THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS

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THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS

The Scientific Evidence Which Provides an Understanding of “No You-ness”

At the heart of multiple ego-states / false identifications / multiple identities is a belief in the “I” and the “Me” and the belief in a “you” and even a “You.”

Recall that Maharaj explained that “science will advance to the point that it will prove the validity of all legitimate non-dual pointers.” Advances in the science of the study of the mind and personality identifications have clarified many non-dual pointers offered over the centuries.

Of the non-dual understanding which Maharaj offered, what might explain why he initially estimated that “only 1 out of 100,000 will ever get this” but later said that “only 1 out of 1,000,000 will ever get this” and eventually - after decades of working with seekers - modified that guesstimate to “1 out of 10,000,000”? 

Consider the enormity of the obstacles which one who works for 20 or 40 or 80 years with seekers of the non-dual understanding will witness: 

The Obstacle of “The Use of Always-Present Ego-Defense Mechanisms Once Ego-Belief Manifests” 

As long as persons assume that their ego-states are actual identities, they will use mechanisms to defend those false identities. The ego (Latin, “I,” the false “I”) can be said to be - to use one man’s words - “cunning, baffling, and powerful” to the extent that assumed ego-states can control thoughts and words and actions. 

Moreover, they will do that “undercover” because the agendas of ego-states are always functioning at a subconscious / unconscious level. 

Misery and suffering are guaranteed to come to a relative existence when it is controlled by ego and ego-defense mechanisms (which surface shortly after personalities or personas, roles, characters, actors, ego-states, false selves, guises, facades, and fronts are assumed).

So how can ego-defense mechanisms be considered “always-reliable” if they bring misery and suffering? Because they never fail to do their primary job, which is to protect and defend the false images which persons have of themselves.

Additionally, the use of ego-defense mechanisms feed the ego and inspire “self-upgrading” along with the downgrading of others. (Cicero said that, “of the ‘Six Mistakes of Mankind,’ number one is believing that persons can elevate themselves by reducing or lowering others.”) 

Here’s an example of how that works: 

Studies show that approximately 50-60% of all married men will have an extramarital affair at some point. At what point? At the point when the “mind” - using the ego-defense mechanism of egotism - upgrades one’s role from “The Husband” to “The Super Husband” (who believes that he is not receiving what he desires or deserves or expects from “His Wife”). 

At that point, he downgrades her to “A Less Than Super Wife” and another ego-defense mechanism is triggered, namely, justification. 

[The male, power-hungry, egomaniacal users with sociopathic tendencies and with the unchecked senses of entitlement and arrogance and with a perceived need to constantly have their egos fed by being accepted by huge numbers of women - never go through that process. 

They are simply driven to seek and find, constantly. Still, though, it’s about feeding the ego along with a sense of inadequacy which is hidden behind layers of feigned confidence and arrogance and image-construction and image-maintenance.] 

Post “upgrading,” “The Super Husband” will believe that he is justified - because of his high level of self-worth and self-esteem - to seek out what he desires and deserves but is not getting from his “Less Than Super Wife.” 

Likewise, the “mind” of “The Wife” - using the ego-defense mechanism of egotism - will upgrade her role from “The Wife” to “The Super Wife” who is not receiving what she desires or deserves or expects from “Her Husband.” 

At that point, she downgrades him to “A Less Than Super Husband” and other ego-defense mechanisms are triggered, namely, rationalization and justification, so she assumes the right to judge him, to criticism him, to leave him, and even to try to destroy him. 

[Recall that 59% of women killed in the U.S. annually are killed during a breakup, but 41% of the men killed are also now killed during a breakup. Who says women are not making progress!] 

Studies also show that approximately 40% of all married women will have an extramarital affair after they upgrade their role from “The Wife” to “The Super Wife.” 

Note that the agendas of ego-states and ego-defense mechanisms not only operate unconsciously but they also distort, transform, or falsify reality.

Along with egotism, justification and rationalization, other mechanisms are used as well, including “denial,” “repression,” “projection,” “displacement” and others. Consider what all is the ego’s toolkit which egos use for “self” preservation: 

RATIONALIZATION 

Rationalization involves the twisting of facts, “putting a spin on” the way an event or action is viewed, distorting the truth, or trying to cast into a different light the way an event or action is perceived, especially to try to change others’ perceptions about an event or action as well as one’s own. 

Examples offered in the past to illustrate the use of this ego-defense mechanism included the husband who claimed that he did not have affairs with four women at work because “he only had oral sex with them” and included another man who called here crying about the fact that his employment had just been terminated - for the fourth time - because of sexual misconduct with subordinates at work. 

He was crying the evening he called but by the next morning he had mentally restructured the truth, had distorted the reality of his conduct, had reframed his opinions about his circumstances and actions, had minimized the consequences of his behaviors on himself and the other employees involved who were also fired, so he said cheerfully, “What the heck . . . it’s all good!”

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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