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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
ORIGINALLY SANE
Next:
GOING
CRAZY
In the U.S., 3 out every 1000 children begin the relative existence with brain damage. That has nothing to do with the current discussion which is focusing on “mind damage,” centered often in the frontal lobe which deals with personality, remembering, problem-solving, reasoning and thinking.
The cortex deals with thoughts and planning and the formation and storage of memories. Because stored information is always subjected first to delusion, then memories taken to be the truth are seldom true but are actually false in most cases.
“No, Floyd. I had no childhood trauma in my home. My parents were great, perfect in fact, and they maintained a totally normal environment.” (The unspoken part of that false belief is, “If you want to know just how great they were, look at me, the product of their loins.”)
F.: “But we have seen during the last few one-hour visits that you admitted ‘A’ and ‘B’ and ‘C’ about them and about yourself,” and those admissions did not involve even the slightest degree of greatness or perfection.”
Visitor: “Screw you! They did the best they could, dammit it!!”
(So did Hitler. He wanted to kill all of the Jews on the planet but he only got 6,000,000 of them before committing suicide.)
Ego-states and the egotism which manifests to “protect them” usually fight to the finish defending two perceptions: (1) one’s Super Religious or Spiritual Giant role and (2) how wonderful one’s parents were. Looking objectively at the downside of those two beliefs and the roles they generate seldom happens.
Eventually, the Ultimate Sickness Manifests and Reveals Its Symptoms
Persons suffering from this Sickness will walk about in their sleep and will talk in their sleep but will believe that they are awake;
however, they will spend all of the twenty-four hours in a day and all of the seven days in a week being unawake, unaware, and unconscious; they will regularly exhibit what Maharaj called their “learned ignorance,” their “stupidity” and their “insanity”; throughout the relative existence, they will eschew the silence and will exhibit a preference for noise and talking;
they
will be destructive, self-destructive, and self-defeating; they will be, also
relatively speaking, mean, cruel, arrogant, (false)-self-absorbed;
(false)-self-centered; (false)-self-regarding; narcissistic, egocentric,
egotistical, and selfish . . . preoccupied with the desires and fears of their
false self / selves;
they will believe that they are making choices when they are being
subconsciously and unconsciously driven by the hidden agendas of every false
persona that they adopt as an actual identity;
they will believe that they are wise when they are totally ignorant (a high level of intelligence among many of them notwithstanding and the extensive “knowledge” that they have accumulated notwithstanding); they will deny facts that are presented clearly to them;
they will often prefer faith over science; they will think magically; they will abandon natural living and will live unnaturally or will try to live supernaturally - preoccupied with Higher Powers and Higher Worlds;
with
birth and rebirth and reincarnation; with karma; with “The Universe” which
controls - according to their magical thinking - what happens to them and
others in “this world”; and with their belief in imaginary hierarchies that
they want to climb;
they will be totally out of touch not only with the realities of the relative
but also with the Reality of the Absolute; they will believe that they are “really
something” when they are really nothing;
they will unconsciously tell lies and believe that they are true, or they will consciously tell lies to try to preserve an image or a false role; they will be insane and believe that they are “just fine”; they will be unable to differentiate the true from the false;
they will be depressed and swear that they are happy, or they will be depressed and admit it but take no steps to be free of that depression; they will attach to the abnormal and swear that it is normal;
they
will judge and rage and fight and “break relations” and enter into wars and
will kill; they will invade territories and kill the population and claim that
they are establishing a nation for God;
they will join the billions among the non-realized masses and will
unquestioningly believe everything contained in the dogma to which they are
exposed to and will challenge none of the parts of their dogma which make no
sense at all;
they will hate or attack or even kill anyone whose religious beliefs differ from their own; trapped in personality, they will exhibit resentment, anger and fear; they will be opinionated and will be absorbed in self-pity, self-justification, and self-importance at times but in self-condemnation and guilt at other times;
they will be evasive and dishonest and impatient and prideful and phony; they will be driven by denial and jealousy and envy and neediness; they will behave as lazy seekers of shortcuts and as procrastinators;
they
will be dependent users - trapped in their sense of entitlement - and will be
inconsiderate and insincere and negative and intolerant and controlling and
critical and judgmental and greedy.
And yet in spite of the overwhelming odds against ever being restored to sanity
and then being able to abide naturally, there are these teachings that - if
understood completely and if applied throughout the relative existence - can
(in some cases) serve as the antidote for all of those symptoms of The Ultimate
Sickness. Note in the few examples cited so far in the series, however, how
entrenched the ignorance and insanity are:
1. there are adults who do not know how the babies that “they think they made”
actually came about;
2. there are adults who do not think a pregnancy involves nothing more than an
act of friction between a male and a female but who think that a third party -
a supernatural god living in another world - mystically had something to do
with an all-natural event in this realm;
3. the huge majority of persons on the planet believe that a body made of the
elements of the earth can rot or be burned but can then re-form into kind of
mysterious, subtle body that is recognizable as being “them” and which will be
half-person and half-bird and can fly or float about; that can have the same
mind and personality that supposedly existed prior to being “re-born”; and they
believe that they can exist for infinity as such;
4. there are adults who believe that they are that which they are not and who,
simultaneously, do not know That Which They Actually Are;
5. there are persons who hate in others what they accept or even love in
themselves;
6. there are adults whose minds and perspectives have been so distorted that
they are convinced that oral sex is not sex (call it “The Clinton Spin” if you
like);
7. there are billions of persons who believe that they can control natural
weather patterns by invoking the power of Someone from another world (whom they
believe is “supernatural” and “omnipotent”) to intervene in their behalf,
begging that “Power” to make it rain, or - on other occasions - to make it stop
raining so much;
pleading that their “Power” will redirect the path of a hurricane from where
they live to somewhere else (where others live); and believing that, as a
result of their faith in a never-seen Power, they can be blessed and thereby
protected from the ravages of tornadoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, etc. if
they beseech that Power with enough faith (all subsequent evidence which
exposes the total ineffectiveness of their prayers and beggings be damned).
Now all of that’s what crazy looks like.
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.
