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BELIEFS AND FEARS:
The Fathers and Mothers of Foolishness
BEING FREE OF THE EFFECTS OF FAULTY PROGRAMMING
Again, there are six processes discussed here which result in a fiction-packed, BS-filled, detrimental mind superseding the influence of the natural brain in terms of controlling person’s thoughts and words and actions:
programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination. What version of non-duality is recommended here in order to reverse the effects of those processes? Un-learning and un-teaching.
Today the focus will be on undoing the effects of programming.
Discussions of programming often cite certain well-documents examples about programming:
Pavlov’s dogs is one such example.
Thermostats are another.
Computers are another.
PAVLOV’S DOGS
In the case of Pavlov’s dogs, one can see how warped anything can become as a result of the effects of programming:
The Russian Pavlov first noted the way that programming worked when a stimulus was controlling responses among his dogs.
He began his experiments that established the validity of his theories about programming that have been described thusly: The original and most famous example of classical programming involved the salivary programming of Pavlov’s dogs.
During his research on the physiology of digestion in dogs, Pavlov noticed that, rather than simply salivating in the presence of meat powder, his dogs began to salivate in the presence of the lab technician who normally fed them.
From this observation he predicted that, if a particular stimulus in the dog’s surroundings were present when the dog was presented with meat powder, then this stimulus would become associated with food and cause salivation on its own.
In his initial experiment, Pavlov used the bell on a metronome to call the dogs to their food and, after a few repetitions, the dogs started to salivate in response to the sound bell.
Note that programming displaces that which is nisarga - natural - with unnatural behaviors. Dogs normally salivate when they smell an edible. Programmed, Pavlov’s dogs abnormally salivated when they heard a particular sound.
THERMOSTATS
With thermostats and computers, neither can work independent of their programming.
Consider: some homes have thermostats that has been programmed to cool houses in the summer and to heat them in the winter. A thermostat is programmed to maintain temperatures within a certain, limited range.
If it has not been programmed, it will not function. Its program
determines what it does or what it does not do.
Similarly, persons do nothing that they have not been programmed or acculturated
to do. Unfortunately for persons, they do not choose their programming any more
than a thermostat chooses its programming. As in the case of the thermostat which limits temperature ranges, the programming of persons limits the way that
they function as well.
It may appear that the thermostat is making a decision when it activates or
deactivates “automatically,” but obviously it is not. It has no power of choice
because it is programmed.
That same type of programming leaves persons totally
helpless even though they believe that their ideas and beliefs and concepts are
a source of power and are a benefit. They think they are freely making choices.
How deceived they are. You were programmed in the way that certain key role-players
in your early life choose to program you. The people who lived next door to
where you grew up as a child would have likely given you a totally different
program.
Those of one religion will program people in a way that is completely different
from the programming that people of another religion are given.
Those of one denomination will program people in a way that is completely different
from the programming that people of another denomination are given.
People of
one political party will program people in a way that is completely different
from the programming that people of another party are given.
People with one type of boss will become programmed in a way that is completely
different from the programming that people with a different type of boss will
be given.
And all of your programming - not you - will determine how you emote in any given circumstance.
COMPUTERS
Computers are the same. For all their benefit, they are useless until they are programmed, but if the programming is faulty, so too will the functioning of the computer.
Via the insight into the machinations of the “mind” of Mother Teresa (insight provided by her written words), it can be seen that the programming of humans can result in brutal outcomes, relatively speaking.
The natural inclinations of a formerly “happy”
and “cheerful” girl - including the natural inclinations to date, marry and
have children - were short-circuited by the programming of a mother and a
priest.
Those childhood traits of being “happy” and “cheerful” were replaced by
adulthood traits of “dryness,” “darkness” “loneliness,” “torture,” “terrible
pain,” “emptiness,” and “hypocrisy.” Even “hypocrisy” from this “saint-to-be”?
Yes. And consider how the guilt of such hypocrisy came about:
Had she not been programmed to believe that when it comes to spreading
religious dogma, any action can be justified by the end desired, could a woman
living out her existence in a natural style in Yugoslavia have even remotely
been able to justify receiving over a million dollars in stolen funds and then
keeping those funds even after a district attorney in the U.S. requested that
she return the money to its rightful owners?
Had her religious programming not driven
her to behave as a felon, would she have been tormented by “hypocrisy”?
Would she have been driven into such levels of misery if her religious
programming had not led her to reject the truth she saw privately in order to
maintain a phony public persona and to continue to live a lie after
she saw clearly that the dogma with which she had been programmed was a lie?
