THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS

 

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THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS

“The personality is but a product of imagination. The [false] ‘self’ is the victim of this imagination. It is the taking yourself to be what you are not that binds you. The person cannot be said to exist on its own rights; it is the [false] ‘self’ that believes there is a person and is conscious of being it. Beyond the [false] ‘self’ lies the unmanifested, the causeless cause of everything. Even to talk of re-uniting the person with the [false] ‘self’ is not right because there is no person, only a mental picture given a false reality by conviction. Nothing was divided and there is nothing to unite.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 

Have sages for ages made too big a deal out of “the relative effects / consequences / dangers / perils” of DID? Is too much being made now of “the relative effects / consequences / dangers / perils of DID?”

Mention was made of the fact that one clinic which treats DID references four effects which are of special concern (relatively speaking):   

creating misery as those around DID sufferers are forever “walking on eggshells” as they regularly face the chaos and instability which DIDs’ generates; producing harm to self or others; having suicidal thoughts; and engaging in violent behavior (which is the focus today).

To those who do not care about those effects or about non-duality’s history of trying to curb them, then yes, too much is being made about the hazards of DID. Yet not caring will not change the fact that DIDs often engage in violent behavior.

In the U.S., 3,066 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks from 9/11/2001 through 12/31/2014, many by non-U.S. citizens. Meanwhile, during the same period, over 211,000 persons have been murdered in non-terrorist and gun violence incidents perpetrated by . . . “Americans,” by U.S. citizens, and most of the killers were white and Christian or at least not-Muslim and not-Sikh and not-Hindu and not-brown and not-black. 

Also mentioned here on occasion, 59% of all women murdered annually in the U.S. are killed by one claiming at some point to have “loved” them and by one who is or has been living with them.

And what is the trigger which leads to 59% of all female deaths annually?  

The Dissociative Identity Disorder.

The killers are being driven by the agendas of the false personal identifications which they have been assigned or which they have assumed, including “The Mate” or “The Lover” or “The Boyfriend” or “The Husband” or “The Common Law Husband,” etc. And when are those women killed 59% of the time? 

When they try to leave their “Mate” or “Lover” or “Boyfriend” or “Husband” or “Common Law Husband,” etc. (By the way, the women are “catching up” nowadays: 41% of all males killed in the U.S. are killed by a woman during a breakup.) 

Were red flags being waved which were warning about the potential for such murders to happen? You bet. Why? Because love is not blind. It is color-blind. It cannot see the color red when it is on a flag that is being waved in their faces.

Too, insecurity and / or greed and / or entitlement are not blind. They simply inspire the ability to deny the truth about a dangerous mate.

Additionally, hearing is a problem. Some refuse to hear relatives or friends or counselors or others who are offering warnings that grave consequences - including murder - might well be on the horizon.

Talk about a warped perspective which allows “actual relative dangers” to be ignored while inspiring “non-actual relative dangers” to control how persons feel through the day.

It is as if the many delusional white and Christian Americans were told to be on the lookout for elephants falling from the sky and thus walked around all day long in fear, looking up frequently and then sprinting the last hundred years to reach the supposed safety of their home and then walk in and are shot dead by a member of their own family. 

To the misinformed: study the facts and see that Jesus, via a non-duality-based pointer, accurately identified your “enemies” and that political leaders on the national level using duality-based concepts regarding “different-from-ment” and “better-than-ment” and “the others” are totally misidentifying your “enemies” and thereby deluding you completely. 

How insane would it be if a professional boxer kept his guard up 100% of the time he was not in the ring but did not ever keep his guard up while in the ring?

Yet that is the way most function throughout their relative existence, focused on those around them who mean them no harm but relaxed around the members of their own household or around “close friends” or “religious and political leaders” who pose a far greater threat. 

As a particular example, consider one fellow who had been warned about the dangers of false identity assumptions. Ignoring the cautions prevented a fellow named “Mark” from taking his estranged wife and his daughters hostage and shooting his wife in the back and killing her when she climbed out of the bathroom window and tried to run away. 

As it turned out, one of the daughter’s trying to process the trauma of her mother having been murdered contacted Dr. Phil; he felt that facing her father might be a part of her healing process; thus his staff contacted the owner of the treatment center where the father was living at the time and where I was hired as a “personality consultant” to work with staff and clients and asked if her father Mark might be willing to appear on his show and face one of his daughters. Her father agreed.

I spoke with her father as he was becoming increasingly nervous about an upcoming taping for “The Dr. Phil Show,” scheduled for the next day. In addition to the dread of facing one of his two daughters that had watched him kill her mother, he was also anxious about the fact that he would soon be leaving the treatment center and was wondering if he was going to be able to handle life any better than he had in the past. 

The owner of the treatment center wanted Mark to understand the toll which being driven by the agendas of multiple personality identifications had taken in his life and the toll that it could take in the future if he did not find a way to be freed from being driven by the hidden agendas of the various ego-states he had assumed. 

Again, the owner asked me to take Mark beyond the personal inventory work he had completed (in order to find his “good” traits and his “bad” traits - his personality defects - which were controlling him subconsciously).

At that point before Mark left the treatment center, the owner wanted him to move beyond the personal-inventory work and complete regularly a “persona-inventory” - a “self”-and-”false-selves”-inventory - in order to find the ego-states which played a part in his committing an act of murder. 

The sharing of the information surrounding that meeting with Mark would have remained private and nothing being shared here would have been shared here had Mark not gone through with the taping and made his story public in a series of shows, the first of which aired on 1 February 2007 with a segment entitled “A Difficult Reunion, Part 1” (available on the internet for those who might be interested). 

When I shared with Mark that it may well be enough for him to find out who he is not, a look of confusion crossed his face. I introduced him to the means by which we are assigned and by which we assume scores of false identities as well as the way that those determine our every thought and every word and every action. 

I explained to him the insanity of accepting as real the many false identifications which can be assigned by a culture and shared how the belief in those personas will lead to insane actions when the hidden agendas of those ego-states feel - to use the terms he had been introduced to - “hurt, interfered with, or threatened.” 

I tried to show him just how insane one can become when driven by the fears and desires of a mirage - of a false identity. A “husband” and “father” can turn the relative existence of a family into a nightmarish, hellish existence when a wife and children experience a man being negligent, unavailable, unreliable, and downright abusive . . . mentally, emotionally, and physically. 

Mark was shown the irony of role-playing when an assumed persona will believe that he is the one being mistreated and “hurt and interfered with and threatened” though the fact is that it is his perspective that is 180-degrees opposite of the truth:

that he is the one being hurtful; that he is the one interfering with them and their peace and their sanity; and that he is the one who was behaving in a threatening manner.

I asked: “How insane is it to believe that a mirage can be ‘hurt, interfered with, or threatened’?”

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.

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