I AM THAT vs. “This Is Who I Think I Am”

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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.

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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