Though her programming that was
inspiring the maintenance of a false public image led her to reject the
occasional realization of the lie that she was living and to continue to spread
the lies that she was spreading, her letters provide details of her realization
of the lies during those brief moments of awakening:
Teresa:
Such deep longing for God - but repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no
zeal. Saving souls holds no attraction - Heaven means nothing.
Teresa:
If there be no God, there can be no soul; if there is no Soul, then Jesus, you
also are not true.
Teresa:
I feel just that terrible pain of loss . . . of God not being God, of God not
really existing.”
The “helper’s high” that she experienced, which was just another form of
emotional intoxication that manifests after personas are assumed, can
never sustain itself . . . any more than any other false role can sustain
itself among those who are in touch with reality to any degree at all.
The disintegration of the consciousness called “Teresa” had been completed
early on, and the power of programming was so strong that - even after she saw
the nonsense of her beliefs - she would never find the willingness to reject
them publicly and thereby escaping her needless misery and suffering.
She was so close to full realization, but in allowing the hidden agendas of her
personas to drive her, she spent sixty-six years of vacillation and
doubt and suffering as a result of presenting a bogus front to the world.
So
deep was the suffering generated by her phoniness that she actually put these
thoughts to paper and spread them across the globe.
Might she have been subconsciously hoping that someone would expose her
phoniness and thereby give what she did not have the courage to take (namely,
freedom from playing phony roles and living a lie)? How many today are in that
same circumstance?
How many today are tolerating an
intolerable existence, wishing that someone else would take some action to end
their suffering and misery, rather than taking the steps to realization and
ending that suffering now? How many need professional help but are seeking “spiritual”
solutions instead?
Teresa had it, briefly. Many who suffer today because of their own
phoniness have also had a glimpse into reality that showed their beliefs and
their lives are based totally in a lie;
yet their programming and acculturation
are also blocking them from rejecting the lie. Teresa saw for a moment that “God”
is not true, that “soul” is a concept, and that everything she had been told
was a pack of lies.
She saw for a moment that all of her beliefs were nothing more than figments of
the imagination of controlling men who lived thousands of years ago. She saw on
occasion that “god” is not true; that “jesus” is not true; that “teresa” was
not true. She could just as easily have known that “floyd” is not true and that
“you” are not true.
Teresa, like all who have been programmed, became the dualistic epitome of
self-contradiction:
Teresa: My
prayer of union is not there any longer - I no longer pray.
Moving from that false belief in “union,” she understood the unicity
but hide that awareness for the sake of maintaining a public image and forwarding
a religious agenda.
So much for the peace that comes to the faithful . . . to the believers . . . to
those who refuse to question. So much for those who have been fooled but who
refuse to admit it. (Remember: even those prospectors who only found fool’s
gold still yelled “Eureka!”)
So much for the false notion that freedom can happen in the absence of courage. So much for a passive-aggressive approach that tries to manipulate others to force your hand when you are playing a phony - and therefore self-despised - role.
So much for any notion that happiness
can happen if truth is being repressed or ignored. So much for believing that “this
world” or “an afterlife” is real.
That speck of consciousness was so close, but - being warped - it never
accepted full realization. Now, that formerly-manifested speck called “Teresa”
is the Awareness that is not aware of its awareness, so that one shot at
experiencing the bliss rather than the suffering was missed.
She was so close to recovering the happiness that had been stolen by programming, but instead of accepting honesty, she continued to live her lie and the hypocrisy that generates.
So it is, but so it need not be with “you.” The invitation is to take the steps in order to realize and to be free and to thereby be happy as well.
Persons talk a great deal about their power and their freedom, but the fact is that they are driven by the “desire-fear” factor to create dependencies and co-dependencies with imagined beings here and with imagined Beings there.
Independence is the opposite of dependence, so their drive to be dependent actually leaves them with no freedom at all. As for power, any dependency results in powerlessness, not power.
A person dependent on anything cannot be independent, a person dependent cannot be free, and persons not free cannot be happy, no matter what claims they make to the contrary.
Because persons are trapped in their programming, they can believe themselves to be powerful when they are powerless; can believe themselves to be making choices when they are being driven subconsciously;
can believe they are generally happy
when they are suffering depression; and can believe that “that was then . . . this
is now” when in fact their “past” is still very much their “now.”
One protégé described a father who was physically and verbally abusive, able to
use his tongue to slice away any esteem or self-respect the child might have
had. The father was emotionally-unavailable and usually physically unavailable.
More on her case tomorrow.
To be continued.
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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.
