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Mary’s Story, Part Two
Again, it is always the case with non-realized humans
that the main problem does truly center in the mind, and as one Norwegian
writer explains it, that movement from “here” to “there” allows people like
Mary to go mentally to “a place where one can entrench oneself anew.”
(Spiritual Giants do the same as Mary. They retreat from the realities of the
relative. Seekers who claim to be fully realized and abiding as THAT, while
having discounted the Is-ness completely, do the same as Mary.
And they are as unaware of what they are doing as Mary is. The difference between the actually realized vs. the not-actually realized is this:
those who claim that they are abiding only as THAT -
instead of overlaying that Reality on the relative - are “entrenching” themselves
there rather than engaging fully and sanely and logically in the relative even
while functioning as the Original Nature of Awareness.)
Where once Mary had sought - earnestly sought - a sense of lightness, now she
really did begin to experience a sensation of floating along, but not in the
fashion of a leaf on the surface of moving water that simply goes with the
flow.
No, her sense of floating was a result of being out of touch, and not just out
of touch with Reality but out of touch with reality, that is, with what was
happening during the relative existence. (Again, Spiritual Giants do the same
as Mary; those who now claim to be only THAT do exactly the same as
Mary.)
So this morning, like every morning for the last four decades or so, an attendant
entered Mary’s room and helped her rise from her bed. The attendant helped her
bathe or shower or take a sponge bath, after which the attendant helped Mary
dress.
Then Mary was marched to a hallway and stood in the queue
that leads to a Dutch door and a pharmacy. All the while, Mary did not speak a
single word.
There, the attendant raised Mary’s arm and allowed the woman dispensing legal
drugs to scan Mary’s barcode information from her plastic bracelet and into the
computer system.
Mary was watched closely to be sure that she actually
swallowed her meds. Then, she was led to the dining hall in the hospital.
There she was seated, and the attendant slid her barcode bracelet from her
too-thin wrist and walked the serving line for Mary, gathering this and that
breakfast food and placing it on a tray and then allowing Mary’s barcode to be
scanned at the end of the line.
Afterwards, Mary’s tray was taken to the long table where she and her fellows
were seated and she was fed a few bites of food. She might have taken a sip of
water or milk through a straw, but more often a small glass is held to her lips
until she gives up her resistance and spreads open her lips and take a few
drops of liquid.
Then, Mary rose with some assistance and walked with some assistance to one of
the casements that allows her to look out on a not-especially-pretty section of
New York City that can be seen from the upper floor window of the hospital.
A chair was slide over near her so she can sit if she so
chooses. But she never so chooses. At this very moment, Mary is standing at
that window and looking out, and that will continue until an attendant comes to
her fifteen minutes before lunch is to be served.
So far, Mary’s case might seem extreme to some visitors reading this chapter,
and while there will be no argument here about that, the fact is that her state
is not rare on planet earth. It is the typical human condition among the
non-Realized around the globe.
The only difference is that the system found Mary. Unlike Mary, most of the
billions who are also sleepwalking through life and who are also insane to one
degree or another are nevertheless roaming about freely because they have not
been found out.
They are almost as catatonic and almost as dissociated as
Mary in their own non-realized, Ultimately Sick way, but they have not been
entered into the system.
A few might find The Understanding via non-duality; for those few, sanity might
be reinstated. For some, Advaita cannot provide the Ultimate Medicine now, but
they might be ready for that treatment at some point in the future. But for
most, no. Their condition will remain as it is, or worsen.
And they are the ones included in the hundreds of sets of “ten million” that
Maharaj referred to who will never Realize and who will remain in ignorance or
will remain insane.
They will walk about in their sleep but will appear to be awake. They will
strut across the stage of “The Theatre of the Lie” and will play the roles that
they have been assigned or that they have assumed. And, like Mary, they will
not have the slightest clue that they are totally out of touch with reality and
Reality.
Earlier, in a facility in New York City, at about 11:45
A.M. CST, an assistant approached a woman named Mary who had been standing at a
window for almost three hours. Mary had not used the chair that had been placed
within reach.
(There are many cases where people in Mary’s condition can sit down and assume
the most uncomfortable position imaginable and remain that way for hours. For
Mary, that manifests as an ability to stand for hours at a window without
moving.)
At 11:46 A.M., the attendant guided Mary to her place in the queue just down
the hall from the Dutch door where a noontime dosage of psychotropic drugs
would assure that Mary’s narcosis-like state would continue unabated, as if she
needed any assistance to remain in the condition that she was in when she was
first institutionalized about four decades ago.
Her earlier breakfast routine was repeated as “her lunch routine,” after which
Mary returned to the window. Later, the Dutch door routine was repeated, after
which “her lunch routine” morphed into “her dinner routine.”
At the end of another turn at the window that had gone on for several hours,
the lights of Manhattan had come on in the buildings across from Mary’s
hospital. All else was dark - for both the city and for Mary. Just
darkness . . . outside her window . . . and inside her body and mind and
heart.
The assistant finally guided Mary down the hall and back to her room; assisted
her into her bed clothes; led her to the bathroom and then to her bed; walked
to the door; looked back once at Mary; turned off the lights; and closed the
door most of the way while leaving a six-inch gap so that the night shift
workers could pass by and be certain that Mary had not left her bed. As if they
needed to check.
As for Mary, more on her in coming posts.
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.
