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HOW RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL AND NON-DUAL MESSAGES HAVE BEEN WARPED BEYOND RECOGNITION
It has been shown how religious messages and spiritual messages and even the non-dual message were circulated orally for thousands of years before being “codified” in writing. Moreover, the oral sharings all took place among those who were unknowingly playing the telephone game.
The result was a mutation in multiple 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Everything became mutated and is still mutating; hence, the normal or natural has been replaced by the abnormal, by the unnatural, by the supernatural, by magical and warped thinking, by misleading language, and by the resulting warped, detrimental behavior.
From the beginning, religions offered themselves as ways to get, to accumulate, to receive blessings, to get what they wanted for themselves and got family members and their for communities. Ultimately, all of that getting was about self.
“Does my corn need water? Yes. Am I willing to let the priest - as God’s rep on earth - have sex with my virginal daughter and then place her on a slab and cut out her beating heart and drink her blood and eat her flesh and then pass it through the crowd and let everyone in the community also drink her blood and eat her body in order to commune with the Rain God and sacrifice to him in order to get the water we need? You bet! No problem. I / we need rain for the corn crop. I’ll do whatever the priest says we need to do to save the corn.”
Get. Get. Get. That was the religious and / or spiritual message for thousands of years and continues today. Meanwhile, a few that were perceiving things from a non-dual stance came along and suggested that persons de-accumulate rather than get and get and get.
That went over like a lead balloon, then and now. While the masses were programmed with dogma-based beliefs which suggested that the people had a spiritual sickness which had angered the goddesses and gods and needed to change their ways and abide as the priests told them to abide in order to get, only a few concluded that humans were causing most of their problems and they needed to see that their blind pursuit of more was based in their minds, in their beliefs.
Eventually, as religions and spiritual groups were spreading their concepts about a spiritual malady, the non-dualists were trying to share a message about a mental malady.
Later, that mental malady would come to be called The Ultimate Sickness, and the non-dual message was offering a treatment plan based in addressing the mental sickness which the masses were suffering from. That plan would come to be called “The Ultimate Medicine.”
Yeshu’a (erroneously called Jesus) would eventually cross paths with one or more that introduced him to the non-dual message. The result? He left organized religion. He shared non-dual pointers: For more, see . . .
Therefore, the problem is in the mind. Non-duality is about treating the sick mind, not about humming; not about cutting your hair in a certain way and dressing in a certain way; not about meditating all day long;
not about abandoning false self identities, only to assume new and improved supposedly Eternal or Infinite or Supreme Selves as an identification. It’s about treating mental sickness.
As for “a dual-minded person being unstable in all ways,” dual-minded = mentally unstable. To be mentally unstable is to have a tendency toward lack of self-control, erratic behavior, shifting attitudes, an excess of beliefs (most of which are contradictory and generate destructive and self-destructive behaviors) and rapidly changing or excessive emotions (a.k.a., often being emotionally- intoxicated and / or spiritually intoxicated and / or mentally intoxicated.)
The Medicine, per Maharaj? “Have No mind. Reach a state of zero concepts.”
Again, Maurice Frydman: “The mind was originally a tool in the struggle for biological survival. But, in the process the mind acquired the art of symbolic thinking and communication, the art and skill of language.
“Ideas and abstractions acquired an appearance of reality, the conceptual replaced the real, with the result that man now lives in a verbal world, crowded and dominated by words.”
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's ability to parrot 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 this series, we will begin with finding the actual cause of the Sickness which only 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.
Meaning? Meaning that the non-dual understanding is unique when compared to the agenda of all religions, spiritual movements, ideologies, philosophies, etc.: it involves subtraction, not addition;
it involves un-learning, not learning more. It involves being un-taught, not being taught more. It involves de-accumulation, not more accumulation.
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.The Sickness is forever mutating. The Medicine must be adjusted to address the mental warping.
Genes mutate. The result is physical / body problems. Messages mutate. Understandings also mutate. The result is mental / mind problems.
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.
