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

“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

Next, you are invited to consider the final pointers from the film “STRESS: PORTRAIT OF A KILLER”: 

Narrator: “Who would have imagined that Robert’s baboons, roaming the cruel plains of Africa, would point us humans toward a stress-free utopia?” 

Marmot: “This may sound a little fanciful, but I think what we’re trying to create is a better society.” [Relative? Yes. An idealization? Maybe, but please consider anyway for a moment.]

“The implication, both of the baboons and of the British Civil Servants, is: ‘How can we create a society that has the conditions that will allow people to flourish?’ And that’s where this is heading: to create a society that promotes human flourishing.” 

Sapolsky: “So what can baboons teach the average person? Don’t bite somebody because you’re having a bad day. Don’t displace on them in any sort of matter. Another one of the things that baboons teach us is this:

if they’re able, in one generation, to transform what are supposed to be textbook social systems that are sort of engraved in stone, we don’t have any excuse when we say there’s certain inevitabilities about human social systems.” 

Narrator: “And so the haunting question that endures from Robert’s life work is this: ‘Are we brave enough to learn from a baboon? The Keekorok troop didn’t just survive without stress, they thrived. Can we?’” 

“SOLO” CHANGES AND IMPACTS 

So, are you adverse to such relative or idealized pointers? Then look to the specific changes and impacts that can evolve from your own completion of the “journey” to full realization. 

Maharaj said: “Wisdom is knowing that I am nothing. Love is knowing that I am everything.” 

Were one to truly know that “all is One,” then how could one still buy into hierarchy-based distinctions? How could one believe in the concepts of “different-from-ment” and “better-than-ment”? How could one take any action that supports and maintains any hierarchy that promotes and reinforces a sense of separation and stress? 

One cannot. post-realization, there is time for peace, for quiet, and for silence, but there is no time for “making someone else just miserable.” 

And there can also be time set aside to share via the non-dual message a means by which persons can reach an understanding which can, in turn, allow seekers to become free of misery and suffering. That is why these posts have been offered most mornings - without charge - since the summer of 2005. 

That is why, once the understanding freed Andy Gugar, Jr., that he has carried this message and has provided - without charge - certain books that contain the message that led to his attaining the Full Understanding that, in turn, led to full freedom. 

Thus, from this author and from Andy Gugar, Jr., the invitation is to follow the “path” to its end, to complete the entire three-leg “journey,” to then abide for the remainder of the manifestation in a Nisargan (natural) fashion, and to abide in a spontaneous mode that allows for the manifestation of joy that only the IS-ness can allow for throughout the remainder of the relative existence. 

THE CONCLUSION, Part A:

“NON-DUALITY” BUYERS BEWARE

F.: Those who grasp the extent of the far-ranging relative effects of hierarchies might eventually gravitate toward a non-dual message that gives no credibility to hierarchies or any other man-made, conceptualized structures that reinforce a false sense of separation and better-than-ment and different-from-ment. 

They might find their way to a “teacher” or “guru” that uses the Traditional Method of Teaching, the Direct Path Method of Teaching, the Neo-Advaita Method of Teaching, or the Neo-Vedanta Method of Teaching. Yet the chances are greater each day that they are going to cross paths with a “teacher” of Pseudo-Advaita or Pseudo Non-Duality. 

The message in that regard from Maharaj was to “stay away from Big Name Teachers,” and the message here is “‘non-duality’“ buyers beware”; definitively stay away from “Big Name Teachers”; 

and understand that hierarchies are as prevalent among those deeming themselves to be “non-dualists” as they are in all other quarters of the planet and societies and structures. 

One publication called “Watkins Review” has gone so far as to identify what it says are “The Top Ten Most Spiritual People in The World.” Interestingly, their spiritual rankings coincide with the level of “financial blessings” that have come to those “Most Spiritual People” as a result of their “spiritual living.” 

(According to some, “Watkins Review’s” estimates of the net financial worth of the “most spiritual people” are actually lower than the actual amounts which are quite higher): 

Here is “Watkins Review’s” hierarchy of the “Most Spiritual People on Earth” and the net worth of those on their list: 

Ken Wilber – Net Worth: $1.5 Million 

Wayne Dyer – Net Worth: $10 Million 

Eckhart Tolle – Net Worth: $15 Million 

Paolo Coelho – Net Worth: $18 Million 

Louise Hay – Net Worth: $50 Million 

Rhonda Byrne - Net Worth: $60 Million 

Deepak Chopra - Net Worth: $80 Million 

Dalai Lama (Who controls the Tibetan Government Fund) - Over $1 Billion 

Thich Nhat Hanh - Net Worth: $1.5 Billion 

Oprah Winfrey - Net Worth: $2.8 Billion 

[It was reported that a fourth woman, Byron Katie, would have made the list except her net worth is such a guarded secret that the listmakers did not know where to place her in their rankings.] 

That same publication promotes the message offered by Charles Fillmore (the founder of Unity Church) who wrote a book entitled “Prosperity” in which he declared,

“It’s a sin to be poor,” a message now popular among many right-wing politicians in the U.S. The publication reports: “You can read more about the key spiritual conditions that are necessary for prosperity, in any area of life, in Fillmore’s book.” 

The point: persons are deceived if they believe that a person associating herself or himself with “non-duality” - or who is using that term to describe their message or a part of it - is going to be guaranteed to provide accurate non-dual pointers. 

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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