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THE HIDDEN AGENDAS OF THOSE PLAYING PHONY ROLES
“After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions [false identities] are by hearsay.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Years ago, a fellow who was on a “speakers’ circuit”) said he was told by one of his friends that he had just heard the clearest explanation ever regarding the assigning and assuming and functioning of ego-states / false identities and the way that they are the curse of humankind.
He was told by the friend that had heard me speak to a group of “seekers” when I had offered the explanation if I would share with him what his friends had heard.
I began by identifying the seven basic desires which drive humankind’s every thought and word and action:
the desire for body continuity / safety / protection as well as eternal consciousness / life
the desire / drive for water, food and sex
the desire for financial security (either earned or given)
the desire for the agendas of all assumed body, mind, and personalities identifications (ego-states) to be met
the desire for love and / or admiration and / or respect and / or esteem and / or approval
the desire for control
the desire for power.
Then I explained how every assigned or assumed false identification has a basic fear and a basic desire but also has to one degree or another all of those seven desires.
I gave as an example the ego-state of “The Husband” who wants physiological continuity / eternal life; who wants sex and the stuff of body sustenance; who wants financial security;
who wants the subconscious agenda of “The Husband” to be met (including “The Wife” staying with him forever); who wants love and admiration and respect and esteem and approval from “The Wife”;
who wants to be able to control her; and, therefore, who wants the power required to be able to control her (and everything else) and to see that all of the others desires of “The Husband” are met as well.
Then I explained that by the age of 35-40, almost every human has been assigned or has assumed 70 to 80 false identities / ego-state as identities and believed - in every case - that those were real.
Finally, I explained that each false identity / alter ego / product of the Dissociative Identity Disorder has “a voice” which talks to each persona all day long - often on an unconscious level - and determines every thought that is thought, every word that is spoken, and every action that is taken.
(I also pointed out the delusion that comes with such circumstances, namely, the delusion that persons are making conscious choices when they not doing so at all.)
As for the voices: I showed him that if a person has been assigned or has assumed 80 false identities as being real to one degree or another, and if each of those 80 false identities has a voice, and if each has 7 desires operating, then at any given moment there can be 560 concerns which are being bounced around in the fiction-filled, ego-state-filled mind.
[Thus, Maharaj said that “There is no such thing as peace of mind”; I modified that to report that “There is no such thing as peace of mind; there is only peace if you are out of your mind.”]
At times, the most concerned voices (that is, the voices of the ego-states which might feel as if they are being hurt or interfered with or threatened and feel as if their desires are about to be shattered) will come to the forefront and the person will be conscious of those concerns more than others;
nevertheless, all of the ego-states’ “voices” never stop talking and are constantly expressing their concerns consciously or unconsciously on a continuous loop.
I then showed him how, if persons’ manifestations extend to a longer-than-usual length, it is possible for them to collect some 1000 voices which are forever playing at one volume or another.
I said, “Then, persons can be said to be distracted by the chatter of a thousand monkeys residing between their ears.”
He almost fell out of his chair laughing. Then he said, “When I come across something like that which resonates so well, I give credit to my source the first time I use it from the podium. After that, it’s mine, so you can expect credit only once. Ha.”
I said, “Whatever. Humans hear and repeat stuff every day. Rock and roll.”
Now consider why the few wise non-dual guides have long focused on the curse of identifications. Consider why so many of those have invited millions if not billions to be free of the effects of the Dissociative Identity Disorder;
and
to be free of the effects of assuming or accepting assigned false identities as real; to cast aside their belief in every phony role, façade, character, persona, individual, image, guise, front, face, etc.
Consider also how the musical The Phantom of the Opera rings true with audiences around the globe, making it the longest running show in Broadway history and a musical which has been seen by over 140 million people in 163 cities across 41 countries.
Related to today’s topic, the lyrics of the song which opens the second act of the play send the very message which wise non-dual guides have shared.
