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WHAT SOME CLAIM IS EVIDENCE THAT THEY ARE ABIDING ON THE HIGHEST PLANE OF ALL IS REALLY EVIDENCE OF THEIR SCHIZOPHRENIA AND PSYCHOSIS
A visitor asked a valid question regarding certain
comments from Maharaj about causation, one dealing with these pointers:
“No thing in existence has a particular cause.”
and
“To speak of causality as a universal law is wrong.”
To clarify:
In the first case, Maharaj is not denying the scientifically-established
principle of cause and effect. What he is denying in that comment is that a
single “particular” cause can be assigned to a single “particular”
happening.
In the second case, again, he is not denying the scientifically-established
principle of cause and effect. He is explaining that it can never be concluded
accurately that if “B” happens, it will have been caused by “A” every
time.
[So much for the single cause of “evil,” and so much for the belief that there
is a universe that is so orderly that different events all seem to be similar
or even the same and that those events are definitely rooted in the one, same
specific and singular cause every time.]
Some love to speak about what “the universe” did for them or love to talk about
“the message sent by the universe.” That is nonsense that is spoken to support
an ego-state and to enhance a “public image.”
Maharaj is making clear that there is no “universe” that has laws that
guarantee that if “A” happens, “B” is most assuredly going to follow every
time. There is no such order in the universe, and there is most certainly no “Order-er”
in the universe.
To witness real-time action shots of this universe from the Hubble telescope or the newer James Webb telescope of what is actually going on in the universe has evidenced the validity of the “Chaotic Universe Model,” showing that the universe oscillates in time with chaotic dynamics rather than with some well-ordered plan of operation.
It’s proven that the universe is constantly evolving and that its evolution depends on the competing components within it. Any systems which might seem at one moment to have some degree of stability soon dissolves into chaos. Entropy is a measure of the disorder of the universe on any level being discussed.
So what part of a universe showing this level of chaos
is supposedly sending messages to humans of how they should best order their thoughts and beliefs and lives?
Believers in that notion should contact a professional with a reputation for treating schizophrenia and psychosis and ask for an appointment.
In my ebook It’s All Bullshit
“Psychosis exists when people cannot differentiate the symbolic from the real, when they cannot tell the true from the false. When people think they are hearing the voice of a being living in another world, they are psychotic.
“Schizophrenia is said to be characterized by hallucinations, i.e., self-reported imaginings. Belief in God is a socially acceptable self-reported imagining.
[So is the belief in a message-sending universe.]
All self-reported imaginings labeled psychosis are essentially religious. To label religious claims as psychotic is no more derogatory than to label psychotic claims as religious.
What part of a chaotic universe with no singularity involved
is supposedly sending messages to persons on one comparatively tiny planet located
within one comparatively tiny solar system within it? What insanity and what unmitigated
self-importance.
In fact, the universe is in a state of flux, even a state of chaos if you will.
Per the Second Law of Thermodynamics, things are constantly coming together and
constantly coming apart. Explosions are happening constantly throughout the
universe. Planet earth is in flux as well, and mutations are not the exception
but are the evolutionary rule.
For example, the “ancestors” of humans are first and foremost plants. That is
still the case. But look back to the first forms that crawled from the ooze and
began to develop lungs and see that what is now called a “human” had the
appearance of something far more like a crustacean.
Next, realize that Maharaj’s points will be misunderstood unless one knows that
the yoga he used changed over the years; knows that his comments are
level-appropriate (so he will give one seeker one pointer and another seeker at
a different place on the “path” a different pointer); and knows that his
comments should not be taken out of context.
To that end, consider the following exchange and note the points that Marahaj
was offering, in their original context:
Questioner: “On several occasions the question was raised as to whether the
universe is subject to the law of causation, or does it exist and function
outside the law. You seem to hold the view that it is uncaused, that
everything, however small, is uncaused, arising and disappearing for no known
reason whatsoever.”
