CONSCIOUSNESS vs. AWARENESS

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CONSCIOUSNESS vs. AWARENESS

“Someday science will advance to the point that it will confirm the accuracy of all valid non-dual understandings.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Science (Continued)

So, at this very moment, there is a field or system of energy that can be called “the Absolute” - meaning all of the energy / matter in existence as well as the pure, absolute, conscious-energy which has the potential to manifest.

For a human version of that potential, consider this offered on “Clearblue”:

Men continue to produce sperm throughout their lives, but the quantity and quality begins to decrease in the 30’s.

Women at the point of manifestation have all the eggs they are ever going to have. They don't make any new eggs during their lifetime.

The highest number of eggs a female possesses is during the time in her mother's uterus: a 20-week-old female fetus has about seven million eggs.

At the point of manifestation (“birth”), this number has reduced to around two million and by the time a female reaches puberty and begins menstruation, she will have somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000 eggs remaining. At menopause, she will have 1,000 to 2,000 eggs remaining; however, those eggs will be in a state of declining quality.

Compare those eggs to conscious-energy. Just as no additional eggs will ever be produced by any given woman, neither shall additional conscious-energy nor any other form of energy nor matter be produced. Neither energy nor matter can be created or destroyed. What is now was, is, and shall be. All has been merely cycling, and all will continue to cycling under certain natural controlling conditions (Nothing “created”? No. Hence, no “creators” and no “Creator.”)

Here’s how that cycling of eggs normally happens with women:

During most menstrual cycles, one of a woman’s eggs might develop and become mature, allowing it to be released from an ovary in preparation for fertilization;

however, in order to get one normal, mature egg to develop, many eggs might be called for in order to start the process. Though hundreds of eggs start together, only one wins the race to be ovulated. The other eggs will die away.

Over the course of a lifetime, one’s ovaries will release about five hundred eggs in their mature form. When the supply of eggs runs out, the ovaries cease to make estrogen and a woman will go through the process of menopause. For most women this happens around the age of fifty.

Comparable on some level is this: any given “speck” of conscious-energy might or might not be pulled into a cycling process. The same applies to a woman’s finite quantity of eggs.

Within that field called “the Absolute,” there is movement and interaction. It has been going on for infinity; it is going on at this very moment; and it will go on forever. However, when conscious-energy is not manifested in a finite, clearly defined, temporary grouping of elements with a nervous system, the consciousness cannot be conscious of itself.

Furthermore, do not take the Absolute to be some special “place.” It is merely a “system” of energy - infinite, limitless, and omnipresent - from which quantities of energy might move to adjacent regions.

In the case of earth, that energy can become “caught up” in a cycling or movement of energy which happens to strike a plant; then it can manifest temporarily, yet there is no governing body or entity “Who” or that determines whether such a chance happening might occur or not.

To understand the cycling of consciousness “out of” or “into” a field or system, see what happens the moment that a bug is struck by the windshield of an automobile: much of the elemental structure remains on the glass (ash-to-ash, dust-to-dust);

the air that was circulating as breath is instantaneously released and united with the universal pool of air; and the conscious-energy is instantaneously released into an omnipresent field . . . into that infinite pool of energy that can neither be created nor destroyed. The conscious-energy does not “go there” to some special place.

Next, understand that too much has been made of what is called “The Absolute.” It is nothing more than an all-pervasive body or system or field or pool of energy, energy that is not currently manifested via a group of elements with a nervous system. Nevertheless, IT IS.

In the process of trying to assign “supernatural” or “extraordinary” or “heavenly” or “special” attributes to a field of energy, (a) most persons now take the Absolute to be a mystical, supernatural location and (b) persons who believe that it is “up there” or “out there” do not understood that it is all-pervasive.

As a result of religious and spiritual leaders having glorified an energy field, the Absolute is imagined by many to be a place - even a geographic place in some teachings - which is not “here” but which is “there” instead.

All such distortions attempt to place limitations on the limitless; yet even John Paul II, as programmed as he was, was aware enough to say that “we must correct the geography of Gehanna: there is no literal heaven or hell . . . they are mental states, and you are in one or the other right now.” (“Gehanna” is also known as “Gehenna,” “gehenom,” or “gehinom.”) 

That was the name used to refer to the trash dump outside Jerusalem which was kept burning 24 / 7, and sicko parents then - exactly like sicko parents nowadays - threatened children with being cast into those eternal flames if their were bad. 

The message was applied to adults as well, just as the case is nowadays, and ignorant children and childish adults then and now accept that religious message - rooted in a trash dump - as the pre-gospel and post-gospel truth.

[NOTE: An editorial in La Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit magazine with close ties to the Vatican, also said at that time, “Hell is not a ‘place’ but a ‘state,’ a person’s ‘state of being’.” The pope and the magazine merely adumbrated what Christ the Advaitin had said:

“No one will ever see the kingdom of heaven . . . it is within.” Yet those who are programmed with religious dogma and who are enamored with their belief in the dualities of “good vs. bad” and “punishment vs. reward” as well as their desire for eternal continuity of body and mind and personality will ignore the later non-dual pointers of Yeshu’s regarding the fact that there is no heaven. They do that in order to cling to the desires of body and mind.]

With the widespread, distorted thinking among persons, however, the Absolute has been misconceived as “heaven,” as “the home of the gods or a god,” or as “a place where persons will go for eternal bliss if they are good,” ad infinitum.

To the contrary, no smashed bug is either “at rest” or enjoying “its place of final rest.” Neither are any humans who have ever walked the planet and taken mahasamadhi.

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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