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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
There is a convergence of non-dual messages and pointers in the content offered in (1) the book The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders which one man called “the first fictional novel with a truly non-dual message”; in (2) the talks offered in Maharaj’s loft; in (3) the postings on this site since 2005; in (4) the pointers offered in the Editor’s Interview at the end of the novel mentioned above; and in (5) “The Vision.”
The full version of “The Vision” is available without charge on this site. For now, some specific parts of the vision will be reviewed via “Readings.” Also, some “Considerations” which contain explanatory notes are included in an attempt to address many of the questions raised throughout the years about certain pointers offered via the discussion of the vision.
Finally, some pointers from The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders will be provided to help clarify the understanding. In order for information shared from that novel to make sense, some information about it will be shared before continuing.
SYNOPSIS OF
THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS
(The
First in the Kirk Wildman Series)
The devastation from his encounters with a group of Aryans, who stole his family, fortune, and future, finally eases after Kirk Wildman’s reunion with his college sweetheart. Their Venetian holiday inspires a novella, The Bridge of Sighs, detailing love rekindled.
Then, tragedy strikes again. On Kirk’s ensuing journey, some find a murder-mystery, pursuing his son’s killers across Europe, Africa and Belgium, exposing diamond thieves and terrorists along the way.
Others discover romance, realizing with Kirk the psychology behind obstacles that destroy relationships and overcoming them to find true love. Others join Kirk’s quest for peace and wholeness, transcending religion and spirituality (via Native American perspectives and Far Eastern non-duality) into Reality.
Finally, some accompany Kirk
on a philosophical passage, transcending pain and healing, shifting beyond the
tiring games and phony images and finally settling into the perfect peace that
comes after awakening to the truth of Who We Really Are.
EXCERPTS FROM THE TWICE-STOLEN NECKLACE MURDERS
Kirk Wildman on . . .
Inconstancy in Relationships
She admitted that she had prayed every morning for a year that he would die. It’s
not right, Kirk thought, that District Attorneys will only prosecute
solicitation for murder if God is NOT the one being solicited. Solicit a man to
kill your husband, go to jail. Solicit God to kill your husband, you skate.
What a rip-off, huh, Compelling, also, the way things can shift: from stranger
to acquaintance to friend to lover to spouse to enemy to . . . corpse, if her
God, believed by her to be available to her beck and call, had allowed her to have her
way.
Tolerance
. . . His lesson in Applied
Tolerance came during time spent with Grandmother and his grandfather. They
modeled such tolerance perfectly. The grandfather went to church every Sunday,
serving as the choir director; Grandmother went into the woods every Sunday,
exercising some kind of communion of her own. They never questioned the other’s
practice; they never challenged the other’s beliefs; they never tried to change
the other. They did what they did separately and felt just fine; and they did
what they did together and felt just fine. Applied Tolerance. No judging. Total
acceptance. Unconditional Love.
His “Spiritual Quest”
In his energy-consuming search for salvation, he’d been dipped, dunked,
sprayed, spayed, sprinkled, and neutered; in the quest for truth, he’d been
blessed, cursed, cussed, lectured, scolded, and praised; in his pursuit of Life’s
Meaning, he’d been communion’d, Om’d, grape-juiced, wined, ahsram’d, accepted,
rejected, Mu’d, and yoga’d . . .
“Life”
Some days, the pain in the body or in the mind seems to be so great that one
must rest in order to heal. On awakening, one can live in peace as if all is
well. So it is with what some call ‘life’: PAIN, HEALING, AWAKENING, and
PEACE.
WHAT READERS HAVE SAID ABOUT
THE NOVEL
“Henderson has created an entirely new genre. This is a ‘Personal Growth’ and ‘Self-Help’
book in a mystery-romance format.”
From Dr. R.F. Maley, Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of
Psychology, University of Houston: “Floyd Henderson’s book, The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders, is a
fun read and an interesting mystery, but perhaps more importantly it serves as
a vehicle for blending Eastern Philosophy and Native American Spirituality to
make an intellectually challenging novel.”
“The book’s insights into both relationships and authoritarian conditioning of people in our society make it a must read, tracing the roots of narcissistic, sociopathic and psychopathic behaviors to the very core of the culture.”
“This truly witty and
politically-incorrect study of the aggressive nature of ‘the American character’
offers not only a diagnosis but also a treatment plan, making the book an
excellent supplemental reading in courses such as psychology, anthropology,
philosophy, sociology and counseling.”
“I had an epiphany!”
“I’ve read a lot of spiritual or self-improvement books that are merely
expository. This book gives the reader something that is completely
experiential.”
“This book freed me. I was
locked into a state of self-inquiry and playing ‘helper’ and ‘savior’ to
others, and that was taking a toll on me that I could not see. Freedom now is
freedom from those roles and from seeking to know more and from letting others ‘re-program’
me. I’m at peace now, seeing I didn’t need more knowledge and more programming
but needed freedom from past programming in order to purify my mind.”