It is entitled, “Masquerade” / Why So Silent?” referring to a false show or pretense (which accurately describes exactly what is happening globally as pretense plays out in “The Theatre of the Lie” which is what the typical life of the non-realized amounts to.) Consider the non-dual pointers in the following lyrics:
Masquerade / Why So Silent?
Song by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Masquerade!
Paper faces on parade
Masquerade
Hide your face, so the world will never find you!
Masquerade!
Every face a
different shade
Masquerade
Look around, there's another mask behind you!
Flash of mauve
Splash of puce
Fool and king
Ghoul and goose
Green and black
Queen and priest
Trace of rouge
Face of beast
Faces
Take your turn,
take a ride
On the merry-go-round in an inhuman race
Thigh of blue
True is false
Who is who?
Curl of lip
Swirl of gown
Ace of hearts
Face of clown
Faces
Drink it in, drink
it up
Till you've drowned, in the light, in the sound
But who can name the face?
Masquerade!
Grinning yellows, spinning reds
Masquerade
Take your fill, let the spectacle astound you!
Masquerade!
Burning glances, turning heads
Masquerade
Stop and stare at the sea of smiles around you!
Masquerade
Seething shadows, breathing lies
Masquerade
You can fool any friend who ever knew you
Masquerade!
Leering satyrs, peering eyes
Masquerade
Run and hide, but a face will still pursue you
What a night, what
a crowd
Makes you glad, makes you proud
All the crême de la crême
Watching us and
watching them
And all of these are in the past
Six months, of relief of delight
Of elysian peace
And we can breathe
at last
No more notes, no
more ghost
Here's a health, here's a toast
To a prosperous year, to the new chandelier
And may its
splendour, never fade
Six months, what a
joy, what a change
What a blessed release and what a masquerade!
Think of it, a
secret engagement
Look your future bride
Just think of it
But why so secret? What have we to hide?
Please let's not
fight (Christine you're free)
Wait till the time is right, (when will that be?)
It is an engagement, not a crime
Christine, what
are you afraid of?
Let's not argue (let's not argue)
Please pretend (I can only hope)
You will understand in time
Masquerade!
Paper faces on parade
Masquerade
Hide your face, so the world will never find you
Masquerade!
Every face a different shade
Masquerade
Look around, there's another mask behind you
Masquerade!
Burning glances, turning heads
Masquerade
Stop and stare at the sea of smiles around you
Masquerade!
Grinning yellows, spinning reds
Masquerade
Take your fill let the spectacle astound you
Why so silent,
good Messieurs?
Did you think that I had left you for good?
Have you missed me, good Messieurs?
I have written you an opera
Here I bring the
finished score
Don Juan Triumphant!
I advise you to comply
My instructions
should be clear
Remember there are worse things than a shattered chandelier
Your chains are still mine, you will sing for me!
Scores and scores of non-dual pointers are contained therein, right up to the key line which makes clear that it you are assuming false identities, alter egos, images, personal identifications, etc., as actual identifications and the real, then you will be in chains . . . bound by the chains of nonsense stored in the garbage-filled mind.
As noted here on occasion, Richard Lovelace said: “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.”
What is the prison - what are the chains - which billions of persons are locked away in right now and are willingly continuing to remain locked up? The prison is the mind.
John Milton explained: “The mind . . . in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
Again, it is the mind - after having been unnaturally programmed, conditioned, etc. - which is a storehouse of all which imprisons persons. Each belief is a brick used to form the walls. The bars are also made of concepts and ideas and faith and convictions.
If you allow the false beliefs
about the consciousness to go, then WHO (what false identity)
could be left to be concerned at all with this consciousness or what happens
with it?
Maharaj, speaking of conceptual consciousness and transcendent consciousness,
said: “This consciousness is dead to me; it is gone. I have transcended that.
So whatever it is, is that other consciousness, that one which is without
concepts.”
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."
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