BEING FREE OF THE CONSTANTLY-CHURNING, PEACE-DESTROYING MIND

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BEING FREE OF THE CONSTANTLY-CHURNING, PEACE-DESTROYING MIND

“It is one thing to see children engaged in and controlled by their magical thinking (including Santa, the tooth fairy, guardian angels, floods from an angry god, and - as George Carlin said - ‘same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe, same as the voodoo lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles,’ etc.”

“It is quite another thing to see adults being driven by a childish, magically-thinking mind. The most widespread evidence of their magical thinking is this: all around the globe, there are adult-aged (but child-minded) persons who think that natural events are really supernatural events, caused by god to “send a message.”

“Their examples include hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, blizzards, cyclones, wildfires and pandemics, ad infinitum.”

 --Floyd

The manifestation (including the relative, the “real,” the Am-ness) continues post-realization, but when Reality is overlaid on the relative (on the “reality,” on the “real” that marks the post-realization condition) then the relative existence continues in a manner that is marked by being sane and logical and rational and in touch with the six senses and the intuitive awareness via the inner resource. 

No longer is there any unnatural thinking or supernatural thinking or religious thinking or spiritual thinking or any thinking at all. A no-mind, zero-concepts, no-beliefs state is reached.

In the absence of belief in all of the concepts and ideas and notions and dogma and spiritual principles and thoughts and perceptions and delusions and illusions and theories and hypotheses and views that had formerly filled the mind and made it the place where humanity’s problem centers, an end will come to the distorted thoughts that were based in the mind’s collection of distorted beliefs.

Then, too, all ego-state-and-egotism-based talking will end. There will be no “one” left to assume a super religious identity or a super spiritual identity. Until then, those false identities with inspire magical thinking which inspires magical talking (that is, to use a term Maharaj used but that was edited from the transcripts of his talks: “BS”). As current examples: 

Magical thinking example #1:

In the news was an account of a claim made by a woman (who happens to be on a national book tour in the U.S., promoting the sale of the book in which she writes a detailed account of what she said was a “near-death” experience in 2009). 

According to her tale, she ended up in heaven for a few minutes where she “saw and smelled God.” Magical thinking. First, nothing has been created, so there is no Creator; secondly, that which is not born cannot die; third, if there were a perfect and pure God, is it likely that “He” (to use her gender-specific word) would be emitting an odor and that “He” would allow people to smell him? Similar tales by others also claim to have “died, seen God, talked to ‘Him,’ and then returned to life,” but this woman takes it a step further and “smelled God” too. 

[Since the nation she is touring deems itself to be “the greatest Christian nation on earth,” you may have just got a whiff of something else . . . like maybe . . . “a best seller.”]

Magical thinking example 2:

 
An athlete who broke his leg during a basketball game exhibited magical thinking in a press conference when he declared that “prayer helped me heal.” Of course, assumptions and claims about religious and spiritual “benefits” are based in bias and the drawing of nonsensical conclusions.

That player’s claim could only be proved if an experiment had been conducted that tested how long it took the leg to heal with prayer vs. how long it took the leg to heal without prayer. 

For that to be known, the leg would have to be allowed to heal in combination with prayer. Then, the leg would have to be re-broken - in the exact same manner and degree as the original break - and then allowed to heal without any use of prayer. Then one could prove if “prayer” helped or not, and that proof would be based in scientific fact rather than in nonsensical, talking-in-one’s-sleep BS.

With the results of that experiment available, then the athlete could present facts to the public rather than ego-state-inspired talk that has no basis in fact. As it is, he does not know if prayer helped or not, but he did accomplish what his ego-states and egotism wanted to accomplish: he reinforced his public image as “The One With Faith,” “The Good Christian,” “The Super Religious One” and / or “The Spiritual Giant.” 

Magical thinking example 3: 

Pro football players can regularly be seen displaying their pseudo-religiosity. I no longer watch those telecasts, but when I did, I cannot recall ever seeing a player - particularly of one group especially - who in the seconds following his scoring of a touchdown failed to look up and point to heaven and  let millions of viewers see how godly and religious and devout and pious he is.

The full dualistic message is in the Old Testament / Jewish part of the Christians’ “Holy Bible” and goes like this: “All credit, all glory, and all honor goes to God for everything in our lives that is good.”

“So, sure, I could point to my teammates who blocked for me so I could run into the end zone; I could point to the quarterback who threw the ball to me; I could point to my coaches who came up with the play that allowed me to score a TD; I could point to the stands where the fans made so much noise that our opponent’s defense could not hear their captain’s defensive call that might have sent some of their players to block the pass. But who would I really be impressing to point to so many?”

So instead, the take is this: “I want to impress millions by putting my ‘Super Religious Self / Ego-State / Persona’ on display for all to see by putting on display my belief that all credit, all glory, and all honor goes to God for everything in our lives that is good.”

Now consider “good” in the quote above: “All credit, all glory, and all honor goes to God for everything in our lives that is good.”

“Good.” There’s half of what such types love to talk about with their “good / bad” reference point which leads to judging or accepting and their endorsing or criticizing and their dualistic dividing all people into one of two groups.

Maharaj said: “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.” Those types would immediately dismiss that pointer and label me “bad” for even suggesting such a possibility.

Consider:

Some regular visitors to this site might recall a woman’s testimony which was shared here in a prior post as she explained why she was leaving her husband on the night of his one year of sobriety celebration with his A.A. group.

 She described the experience that she and her children had after they, at first, rejoiced when their alcoholic husband / father entered a spiritual program to address his alcohol abuse. She said that he soon assumed the role of “A Spiritual Giant” and became absorbed in a whole new level of obsessive behavior inspired by the group. 

She said it was not long thereafter that he self-upgraded to the role of “A Super Spiritual Giant.” She reported that, after witnessing and dealing with “an obsessive ass” for many, many years and then witnessing and dealing with “the obsessive saint” for a year - she and the children all agreed that “the obsessive saint” was even more intolerable and unbearable than was “the obsessive ass.” 

Maharaj’s invitation to “forget spirituality” and to “do your normal duties” and to “just give up spirituality” is really an invitation to wake up; to stop talking in your sleep; to spot nonsense when you hear it (especially if you’re hearing it from your own mouth);

to transcend the personality trance that all are lulled into via programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination; to “get Real”; and to also “get real.” 

Finally, it can be understood why Maharaj was the least visited of all of the gurus in India during his later days when the version of the Ultimate Medicine he finally offered was a psychological message rather than a religious or spiritual message:

he reinforced no religious or spiritual ego-states, he gave visitors nothing, and he, instead, took away everything (that is, everything dreamed up, imagined, believed in and assumed as an identity, etc.)

Same here. 

That approach will get your loft or your website some low traffic, but high traffic was not being sought there and is not being sought here. On the other hand, the few, truly earnest seekers were welcomed into that loft back then and are welcomed into this electronic loft now.

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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