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KEY SERIES HIGHLIGHTS / REVIEW
63. The claims by billions that religion and / or
spirituality is the only hope for humanity notwithstanding, and all of the
evidence being to the contrary, all of that is exactly what religion and
spirituality have generated.
64. And all of that evidences ignorance and stupidity and insanity, and it is
religion-and-spirituality-induced insanity that allows persons with extreme
personality disorders (such as the Sociopathic Personality Disorder and / or
the Psychopathic Personality Disorder) to drop bombs on those whom they see
dualistically as “others” or to set down bombs in a crowd, walk away calmly,
and thereby kill or maim persons whom they see dualistically as “others.”
65. Again, to listen to anyone who is intoxicated is displaying ignorance and
stupidity and insanity; yet who are the 7.5 billion+ persons on the planet who
claim an affiliation with one religion or another (or the millions who claim an
affiliation with one spiritual organization or another) listening to for advice
and guidance and for their “marching orders”?
66. They are listening to religious and / or spiritually-intoxicated leaders
(and, therefore, to thoughts and words that are rooted in ignorance and
stupidity and insanity).
67. What (to use Maharaj’s words) provides more evidence of ignorance and
stupidity and insanity than listening to any intoxicated person for advice and
guidance and for one’s “marching orders”? The answer: nothing (except believing
their thoughts and words and then acting on them).
68. The Nisarga Yoga invites seekers to abide naturally; to conceptualize
nothing; to be driven by no beliefs; to listen to the silence before listening
to the thoughts and words of fanatics and maniacs; and to rest in the cool,
blue shade rather than being steamed by the heated rhetoric of zealots and
ideologues or by anyone who is obsessing over anything.
69. Most never seek because most (97%, according to research, though that number has been falling each year over recent decades) never move beyond the religion that was assigned to them by their parents.
Because of the “Goldilocks Syndrome” (which inspires
persons to want to find something that is “just right”) some will change
churches or temples or mosques. Fewer still might try a different denomination
or sect within the same religion. And some claim that their seeking has moved
them beyond religion and that they have become “spiritual.”
70. The conclusion is never reached that “Holy Smoke! They’re ALL acting
ignorantly and stupidly and insanely! I’ve got to get away from ALL of them and
what they are teaching!” At best, there might be some “mini-movements” rather
than a full and final movement away from the sources of ignorance, stupidity,
and insanity.
71. Yet that is exactly how realization comes - with a full and final “movement
away from” - as it did here one night thirty-four years ago this summer after
finding evidence that long-held belief “A” was false and long-held belief “B”
was false and long-held belief “C” was false, etc.
(The problem with that approach: no one will ever live long enough to research and then knock down each and every belief, one at a time. Something else - namely, that moment of peripeteia - must come and eliminate it all in one huge flash.)
[The peripeteia is a term borrowed from Greek drama which literally means “sudden change” and refers to the moment when a reversal from one state of affairs to its opposite happens.
Its use here refers to the reversal which happens and which results in one being driven by ignroant beliefs and shifts to being motivated by logic and reason.
It is that “eureka”-type awakening that a child has when its parents finally admit they have been lying to the child for years - totally fooling the child for years. It is when one realizes,
“Damnation! Everything I’ve been told or heard or been given to read up to this point has been a part of one big damn batch of lies!”
Thus, it is that moment when realization begins to manifest,
realization being defined by Maharaj as the moment when persons become awake / “woke” and aware and conscious to the
fact that they have been fooled, awaken to the fact that their minds have been
packed full of learned ignorance, and then discard - in one fell swoop - all beliefs which parents
and family and religious leaders and political leaders and business leaders have
been teaching them. Maharaj said that . . .
and that
“Realization is but the opposite of ignorance.”
72. Such is what happened one evening thirty-four years ago, and it came like
one of the torrential downpours that hit here in the spring and that wash away
the pollen and antigens and irritants and ragweed and others contaminates that
accumulate in this area between one rainfall and the next.
73. Similarly, light was cast upon the final vestiges of mental darkness that
had been accumulated and that were clogging the gutters of a “mind” and - like
a torrential downpour of truth - it washed away any and all remaining concepts
and ideas and notions and thoughts and designs and impressions and images and
opinions and views and perceptions and perspectives and theories and inklings
(a.k.a., “beliefs”) and left the consciousness in its original and unblocked
pure state.
