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KEY SERIES HIGHLIGHTS / REVIEW
The last post ended with this:
The realized
understand that children arrive 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 - as a child - 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 will often be discussed here in particular.
348. When there is no understanding of non-duality, there is no realization;
when there is no realization, there is no sense of the oneness; when there is
no sense of the oneness, there is no Real Love; and when there is no Real Love,
there is instead ignorance, stupidity, insanity, judging, hatred, resentment, a
sense of separate-from-ness, apart-from-ness, different-from-ment and -
ironically - a sense of inferiority alongside a sense of superiority and
better-than-ment.
349. That’s not evil. That’s insane. And that is why Maharaj made clear that
his teachings were aimed at addressing and eliminating “ignorance, stupidity,
and insanity” . . . not “evil.”
350. Maharaj said that someday science would advance to
the point that it would be able to prove the ancient, non-dual teachings. He
was spot on.
351. Of course science has never been necessary for the Understanding since all
that one needs to know is within, but science today does reaffirm the veracity
of the teachings.
352. What is offered here could be called “Applied Advaita” which allows
seekers to realize, which allows some seekers to be restored to sanity, and
which then allows the Absolute and the Understanding and the Original Nature to
be overlaid on the relative for the remainder of the manifestation, thus
eliminating ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.
353. Much of what Maharaj taught was rooted in psychology, meaning the
scientific study of “the human mind” and its functions, esp. those affecting
behavior in any given context.
354. He said, “‘What am I?’ is the fundamental question of all philosophy and
psychology. Go into it deeply.”
355. In conjunction with non-duality’s focus on the relative problems that are
rooted in personality, “going deeply” into that which can be revealed via an
understanding of psychology can provide an understanding that most will never
have regarding the events being discussed here and the events that mark their
own daily existence.
356. To understand
(a) the distorted and perverted machinations of the conditioned and programmed
mind in addition to
(b) the consequences of personality identification
can move one along the “path” to Full Realization.
Maharaj also made clear that reaching the Full Understanding is one of the
“end goals” but that the avoidance of misunderstanding is critical along the
way.
357. How different the relative existence would be if the masses around the
globe did not misunderstand and realized instead that psychology’s scientific
study of the mental functions (and dysfunctions) of the “mind” could reveal how
the “mind” drives dysfunctional behavior. Then, persons might stop
misidentifying the cause of dysfunctional behavior as “the presence of evil in
the world.”
358. Moreover, what if persons no longer misunderstood and realized that the
last time that they were unconditionally happy and content was early on, during
“The Child Ignorance Stage” (or while in “The Child No-Knowing State”) when
they had no beliefs and, therefore, had no body-mind-personality
identification?
359. A child feels a sense of oneness or unity early on, usually with a mother
if she is the primary caregiver.
360. The child is considered to be a delight right until it enters the stage
that parents refer to disparagingly as “The Terrible Two’s.” What happened?
What happened is that the child discovered its body, and with that the child
lost a sense of oneness / Oneness and developed a sense of two-ness and
separate-from-ness and apart-from-ness and a sense of
different-from-ment.
361. The child might discover its hand first, then a foot. It will become
fascinated with those “newly-found parts,” and the fascination usually lasts
for the remainder of the relative existence as body identification drives the “mindset”
of “Give my body all of the attention and pleasure you possibly can, and assure
that it avoids the experiencing of any pain no matter what the cost might be.”
Eventually, that develops into a “numb me out” mentality with millions, if not
billions, of persons.
362. Soon programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and
brainwashing and indoctrination generate a “mind” and fill it with nonsense and
fiction.
363. Identification with “the mind” follows, as well as identification with the
multiple personalities that are assigned and assumed.
364. What follows is the development of multiple personality disorders.
365. The more self-identified and self-absorbed that persons become, the
greater the chance that a sociopathic personality disorder will develop. With
more non-realized persons on the planet than ever before, there will be more
sociopaths than ever before (and, therefore, more fighting and beatings and
stabbings and robberies and muggings and shootings and killings and bombings
and wars and genocides).
366. There should be no surprise, therefore, that more selfish, self-centered,
destructive, harmful, and criminal behavior (relatively speaking) is
manifesting in “personal relations,” national relations, and international
relations.
367. While some researchers suggest that a lack of empathy can have a genetic
component, it is programming and conditioning and domestication and
acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination which have most often
resulted in body-mind-personality identification, which have resulted in a
planet’s population being driven by dualistic concepts, ideas, notions, and
ideas, (a.k.a., “beliefs”), and which now assure that truly bizarre personality
traits and behaviors will manifest to degrees never before imagined.
368. There is an option other than the ignorance and
stupidity and insanity (which was referenced by Maharaj and that fill and
control the minds of the non-realized): heed the teachings of the sages that
have long advised persons to be rid of body-mind-personality identification, to
be rid of self-absorption, to be rid of the influence of the nonsense in the “mind,”
and to stop being driven by the subconscious agendas of personality and
personality disorders and personas.
369. The Ultimate Medicine is not a cure-all, but it can certainly address much
of the ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-driven behavior that is being witnessed
nowadays.
370. Will that happen on a widespread basis? No. The non-realized are proudly
identified with their personalities / personas (which determine and drive their
every thought and word and action).
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.
