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THE REASON THAT “NON-DUALISTS” SHOULD
UNDERSTAND PRIMATE CULTURES ON THE AFRICAN SAVANNAH
“In some cases, it seems that one can take humans out of baboon-land, but you cannot take the baboon out of humans.”
--floyd
As a result of the savannah experiences and conditioning, and because of genetic factors as well, far too often nowadays humans are behaving in a very savannah-style mode that models some of the most aggressive and brutal behavior exhibited there by alpha-male-types which are totally sociopath, described by Sapolsky as “scheming, back-stabbing Machiavellian bastards.”
In the scientific laboratory operated by Robert Sapolsky on a savannah in Kenya, his research work with baboons provided insights that were also quite relevant to humans as well:
1. He found that one of the most significant contributors to humankind’s mental, emotional, and physical problems was directly related to their tendency to form rigid hierarchies which are controlled by those at the top who use their positions to preserve the status quo;
to protect their position at the top; to lock everyone else into their lower positions. All lip service to the contrary - which includes talk about “upward mobility,” “opportunity for all,” “pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps,” and “we care about everyone” - is just that: lip service.
2. He found that escape from the peace-robbing and stress-generating results of a hierarchy can seemingly only be accelerated by drastic action or drastic events. Recall:
“The Keekorok troop took to foraging for food in the garbage dump of a popular tourist lodge. It was a fatal move. The trash included meat tainted with tuberculosis. The result was that over half the males in the troop died.”
Because those at the top of the troop’s hierarchy were more sociopathic and took food from those below them, then the ones that died from eating the contaminated meat were the more sociopathic, trouble-starting, fighter-and-controlling-types.
A major aspects of their personality type (which is especially comparable to Personality Type Eight in some humans who are also abusive control freaks and who are also greedy) ironically and inadvertently protected those below them by “hogging” the food supply
(or, among humans, “hogging the assets of a community, a workforce, a state, a nation, and / or other countries as well. Look for examples to those who have believed throughout history that that they who are at the top of their hierarchies have the right to “colonize” other countries and force their “values” on others and then exploit the resources and possessions and property of others.)
What was the result on the Keekorok troop from the loss of “every alpha male”? The Keekorok troop was “transformed.”
[Recall that this was then asked earlier: “Could that not be an intended result of the non-dual teachings and the understanding that can come with it? The ‘transformation’ of groups, societies, cultures or at least “individuals” / persons / those trapped in personality identification? Of course the “transformation” involves discarding one’s erroneous perspectives and bogus beliefs and then seeing clearly.]
Sapolsky: “What was left was twice as many females as males, and the males who were remaining were, just to use non-scientific jargon, they were ‘good guys.’ They were not aggressive jerks. They were nice to the females. They were very socially-affiliative. It completely transformed the atmosphere in the troop.”
Note that the Keekorok culture was not transformed by European or U.S. missionaries who moved in among them and taught the baboons the dogma valued by religious persons around the globe.
Nor was the troop transformed by Spiritual Giants who showed up and told the baboons “Your bodies and minds can be healed if you will just be spiritual, and then you will have constant peace if you stay in conscious contact with God.”
No, their biggest problem was solved when they were no longer hanging out with the sociopaths and the brutal psychos whom they had been hanging out with earlier.
Are you being as selective about the company you keep? You will be, if you are not addicted to chaos because of being bored and if you truly want the kind of peace and freedom that came to the Keekorok troop after they were no longer spending time with aggressive, controlling, and - as Sapolsky characterized them - “scheming, back-stabbing, Machiavellian bastards.”
[For example, wives: are you married to a man who is beating you? He’s not likely to change, so he’s not likely to stop. He’s more likely to escalate. Get the hell away from him while you can, then look at your own “broken picker” and see what insane and subconscious personality agenda blindly drove you to associate with him in the first place. Do that before you even consider getting involved with anyone else. Of course, that’s just a suggestion.]
Sapolsky also learned something else - something beyond the “negative” relative effects of hierarchies and the “positive” effects of eliminating hierarchies - something which is relevant to humans who would find freedom and peace:
3. Persons are trapped in “psychological states” and
4. they can be stressed for years by the “psychological tumult invented by their own species.”
See? The problem really does center in the mind. Humankind’s greatest problem is mental; it’s psychological. It has nothing to do with having acquired too-little-dogma and actually often has a lot to do with having acquired too much dogma;
it has nothing to do with too few persons engaging in “spiritual exercises” but often has a lot to do with the magical thinking generated by those playing the role of Spiritual Giants.
Maharaj learned the same in his laboratories. He began by running a “religious laboratory” which he eventually shut down (but only after more Westerners than Indian Hindus began to visit) and he replaced that with a “spiritual laboratory.”
After seeing that humanity’s misery and suffering that come with the Ultimate Sickness were not being eradicated by his spiritual message, he came to see that the problems shared by all of his visitors was not a result of having “too-little-spirituality.”
He saw that their common problem involved their psychological problems which were centered in their minds; thus, he eventually closed the spiritual lab and replaced it with a “psychology laboratory.”
5. The observations of both Maharaj and Sapolsky eventually revealed to both of them that persons - the non-realized - are trapped in “psychological states” / personalities / ego-states / false personas / false roles / stage characters / guises / masks / facades / fronts, etc.
6. Both came to understand that persons can be stressed for years by “psychological tumult.”
7. Both came to understand that psychological states / personalities are invented by their own species and are not real at all, yet their consequences - relatively speaking - are quite palatable.
8. Both came to see that there can be no peace and no freedom as long as persons believe in the dualistic concepts of “different-from-ment” and “better-than-ment” which inspire the formation of hierarchies and which foster the continuation of hierarchies.
9. And both came to see that there can be no peace and no freedom among humans unless they are first freed from the influence and hidden agendas of their personalities and their warped, psychological states.
May you find the freedom from those in order to find peace and freedom, period.
Peace, Unity, Light, Love and Sanity.
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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.
