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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“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

Salposky’s primary laboratory was located in an African savannah. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - in testing various versions of the Ultimate Medicine - ran three laboratories in a Bombay loft which served at one point as “a religion laboratory at another point as a spirituality laboratory; and finally as a psychology laboratory.

In the labs of both, it was shown that whether the discussion was of the behavior of baboon primates or of human primates that chaos is the order of the day. When Jeshu’a began sharing non-dual pointers, he stated that “Dual-minded persons are unstable (chaotic) in all ways.”

It was also shown that assholism has been normalized in both social groups.

As Sapolsky put it, “Basically, baboons have about a half dozen solid hours of sunlight a day to devote to being rotten to each other.” As Maharaj put it, the problem with humanity is an Ultimate Sickness mind problem with the symptoms of “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” and being rotten to others.

It was shown in both labs that baboons make life miserable for other baboons and that humans make life miserable for other humans. In both cases, all social group happenings are being driven by fanatics, and fanaticism is stuff of fools.

Fanaticism is evidenced by fanatical outlooks or behaviors, especially as exhibited by excessive, passion-level, manic thoughts and manic words, and manic actions; by unreasoning zeal; and / or wild and extravagant notions on some subject.”

The manifestation of fanaticism marks the existence of baboons and humans (i.e., baboon-humans). Examples exist in the frequent, peace-destroying fighting which can break out in an among the members of a troop or between the members of competing troops;

can be seen at sporting events among humans (hence the word “fan” (short for fanatic); can be seen when fanatical thoughts drive fanatical talk / screeching; and can be seen when those drive insane, fanatical behaviors;

can be seen when religious fanatics try to impose their belief systems on all others; can be seen when spiritual fanatics suggest they are functioning at some higher levels their religious and / or non-religious  baboon-humans; and can be seen when so-called pro-lifers clash with those supporting the right of choice.

A site visitor sent a pic from yesterday of a sign displayed at one clash which read, “If you are disgusted by a woman and her doctor deciding that an abortion is necessary, just do what you do when someone enters one of our schools and kills our children: ignore it.”

Maharaj in one way or another advised many over the years to “Mind your own business. Stop allowing your egotism-driven ego-states to demand that others model you and your behavior. You’re not nearly as special as you think you are and your behavior is not as nearly sane or as wise as you believe it to be.”

There’s been offered recently a discussion of Robert Sapolsky’s “scientific laboratory” on the African savannah and a discussion of what his research offers to humans who would understand the root sources of humanity’s (body) pain and the key cause of (mental and emotional) suffering and misery. 

As far as contributing to humanity’s understanding of the roots and causes of their problems as well as the potential solutions, the African savannah provides the perfect place for the research and experiments which he conducts in that scientific laboratory because every human’s genetic and archetypical lineage can be traced to the savannah. 

The effects of one’s home are discussed here often, for it is the home where those sometimes-intimidating-and-larger-than-you persons passed down to you their belief systems that were rooted in their own warped programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination.

And why is all of that passed down” In order to turn you into a mirror version of them. That is the way their egotism-supported-egos work: “I know what is best for you, and what is best for you is to be just like me / us.” 

Children take that message and as adults pass it on. Why? Because of their legacy, which is ego and egotism. Children and children-as-adults believe that their parents must have been wonderful because of the children-as-adult’s belief that, “My parents had to be great - look at me. Look how well I turned out. I’m the product of those loins, so those loins must have been fabulous.”

Yes, indeed, look at you, meaning, “Why don’t you look at you - honestly and objectively - and see the lies that your ego-states would have you believe.”

The human family’s so-called “birth” can be traced to the African Continent, and because the seemingly hostile and seemingly cruel environment of the savannah was humankind’s “first home,” it was in that “home” that humankind’s earliest conditioning took place. 

The conditioning resulted in certain archetypical messages being stored and passed along genetically. Those image-style messages were intended to allow the species to survive in the often-hostile environment of a veldt; thus, each human carries within the subconscious such messages as: 

“The dark is dangerous and bad; the light is safer and good”; 

“‘Up,’ where one can escape many threatening things on the ground or can escape high rising waters, is far better than ‘down’”; 

and eventually, when language and concepts developed and programming and acculturation and indoctrination and domestication and brainwashing followed, the belief came that . . .

“Being good is better than being bad. You will certainly please the rain god if you’re good and make sacrifices to him and commune with him by eating blood and body (be it the blood and body of a sacrificed virgin rather than the god’s own blood and body”). Duality was “born,” right there on the savannah, and became partly inherent and partly taught and learned.

It is said that humankind was “born” on and lived on the savannah, but nonsense was the most significant “birth” that ever happened there as far as humanity is concerned.

There began the early festerings of the dualistic beliefs which would develop into the widespread Sickness that spread around the globe and which now contaminates the mind and consciousness of almost every person on the planet. 

Out of Sapolsky’s laboratory came an opportunity to differentiate between true and false, between “the real, physiological threats” of the type that a zebra experiences when being chased by something that would eat it vs. the unreal, imaginary “psychological threats” that drive humans’ thoughts and words and behaviors after they enter into “psychological states” / ego-states and imagine that they are being threatened when nothing except a false identity is emoting and thus feeling threatened. 

Years earlier, in Maharaj’s laboratory in a loft in Bombay / Mumbai, he came to that conclusion even sooner, understanding that indeed it is the acceptance of an ego-state as an identity which sets the stage for persons to imagine that they are being threatened when nothing except a false identity is emoting and thus feeling threatened. 

Yet Maharaj’s laboratory was a bit different in that it evolved in its orientation and what it focused on. In fact, once more, he would eventually have three laboratories: he first ran “a Religion Laboratory,” then later “a Spirituality Laboratory” and eventually “a Psychology Laboratory.” 

Maharaj understood that the Ultimate Sickness was a problem which needs a cure, so he sought the proper form of the Ultimate Medicine with the vigor and determination of a Pasteur seeking to understand the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization; 

with the vigor and determination of a Salk seeking a prevention method for polio; with the vigor and determination of a Curie who pioneered research on radiology; and with the vigor and determination of the early psychologists who pioneered research on the functioning (and dysfunctionalism of) the human mind. 

That psychological work included researchers such as Ivan Pavlov and his groundbreaking work on conditioning; Kurt Lewin who pioneered theories arguing that behavior is caused by both personal characteristics and the environment;

and Carl Jung (who advanced the understanding of the functioning of archetypes and what he called “the collective unconscious.”

“The collective unconscious” is the set of shared concepts, ideas, moral attitudes, etc. - which all form a set of beliefs - and which operate as a unifying force within society which also, ironically, becomes the greatest source of duality and duality’s subsequent disharmony and lack of unity. 

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.)

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