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I AM THAT vs. “This Is Who I Think I Am”
“We believe in so many things on hearsay. We believe in distant lands and people, in heavens and hells, in gods and goddesses, because we were told. Similarly, we were told about ourselves, our parents, name, position, duties and so on. We never cared to verify.”
---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
(Continued)
Yesterday’s post ended with this information about a woman suggesting that there was supernatural influence controlling the timing of a car wreck which she was involved in.
It is not unlike the woman who reported that “God saved her life” because a man ran a red light but hit her in the front side of the car and that “if she’d been two seconds sooner his car would have hit her broadside and killed her.”
She was offended when I asked, “You may be right, but if God is watching over you, why didn’t he move you through the intersection sooner or later to avoid your being hit at all?”
Trapped in the monomania which resulted from being
re-programmed in her spiritual recovery group, she was appalled when the
comment was made that if her God had really been watching over her, she could
have been five seconds sooner or five seconds later and not been hit at all.
When a child was playing beside a flooding
river during a rainstorm and fell into the river and was swept by the
currents to the bank a mile downstream, her mother reported in a television
interview that it was “the hand of God that pushed her to the side and against the river bank and saved
her life.”
Again, the ignored tardiness of God is
amazing. If there were truly a “hand of God” and if the hand had been sooner,
would it not have pushed the child back before she fell into the raging
currents rather than having to push her out later on?
And if a parent were competent
and sane, would she allow her daughter to play beside a raging river during a
storm? Double evidence of both insanity and ignorance, yes?
Being in touch with Reality is being totally sane. Being trapped by magical
beliefs and supernatural thinking is being out of touch with Reality and is,
therefore, being totally insane.
Such is the case when any personas are adopted as identities, whether thought
dualistically to be “bad ones” or “good ones.” Either persons function sanely
and spontaneously in a nisarga (natural) fashion or they think and talk and
behave insanely in an unnatural / supernatural fashion.
In earlier posts, the discussion showed that
seekers, when they fixate at the religious or spiritual level, have only
completed half of the “journey” to full
realization. They believe the light that fell upon them was the bright noontime
light; it was, in fact, only the dull light of dawn.
That is why 6.5 billion people can walk the planet while claiming to be
religious and/or spiritual without having even the slightest clue at all about
who they are not or about how to find what they truly are;
about how to stop walking and
talking in their sleep; about how to be free of the insanity of magical /
supernatural thinking; or about how to be free of the nonsensical belief that
their false identities are real.
They believe that everything is a result of some external god or power or force
in the universe. They do not understand that every thought they think and every
word they say and every deed they do is driven by the mental illness of
monomania which inspires them to assign a supernatural cause to everything - including all happenings which are actually occurring naturally.
Believing that the cause of everything is an external force that is controlling
events on the planet, they do not understand the actual cause(s) of anything.
Then, driven by their
religious and/or spiritual personas, they will go to any lengths deemed
necessary to support their false beliefs and false identities and to inspire
(or force) others to accept their beliefs as well.
Persons who are totally disgusted by the insanity of the masses in general - insanity that is exposed
millions of times a day across the
globe - have extraordinary tolerance for the insanity on display within
their religious groups, their spiritual groups, and their own homes. Why?
That tolerance allows for the continuation of all of their false personas and
also inspires others with whom they associate to tolerate their insanity.
In their game of mutual but selective acceptance of insanity - acceptance
of their partner’s insanity or their fellow worshipers’ insanity or their fellow group members’ insanity - they
co-dependently reinforce false identities and false beliefs and set the stage
for the widespread acceptance of nonsense.
While monomania appears most often
among the non-realized masses who are trapped in their religious and/or
spiritual personas, the mental illness can appear in varied ways, many depicted
in literature:
In Bronte’s Wuthering Heights,
Heathcliff is described as a monomaniac, obsessing over being reunited with
Cathy.
In Melville’s novel Moby Dick,
Captain Ahab is a monomaniac, his every thought and word and deed and, yes, his
entire relative existence revolving around his desire to kill the white whale.
In one passage, it is noted that “in his narrow-flowing monomania, not one jot
of Ahab’s broad madness had been left
behind . . . . ”
Monomania does indeed result in a narrowing: in being “narrow-minded,” in
living a narrow existence, in being driven by a very narrow and ignorant and
warped perspective.
In Braddon’s novel entitled Lady Audley’s Secret, Robert Audley is
accused of being a monomaniac because of his endless attempts to prove her
guilt.
Monomania is described via her
words, and those words reveal exactly why the 6.5 billion people who have
assumed a religious and / or spiritual persona as a true identity walk about in
their sleep and unconsciously repeat the words of their programmers.
Her words show why such persons are insane; why they cannot accept any pointers
that challenge their rigid belief systems; why they express with pride, but
without logic or reason, their inane beliefs;
why they have been reduced to abidance as a one-dimensional persona; why their brains are shifted into neutral and no longer used; why their corruption-filled minds are closed to truth;
and why they are not ever
likely to see the ignorance of their myth-based beliefs or to awaken to truth.
She said:
What is one of the strangest diagnostics of madness - what is the first appalling
sign of mental aberration? The mind becomes stationary; the brain stagnates;
the even current of reflection is interrupted; the power of the brain resolves
itself into a monotone.
As the waters of a tideless
pool putrefy by reason of their stagnation, the mind becomes turbid and corrupt
through lack of action; and the perpetual reflection upon one subject resolves
itself into monomania.
As noted previously, monomania reduces its victims to one-dimensional persons,
trapped in what is a personality that was developed either (a) during childhood
programming and conditioning
or
(b) in adulthood via a
newly-assumed primary personality that assigns some notion of “god-ness” to
every happening on the planet and in the universe:
“Yes, God has blessed me with a wonderful _____ (fill-in-the-blank with “house,”
“spouse,” “life,” “child,” “family,” “job,” “set of parents,” “support group,”
ad infinitum) or
“Yes, God works in mysterious ways, but I will overcome this loss of _____
(fill-in-the-blank with my “home,” “savings,” “child,” “parent,” “city,” ad infinitum) “and I will eventually be
even stronger for having endured all of this misery and suffering.
“In fact, God will now use my suffering to help others. I will
save lives and make lives better. I are blessed, and I have now been blessed
with the power to bless others.”
In the process of being convinced that something supernatural is the one, single cause of all, non-realized
persons will not understand the cause of anything;
thus, they will remain asleep
and ignorant and will believe that an external power or force is micro-managing
everything, be it dualistically perceived as either “good” or “bad.”
And that is why you are invited to complete the entire “journey,” to be free of
the duality that comes with the assumption even of personas that are thought to
be “the good ones.”
Again, when Hurricane Katrina hit New
Orleans and caused untold flooding and destruction, the Dalai Lama explained
that the hurricane struck that city because of all of negative karma generated
by the people living there.
What chance has the Dalai Lama to understand the role played by ocean temperatures and pressure systems and northern hemispheric movements of tides and wind currents in affecting the routes of hurricanes if he is convinced that some external power is not only determining the course of hurricanes but is using their destructive winds and flooding rains to realign “karmic imbalances”?
Yet fools around the globe nodded their heads in agreement when they heard him verbalize his ignorance.
To be continued.
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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."
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