THE ULTIMATE (MENTAL) SICKNESS MUTATES AND BECOMES MORE DIFFICULT TO ERADICATE JUST AS DO THE VIRUSES WHICH SPREAD PHYSICAL SICKNESS ALL AROUND THE GLOBE

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“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

"A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways."

--Yeshu'a 

THE ULTIMATE (MENTAL) SICKNESS MUTATES AND BECOMES MORE DIFFICULT TO ERADICATE JUST AS DO THE VIRUSES WHICH SPREAD PHYSICAL SICKNESS ALL AROUND THE GLOBE

The content of the mind is one of the most influential accumulations on the planet. That content determines every thought that is thought, every word that is said, and every action that is taken by the non-realized masses that make up over 99% of the human population.

And much of that content is in place by the age of six, put there by adults who toy with the minds of their children and other children. 

Many repeat an ancient African proverb, claiming that “It takes a village - that every adult should be stepping forward to contribute to the rearing of the children in the village.”

The problem: some villages have “a village idiot.” Does the village idiot get a say? And what person raised the village idiot to be an idiot? A village idiot, right? How many village idiots might be in the village nowadays? Might their influence nowadays actually outweigh the influence of non-village-idiots?

Nowadays, it may be that every village and city and state and nation has too many village idiots for there to be a normal, natural human among them. A few are there, but being unlike the rest of the masses, the rare non-village-idiot will be ignored or even cast out.

Understand that mutations of viruses are the process they use to protect themselves. Each mutation can result in a more resistant strain. Next . . .

Consider AIDS. There was a “patient zero.” That is the person in whom the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) mutated enough to became a killer. 

Some assert that the immunodeficiency virus had been around from the late 1800’s and lasted for 100+ years before mutating and strengthening enough to result in AIDS which was detected in the United States in June of 1981.

Consider covid. The older human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s but had likely circulated in humans for centuries. Human coronaviruses were identified in 1965 but made no news because they merely caused colds.

It was with the 19th mutation / version of the covid virus that the recent worldwide pandemic was triggered.

By the time that virus mutated, it was strong enough that - while some have a natural resistance to its effects - most humans do not have a strong enough immunity system to shut down its spread.

The same applies to the spread of extreme idiocy and to the Ultimate Sickness. Patient Zero was a village idiot. Then the idiocy mutated to generate more and more serious cases of idiocy and, therefore, more and more instances of village idiots showing up.

Maharaj said that three of the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness are “(learned) ignorance, stupidity, and insanity,” (a.k.a., “idiocy”). 

On planet earth, it has been around since the earliest days of humans. As with AIDS and Covid, each mutation of ignorance, stupidity, insanity and idiocy can result in a more resistant strain.

Nowadays, the Ultimate Sickness has spread globally, and objective witnessing makes clear that it has possibility reached an all-time high level of manifestation.

Consider what Maharaj had to say about the symptom of ignorance / idiocy:

SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ:

“This is our stupidity, verging on insanity.”

“Ignorance causes sorrow.”

“Realization is but the opposite of ignorance. To take the world as real and one’s self as unreal is ignorance, the cause of sorrow.”

“An ignorant man is ignorant of his ignorance.”

“Enquire: 'WHO is ignorant?' and ignorance will dissolve like a dream.”

“There is nothing that can help the world more than your putting an end to ignorance.”

“To love and worship a god is also ignorance. My home is beyond all notions, however sublime.”

“In your ignorance you make mistakes and cause pain to yourself and others, but the urge is there and shall not be denied.”

When cancer spreads throughout a body, it’s called metastasis. In metastasis, cancer cells break away from where they first formed, travel through the blood or lymph system, and form new tumors in other parts of the body. Cancer can spread to almost anywhere in the body, but it commonly moves into the bones, liver, or lungs.

It is that factor which makes cancer one of the top killers of humans.

Fortunately, the Ultimate Sickness does not metastasize. The mind is the seat of the Ultimate Sickness and the seat of the ignorance, stupidity, insanity and idiocy which it generates, so humans that would be free of the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness need but address the issues rooted in the mind.

Humans love to believe that they are unique. Nowadays, they are unique among all living things, but not in a way that gives them a legitimate right to brag. Consider: 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them abide unnaturally except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them abide supernaturally / spiritually except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have to seek peace except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have what is called “a mind” except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them misunderstand and misperceive except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them work at being something different from what they are except for humans. 

There are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them have beliefs - beliefs based in myths and superstitions and ignorance - except for humans. 

Thus, there are billions of life-forms on the planet, but none of them believe in dualities and use them to judge and separate and reinforce arrogance and narcissism except for humans. Consider one of the most uncomplicated of all life-forms. The fact are these:

There are no good amoebas vs. bad amoebas; there are no sinful amoebas vs. virtuous amoebas; there are no amoebas that think they are better than other amoebas; 

there are no amoebas that think they need to kill other amoebas; there are no amoebas that are labeling all other amoebas as either good or bad; 

and there are no amoebas suffering from ignorance or stupidity or insanity because there are no amoebas that have been perversely programmed and conditioned and domesticated and acculturated and indoctrinated and brainwashed by other amoebas that are suffering from ignorance, stupidity, and insanity. 

Similarly, there are no ignorant persons, stupid persons, insane persons, good persons, or bad persons. But there are persons who think that they are good and who think that “others” are either good or bad. Those same persons believe that they can judge others and determine which are good and which are bad. 

In the process of over-simplifying motives and causes by reducing them to a single cause - and by applying the religious or spiritual or ideological labels of “good” vs. “bad” to explain motive and cause - all actual understanding of motive and cause is lost. 

What greater example is there of ignorance and stupidity and insanity than for one to believe that she or he knows exactly why other persons do what they do when he or she does not really have a clue?

And what greater example is there of ignorance and stupidity and insanity than for one to believe that everything that other persons do is done simply because, dualistically, they are either “good” or “bad”? 

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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