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THE HIDDEN AGENDAS OF THOSE PLAYING THE PHONY ROLES OF “THE SUPER RELIGIOUS ONE” AND / OR “THE SPIRITUAL GIANT”
“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
THE SIXTEEN BASIC PRECEPTS OF THE WORLD’S MAJOR RELIGIONS
(All of Which Evolved from “Sacrificing” and / or Killing Virgins)
I’ll quote from another book to continue the description of the first religious service on earth. A man named John, the head of the department of anthropology at a major U.S. university, explained it this way in The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders:
“You see, the first communion centered on a woman - not on a male savior. A group of starving people faced death - their crops needed rain. They needed ‘saving.’ A self-appointed Medicine Man minister, claiming that he had been spoken to directly by the angry Rain God, reported to the crowd that the male god could be appeased if only he could have a virgin.
“Now ma’am, you know how some good ole sex can usually calm down us males, don’t you? So the priest, being the self-appointed rep of god on earth, would be the one to have her. He called for volunteers, but no females stepped forward.
“Maybe he wasn’t as good-looking or as eloquent as some of the modern evangelists whose offers seem to be accepted more readily. Several fathers did step forward, however, more than willing to make a sacrifice to god for the good of all.
Their “sacrifice” was also especially for their own good since the priest asked neither for a son-warrior nor for a son-worker but only for one of the many daughters, considered culture-wide to be of far lesser value than males.
“Therefore it came to pass that many girls found themselves being pushed forward by their fathers. The priest chose one, then took her into the temple and had his way with her, brought her sobbing body out front, placed it on a make-shift stone altar, and cut from her the beating heart within.
“He then ate the body and drank the blood and then passed her heart among the crowd, inviting all to do the same.
“For centuries after that, worship services had three elements used by people trying to feel ‘At One’ with god and neighbors: sexual acts, vampirism, and cannibalism.
“Eventually, most religions evolved into talking about being at one with god and neighbors and into drinking pretend-blood and into eating pretend-body.”
Maharaj said that, “Someday, science shall advance to the point that it will prove the truth of the non-dual teachings.” Remember, too, that a review of the transitions he underwent show that he was also a scientist of sorts, experimenting with various forms of the Ultimate Medicine, witnessing objectively, setting aside what he saw was not working effectively, and then trying another method which might work.
Early on, his family exposed him to only a light dose of Hinduism (they were even meat-eaters, God forbid, I mean, gods and goddesses forbid); therefore, he was not as attached to religion as many in India were.
“That and his Personality Type Four’s propensity for rebellion and tendency to march to beat of a different drummer may have set the stage for his openness to the non-dual message.
Yet his guru ordered that he was to use a religion / non-dual compound version of the Ultimate Medicine. Turns out that the earliest visitors to the loft were “guinea pigs” in his religious / non-dual laboratory.
He would eventually set that combination aside and try a spiritual / non-dual compound version of the Ultimate Medicine with a heavy dose of “Self-Inquiry” as well.
The results of any of those versions of the Medicine, obviously, did not impress him.
Thereafter he began to focus almost entirely on the psychological roots of the Ultimate Sickness. Early on, in talks transcribed in the book I AM THAT, he spoke of the use of the mind to move beyond the mind.
Eventually, he made clear that the mind must go entirely by reaching a state of “zero concepts.” Later, he even stopped offering those mind-related pointers and, in fact, told seekers to “stop reading I AM THAT altogether and to listen to my current (later) talks.”
What had he witnessed that eventually led him to set aside the use of any degree of religion or spirituality or Self-Inquiry and to focus on the mental aspects of the Sickness?
He came to understand that the use of religion and spiritual and “Self-Inquiry” methods do not end all identification but only inspire the adoption of supposedly “new and improved” and “really good” and “better” and even “the best” identities / Identify.
See? It always comes back not to having too little dogma; not to having a spiritual malady or sick spirit; and not to a failure to know the “Supreme Self” or to believe that You Are God. It always comes back to the debilitating condition which the handicapping “conjoined twins” of mind and personality lead to.
Consider how personality drives persons to become attached to religion and / or to transition into spirituality when they feel that their spirituality makes them different from and better than those who are religious only.
The results of research conducted by Steven Reiss, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ohio State University, revealed sixteen basic human psychological (perceived) needs which motivate people to seek meaning or answers through religion and to become attached to their religion or spirituality.
He found that “people are not drawn to religion just because of a fear of death or any other single reason. He said that each of the sixteen basic desires outlined in his book influence the psychological appeal of religious behavior. The desires his research uncovered include . . .
power
independence (via dependence!)
curiosity
acceptance
order
saving
honor
idealism
social
contact/ acculturation
family expectations / domestication
status
vengeance
romance
eating
physical exercise
and
tranquility.
Reiss found that the religious people in the study all expressed a strong desire for interdependence. (Related to that, other studies have also found a strong desire for dependency and co-dependency.) Those who were not religious, however, showed a stronger sense of self-reliance and independence.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
