Advaita Vedanta: BEING MADE CRAZY, CRAZY, STAYING CRAZY or AWARE OF CRAZINESS AND SEEKING SANITY

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BEING MADE CRAZY, CRAZY, STAYING CRAZY or AWARE OF CRAZINESS AND SEEKING SANITY

The preponderance of evidence is in: insanity reigns on planet earth. Though there is really no one who was born and no one who really dies, there is one topic which will be discussed by the non-realized masses in regards to 100% of the people on the planet, without exception, namely, “Cause of Death.”

Person 1: “Did you hear? So-and so died this past weekend.”

Person 2: “WHAT! No way? What happened?”

In recent years in the U.S., the top eight answers have been . . . heart disease; cancer; covid-19; accidents / unintentional injuries; stroke; lower respiratory diseases; Alzheimer’s disease; or diabetes.

After those top eight, scores of other causes follow: neo-natal disorders; dementia; diarrheal diseases; diabetes; liver disease; kidney disease; tuberculosis; HIV / AIDS; suicide; malaria; homicides; Parkinson’s;

nutritional deficiencies; drowning; meningitis; maternal disorders; alcohol abuse; drug abuse; fire; measles; hepatitis; poisoning; war / terrorism; temperature extremes (excessive heat or excessive cold); and natural disasters.

In the U.S., there is a preoccupation with avoiding death by focusing on pharmaceuticals. Here, the pharma industry is the number one advertiser, accounted for 75 percent of all ad spending.

They do not all focus on the one same sickness or illness; instead, each claims to have the best product which can address the scores of physical illnesses which made the list above.

So back to that common question which will be asked about all of us when mahasamadhi is taken: “WHAT! What happened?” The answer will vary widely.

But that’s about the body, about the physical. So what is the most common statement heard from everyone throughout the day? It's about the mind.

“That SOB’s crazy!” or “He’s nuts!” or “She’s nuts.” And what is the least heard comment? “You know, I think I might be crazy.”

Ego-defense mechanisms are used in a way that prevent seeing one’s own insanity while readily spotting insanity in others (with the exception of not spotting the insanity in anyone whose insane statements reinforce one’s own insane beliefs).

So while it is impossible to observe and then say accurately who is dealing with one physical illness or another which will eventually lead to the end of the relative existence, it is possible by witnessing the thoughts and words and actions of a person to see where that person is on The Crazy / Sane Continuum.

Every person on planet earth is either (a) being made crazy by being exposed to crazy programming, conditioning, etc.; or (b) is now among the masses who were made crazy and who presently take their condition to be “normal” and are therefore staying crazy; or (c) have become aware of their craziness and might be among the minute percentage of those who are finally seeking sanity.

I was diagnosed with an untreatable genetic heart disorder in my early teens. In the last five years, after two “minor heart attacks” and one “major heart attack,” there are some doctor-recommended protocols I am following and some which have been recommended which I am not following.

In the case of the cancer which I had which was diagnosed some 35 years ago, I tried the standard bi-annual protocols for several years before I tired of signing a document releasing my doctor of any responsibility if he happened “to cause any internal hemorrhaging which killed me.” That led me to find a non-surgical cure which has left me colon-cancer-free for thirty years.

The point is, addressing the physical stuff with the body by going along unquestioningly with various physicians (who used their alarmist sales approach which is intended to generate fear) no longer happens. After doing my research - my “due diligence” - I might do what they want or I might not.

But when I became aware of the fact that familial and cultural influences and the influence of government leaders and business leaders and religious leaders had rendered me insane, then I took that to heart, so to speak.

It inspired me to begin a long and arduous and ineffective search which continued until I heard the term “the Ultimate Sickness.” After researching that Sickness, I came to see that almost every symptom associated with that illness had been transmitted to me. The search for an effective treatment plan for any illness cannot be conducted until a proper diagnosis of the illness has happened. With me, it finally happened.

Then the too-long search turned out to be circular, eventually leading me back in a big circle to a small cabin in the piney woods of East Texas. During the early years when I spent many months of each year in that cabin which had no running water, no indoor plumbing, and a wood-burning stove, I was there alone with my grandmother who was a full-blooded Cherokee Medicine Woman. She was the first to expose me to non-duality.

Its message manifested via her words and her actions and her perspective and her demeanor. I understood little that she said, but I would recall much of it later on. By then, I was able to grasp what she shared during those years we spent together.

I carried her basket into the woods and held it out as she placed into it the herbs and plants which she would use to make a tea; I saw how effective her treatments were for those who came her way.

My cousin Delores had been bed-ridden for five days at a time when struck by migraines. When her mother began to rush her to Grandmother’s cabin during the first signs that a migraine was developing, I watched Grandmother make a tea from what we had gathered in the forest behind the cabin. After lying in bed for a half hour, the headaches developing in Delores were always blocked from manifesting.

I watched Grandmother treat the many people who came her way, most without any money but all with a chicken or, when in season, a basket of corn or tomatoes or baby cream peas or okra. Some brought the backstrap (the venison tenderloin) from a recent hunt.

Some brought a bucket of syrup, dipped from the vat just down the road where a donkey walking in a circle moved a stone which crushed the sucrose juice from the fibrous stalks of sugar cane. That juice and water and flavorings filled the huge vat with a wood fire burning beneath it as workers stood on ladders next to the vat and stirred the boiling ingredients inside.

I could earn five cents a day if I climbed a ladder and used a limb with a strainer tied onto the end of it and dipped insects off the sweet surface which had attracted them and then trapped them.

I did not understand this at the time: that would be a perfect metaphor for what would happen to me as the seemingly-sweet but insane belief systems which I had bought into would eventually trap me.

As my seeking continued, I looked back and saw that the wisdom of a grandmother who never attended a day of school allowed her to heal sick bodies and allowed her to heal sick minds.

Have you looked objectively at your relative-existence-influences and influencers? Have you ever defied the defense mechanism of egotism and taken even a few seconds to consider where you might be on The Crazy / Sane Continuum? If the answer is “No” - the answer most often given by the honest - then the next question is, “Would you at least be willing to consider the question?”

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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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