74. That allowed the Original Nature of Awareness to be seen clearly.
75. Especially in his later talks, Maharaj offered the proper treatment - the
Ultimate Medicine - which had nothing to do with the Hindu dogma or the spirituality
which he spoke of early on but which he later advised seekers to “give up.”
76. The key point here is that the road to misery and suffering on planet earth
is paved with misdiagnoses. Because of that, the popular treatment plans offer
nothing more than inappropriate, ineffective, and unsuitable schemes. Why?
Because the actual causes of the Ultimate Sickness are rooted in what Maharaj identified as “ignorance,
stupidity, and insanity,” not in “evil” or “bad people” or “bad morals” (which
is what the popular schemes focus on).
77. Any competent, all-powerful God would have surely cleaned up the mess by
now, and the fact that such has not happened is evidence of the additional fact
that the
most popular means of trying to treat the ills of the relative existence
(namely, being religious and / or spiritual and / or praying or begging a god
or gods for relief) is not working to address the Sickness.
78. Whether the problem deals with addiction, emotional illness, personality
disorders and neuroses and psychoses, trouble with “relationships,” health
problems, family crises, financial predicaments, physical pain, endless misery
and suffering, grief, guilt, shame, and / or resentment, the problems are
ultimately rooted in body issues, mind issues, and personality issues.
79. And the false body-mind-personality identifications are a key element in
the chain of causation that has led to the planet-wide manifestation of the
Ultimate Sickness, and in many cases, the Ultimate Medicine can bring healing
and relief.
80. The most serious problems which humans face
throughout the relative existence are rooted in delusions that evolve from body
and mind and / or personality identifications and the issues that evolve from
ignorant and stupid and insane beliefs that personas are willing to fight and
die and even kill to protect or support.
81. Such issues are not going to go away by praying to a
myth-and-superstition-based entity. Praying to a myth-and-superstition-based
entity actually reinforces personality identifications and beliefs which are
rooted in ignorance and stupidity and insanity.
82. Because all is matter-energy, and because matter-energy can neither be
destroyed nor created, then there is no Creator. And if there is no creator or
Creator or Creator-God, then there is also no Sustainer-God or Destroyer-God
either.
83. Prayer, therefore, is an exercise in delusion and deception.
84. In the book SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY, Dr. Jeffrey A. Schaler offers professional insight into
the connection between religion and mental disorders and, in the process, also
offers insight into certain non-duality understandings:
85. “Psychosis” refers to a way of thinking and speaking. It depicts an
apparent failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real. People are
labeled psychotic when they refer to mental representations of the world as if
they were substantive and real. Another example of confusion is the description
of the “voice of conscience” as the literal voice of another being (known as “hearing
voices”).
86. The failure to differentiate between the symbolic and the real may be
intentional (artistic license) or strategic (lying) or the result of a
cognitive inability to differentiate between fantasy and reality. There are
three ways of using “psychosis” to refer to people speaking and behaving in
certain ways:
a. Psychosis is used to refer to the state of mind wherein symbolic
representations of the world (and metaphors) are confused with the real
(literal) things they represent.
b. Psychosis is an applicable label when one ascribes confused speech to
something else.
c. Finally, the term psychosis is also used to describe abnormal speech and
behavior.
87. Schizophrenia is said to be characterized by hallucinations, i.e.,
self-reported imaginings. Belief in God is a socially-acceptable, self-reported
imagining. Another example of self-reported imaginings, i.e., hallucinations,
is the popular belief in the existence of angels.
This belief is considered
normal by persons thought by their culture to be “mentally healthy.” Belief in
the existence of aliens is considered abnormal and is a sign of mental
illness.
88. Conceptualizing a God from another world? That is considered “mentally
healthy” by vast numbers of persons on the planet.
89. Conceptualizing an alien from another world? That is considered “mentally
unhealthy” by vast numbers of persons on the planet (the beliefs shared by “Q” notwithstanding).
90. Yet, insofar as [God] and angels and aliens are all hallucinations (that
is, self-reported imaginings), there is no difference between believing in [a
God or gods and goddesses] or angels and believing in aliens.
91. Moreover, people who believe in [God] or angels are just as adamant in
claiming the reality of [God] and angels as are those who insist on the reality
of aliens.
The difference between these two hallucinations has to do with the effect of these self-reported imaginings on others. That effect is determined by the values of the culture or context within which the self-report occurs.
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."
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