THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS

 

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THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS

The word “dissociation,” even in discussions which have nothing to do with DID, refers to “a disconnect” or to “a separation.”

For example, the student looking out the window in a stupor-type stare that appears to be having an “out-of-body” type experience is disconnected or separated from what is going on in the classroom. 

That is the way the non-realized masses experience the relative existence because of their DID -  constantly trying to “escape,” to stop how they are feeling or emoting, to stop the conscious or unconscious registering of earlier trauma and its present effects, or to try to tolerate a near-intolerable existence while dealing with a near-intolerable human or humans.

In non-dual terms, a dissociated human is disconnected or separated from that which is authentic and true and real.

In other cases, “dissociation,” refers to “a disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, surroundings, actions, and identity.”

In non-dual terms, consider the summative statement of non-duality, I AM THAT; I AM.” The dissociation can be from what THAT refers to and / or to what the AM-ness, the IS-ness,” refers to.

Both the I AM THAT and the I AM refer to something or some things which are real. The difference? 

On the simplest level, all is energy / matter. Neither can be created nor destroyed. Thus, THAT has always been real, is real now, and will be real forever. It was not created. It cannot be destroyed.

The key “things” to most humans are the elements which combine and come together and go apart and which result temporarily in a composite unity of elements circulating air and circulating conscious-energy.  

The key “things” to most humans involved in the AM-ness, which deals with that which is presently-manifested, are the elements and air and conscious-energy which all a composite unity to be viable. 

In all cases, those things are real, but some have always been real while a particular composite unity - a “human,” for example - is composed of what has always been permanent and real (THAT) but which has only now come together to form something that will not be permanent (namely, whatever is for now but which shall not always be).  

To clarify, what THAT is . . . it is a field of energy. As far as non-duality is concerned, the focus is on one in particular of the many types of energy - specifically, conscious-energy - which may be manifested in something on planet earth or may never be manifested in anything.

Again, energy - any type of energy - can neither be created nor destroyed. It is, was, and shall be.

IS-ness refers to what is right now and to what is providing conscious-energy a space in which it can manifest. That space might be within what is called “an acorn” or “a bird” or “a cell” or “a human” or “a rock” or “a bear,” etc.

To illustrate, consider: when the conscious-energy is manifested within an acorn, it is that conscious-energy / consciousness which allows an acorn to “know” how to make an oak tree.

In a so-called “human,” the conscious-energy can manifest but must be replaced regularly by the eating of plant food or something that ate plants. The conscious-energy manifests in viable humans along with elements and air. In the case of a viable human, all comes and all goes.

(See “the Second Law of Thermodynamics.” The second law of thermodynamics states that “within any system, nothing ever remains the same. Change is constant. Obviously, if energy or matter is added or removed from a system, it changes; however, even if we leave a system completely alone, it changes; it deteriorates over time.”)

For viability to continue, the human body must also circulate elements as well as air as well as conscious-energy. Shut off the supply of any one of those three in a human and the functioning of that human shall end.

Some say, “Death is inevitable. We all will die.” What that means is that no matter what actions a human might take, whether it involve exercising; following a “healthy food plan”; visiting doctors often;

praying to some conceptualized other-worldly Power for health and longevity or the protection of “a loved one,” etc., etc., etc., all are going to die (that is, take mahasamadhi or have mahasamadhi imposed by nature). What came together to form a body will come apart.

So, “even if we leave a system completely alone, it changes; it deteriorates over time.” So the temporary body goes; the elements and air and conscious-energy remain.

At the time of mahasamadhi, the elements will return to the universal pool of elements; the air will return to the universal pool of air; and the conscious-energy will return to the universal pool of conscious-energy.

Each will go its separate way. Those parts will not regroup and form some body-like but gauzy version of a human which has died and which will re-form and grow some wings and be half bird / half gauzy human that flies about in heaven or around earth, guarding living humans.

Per the second law of thermodynamics, when the temporary body deteriorates completely, that’s it. It ends, forever. Done. Finis. Completo. Gotov. Fini. Finito. Terminat. Terminado. 

Yet the elements and air and conscious-energy remain forever, either in their various pools to manifest again . . . or not.

Is that an argument for reincarnation? Of course not. What’s done - once - is done.

To be dissociated, a viable human must believe that what is reflected in a mirror is not a self but is a composite unity of elements forming a space with air coming and going in and out of that given space and conscious-energy coming and going out of that space.

What is, in that scenario? What is is a temporarily-manifested composite unity, a triad of elements, air, and conscious-energy. To believe the myths rooted in body identification, mind identification, and personality identification will perpetuate the belief in the commonplace illusions and distortions about some “you” or some “me,” etc. and will result in humans being dissociated from understanding what THAT is permanently vs. what is temporarily, about what is being and what is not being . . . about what is and what is not.

Contrary to what some teach, both THAT and a composite unity are both real. Some said, “Nothing is real.” Oh yeah?

For those who claim that “nothing is real,” the invitation is to step back fifteen steps from a brick wall, bend over, aim the top of your head at the wall, begin running as fast as you can, and crash head first into the wall. 

After you come to, let me know if you still believe the wall is not real and that, in fact, nothing is real. I suspect you might reach a different perspective. 

The actual understanding is that a brick is real but that it is not what it appears to be to the masses, a fact which can seen by looking at it through an electron microscope and seeing the invisible-to-the-naked-eye-swirling-mass of subatomic particles which are really what the brick is. 

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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