THE REASON THAT “NON-DUALISTS” SHOULD UNDERSTAND PRIMATE CULTURES ON THE AFRICAN SAVANNAH

 

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THE REASON THAT “NON-DUALISTS” SHOULD UNDERSTAND PRIMATE CULTURES ON THE AFRICAN SAVANNAH

“Again, primates are primates are primates. The basic behavior of one primate will usually adumbrate the basic behavior of all primates. Apes mirror humans; humans mirror apes; moreover, what happens in Vegas might stay in Vegas, but what happens on the savannah will happen everywhere else on the globe where humans have clustered together in cultures and societies.”

--floyd

[Continuing with yesterday’s cautions regarding the use of “I” + “am” identifiers]

“I am a composite unity.” That’s a step in the right direction, toward the Understanding, but are you, really? Yet that is only one point along the “path,” only one stage that is passed through until one moves beyond any and all concepts.

Which concepts specifically? Concepts about “being this” and “being that” and “being a human” and “being religious” and “being spiritual” (both of the latter being believed at the third of seven steps on the “path” to realization) and “being THAT” and “being anything” and “being something” and “being Something” and “being something special” and “being something that is different from” and “being something that is better than.” 

In the eBook below entitled The Final Understanding, the “stages” or “series of shifts” along the way are delineated exactly because some seem contradictory to others. At some point, they are, or at least they are paradoxical.

They have been offered in the step-wise fashion required for the shifts to occur (each movement to the next understanding predicated on previous shifts that must happen in as exact an order as the seven steps to realization). 

Understand first that these stages lay out the shifts involved in the movement from the no perception, no you, no-perceiver state to the misperceiving state to the perception state to the clarity and understanding state to the final understanding state.

The stages - and the ever-continuing cycles - unfold in this manner, beginning with conscious-energy (a.k.a., awareness that is not aware of) in a field of energy and as it is in the state prior to the manifestation of consciousness:

I. 
The no-you state, the you-are-not state, the no-beingness and no non-beingness state

II. 
The manifested consciousness state, the “I am” state

III. 
The “I am this” and “I am that” state

 [At this point, a few will seek and a few will begin to understand]

IV. 
The “I am present but no longer believe that I am limited to the formerly-assumed ‘this’ or a ‘that’ “ state

V. 
Though I do not believe that I am “this” or “that,” I do believe that I am Something - and even “Something Special” - that shall be forever (So all beliefs have not yet been discarded)

 

VI. 
“I am Presence” (That understanding allows for at least some distance to manifest between the “I” and the notions of “materiality and physicality”)

 

VII. 
“Presence is” (That understanding takes the “I” out of the picture completely)

 

VIII. 
“No presence is” (That removes from the picture the concepts of the limited “Is-ness,” the “Am-ness,” the “Beingness,” and even the “Non-Beingness”)

 

IX. 
“I am nothing” (The “wisdom manifested” state as the pointer “Wisdom is knowing that I am nothing” is understood)

 

X. 
“There is no one to be wise, to know, to understand” state

 

XI. 
The “Neti-neti” state

XII. 
The “I am the Absolute Awareness with no aware-of-ness” state

 

XIII. 
The “Rather than, ‘I am nothing,’ the Nothingness is” state

 

XIV. 
Then, the “nothing is” state, including nothing and no one to believe, conceptualize, learn, perceive, know, understand, do, or assume anything (At this point, Reality has been overlaid upon the relative and abidance can happen in the deer-like mode with the limitless freedom of nothingness: no concepts, no beliefs, no duality)

 

XV. 
The Unmanifestation stage

 

XVI. 
The cycle is complete with there once again being the no-you state, the you-are-not state, the no-beingness state, the no non-beingness state

The I Am-ness allowed for only the most limited degrees of understanding, necessarily based as the beingness is in a sense of something existing that could have multiple identities (or one “Super Identity”).

Because of programming, conditioning, acculturation domestication, brainwashing, and indoctrination, it is not possible to leap from “I am” to “Void-ness.” Shifting by stages is required until the limited knows that which is limitless. 

That is the process by which an understanding comes and by which humans can abide as sensibly as all other living things on the planet, possibly feeling stress for a few minutes if a real, physiological threat is faced but never being stressed at all by the dreamed-up fears and false “needs” and usually-unmet-desires of “psychological states.” 

Sapolsky watched a zebra in the savannah that made a run for its life, that won the race, that was quickly free of the stress that the run generated, and that was back to grazing within minutes. 

By contrast, talks have happened here with hundreds and hundreds of men who had thought they were also fighting for their lives when their respective wives said that they were leaving, unaware that they were actually fighting to preserve an illusion.

They did not return to a normal, stress-free state within minutes. They first cried and begged and pleaded. In many cases when their sobbing and weeping and pleading did not get them what they wanted, the men then instantly shifted to raging and threatening. 

They were not quickly free from the stress and the fear and the anger that a sense of abandonment generated. They did not go back to behaving normally in a matter of minutes. Some who are twenty and thirty years past the event have still not gone back to behaving normally. 

All such persons are trapped in what Sapolsky called “psychological states,” so they are still being stressed years later by what he called the “social and psychological tumult invented by their own species.” 

Maharaj’s advice: “Don’t be afraid of a world you yourself have created” or invented.

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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