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

“Ignorance, Learned Ignorance, Personality Disorders, & Insanity”

The key factor that prevents persons from seeking sanity is, of course, their denial that they are insane: “I am fine, but I have to deal with people all day long who are crazy.” 

When driven by egotism, then some who may admit that they have “some issues that might need to be addressed” will nevertheless attempt to minimize their condition.

The fact is, though, that it hardly matters whether the case is that there is a presence of extreme ignorance, extreme learned ignorance, extreme personality disorders, or certain levels of insanity. Why?

Because the end results are often the same. Does it matter that the young girl who fell into a raging river, nearly drowned, and had to be rescued a mile downstream underwent that experience . . .

(A) because her mother was ignorant

(B) because her mother was suffering from one or more personality disorders

or

(c) because her mother was insane?

Or, is the bottom line the fact that a young girl was unsupervised and allowed to play outside beside a raging river during a major storm, fell into the river, nearly drowned, and had to be rescued a mile downstream?

As far as the relative existence is concerned, chaos and misery and suffering are all the result of either extreme ignorance, extreme learned ignorance, extreme personality disorders, certain levels of insanity, or a combination of two or more of the above; therefore, the call is to address all of those conditions and not merely the most extreme.

“Insanity & Clinical Insanity”

The difference in

(a) personality disorders that have driven persons into the unhealthiest levels of psychic disintegration and

(b) insanity

is often negligible. Those who are diagnosed as being “clinically insane” are in a different category from those trapped in extreme ignorance, extreme learned ignorance, extreme personality disorders, or certain levels of insanity, but the clinically insane can be treated as well.

Note, however, that the clinically insane are in the minority in every nation around the globe. Setting aside the 2%-5% of the populations who are diagnosed as being clinically insane at any given time, the remaining 95%-98% are often not far from being in a condition that is almost as critical; and they, obviously, form the majority and unlike the clinically insane are not moving into and out of their condition as treatment is received.

Most of those trapped in extreme ignorance, extreme learned ignorance, extreme personality disorders, or certain levels of insanity - by contrast - are never treated. 

That is why Maharaj could say that “insanity is universal” and why those who would minimize their condition will often deny the seriousness of their own mental and emotional state, believing they are far removed from the clinically insane.

The fact is, though, that the ramifications on their relative existence - and the existence of those having to deal with them - can be just as serious (as far as things relative are concerned).

“More on How the ‘Going Crazy’ to the ‘Going Sane’ Process Unfolded Here”

Here, learned ignorance and insanity came later than in some cases, but it eventually came. The delay was for one reason only: the Type Four Personality developed here (as happened with Maharaj) as a result of rebelling against authority figures and their messages of distortion and delusion.

Here, early on, there was an inner BS detector that could spot ignorance and insanity, that led to disgust with inauthenticity and phoniness and stupidly and brutality, and that resulted in being driven to avoid the masses and the chaos of the inner city with its gangs operating on the street where we lived and to search for that which is authentic.

As a child in a Southern Baptist Sunday School Class, so-called “facts” and “truths” were questioned (just as visitors here are invited to do):

“If He loves me unconditionally, why are you teaching us the ten conditions or commandments for going to heaven? And if He loves me unconditionally, why is He going to send me to Hell to burn eternally (a fate that I was convinced was my destiny, accepted as a better alternative than spending an eternity in heaven with the people in that church);

and

“How can you possibly sit there and expect us to believe that a man could load two of every non-human thing on a boat and keep all those pairs on board?

How do you keep two mosquitoes, two flies, two horseflies, and two birds of every kind from flying away? How do you keep lions from eating lambs? And how is that unconditional love, to drown everyone on the planet except for one family?”

That congregants believe all they are told and all that they read in their “holy” texts evidences the alarming degree to which magical thinking drives those persons.

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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