Saturday, June 01, 2024

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

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 Everything is Mutated; hence, the Normal or Natural Has Been Replaced by the Abnormal, by the Unnatural, by the Supernatural by Magical and Warped Thinking, by Language, and by the Resulting Warped, Detrimental Behavior.]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

[Continued from yesterday]:

To test his theory, Harlow created two fake mothers for his baby monkeys - one made of wire and the other made of cloth and warmed from within by a light bulb. Both “mothers” were given a face, and a “breast” in the form of a bottle from which the babies could feed.

Both fulfilled the basic biological need of their “children” by feeding them, but only the cloth mother was made with comfort in mind. The monkeys showed very little interest in the wire mothers but developed strong attachments to the cloth mothers - clinging to them tightly and becoming distressed when they were removed.

Even if two mothers were provided - a wire one with milk and a cloth one without - the monkeys would prefer the latter. The conclusion was that comfort was much more important to the babies than other variables such as feeding.

Next, when Harlow separated baby monkeys from their new cloth mothers, even for long periods, the importance of the relationship was never forgotten. As soon as their surrogate mothers were returned, the monkeys immediately rushed to them and once again began to cling desperately to them.

The babies that were given cloth mothers also grew to be more psychologically stable than those that had only wire mothers. This was demonstrated when they were put into dangerous and strange situations, such as having noisy toy-robots put into the cages with them.

Those with cloth mothers to cling to during the ordeal showed a much greater level of bravery, and much less negative emotion, than those that had no “surrogate comfort mother” present. The level of psychological security given by these immobile mother figures was found to be very high.

Monkeys that had been raised alone, with no such cloth surrogate, showed no emotional response when one was initially introduced to their cages (although in time, they too were seen to develop a strong attachment).

Long-term observation showed that the level of affection displayed in babies raised by a surrogate mother was very similar to that between a human mother and baby if the mother was warm and affectionate and caring with her child.

Both types grew to be more psychologically and physically healthy than those that were denied any type of mother, even though all of the basic biological needs were taken care of in all of the subjects.

The research showed that appropriate touching and being touched appropriately - and enjoying the ensuing comfort - are natural and commonplace, the rule rather than the exception in the animal kingdom. Such expressions of “love” or Love are displayed consistently in nature by animals.

What about among the non-realized masses - abiding in their unnatural and supernatural and non-natural fashion? Not so much nowadays. If that is to change, then the incongruity between giving lip service only to caring and “loving,” vs. providing actual evidence of such caring and “loving,” must be eliminated.

To look objectively at one’s own actions and to see that talk of “love” and / or Love is really just talk and nothing more is the first step toward

(A) shifting away from the coldness and aloofness and callousness that has come because of conditioning and programming and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination; and to

(B) shifting and then being less like a wire mother or father or spouse or partner and more like a warm and comforting cloth mother or father or spouse or partner

as well being the first step to

(1) reaching a point where the sociopathic tendency to withhold is transcended, to

(2) reaching a point where “the shield” is lowered and barriers are broken down, to

(3) reaching the state of Full Realization where the understanding makes clear the difference in Real Love and what the masses call “love,” to

(4) reaching a point where the Oneness is understood and then allowed to determine all actions in the relative existence, and to

(5) reaching a point when one can touch gently and be touched gently - without motive or agenda - and thereby answering the call of Nature to function in that natural way as opposed to the unnatural way that the masses around the globe are now behaving.

The non-duality sharings here are also based in Nisarga Yoga (“nisarga” referring to “the natural state” or to “the innate disposition,” as opposed to “a taught / learned disposition”). Regarding that, Frydman offered the following: “The Nisarga Yoga, the ‘natural’ Yoga of Maharaj, is disconcertingly simple.”

He said that a seeker “ . . . must recognize and penetrate” her / his “own being, not as being this or that . . . but just timeless being.” He added, “To delve into the sense of ‘I’ - so real and vital - in order to reach its source is the core of the Nisarga Yoga.”

Some take those statements to mean that the post-realization abidance is supposed to happen in some esoteric - and, in the minds of some - in an even mysterious and metaphysical manner, dissociated from all things relative . . . no longer abiding “here” but abiding “there” instead.

Again, as explained by Frydman: “Not being continuous, the sense of ‘I’ must have a source from which it flows and to which it returns. Prior to manifestation there was no sense of “I” or “being” or anything else. During the manifestation, the “I” sense comes; post-manifestation, once more there is no sense of “I” or “being” or anything else.

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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