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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
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
Narrator: “And so the tragedy had provided Robert with a fundamental lesson showing not only insight about cells but also how the absence of stress can impact society.”
Sapolsky: [Regarding those in the transformed troop] “Do these guys have the same problems with high blood pressure? Nope. Do these guys have the same problems with brain chemistry related to anxiety and high-stress hormone levels? Not at all. So it’s not just about your rank; it’s what your rank means in your society.”
Narrator: “And the same is true for humans, with only a slight variation.”
Sapolsky: “We belong to multiple hierarchies, and you may have the worst job in your corporation and no autonomy or control or predictability. But you are can have all sorts of psychological means to decide ‘It’s just a job, nine to five, and that’s not what the world is about.”
[NON-DUAL NOTE: Ah, a shift in perspective, a shift in seeing more clearly.]
Narrator: “But how do we deal with all the time we spend at work?”
Marmot: “I would say what we’ve learned from the Whitehall Study and the study of non-human primates is this: the conditions in which people live and work are absolutely vital [or detrimental] to their health.”
Narrator: “So is there a prescription for the vast majority of us who aren’t at the top?”
Marmot: “Give people more involvement in the work, give them more say in what they’re doing, give them more reward for the amount of effort they put out, and it might well be you’ll have not just a healthier workplace, but a more productive workplace as well.”
[NON-DUAL NOTE: For those whom Marmot studied that were able to find more peace at work, it often came after having more control. Are most person likely to have more control? No.
Is it likely that employers, most being the way they are, are going to stop behaving like the aggressive, alpha baboons that had made others in the Keekorok troop so miserable for so long? Probably not.
But what if one were to accept the non-dual invitation to de-accumulate and to stop trying to accumulate so much and then abandon all the required effort to hang onto their accumulations and stop spending so much to maintain their accumulation? So you have something or someone in your life that is high maintenance?
Might less work and less income be required if all of the above were not the case? If a shift in perspective were to happen, might more tolerable ways to abide be available? It can be testified to here that when one thing that had been “accumulated” over the years was no longer a part of “floyd’s” existence any more, the multiple jobs that he was working in order to pay for and maintain that one thing were cropped.
Alone, one job rather than four jobs provided more than enough for many years afterwards “the cull.” The original anxiety of a sense of “loss” ended, along with an end to the stress that had been experienced. The non-dual invitation to “de-accumulate” proved to be vital to the physical and mental and emotional health here, and it resulted in a new level of vitality.
By de-accumulating that which had been tolerated and which had generated an existence that was absorbed with image, that interference with the original propensity and quest for authenticity ended and the stage was set once more for Full Realization to happen.
Sapolsky’s troop was also purged of those who would generate chaos; then, peace and freedom came. So the non-dual consideration is: “Rather than accumulating and trying to gain more, might there be something that you should purge instead? Is there something or someone you are valuing (or even over-valuing) that is really bringing no value to you at all?
Is there an aggressive, alpha-baboon-like human in your life who’s constantly messing with you? How much longer are you going to tolerate that? Is the supposed ‘payoff’ worth the stress and consequences of that stress?”]
Sapolsky: “Another one of the things that baboons teach us is this: if they’re able in one generation to transform what was supposed to be a textbook social system that was engraved in stone, then we don’t have an excuse when we conclude that there’s certain inevitabilities about human social systems.”
[NON-DUAL NOTE: Yet which do you really believe you might have more success with: (a) changing human social systems or (b) changing the way you view those systems and (c) changing the way you buy into conceptualized hierarchies rather than casting aside your beliefs about them?
Maharaj invited seekers to consider the warped perspectives that come - and the lack of peace that follows - as a result of one’s views about ‘“the world.” He said, “You are not in the world . . . the world is in you,” meaning “in your mind.” Is it a purging of the mind that is required to address what Sapolsky identified as humankind’s “psychological” problems.
The narrator ended with this: “The Keekorok troop didn’t just survive without stress. They thrived. Can we?” If you admit that you cannot change the world and that no one else is likely to succeed at that, might the next possibility be to consider trying to change your perspectives? Trying to be free of the fears and desires generated by false identities?
Using the non-dual understanding to transform your own existence in the same way that an entire troop of baboons changed when they were less hampered by stress because they were less hampered by aggression and acceptance of hierarchical rank?]
As Maharaj predicted, new scientific research and on-going findings continue to support the wisdom and the validity of the non-dual teachings, and Sapolsky’s research does exactly that. Along with non-dualists, he notes that hierarchies are prevalent on a global scale and prevail on an inter-species basis.
Humans are separated into scores of hierarchies, whether the focus is on the ruling triad of big business and big government and big religion (as discussed in the non-duality-based mystery novel below entitled THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF WARS);
or whether the focus is upon spiritual groups; the military; fire departments; twelve-step groups with status rankings that are measured in “years”; school systems; golf players; athletic organizations; street gangs; predominantly-white police forces in communities with mostly-minority populations; militias; white supremacy groups; and members of “royal families.”
There are hierarchies established in “personal relationships” and in families; among siblings; in news bureaus; in the theatrical and movie industry; among fashion models; in the study of various species with such divisions as “kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, etc.”; and even in games such as poker with high-ranked or low-ranked hands, Monopoly properties, and in actual subdivisions and sections of towns.
There are arbitrarily-assigned divisions that are vertically-aligned and ranked via use of duality-based vocabularies that include such words as, “level / high level / low level,”
“ordering,” “superior,” “inferior,” “dominant,” “subordinate,” and “peer.” There is even a supposed “hierarchy of human needs,” reinforcing perceptions regarding false, “personal” needs vs. the actual, temporary needs of a manifested composite unity.
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.
