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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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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.
