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

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C.    GOING . . . GOING . . . 

Part of The Treatment: Understanding Additional Causes

Previously, the causes and the symptoms of The Ultimate Sickness were discussed. What is the treatment? If, in any given case, the contributing factors of The Sickness - foolishness, irrationality, mild personality disorders, and / or certain very mild degrees of insanity - have not progressed beyond the “mild” or “moderate” level, then the non-duality teachings might be a part of the treatment.

Another possible part of the treatment is understanding what drives persons to unquestioningly accept falsehoods as truth, to disseminate untruths, and to be fooled or foolish or both. To that end, the discussion of ego-defense mechanisms that inspire prevarication continues:

10. Egocentrism: (defined as “recognizing the self as the center of all things; self-centered; believing that everything should revolve around you and your wishes”)

and

11. Justification: (defined as “furnishing a reason or excuse for one’s behavior”)

and

12. Rationalization: (defined as “attributing logical or credible motives for actions actually resulting from other often unrecognized - or hidden - motives; finding or creating plausible but false motives for one’s conduct; making excuses for unacceptable behaviors”)

and

13. Excessiveness: (defined as “overindulging; being immoderate; wanting more than what is needed; wanting a quantity beyond what is necessary or desirable; wanting to exceed others”).

[A recent example: For evidence of all four of the above when they are “at play,” see the earlier example of the husband who claimed that his wife should “get over her anger and hurt” after discovering he had been in four relationships with other women because “none of those constituted infidelity” since, in all four cases, they “only had oral sex.”]

When the wife left the counseling session after he presented his rationalizations and justifications, he solicited the counselor’s support for his view, making clear that far more than prevarication is involved in his case as well as in all of the examples so far. What is also involved with all of the examples are encapsulated in these definitions of insanity:

“insanity”: “a condition marked by extreme foolishness or irrationality; the state of being mentally ill, the state of suffering from a serious mental illness, or the condition of being totally mad.”

“Contributors to Insanity: Reasoning Fallacies”

Also contributing to the all-too-frequent, planet-wide cases of unstable persons, of persons suffering from personality disorders, of persons suffering from various degrees of mental illness, and of the inability of most to be able to differentiate true from false are:

Faulty or Insane Belief Systems That Result From Fallacies In Reasoning

The list of such reasoning fallacies that go hand-in-hand with personality defects, with believing insane beliefs, with disseminating those falsehoods, and with varying degrees of mental illness includes:

14. Abandoning Discussion: Refusing to complete discussion of issues to resolution; walking out; throwing a punch.

15. Affirming the Consequent: Justifying your behavior by desire only. (“I want it; therefore, I can take it.”)

16. Appeal to Pity: Trying to get one’s way by practicing self-pity; suggesting to others that your condition is the most pitiful and thereby trying to get special consideration.

17. Personal Attack: Believing your status can be elevated by reducing the status of others.

18. Apriorism: Closing one’s mind to the facts or one’s eyes to the evidence; being prejudiced to the point of being unable to consider an opposing idea or a different opinion; an inability to learn as a result of believing you know everything.

19. Demand for Special Consideration: Convinced that you are different, you then believe that you deserve to be treated in a way that is different from the way that everyone else is treated.

20. Forestalling Disagreement: Attempting to manipulate others’ beliefs and their acceptance of your beliefs; trying to block people from disagreeing with you (e.g., saying “No one would be so insane as to believe . . . .”)

21. Impossible Condition: Giving people several choices while none of the options are plausible (“Either do it my way or get out.”)

22. Inconsistency: Making incompatible statements; not holding yourself to the same principles at all times.

23. Lip Service: Saying you are for something while your actions contradict you.

24. Non-Exhaustive Classification: Contradicting oneself and not recognizing it (“I don’t mean to tell you how to run your business, but . . . .”)

25. Non-Exclusive Classification: Using generalizations to justify your behavior.

26. Pointing to Another Wrong: Attempting to avoid accepting deserved criticism by deflection (“I’m driving dangerously? You’re the one who nearly killed us last year on vacation.”)

27. Post Hoc: Reaching erroneous conclusions. (“My father was insensitive. I’m insensitive. There’s nothing I can do about it.”)

28. Red Herring: Changing the subject in order to deflect attention to another issue instead of the one that is making you uncomfortable.

29. Trouble with Conditionals and Alternatives: Giving false reasons to explain events (“If life treated me fairer, I’d have a better job, better attitude, etc.”)

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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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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