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MARY MARY, QUITE UNMERRY. HOW DID YOUR MIND ACTUALLY GROW?

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MARY MARY, QUITE UNMERRY. HOW DID YOUR MIND ACTUALLY GROW?

The author of the book on addiction which was discussed earlier in this series wrote that, when people looked thoroughly and honestly, “the first thing apparent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong.” He understood, as Maharaj did, that the main problem with persons - all persons - centers in the mind. 

Google the internet for “peace of mind” and you’ll get over 789,000,000 hits, which in itself reveals several key points to understand: 

1. Millions if not billions of persons are searching for peace of mind; 

2. they think that the solution to their mind problem can be addressed with their minds (as if bone cancer can heal bone cancer); 

3. they obviously believe, since they are searching for “peace of mind,” that there is such a thing; and what they do not know is that 

4. there’s no such thing as “peace of mind” and that there is only peace if you are out of your mind. (See the eBook with that title for the full discussion). 

That means that peace can only come when one is no longer driven by the false-belief, nonsensical content of the mind.

Maharaj saw the dualistic paradoxes of all non-Realized persons with their mind-centered problems, one being that they try to address their mind-centered problems and their mind-driven existence with . . . their minds. 

They love the content of their minds, and like arrogant spouses who believe that they are always right and that their mates are causing 100% of the problems in their relationship, the arrogant mind works the same way. 

The last thing that a mind can conclude is that it is “often quite wrong” . . . that it is the problem. The mind is forever looking outside itself to find the cause of discontentment and pain and misery and suffering, blaming everything but the actual source: the mind itself. 

Being the storehouse of dualistic beliefs (and, therefore, being the source of one paradox after another), then the result is this: 

There is the paradox of ignorance, namely that the ignorant do not know that they are ignorant, and if they do happen to become aware of that condition, many flaunt their ignorance, wearing it as proudly as soldiers wear medals on their chest to separate themselves from those with fewer medals. 

Those walking and talking in their sleep have no idea that they are asleep. 

Those living in the dream of the planet are certain that they are awake. 

And the insane do not know that they are insane.

They do not know that they are retreating even as they are certain that they are moving forward, succeeding, accomplishing, convinced that they are “normal.” To that end, consider Mary’s plight. 

Mary (her real name) is institutionalized in New York City. Born in the early 50’s, she has been in what some call “a mental hospital” since the early 1970’s. 

The “manifestation of Mary” in the 1950’s brought with it a perfectly normal brain; in fact, it was considered to be “above normal” in terms of IQ. Of course her brain was formed with the sections that are required to store and retrieve information . . . sections which - once filled - would be called “her mind.” 

But in the beginning, there was no mind to the degree that she had been taught nothing during the Child No-Knowing Stage. Oh yes, there were archetypal messages from day one, messages transmitted genetically via thousands of generations of those who would be deemed her “ancestors.” 

So, she would jump if someone created a loud noise near her face or ears; she would avoid bright lights if possible; she would rest rather than feel as if she were driven to go and do and zoom. That feeling of having to go and do and zoom would come later. 

Those who knew her would report that Mary was normal early on, but her environment was not. Much to the chagrin of those who hear this pointer, there is no sane environment in which children are “raised” nowadays; hence, the formation of personality early on. 

Personality is merely a tool that children use unconsciously to try to survive in the totally-dysfunctional families which are the abnormal norm nowadays. 

(All families are dysfunctional? Really? Yes, really. It goes like this: if there is no dysfunctionalism, then there will be no personality. But is there anyone that has no personality, that is, no assigned ego-states, no adopted roles? No. Thus, there is the clear evidence of the all-pervasive dysfunctionalism in families which every child must try to deal with.) 

Mary from the ages of 0-5 did pretty much what most pre-school girls do; from the ages of 6-12, she did pretty much what most elementary-age girls do; and from the ages of 13-18, she did pretty what most high-school age girls do. 

And by the end of high school, she found herself reflecting on the boys and the men she had met (and “The One” she did not meet). She also reflected on the fact that she no longer had either parent in her life, both having left her years before. And she reflected on the fact that she had no other relatives or friends, either.

Any early and brief periods of joy had given way to adolescent shyness and insecurity and instability and angst and uncertainty and doubt and fear and unmet desires. And all of that was rooted in personality, of course. 

Along the way, Mary experienced plenty of traumatic events, but fewer than some and more than only a few. Yet what she experienced during those years took a toll, and Mary reached a point where, by the age of twenty, the relative existence had already lost its appeal. 

Personality defects and chemical imbalances and dietary deficiencies - all of which are experienced by all - took a greater than usual toll on Mary because she had not been totally desensitized, though she could well have been, understandably. 

By twenty, she had already felt more, hurt more, and suffered more than most would because most her age had already been lulled to sleep 24/7. 

In Mary’s case, it was the laughter that went first; then whatever slight touch of lightness that might seem to have been revealed by an occasional, tenuous smile was really nothing more than a false reflection from a heart that was growing increasingly dark. 

She did consider suicide, but being the non-violent type, she did not choose to escape via that method, even though the relative existence no longer had any appeal at all. With little evidence of the Addictive Personality Disorder, she did not use drugs or alcohol or shopping or work or sex or “love” or chaos or control to try to escape. Instead, she merely retreated. See? That is what insanity is, among other things: a retreat. And to where did Mary retreat? 

Because what she had been programmed to believe was “this world” (and because “this world” was a place of misery and suffering for her) she retreated to “another world,” to one conceptualized within her mind. Eventually, it was via the mind itself that Mary left “this world” permanently to reside in “that world” for the remainder of the manifestation. 

 More on Mary’s story tomorrow.

 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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