The Anatomy of Human Memory Storage: The Elemental Brain vs. the Non-Elemental Mind or The Natural Brain vs. the Never-Natural Mind

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The Anatomy of Human Memory Storage: The Elemental Brain vs. the Non-Elemental Mind

or

The Natural Brain vs. the Never-Natural Mind

One former head of the United Negro College Fund, Arthur Fletcher, coined the phrase `A mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

Eventually, the NAACP and other groups began using Fletcher’s point by distributing advertisements in the U.S. claiming that “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

How far off the mark that assertion. Those who have seen the toll on the relative existence since the “mind” shifted from . . .

. . .  being a tool to be used to aid the perpetuation of the species to

. . .  being the driver of destructive and self-destructive behavior (relatively speaking, of course)

understand that the facts show that a “mind” is not a terrible thing to waste but that the “mind” has become instead just a terrible waste, period.

Being in touch with reality and seeing that all chaos and misery and suffering is rooted in the “mind” makes clear that, indeed, the problems of humanity do center in the “mind”; makes clear that religion and spirituality do not “heal the mind” but expand the contents and dualistic beliefs of the “mind”;

and makes clear that (a) stability and (b) freedom from misery and suffering and (c) peace happen not when the “mind” is used even more but begin when the belief in the content of the “mind” comes to an end.

Trace to their actual root all of the discomforts and discontentment and dis-ease and misery and suffering and needless expenses and wasted resources that have marked your relative existence and you will find that . . . 

. . . the search for their source ends with seeing that they have all been rooted in the thoughts and beliefs and attitudes and ideas and concepts and false identities that are stored in the fiction-filled “mind.”

For millions of years, humans survived and functioned well enough with a small, primitive brain and with no mind.

Over the last four million years, human brain volume has increased from about 400 ml to about 1400 ml. Only recently during the evolutionary period did the brain develop the capacity to store memories and to retrieve memories, allowing for the formation of a “mind” which could store and retrieve information which could help avoid potentially-dangerous situations.

After languages developed, persons with personal agendas began programming and conditioning the minds of persons, and the corrupted “mind” began overriding the brain, motivating foolishness and / or dangerous conduct. Such as?

Such as the brain saying, “Alcohol poisoning is killing the body and making it feel ill” but the “mind” overruling the brain and saying, “It will be used anyway since it will make me feel better”;

or the brain saying, “This dogma is self-contradictory nonsense” but the programmed “mind” saying, “I have to believe all of my religious and spiritual teachings or my body will be tortured with fire forever”.

When one has been programmed and conditioned, freedom does not exist since the power to choose does not exist.

Once persons began storing in their “minds” the memory of ideas and beliefs and concepts that are taught by persons with agendas, then memories became dualistic in their nature.

As human “minds” - and therefore human behavior - became more abnormal as a result of dualistic beliefs and concepts, children began forming personalities in an effort to adapt to abnormal family situations.

With its belief in personas, the “mind” became more corrupted and warped and personas were attached to as identities. 

Personality then began to generate a variety of personality disorders, and personality disorders now generate most of the insane-like thinking and behavior of humans.

Again, some claim that “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Nowadays, it would be far more accurate to say, “A mind is a terrible waste.” The content of the “mind” has become the obstacle to seeing the Truth. Maharaj advised: “Go to zero concepts.”

Adults, unconsciously driven by memories and programming and personality, behave more and more in childish and non-sensible ways.

Personality now generates the majority of the “problems of the planet” as personality disorders determine how persons emote and think and, therefore, determine how they behave.

Billions of persons are blindly and unquestioningly doing what their programmers would have them do.

The solution to “the problem of the planet” is Realization, including the discarding of all body-mind-personality identifications.

Anything offered by non-dualists can only have “applicability” during the relative manifestation.

Post-realization, AS IF living can happen. When the ego dissolves via realization, then happiness begins because fear and desires end.

Full realization will result in complete freedom…even freedom from believing in power or free will or choice. Seeing clearly, it becomes understood that the “problems of the planet” are illusory and that there is no “you” that has any problems.

Only post-realization can persons be free of the insane-like condition of not even knowing who / what they truly are and what they truly are not.

It is “the direct path approach to realization” that is offered on this site. Following the direct path requires no worship, no practices, no sacrifices, no giving or taking, no adherence to rules or dogma, no daily or weekly meetings, no fund-raising, no special buildings or special clothes, no robes, no special haircuts;

no physical posturing, no holy texts, and no accoutrements. (It is because of the “no holy texts” part of this path that some suggest “vedanta” is not even applicable.)

Pointing to the “Original Understanding,” which is the same understanding attained via realization, makes the approach vary from other methods. That said, there is no suggestion that any path is “superior” to any other.

The direct “path” that is being illuminated here allows a seeker to remove misperceptions via an objective investigation of all personally-held concepts; allows the continuation of the “journey” once it is understand that the highly-valued “mind” is to be devalued and discarded;

and allows the seeker to advance along the way by removing the obstacles on the “path” (specifically, the psychological abnormalities) which support the erroneous belief in personas and which enable a childhood set of tools called “personality” to control the entire relative existence of adult-age persons across the face of the planet.

Moreover, the direct path as expounded here is the path to natural - rather than unnatural or supernatural - living. Rather than “setting a goal” to worship god(s) or to know the Self, the direct path allows an awareness of the no-self, the no Self, the no-Being, the non-beingness, and the no-concept, non-dual Reality.

If the content of the “mind” (which is a conglomeration of distortions and misinformation) is discarded, then the effects of personality can be discarded. If both the “mind” and the “personality” are discarded, then the remaining steps of “the Journey back to Reality” can be completed and abidance as the Absolute can happen.

Only then can freedom during the manifestation also happen, but it all begins with questioning and then discarding attachment to the illusions of the body-mind-personality triad.

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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