THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS

 

 

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THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS

“First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Unicoi” (from the Cherokee “unega,” or “white”) is a word used by the Cherokees to refer to “a place that is white.” More specifically, they use it to refer to valleys or low-lying areas where fog often develops and are, therefore, “fog-shrouded.”

There are places in Georgia and Tennessee which the Cherokees called “Unicoi” because they were often fog-shrouded on a regular basis, yet those places are not nearly as fog-shrouded as the non-realized masses who make up 99+% of most populations.

That is actually the case in all nations which are extremely motivated to program and condition and domesticate and acculturate and indoctrinate and brainwash their child-age populations (and where the programming, conditioning, etc. continues throughout the adult in those nations as well).

That refers as well to nations which are most often engaged in the spreading of the Ultimate Sickness and separating their populations from reality and from that which is authentic.

Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”

Well, if he were alive today to witness the state of the nation - and the state of other so-called “developed countries” - he would likely respond if asked about that quote, “Uhhhhh, nevermind.”

Maharaj said: “After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay.”

Humans more often than not do not spend the time to investigate and to question what they are being told. They are too occupied by and pre-occupied with their desire to escape . . . to escape their most unnatural, go-do-zoom relative existence.

Additionally, those involved in the unnatural seldom seek to fine what's natural and return to that. Instead, they turn to the supernatural, seeking some other-worldly “Power” (or someone or something they see as powerful / rich, etc. in this so-called “world”) that will eliminate their pain or their misery and suffering.

To the contrary, humans more often than not accept hearsay (that is, they accept as the truth rumor, gossip, “spins” on the truth, idle talk, unfounded misinformation, unconfirmed reports, outright lies from politicians and business people and from those whom they hire to advertise, and the endless stream of false statements spread from pulpits).

And that acceptance is reinforced by the number one set of tools used to spread lies, namely, “faith” and intimidation.

“You must have faith that there is a God (or gods and goddesses) who will never make an appearance and you must always remember that God (or gods and goddesses) become very angry if you do not believe in Him / Them, sight unseen, and if you do not believe by faith alone what we say He / They supposedly said; 

“moreover, you will be punished for eternity if you do not have faith and believe. Believe every one of our beliefs. Accumulate the beliefs we share and be willing to fight and even to die for those beliefs.”

Maharaj said: “First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you.”

Recently, I spoke with a retired woman who gives money to the Catholic Church and who volunteers to work for them regularly, without pay. I asked her if she would buy gasoline from Exxon if evidence were given that their top executives have constantly covered up for their managers when a high percentage of them were sexually molesting children.

Of course the answer was “No!” So I asked, “Then why do you do that with the religious institution you are so attached to?” She said, “Well, my brothers and sisters have all left the church, but I haven’t.”

“What the hell kind of answer is that? Why do you not do the same?”

“Well, probably for a lot of reasons.”

“Nope. What humans do involves one reason: there’s something they are seeking and trying to get or something they are trying to avoid, or both.

Again, “You identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God.”

“Humans want a payoff and they have believed those who have told them that there really is One Who pays off so there really is a payoff. 

“A guide once said, 'First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and . . . you pray to that God for something good to happen to you'.”

“And what supposedly ‘good’ thing do you want to get and what ‘bad’ thing do you want to avoid? You want to get eternal life and eternal rewards and you want to avoid the pain of endless suffering, both bogus concepts which you were taught in order to intimidate you and control you.”

“Thus, for your selfish act of getting and avoiding, you are willing to tolerate the fact that leaders in your church are sexually molesting children. Your subconscious belief is, ‘Well, that's a small price to pay in order for me to get the eternal life and rewards I want’.”

Associated with that reason which explains why humans do what they do is their dissociation from what they really are. 

Pain is of the body; suffering is of the mind; therefore, false body identification and false mind identification are at play. And personality identifications are at play as well.

“I am a woman, and I am a good, moral woman because I am a devoted Catholic. People see me working for the church and I’m a heroine, recognized throughout our diocese.” All just as Pelosi mentioned earlier:

“I'm very Catholic, a devout, practicing, all of that” and “In our family, we were raised in a very Catholic family. So it was very Catholic, devoutly Catholic, proud of our Italian-American heritage.”

Look at all of the false personal identifications at play with Pelosi as well as with the other tolerant-to-a-fault person / persona giving money (used to pay off victims) and giving time to her church while looking the other way as many of the men running that institution are using their power and influence and hold over their congregants in order to get away with raping little boys and girls.  

When dissociated from truth and authenticity and facts - thinking ‘you’ are a who and not a what - then you will function on false-identification-autopilot.

What ‘you’ are presently is a composite unity of elements which create a space through which air and conscious-energy can circulate for a time until all that falls apart and deteriorates as the parts all end their unified state and at the end return to the universal pools of elements and air and conscious-energy.

The “rub,” as the Advaitin Shakespeare called it?

As long as a person remains dissociated from truth and from understanding reality and Reality and from being aware of what is authentic - false beliefs which came as a result of believing what one has been told about who they are - then that dissociated person will have every thought, every word, and every action determined unconsciously by mirages, by a host of false identifications.

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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