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

Recall that the wisdom of Maharaj allowed him to predict accurately that science would someday provide concrete evidence of the validity of the non-dual teachings. The validity of his prediction has been demonstrated here regularly.

Recall, too, that it has been shown that Maharaj’s later teachings included no so-called “spiritual messages” because he had rejected all characterizations as his being “a spiritual master”;

instead, he focused on sharing his mastery of the principles of psychology and his understanding of the functioning of the programmed and conditioned “mind” (which was actually an understanding of the dysfunctionalism of the “mind”). 

Now, wisdom and the science of psychology and the science of physiology (which deals with the functioning of “living matter” such as that of an elemental plant food body’s organs, tissues, cells, etc.) have combined to provide a variety of means by which Ultimate Sickness symptoms - or Ultimate-Sickness-type symptoms - can be treated through use of a holistic approach which addresses not only mind issues but also all related body and personality issues.

1. Science has shown that there are three body types and that proper functioning of an elemental plant food body’s organs, tissues, cells, etc. requires a different food plan for each of the three types.

Some bodies function best with an almost-all-protein food plan; some do quite well on an almost-exclusively vegetarian food plan; and some bodies only function properly with a combination food plan.

The population of the planet includes about 1/3 who require one food plan, 1/3 who require a different food plan, and 1/3 that requires a food plan that is totally different from the other two.

Moreover, the types often have a tendency to be grouped geographically. Many of those with a body type that can function well on a vegetarian diet live in Far Eastern nations, though even many of those should be on a different plan.

That change will not likely happen because of detrimental religious influences that have dreamed up food laws about what persons should and should not eat, just as is the case in many Middle Eastern nations.

One symptom of the Ultimate Sickness, insanity, cannot be demonstrated any more clearly than when persons allow religious or spiritual leaders to tell them what they should eat or should not eat rather than consulting nutritionists and metabologists who actually know what they are talking about.)

Those in Alaska and in areas closer to the poles usually require a high-meat, high-protein diet, and they can even process fat effectively (such as in areas where populations have eaten whale blubber for generations).

Many in the West have bodies that require a combination food plan containing both vegetables and protein, though all three body types (called “metabolic type 4’s,” “metabolic type 5’s,” and “metabolic type 8’s”) can be found scattered throughout Western regions.

Specifically, “metabolic type 4’s” function well when the composite unity is given vegetables, chicken, fish and fruit; “metabolic type 5’s” do well if meat and other protein sources are consumed; “metabolic type 8’s” function best when the composite unity is provided with a combination food plan including meat, fish, chicken, pork, fruit and vegetables.

When one’s food plans is determined by religious leaders or when food plans are based in spiritual beliefs, there is a 66% chance that a person following such a plan is slowly destroying the elemental plant food body as a result of not consuming what one’s particular body type needs. 

2. Science has also shown that the anxiety and depression and misery that are generated by dual-mindedness can also be generated by an improper diet. Science has shown that if a composite unity with an elemental plant food body requires a combination food plan but eats only, for example, a head lettuce salad for lunch each day, the pH of the body will shift to an alkaline state and depression can manifest (just the same as with the Ultimate Sickness).

Or, science has shown that if the food plan being followed is not the proper one then one’s body pH can become excessively acidic, causing one to be restless, irritable, discontent, hostile, and driven to go and to do and to zoom (just like the case of those with the Ultimate Sickness).

Science has shown that if the food plan being followed is not the proper one then the hypothalamus will under-function and persons will suffer from anxiety and will not be able to differentiate between true and false (just the same as with the Ultimate Sickness).

Science has shown that if the food plan being followed is not the proper one then the adrenal cortex will be under-active and can rob one of a sense of serenity, can cause a sense of feeling overwhelmed, and can cause one to lose the ability to cope with stressors (all symptoms just like those in persons suffering from the Ultimate Sickness). 

3. And science has shown what happens when personality develops and when personality sets the stage for persons to suffer from personality disorders which often generate enough trouble and suffering on their own but which can also disintegrate into more serious mental and emotional illnesses including neuroses and psychoses. 

Those facts are the reason that one of the eBooks below was written, in order to explain exactly what the non-dual teachings can address and what they cannot. 

In the end, Maharaj abandoned any and all religious and spiritual talk

(1) when he realized that no religious or spiritual conceptualizations can address the core symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness - including what Maharaj identified as ignorance, stupidity and insanity -

and (2) when he realized that both religion and spirituality actually aggravate the mental and emotional and duality-based problems that persons can suffer from throughout the relative existence. 

Non-human stress is always generated by physiological stress. 

Sapolsky shows that almost all human stress is generated via the mind after persons assume what he called “psychological states,” noting that “they’re being stressed by social and psychological tumult invented by their own species.” 

Maharaj called those “personalities” or “false identities,” nothing more than “invented” and dreamed up roles / personas / stage characters / facades / images / selves / guises / fronts / etc. 

All psychological states are really only “apparent states,” not real at all . . . no more real than anything and everything misperceived by the non-realized as being real. it is impossible for the non-realized to see what is real (I AM), much less what is Real (THAT). 

They think they know what “a brick” is. Were they to look at that brick with the aid of an electron microscope and see a whirling quantity of subatomic particles of energy, they might begin to get an insight into how everything they have supposedly perceived now forms one large body of  misperceptions. 

As shared earlier, humans today are suffering from stress that is brought on by a psychological threat – a threat that is imagined to be real by an assumed ego-state but that is most unreal. 

With humans, it all begins internally when one or more ego-states - which are total mirages - feel threatened but, nevertheless, trigger the same kind of response that is experienced by a zebra on the savannah that is running for its life from an attacker. 

To be free of the enormous stress that persons today are suffering from, they must first be freed from the machinations of the mind and the nonsense with which it has been filled. 

Maharaj, regarding “personalities” or “false identities,” pointed out that the assumption of “psychological states” always involves an “I” and an “am” followed by something (which guarantees that whatever follows is false).

“I am a human.” Are you now? “I am both a human and THAT.” Are you now? “I am a spiritual creature having a human experience.” Are you now? “I am a spouse, so thrilled that I have the spouse I have.” Are you now? “I am a Realized Advaitin.” Are you now?

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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