THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS

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THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS

Sociopaths / Psychopaths / Narcissists / Addicts / the Non-Realized and . . . the Dissociated

As some have noted in their e-mails, this entire series has dealt with relative “issues.” The Advaitin  / non-dual understanding is reached in stages, and it is in the later stages where both Maharaj and I originally turned the focus to “the Authentic Self,” to the non-beingness, to The Absolute, and to that which deals with the Noumenon.

Later, he said that understanding that originally-“later” stuff was of no consequence, that it is enough to understand who / what you are not now, period. Agreed.

In the early stages, however, the phenomenal “issues” must still be discussed. Why?

First off, during the AM-ness there is a composite unity (in the case of humans, an elemental plant food body which is circulating oxygen and conscious-energy). After the AM-ness, there is no one that will be anything, do anything, need anything, think anything, or. say anything.

To that end, the AM-ness alone is all that calls for an understanding now and is all that “matters” (in quote marks because even that is not an actual truth, either).

If a building is about to collapse because its foundation is warped, then why discuss the cracks in the upper stories? Similarly, it must first be understood that body-mind-personality identification is the warped foundation on which all relative misery is based.

If seekers are not freed of identification with personality, and freed of the phenomenal effects of the accompanying disorders, then it is useless to discuss with them any aspects regarding the later steps of the seven-step “journey” to realization which Maharaj and I both used originally.

Persons who exhibit the traits and behaviors of the NPD, APD, and ASPD disorders (a) can be destructive while feeling no remorse; or (b) can kill and then walk about the streets as if a hero; or (c) can create families and then abandon them without a care;

or (d) can be abusive while maintaining an image of being kind; or (e) can begin needless wars and then preen and strut about for the cameras; thus, it should be noted:

Those with such disorders were programmed and conditioned and acculturated in a way that completely separated them from awareness of the what is authentic and from appreciating the unicity which is real. Anyone so abusive was likely subjected to abuse.

Relatedly, anyone willing to tolerate the abuse of those with NPD, APD, and ASPD was also likely abused and ended up with a narcissist or sociopath or addict because it “felt familiar.” The abused - whether abused mentally, physically, emotionally or otherwise - generally have a greater-than-usual tolerance for discomfort or pain.

Also, they are especially prone to repetition compulsions . . . re-creating the same miserable but familiar scenarios...over and over.) It is not only the air, the elements, and the conscious energy that can cycle. In the relative existence, abuse cycles as well.

The objective witness can study either history or current events and see that non-dual pointers have been, and are, an indicated part of the “treatment” for that which mars the relative existence of persons (that is, of the non-realized).

By seeing the traits and behaviors that personality engenders, there might be a remote possibility that some persons might recognize in themselves these traits and behaviors and understand that the non-dual understanding might offer a means of being free of these traits and behaviors;

therefore, here is a partial list of what realization eliminates (which includes the traits and behaviors of addicts as well) :

1. Realization eliminates arrogance

2. Realization eliminates the absence of empathy

3. Realization eliminates the inability to understand that love in this relative existence is only love if it is unconditional, unconditioned, and free of self-centeredness

4. Realization eliminates the inability to know and feel the unicity

5. Realization eliminates envy

6. Realization eliminates desires and fears that are based in the perceived needs that are dreamed up by ego-states

7. Realization eliminates identification with body-mind-personality

8. Realization sometimes eliminates personality disorders by eliminating personality identification

9. Realization eliminates the adoption and defense of false images

10. Realization eliminates all sense of separation

11. Realization eliminates the assumption of ego-states, so it also eliminates the use of ego-defense mechanisms and egotism as well

12. Realization eliminates irritability, restlessness, and an otherwise ever-present sense of emptiness and discontentment

13. Realization eliminates attachment to conflict, destruction, judgmentalism, and self-serving concepts

14. Realization eliminates that sense of never truly being at ease

15. Realization eliminates outbursts and raging

16. Realization eliminates attachment to phoniness

17. Realization eliminates desires for power that can be used to control

18. Realization eliminates the drive to manipulate and use and/or abuse

19. Realization eliminates delusions of grandeur and

20. Realization eliminates belief in the fanciful and eliminates magical thinking. Might Realization be for “you”?

 

21. Realization eliminates the assumption of false roles which always generate dependency and co-dependency

22. Realization eliminates egomania, megalomania, and a sense of entitlement

23. Realization eliminates pomposity and strutting about as if on stage

24. Realization eliminates the relative-existence-suffering that is generated by personality and personality disorders

25. Realization eliminates the sense of separation that results when fixated in a state of religious and/or spiritual arrogance (the third of seven steps to Realization)

26. When Realization eliminates that fixation, it also eliminates judging and separating from and even killing, all of which have, historically, resulted from assumption of those two ego-states

27. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use rationalization

28. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use escapism

29. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use repression

30. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use normalization

31. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use denial and minimizing

32. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use avoidance

33. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use self-delusion

34. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use approval seeking

35. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use idealization

36. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use magical thinking

37. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to use dissociation

38. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to avoid intimacy

39. Realization ends the needs for ego-states to experience guilt and shame . . .

. . . and finally,

40. Realization (a) ends the need for the constant noise and babble that persons use in their efforts to drown out the clatter of their fictitious “minds” and (b) ends the desire for a captive audience that persons think they need as they speak regularly or "share" regularly [meaning, “as they create opportunities to be listened to regularly”] and (c) ends the need for going and doing and zooming in order to try to escape all of the nonsense of “issues” that are the bane of persons who take their phenomenal state to be real and who have no clue about the truth of their homogeneous existence as the Noumenon.

If persons reading this series can break through the barrier of ego and recognize “self,” then they might consider that there is a seven-step “path” to Realization and that at the end of that “journey to Reality,” all of that which is catalogued in the list of items 1-40 could be discarded.

Undertaking that “journey” will only be appealing if (1) the burdensome weight of all that is being carried is recognized and if (2) replacing that weight with a lightness of being suddenly has some allure.

When personality is eliminated, then one is well on the way to the post-realization, AS IF style of living that is free of all of the insane-like behavior and all of the nonsense of relative issues that are much ado about nothing but that are seemingly made into “something” by ego and by the personality disorders that dominate the relative existence of the non-realized.

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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