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

ORIGINALLY SANE

Next:

GOING CRAZY

“The Ultimate Sickness: Strategies for Treatment”

This is the way the subject is explained in the book, “THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS, THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE”:

Robert Powell said that Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj provided “powerful antidotes to unawarenesses,” that is, to the sickness which marks and mars the relative existence.

The Ultimate Sickness is merely one of the many plagues which have spread globally since the mid-1300's. If you review the chart shared earlier

you’ll see that the most extreme effects of each plague peaked when science diagnosed the cause; when the masses were offered certain avoidance techniques; when treatment plans were developed by science; when science produced immunizations; and when natural immunities began to emerge.

Science and nature - things natural.

The one plague which manifested and became even more serious as the size of the human brain evolved from its early one-cup size to its present three-and-a-half-cup size (allowing for the “mind” parts to develop) has never receded, much less disappeared.

As plagues came and went, the Ultimate Sickness was unique in that it came and has never gone. Yes, its intensity (a) increased during the ages of darkness (one of which the masses on the planet are presently embroiled in) and (b) receded somewhat during periods when some entered into the light;

however, the Ultimate Sickness is the one plague for which science and things natural have not been sought by the masses; where causes have never been diagnosed and widely understood;

where the masses have never been offered certain avoidance techniques because they have never even sought them; where treatment plans have been developed by the wise but which have been ignored; 

where no immunizations have been sought; where no natural immunities have evolved; and where the Sickness has never even been recognized as existing on any widespread basis.

This Ultimate Sickness - this “Ultimate Plague” - has been the “longest running” and the most widespread in the entire history of humanity.

The content of the book THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS, THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE suggests that “if the Ultimate Medicine is not administered in the proper stages and steps, it will have no long-term effect.”

It shows that “the sickness is primarily a mental sickness which is contracted when exposed to the ignorance and insanity which has now spread to every culture on the planet.”

That book identifies some of the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness, which include: 

an inability to distinguish true from false and, therefore, the propensity to believe lies; to distort perceptions; to believe that images are real; to have no clue who you are; to talk in one’s sleep; to work and drive and walk while asleep;

to accept as true, without questioning to even the slightest degree, the concepts and beliefs that are taught by authority figures and to believe the most unbelievable tales that those figures dream up;

to contract the sickness and then to pass it along willingly and enthusiastically to family members and friends and associates (and with pride in having done so); to accept on faith alone a plethora of beliefs that have no basis in fact and that cannot possibly be proved; to be so delusional that “one” is believed to be “two”;

to believe that learned ignorance is wisdom; to suffer willingly and repeatedly the consequences of what Maharaj called “learned ignorance”; to lose all ability to detect nonsense when it is heard;

to allow subconscious motivators (a.k.a., personality / personalities) to determine every thought and word and action while believing that one is consciously choosing to think what is thought, to say what is said, to feel what is felt, and to do what is done; to be asleep but to believe that one is awake;

to be self-destructive; to exhibit impaired judgment; to be unreasonable and illogical; to display unstable and inappropriate emotions (that is, being emotionally-intoxicated);

to be religiously or spiritually intoxicated; to have hallucinations (such as believing that you can hear a supernatural being from another world and to believe that such a being is actually talking to you);

to believe that the not-special is special; to believe that absolutes can be applied to things relative; to be disorganized and confused while thinking that you are organized and thinking clearly;

to develop extreme dependencies on people and groups and leaders and on powers that are supposedly living in unseen worlds; to be unable to cope; to be in a state of unwarranted fear; to constantly desire more and more of what is already making one sick;

to feel guilt and self-blame that have no basis in fact; to behave like a six-year old child for an entire manifestation, even during “the adult years”; to be preoccupied with “self” (with the false selves or false identities that are assumed and thought to be real);

to play a role on a stage and believe the character is real; to believe that a physical, plant food body can disintegrate, re-integrate, and thereafter last for eternity and can feel pain or ecstasy forever; and to suffer and then still believe that suffering is good.

The content in that book invites the reader to consider the following: what is each human became aware of the Sickness; what if each realized that she or he has a full-blown case of it; and what if every person knew of an Ultimate Medicine which could cure all of the above.

Would they not call that a “miracle drug”?

There is some widespread awareness of the symptoms of that illness but the cause have been misdiagnosed. Some have been told that the Sickness is rotted in their being too few who are aware of dogma and too few who are following the dogma laid out in certain so-called “holy writings”;

Others have been told that they have a “spiritual malady” and that the cause of their problems is that they are not in a close relationship with some god or goddess or God or Higher Power of some sort. All of those beliefs have been shown to ineffective and false.

Then, this point is offered: “Not only does such a medicine exist, and not only does it address all of the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness that are catalogued above, but it is available if one can find a guide that knows the exact steps by which the medicine must be offered.”

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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