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BEING MADE CRAZY, CRAZY, STAYING CRAZY or AWARE OF CRAZINESS AND SEEKING SANITY
UPCOMING SERIES:
If you were suffering from a sickness, would you accept treatment from a doctor that does not (1) complete a diagnosis and (2) identify cause prior to formulating a treatment plan?
Of course not, so why tolerate having the Ultimate Sickness treated by a guide that does not identify cause 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 all things non-dual.
Eventually, Maharaj stopped the man’s monologue and explained that he
did not give a tinker’s damn about the man parroting gurus or guides or
writers; instead, Maharaj said that he only wants to hear about a seeker’s own
experiences and from one who shares only what he or she has come to perceive
and understand.
In the next series, we will begin with finding the actual cause of the
Sickness which only a non-dual guides try to address and then formulate a
treatment plan which will differ entirely
from the plans which have failed humankind for thousands of years.
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 the innumerable mutations of the Sickness in order
to update and modify and improve the version of the Ultimate Medicine being
used to address all aspects of the Ultimate Sickness.
All prescribed prescriptions stored in your medicine cabinet have an
expiration date. So should the Ultimate Medicine used for addressing the
Ultimate Sickness.
Genes mutate. The result is physical / body problems. Understandings also
mutate. The result is mental / mind problems.
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 Everything is Mutated; hence, the Normal or Natural Has Been Replaced by the Abnormal, by the Unnatural, by the Supernatural by Magical and Warped Thinking, by Language, and by the Resulting Warped, Detrimental Behavior.]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:
“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
It is senseless to speak of “world peace” and to spout one’s anti-war rhetoric if Real Love is not finding sincere expression inside one’s own being and inside one’s own home. One man mentioned earlier felt that it was a waste of time to touch his wife unless she agreed that his touching her was seen as foreplay to having sex.
Another wife was mentioned who had normalized the fact that her entire culture discouraged appropriate touching and avoided offering expressions of caring, stating that - in all of her twenty-eight years - her parents had never once said “I love you” or hugged her.
The unnatural has been normalized by her family and by her culture, historically robbing millions - in fact, billions over the centuries - of the basic, natural call to be touched appropriately and to hear appropriate expressions of love.
In another case cited in the previous post, a single mom - obviously focused more on the desires of self than on the longings of her own teenaged offspring - admitted that her wanting to be touched and to hear someone say he loved her had long ago reached a boiling point.
However, her son revealed privately that the same woman,
his mother, never hugs him, never kindly touches him, and never tells him that
she loves him.
All of this might appear to deal with nothing more than relative issues that
are insignificant when compared by some to their “expanded focus on the eternal
and infinite alone,” but here the pointer is that realization is as meaningless
as all things relative unless it is overlaid upon the reality and allowed to
bring to fruition - during the relative existence - not only freedom and peace
but the continual expression of Real Love as well, an expression that comes
naturally if the Oneness is understood.
Here, the pointer is that the sense of separation which the understanding addresses must be dealt with at the “local” level
- at the false self / false Self vs. the authentic level - rather than at a
state or national or global level. Consider the insanity of one . . .
(A) talking about a desire for peace in the Middle East, in Afghanistan, in
Iraq, in Libya, in Syria, in Ethiopia, in Somalia, in Kenya, in Ukraine, or in
any of the other troubled spots around the globe while
(B) doing nothing to bring peace and Real Love and love into one’s own
existence, into one’s own home.
Thus, this discussion on a site sharing Nisargan (Natural) pointers, a
discussion that is attempting to show how sane and natural it is to touch
appropriately and to be touched appropriately.
This comes after having already discussed the insanity of inappropriate
touching, such as in the case of that violent husband and his wife who is
accepting her husband’s spin-doctoring of his physical, mental, and emotional
abuse of her, normalizing and minimizing his physical blows to her body as “mere
love taps.”
Now, though, the discussion turns to the insanity of talking about Love but not
really expressing it as well as to the sanity of appropriate touching. To that
end, the point was earlier offered twice that touching kindly and being touched
kindly are natural not only among humans but among animals as well. These
pointers were offered earlier:
F.: There is something that is natural and normal (relatively speaking) in
terms of the significance of “touch” and “Real Love” and “love” not only among
humans but also among animals alike (giving credence not only to how
significant all of those are but also showing how natural all of those truly
are); and,
Jennifer Jones, considered by many to be among the top go-to analysts when it
comes to the effects of appropriate touching: “Animals the world over have the
need for touch in common, suggesting our tactile abilities developed very early
in our evolutionary history.”
Consider the results of one of the more famous scientific experiments that
validate those assertions that love, Real Love, and touching are common
throughout nature and, therefore, are totally natural:
American psychologist Harry Harlow arguably did more to expand the
understanding of the psychological underpinnings of love than anyone before
him. Harlow conducted his experiments on love using infant macaque monkeys
because of the similarities in behavior that they display with human children.
Harlow said that “the basic responses relating to affection - including
nursing, contact, clinging, and even visual and auditory exploration - exhibit
no fundamental differences in the two species. Even the development of
perception, fear, frustration, and learning capability follows very similar
sequences in rhesus monkeys and human children.”
Harlow’s interest was mainly in how love developed between mother and child,
and the effects of that relationship on later responses to affection. The
inspiration for his experiments came when he noticed that baby monkeys which
were separated from their mothers developed emotional attachments to gauze
cloths used to keep their cages clean.
When the cloths were removed, the monkeys would often throw temper tantrums until they were returned. Harlow speculated that the baby monkeys might be using the cloths as surrogate mothers.
He tested his theory. The results will be offered tomorrow.
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.
