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KEY SERIES HIGHLIGHTS / REVIEW
The last post ended with this:
322. What a futile effort to set an unattainable goal, which is actually setting oneself up for misery and suffering and pain throughout the entire relative existence.
To continue:
323. Moreover, to believe that - in an existence where all things are relative
- that one can know, absolutely, what is always “right” and what is always “wrong”;
that one can know what is definitely “good” and what is definitely “bad”; and
that one can know who is most certainly “good” and who is most certainly “evil”
is not only one of the greatest forms of arrogance but is also one of the
greatest forms of insanity.
324. No one can know what is “good” and what is “bad” for no one is able to see
into the future and know absolutely and definitely and certainly what the
results of any given happening will be in ten or twenty or fifty or a hundred
years. In fact, the very notion of “good vs. bad” is rooted in the delusion of
duality.
325. Persons are trapped in ignorance because of their dualistic perspectives
and because of their supposed “need” to classify everything as “positive or
negative,” as “good or bad,” as “black or white” as “good or evil” with no
possible chance of any gray areas existing at all.
326. In an existence in which everything is relative, in which change is the
only constant, and in which there are no absolutes, what (other than colossal
egotism and self-absorbed arrogance) would make persons think they know — for a
fact — exactly what is “good” and exactly what is “bad”?
327. Again, the result of entrapment in such dual-mindedness is that “a
dual-minded person [will be] unstable in all ways.” Not “evil in all ways” but
unstable in all ways. Totally unstable. Mentally and emotionally
unstable.
328. And all of that, in turn, can only happen as a result of the two-fold
scourge of the planet and the two-fold scourge of the relative existence,
namely: (1) beliefs, and (2) “Believers.”
329. And that applies whether the beliefs are religious beliefs, political
beliefs, economic beliefs, spiritual beliefs, best type of government beliefs
and every other kind of belief, leading to the overall belief that “Our beliefs
are good, yours are not; our way is the right way; your way is the wrong way.”
330. All fighting and shooting and bombing and war on the planet is rooted in
insane minds that are driven by the differing beliefs which are stored therein
and which are highly valued by non-realized persons who are all driven by the
bogus content of their minds.
331. There is not likely anything that a non-realized persons cherishes more -
and is more willing to fight for - than one’s beliefs, all of which are based
in myths and superstitions and baseless hearsay.
332. Is it any wonder that persons around the globe can no longer distinguish
reality from appearance and cannot differentiate true from false? Is it any
wonder that the ignorant identify “evil” as the cause of anything that happens
that they do not approve of, even as they identify as “good” their motive for
doing the very same thing?
333. It would seem that (a) if persons are certain that
the cause of that which they do not approve of is “the evil in the world” and
(b) if they believe that their religion or spiritual programs or movements can
provide the means by which evil can be eliminated, then (c) it would seem that
at some point they would look at what they believe to be the solution and (d)
would begin to see at some point that the plan is not working.
334. They might not see it after persons with their same belief systems have
practiced patience for one-hundred years or maybe for five-hundred years, but
if they were sane, would they not begin to doubt the plan after one-thousand
years of failure, or two-thousand years of failure, or five-thousand years of
failure?
335. In fact, they do not believe that the plan will ever work, and the key
factor is that they are involved with religion or spirituality for personal gain
alone.
336. The personal gains include rewards now and rewards later (which they
believe will last forever) and involve enjoying the perk of doing whatever they
want to whomever they want (no matter how selfish or cruel or dishonest,
relatively speaking) but then getting “a clean slate” by the mere asking. Stole
money? No need to give it back . . . just a need to say, “Dear Higher Power,
please forgive me. Amen.” Done.
337. It is the misery and suffering generated by all things “personal” that
have motivated sages for millennia to warn persons about the consequences of
personality identification.
338. If there were no personalities being formed, there could be no development
of personality disorders. If there were no personality disorders, then there
would be none of the serious personality disorders that can lead to a
disintegration of psychic health which can result in the various levels of
sociopathic or psychopathic conduct that are so prevalent among persons all
around the globe.
339. The invitation here is to understand that the prerequisite for such acts
is not “evil in the world” and it is not “evil in a person.”
340. The prerequisites include being raised in a dysfunctional environment (and
all home environments now are dysfunctional, the degree of dysfunctionalism
being the only variable); and include:
341. identifying with self instead of “another” and then forming a primary
personality style in response; and include:
342. being driven by an assumed personality’s hidden desires and fears; and
include:
343. developing the master and secondary addictions of humans (the master
addiction being to control and the secondary addiction being to power in order
to be able to control); and include:
344. developing a sense of having no control and no power; and include:
345. as a result of stress and a sense of personas feeling threatened, the
suffering of psychic deterioration that can lead to fear, anger, resentment,
and rage; and to a host of personality disorders; and to all sorts of neuroses
and psychoses.
346. Those factors will eventually lead to a complete loss of the sense of
Oneness and to being totally out of touch with (relative) realities and with
Reality (that is, with both the Am-ness and the THAT-ness).
347. Is it any wonder that non-duality teachers have long invited persons to
abandon body-mind-personality identification?
It takes years for personality to develop and then deteriorate to the
point that persons feel no sense of the Oneness, no sense of the unicity, and
no ability to understand Maharaj’s pointer that “wisdom is knowing that I am
nothing . . . Love is knowing that I am everything.”
It can also take years to become “hard-hearted” and “violent”; however,
the pace is accelerating: some counselors nowadays are seeing five and six and
seven and eight-year-olds who are already showing clear evidence of the
development of the Sociopathic Personality Disorder to a nearly full-blown
degree.
One eight-year-old who has been suspended from school indefinitely for
attacking fellow classmates and for threatening to burn down the school said
that, at first, he wanted to kill his now-absent father who beat his mother
regularly but - now that his mother is beating him - he wants to kill her, too.
Ignorance gives rise to ignorance; stupidity gives rise
to stupidity; and insanity gives rise to insanity. See? The child was not “born
evil” and the child has not been “made evil”; the child has been driven into
the depths of personality, and in his case, the sociopathic personality formed
as a result of trying to adapt to a dysfunctional domestic environment (and
that is exactly the way that ALL personalities and personality disorders
develop).
That child, being raised in a predominantly Catholic family and community,
is thought by many to be “possessed by evil forces and in need of an exorcism”;
others outside the church who know him think, similarly, that there is
something inherent within him that has made him “mean and cruel and evil”; but
those that understand the actual facts know that he is not possessed by evil
forces and that he was not “born mean and cruel and evil.”
They know that he arrived with no mind but that the effects of
domestication (that is, of what went on in his dysfunctional home environment)
inspired him to assume the Enneagram Type Eight Personality.
That personality type inspires the assumption of several personas,
including “The Boss,” “The Assertive One,” “The Controller,” “The Master,” “The
Confronter,” “The Sociopath,” “The Combatant,” and “The Destructive One” as a
result of wanting to have control and power in order to stop the parental
ignorance and stupidity and insanity that he is having to deal with all day
long, every day.
Because of the relative existence impact of Personality Style Eights on persons and business and politics and local and state and federal and international crises, they are often discussed here in particular.
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.
