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.”

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Sapolsky (and Maharaj in his own way as well) showed . . . 

that only one species on the planet (namely, humans) suffer from “social and psychological tumult”; 

that the tumult “has been invented by their own species”; 

that the tumult is aggravated by the near-limitless number of hierarchies that have been invented by persons on a global basis; 

that the tumult is rooted in a psychological source (being generated by the warped, belief-filled minds of humans); and 

that the tumult results in stress and discontentment and chaos and the instability that always accompanies dual-mindedness. 

As a result of a species having invented the duality-based tumult that is now manifesting on a planet-wide basis, the effect is that the Ultimate Sickness has been spread around the globe and is now infecting all non-realized persons. How many are suffering from that Sickness which Maharaj said is marked by “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity”? 

His estimate was first that only 1 in 100,000 would ever realize and then be free of the Sickness and its symptoms; later, the guess became 1 in 1,000,000; and after working for years with so many seekers and seeing how few of them got the Full Understanding, he modified the guess to 1 in 10,000,000. 

No matter whether he missed the actual number by 10% or even by 50%, the number of those suffering from the Ultimate Sickness is staggering. It includes almost all humans. And the result of that mental pandemic can be seen via daily newscasts showing: 

persons fighting in the streets; police shooting unarmed persons when other means of subduing them are, more often than not, available; a border agent in the U.S. shooting an unarmed youth in the back eight times for throwing rocks but still working without so much as a reprimand;

persons beheading other persons; men and children proudly holding up in their hands the heads of persons who were just beheaded; male populations regularly raping the women in what some think is “the Land of Realization”;

persons entering schools and perforating the bodies of young children with multiple, high-damage bullets that are being shot from often legally-purchased, high-capacity-clip, automatic-fire weapons;

spouses beating spouses; spouses killing spouses; wars; civil wars; wars fought over oil and other energy sources; ad infinitum. 

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The number of humans deemed to be “dying by natural causes” are minimal when compared to those who are “dying” as a result of the warped minds of millions and millions of non-realized persons all around the globe who are driven to behave in pathological and sociopathic ways by one thing only (their beliefs) which are all stored in one place (their minds). 

Note that the term “beliefs” is really just a summative, encompassing, “catch-all” word which includes all of the concepts and ideas and notions and thoughts and perceptions and impressions and views and convictions and faith-based convictions and principles and creeds and doctrines and credos and opinions that work hand-in-hand with assigned and / or assumed personalities / personas.

And what do “beliefs” determine? They determine and control every thought and every word and every action taken by every non-realized person on the planet, all of whom are trapped in the “social and psychological tumult” that has been “invented by their own species.” 

Now that, dear visitors, is what insanity-in-action looks like; that is what the foolishness which Krishna spoke of looks like; 

that is what irrationality and senselessness and absurdity and folly and craziness and madness and lunacy and personality disorders and neurosis and psychosis look like in action.

To use the vernacular, that is nuts, and global nuttiness is now the abnormal normal on a planet where minds have been pumped chock full of dogma and ideology and philosophies and spiritual principles and belief systems and canons and codes and tenets and policies and rules and guidelines and directives.

The result? All of those are handed down from on high from those at a higher level to those at lower levels on one of the most dualistic of all humanity’s inventions: hierarchies, (especially those invented by big business, big religion, and big government). 

So, what can happen to free you from the chaos and instability? Maharaj said: “You are not in the world. The world is in you,” meaning, “in your mind.” Your task, should you find the willingness to address the real issue: get it out. Get “the world” out, that is, get out anything and everything that anyone has taught you. Get it all out of your mind. 

See what is in your mind and then see that you will best be served, relatively speaking, by getting it out. All of it, right down to the last, final, remaining belief. Take the steps necessary to remove the ignorance, the insanity, the foolishness, the irrationality, the senselessness, the absurdities, the folly, the craziness, the madness, the lunacy, the personality disorders, the neuroses, and the psychoses. 

“How do I begin? What is the first step?” some ask. 

The reply: “You do not begin with the first step. You begin with the pre-step. The pre-step is to see the presence of - and to admit the presence of - the ignorance, the insanity, the foolishness, the irrationality, the senselessness, the absurdities, the folly, the craziness, the madness, the lunacy, the personality disorders, the neuroses, and the psychoses. 

Only if that is recognized might one then be willing to complete all of the steps on the “path” from belief in (and attachment to) a false “I” that believes in the also false body and mind and personality identifications which drive all of the insane thoughts and words and actions of all among the non-realized masses;

and among not-fully-realized seekers; and among those who think that they have realized but are actually engaging in what Maharaj called “kindergarten-level spirituality” and who are actually “standing in the dull light of dawn while mistakenly believing that they are being bathed in the full light of the noonday sun.”

Both Maharaj (via the understanding that came via conscious contact with the “inner guru” or the “inner resource”) and Sapolsky (via the understanding that came through the non-duality-supporting scientific research which Maharaj foretold) came to see that the problems of humanity are rooted in the “psychological tumult” that comes after entering into a “psychological state.” 

The Ultimate Medicine for the treatment of the resultant Ultimate (and Psychological) Sickness - characterized by the “psychological tumult” that is generated after entering into a “psychological state” or states - must, therefore, involve . . .

(A) the elimination of the psychological states (the assumed ego-states / personas / personalities) 

and 

(B) the elimination of the mind (where the personalities are blooming and thriving as a result of being fertilized by the mental caca in the psychological cesspit there). That elimination must happen if one is ever to be free of the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness and become . . . Well. 

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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