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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
“There is no such thing as mind. There are ideas . . . .” and “Abandon the wrong ideas, for they are false and obstruct your vision . . . .” and “The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom” and “To know that you are a prisoner of your mind - that you live in an imaginary world of your own creation - is the dawn of wisdom” and “I have no mind . . . .”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The "mind" is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and perverted domestication and xenophobia-based acculturation and warped indoctrination and distorted brainwashing as well as learned ignorance and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods (a.k.a., “beliefs”).
---Floyd Henderson
“Realization is nothing more than a process which results in a person being freed from believing in all learned ignorance.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
(Continued)
So, in the quote above, Maharaj made clear that realization simply involves a willingness to stop believing in all of the ignorant BS which you have heard or read or which you were taught and learned and accepted based on blind faith alone and without any objective questioning at all.
And what is the mind which has shifted from functioning as a relative existence asset to functioning as a total relative existence liability? It is simply a collection of . . .
false ideas, notions, concepts, thoughts, impressions, images, opinions, views, theories, and learned ignorance (a.k.a., supposed “knowledge”), all of which can be summarized in a single word: “beliefs.”
Want to be free of being driven subconsciously and unconsciously by the nonsense which has been taught and is now makes up “a mind”? It’s really a simple process:
Simply abandon all beliefs and allow the mind to dissolve into what Maharaj called a “zero concepts” state (which is actually a zero beliefs state).
HOW THE HUMAN MIND SHIFTED FROM BEING “AN ASSET OF SORTS” TO BEING “A TOTAL LIABILITY”
All clear and accurate perspectives come via the elemental plant food brain. All distorted and inaccurate perspectives come from the mind which is always warped by warped programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing and indoctrination.
The result: a near-universal need on planet earth for the masses to be freed from the effects of warped programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing and indoctrination in order to be freed of warped and distorted and inaccurate perspectives.
Author Jon Mills put it this way:
“It’s easy to condition the mind. From an early age we are instructed on what to do and say and how to think about the world around us by our parents. We are then conditioned by our teachers in school in preparation to listen to those we will eventually work for. It doesn’t take much to form false beliefs about oneself, others, and the world around us.”
“We are a product of our upbringing, our society, and the world at large. All it takes is a small amount of pressure from outside to press up against those beliefs that have been formed and we either fight back or flee. Very few accept new ways of living or alternatives to what they believe.”
So how did he describe what it is like once realization happens (meaning, “when one has become freed of ignorance, programming etc.) and a different perspective manifests? He wrote that one is . . .
“no longer blind to the world around him and to the pain of others”; “no longer so foolish to be driven to gain that which didn’t last.”; “felt empathy for the world around him and began to feel at some deeper level the interconnectedness of the world.”
He said,
“It was as if life revealed itself as being like fabric woven together, actually connected in every facet of what we believed to be separate.”
For four years in the U.S., the leaders on the national stage were inundated with dualistic beliefs, so they were trapped in ignorance, programming, etc.); they displayed the perspective which is common to those being driven by the traits of the Ultimate Sickness (which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity and insanity”):
they have no sense of empathy; they have no sense of interconnectedness; they cannot understand how “like fabric woven together” could possibly apply to all humankind and animals and birds and fish and all of nature in general; and they are driven by their beliefs in separation rather than the Oneness.”
Moreover, that is what they pass on to their followers. Persons cannot give away anything other than what they themselves have.
How spot on the pointers from Mills illustrate the difference in the common perspective and in the different but rare perspective of “the realized.”
So the invitation is to consider certain excerpts from the book
1. To review, early human-like beings and human beings did not have “a mind.” In evolutionary terms, the mind is a fairly new phenomenon and is totally alien.
Over many millennia, the human brain evolved from about one cup in size to the present three-and-a-half-cups in size, and it has only been during the most recent evolutionary stages that the human brain has developed sections which can store and retrieve information and
that humans thus have had the ability to develop languages, and - therefore - have had the ability to teach and learn not only by experience and observation and trial-and-error but by the use of thoughts which are expressed in words.
2. Originally, the mind was an asset as far as the perpetuation of the human species was concerned, but it has now became a liability because what is stored therein is based in learned ignorance rather than in experience and observation and trial-and-error.
3. With the development of languages, humans became able to use the information stored in the mind to consciously process the information stored therein (that is, to think.
4. With the combination of the ability to think in words and images and to express thoughts in words, thoughts now control the words spoken and the words spoken now determine whatever actions are taken.
5. The result of the mind becoming a liability rather than an asset led to the development of the Ultimate [Mental] Sickness and humanity’s current entrapment in what Maharaj called “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
[Note: He did not say that persons are ignorant, stupid, and insane. He said that “the non-realized” (trapped as they are in their minds which are filled with learned ignorance) are driven by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”]
Next, according to anthropological studies, the humans who first began living “en community” spent an average of two-and-a-half hours per day involved with addressing the basic necessities of food and clothing and shelter. The rest of the day, they enjoyed eating with family and / or friends; they especially enjoyed any tasty edibles that they could find;
they enjoyed the pleasures of sexual relations; they enjoyed rest and relaxation; they enjoyed the games they played with each other; and they enjoyed time alone, etc.
The lifestyle they enjoyed was passed along, especially via conditioning, to their offspring who emulated what the adults had modeled.
That kind of lifestyle is observable in the area where this house is located, but not by observing humans. It is only modeled for the most part by the deer that live here, and by the birds, and by the fish in the nearby lake.
In other words, during that more restive period of human development, children were prepared to enjoy a relatively existence which could be marked by normalcy and decent levels of contentment and by some periods of joy and pleasure and even by occasional instances of bliss. That would change, however.
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.
