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SUMMARY, REVIEW, AND ADDITIONAL POINTERS
1. Two of the highest-selling books of the last
seventy-five years have been the “Holy Bible” and “The Big Book of AA.” Both
contain major contradictions within their content:
2. One need only read the first chapter of the “Bible” and see that there are
two, very different “Creation stories” ... two conflicting explanations of how “creation”
happened. Why?
Because the author was compiling stories from the ancient pagan religions that had been circulating for centuries but writing as if the narratives were coming to him afresh, “inspired by God” who was supposedly talking to him directly.
Because there were two versions of the pagans’ creation
stories in circulation, he included both. Probably 99.9% of those who have
assumed the false identity of “A Christian” have no clue that there are two
conflicting versions of “how the world was created,” revealing that 99.9% have
never even read the first chapter of a book they say is the
never-to-be-questioned guide for how they live their lives.
3. In “The Big Book,” the author was intent upon explaining that, with
alcoholics, “the main problem centers in the mind”; thus, he intended to
establish a global network of hospitals to treat alcoholism by treating the
problems that are centered in the minds of persons.
A group in Akron, Ohio, whose contributions were going to
be required for him to complete the book, believed that “moral shortcomings”
rather than mental and emotional issues were at the root of the illness. What
followed was a form of blackmail when the Ohio group said, basically:
“You can only include the line about ‘the problem centering in the mind’ if you
add another line that says if alcoholics become religious (which they agreed to
call “spiritual” to make the process more palatable to rebellious drunks) then
those alcoholics would heal both mentally and physically.”
4. The author tried to stand fast, arguing that “being spiritual” had nothing
to do with addressing the mental and emotional issues which the doctors had
identified as what needed to be treated in order for persons to be freed from
the effects of alcoholism.
Their reply was something along these lines: “Refuse to make the point that
spirituality is the end cure for alcoholism and we will refuse to submit our
stories, which are going to be about 75% of the book you plan to write. No
spiritual cure, no stories; no stories, no book.” He caved.
5. The result in the case of “The Big Book”:
a. Millions upon millions of people over the last 75+ years have studied the
most widely-read book ever on the subject of alcoholism’s cause and treatment,
and millions upon millions have been convinced that they do not need
professional treatment for the trauma and mental and emotional issues that
drive their illness but that they instead only need to be religious (a.k.a., “super
spiritual”).
b. A $20,000,000 worldwide study of the current effectiveness of their plan
reveals a 1.5% - 3.5% average “success rate,” and “success rate” was defined in
the study as maintaining only five years of sobriety. The results show that to
try to use religion or spirituality to treat mental and emotional issues will
result in near-total failure.
6. The results in the case of “The Bible”:
a. Billions read that book while being assured that every word in it is the
inspired work of God (specifically, the Judeo-Christian God of Abraham, the
same God that Muslims would take to be the version of God that they would
worship as well).
b. Billions are reading ancient tales that were dreamed up by the leaders of
sky cults - including the leaders of the ancient pagan religions - and are
nothing more than myths and superstitions and fiction that is taken to be the
truth.
7. Maharaj: “Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in
this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective
world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud.”
8. In both books, readers are being given a bastardized version of the facts;
are being convinced to believe that the causes of “the problems in the world”
are based in immorality and “evil sources”; and that the solution to all problems
lies in believing in a God that they dream up, a God that is “their own
conception of God” (resulting in a huge variety of conflicting and inconsistent
conceptions).
9. In that regard, Maharaj said: “First of all you identify something as being
good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of
the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and ... you pray
to that God for something good to happen to you.”
10. If there were an all-powerful, loving God, that God would not evidence such
powerlessness and such a lack of love that He would allow humans to do what
they do to each other.
11. The message for non-dualists is the same message that was intended
originally by the author of “The Big Book”:
12. The main problem on this planet nowadays centers in the mind and is rooted
in what Maharaj called “stupidity verging on insanity.”
13. While insanity can most assuredly have a physiological component (chemical
imbalances, nutritional deficiencies, etc.) insanity is primarily a mental
issue, so the problem of the “mind” must be addressed.
14. No “inspired” book is required for Realization.
15. Maharaj: “I have no faith in anything which has ever been told, not even
what has been told by the Vedas. Only my own experience.”
He also said:
16. “Whatever you have tried to understand during your spiritual search will
prove false.”
17. “When the birth is disproved, the great noble meaning of spirituality and
the meaning of this world - everything - is disproved.”
18. “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to
an end.”
19. “There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a
question of understanding.”
20. “There is no progress.”
21. “Go to zero concepts.”
22. If you are suffering from cancer and go to a doctor who tells you to take
two aspirin for what ails you, his advice is only going to guarantee more
suffering and pain . . . and possibly a hastened demise.
22. If you are (a) suffering from cancer and go to a doctor who tells you that
you are suffering from an operable cancer but that (b) his or her
recommendation is that (c) instead of undergoing surgery to remove the cancer
within that you should (d) try to pray away the tumor as an alternative, then
only one of you is suffering from - to use Maharaj’s terminology - “stupidity
verging on insanity.”
Only if you agree with her or his recommendation to pray away the tumor, then only are you both suffering from “stupidity verging on insanity.” Yet it is quite typical among those suffering to take the word of the one presenting himself or herself as the expert, is it not? Ah, now there’s the rub.
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.
