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Yesterday’s post ended with this:

He stated clearly (though most refuse to admit it) that there is no external locus of Power (a.k.a., “a god” or “gods and goddesses”) that can save or heal anyone or anything and that “with few exceptions our members find that they have tapped an unsuspected inner resource which they presently identify with their own conception of a Power greater than themselves.” (Thus, the so-called “Higher Power” is not an outer resource but is an inner resource, a.k.a., the “inner guru.”) 

To continue with that pointer:

225. That fact goes to the heart of this discussion for these reasons:

(A) because there is no truth to any dualistic concepts and pairings, there can - during the AM-ness - be that which can be referred to as “an inner resource” but there can be no external locus of Power; and

(B) because there is no such duality as an external locus of Power which is a “force for good” that is battling against “the forces of evil,” there can be nothing that is caused by “an evil force.” 

226. What persons take to be the result of “evil influences” is all actually the result of “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.” Either persons are (a) in touch with the guiding “inner guru / inner resource” which is the seat of wisdom and sanity or (b) they are being driven by the hidden agendas of their assumed or assigned personas and the totally-corrupt content of their “minds.” 

227. Only a persona can sense perceived (but totally imaginary) hurts or threats or interference which, in turn, inspires emotional intoxication which is always followed by ignorant and stupid and insane thoughts and words and actions. 

228. Compare the Boston bombers and an angry spouse. When upset and arguing, the typical angry spouse believes 100% that he or she has been irritated or angered by his / her spouse. The fact is, though, that the seeds of anger and restlessness and irritability and discontentment were planted long ago and are merely being triggered now. 

229. The cause of anger or irritation cannot accurately be assigned to a single cause or causer (or spouse) that one might be in the presence of at any given moment of anger or irritability. The causes of deep-seated anger and an on-going sense of irritability are a result of all that has happened since the manifestation began and a result of all of the faulty and bizarre programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination which persons are exposed to for years and which result in ignorance-and-stupidity-and-insanity-based belief systems. 

230. And the resulting nonsense planted in the mind of each bomber drove their thoughts and beliefs which, in turn, drove their words, which, in turn, drove their actions: thoughts --> words --> actions is always the continuum along which all happenings happen.

231. What the bombers did was not a result of “evil at play”; what they did was a result of ignorance and stupidity and insanity at play, all rooted in their faulty and bizarre programming, conditioning, etc. So the source of the bombers’ irritability and anger and hatred was not rooted in a single cause - though that was their claim - but was rooted instead in a long chain of causation. 

232. Among the links in that chain was the insanity of their not knowing who (or more accurately “what”) they are. The result was a multiplicity of assumed personalities and the resultant personality disorders that always accompany every assumed personality. 

233. In the case of the bombers, neither could assume the role of “The Noble, Faithful Avenger” without having first assumed the role of “The Muslim” (which was eventually self-ungraded to “The Super Muslim”).

234. Once an ego-state is assumed as an identity, then egotism will trigger to support and maintain that false identity; egotism will then set the stage for an ego-state to feel constantly hurt or constantly interfered with or constantly threatened, and it is the false but perceived sense of being hurt or interfered or threatened that drives an ego-state to behave ignorantly and stupidly and insanely, trying to defend a mirage at all costs.

235. Not the result of “evil”? No, not the result of “evil.” 

236. The case with the masses is this: they do not have a clue about who (or more accurately “what”) they are, and that is total craziness . . . total insanity, is it not? 

237. Maharaj made clear that persons are dissociated, trapped in a sense of WHO-ness without any awareness that there is no “personal who” (or “Personal Who” / a.k.a. “God”) at all. It’s all just “made up,” “conceptualized,” or - to use his word - “invented.” The same is true with every word used to invent a personal identification (or multiple identifications, as it is). 

238. “Hindu.” Just made up. “Jew.” Just made up. “Muslim.” Just made up. “Christian.” Just made up. Just like all of their duality-based and duality-generating and duality-sustaining and insanity-creating dogma. All just made up. To paraphrase Churchill, “Never has so much relative chaos and conflict been inflicted on so many by so few” (that is, by the few who dreamed up - invented - the myth-and-superstition-based cults that have evolved into the most influential organizations on the planet and that have become the key source of nonsensical thinking and nonsensical talking and nonsensical behavior). 

239. And the personas assigned by those organizations, in conjunction with all of the other personality identifications that are assumed or assigned in homes and in cultures around the globe, have left the planet with nearly eight billion persons who do not have a clue about who they are and who do not have a clue that the subconscious agendas of their false, multiple personalities are determining their every thought and word and action, even as they believe they are choosing to do what they do. 

240. As a highly-intelligent woman was once told during a Skype session when she rejected that pointer, “Okay, so look back over your thirty-two year existence and consider the insane, self-destructive, self-defeating things you told me that you’ve done. If you had chosen to do those, you would have had to be a very dumb woman. But you are not. So you tell me why you think those things were done.” 

241. But more to the point, to do some of the things that her parents and acquaintances and culture have classified as “bad” and “evil” would mean that someone can explain without equivocation and without exception exactly what is “absolutely good and right” and what is “absolutely bad and wrong” in an existence that is relative and non-absolute in its very nature and at its very core. 

242. Were “evil” actually to exist, the closest thing to that would have to be persons who believe they know exactly what is “absolutely good and right” and what is “absolutely bad and wrong.” That is why Maharaj made clear that “only that person will visit [the loft] whose virtue and sin have come to an end,” and that is why only those persons whose virtue and sin have both come to end will stay for very long in this electronic loft. Nowadays, time is only spent with those who are free of both virtue and sin or with those who are seeking that freedom. Beyond that, the solitude is far preferable to being exposed to persons who believe that they are either “virtuous” or “sinful.” 

243. It is those who are convinced of their rightness and their virtue and their higher level of morality (and who love their sense of rightness and virtue and morality because they believe those differentiate them from “others”) who can hate those whom they conclude are devoid of rightness and virtue and morality. 

244. That “love-hate” duality is totally removed from Real Love and from the wisdom of the no-identity, no-belief, no-concept, non-dual understanding and is at the root of all so-called “acts of hatred” or “evil acts” which are really acts of ego and egotism and, therefore, insanity. 

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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