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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd

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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd 

If Seeking Authenticity, Listen To The Beat Of Your Inner Guru And Allow That To Be The Drum That Provides The Beat To Which You March

To review:

1. Find the simplest version of these teachings. Do not complicate the process, and do not allow others to complicate the process for you.

2. Seek and accept only that which leads to the ability to abide naturally and spontaneously and unaffectedly and effortlessly.

3. End all efforts to replace former “bad” labels and roles with “new and improved and upgraded and noble labels and roles.”

4. Reality is non-dual and is identity-less and is concept-less, so why put your life “on hold” for decades while trying to determine if you are “an Infinite Self” or “a Supreme Self” or “The Most Superior Self” when - in the end - you are to see the reality of the no-identity, no-concept, non-dual Nothingness?

5. Everything in the relative is much ado about nothing, and everything in the Absolute is also much ado about nothing. There is no “later,” no “judgment,” and no “eternal reward” or “eternal punishment,” so abide naturally, now, and stop being so damn serious. Just be, instead. Relax. Enjoy.

6. Understand that, while the relative existence will never be stable, that which you are is that which can be fixed and pure and stable and unadulterated when the abidance happens naturally as the Pure and Total Awareness.

7. Question everything and everyone in order to eventually understand this: Truth can be known but cannot be spoken.

(No matter what you might think is true, and no matter how much you might be inspired to take exception and say, “Well, Floyd, I do know for certain that ‘a’ is true and that ‘b’ is true,” this speck will always be able to provide examples of instances where both your “a” belief and your “b” concept are not true at all).

8. See that programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination provided the means by which “they” accepted as fact (without any questioning and with blind faith alone) what became their learned ignorance; 

then, see that “their” programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination of you transferred “their” learned ignorance to you if you did not question “them” and everything they told you and taught you.

9. Next, if seeking authenticity, listen to the beat of your inner guru and allow that to be the drum that provides the beat to which you march. That can only happen if you understand that the term “conventional wisdom” is an oxymoron.

While the “convention wisdom” convinces persons that they are the many roles which they have been assigned or have adopted as identities, actual wisdom is knowing that you are nothing.

All that is thought to a part of the “conventional wisdom” is actually the learned ignorance that is widely-accepted among the masses as being factual when, in actual fact, the body of “conventional wisdom” contains instead only non-truths and hearsay and myths and superstitions and bogus concepts and nonsensical beliefs and distorted ideas.

To march to the beat of those who are in step with the cadence that is played out on the drums of personality, personality defects, ignorance, and insanity is to fall in line with sheep-like marchers who can only guide you over the edge of the cliff of distortion and illusion and self-deception.

From the realized writer Henry David Thoreau:

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away”

and

“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”

The so-called “conventional wisdom” is that people must “go along to get along”; actual wisdom is understanding that to go along with those marching blindly in the darkness of ignorance and insanity is not “getting along” at all.

The so-called “conventional wisdom” is that much is understood by humans; actual wisdom is that which the masses have never even once considered, must less understood.

The so-called “conventional wisdom” involves the belief among the masses that they really are the many roles they play; actual wisdom is (a) understanding that they are none of the things that they believe they are and (b) understanding that, in fact, they are nothing.

The so-called “conventional wisdom” among the masses (specifically, the 6,790,000,000 on the planet who claim to be associated with one organized religion or another) is that truth is revealed only in books deemed “holy,” in books written (usually) by men who claim that they heard God - or one of many gods - speaking to them;

actual wisdom is knowing that persons who claim that they are hearing an all-powerful entity speaking to them from another world are either frauds or are psychotics who are admitting that they are suffering from instances of “auditory locution,” that they are hearing voices in their heads, and that they are subject to schizophrenia-induced hallucinations.

Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler:

“Psychosis” refers to a way of thinking and speaking. It depicts an apparent failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real. People are labeled psychotic when they refer to mental representations of the world as if they were substantive and real. Another example of confusion is the description of 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. There are three ways of using “psychosis” to refer to people speaking and behaving in certain ways:

(1) Psychosis is used to refer to the state wherein symbolic representations of the world (and metaphors) are confused with the real (literal) things they represent.

(2) Psychosis is an applicable label when one ascribes confused speech to something else.

(3) Finally, the term psychosis is also used to describe abnormal speech and behavior.

The schizophrenia referenced earlier is said to be characterized by hallucinations, i.e., self-reported imaginings. Belief in God has become a socially-acceptable, self-reported imagining among the 93% of programmed and conditioned persons on the planet who proudly proclaim their belief in a god or gods.

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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