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[Walter Driscoll asked to interview me in order to preserve on video some of the latest modifications and evolutions in the versions of the message offered here since 1989. He would label the discussion, "Unlearning with Floyd Henderson."
Please note: For those who have a problem hearing what is being shared, the video offers a fairly accurate set of closed captions which some listeners might want to activate.
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1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj]
2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
3. A newer video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.)
4. Some prefer paperback books even if they have to wait a day or so to receive it and have to pay more for a printed book and its shipment. Now, 10 paperback books by Henderson are in print and available in two anthologies through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and over 40,000+ booksellers around the globe including in the Americas, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, China, Spain, Brazil and South Korea. See the end of this post in red text for details.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
[Walter Driscoll asked to interview me in order to preserve on video some of the latest modifications and evolutions in the versions of the message offered here since 1989. He would label the discussion, "Unlearning with Floyd Henderson."
Please note: For those who have a problem hearing what is being shared, the video offers a fairly accurate set of closed captions which some listeners might want to activate.
The interview is available for viewing by clicking on video "NUMBER THIRTEEN" in the column to the right.]
1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj]
2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that.
3. A newer video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.)
4. Some prefer paperback books even if they have to wait a day or so to receive it and have to pay more for a printed book and its shipment. Now, 10 paperback books by Henderson are in print and available in two anthologies through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and over 40,000+ booksellers around the globe including in the Americas, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, China, Spain, Brazil and South Korea. See the end of this post in red text for details.
5. Would you like to have us send to someone as a gift from you a copy of any ebook in our inventory? See the offer in purple text at the end of this post.
6. Or, you may purchase a Floyd Henderson Shopify Gift Card here for someone and offer recommendations for the books in Floyd's store which might be of assistance to them.
7. You may click here to visit Floyd's bookstore which offers both digital books and paperback books which deal with non-duality, non-duality-based fictional adventures, recovery, and financial budgeting.
HOW TO STOP BEING CONTROLLED BY FANATICAL, SELF-SERVING RELIGIOUS / POLITICAL LEADERS BY GIVING UP THE BELIEF IN AN AFTERLIFE, IN LIFE AFTER DEATH
To all of the results generated by the beliefs above, add in not only the results which are generated and disseminated by religious and spiritual and philosophical and ideological “-ism’s” but also add in the beliefs disseminated by political “-ism’s,” nationalistic “-ism’s,” economic “-ism’s,” governmental “-ism’s,” etc.
See the hundreds of thousands of beliefs that are driving the non-realized to feel “apart-from” and that are blocking them from understanding the unicity, and driving them to live in fear while promising to help them live in peace.
One of the duality-based ways by which humans have long been controlled is by their belief in “life after death.” Now, it is likely that the most effective tools which religious / political leaders have available to control the masses is their belief in life after death and the threat of eternal punishment from a “Supreme Being / God.”
Those who use the belief in life after death and the threat of eternal punishment have now used those tools to replace the female patient and her doctor relationship with a female patient and politician relationship;
they have suppressed and have often eliminated the natural drive for sex and have spread psychic damages by producing sexual hang-ups and frustration on the masses;
they have decided that they should be able to determine who can marry whom; they have decided that they should be able to force schools to include public prayer into their activities;
they have decided in the U.S. that this country should be a Christian nation (“as the founders intended,” mistakenly believing that the U.S. was founded by “the Pilgrims” or “The Puritans.”)
Fact check: the founders were not top heavy with Christians. They were top heavy with Deists;
Deists promoted rationality and reason without any reliance on revealed religions or religious authority; they made clear that government and religion should never be mixed;
the religious / politicians have determined that they should be able to stamp out the rights of gays who would marry; that stem cell medicine should not be available;
that the nonsense of creationism should be taught in public schools; that U.S. schools should not be able to include the nation’s pro-slavery history in their curriculum;
that U.S. schools should not be able to make students aware of the genocide of the millions of Indigenous Peoples by whites in order to found this nation;
that the advancement of their conservative, right-wing agenda is within their rights as determined by their “for the greater good” justification . . . and to hell with the fact that their methods are often illegal.
