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[Walter Driscoll asked to interview me in order to preserve on video some of the latest modifications and evolutions in the versions of the message offered here since 1989. He would label the discussion, "Unlearning with Floyd Henderson."
Please note: For those who have a problem hearing what is being shared, the video offers a fairly accurate set of closed captions which some listeners might want to activate.
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If you missed the talk yesterday on Walter Driscoll's non-dual site, it's available for viewing under "Number Fourteen" in the right hand column on this page. If nothing else, you'll get to see some totally artificial ego-states fighting for their (imagined) lives. Ha.
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
And next
C. GOING . . . GOING . . .
“Other Contributors to Insanity: Ego-Defense Mechanisms”
[The previous listings now continue with #6 below.]
There
are psychological factors that result in the insanity of believing lies and repeating
lies that inspire prevarication, one being the use of ego-defense mechanisms.
Psychologists for years have recognized the existence of what they call “ego-defense
mechanisms”: behaviors that humans practice in order to preserve and to protect
the ego (that is, the false self / selves adopted as actual identities). The
mechanisms are almost always either fear-based or desire-based.
The words that those mechanisms inspire as a result of the desire to protect
and sustain persons’ false images (or assumed egos or ego-states or roles or
characters being played) must also be false words because they are based in an
effort to affirm that which is false, nothing more than lies told to sustain
lies . . . to sustain something that is itself false.
Those include:
6. Psychological Projection (defined as “unconsciously ascribing to others one’s
own ideas, impulses, or emotions; finding and pointing out in others the faults
that persons most hate in themselves”).
[An example: A woman (who has internalized a Personality Type Eight which
drives her to display extreme anger and even sociopathic behavior at times)
raged about her Personality Type Nine husband, hating him because, in her
words,
“He is a Type Nine so he is a spineless doormat who will not help me control
our out-of-control son, (who is also a Type Eight who is breaking laws, causing
car wrecks while driving under the influence, and being arrested repeatedly.)”
Yet she is allowing partners at work to take funds that should be hers, is accepting
the fact that they are not honoring agreements that were entered into when they
began their partnership, and is allowing them to charge her more for office
space than the amount originally agreed to.
Now, she hates her husband because he is displaying in the home the same traits
with her and the son that she is exhibiting in the workplace.]
“A Totally New Perspective That Is Not influenced By the Mind or Personality or Ego-Defense Mechanisms Is Required If Sanity Is to Be Restored”
In
the book A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE,
this is shared: “Some try to pigeonhole these non-dual pointer and claim that
Advaita (or Vedanta or Advaita Vedanta) is a religion; some claim it is a
philosophy; some claim it is a compilation of precepts and principles by which
people should live. Here, the most that is said is that
a. it is a set of suggestions and considerations which point the way to the truth
that can be known but not stated; and
b. it is a set of guideposts along a “path” (offered by one that has traveled
that “path”) which leads - in a step-wise, clear-cut manner - to an
understanding which allows the remainder of the relative existence to unfold in
a sound and sane and logical and steady manner.”
One non-dual understanding is that a seeker cannot find truth / understanding until
that seeker first finds all of the false selves which have been assumed as
identities and which are blocking the seeing of truth and blocking understanding.
Similarly, as noted above, “suggestions and considerations that point the way
to the truth that can be known but not stated” might be offered, but if seekers
are ever to see the truth and the understanding which are being pointed to,
then they must first see
A. that which is reinforcing their belief in falsehoods,
B. that which is driving them to participate in the dissemination of
falsehoods, and
C. that which is blocking the ability to differentiate the true from the false.
The
realized non-dualist knows that few
problems exist on the planet that are not rooted in the “mind” (which is
nothing more than the storehouse of fiction, false beliefs, bogus concepts,
myth-and-superstition-based dogma, nonsensical ideas, distortions, delusions,
falsehoods, and illusions).
Along “the parent continuum” - which can run from “well-meaning-but-ignorant”
to “borderline” to “totally psychotic” - John Locke’s “Blank Tablets” which
were referenced earlier are being trashed with programming, conditioning,
domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination and with dogma,
spiritual mumbo-jumbo, magical thinking, and a host of personality disorders.
The personality disorders then use their “toolkit” of warped personality traits
and reasoning fallacies and ego-defense mechanisms to support the monologues
and dialogues and diatribes that are delivered around the globe nowadays by
actors / performers / role-players on the stage of “The Theater of the Lie”
that this planet has become.
The realized non-dual guide was first able to differentiate true from false in
the relative existence, was later able to know truth, and then eventually came
to understand the functioning of the totality.
Some realized non-dualists might
guide, and if they do so, they can guide the seekers in whom the readiness has
manifested . . .
to see that the masses cannot differentiate the true from the false,
to see that it is possible to neutralize the effects of a distorting or an
insane upbringing and become able to differentiate the true from the false in
the relative existence,
to see how the totality functions,
and, eventually, to see truth and to understand.
Earlier, it was noted that prevarication and distortion have become commonplace
on the planet because whatever the masses say or teach is always rooted in the
hidden agenda of personality (and, therefore, personality defects). Next, it
was noted that:
psychologists for years have recognized the existence of what they call “ego-defense
mechanisms”: behaviors that humans practice in order to preserve and protect
the ego [the false self]. The mechanisms are often fear-based or desire-based.
The words that those mechanisms inspire as a result of the desire to protect
and sustain persons’ false images (or assumed egos or ego-states or roles or
characters being played) must also be false words because they are based in an
effort to affirm that which is false, nothing more than lies told to sustain a
lie . . . to sustain something that is itself false.
And not only does the use of ego-defense mechanisms support false identities (ego-states) but they also inspire beliefs in lies and then the repetition of lies.
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.
