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

“Insanity is universal. Sanity is rare. Yet there is hope because the moment we perceive our insanity, we are on the way to sanity.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“This is the function of the Guru -- to make us see the madness of our daily living.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality [and Reality] to rush in.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Dual-minded persons are unstable in all ways,” meaning, “Dual-minded persons are [mentally] unstable in all ways.”

--Yeshu'a 

All Will Catch the Insanity Bug: The Universality of Insanity and of the Ultimate Sickness Among Persons

Call it “insanity.” Call it “madness.” Call it the end result of a personality disorder where a person has disintegrated from psychic health to a state of only average psychic heath to a state of complete psychic unhealthiness and total mental and emotional degeneration and collapse.”

Call it “being so removed from Reality and reality (from THAT and the AM-ness] that one has lost the ability to know who what you truly are.” Call it “being out of touch with both reality and Reality.” Call it a “state of living unnaturally or trying to live supernaturally / religiously / spiritually rather than merely abiding naturally in the peace and quiet.”

Call it “being so mentally and emotionally fragmented that one feels as if she / he is going to shatter into a million pieces . . . not feeling whole or ‘at one’ but feeling splintered and split and broken and shattered and divided and falling apart.”

Call it “a state marked by anxiety, resentment, anger, despair, depression, misery, pain, suffering, desolation, gloom, dejection, and anguish.” Call it “The Ultimate Sickness”. Call it “Going Crazy.” But no matter what you call it, it is a global epidemic and all will contract it to one degree or another at some point or another.

Of that, Maharaj said, “Insanity is universal. Sanity is rare. Yet there is hope, because the moment we perceive our insanity, we are on the way to sanity.”

“This is the function of the Guru -- to make us see the madness of our daily living. Life makes you conscious, but the [guide] makes you aware.” Regarding craziness, madness, insanity, or total psychic deterioration, the key pointers are that, as Maharaj said . . .

it is universal;

no one “starts out crazy” (though some might, from the beginning of the manifestation,  be mentally incompetent as a result of genetic defects or other causes);

no one will likely reach the teen years without having been driven crazy to some degree;

most will stay crazy to one degree or another for the entire relative existence;

most can easily spot the insanity of “others”;

most will never become aware of their own insanity, see their own insanity, and admit to its presence;

most will, therefore remain insane and take no steps to be free of their insanity;

and,

a few will see their own insanity and will take the necessary steps to be free of that condition and to be restored to sanity.

It has been said that persons cannot understand non-duality unless they have experienced their own dual nature first; it has been said that persons cannot understand who what they are if they have not experienced who they are not; and it has been said that persons cannot understand sanity unless they have experienced their own insanity.

Maharaj: “The ‘world’ has been in existence for millions of years. There have been thousands of avatars and great men, and important personalities. Has a single one of them been able to do anything to change the natural course of events in the ‘world?’”

and

Maharaj: “The function of the Guru is to make us see the madness of our daily living . . . to make you aware.”

Going crazy is about going down a path that is unnatural. When a human walks through woods and approaches a bird, the bird flies away. That is natural. To reach a point where the consciousness would no longer naturally extend itself is unnatural, and that is insane.

Going crazy is about going down a path that is supposedly supernatural. When humans reach a point where they are so ignorant and so trapped in magical thinking that they believe their crops were dying because an angry god in another world needs to be appeased, that is insane;

and when a state in the U.S. called “Texas” has been in a drought for months and the governor calls for three days of prayer and fasting, and he calls for people to gather in a football stadium to pray for the nation and for the state and for rain, that is his insanity;

when the people go along with his theatrics and believe that they can affect or even control weather patterns, that is their insanity.

“Job 1” for the guru or “realized non-dualist” or “Realized Nisargan” is to receive those seekers who have gone so far down the road of darkness that they can no longer see their way back to the road of light.

“Job 1,” therefore, is to bring the light and an awareness of “the way back” (which must be traveled before “the way out” can ever be shown.” Seekers must go back along the dark path before they can go back to the light along the path by which they originally came.

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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