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BELIEFS AND FEARS:
The Fathers and Mothers of Foolishness
THE AVERAGE
MENTAL AGE OF MOST ADULTS ON PLANET EARTH
What is the age at which such levels of naiveté and gullibility and logic and reason are present that a human will believe in an invisible man visiting every home on the planet in one night to leave gifts for the “good children?”
Because of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination - a.k.a., flat-out lying - the typical age might (per surveys) begin around two and continue until the age of 8.4 years.
During that time, other beliefs held by the members of that age group might include the beliefs that . . .
there's a tooth fairy that will exchange money for teeth; a four-leaf clover can bring good luck as can crossing one’s fingers, wishing upon a star, an upside down horseshoe nailed above a front door, etc.
Other beliefs are often introduced later including these:
there is a god in another world that is in charge of every single happening on this planet, including when a sparrow die, including when children die, and including when adults die.
There have also been the beliefs that god is not pleased if people eat pork (a belief still held among many religious people even today) but that god is pleased if people only eat fish but not meat on Fridays (a belief still held by many).
Others believe that there are people with black skin because when there were only four people on the planet (Adam and Eve and their sons Cain and Abel).
Cain supposedly killed Abel and there was a curse placed upon him by God, “the mark of Cain,” which gave him black skin so all would be able to recognize him as being evil, though “all” only amounted to Cain and his parents.
Which brings up another question which is hardly ever asked: if there was only Cain and his parents originally, who did Cain have sex with to begin a family?
I raised that questioned at the age of five in the church where I was required to attend Sunday School to learn the Biblical dogma they taught. The result: being beating with the buckle end of my dad’s belt when we got home.
Most of my peers, however, believed everything they were told. As for me, I believed none of what they taught but kept my mouth shut about it, at least in church.
So there’s a wide range of BS beliefs which can span the years from age 2 to 8.4 or to 15 or 20 or 30 or 40 and / or to the end of one’s relative existence.
The irony: magical thinking between the ages of 2 and 8.4 can be explained by the nonsensical programming, conditioning, etc. which children are taught early on; but what can explain the magical thinking and the lack of logic and reason among the adult-age masses around the globe?
Objective witnessing can clearly show that the thoughts and beliefs of most adults are functioning at the same level of an eight-years-old.
Now most parents never fess up to their children that they lied to them about Santa. The kids find out about that lie from their friends and classmates, and few go to their parents and confront them about the lie because - if they keep playing the game - they might keep getting gifts and rewards for being “good.”
If a few do think “Those rotten sumbitches!” they usually keep it to themselves. “Gotta keep those in authority happy to get rewards and avoid punishment.”
And who is in charge of the eternal fate
of all persons? An unstable god, so that god above all others must be kept
happy. (So god is co-dependent, his mood and happiness being controlled by what humans do.)
And that belief leads 50% of the planet’s population to end up being driven by the hidden agenda of a Personality Type Six which is the Dependent and Co-dependent Personality Type.
Meanwhile, only ½ of 1% will become Personality Type Fours (as did Maharaj) and question and rebel and see the BS which the masses believe and call it out.
How did Maharaj explain the fact that 99% of the persons on the planet are functioning at the elementary school level of a second or third grade child?
He made clear that (A) 99% are suffering from the Ultimate Sickness and that (B) the key symptoms of that Sickness are “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
So how can adults stop functioning like an 8-year-old?
**Be free of the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness.
**Since that Sickness is rooted in the mind which functions on the level of an eight-year-old, purge the Sickness by purging the mind.
**Abide under the auspices of the brain, just as 99% of every living thing on the planet does . . . except for humans.
What did Maharaj have to say about the mind?
Having tried the religious approach with the addition of non-dual pointers and having failed, and having tried the spiritual approach with the addition of non-dual pointers and having failed, he came to realize the following:
“Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective ‘world’, in the illusion. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud.”
There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here is it only a question of understanding” (and “understanding” is a mental process . . . not a religious or spiritual process).
“There is no progress.”
“First of all, you identify
something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good
or to get rid of bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and
. . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.”
“Whatever you have tried to
understand during your spiritual search will prove false.”
“When the birth is disproved, the
great noble meaning of spirituality and the meaning of this world - everything
- is disproved.”
“I have no faith in anything which
has ever been told, not even what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own
experience.”
So?
So “forget spirituality,” he said.
Follow your “normal inclinations.”
“Do your normal duties.”
“Just give up spirituality.”
[But what about finding “the
True Self” and “The Supreme Self” and “The
Infinite Self”?]
He said that “it is enough to know what you are
not”
and
“I got involved in spirituality,
in the business of spirituality, [but] finally I lost that love of Self also. I
have no more love for the Self.”
[So after giving up the love of the false selves which have been assigned or
which we have assumed, we can also give up the love of the Self as well? Hummm.]
When a visitor to the loft said, “The
scriptures say that we have our karma and our sins and that is why we are here,” Maharaj answered:
“That is for the ignorant masses.
One who has realized . . . , for him these stories are of no use.”
The key, then? What you were taught got you into the mess that adults end up in, so find someone that can guide you through the process of un-learning and being un-taught.
There are a few non-dual guides available, but only a few. There are also a few therapists that have been trained in the use of techniques and EMDR and other methods which can possibly free persons from being controlled by their bogus, infantile, illogical, unreasonable, ignorant, stupidity and insane beliefs.
Meanwhile, consider the possibility that George Bernard Shaw may have been spot on when he was asked, “Do you believe there is life on other planets in our universe?”
He answered instantly, “Yes, and the longer I live, the more I see that earth is being used by those on other planets as their lunatic asylum.”
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"
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.
