THE DUALITY OF PURITANISM VS. WILDNESS WHICH LEADS HUMANS TO BE “UNSTABLE IN ALL WAYS”

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THE DUALITY OF PURITANISM VS. WILDNESS WHICH LEADS HUMANS TO BE “UNSTABLE IN ALL WAYS”

“A dual-minded person is unstable (that is, mentally unbalanced and irrational) in all ways.”

--Yeshu’a (“a.k.a, “Jesus”)

Possibly the oldest and most widespread dualistic pairing is the good-bad construct. Why is it more widespread than any other dualistic pairing? 

Because religions took it upon themselves to codify and define what is good and what is bad.

“Religion has been a central part of the human experience from pre-historic to modern times. Actually, the bulk of human religious experiences pre-date written history which is only roughly 5,000 years old.

Throughout the millennia, therefore, the good-bad standard of dualistic concepts and beliefs - based in what would evolve into thousands of various dogma-based teachings - has been a key driver of human thoughts and words and actions.

The U.S. experience of being driven by bogus dualistic beliefs has been adumbrated around the globe both prior to the arrival of Puritans and continuing even to the present day.

At the core of that dualistic experience is the presence of the dual-mindedness which has driven internal conflicts in humans probably since the beginning of their existence, namely, the struggle between two inner influencers.

Author John Knowles addressed those with his examination of the psychological forces that inform the 1950s American character, which is composed of two elements: (1) a “germ of wildness,” (which is essentially a libidinal, creative primary element bent on expressing itself upon the world, and (2) a secondary element referred to as the “cautious Protestant” or the rigid, frigid Puritanical element.

Two favorite tools of the preachers leading the ultra-conservative, highly-fanatical were guilt and public shaming.  (See Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter for an in-depth expose of the way the Puritans used public shaming to humiliate and control).

One cannot abide in that long-existing type of culture with its long-standing Puritanical domination and avoid having some degree of the inner mental, duality-based conflict generated by the supposedly “good” vs. “bad,” Puritan vs. wildness discord.

The same has marked the British experience; the Islamic experience in nations all around the globe; and the experience of humans in those and all other places where religion’s influence has been present.

For the non-dual seeker, the question becomes, “What is the weight of those two conflicting belief systems?”

It does not matter whether the case is 90% Puritanical and 10% germ of wildness or even 50-50; what matters is that no matter the varying weights, this is always the case when religion is allowed to control the ways persons live their lives. This is always the reality of how it will play out:

Freud and others have seen one’s being unstable and mentally-unbalanced and irrational as involving the differing degrees to which the Puritanical vs. the wildness seed have manifested after the effects of programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, indoctrination and brainwashing have taken hold.  

Rather than discussing a continuum of Puritanism vs. wildness, they discuss the Puritanism as the “superego” (the demanding mother joining with religion to identify the proper morals and societal compasses which should guide every human.

The superego is the critic that chastises the children who never reach the high standards set forth by their culture) as opposed to the “id” (which is comparable to “the seed of wildness” and which is “the basic instinct, what humans are born with, of needs, desires, and pleasures”).

Some might recall the scene in the movie entitled Animal House when a college student is facing a dilemma regarding whether or not he should take advantage of a young girl who has passed out in a campus frat house.

In the movie, the scene is intended to be comedic, but in the relative existence of those living in religion-dominated societies, the debate is very real.

There are those who have been programmed to believe that there really are angels flying about and inspiring good human behavior and that there really is a devil who is omnipresent and who is constantly trying to persuade humans to be “evil” or “bad” or to kick the superego to the side and let the id - the seed of wildness - run free.

In between those two forces is the ego - actually the egos - which are the assumed, false personal identifications which all have a basic desire and basic fear (as is the case with the non-dual understanding) and which drive the conflicted mind to be “unstable.”

Again . . .

“A dual-minded person is unstable) in all ways.”

--Yeshu’a

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.

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