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BELIEFS AND FEARS:
The Fathers and Mothers of Foolishness
BEING FREE OF THE EFFECTS OF FAMILIAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONING (continued)
How else can the non-dual understanding facilitate, first, being free of familial conditioning? By eliminating the belief in ego-states which would eliminate the use of ego-defense mechanisms which are used the defend those false personalities.
And which of the ego-defense mechanisms is most often used by the masses all around the globe? Egotism.
To clarify, “ego” is the Latin word for "I." The more that a person uses the word “I,” the more egotistical that person is likely to be. Egotism deals with persons’ sense of self-importance.
EGO and EGOTISM
Ego points to the false personal identifications which persons are assigned or which they adopt. Egotism is what persons / ego-states use to support those false identities.
Egos are the false roles which persons play; they are the characters and the parts played by those walking about on the stage of the Theater of the Lie; they are the facades which persons show publicly;
they are the false front persons display; they are the personas which persons assume; they are images which have no substance;
they are the guises which persons adopt; and they are the basic element used by fakes, cons, shams, pretenders, impostors, charlatans and fraud.
Egos inspire the egotistical to send out “Look at me” messages; they drive humans to seek fame and applause and unlimited sway over large numbers of people; they are actors; they are;
they are show-offs; they are boasters; narcissists; braggers, know-it-alls. They are the persons in cultures who love to flaunt their looks, their wealth (or imaginary wealth); they are forever putting themselves on display.
So what does ego have to do with those who refuse to look at familial conditioning objectively? When ego-state-inspired egotism is driving a person’s thoughts and words and actions, that person will never look objectively at the bizarre impact which her or his parents’ had early on and which is still driving bizarre behavior throughout one’s adulthood.
Over the years when I asked,
“So tell me, what do you see as some of the beliefs and convictions and principles and ideas passed down by your parents which have later been seen to be least advantageous in your life?”
. . . the degree to which their face immediately shifts to a look of disgust and anger reveals the degree of egotism which is present.”
The most egotism-driven usually say, “My parents did a fabulous job! (usually while thinking “you SOB!” but sometime expressing that out loud over the years).
What their egotism drives them to believe is, “Hey! I’m the product of my parents' perfect loins, so I obviously must be perfect as well!”
A counselor whose client said, “My parents did a fabulous job!” had been told several things in past sessions which contradicted that. When she said, “I’m sorry. Maybe I misunderstood earlier when you told me A and B and C about your parents. Was that not the case?”
The response, “Okay. Listen. They did the best they could, dammit!”
Understanding that she would never get anywhere working with the egotistical narcissist, she replied, “Well, so did Hitler. He did the best he could. He wanted to kill all of the Jews but he only got to 6,000,000 of them before he was stopped. But he did the best he could up until then.”
End of session. End of all sessions. The truth can set you free, but it will often piss you off first.
When egotism is driving a person’s thoughts and words and deeds and makes up the bulk of a person’s self-concept, then they will never look objectively at what needs to be purged from the mind which was filled with nonsense by parents and by their parents’ ancestors.
The same applies with cultural conditioning. Have you ever heard the politicians who claim that “We live in the greatest nation on earth” or “We have the greatest medical system on earth,” (the World Health’s Organization rank of 38th for the U.S. totally ignored)?
Xenophobia has been defined as “A dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries” and can plant in the mind a belief that one’s country is the greatest of all countries.
See the role of ego-states and the egotism which works to support ego-states?
“I am a proud American, and no one is better than us.”
“Why don’t you go back where you came from?”
“Ethnic groups should not be mixed.”
“Damn straight I’m a white supremacist / white nationalist.”
Since 1923 in U.S. schools, the seeds of “greatness” are planted early on as children from grades 1 through 12 begin each day by standing, putting their hand over their heart, and reciting the following (for a total approaching 2,000 times).
[Congress added “under God” to the Pledge in 1954 during the Cold War. Many members of Congress reportedly wanted to emphasize the distinctions between the United States and the officially atheistic Soviet Union.”]
Thus . . .
“Am I a zealot about our nation? Yes.”
“Am I fanatical about my country? Dang right I am!”
“U.S.A.!! U.S.A.!! U.S.A.!!
See? Ego and egotism.
Being free of the effects of familial and cultural conditioning can only follow the non-dual understanding; it can never precede it and it can never co-exist with it.
To be continued.
Please enter 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.
