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THE REASON THAT “NON-DUALISTS” SHOULD UNDERSTAND PRIMATE CULTURES ON THE AFRICAN SAVANNAH
THE REASON THAT “NON-DUALISTS” SHOULD
UNDERSTAND PRIMATE CULTURES ON THE AFTRICAN 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 example offered earlier was of males who have come this way and who are still complaining about the “EX’s” who left them ten or twenty or even thirty years earlier.
If the zebra could talk - particularly the zebra that is now back to grazing sixty seconds after it escaped capture by a predator that would have killed it and eaten it - it might respond to a person who is still stressed about a perceived abandonment that happened twenty years ago with, “Say what?!”
Nothing jerks persons about throughout the entire relative existence like their belief in such concepts as “control” and “power” and like the frustrations that can come from being in a lower station on a hierarchy.
[While the realized are free of the strains of low placement on a hierarchy, there are others that react to the strains and try to exert themselves to be freed from that station by taking actions, which can often be of an aggressive – or sometimes even violent - nature.
Recall Louise’s comment shared at the beginning of the Sapolsky study? “Perhaps this research will feed into a refusal amongst the oppressed to put up with exploitation, abuse, narcissistic capitalism, the One Percent, the lies, and the BS. Because it is LITERALLY killing them.”
If not the research, then the frustration of years and decades of low-end placement on a hierarchy might trigger the refusal, as happened in the South in the U.S. during the 50’s and 60’s;
as happened in South Africa during the struggle to end the system of apartheid that allowed a white minority to repress a black majority; and as may be happening under quite similar circumstances in Ferguson, Missouri, U.S.A. this very day.
For those that prefer a visual form of the message, Louise shared this today:
“Last night in Cape Town the homeless found warmth, shelter and security (the
light protects them from thieves) at the Maserati and Ferrari dealership.”
That is a visualization of the pointers from Sapolsky’s research and of the non-dual pointers being offered in this series. And indeed, it is “the Light” that “protects” the realized from the distortions and effects of the unjustified and illogical “psychologically-induced stress” which Sapolsky discusses.
Yet those “in power” who prefer the status quo will constantly fight to regain sole ownership of the upper echelons of the hierarchical strata and to “put people back in their place” and lock them back into their “place” at the lower end of hierarchies.
Nowadays, that often involves the “place” where persons are on economic hierarchies, yet there are those so frustrated by the hierarchy-induced stress which Sapolsky discussed that mine workers in South Africa are still fighting for a reasonable-size piece of the pay pie;
that Amazon, Inc. employees, especially in Western Europe, are rebelling against the company’s harsh working conditions and low pay; that many shoppers in the U.S. are boycotting Walmart, Inc. where the multi-billionaire owners of that corporation refuse to provide a viable wage to those who have make them billionaires; and at McDonald’s, Inc. around the globe where the same issue exists for their workers.
Overall, however, little lasting change is likely to occur, whether the focus is on a troop of baboons on on billions of workers at “the low end of the totem pole.”]
So, then what?
“Then what” is . . . “realization.”
Free of the desire for control and power, only the realized are free of the stress and relative effects of stress that are generated by being fixed at any given level on any of a variety of hierarchies.
Consider what that freedom looks like when it manifests, and what it can look like if it even manifests in degrees:
A friend was diagnosed with cancer many decades ago. For decades, his life was one of dread, living under constant stress between doctor visits and while awaiting one set of blood test results after another. Some degree of freedom from that stress has come with some degree of the understanding.
More recently, a friend faced the prospect of cancer involving a quite large ovarian tumor. The understanding with her is quite similar to that among the realized, so there was some of the “justified stress” that Sapolsky discussed which is the type that comes with an actual, physiological threat; yet the event was witnessed and is being moved through.
Then, some of you who are familiar with “floyd” as well as Floyd are familiar the next level of freedom:
When the doctor told reported years ago that cancerous polyps had been found inside one part of this composite unity, he was shocked that “floyd” was not shocked and did not react in what he called “the usual way,” but merely asked instead, “So, what’s next?”
When one cardiologist a few years ago predicted, “You have six months to live,” the same no-reaction happened. A second opinion later led to another cardiologist saying,
“You can go home and tend to business and loose ends for a day or so like you’re suggesting, but you may never make it back. You should agree to allow me to admit you to hospital right now and then insert a stent and do a few balloon procedures tomorrow.”
The reply: “Okay.”
Those familiar know that there is no body identification so there is no body attachment here. With the absence of body attachment, even “semi-physiological threats” do not trigger a stress response, much less a long-lasting stress response.
Does that involve “acceptance” or “a willingness and readiness to die?” Absolutely not. It involves a perspective that comes with the Understanding. End of story. End of stress. End of being angry now and joyous later” or “joyous now but angry later.”
It ends the roller-coaster-type of existence that the non-realized experience. It ends normalizing the duality and chaos of the ever-vacillating extremes between happiness and sadness; between peace and anger; between contentment and despondency;
between cheerfulness and desolation, and between all of the chaotic extremes that are normalized by dual-minded people who suggest, “That’s just the way it is Floyd. I’m human. That’s the way I am, and that’s normal and natural.”
Does the end of personality-rooted emoting end the ability of the realized to feel? No. Ego-states emote. The realized feel, but without attachment or extreme reactions or extreme swings in mood. There is no part of a composite unity triad that is capable of moodiness.
The zebra that escaped from a physiological threat and went right back to grazing is abiding naturally. Those living between extremes of anger and joy are abiding most unnaturally, their cherished beliefs and faulty, distorted version of the Understanding notwithstanding.
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.
