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

Yesterday, some insane beliefs held by patients in mental hospitals like the one where my uncle was the chief administrator more than  sixty years ago were shared to illustrate the illogicality of thinking that “humans are their beliefs.”

Now, to a related pointer:

In the U.S., fewer than 5% are so insane that they require confinement, and most of those confinements range from 1½ to 2 weeks for individuals admitted voluntarily and somewhat longer for those on an involuntary hospital admission.

Is that long enough? Unknown.

But the point is, when Maharaj discussed the prevalence of the insanity among the masses, he was not discussing those who were so mentally ill that they were confined. The non-dual message is not for them.

The non-dual message is for the nearly 8 billion on the planet who will never be incarcerated, who are getting up in the morning and going to work, or not; who are having children, or not; who are concerned about budget issues, or not; and who believe the dogma which they have been taught in a religion which was chosen for them by their parents.

Sometimes, (a) insane beliefs and (b) learned ignorance can be confused. Science makes clear that humans are a three-part triad / composite: there’s the (1) elemental plant food body which has created a space through which (B) oxygen and (3) conscious-energy can circulate.

For example, it is a scientific fact that when mahasamadhi is taken that the elements return to the universal pool of elements; that the oxygen released from the body will return to the universal pool of oxygen; and that the conscious-energy will return to the universal pool of conscious-energy.

Those three parts of every composite unity / human go their three separate ways, and neither anyone nor any One will be nosing about through the three “piles” to find the exact parts which were temporarily combined at the time of mahasamadhi and try Humpty Dumpty-style to put them back together in some fashion so that one can be judged and be assigned to live eternally in flames or in one version or another of “heaven.”

Consider the beliefs associated with the events following mahasamadhi:

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons to believe that the parts will be rejoined to re-form “the recently deceased” and add wings so there is a ½ human and ½ bird being which flies about in heaven or is returned to earth in an invisible form and flies above one human or another to provide guardian-angel-style protection to someone?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons to believe that there can be a god who loves you unconditionally but who also is willing to force you to abide in eternal flames forever?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons to believe that they will be reunited with their family after “death” when they had three spouses and three families before “passing away”?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons to believe that they hear god speaking to them and telling them what they need to do?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives football players who score a touchdown to point upwards to give credit to their god for the scoring of that touchdown, indicated their beliefs that god follows the sport and has favorite teams?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons whose child was kidnapped, molested and killed to believe that “God has a special plan” and “It’s His will” and “He works in mysterious ways” and “It’s all good”?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons to believe that they are “God’s chosen people”?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons to believe that after a priest performs the act of transubstantiation that wine is truly transformed into the blood of Christ and that a cracker is turned into the body of Christ and that church members should eat both though they would be engaging in cannibalism and vampirism?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons to believe that because their skin is white that they are better than a person with skin that is of a darker pigmentation?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons to believe that the state of Mississippi was correct in forcing a thirteen-year-old rape victim to carry her baby to full term?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons in Ohio to believe that the 10-year-old rape victim in their state should not be allowed to terminate her pregnancy?

Is it ignorance or insanity which drives persons to believe the governor of Texas when he says the state’s abortion law does not offer an exemption for terminating a pregnancy due to rape because “he’s going to eliminate rape in the state so it’s a moot issue.”

See the ignorance vs. insanity conundrum? In the case of the billions on planet earth who are displaying one or more of the key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness which Maharaj identified as “ignorance, stupidity and insanity” are not people who are incarcerated in mental hospitals.

Instead, they are behind you at the checkout counter; they are waiting on you in a shop in a mall; they are driving like maniacs, going 60 mph in a 30 mph zone and causing wrecks;

they are the one described by neighbors as a “quiet man who was such a nice fellow” until he killed his spouse and three children - the case with 59% of all women who are killed annually . . . during breakups.

The “ignorance, stupidity and insanity” which Maharaj tried to address all manifest along a 1 to 100 continuum. They exist to varying degrees among people and even among individuals at any given time. But they exist and they are the number one cause of humankind’s misery and pain and suffering.

Maharaj predicted that so few would ever realize because so few are ever willing to complete an objective inventory of their beliefs. They’ll fight and even kill to protect any imagined assault on what they take to be “their beliefs” when (fortunately) those are not actually their beliefs but are the beliefs of their ancestors and persons in their cultures who handed down those beliefs.

After Yeshu’a (following so many years of tutelage which he shared with his twelve disciples) eventually heard the nonsense they were coming up with, this is reported:

“He wept.”

No crap, Sherlock.

To be continued.

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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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