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

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

[To continue with the discussion of hierarchies to make clear why the wisest have long disparaged the relative effects of divisive hierarchies]

Those traveling on roadways are cast into hierarchies as aggressive and even sociopathic drivers take spaces and control lanes while the more passive, fearful drivers are cast into submissive positions as they are cut off and as they give way and make room for the assertive drivers. 

Most persons never have a clue that, throughout their days and throughout the entire relative existence, they are constantly being cast into one hierarchical position or another. (Anger, discontentment, and even health-threatening rage can follow if one is abiding as an ego-state who is running on the fuel of egotism.) 

Those hierarchies manifest not only along the vertical hierarchies that are well-established around the globe but also along the horizontal hierarchies that pop up spontaneously and disappear almost as quickly.

(The traffic on highways referenced above form horizontal hierarchies as do aggressive shoppers who cut off others in line and move ahead in a checkout queue in a store, casting others into an inferior, subordinate position in a horizontal hierarchy. The same happens at tourist attractions, in lines at ticket booths for theaters, wherever queues are formed all around the planet; ad infinitum.) 

The result? A planet occupied by humans who are constantly in a state of flux and instability, stressed and frustrated when forced into the lower ends of hierarchies. Another result even among some seekers? A planet occupied by persons who think that “I AM THAT;

I AM” means that they are dualistically “humans as well as THAT” or “a spiritual creature having a human experience” - all of which amounts to nothing more than additional BS-based beliefs that lead some to totally miss the understanding. 

They do not understand that “what they are” is just a composite unity that knows neither anger nor contentment; they do not understand that there is no such thing as “a human being,” much less a human “being angry or being content”;

they do not understand that they are trapped in one more mind-game that is trying to normalize duality and normalize the chaos of living a roller-coaster-like existence of emotional and mental and physical “up’s and down’s.”

They do not understand that it is total nonsense to shift constantly and (again, dualistically) to abide either eagle-high at one moment or whale-caca-low the next while thinking all along that such instability is not only “okay” but is “really just fine and exactly the way it is and should be, thank you very much.”  

[Some who visit here and miss the point and the Understanding entirely have said, “I tell everyone that you are my teacher and I give you total credit for what I share nowadays.” The reply:

“Stop that. Stop spouting your nonsensical ideas that show you really understand nothing and then try to give them validity by claiming that you picked up that nonsense here.” It only takes one erroneous repetition or misrepresentation to bring the transmission of an ancient thread of wisdom to a halt. 

Too, the reply is: “I am not your teacher because I am not a teacher at all. Nor was Maharaj.” His focus in the end was to un-teach, to guide seekers to a state of un-learning. Same here.

Additionally, Maharaj did not need to be taught anything and the same case holds true here, so those who visited with an agenda to teach Maharaj or teach his other visitors were promptly dismissed. Same here.

Also, Maharaj was not impressed with what the non-realized thought they knew - especially those who mistakenly thought they had realized when they had not. That is the case here as well.] 

Sapolsky showed that to buy into hierarchies and to believe that they are real sets the stage for stress and for all of the relative ramifications which follow.

It is natural to be stressed if physiologically threatened; it is insane to be stressed if one feels threatened by a happening that is rooted in a psychological concept.

It is natural for the stress of a physiological threat to end in minutes; it is insane for the psychologically-induced stress of a role coming to an end to last for months or years because a co-dependent, counterpart player that was required for that false identity to seem real decides to quit playing that co-dependent, counter-part role. 

If stress arises when another driver barely misses hitting your car broadside, the resultant stress is well-founded, but the stress should pass in minutes. If one robs you at gunpoint, the resultant stress is well-founded, but the stress should pass promptly.

If one feels stressed because a role can no longer be played, the resultant stress is unfounded so (1) that stress should never even arise and (2) it most certainly should not linger for months or years (as often happens when, for example, “The Spouse” identity comes to an end). 

As Sapolsky showed, stress of that type results from a “psychological state,” and a psychological state can only be seen as real if ignorance and / or insanity prevail. 

Sapolsky’s research showed that the highest levels of stress occur among (1) those at the lower levels of hierarchies and among (2) those who have little or no control - also as a result of being stationed at the lower levels of hierarchies. 

“Control” of course is merely a concept, though persons believe in it so much that most develop an addiction to it. It has been noted here on occasions that there are hundreds of things to which humans can become addicted: alcohol, drugs, sex, “love,” shopping, accumulating all sorts of “stuff,” and even becoming addicted to chaos in an effort to relieve boredom. 

“Dual addictions” notwithstanding, no single person is addicted to everything that persons can become addicted to, yet it has been noted that all among the non-realized masses are all addicted to two particular things: “a desire for control” and “a desire for power (and usually for ‘a Power’ as well) in order to be able to control.” 

Of course, all desire is rooted in body and mind and personality identification, every assigned or assumed personality having a basic desire and a basic fear. Only the fully realized are free of both, so only the fully realized are . . . 

free of being driven by desires and fears

and  

free of belief in the concepts of “control” and “power.” 

Being free of all beliefs and being free of body and mind and personality identification, the realized might well experience the natural and normal short-term stress of “a real physiological threat,” but they will be free of all “false psychologically-induced stress.”

That freedom never manifests among the non-realized, and their psychologically-induced stress never happens on a short-term basis.

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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