HOW RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL AND NON-DUAL MESSAGES HAVE BEEN WARPED BEYOND RECOGNITION

 

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HOW RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUALITY AND NON-DUAL MESSAGES HAVE BEEN WARPED BEYOND RECOGNITION

WARPING RELIGIOUS MESSAGES

For three thousand years or more, religions taught the masses the following:

there are both gods and goddesses;

they all have limited and focused powers (specializing in agriculture, rain, etc.);

there are divisions of labor and specific, limited areas which they have the power to control (such as, creation,  sustenance, destruction, punishment, rewards, rain and agriculture, dawn, fertility, fighting and war and force and might, death, love, luck; thunder, revenge, abundance and wealth, beauty, domestic life, victory, fire; ad infinitum);

and that the gods and goddesses can be grouped into three categories based on their divisions of power and control (some are creator gods and goddesses, some are sustainer gods and goddesses, and some are destroyer / punisher gods and goddesses).

Obviously (it was taught) there have to be different gods because no sane and stable god or goddesses could destroy and punish while also “creating and sustaining.” That would be a schizophrenic god or goddess.)

So those were the prevalent religious beliefs, and they continue to this day. But 2000 years ago, a man named Abraham came up with a totally revised and new concept: “There is only one god.” That idea caught on, so much that Abraham became “The Father of Judaism,” “The Father of Christianity,” and “The Father of Islam.”

(How warped can religious beliefs become? Warped enough that three religions came about from the teachings of one man but ended up being completely different from each other.)

But there’s a catch. Three thousand years of belief in different specializations among the gods and goddesses and in three different categories + the new notion that one god covers all the areas of specialization as well as the three categories of being a creator god, a sustainer god, and a destroyer / punisher god resulted in what could have been predicted: 

that one god would have to be (1) a very busy boy and (2) a schizophrenic who can claim to have created you and promises to sustain you and love you unconditionally but who is simultaneously willing to destroy you and punish you for all eternity.

The reason that religions became so warped? They were all promoted by promising their followers that there will be present benefits and eternal benefits for each individual. Now, “repeat after me,” said the leaders: “I am so blessed.”

WARPING SPIRITUAL MESSAGE

Spiritual movements fell into the same pattern without establishing “building programs” and 10% taxes / tithes.

WARPING NON-DUAL MESSAGES

The non-dual message became warped because writing developed, allowing men and more men to “codify” the message and to supposedly explain erroneously what non-duality is and what it is about. Consider the five blind men in India trying to explain what an elephant is like:

Moreover, before writing developed, the world was - and is still - playing “A Game of Telephone.”

Telephone was a game played at children’s parties and in some classrooms or at some retreats.

A group of children or adults sit in a circle. One person starts by whispering a sentence into the next person's ear, and that person passes what he or she heard - or believes she or he heard - to the next person. No message can be repeated, no clarifications can be made. 

That goes on and on until the message gets to the last person in the circle. Then, the leader reads the original message and the last person shares what he or she heard.

A friend and I played the game with a group of ninth graders. My friend wrote something like this:

“Abby Rich slide in a patch of ice.”

After that was passed along 30 times, the last person shared that the message he heard was, and it was something like this: “Ah, Rick hid in a match with mice.”

While the game can be amusing, it also reveals an important lesson that people often forget. The lesson, as you probably have already figured out, is that information that you receive via word of mouth is not always accurate.

Humans on the planet has been playing telephone since the earliest forms of language developed some 150,000 years ago, or more; it has long been the carrier of a condition called “The Ultimate Sickness.” 

It has become the most prevalent disease that exists, though few humans have ever even heard of it. Among those that have, the telephone game which humans play has warped the original message beyond recognition.

The result?

The non-dual message has become “The Pool of a Thousand Contradictory Messages” and a source of ignorance and insanity.

In this series, we’ll look at how the diverse and bogus messages have come about, what the results have been, and how seekers can navigate their way around the obstacle of a now-warped message.

To be continued.

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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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