PERSONALITY PREEMPTS THE ABILITY TO MAKE CHOICES

 

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PERSONALITY PREEMPTS THE ABILITY TO MAKE CHOICES

 “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 The so-called “conventional wisdom” among the non-realized masses (which is not wisdom at all but is actually conventional, widespread ignorance) is that all humans can put their free will to work and can choose to be sinful and evil on the one hand or virtuous and upright on the other hand.

The realized understand that there is no such thing as “free will” and “choice” among the nearly eight billion non-realized persons on the planet. That is just one more of the countless bogus concepts which persons attach to.

Being non-realized, they are identified with their personalities / personas; being identified with those personalities - each of which has a primary agenda and a primary fear - the thoughts and words and actions of those among the non-realized masses will be determined by combinations of their personalities’ fears and desires. 

To fail to understand that very basic fact about what motivates persons to do what they do (whether the majority label what some “others” do as “good” or what some “others” do as “bad” or “evil”) is to believe erroneously that persons are making conscious choices rather than being driven by the unconscious / subconscious agendas of their personality identifications. 

Yet as referenced above, when being driven by the subconscious agendas of a persona (or more often by the hidden agendas of multiple personalities) then no one is choosing to do or not do anything. 

When persons make arrangements to complete the two-session enneagram personality inventory class offered here, the first session begins with this explanation of that phenomenon: 

This scenario is set forth: “Pretend that you are in an automobile and that you are being driven. Where can you be in that car?” Most answer incorrectly. After they offer their theories, they are reminded that the key word used in the question was “driven.” 

If one is being driven in an automobile, then that person is not driving. Such persons cannot be behind the wheel. Being driven, they can be in the passenger seat, the back seat, or locked away in the trunk / the boot, but someone else is behind the steering wheel. 

You see, when being driven, someone (or something) else is in charge; someone (or something) else has the ultimate ability to determine if the car goes to the left, to the right, straight ahead, or off into a ditch.

If driven, you have no choice. You have no say. You cannot choose where you’ll go, when you’ll go, how you’ll go, or if you will go or not. Your “journey” through the relative existence will follow a course which is being controlled by other persons. 

Initially, those other persons are your programmers, conditioners, acculturators, domesticators, brainwashers and indoctrinators. That group will expand in number to include any and all other influential persons who assign roles to you or who inspire the assumption of roles.

Either way, the fears and desires of those roles (personas, personalities, stage characters, assumed false identities, guises, facades, fronts, images, ego-states, whatever) will ultimately drive you and your every thought and word and action. 

So what about in the U.S. nowadays? Once on the trip from the lake where I live to a city in Louisiana, in the span of four hours there were witnessed no fewer than four flagpoles - some quite expensive - flying the Confederate flag . . . a flag that remains a very popular symbol of the racist southern states which left the Union in the 1860’s and began a civil war in the U.S.

That grew into a war in which over 750,000 soldiers from the South and the North killed each other, along with killing an unknown number of “non-military civilians”) in a fight over whether or not to free the slaves brought to the States from Africa. 

After watching the movie “Lincoln” recently, it was said to the companion who watched it as well, “Too bad that war never really came to an end.”

Racial prejudice is alive and well in the U.S., an African-America man having been elected twice to the presidency notwithstanding. In fact, those elections actually brought the racists out of the darkness and back into the spotlight. Now, their previously hidden or disguised prejudices and white supremacist beliefs have been brought to the forefront.

Any past attempt to hide their ignorant, racist, duality-based beliefs about race in “polite company” has disappeared, along with any pretense that they have anything to do with “polite company.” On a national level they are now playing “follow the leader” with their ignorant and bitter and racist political candidate.

As a child growing up in the racist South, the dualistic, racial message was made clear by word and by example, the most common beliefs being that blacks are inferior; blacks have no intelligence; blacks are thieves; blacks are takers;

blacks deserve less than; etc., etc. etc. The one playing the “father role” in my life (who had been raised by a Cherokee mother and knew something about non-duality) provided some of the rare contradictory messages heard during those years.

Yet today, those same beliefs are still being heard. A series here pointed out that a former Texas Governor Rick Perry (also a former Republican presidential candidate) had a hunting camp in Texas called “Niggerhead.” 

Whether it is children in the U.S. who are still being taught to believe in racial inequality or children in North Korea who are being taught to hate anyone from the U.S., programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrinating are removing early on from children any possibility of “choosing” what they believe.

In the U.S., if that involves Muslims, it is said that “they have been radicalized”; if it involves U.S. citizens who are anti-Muslim, it is said that “they are patriots who love their country.” 

So it is on a planet where programming-induced “ignorance, stupidity and insanity” run rampart. Persons have no ability to choose, so no one can choose to be “good” or “evil.”

If programmed, conditioned, acculturated, domesticated, brainwashed, and indoctrinated, any and all ability to choose or not choose anything has been preempted.

Persons on the planet are being driven; therefore, they have no say at all about where they’ll go, when they’ll go, how they’ll go, or if they will go or not.

Whether a bombing involves citizens on the streets of Baghdad or on the streets of Boston, the perpetrators are all being driven by the ignorant and stupid and insane results of the false identities which have been assigned or have assumed. 

It need not be so, yet - at present - it most assuredly is.

So for now, it can be said that “Only that person whose virtue and sin have come to an end will continue to visit this website” 

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“Only that person whose virtue and sin have come to an end will consider the final, psychological, warped-mind-focused pointers of Maharaj rather than the earlier religious or spiritual pointers which he offered.”

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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