A UNIVERSE OF ACCIDENTS, OR A UNIVERSE OPERATING ACCORDING TO PLAN, OR…NEITHER? Part Two

[Please note: Out-of-town for satsang Tuesday and Wednesday. Series continues on Thursday]

F.: Realization is about forfeiting belief in lies and myths in order to be in touch with Reality. Being in touch with Reality cannot happen until persons are able to see that all of the beliefs and concepts that are being disseminated throughout their cultures are complete fiction. Examples abound daily, but nonsense is most verbalized—and most televised—when an event happens that the non-Realized label as “a disaster.”

So millions if not billions of persons believe that it was a god, not human incompetence or natural erosion and decay or wear and tear, that caused a bridge to fall and kill people. It must be asked: as disgusting as governmental negligence might be, relatively speaking, wouldn’t you rather deal with incompetents than with a god that is capable of First Degree, Pre-Meditated murder? Millions would hate any “terrorist” who destroyed a bridge and killed U.S. citizens, but billions continue to worship the "god" that they believe did exactly that. If you want to know just how warped the consciousness can become, you may now have a basis for making your calculation.

Yet that blind devotion is understandable if you are familiar with the “Stockholm Syndrome,” the name now given to a favorable (but abnormal) psychological response toward their victimizers by hostages and by the battered, the abused, or the raped. The name comes from a case in Stockholm, Sweden where bank robbers held hostages for almost a week. After being released, it was seen that the hostages had become emotionally attached to their victimizers and even defended them publicly.

Some might be shocked if they saw how many persons in sessions or e-mails still defend their abusive parents, yet how is that any different from the masses who defend their abusive god, the one they think caused a bridge to fall...the one they think injured and killed people? Ego will inspire that “Don’t you dare talk about my momma” schoolyard mentality. If one parent is bizarre, a person trapped in ego can conclude, “I’m half-bizarre.” If both parents were bizarre, a person can conclude that “I’m totally screwed up in the head,” and the ego certainly doesn’t want to go there. Thus, parents will often be defended by their young children (and by those same children as adults) who are in denial, even if the parents held those children hostage in violent homes and even if those parents abused or battered or raped those children.

And since their god is an extension of those parents, the non-Realized will also defend their god, even when "He" holds them hostage or when he abuses and batters them with fears and psychological hangups and threats of eternal torture. Understand that when children are abused or neglected (or "spoiled" or coddled) by parents, and then take god to be like their early authority figures, then the Stockholm Syndrome activates in “their relationship with god.” Thus, among those experiencing an abnormal psychological response, god can be brutal and punitive and will still be defended and loved. God can be kind at one moment and mean the next, and that’s considered okay...perfectly normal...just the way god is. And one who assumes the persona of "The Godly One" can be seen to be brutal, kind, punitive, and mean...and you can like it or not.

Among those persons experiencing an abnormal psychological response, God can offer protection and comfort but can also tear down bridges and kill people...and that’s acceptable to those persons. It is no great leap for (a) the Stockholm Syndrome to manifest when a child deals with parents and then for (b) a child to believe in a god that is a celestial version of earthy parents, and then for (c) the Stockholm Syndrome to manifest in one’s “relationship with god.”

After that scenario happens, there is no limit to the insanity that duality can inspire when the Stockholm Syndrome activates and then justifies the actions of (an imaginary) god who behaves as insanely as did many parents. After years of trying to please an emotionally-unstable parent who was happy with them at times but was angry with them at other times, persons feel quite "at home" in undertaking a life-long mission of trying to please a god that is happy with them at times but that is angry with them at other times.

Such is the way it is among persons who normalize the insane-like behaviors of their parents: they will also believe in a parent-based god and then normalize in their “minds” the insane-like behavior of that god which is an (imaginary) extension of their parents.

Thus, relationships with parents and “relationships with god” are never as perceived but are typically driven by irrational beliefs and absurd concepts that result in a series of abnormal psychological responses.

That is why it required the strength of three social workers to pry a child away from the mother that had used cigarettes to burn the child over the entire length of its body. That it also why it is almost impossible to free most children from the effects of decades of exposure to the belief systems of parents as well as beliefs about a fictional, parent-inspired god that continues to generate abnormal psychological responses in those children, even after they reach adulthood.

Those belief systems—all based in duality—can generate either a schizoid or a bipolar sense of dis-ease for a lifetime, especially in nations like the U.S. where the duality manifests as a struggle between a 400-year-old puritanical influence and what John Knowles called the Americans' repressed “germ of wildness.” After years of being driven through their relative existence by parent-inspired, god-inspired abnormal psychological responses, the non-Realized normalize their constantly fluctuating moods and emotions and accept the most outrageous nonsense as fact when it is presented in dualistic terms that deal with “good vs. bad” and “reward vs. punishment” and “godly people vs. evil humans.”

