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UPCOMING SERIES:
If you were suffering from a sickness, would you accept treatment from a doctor that does not complete a diagnosis and identify the specific cause(s) prior to formulating a treatment plan?
Of course not, so you should not
be expected to accept treatment of the Ultimate Sickness from any guide that
does not identify cause(s) prior to formulating a treatment plan.
A narcissistic know-it-all showed
up in Maharaj’s loft and started spouting the
same-old, same old to try to impress his captive audience with the supposedly
“profound” depth and breadth of his knowledge of things non-dual.
Eventually, Maharaj stopped his
monologue and explained that he did not give a tinker’s damn about which gurus
or guides or writers the man was quoting; instead, Maharaj said that he only
wants to hear about a seeker’s own experiences and who shares only what the
seeker has come to perceive and understand.
In the next series, we will begin
with finding the cause(s) of the Sickness not only 5000 years ago but also
today which some few and capable non-dual guides will use to formulate a
treatment plan which will differ entirely from the plans which have failed
humankind for thousands of years and which are still being used - ineffectively
- today.
As with Covid-19, researchers and
manufacturers of treatment and / or preventive measures were and are constantly
having to change their treatment plans because of mutations. The same applies
with humankind: the problems of humans - be they physical or psychological - require
treatment from a guide that is constantly studying mutations in order to update
and modify and improve the version of the Ultimate Medicine being used to address
all aspects of the Ultimate Sickness.
The Effects of Mutations And
Variants - in Humankind, in the Non-Dual Message, in Religious Texts, in
Spiritual Messaging, in Forms of Government, in Economic Systems, in Tribalism,
in the Human Brain, in sicknesses and the Ultimate Sickness, ad infinitum. Everything is Mutated;
hence, the Normal or Natural Has Been Replaced by the Abnormal, by the
Unnatural, by the Supernatural by Magical and Warped Thinking, by Language, and
by the Resulting Warped, Detrimental Behavior.]
Now, to continue:
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
“Love is not blind. It’s color blind. It prevents people from seeing red flags.”
--floyd
“Two
Tools That Can Assist with the Restoration to Sanity: ‘The 180-Degree Rule’”
Next, to REAL LOVE and love: in essence, there is no difference in the truth
being pointed to with the summative statement of non-duality: “I AM THAT; I AM” and “Real
Love; love.” Meaning? Meaning that if Full Realization has happened, then there
is just as much non-dual Truth being pointed to with the non-dual expression “REAL
LOVE; love” as with the non-dual expression “I AM THAT; I AM.”
Post-realization,
it is understood that “Love is knowing that I am everything,” and that Love
will be expressed by the Realized because the Oneness is understood.
That having been said, there is something that is natural and normal
(relatively speaking) in terms of the significance of “touch” and Real Love and
love among animals and humans alike.
Again, because of the increasing insanity
among the masses, inappropriate touching is becoming more prevalent while
appropriate touching is happening less often.
That will be discussed later, but consider first the evidence in favor of
appropriate touching. Research has shown that there are many physiological and
psychic benefits (still speaking relatively) to touching and being touched.
Some of the conclusions drawn on that subject via research and now standing as
scientific fact include the following reasons why researchers can now state
unequivocally that to touch and to be touched on a regular basis is natural:
1. All dualistic notions about an “A” being connected to a “B” aside, the
relative existence remains, and with that comes the fact that normal and
naturally-abiding humans have a basic need to feel “connected” to others.
The
researchers concluded that “We are social beings, and although we all fall in
different places on the introversion / extroversion scale, we all need to have
that sense of connection to other members of our tribe. While some of that
connection can come from having conversations with others, touch also plays an
important role in human communication.”
2. The results found by researchers confirm this point as well: “Touch reduces
anxiety. Simply touching another person can make us feel more secure and less
anxious. It can make us feel grounded and safe and not so all alone. It’s not
just children who could use a warm, reassuring hug to make things a little
better, so if you’re feeling like a bundle of nerves, go ahead and ask for a
hug.”
