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MISTAKES OFTEN MADE BY SEEKERS
“To expound and propagate
concepts is simple.
But to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.”
---Sri
Nisargadatta Maharaj
MISTAKING INSANITY FOR NORMALCY
From a site
visitor: [Received 10 June 2007] Today you said history shows religion leads to
separation and judging and even killing. That’s not true. For me, my religion leads
to peace and power. I stay in conscious contact with Him with prayer all day,
every day, and He empowers me and gives me guidance and peace so I can be happy
for as long as by His grace I am allowed to live. I hope you can find your way
to Him so that you can have peace in this life and joy forever. Signed, John
(as in 3:16)--A Child and Agent of God
F.: As for your closing salutation, I'll go along with with your “A Child label,” but the “Agent of God” is pure fiction. You might as well call yourself “An Agent of Gandalf.”
Earlier it was shown how your religion is based in duality and that your own prophet said, “A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.” Thus, the words of your own prophet guarantee that - trapped in the duality of your dogma - you will be guaranteed to be “unstable in all ways.”
Moreover, if Yeshu’a (“Jesus”) is your guide, then you will model his behavior and leave, organized religion the way that he did.
Additionally, you cannot compartmentalize the instability that results from your dualistic thinking and only be unstable on Saturdays or on Sundays, for example.
Next,
persons who are mentally unstable (per the words of your “Savior”) develop
personality disorders and mental illnesses. Your words reveal that at least two
of those illnesses have manifested in your case.
In order to be restored to sanity, you might first inquire into the ways in which professionals, such as psychologists and psychiatrists, treat those like you who are engaging in “auditory locutions with a being or beings from another world.”
In the book SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY: Recovering What Religions Lost, Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler is quoted as he discusses “psychosis,” a condition in which persons fail to differentiate between the symbolic (abstract) and the real (concrete).
He
said:
People are labeled psychotic when they refer to mental representations as if they were substantive and real. One example [involves taking] the ‘voice of conscience’ as the literal voice of another being, known as ‘hearing voices.’
The
failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real may be intentional
(artistic license) or strategic (lying) or the result of a cognitive inability
to differentiate between fantasy and reality.
The third case is likely yours, John, since supernatural thinking and
supernatural living are based in fantasy and in magical thinking rather than in
being in touch with reality and living naturally. Schaler also discusses
another illness that can generate belief in illusions:
Again, “schizophrenia is said to be characterized by hallucinations, i.e., self-reported imaginings. Belief in God is a socially acceptable, self-reported imagining. Another example of self-reported imaginings, i.e., hallucinations, is the popular belief in the existence of angels.
“This belief is considered normal by mentally-healthy’ people. Belief in the existence of aliens is considered abnormal and is a sign of mental illness. Yet, insofar as angels and aliens are both hallucinations (that is, self-reported imaginings), there is no difference between believing in angels and believing in aliens.
“When
self-reported imaginings conflict with socially-accepted norms of belief,
speech, and behavior, the claims are considered psychotic. When self-reported
imaginings are consistent with socially accepted norms of belief, speech, and
behavior, the claims are considered normal.
Thus, that which is abnormal is now considered normal among the deluded masses,
and that is the obstacle which seekers face when trying to break free of the
bondage of enculturation and the nonsense circulated as truth via their culture’s
programming and conditioning. For more, visit Spiritual Sobriety
You believed that tale with unswerving faith, and even after they admitted that they had lied to you about Santa, you now have unquestioning faith in their next tale about another unseen being that watches over you and knows if you’ve been good or bad and gives you the gifts of power and guidance when you’re good.
The ease with which persons can be programmed to believe the most outlandish tales would be humorous if it were not for the fact that the end result is all of the insane-like behavior and misery and suffering and killing that mars the relative existence because of the sleepwalkers who are walking about the planet while doing things in their sleep, talking in their sleep, and spreading their tales in their sleep.
Might you be able to find which persona, which assumed identity that has resulted from the corrupted consciousness, generated the e-mail above?
Might you be able to find why you think those guiding voices in your head are being spoken by a being from another world?
Might you be able to understand how it is that you came to believe what you believe and why the above illnesses have manifested?
If you find what you were before conception and where you were in the weeks prior to conception, you will find that “you” were not born at all.
And if you find that you were not born, you might give up the notion that you are “born again” (even as those adhering to the teachings of other religions can give up the notion that they will be born again and again and again).
You’ll also understand that, if you were not born, you cannot die, even as you understand that there will be no continuity for the body or “mind” or personality.
Since you are not in touch with reality, you will likely give no consideration to being in touch with reality. Like a six-year-old who has been told that he was lied to about Santa, you want to cling to your magical beliefs in the hope of continuing to get your “rewards” (such as “power” and “guidance,” in your case).
Those who are more willing, however, can begin the “journey” to sanity, to being in touch with reality, to being able to differentiate the symbolic from the real, and to being able to distinguish reality from fantasy.
That is what the non-dual understanding can bring into being, after all. As far as your religiosity or holiness or spirituality, Maharaj dismissed all of that when he said:
“Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this
objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world.
All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud.”
By the way, should you ever consider taking this “journey,” understand that it cannot begin by writing to this site to question the consciousness that speaks herein or by any acts of questioning “other” non-dualists or by seeking out people and trying to force your beliefs on them.
The “journey” begins by questioning yourself, by questioning what others taught you, by making an honest and impartial appraisal of all of your beliefs, your concepts, your ideas and your notions about who you are.
And at the “journey’s” end is freedom from all of “their” limiting beliefs and the ability to relax into the bliss of the nothingness . . . the bliss of zero concepts and zero false personas.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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
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“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”
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“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.
If interested, click the button below to pay the fee via PayPal. You will then receive an email which includes the link for you to view the private, unlisted video via an arrangement we have made with YouTube, Inc. You do not have to have a YouTube account to watch this privately streamed video.
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In addition to the five non-duality books made available without charge by Andy Gugar, Jr. (see “FREEBIES” above), you can now access nearly 3,300 posts for any topics of interest to you.
If you prefer PAPERBACK copies
(collected in two anthologies).
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BARNES and NOBLE presently providing better service
than AMAZON
when it come to fulfilling orders for
paperback and hardcover books
as opposed to delivering digital books.
[NOTE: Wherever you live, you can search for the books below by title with booksellers in your country. With 40,000+ retailers distributing my paperback books, you may order from U.S. stores or you may find someone nearer to you.]
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.”
Order a PAPERBACK copy of The Blissful Abidance Series
from Amazon by clicking here.
SEND A GIFT BOOK TO SOMEONE
(1) You may purchase
a Floyd Henderson Shopify Gift Card here
for someone and offer recommendations for the books in Floyd's store which might be of assistance to them.
Or,
(2) To make an arrangement for us to send in your name as a gift from you any of our books to someone you choose:
(a) Visit www.floydhenderson.com.
(b) Purchase the ebook you’d like to send.
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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.