And in the end, the religious / political leaders assure their followers that they will spend eternity in eternal flames or something similar if they do not accept the religious / political leaders’ beliefs unquestioningly.
Conversely to accepting all of that nonsense and manipulation-based domination, one of the surest ways of no longer being controlled by fanatical, self-serving religious / political leaders is by giving up the belief in an afterlife, in life after death;
and
is by understanding the non-dual message that humans (and all life-forms) are three-part composite unities.
The human body is an elemental plant food body with oxygen and conscious-energy constantly circulating in and out of it.
How freeing it is to realize that when mahasamadhi is taken, the elements will return to the universal pool of elements; the oxygen will return to the universal pool of air; and the conscious-energy will return to the universal pool of conscious-energy.
End of story. So how could those divergent, ever-coming and going parts recombine to re-form the exact same body and being in which they had originally been joined, if only for a short while to boot? They cannot. End of story.
End of the false belief in post-manifestation self-ness. End of the false belief in post-manifestation Self-ness. End of the belief that one can be punished eternally or rewarded eternally.
End
of the belief that the AM-ness is inferior to the THAT-ness. That is not the
case. This is the case . . .
. . . at
best, and actually the AM-ness should be understood to have more “significance”
since a composite unity can “experience” the consequences of not understanding
or the consequences of understanding right now whereas, post-manifestation,
there will be no one - nor any “who or Who” - to understand anything.
Next, for freedom from believing in false beliefs to happen, the readiness of
the intelligent seeker has to be there; only then can the realized guide begin
her / his task effectively.
Here, there are four steps required to shift from identification with the false “I” to abidance as the no-beliefs Absolute. Too, there are three “levels” among seekers (“wet charcoal,” “dry charcoal,” and those at the “gunpowder stage”);
therefore,
there is the additional requirement of a realized guide that can listen to a
seeker, that can determine “where” on “the path” that seeker is, and that can
then offer level-appropriate pointers that might facilitate a shift to the next
step on “the path.”
What is said to one seeker in regards to a topic may differ entirely when
addressing the same topic with a different seeker. Persons at the “wet charcoal”
level (which includes the masses) will likely never be able to understand
non-duality pointers (or much of anything else).
The
realized guide will never be able to “fire them up” enough to burn away their
beliefs - their learned ignorance. Those at the “dry charcoal” level include
persons who have completed some of the necessary study and reading and
contemplation and in those cases, with much effort, the realized guide might be
able to generate a spark of light that can move them closer to the understanding.
For those at the “gunpowder” level, they are very close to full realization,
being blocked by attachment to only a few remaining concepts and beliefs. With
the proper pointers offered by a realized guide that knows “where they are on
the path,” the guide can often say to those at the third (religious or
spiritual) level exactly what is required to trigger an explosion that blows
away all of their remaining beliefs and allows them to continue along the “path”
in order that full realization might happen.
What about you? Have you been fixated at the religious / spiritual / “personal
god” stage which is only the third of the four required steps to move away from
“personal identification” and to abidance as the Absolute and to overlaying
Reality upon the remainder of the relative existence?
Is the pure, universal consciousness finally beginning to inspire some questioning? Might the consciousness have reached a level where it is beginning to sense that there might be “something else” to be understood beyond religious dogma and beyond “spiritual principles”?
An alternative consideration was offered recently to a seeker in the U.K. that has been trapped at that level.
He was asked if he might be willing to set aside all of his spiritual exercises; if he might be willing to take a break from all of duality-reinforcing meditative practices during which he has been focusing on “positive” ideas in order to block out “negative” ideas;
and if he might consider taking a vacation from all of his other spiritual employment. If so, the alternate possibility presented for his consideration was this: that abiding might simply happen - and happen simply - without his continuing to turn mere “living” into another full time job.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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.