“The Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders is
a ‘wonderful Slaughterhouse for the Sacred Cows’ of this culture. It should
have been opened for business years ago. I felt like I was living with the
weight of the world on my shoulders, when the real burden was from carrying
around all those cows in my mind.”
“This book showed me that I can reach Part Four in the novel ‘the Peace state’
only if I give up all the things I was so proud of and that I was willing to
fight about: my city, my state, my country, my leaders, my group, my religion,
my beliefs which were really their beliefs, my parents’ values, all the ‘my
stuff’ vs. ‘their stuff.’ What a lesson! I can be at peace if I give up the
concepts I fought for!”
“I found out why I felt empty, even when I had it all.”
“As with William Shakespeare, that writer of tragedies, comedies and histories
whose quotes introduce each chapter, this work uncovers the tragedy of
fighting, whether personal, national, or international; the comedy of the lives
lived by conditioned or programmed humans; the history of mankind’s constant
state of emotional intoxication around fears and love; and beyond all of that,
the author offers a vision of an idyllic life that once was, and can be
attained again, one individual at a time.”
“The phrase ‘You can’t judge a book by its cover’ has never had more relevance
than when used to describe this novel. While the cover of The Twice-Stolen
Necklace Murders points to the novel-within-a-novel set in Venice, Italy (and
while the lovers shown on the cover do play a central role in the larger story)
this work is no simple murder mystery or love story.”
“The work is a no-holds-barred challenge to those who would discriminate
against others with different beliefs or along racial, gender, economic, and
religious (or no-religion) lines. It is a call for tolerance and peace and is a
step-by-step guide for attaining such peace on an individual basis.”
“At a time when more and more cases of clergy-perpetrated physical abuse are
coming to light, this book at once questions the practices of modern religions
while endorsing the TRUE advaitic teachings of Christ. It is a book that
sympathizes with those who have been harmed at the hands of so-called religious
people, not just physically but also emotionally, psychologically, and
mentally. Then the book offers something hopeful for those who are yet seeking
the peace that they did not, and cannot, find in the venue of the church.”
“I loved the ‘Novel Within the Novel’ love story. For anyone who let that first
love get away or who had given up on ever finding True Love, this book provides
a spark of hope and is a two-fold how-to manual on love: how to break
relationships and how to make relationships.”
“You’ve heard ‘It’ll make you
laugh, it’ll make you cry’, The
Twice-Stolen Necklace Murders really made me laugh and made me cry.”
“If you’ve ever said, I don’t even know who I am, or if you have ever asked,
What is this all about? or Where did I really come from, where am I going, and
what is the meaning of all this in between? then you have a source that can
give you the answer. This book is it.”
“I only thought I had a social consciousness before reading this book.”
“Gratefully, I’ll never be the same after having read this book. I now know Who
I Am, and that has set me free. Thank you.”
“I thought I was buying a murder-mystery; the further I read, I realized I was
reading a great love story; later, I realized I was reading as insightful a
psychological-novel as I’ve ever read; as I moved further along, I realized
that I had a book of sociology that captured the entire life-span of those of
us who are ‘baby-boomers’; by the end, I wasn’t sure what I had read, but I
knew it was something beyond anything I would ever read again.”
“If freedom from abuse and relief from trauma come only after seeing abusers
for what they are, after standing up to them, and after shouting, ‘No!’ in
order to finally be free, then this work might well be the author’s Declaration
of Independence.”
Now to move to the “Readings” and “Considerations.” Some updates and revisions are included to bring the pointers into alignment with the shifts in understanding and messaging which came to Maharaj and which have come to me over the decades. Those and a host of non-dual explanations will be shared in the coming days.
Reading 1#: These readings and considerations are level-appropriate for beginners as well as “advanced seekers” that still enjoy participating in “the Advaitin dance.”
After studying the pointers offered by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a vision revealed the Seven Degrees of Separation that hinder understanding. To be able to differentiate between true vs. false and between the authentic and the non-authentic, one must be freed of all illusions, all ego, and therefore all pain, fear and worry.
The two thieves of joy called “The Past” and “The Future” dissolve and one enjoys the contentment of “Living Within the Moment,” of “Living in the Eternal Now.”
So vital is the understanding for seekers that would stabilize in the peace, all seekers are invited to spend the next few days considering the content of the vision and the understanding that one can gain via various levels.
Consideration 1: Look at your thoughts over recent days. Were they about something that happened in the past? Were they focused on some concern about the future? How did either of those make you feel?
Do you see that if you could
truly live in the moment that you would avoid whatever you felt by focusing on
the past or the future? Would it be worth the effort to try to grasp what is
coming up in the readings in order to develop that ability?
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.
