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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY: Try It, But Don’t Buy It, Part One
As with Maharaj and many other guides and sages both past and present, the case here was that religion and spirituality had to be tried, typically being one part of the overall “journey.”
But also, as with those guides and sages, it was realized here that religion and spirituality are merely way-stations along the “path,” not the final destination.
Maharaj made clear in his final talks that (a) the religious messages that
marked the early days of his “teaching career” as well as (b) his focus on
things religious and spiritual - such as much of what is shared in the book I
AM THAT - did not provide the final Nisargan understanding that he would invite
protégés to grasp at the end of his teaching career.
He said of the book I AM THAT:
“That book, and whatever was expounded at that time, was only relevant for that period. I am speaking differently today” and am “emphasizing different aspects.”
What
he offered later differed considerably from his earlier talks, making clear
that the pointers in I AM THAT will
take you to the midpoint of “the race” but that his final talks point the way
to “the finish line.” Thus, he said:
“When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and the
meaning of this world - everything - is disproved”
and
“forget spirituality”
and
follow your “normal inclinations,” that is, follow your natural tendencies,
abandon all spiritual work, and just abide naturally rather than unnaturally or
supernaturally (i.e., neither “religiously” nor “spiritually” nor “philosophically”)
and
“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”
and
he told visitors,
“Do your normal duties”
and
“just give up spirituality.”
The final message here on the subject is the same. For most on the planet, the
religious and spiritual way-stations located at the third step point of the “journey”
are mistaken for that which awaits at the actual end of the “path.”
Via
the steps shared here on the “path,” seekers can shift beyond their
identification with the false i” and to an understanding of the Absolute; therefore, the
religious and / or the spiritual are included as the third of (now) four steps.
During the early stages of the “journey,” something must shift the focus of a
person away from the physical only to a consideration of things metaphysical;
that is, there must come at least a glimpse of the noumenal that can shift one’s focus beyond the phenomenal alone.
If that does not happen, then the 90%+ on the planet who claim an affiliation with some organized religion will be joined by you in their deception and in their supernatural / religious / spiritual trance.
[Note: For years, postings here and pointers in my books referred to “the 97% on the planet who claimed a religious affiliation”; now, updated polling results reflect the shift away from organized religion and the number is just over 90%. A slowly developing, slowing spreading awakening really is happening. To continue:]
That trance, in turn, will support the belief in fairy tales about a
highly-contradictory god who purportedly “loves you unconditionally” but who
will, nevertheless, cast you into eternal flames which will provide physical
torture forever and which will also assure that you will be mentally and
emotionally and psychologically miserable forever as well.
The religious / spiritual trance will also result, almost assuredly, in the
schizophrenia referenced in the previous chapter, and the relative existence of
those assuming the ego-state of “The Wonderful Religious Person” or “The
Spiritual Giant” or “The Faithful One” or “The True Believer” will be marked
and marred by hallucinations which inspire the “self-reported imaginings”
discussed previously.
Then,
those in their trance will associate only with others who believe in God - or
in gods and goddesses - and they will all reinforce each others’ tendencies to
engage in the socially-acceptable, self-reported imaginings that 90%+ on the
planet practice.
Next, suppose a seeker asked the following:
“Because only limited opportunity is available for you to give me the key
understandings that I must grasp if I am to realize and be free of all
nonsensical beliefs, what are the basic essentials that I must understand?”
In
addition to the basic essentials - including pointers regarding the personality
defects, inanity, learned ignorance, and insanity which are rooted in dualistic
beliefs - there would have to be the invitation to see that religion and / or
spirituality cannot even take you to the midpoint of the “path” to full realization.
Several years ago, the following pointer was offered to a woman from St. Louis,
Missouri in the U.S.:
“Cassandra, there is no god that created humans; humans created god (or gods
and goddesses) to alleviate their fears and to fulfill their desires.”
(Maharaj said, “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 the 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.”)
Her reply:
C.: “Floyd, millions of people cannot be wrong about their belief in God.”
F.: “You’re right. Millions aren’t wrong.”
C.: “Exactly.”
F.: “Actually, it is billions who are wrong, and it is trillions upon trillions
of others who have been wrong in the past.”
I was “fired” immediately from the “role” she had assigned to me as “her teacher,”
never realizing that I made an unsuccessful attempt to function as her “un-teacher.”
Those trapped in their attachment to the bogus “conventional wisdom” cannot tolerate an invitation to consider any other possibilities.
The
term “conventional wisdom” mentioned earlier refers to that body of
conventional - but most unwise - beliefs and ideas and concepts that the
ignorant unquestioningly accept as truth. By contrast, the realized believe
nothing and have the wisdom to understand that they are nothing . . . that they
are identity-less.
Around the planet, some of the myths of the last 5,000 years have been debunked
and set aside, though the especially ignorant still cling to their belief in
many “old wives’ tales” and fiction-based superstitions;
in
many cases, the roots of such nonsense date back to the days when pagan
religious leaders dreamed up nonsensical explanations to try to explain to
their followers what they did not have the science or the facts to understand.
For example, “I’ll have sex with a virgin, cut out her heart, eat her body,
drink her blood, pass it among the crowd so you can do the same, and in that
act of communing with the angry Rain God, we will please Him and our crops will
be saved.”
Last Sunday, two billion Christians around the globe reenacted that barbaric ritual and believed that they were communing with “their one true God” by eating the body and drinking the blood of “His Son.”
And their institutionalized normalization of vampirism and cannibalism are accepted by two billion people who do not raise even one question about, or the slightest objection to, the practice or its pagan roots;
thus,
those disgustingly-barbaric activities live on today via the wacky programming
and weird conditioning that are passed on via the dogma that is being taught in
millions of religious venues.)
For the most part, though, gone is the belief in Zeus and his troop of gods and
goddesses, as is the belief in his Roman counterpart Jupiter and his fellow
fictional deities.
Gone not entirely but for the most part is the notion that the planet is flat. Gone is the widespread consensus that the carrying of a rabbit’s foot or the knocking on a piece of wood with one’s knuckles can protect a person or can bring good luck;
gone,
too, for the most part is the belief that breaking a mirror or crossing the
path of a black cat or the number “13” can bring back luck.
Yet the most outrageous legends and the silliest fables (as well as symbolic
parables and stories that are still taken as fact) are being kept alive by “The
Unquestioning Faithful” who take great pride in their refusal to reconsider any
of the outlandish tales and silly beliefs that they have been taught.
And
now, as was the case in the earliest days of the pagan religions which evolved
into the modern religions of today, many are willing to die to defend their
religion-and-spiritually-based falsehoods and myths and superstitions.
Only is one sees that all dualities are false - and sees that no other source
has provided as many dualistic concepts and ideas and beliefs as religion and
spirituality - can one ever continue along the “path,” understand non-duality completely,
and realized fully.
Maharaj: “There are so many who take the dawn for the noon, a momentary
experience for full realization, and destroy even the little they gain by
excess of pride.”
For most seekers, the religious and / or spiritual step must be taken, but for
most of them, it will often be the last step taken, most believing falsely that
they are standing in the full light of the noonday sun though they actually
remain in the darkness, most believing that they have reached the mountaintop .
. . most believing that they have arrived at their final destination.
They will then remain as deceived and as delusional as ever, or even more so.
Only a few will ever hear the invitation to move beyond and realize truly. So
it is, but so it need not be for you.
To be continued.
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.
