THE MIND AND THE MASSES DEDICATION TO THE CONCEPT OF HIERARCHIES

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THE MIND AND THE MASSES DEDICATION TO THE CONCEPT OF HIERARCHIES

“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

On this site since 2005, the approach has always been to

(a) offer non-dual pointers about specific issues, then to

(b) point out the effects if the masses take a duality-based approach to those issues, then to

(c) provide examples which illustrate the consequences when a duality-based mindset controls the thoughts and words and actions of entire populations.

Discussed here for nearly 18 years is this:

First comes a culture-wide, organized, and entrenched effort to program and condition and domesticate and acculturate and brainwash and indoctrinate children at a very early age;

what comes next is a culture-wide, organized, and entrenched efforts to continue to program and condition and domesticate and acculturate and brainwash and indoctrinate adult-age persons;

meanwhile,

what also came simultaneously during the early years as nations and states and cities were organized is the formation of institutionalized hierarchies which take the ingrained and deep-rooted programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrinating and force an adherence to the dreamed up standards which will assure that the power-holders remain in power and in control of the population.

Once mind control is in place throughout a nation, then speech control and behavior control will be protected by those running the institutionalized hierarchies which, historically, work together to control the masses and to maintain power over the masses.

Which hierarchies are the most powerful? Of course religion has long been at top of the hierarchical heap.

Religion has long been the “go-to guy” in most cultures, the first “line of defense” against a brainwashed, sleepwalking population ever waking up and thereby continuing to think and talk and behave as the leaders would have them do.

Religious hierarchies have long joined forces with governmental hierarchies to assure that the masses behave as desired by the power brokers above the masses in the hierarchy, so both hierarchies have rules and rigidly-enforced penalties for those that would stray from following the leaders in those hierarchies.

Religious hierarchies have long used a threat of eternal pain and suffering to control the masses and governmental hierarchies have long used the threat of immediate pain and suffering to attain the results they want.

Eventually, business hierarchies began aligning themselves with both the religious and political hierarchies to help reinforce the will of the leaders in those two groups in order to join the members of those two hierarchies in accumulating power and wealth as well.

Tomorrow, many throughout a nation will gather to celebrate the reality which has long been alluded to by the words in a pledge to the highest member in their hierarchy. The pledge - which an entire nation is being invited to chant in unison - is this:

“I do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles and his heirs and successors, according to law.”

In other words, they have never had the right to consider the skill set of a variety of candidates and chose the leader which the majority prefer, and they have been programmed to never even question that system. Shades of the behavior among Pavlovian dogs.

Hierarchies have always locked in loyalty; thus, their subjects not only pledge to support the king or queen whose only qualification is birth order but to support their heirs and successors as well, ad infinitum, the preponderance of genetic disorders of inbreeding be damned.

(From the research of Alfie Shaw: “Historically, inbreeding didn’t just keep traits within a bloodline. It also kept power.” 

See why Megan was considered such a threat to the white supremacists in the family she married into and among the Anglo-Saxon, Brit population as a whole? They are most protective of their Germanic, white bloodline, thinking their blood must be “kept pure” at the cost of families failing to receive “the benefits of new blood.” That notion is contrary to their popular beliefs in the false, racially-biased teachings of eugenics which was one of the mainstays of Nazi teachings but which was rooted in earlier teachings among bigoted U.S. citizens.)

In business, the law of primogeniture is the rule of inheritance whereby land descends to the oldest son.

In religions, the same happens (with the exception of Catholicism where the leaders are supposed to be celibate and have no heirs - supposedly- and where the people allow those at the top of the hierarchy to choose replacements).

In sky cults, the job is often handed down to “heirs and successors.” As one example here in Houston, John Osteen started a church. When he died, his son Joel, who had no formal religious training or education, took over. Lakewood Church is the largest religious-business in the city, taking in over $90,000,000.00 a year.

If a culture has been programmed and conditioned in a certain way, it will bow down to the power-holders in religious and political and business positions of authority.

Throughout history, there have been thousands of dynasties and kingdoms (“kingdums”) on the planet. How many times have their leaders and their family members been bowed down to and kowtowed to in the most excessively subservient manner? Trillions? Many trillions?

It’s all possible because the Ultimate Sickness of Duality - and its programming, conditioning, etc. - have been flourishing throughout history.

Religions establish hierarchies. Governments establish hierarchies. Businesses establish hierarchies. Families establish hierarchies. Towns establish hierarchies. States establish hierarchies. Nations establish hierarchies. Students establish hierarchies. Teachers establish hierarchies. 

Hierarchies dominate every culture on the planet. They are the epitome of duality; thus, they can only generate what duality-based beliefs generate: “learned ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” (per Maharaj).

So it is, but so it need not be.

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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