personality types are
firmly in place, then the assurance of developing personality disorders is also
in place.
Next, misunderstanding and learned ignorance will bring about an attachment to
personality (i.e., false selves, false identities, the assumption of abiding in
imaginary states-of-being-”this” and imaginary states-of-being-”that”).
The
personalities which are assumed are rooted in (and reinforced by) attachment to
“-ism’s,” and those “-ism’s” are the repositories of the counterfeit concepts
and false ideas and bogus beliefs that will join with personality to drive
thoughts and words and actions.
Both personality styles and “-ism’s” will be taught via programming,
conditioning, accumulation, and domestication, brainwashing, and domestication;
then, they will support each other, usually for the remainder of one’s entire relative existence because so few will ever realize and be free of the influence of personalities and “-ism’s.”
It has been noted that the Enneagram test (along with a thorough explanation of what is revealed via the test results by one versed in the use of that instrument) can uncover for a seeker exactly which personalities are driving her or his thoughts, words, deeds, fears and desires.
In almost all cases, that must be understood to be completely free of being driven by personality.
Moreover, persons must see which “-ism’s” they have been attached to and controlled by if they are ever to be free of the influences of the counterfeit concepts and false ideas and bogus beliefs which every “-ism” erroneously disseminates as “truth” and “fact” and “right” and “best.”
No other source has dreamed up more - and spread more - false, duality-based beliefs and ideas and concepts over the last 5,000 years than the source that dreamed up the dualities that are dominant even today:
“right vs. wrong”; “good vs. bad”; “moral
vs. immoral”; “reward vs. punishment now”; “reward vs. punishment forever”; ad
infinitum.
The “-ism’s” in that group include:
Judaism; Protestantism / Catholicism / Jesuitism / Anglicism; Islamism; Mormonism; Buddhism; Hinduism; Talmudism; Jainism; Sikhism; Shintoism; Taoism; baptism; clericalism; congregationalism;
cultism; Deism; creationism; theism; montheism; polytheism; exorcism; dogmatism; druidism; fundamentalism; paganism; predestinarianism; proselytism; puritanism; revivalism;
spiritualism;
supernaturalism; evangelism; televangelism; messianism; monasticism; moralism;
mullahism; mysticism; moralism; occultism; salvationism; separatism; symbolism;
ritualism; and many more.
Those “-ism’s” account for much of the false sense of separation and “different-from-ness”
and “better-than-ment” because billions on
the planet wtill claim affiliation with
either an organized, duality-based religion or with some duality-based “spiritual movement” or some duality-based “spiritual program” or with some duality-based “religious-oriented or-spiritually-oriented philosophy.”
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"
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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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For NON-DUALITY AUDIENCES
The Advanced Seekers' Series (344 pages) is an anthology of four books that share Advaita-based, non-duality pointers that can guide seekers to abide as their original nature. Included in the anthology are
"From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality");
"Consciousness / Awareness: The Nature of Reality Beyond SELF-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding As the Absolute)";
"From the Absolute to the Nothingness";
and
"The Final Understanding."
from BARNES AND NOBLE by clicking here
or (sometimes less efficiently nowadays in terms of paperback delivery)
This anthology (438 pages) contains the six books that make up what has been called The Blissful Abidance Series for those seeking to live blissfully and happily for the remainder of the manifestation, including:
“What BLISS is and what BLISS is not”
“There’s No Such Thing As Peace of Mind (There’s Only Peace If You’re ‘Out of Your Mind’)”
“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”
“Freedom from Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness”
“Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full”
and
“When REALITY Is Overlaid on the RELATIVE.”
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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."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
