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MARY’S STORY, Part Three
Some would say that Mary’s case is one of the most pitiful they have heard. Yet
consider: exceedingly reticent though she is, she is not - on the other hand -
excessively verbose, talkative, long-winded, and rambling as are the billions of non-realized
persons on the planet who cannot tolerate the silence and who use incessant
talking as the main weapon employed in their constant assault on the quietness.
Moreover, though extremely and enormously and abnormally quiet, Mary is not
forever talking in her sleep, interrupting others, nor disturbing the peace of
all who are around her.
Specifically, she is not exhibiting any of the
personality defects that manifest when one or more of the basic personality
types (Types One through Type Nine) inspire in persons the following behaviors
that Mary is not exhibiting. For example:
1. she is not exhibiting Type One traits and judging others and criticizing
them and trying to reform them;
2. she is not exhibiting Type Two traits and forever helping others with a
hidden, self-serving motive, trying to get others to love her in order to
compensate for the love not received during childhood from her aloof and
distant and detached and cold and unavailable parents;
3. she is not exhibiting Type Three traits and forever on stage, trying to get
applause and admiration, working on creating and maintaining a public image of
success;
4. she is not exhibiting Type Four traits and scanning the globe in an
exhaustive “search for Self,” and she is not assuming the persona of “The Super
Seeker” at all;
5. she is not exhibiting Type Five traits and accumulating knowledge in order
to share that in an effort to impress others with her intelligence and with her
vast storehouse of information;
6. she is not exhibiting Type Six traits and being rigid or defensive;
7. she in not exhibiting Type Seven traits and engaging in behaviors that are
rooted in an addictive personality;
8. she is not exhibiting Type Eight traits and trying to control others and
treat people as inferiors, and she is not being domineering and aggressive and
combative the way that Type Eights do;
and
9. she is not exhibiting Type Nine traits and being passive-aggressive.
Now there is no suggestion at all that one should allow her or his relative
existence to follow the route that Mary’s has taken, but the invitation is see
that Mary is functioning in a state not unlike that of one in the Child
No-Knowing Stage (or in the Child Ignorance Stage, as some call it) and that
there is indeed something to be said for that as opposed to the billions who
are . . .
a. displaying one of more of the behaviors listed in 1 through 9 above, all of
which are rooted in personality and self-ish-ness
and who are
b. functioning under the auspices of their personality trance which leaves
billions of persons - to one degree or another - almost as “out of it” as Mary
because their personality trances are unconsciously driving their thoughts and
words and actions without their being able to choose to do - or not do - what
they are doing, even as they are convinced that they are making choices.
See, a trance is a trance.
It makes no difference if one is in a trance like Mary’s or if one is in a
personality trance, which is the case with billions of persons on the
planet.
A trance is a trance.
If one realizes that he / she is among the billions who are walking about in a
trance because they are being driven subconsciously by the hidden agendas of
their personalities that determine and control their every thought and word and
action, then one can understand why the sages have long advised seekers to be
rid of body and mind and personality identification.
In fact, the more salient point is to heed the invitation to care for the
temporary-body-cum-consciousness but to be rid of the mind and personality /
personalities completely, if one would be free of the trance that mind and
personality generate.
The fact is, with billions living under the influence of the trances generated
by their multiple personalities (see “Multiple Personality Disorder”), they
have no more ability to make conscious choices than does Mary.
Yet if they read about Mary, those billions might shake
their heads, might “tsk-tsk-tsk,” but then they will continue to abide in their
own trance without relating to Mary at all.
The fact is, they are all Marys, but they do not know it.
Also, there is another parallel between Mary and the billions of non-realized
persons on the planet who are also suffering from a variety of personality
disorders that have developed into neuroses and psychoses.
The other similarity is that - as with Mary - they have
no awareness at all of their actual condition. They have no clue that they are
is the throes of the Ultimate Sickness, that they too are in a trance, or that
they are as powerless as Mary is to make any conscious choices about
anything.
The difference: Mary (though not talking at all) is actually less insane than the
billions who ARE talking . . . talking to an invisible, imaginary Power (or
Powers) and to a Supreme Being (or Beings) and asking and pleading for special
favors and special treatment.
Consider it: Who is really crazier? Mary, who is confined? Or the masses, who
are roaming about and thinking that they are free though they are really just
as confined as Mary in their minds and in their personas?
Next: When Mary’s shift away from being in touch with reality (and Reality)
began, and when the shift away from being in touch with reality (and Reality)
began for billions of others as well.
MARY, THE NON-REALIZED, AND THE REALIZED
Mary began a slow retreat during her teen years, moving away from what is called “this world” and toward the no-name place in her mind where she resides to this day.
By the time she reached her early twenties, her retreat
was already near-complete. Yet who among the non-realized masses, by their
twenties, are not also lulled into a state where they can no longer
differentiate true from false?
The cancerous mind of the non-realized - after twenty years of programming and
conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and
indoctrination - has metastasized among the non-realized masses and left them
almost as mentally ill as Mary.
The masses gather daily or weekly to hear messages that are no less absurd than
what Mary was hearing early on from the so-called “leaders” throughout her
culture;
what the masses are hearing and believing and accepting as gospel
truth is no less ridiculous and illogical and bizarre than what Mary heard and
was taught and experienced, all of which combined eventually and drove her to
the condition she was in by the time she was admitted to a mental hospital.
As one visitor that heard Mary’s story noted, she is trapped in what many would
call a “toxic system” though most do not acknowledge the fact that there exists
“a myriad of other systems” that are controlling persons and “corrupting” the
consciousness in the same way.
The point: those persons who are suffering from the blocked or corrupted
consciousness . . . they are also Mary.
Once the illusion of personality is able to determine the thoughts and words and actions of a person, that person is just as much a “goner” as Mary. Once mirages control a person’s behavior, that person is as far “gone” as Mary.
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.
