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 “6”

“The Top Ten Sources of the Ultimate Sickness” (continued)

#6: the master and secondary addictions of the human species are to have the ability to control and to have the power which enables one to be able to control

The Addictive Personality Disorder (APD) is likely present to one degree or another in 100% of the humans on planet earth.

The APD is a personality which is more likely to become addicted to something. It often involves someone becoming extremely passionate about something and developing an obsession or fixation about something.

The key aspects of addiction often include negative outcomes, emotional triggers, an unending search for stimulation or pleasure, the loss of control, and a critically low level of cognitive ability and awareness.

Notable components of addiction include mood modification, tolerance of that which is being abused, intolerance of others, withdrawal symptoms, conflict, and relapse among those who try to be free of the effects of addiction.

Typical behaviors of addicts in relationships include neglecting all of their relationships and only spending time with the people who share their addiction.

What are some of the various things which humans can become addicted to?

Alcohol, drugs, chaos, shopping, video games, nicotine, glue, cutting / self-mutilation, caffeine, mobile phones, gambling, plastic surgery, exercise, money, work, sex, sugar, social media, ad infinitum.

What are the two things which almost all humans are addicted to?

Control is the master addiction

and

Power (in order to be able to control) is the secondary addiction

Again, all humans can have those two addictions to one degree or another. Of the nine enneagram personality types or styles, the type most prone to develop those two addictions to the most extreme is the Personality Type Eight.

Baron and Wagele in their book share an expression which captures the essence of the Eight: “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight!”

They report that, at their worst (that is, at the height of their unhealthy psyche) in relationships, they are demanding, arrogant, combative, possessive, uncompromising, and quick to find fault. They will often make unrealistic demands on others and can become defensive and over reactive.

In their most unhealthy psychic level, they can become sociopaths and / or psychopaths, caring less about who lives and who dies. They can reach a point where they believe that anyone who stands in the way of their getting what they want does not deserve to live.

They note that typical thoughts of an Eight might include:

“I don’t have to put up with this!”

and

“I’ll show them who's in charge!”

and

“I hate seeing people in my life who let others walk all over them!”

and

“Why don’t they stand on their own two feet?”

and

“If you cross me, I will destroy you!”

They prefer to be the boss and are bullies. They imagine themselves in charge of space and time and all people. They were often abused and become abusers themselves.

Financial security is a key driver for Eights and they are often entrepreneurs, business executives, lawyers, military leaders, and sports figures.

#5: archetypes, samskaras (impressions) and memories

An archetype can be defined as a universally-understood symbol or term or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated.

Archetypes are often used in myths and storytelling across different cultures. “The Hero” is a typical character example, as are the boss, the goddess, the diva, the wanderer, the warrior, the ruler, the sage, etc.

Archetypes can also manifest as adjectives rather than nouns. “Good” vs. bad” is an archetypical pairing. “Up” is an example of a universally-positive archetype while “down” is a universally-negative archetype.

They permeate language, so one might want to “climb UP the ladder of success” and might want to go “UP to heaven upon dying rather than DOWN to hell. “Light” and dark” are archetypal pairings as are “high” and “low.”

Carl Jung said that “there are forms or images of a collective nature which occur practically all over the earth as constituents of myths and at the same time, as individual products of unconscious.”

He said, “Archetypes are imprinted and hardwired into our psyches” and are “a result of collective, shared, ancestral memories which may persist in art, literature and religion but aren't obvious to the eye.”

Some studies have concluded that archetypal message can sometimes be handed down genetically but are often passed along via programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing.

The more aware witnesses have seen that humans are often treated like dogs (specifically, like Pavlovian dogs) or like mice in psychology labs.

How warping are the results? Dogs were conditioned to salivate not when they smelled meat but when they heard the bell on a metronome.

Fear Conditioning is a type of associative learning task in which mice learn to associate a particular neutral Conditional Stimulus (often a tone) with an adversive Unconditional Stimulus (often a mild electrical foot shock).

Children are treated the same when the adults around them believe that corporal punishment is an effective teaching tool. Later, in the workplace, Type Eight bosses often use on their adult employees the same kind of negative conditioning techniques.

The same happens in many relationships and marriages; in many religious messages; and in many doctors’ offices where doctors are being driven wholly by the God Concept Personality Disorder and the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

Dogs and mice. Dog and mice. Dogs and Mice.

The invitation here is to (1) realize how often people in charge desire to relegate others to the roles of a dog or a mouse

and then,

once awakened and freed from the influence of the beliefs which have inspired acceptance of such unacceptable behavior, to (2) stop normalizing and accepting such treatment.

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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