Two Other Major Sources of False Beliefs

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Two Other Major Sources of False Beliefs, continued

(yesterday)

How to be free if that is the basic programming and conditioning to which one has been exposed from early on, as is the case with billions among the planet’s population who report that they are affiliated with one of the “-ism’s” in the list above or with another similar “-ism” not on the list?

Please review the invitation here to find the answer:

the seeker of (a) freedom from belief in lies and (b) the truth should see by now that there is no such thing as “your mind.” Though plant food bodies do not initially contain a “mind,” they do come with a brain.

As with all “life-forms” on the planet, that and the intuitive inner resource is all that is needed for the body / elements to function naturally. To the detriment of all, persons’ cultures - which are attached to “more-ness” rather than “less-ness” - decided that was not enough.

“They” decided you most of all needed a set of belief systems, and “their” belief systems were implanted in a section of the brain that can store and retrieve information and that is now called “the mind.”

“They” decided you needed their “knowledge,” which is really nothing other than their learned ignorance (including “their” ideas and beliefs that were rooted in superstitious and mythical explanations that were, and remain, totally devoid of any factual or scientific evidence).

In pumping those bogus beliefs into you, they generated what each person calls “my mind” - a repository of ideas and beliefs and non-truths.

Those contents were transferred to persons without their ever having an opportunity to question any of it at all (with the exception of about 1/2 of 1% of all cases . . . those cases involving the types whose experiences by the age of six inspire them to question all so-called “authorities” and all that they say and do).

Among all others, their societies’ beliefs are passed along and accepted faithfully and dutifully. The stage was set for a most unfortunate play to be played out on a daily basis around the globe in “The Theater of Lie” that the relative existence is.

What each seeker must see to move along the “path” and complete the “journey” to full realization (that is, to freedom from body-mind-personality identification, to freedom from all role-playing, to freedom from deceiving and being deceived, to freedom from being driven unconsciously by the false beliefs of “others,”

to freedom from believing in that which is false, and to an ability to see the truth that can be known but not spoken and to an understanding of the functioning of the totality) what must be seen by each seeker is that nothing in “the mind” came from you - and most certainly did not come from You.

It was “they,” not you, who dreamed it all up. (What you have dreamed up will be, as noted earlier, discussed in a later chapter). “They” forced you to accept their concepts and beliefs as a child; as a result, you internalized their beliefs into a “mind” and - if you have not realized fully - you now allow their fiction to define your beliefs, your “values,” your “mind,” and “you.”

That, in turn, unconsciously drives every thought and word and deed, rendering you unable to consciously choose anything (the concept of “free will” under such circumstances being another completely counterfeit notion).

In fact, most of the (dualistic) beliefs in the “mind” of the non-realized person are the beliefs of the earliest, self-appointed “religious or tribal or spiritual leaders” who dreamed up those beliefs, adopted them, and then passed them on.

And all those values were based in duality, in terms of what those persons decided was “right or wrong” and “good or bad.” The invitation here: cast aside ideas and concepts and beliefs and attitudes and allow the brain to function in conjunction with the inner resource.

Tap into the intuitive sixth-sense. Sense the fourth dimension beyond the three dimensions of a body’s height, width and depth.

Abandon any notion that a “mind” and its contents are real or that you “have a mind” that is “yours.” You do not. It is “theirs,” has always been “theirs,” and shall always be “theirs” if you do not abandon it and then realize;

otherwise, those persons can still reach forward - from millennia ago or from days ago - and control you via the compilation of that mass of learned ignorance and contamination called “your mind.”

Religions want to “cleanse” your mind. Spiritual movements want to “purify” your mind or “heal” your mind. Many professionals want to “straighten out the thinking” of your mind.

Many groups want to move you from “wrong thinking” to “right thinking.” Some want to guide you to your “right mind.” Some want to teach you to “halt the constant movement” of your mind.

None of those have a clue that they have missed the point - and the facts - completely: nothing needs to be done or can be done to your “mind” and nothing needs to happen or can happen to benefit your “mind.”

The mind is illusion. One may as well go to a desert and try to benefit and improve or cleanse or purify or straighten out a mirage. How can anyone cleanse a mirage, purify a mirage, heal a mirage, straighten out a mirage, make a mirage that is wrong into a mirage that is right, or stop mirages?

It is impossible. The mind will dissolve if you see that everything stored in it is baseless ... without accurate foundation and without any semblance of Truth.

Then the brain, the sixth-sense, the inner guru, and the intuition will move you through this relative existence, and you will live the remainder of it in a natural fashion rather than in an unnatural fashion or in a supernatural fashion that is dominated by magical thinking that results from a wrongly-programmed and conditioned “mind.” 

To review, these pointers were offered in the previous post:

1. The discussion of false beliefs is focusing on the two sources that presently result in more distortion and illusion and deception (and self-deception) than any others.

2. One source is the attachment of person’s to their culture’s “-ism’s,” and none have spawned more false beliefs and concepts and dualities during the last 5000 years than these and / or other “ism’s” that are similar:

Judaism; Protestantism or Catholicism ; Islamism; Mormonism; Buddhism; Hinduism; Sikhism; Shintoism; Taoism; theism; montheism; polytheism; dogmatism; fundamentalism; paganism; puritanism; spiritualism; supernaturalism; mysticism; salvationism; separatism; etc.

3. The second source of a near-countless multiplicity of false beliefs is the source that involves one’s “personal” beliefs, and little can better illustrate the toll of “personal” beliefs than an objective study of the state of what culture’s call “personal relationships.”

The beliefs associated with religious dogma or spiritual movement or philosophies or ideologies are - and always have been - “their” beliefs, not “your” beliefs. “They” passed them on, and the common practice around the globe is to demand that children accept all of “their” beliefs on faith alone, without questioning those beliefs at all.

As for one’s “personal beliefs,” those are beliefs that are also rooted in “their” beliefs but that are then expanded upon by one’s own misperceptions and erroneous conclusions as images are believed to be real.

In either case, the beliefs rooted in those two sources are some of the most difficult to dislodge because they are always accompanied by an imaginary “payoff.” Consider:

A. The belief in a “payoff” from a “personal god” (or gods and goddesses) triggers a near-infinite conglomeration of other beliefs about gaining power both now and later; about being “blessed” now and attaining life forever;

about the alleviation of personal fears and personal desires (that is, persona-based fears and desires); about receiving rewards now and forevermore while providing the means to avoid eternal punishment;

about the nobility of suffering; about a “payoff / payback” for donating money to the leaders of whatever “-ism’s” are being attached to; about an entity that supposedly loves unconditionally but that will toss one into flames for eternity;

and about bogus timelines that ignore the scientific facts about the cycling of elements and energy and oxygen and, instead, speak of “birth (and / or ‘re-birth’), life, death, judgment, rewards or punishment now, and rewards or punishment forevermore.”

Point “B” to consider will be offered tomorrow.

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.

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