Maharaj: “Causation means succession in time of events in space, the space being
physical or mental. Time, space, causation are mental categories, arising and
subsiding with the mind.”
[See, it is the fiction-filled “mind” that assigns “evil” as the single cause
of anything that persons conclude is not “good” or “moral” or “right” according
to their belief systems.]
Q: “As long as the mind operates, causation is a valid law.”
M: “Like everything mental, the so-called law of causation contradicts itself.
No thing in existence has a particular cause; the entire universe contributes
to the existence of even the smallest thing; nothing could be as it is without
the universe being what it is.”
[Again, understand that the phrase “the entire universe contributes to the
existence of even the smallest thing” points to the fact that . . . “here” . . .
there was originally a void, the nothingness; then a single atom appeared,
split, split again, and split again and “set the ball rolling.”
Everything can be traced to one thing, and that is the basis of the non-dual pointer dealing with the unicity; however, that does not mean that “the universe” or a “Creator” is consciously directing anything and it does not means that the universe or a Creator is causing things to happen as part of a long-range plan.
Indeed, if that were the case, the plan would be most a
most unimpressive plan to anyone looking at its results objectively.]
Maharaj: “When the source and ground of everything is the only cause of
everything, to speak of causality as a universal law is wrong. The universe is
not bound by its content, because its potentialities are infinite; besides, it
is a manifestation or expression of a principle fundamentally and totally free.”
Questioner: “Yes, one can see that ultimately to speak of one thing being the
only cause of another thing is altogether wrong. Yet, in actual life we
invariably initiate action with a view to a result.”
M: “Yes, there is a lot of such activity going on, because of ignorance. Would
people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen,
they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.”
Q: “If everything is an expression of the totality of causes, how can we talk
of a purposeful action towards an achievement?”
M: “The very urge to achieve is also an expression of the total universe. It
merely shows that the energy potential has risen at a particular point. It is
the illusion of time that makes you talk of causality. When the past and the
future are seen in the timeless now, as parts of a common pattern, the idea of
cause-effect loses its validity and creative freedom takes its place.”
[Of course, that pointer deals with thing relative.]
Q: “Yet, I cannot see how anything comes to be without a cause.”
M: “When I say a thing is without a cause, I mean it can be without a
particular cause. Your own mother was not needed to give you birth; you could
have been born from some other woman. But you could not have been born without
the sun and the earth.”
“[It is desires that create] the world in which we live, our ‘personal’ world.
The real world is beyond the mind’s ken; we see it through the net of our
desires, divided into pleasure and pain, right and wrong, inner and outer. To
see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net. It is not hard to do
so, for the net is full of holes.”
Q: “What do you mean by holes? And how to find them?”
M: “Look at the net and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step.
You want peace, love, happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and war.
You want longevity and overeat, you want friendship and exploit. See your net
as made of such contradictions and remove them - your very seeing them will
make them go.”
“[You want peace, love, happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and
war. You want longevity and overeat, you want friendship and exploit. Is that
not the precise description of what ignorance, stupidity, and insanity look
like in practice?]”
Q: “Since my seeing the contradiction makes it go, is there no causal link
between my seeing and its going?”
M: “Causality, even as a concept, does not apply to chaos.”
Q: “To what extent is desire a causal factor?”
M: “One of the many. For everything there are innumerable causal factors. But
the source of all that is, is the Infinite Possibility, the Supreme Reality,
which is in you and which throws its power and light and love on every
experience. But, this source is not a cause and no cause is a source. Because
of that, I say everything is uncaused. You may try to trace how a thing
happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is
because the universe is as it is.”
[Again, the use of “uncaused” there is to make clear that there is no single
cause of anything, there is no “Causer” in this universe, and there is no
universe that is “consciously directing events” via the sending of messages to persons
who obviously believe that they are really special and among “the most evolved,”
whatever that means.]
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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."
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