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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
“Baboons live in big, complex social groups, and the population I went to study lived like kings . . . .
“The baboons work maybe four hours a day to feed themselves; hardly anyone is likely to eat them. Basically, baboons have about a half dozen solid hours of sunlight a day to devote to being rotten to each other. Just like our society . . . .
“We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.”
--Sapolsky
So how did Maharaj’s “laboratory” evolve? He worked as all wise scientists and psychologists do, moving from . . .
hypothesis (a tentative statement about the natural world leading to deductions that can be tested)
to
research and experimentation and
observation
to
theory (an explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can be tested with further research and experimentation and observation)
to
fact (which, in science, is an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as “true”).
However, truth in science is not always necessarily final, and what is accepted as “a fact” today may be modified or even discarded later.
Such was the case with Maharaj (and admittedly with “floyd” as well) as Maharaj tested his hypotheses and theories and “facts” about what the Ultimate Medicine might be that could treat the Ultimate Sickness.
The fact that he (and “I”) tried religious methods and that he (and “I”) tried spiritual methods continued until the research and experimentation and observation proved that neither of those methods provided an effective treatment, long-term.
It has been noted here that the third step on “the path” (which is the step that includes the playing of religious or spiritual roles on a “path” which involves the going back out leg of a “journey” or the going back out except in the reverse manner or the going back out the same way you came in manner) must be taken, not skipped.
During the manifestation process, the religious and or spiritual roles were assigned after the steps were completed during the “coming in” steps on the “path” (resulting in a large majority of the people on the planet now claiming a religious affiliation while another 2% to 2-1/2% are claiming to be “spiritual”).
Those roles were assigned coming in, so they must be played - but eventually discarded - on “the way back out.” The fact that Maharaj (and “I”) played those roles and tried to use religious and spiritual concepts as the Ultimate Medicine was right in line with what almost always has to be done (as ineffective as they are).
Therefore, because of conditioning and acculturation especially, Maharaj’s first laboratory was a “religious laboratory.” He did bhajans five times a day simply because his guru told him to. Even after his “BS” detector went off, he continued, saying, “I continue to obey his instructions, even though I know these bhajans are pointless.”
Later, he would evolve beyond guru-bhakti, so eventually that practice ended; yet in the beginning, the only people among his early audiences were Indians / Hindus, so he followed the advice of his guru which amounted to this: “Draw them in and hook ‘em with religion and then sneak in the non-dual message at the end.”
Thus, his early sessions included singing, some dancing about, and some narration, all of it only a bit less foolish than the emotionally-intoxicated worship-style of Pentecostals nowadays who . . .
raise their hands in the air and wave their arms about, who roll about on the floor uncontrollably, who dance wildly, who sing and chant, and who supposedly “speak in unknown tongues” (that is, speaking with nonsensical jabbering, nattering, babbling, and prattling).
Later, Maharaj’s “religious laboratory” would be shut down and replaced with a “spiritual laboratory,” and eventually that laboratory would be closed and replaced with a “psychology laboratory.”
Only then did Maharaj have his full and final “Eureka!” moment. Only then did he find the actual treatment for the Ultimate Sickness. Only then did the Ultimate Medicine contain exactly what is required to eradicate the Ultimate Sickness, not on a global basis but by treating sick personas (“persons”) one at a time.
So Sapolsky began early on by operating a scientific laboratory on a savannah in Kenya. Maharaj began by running a “religious laboratory” in a Bombay loft.
As noted yesterday, later, that “religious laboratory” would be shut down and replaced with a “spiritual laboratory,” and eventually that laboratory would be closed and replaced with a “psychology laboratory.”
Maharaj foretold the shift which was to come, moving the focus of his talks away from religious and spiritual subject matter to his eventual focus on the psychological roots of the Ultimate Sickness. He said: “Only that person will visit this place whose virtue and sin have come to an end.”
The virtue vs. sin pairing is just one of the thousands of dualistic pairs that have been generated by so-called “religious” or “spiritual” persons / personas.
His talks would eventually deal with the dysfunctional aspects of the mind, and part of what his teachings would address was humankind’s
inherent influence from early “savannah experiences” and the conditioning that began there
and in part
the psychological issues which come about from current conditioning, programming, etc. along with body and mind and personality identification.
Yes, the experiences of early primates on the savannah still influence human behavior to this day, and those influences are generating thoughts and words and actions and reactions which are totally subconscious;
moreover, they cause the same type of reactions that were experienced there as a result of physiological threats even though nowadays the threats are more often perceived (but not real) psychological threats that are being experienced by “psychological states” (Sapolsky) or ego-states / personalities (Maharaj).
The challenge for societies is see the detrimental effects (relatively speaking) of savannah-type hierarchies and savannah-type brutality among many humans whose places are fixed in hierarchies (be they at the top or the bottom)
and who are, therefore,
behaving in the cruel and brutal ways which are observable in some of the members of various species on the savannah, members that are also at the top of a hierarchy.
TOMORROW: So why focus on the primates’ (and, therefore, humanity’s) early savannah experiences?
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.
