LIBERATION (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)

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LIBERATION (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)

“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

Nine Relative Existence Actions Which Can Help Shift Persons from Unhealthy Stages of Disintegration to Liberation 

(continuing with “Action Nine” and the description of a vision)

Suddenly, a bird’s head forcefully breaks the surface, but it is not the head of a raven. Instead, the head of a gull - the bird of ignorance - comes forth, gasping for air.

You find that you are no longer observing the gull, but have transitioned into the gull. A third degree of separation from what you had left outside the arch, then by the pool, and now through the raven, has manifested.

The gull surfaces further and then begins flapping its wings. Leaving behind the cleansing, baptismal waters, you in the form of this gull fly and play and dart.

You feel like a child again, flying high, until suddenly crashing into an eagle. More truthfully, you feel yourself merging into - maybe even dissolving into - the eagle. For a time, the eagle soars, glides, and mainly just witnesses.

You feel the remnants of the gull; you sense the remains of a raven; you look at “you” seated at a fire and see only a mental image; you look through the arch and see the figment of a body imagined. Another degree of separation.

But now you the Eagle have no time to contemplate, for you feel yourself being pulled deeper into the universe through a clear-walled tunnel in the remotest part of the heavens.

You feel yourself accelerating at the speed of light. In fact, at the end of the tunnel, you can see nothing other than light. Your speed now nearly doubles, and just as you reach that point of mach two, with the deafening sounds of the winds racing by your ears, you crash through a veil of sorts and find yourself in a mostly dark, crystal cave.

You stop abruptly and then are swooped into an upright position, floating near the ceiling of the cave. You feel at this moment as if you are exactly between nowhere and . . . nowhere. Never have you known such peace.

Sensing yourself in only the vestige of a human-like form, you drift toward a lake below that covers most of the bottom of this huge cavern.

You experience a fifth degree of separation - as if estranged from all illusionary roles, as if removed from a phony world left behind, as if moving closer to a degree of connection with the Real.

Your slow descent allows time to study the cave. Across the way a dome glows brightly, the source of the vivid light you’d seen through the arch and more recently at the end of the tunnel.

A huge pipe organ sounds from the highest peak of a cliff on the far left side of the gigantic grotto. To your left and to your right drift millions of forms, and on closer inspection, you see that they are . . . you!

Each looks to be a clone - maybe a transparent clone but a clone nevertheless - of you! As you near the water, you automatically pivot so that your back faces the opposite shore. Sinking shoulder-deep into the water,

You feel your feet rise. Your entire body stiffens momentarily, your feet rise further, you float onto your back and then you bob on the surface of the water.

Now relaxed, you begin to be moved along, gently propelled toward the opposite side of the cave. Your movements just happen, no effort on your part required. The music of the organ - ethereal and heavenly - sounds softly, beautifully; the waters are now calm and warm.

You float with millions of likenesses, or so it seems, flowing toward gigantic, granite steps cut amphitheater-like into the opposite wall of the cave. Yet the likenesses aren’t likenesses at all. They really are you!

The steps ascend from underneath the waters, breaking the surface and then rising and narrowing upwards, converging on one point - at the door to the dome. As you near the steps, you feel your body stiffen again. This time you rotate in the water so that you sail along face down.

Just before your head might have bumped into the steps, You are stopped. Your feet begin to be lowered, and you find yourself in an upright position, standing on steps in chest-high water.

You begin to ascend the steps, leaving the water behind. You, and millions of yous, walk in exactly the same fashion, moving toward the narrowing peak that leads to the door of the dome.

You wonder, “How could so many be entering the dome? It really isn’t that large, now that I can see it more clearly.” It seems that much that you perceived as more is really … less.

But the nearer you all move toward the door, the more you witness a siphoning effect of sorts. As all near the door, all seem to dissolve into a form of light being drawn inside.

As you approach, you feel the last remnants - remnants of whatever you had formerly thought yourself to be - gradually fading away. The dissolving seems to be occurring in slow motion, and you feel ecstatic.

It’s almost as if you are feeling blissful as your beingness seems to be dissolving into non-beingness.

Finally, you merge with the all, into the light, and it seems . . . it seems over. It seems as if everything is over, is finished, is very near complete. Then some degree of consciousness seems to linger after this additional degree of separation fades.

Even without a physical body or an earthly mind or a spiritual body, a subtle body detects a series of chambers leading to other universes. All then fades into light. It is sensed that nothing represented in the vision is the real.

It is understood that only by peeling back all the layers of false identities could that which one really is be known - including the body, the mind, the child ignorance, the witness, and even what is authentic.

It is understood that what you really are is THAT, THAT which is often removed from awareness through many degrees of separation.

In the fading moments, as beingness transitions into non-beingness, you come to know that you are THAT common building block of All in this universe, in All universes. No wonder some can say, “I don’t even know who I am.”

You finally realize how far removed most are from the knowledge of the original unicity as a result of conditioning, programming, and dogma. 

Then, before fading into the perfect peace of rest in the Totality, your last consciousness is of the process that had moved that which you are from the rest state in the Absolute, past the non-being and into being, and then into whatever the temporarily-manifested was.

You see how you came to witness, how the learned ignorance corrupted the pure consciousness of the child state, how spiritual and religious roles were assigned, how mental identities were accumulated, and how dominated the existence was by the physical body’s fears and desires.

You understand. And then, even that dissolves.

THAT is all there is.

[End vision]

Next, reflect on the content of the vision what reveals “The Degrees of Separation from Reality”; then, take the “Journey” regularly until its truth is revealed, until it resonates throughout that “inner resource” that is available to you, until its truth becomes fixated at the very core of your being, until you become liberated from belief in ego and false selves, until you are in conscious contact with reality and Reality, and until you stabilize in an awareness of what is authentic and what is not and then revel in the bliss of full and final liberation and realization.

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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