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TWO
TOOLS THAT CAN BE USED TO END ATTACHMENT TO FALSE BELIEFS
“My time is now. Your time is one hundred years from now.”
--Mark Houston
TWO TOOLS THAT CAN BE USED TO END ATTACHMENT TO FALSE BELIEFS
The
previous chapter ended with this pointer:
What else is used to begin un-doing the
confusion, the learned ignorance, the personality disorders and the various
degrees of insanity that are so common among the masses and that trap then in
their belief in - and their dissemination of - lies? Two additional “tools”: One
is called “The 180-Degree Rule.” The other is called “Obliterating the Present
Thought-Based Mode of Talking and Becoming Skilled at Using Only The Vocabulary
of Restored Sanity / Full Realization.”
(Because both methods are relevant here, a brief explanation will be offered,
but the full and detailed discussion of both methods is available in the book “GOING CRAZY, GOING SANE.”)
THE
180-DEGREE RULE
Seekers who are beginning the process of questioning beliefs are invited to use “The 180-Degree Rule.” The invitation is to take any belief and then find a 180-degree opposite perspective and see if that opposite view might be the logical or reasonable or rationale or factual or sane perspective.
Actual examples where the method has been used with seekers include the following:
1. Belief: “I’m going into work this morning, gather up my belongings, and then
before walking out, I’m going to tell the boss he can take this job and shove
it.”
An Opposite Perspective That Was Found: “Maybe it is wiser to find another job
before quitting the one that is presently paying my bills.”
2. Belief: “This morning God saved my life. Traffic was moving a little slower
than usual so when I reached the intersection that I pass through every morning
on the way to work, a man ran a red light but hit me in the front side of the
car. If I’d been two seconds sooner, his car would have hit me broadside and
killed me. It’s a miracle.”
An Opposite Perspective That Was Offered: “If there had really been a God
watching over you, He could have moved you through the intersection five
seconds sooner or five seconds later and then you would not have been hit at
all.”
Other Possible, 180-Degree Opposite
Perspectives:
“My
assumption of the role of ‘The Super Spiritual Woman’ is motivating magical
thinking and arrogance. Maybe there is no god that was causing others drivers
to be caught up in slow traffic in order to help me in a wreck that he knew was
coming.”
“Maybe the speed of the driver who hit me was not increased by a god so that
the driver’s car would strike me on the front of my car rather than on the
driver’s door and maybe my car was not slowed down by god in order to
contribute to being hit in a ‘good’ way rather than in a ‘bad’ way.”
“Maybe if there really was an all-knowing, all-powerful god who was watching
over me, he would have prevented the wreck entirely.”
“And if my god did orchestrate everything involved with my car being damaged,
then maybe his actions weren’t quite as impressive as I thought at first
glance.”
“Maybe god is not inconveniencing people all around me to make my life better,
and maybe there is no god that is so focused on me that he is controlling all
others around me for my benefit or controlling them to give me what I want.”
“Maybe what happened was not a miracle at all. Maybe it was just an accident
that happened as all accidents happen (i.e., with a variety of contributing
factors and for a number of reasons, including the fact that many people on the
roads are ‘driving in their sleep’ - a very common event among the
non-realized).”
and
“Maybe, in fact, I am not constantly ‘being blessed’ as I believe, and maybe
that is an arrogant claim which shows that I believe I am blessed because I am
better than other people; that I believe I am blessed because I am pleasing god
more; which shows that my belief is that I am being blessed constantly because
I am so ‘good’; and which shows that if other people were more like me, they
could also receive god’s blessings as regularly as I do.”
Consider more examples to see the way that the rule can work to eliminate the
belief in lies:
3A. Belief at 8 A.M.: “I’ll never do that again!” (which is a brain-inspired
warning being made from the stupor of a morning hangover from drinking alcohol excessively.
Wise counsel from the brain indeed).
3B. Belief at 5 P.M.: “Well, I could have just have one drink. I know I need it
before I go home and face what’s waiting there” (which is a “mind”-inspired
belief that overrides the earlier constructive message from the brain and which
is a most typical “mind”-message because the blocked consciousness is hell-bent
on destroying the self - the false self).
A 180-Degree Opposite Perspective: “For me to say time and again that I will
never do a certain thing again, only to do it again and again and again, is
insane. Obviously, some other action is going to be required if I am to address
this relative existence problem.”
4. Belief: This statement of her distorted views came from a woman who is
tolerating physical abuse from a husband who characterizes his blows against
her body as “mere love taps,” from a woman who believes that she is the one who
is causing him to lash out at her time and time again: “If he didn’t truly
care, he couldn’t get so emotional, so that shows that he really does love me.”
“Anyone
striking anyone else is never evidence that an abuser ‘really does love’ the
one being abused. Quite to the contrary, it shows that the abuser does not care.”
“The fact that he becomes so emotional does not show that he really love me. It
shows that he is a really sick, abusive, controlling, person who thinks he owns
me because he pays my bills.”
“His raging and hitting me both show that he is suffering not only from
ignorance and insanity and emotional intoxication but also from a huge case of
assholism; furthermore, if I stay and tolerate physical, mental, emotional and
verbal abuse, my own ignorance and insanity are revealed.”
Finally, if one begins to question the beliefs that are commonly-held by large
numbers of non-realized personas among the masses, it can be seen how often
their beliefs are 180-opposite of what would be sane or logical or reasonable
or factual.
In fact, such observing and questioning and judging the irrational and ignorant
or insane thoughts and words and actions of other persons happens frequently.
Yet seeing the irrational and ignorant or insane thoughts and words and actions
of others will avail a seeker nothing unless it triggers an objective ability
within the observer to relate to the examples being observed and critiqued and
to find his or her own false ideas and concepts and beliefs that are
unconsciously driving the seeker’s thoughts and words and actions.
Only if one witnesses the irrational and ignorant or insane thoughts and words
and actions of others - and only if such witnessing then turns the focus from “them”
to one’s own “self” (or one’s many false “selves”) - can one ever be free of
accepting as truth what is actually nothing more than a culture’s
widely-accepted lies and nonsensical ideas and distorted concepts and
bogus-but-valued beliefs.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
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.
