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KEY SERIES HIGHLIGHTS / REVIEW
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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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.
