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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
E. GOING SANE
“When someone says to me, ‘So-and-so is driving me crazy,’ then I ask, ‘Well, if that is the case, why do you keep giving that person the keys?’”
--floyd
“One catalyst to the current planet-wide spreading of insanity is the normalization of craziness: ‘My fiancé has a standing arrangement with his buddies - every Friday night they go out to all-nude strip clubs. Once we marry, I’m going to put a stop to that’.”
--floyd
or,
“Love is not blind. It’s color blind. It prevents people from seeing red flags.”
--floyd
“Two Tools Which Can Assist with the Restoration to Sanity: ‘The 180-Degree Rule’“
There are two tools which have been used here over the last 20+ years when working with, literally, thousands of seekers.
The purpose of both tools, it was shared earlier, is to begin un-doing the
confusion, the learned ignorance, the personality disorders and the various
degrees of insanity that are so common among the masses and that trap then in
the belief in - and dissemination of - lies. The two were identified as
follows:
one tool is called “The 180-Degree Rule” and another is called “Obliterating
the Present Thought-Based Mode of Talking and Becoming Skilled at Using Only the
Vocabulary of Restored Sanity / Full Realization.”
The first tool is used to try to allow seekers to see that, as a result of the insane
programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and
indoctrination which were passed down to them, they are . . .
(a) operating under the auspices of a “mind” that contains thousands of
concepts and ideas and beliefs; and that,
(b) every one of those concepts and ideas and beliefs is 180-degrees opposite
of the truth.
Recall certain earlier examples:
As referenced earlier, the governor of Texas either believes - or wants his
right-wing supporters to believe that he believes - that if enough people pray
at the same moment and pray with enough faith that they can make it rain.
Five thousand years ago, communities believed their leaders who said that they could make it rain if the leaders each had sex with a virgin (to appease the angry rain god);
then cut out her beating heart; then watched the priest eat her body and drink her blood; then joined in as he passed the heart among the crowd as all ate the body and the blood;
and then believing that, by doing that, they were entering into communion with their God and pleasing their God and then having faith that the ceremony would assure that rain would come. (“If not, we will keep fornicating with virgins and killing them until it does rain.”)
Now, each week, around the globe, two
billion people reenact that pagan ritual of human sacrifice in their churches
without having a clue that they are modeling one of the most savage acts that
humans have ever dreamed up.
BELIEF: I have the power to control the weather.
180-DEGREES OPPOSITE: I do not have the power to make it rain.
BELIEF: There is a god in another world who is in charge of weather patterns
here, and if we do not like the decisions he has made about the weather, we can
ask Him to change his mind and to change the weather that He has selected and
to give us instead the weather we want.
180-DEGREES OPPOSITE:
1. There is no god in another world who is charge of weather patterns in this
world.
2. If there were a perfect god in another world who is always right about
everything He does, then He would not change his mind because humans ask Him
to.
3. We humans - always suffering from “The Goldilocks Syndrome” that assures
dualistic thoughts - will never be satisfied with weather conditions. If the
grain farmers in South Texas hate the drought, the South Texas growers of
grapes - which they use to make the wines they sell - love it;
if a hurricane headed for Louisiana or Texas turns north and goes into Florida and Alabama, the people in Louisiana and Texas might love it, but the people in Florida and Alabama will hate it.
For some, it is too cold, for others it is too hot. The
day that is “just right” is rare in the realm of persons trapped in “The Goldilocks
Loop” and in the realm of non-realized persons.
4. It is insane for me to think I can control the weather, and insane for me to
complain about the weather. Grandmother was once asked, “You and your family
have been farmers for decades, totally dependent on weather conditions, but not
once in the eighty years I’ve known you have I ever heard you make any comment,
good or bad, about the weather. Why is that?”
She gave the answer that all of
the Realized among the indigenous peoples gave: “When it is cold, it is cold;
when it is hot, it is hot.” With that answer, those listening for the most part
concluded that she was losing her mental faculties, unaware that she had no
mental faculties and that the consciousness was sharing pure wisdom.
BELIEF: We can be closer to God and can - as a result of that closeness - have
a good chance of avoiding what we want to avoid and a good chance of getting
what we want to get - if we commune with God regularly by eating his Son’s body
and drinking his Son’s blood.
180-DEGREES OPPOSITE: (A) We are as ignorant as pagans were 5000 years ago, and
(B) sane people would likely throw up if they really thought they were drinking
human blood and eating human body. We are not assuming the role of “The Good
and Faithful Religious People” when we do that. We are assuming the role of “The
Vampire” and “The Cannibal.” That is not evidence of being “good”; that is
evidence of being insane.
BELIEF: A man told his wife in counseling that what he did with four different
women during his marriage did not constitute infidelity because he only had
oral sex with them, not sex-sex.
180-DEGREES OPPOSITE: Yes, there have been four periods during our marriage
when I had one type of sexual relationship or another with four different
women. By definition, those were all acts of infidelity.
BELIEF: A woman said she hated her husband’s Personality Type Nine traits that
inspired avoidance and passive-aggressive behaviors while she has practiced
avoidance and passive-aggressive behaviors with her employers for decades.
180-DEGREES OPPOSITE: If I am sane and Realized, then I understand that nothing
outside of me, including my husband, can determine how I feel inside. I am
blaming my husband for the way I feel and I am using psychological projection
to try to take the traits within myself that I hate and to be rid of them by
projecting them onto my husband and then hating my own traits that I believe
are being mirrored by him. That is just as crazy as it would be if I were to
look in a mirror, see wrinkles on my face for the first time, and then blame
the mirror and hate the mirror.
BELIEF: I resent my teacher and believe that teacher to be insane if that
teacher shares anything that challenges my beliefs and ideas and concepts and
identities.
180-DEGREES OPPOSITE: Similar to being angry with the mirror that reveals the
flaws in my image, it is just as insane for me to become angry or resentful
with my teacher / guru if she or he holds up a mirror and allows me to see my
false self / false selves, my false personalities, the plethora of personality defects
and liabilities and flaws that come with each personality assumed as an actual
identity, and the evidences of insanity that are constantly being revealed via
my insane thoughts and my insane words and my insane deeds.
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.