3. Additionally, their research led to this conclusion: “Touch produces
bonding. Touch is one of the ways romantic partners bond with each other and
parents bond with their children.
When partners and families get busy and let
touch go out the window, they’ll often find that they don’t feel as close and
relationships suffer. Regular touch is one of the ways that we continually
renew our bonds with those we love.”
4. In terms of physiological effects, this was also discovered during the
research: “Touching lowers blood pressure. Studies have shown that those that
get regular touch often have lower blood pressure than those that don’t. Touch
can also slow the heart rate and help speed recovery times from illness and
surgery.”
5. Finally, the researchers concluded that “Touch can give us the sensory input
that normal humans crave,” making clear that the presently pervasive shift
toward aloofness and coldness and not touching and not expressing Love / love
is not “normal” but is quite unnatural and abnormal instead.
Children whose mothers used certain drugs during pregnancy hate to be touched.
Children who have been abused hate to be touched, and that aversion usually follows
them into adulthood. Also, there are specific cultures that discourage even
appropriate touching and the verbal expression of love.
Too, there are cultures where the population is generally warm and hugging but there are other cultures in which touching is discouraged. The population is one that prefers distance between people. That stance is commonplace among Germans
Also,
hugging is not very common in parts of Asia such as China and Vietnam, where
the parent-child bond may also lack physical intimacy. Similar to Arabs, many other
Asian cultures often view physical contact as traditionally unacceptable.
Now, while drug use and child abuse are not typical non-duality topics, the
perverted and perverting effects of acculturation - as well as a sense of
separation - are non-duality topics; furthermore, it is acculturation in many
cases that is now driving the abandonment of the expressions of Real Love /
love via touch, that is driving the global sense of separation, and that is
driving persons to avoid expressing in words, “I love you.”
The result is that certain cultures are contributing to a planet-wide
deficiency of Love / love being felt and a globe-wide manifestation of coldness
- along with an accompanying sense of separation - instead. So why have many
cultures now adopted a “we don’t touch, we don’t say ‘I love you’ attitude”?
That
said, there are some excellent books which can be used with children to explain
that there are some people who would engage in inappropriate touching and
invade their primacy and try to break down their body boundaries Those books
are worth investigating by parents and caregivers.
BELIEF: [From a former spouse after pulling me aside after I had placed
my arm around her mother’s shoulder and hugged her gently as a way of offering
a totally appropriate greeting after knowing her for some time]:
“Don’t ever touch mom. Our family does not hug, we don’t cry, we don’t show feelings, and we don’t say ‘I love you,’ so don’t take any of this personally. It’s just a cultural thing . . . just the way we Germans are.” Had I not been an infatuated fool lost in the delusions of a dream, I would have walked out of the door at that point and not returned.
Nowadays that would be an automatic, default response, not one which would need to be considered for a while.
IDEA: [From a teenager]: “My mother never hugs me and never says she loves me.
I guess I know she cares, but I don’t understand why she’s only willing to show
it by preparing my meals or driving me to the places I have to go. A hug every now
and then would be nice. Hearing ‘I love you” would be nice. Only recently have
I been willing to admit that something is wrong with our family - with our
whole society here, in fact - and the coldness that I never thought about
before I am now seeing as being very abnormal. Something is truly wrong here.”
BELIEF: [From that same teen’s single mother]: “I am really ready for a
relationship with a man. I want to be loved . . . I want to be touched . . . to
be held . . . to feel a man’s arms around me.”
The 180-Degree opposite perspective to those statements, and the cultural
aspects that are blocking the expression of Real Love / love via touching and
saying “I love you,” will be discussed later; but know for now that those two
woman and that teen male were reared in different countries but were all reared
with the same cultural attitudes and beliefs and traits.
To be continued.
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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."
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