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

A.    ORIGINALLY SANE

B.     GOING CRAZY

C.    GOING . . . GOING . . .

D.    GONE

[NOTE: Links to two relevant videos have been added to yesterday’s “this is the one to read” post which can provide additional understanding which can possibly offer more clarification to all non-dual seekers. Those links are also offered today at the end of today's post.]

“So How Crazy Can Persons Go?”

[All of the following are actual examples of instances of insanity which have been witnessed or documented first-hand]

I’ve heard members of a so-called “spiritual program” who were told that the program could help restore them to sanity as they recall what they believe to be their past craziness.

When they admit they were insane and then describe the insane things they did, they always only talk about the crazy things they did . . . when drunk.

Not getting drunk any more, they are convinced that they are no longer crazy, never seeing that far more of the craziness and the self-destructive and self-defeating things they did were done when they were not drunk.

I recently heard one talking in the most out-of-touch-with-reality, Foo Foo Land BS manner and he said, “When I was insane . . . blah, blah, blah.”
  

There he sat, talking totally insane BS and not having the slightest clue that he was revealing that his industrial-strength insanity still remains.

He mentioned how much he knew about their founder without mentioning that the founder had stolen millions from the organization’s coffers, how he gave huge amounts of their program’s funds to his mistress, how he spoke from the program’s podiums for eleven years when he was using LSD, etc.

But even that founder said that there are four levels of sobriety and most in his program only reach the first level and then most lose even that level within a matter of months or a few years:

Level 1: Physical Sobriety

Level 2: Mental Sobriety

Level 3: Emotional Sobriety

Level 4: Spiritual Sobriety

The Foo Foo Land speaker is mistaking physical sobriety as a restoration to sanity. Wrong!

And that speaker showed how deeply he remains trapped within his conditions of mental intoxication, emotional intoxication and spiritual intoxication.

Other examples:

A person can go so crazy that she will believe her husband when he hits her and then says that those strikes were really “love taps.”

A person can go so crazy that, when a man she has known for less than a week offers to buy her a house so he can move in with her and so they can live together, she (a) can feel that is a wonderful compliment to her and (b) cannot see that it is evidence that the man is a total psycho who wants to control her and make her into a steady supplier of sex.

Persons can go so crazy that when their state is in the midst of a drought, they will believe it when their governor tells them that they can make it rain if they will only pray for 72 hours straight and if they will fast and not eat food for 72 hours.

Persons can go so crazy that, when their religious leader tells them that a hurricane wiped out the city of New Orleans “because of the negative karma of the people there,” they will believe him.

A person can go so crazy that, over a period of twenty years, he will take fifty women (whom he knows not all) and move them into his home so that he can control them and have sex with them whenever he wants, and then he can wonder why none of those “relationships” worked out.

A person can be so crazy that she can lose / give away her virginity and then believe later that her virginity has been restored. [See “hymen restoration.” Talk about trying to un-ring a bell.]

A person can go so crazy that when she reads in her husband’s own handwriting the written descriptions of the sexual affairs he’s had since they married, she can still convince herself that he’s telling her the truth when he says that none of the affairs really happened.

A person can go so crazy that he can tell both his wife and their marriage counselor that oral sex in not real sex.

Persons can go so crazy that they will use a product even when the label on the product says that use of the product will cause hundreds of debilitating illnesses and result in a premature, miserable death.

Persons can go so crazy that they will normalize not touching and not expressing love and then dismiss that abnormal behavior by claiming that “it is just the way our family is” or “it’s just the way that the people in our culture are.”

A person can go so crazy that she will idealize her life and tell everyone about how wonderful it is although, most days, she is so depressed that she wants to die.

Persons can go so crazy that they 87% of the two billion who are members of one organized religion can believe that when people die, they become half bird and half human and will either fly about a place in the sky called “heaven” or will fly about on planet earth, hovering invisibly over certain people and serving as their guardians.

Persons can go so crazy that they believe that they will be assured admittance to their heaven (where unlimited sex with multiple women awaits them) if they die in the act of killing people who belong to other religions.

Persons can go so crazy that they do not even know Who or what they are.

Persons can go so crazy that they believe that they are the roles which they play.

Persons can go so crazy that, when they are suffering from a “mind”-based problem, they do not seek treatment for the “mind”-based problem but attack the body instead, taking up instruments and cutting their own bodies or puncturing their own body or destroying their own bodies.

A person can become so crazy that, each year, he has unprotected sex with hundreds of prostitutes in his country where prostitution is legal, then admits that he goes home and has unprotected sex with his wife, then admits that his acts of unprotected sex could kill him and his wife, and then - when asked why he doesn’t at least use protection if he is going to have sex with that many women whom he does not even know - says that “the added risk of dying makes it all the more exciting.”

I heard all of those words and recountings directly from the people involved, first hand.

Now, if you need more evidence of the insanity that has manifested globally, you can probably list another thousand examples that serve to illustrate the widespread madness that you have witnessed first-hand.

Most significantly, though, is this: 

Have you ever taken pen and paper in hand and listed any examples of YOUR OWN thoughts and words and deeds . . .

which might deserve consideration,

and

which might possibly make no sense at all, if looked at objectively,

and

which might need to be addressed, relatively speaking?

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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