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IF ONLY THREE HOURS OF MANIFESTATION REMAIN: The “Final” Talks of Floyd
Above All: Be Love, But Then Live In An “As If” Fashion So That You Can Enjoy Love As A Relative Expression Of ABSOLUTE, REAL LOVE As Well
(Part Two: What Real Love Is Not)
When a wise “non-dualist” shares pointers, words are first used to point to what is NOT; never is what IS addressed first. The realized understand that truth cannot be found by beginning with a search for truth.
Why? Truth cannot be stated, but it can be understood.
Thus the
search begins first with a search for all distortions, misperceptions,
falsehoods, illusions, and delusions that have been unquestioningly accepted as
fact in the past.
When every lie is seen to be a lie, when every concept is seen to be false,
when all worldly and spiritual knowledge is seen to be nothing more than learned
ignorance, it is at that point then that truth will explode into awareness like
gunpowder touched off by a spark.
The
approach to “seek first the false” applies to all non-duality subject matter,
so the same approach will be used as the discussion of True Love vs. false love
continues. So, what is love NOT?
1. Is it possible that Love is NOT the love-to-be that ego-states experience? “The
Husband” loves-to-be “The Husband” so much that when “The Wife” reports that
she is leaving, 59% of their male partners in the U.S. kill the one intent upon
leaving. When awareness of Reality / reality / authenticity is lost below the
layers of personas which persons wrongly take to be “who they are,” then a “perceived
threat” to an ego-state will be mistaken for an actual threat.
The
result is that the person (in this example “The Husband”) believes so strongly
that he is being attacked that he is driven to strike out in what he
subconsciously takes to be “self-defense” (specifically, in “defense of his
false self”).
2. Is it possible that Love is NOT the love-of-self which drives persons to
seek “a compatible partner”? Many heterosexual persons actually want an
opposite-sex version of themselves.
Many
homosexual persons want a same-sex version of themselves. Persons are so in
love with themselves - with their false “selves” and false identities - that
they believe that they can only be happy if they find other persons to associate
with who mirror them . . . who think as they think, feel as they feel, and
believe as they believe.
Any deviation from that pattern will be grounds for war, either among
individuals or among individuals comprising nations. The nations with the most
arrogant in their populations evidence the belief with proclamations such as:
“You need to follow our political system” (e.g., “democracy,” communism,” “monarchy,” “oligarchies,” fascism,” “authoritarianism,” “dictatorship,” “totalitarian,” etc. );
“you need to adopt our economic system” (e.g., “capitalistic” economic system,” “traditional economic system,” “market economic system,” etc.); and “you need to adopt our religious beliefs” (e.g. “our Christian beliefs, our Islamic beliefs,” etc.)
(The
stage is then set for conflict when persons believe in “the other” and live in
fear and / or hatred of “the other,” which is the essence of duality-based
beliefs.)
3. Is it possible that Love in NOT “the missing ingredient in your life” which
can bring you happiness if attained? All absence of happiness and all presence
of misery is rooted in persona-based perceptions of need, of desires, and of
fears.
Try
to name another area that generates more desire or more fear than “love.” Try
to name anything else sought out so vigorously in order to meet perceived needs
(that are not truly needs at all but are merely more “wants”). Few areas of the
relative existence have superseded “love” in fostering desire, fear, short-term
happiness, and long-term misery.
4. Is it possible that Love is NOT the gateway to having your needs and wishes
met? Your needs are perceived and the actual driving force behind your desires
cannot be seen until well along “the path” to realization.
5. Is it possible that Love is NOT a tool to be used for manipulation of “others”
or “another” in order to gain more or to satisfy a sense of entitlement . . . the
sense that one is entitled to be taken care of or that one deserves more than
you have?
Happiness
begins when the search for more goes and a contentment with less comes.
Happiness becomes fixed when nothing is desired. It reaches a new height during
AS IF living when the Void is enjoyed. It reaches the ultimate bliss after it
is seen that the Void IS the fullness.
6. Is it possible that Love is NOT “caring enough” to meet the needs and
desires of “another”? That is attachment. That is co-dependency. That is
self-service disguised as “service to others.” That is ego-state defense. That
is delusion
And
more often than not, if one looks one layer below what many claim to be their “altruistic
giving,” what is revealed is a hidden agenda to “get” and the desire to serve
self as referenced above.
The drive among the masses to accumulate follows twenty years of early
programming. The shift toward true happiness begins when it is seen that one is
left with a sense of emptiness in spite of all that has been accumulated, when
one enters into an honest inquiry, when one finds the false and then the Real,
and when de-accumulation then begins happening spontaneously.
7. Is it possible that Love is NOT because of? The closest that “love” could be
to what is Real happens when it is not because of but more often is in spite of
instead.
8. Is it possible that your belief systems about love, needs, and “relationships”
are NOT that which is the answer to all your problems but will instead almost
always become an additional source of even more misery? How often in your own
experience has “Mr. Right” or “Ms. Right” eventually been revealed to be “Mr.
Incredibly Wrong!” or “Ms. Unbelievably Wrong!”?
9. Is it possible that Love is NOT that which results when your limbic brain
system releases pleasure-producing chemicals when you are attracted to someone?
That part of the brain recognizes the familiarity of your “caretakers,”
ignoring whether that caretaking was effective or harmful, relatively speaking.
It is a chemical reaction, not a “love-reaction,” when “others” attract you
because of a subconscious response that you can neither trigger willingly nor
halt on your own.
10. Is it possible that Love is NOT the “repetition compulsion” which drives
persons to recreate unhealthy relationship models from the past (with a hidden
agenda of bringing about what you believe would be a more positive outcome)?
Suppose you’re a young woman now whose father during your youth could not
express love. Are you seeking men with a fatherly-image who seem willing to
love you unconditionally? Are you taking that to be “love” when you’re really
addressing a subconscious need that is rooted in childhood disappointments?
[Relatedly, have you ever seen a person who is only attracted, over and over
again, to psychos and who rejects all persons who are fairly healthy in terms
of psychic development and integration? Investigate the domestication and conditioning
that such a person was exposed to in the childhood home and the causes behind
the mystery of “Why does he / she repeatedly go for those types?” or “Why do I
repeatedly go for those types?” The reason for being driven by “a broken picker”
can be uncovered but may require professional assistance or assistance from a
guide with wisdom in order to understand how it was formed and how it operates and how to be rid of its influence.]
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.
