Advaita Vedanta: FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")

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“People are capable sometimes of the strangest of transactions: they pay with their own lives for something as abstract and seemingly inconsequential as an idea."

(Costica Bradatan)

“This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m.”
(John Lennon / Yoko Ono)

“ . . . Stop imagining yourself to be ‘this’ or ‘that.’ Just be.”
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

“Neti-Neti”
(Non-Duality Pointer to Identity-Less-Ness)

“Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, indoctrinated, and brainwashed to believe so that you can be free, period.”
(f.h.)

FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers")

FINAL POINTERS, Part “4”

How much time have you ever spent pausing and considering what “your beliefs” really are and how you came to believe those beliefs?

The process of analyzing one’s belief systems and their impact on one's relative existence is no simple task.

There is no single organizing principle or agreed-upon strategy to follow in order to complete such a sweeping task.

To that end, what is offered here is a plan for starting the process. To become aware of the beliefs held in regards to just four areas has sometimes been enough to shock seekers to break free of their attachment to beliefs which were never theirs in the first place.

[In fact, if one becomes aware of that fact, then that alone should be shocking enough to suddenly inspire the questioning of all beliefs. There is no such thing as your beliefs. There are only their beliefs which have been erroneously assumed to be your own.]

To review, what are the four key sources?

The curses of humankind - all of which spread the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness on a global level - are identified as:

big business and the lies told by their advertisers;

big government and the lies told by politicians;

and

big religion and the lies told by their leaders and in their literature

and

the fourth curse of humankind is what is modeled and taught in the home (or what message is being sent when no effort in the home is made to help offspring shake off the yoke of ignorance and to find wisdom to replace it).

And how do those four factors manipulate and influence and even control the masses’ thoughts and words and actions? Via the beliefs spread through false advertising;

via the beliefs that are spread in churches and temples and synagogues and supposedly “holy books” and wherever else sky cults meet and program and condition and indoctrinate and brainwash members;

via the false beliefs which politicians spread via their gatherings and their false writings and other speeches; and

via the warped programming, conditioning, etc. to which persons are exposed.

Thus, the blueprint for one’s work on belief systems is set:

The invitation is to begin one’s study by spending some time and energy discovering the beliefs which are rooted in those work sources.

Yesterday, the discussion began with beliefs involving “business and advertisers” with a focus on what the writer Wimbush points out regarding the beliefs which are passed down by big business.

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICIANS

One need not be a psychologist to witness and understand how pathological lying is at the core of politics and politicians.

By the end of his term, the previous president in the U.S. had stated 30,573 untruths in public - averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.

Of interest to “non-dualists” is the role which false personality identifications and their accompanying personality disorders play.

WebMD notes that “pathological lying is a symptom of various personality disorders, including the antisocial, the narcissistic, and the histrionic personality disorders. Other conditions, such as borderline personality disorder, may also lead to frequent lies, but the lies themselves are not considered pathological.”

The obsession that party leaders have with gaining and holding onto power and control can be seen by any objective observer to be a driving force which inspires a minimizing of - and actual tolerance for - the blatant and obvious lying which they and their fellow party members ignore and accept with such an absence of the authenticity which the realized endorse.

RELIGION AND SKY CULTS

If you go back to the discussion posted at the beginning of December 2012, you can find a discussion of “The Top Ten Sources of the Ultimate Sickness.”

Each is discussed in detail. Here they are from least to most impactful on the relative existence:

#10: the “mind” (which is the storehouse of all beliefs)

#9: the eradication of any and all tendencies to question (which is a subset of domestication and acculturation)

#8: fairy tales, literature, movies

#7: ego-defense mechanisms

#6: the master and secondary addictions of the human species (to control as well as to the power to be able to control)

#5: archetypes, samskaras (impressions) and memories

#4: the subconscious agendas of personality / personalities

#3: background and culture

#2: xenophobia

and

#l: religion (and / or spirituality and / or ideologies and / or philosophies).

No source has contributed more to the body of dualistic concepts than religion. From the belief of religious persons that they can accurately identity what is good vs. what is bad; what is right vs. what is wrong;

what is okay vs. what is not okay; etc., etc., etc., they have earned their place in both history and in the present as the number one source of duality-based beliefs and, thus, the Ultimate Sickness.

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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