If parents program and condition the masses in the way that most are programmed and conditioned, then it becomes easy to influence people to believe that a god made a bridge fall down for some “good reason”; to influence them to ignore their basic urge to render aid and to fall to their knees and pray instead; to influence persons to abuse anyone who does not behave according to the standards taught by those persons' non-Realized parents...standards supposedly enforced by a fictional god; and to influence persons to believe that it is noble to be willing to “die for their country”—and to kill for their country—if someone arbitrarily orders them to do so. Now it should be easy to see how the masses have been hypnotized and are walking about in their sleep.

It is likely that 95% of the insane-like thinking and the destructive behavior on the planet springs forth either from parental programming or from illusory concepts about god(s) or from a combination of the two. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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“MIND” and MEMORIES: When Nature’s “Assets” Become Warped into “Liabilities,” Part Sixteen

[Continued from yesterday]

F.: The focus now is on the particular personality disorders that develop among each of the nine basic personality types. Personality Type Twos can eventually exhibit the OCD Personality Disorder, a God Complex Disorder, and the Histrionic Personality Disorder and, as always with personality assumption, deeper attachment to false identities happens when persons are stressed, are absorbed in the ego of religiosity or the spiritualized ego, or receive payments for their role-playing.

For coverage of the first two disorders, see yesterday’s post; however, Personality Type Two’s especially display the Histrionic Personality Disorder (a.k.a., Dramatic Personality Disorder) as they fall more and more under the influence of their personality. Again, the relative effects of personality are proven when you observe this disorder in action and see Two’s who suffer instability and emotional intoxication and a distorted self-image. You can see persons suffering this personality defect as their desire to be noticed inspires then to act (and over-react) in ways that are overly-dramatic, highly-theatrical, and generally inappropriate. They become self-ish givers since they intend to get back more than they give, desiring more attention, more “love,” more “respect,” more self-worth, etc. All of that supports duality, desires, and fears.

Personality Type Threes can eventually exhibit the OCD Personality Disorder and the Narcissistic Personality Disorder, along with a God Complex Disorder and, as always with personality assumption, deeper attachment to false identities happens when persons are stressed, are overly-pious or highly-spiritual, or receiving monetary gain for their role-playing.

OCD and the God Complex have been covered. Now the discussion turns to the Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which many professional therapists agree is the personality disorder that they have had the least success in treating. Threes more than any other groups account for the majority of those on the planet who exhibit the traits of narcissism. According to the DSM-IV, they have an exaggerated sense of self-importance; expect to be recognized as superior; are grandiose; seek unlimited success, power, and beauty; and believe they are special. All of that, of course, generates belief in duality.

They seek out high-status persons or institutions for company; require excessive admiration; have a sense of entitlement; are users, not givers; lack empathy; and are envious, arrogant, haughty, patronizing, and contemptuous. In short, they are the epitome of the egotism that is generated when phony images are cultivated and maintained. These attitudes also support duality to the highest degree with their “better than you” and “different from all others” mentality.

Personality Type Fours can eventually exhibit the Depressive Personality Disorder, the Avoidant Personality Disorder, the Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the God Complex Personality Disorder, especially when stressed, absorbed in the ego of religiosity or the spiritualized ego, or receive payments for their role-playing.

Visitors can read earlier information shared on all of the disorders common to most Fours except for the Avoidant Personality Disorder (APD). Those suffering from APD are inhibited socially and have feelings of inadequacy. They are hypersensitive to criticism and/or rejection which might drive their tendency to isolate or to avoid social contact rather than risk a chance of being abandoned. They are slow to commit as a result of that fear of abandonment. They can develop a sense of inferiority and, therefore, a dualistic sense of separation.

Personality Type Fives can eventually exhibit the God Complex Disorder or the Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD), especially when stressed, overly-pious, highly-spiritual, or being paid to play their roles. See earlier entries for information on the God Complex. SPD sufferers have trouble establishing relationships and experiencing feelings. They avoid close relations, pleasurable experiences, and family connections…preferring to isolate instead. They seem numb, not caring at all about either praise or criticism.

Personality Type Sixes can eventually exhibit the Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD), the Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder (PAPD) and the God Complex Disorder when persons are stressed, are absorbed in the ego of religiosity or the spiritualized ego, or receive payments for their role-playing.

See earlier entries for information on the God Complex. Those suffering from PPD are distrustful and suspicious of “others,” reinforcing their belief in duality. They feel they are constantly being deceived or harmed or exploited by “others” and regularly question the loyalty of friends and family. They take offense over comments not intented to offend, they bear grudges, and they seldom forgive. They react angrily to the slightest of slights. All of that reinforces their dualistic beliefs. PAPD's are resistance to instruction and responsibilities. They become resentful, stubborn, negative, and sullen. They use procrastination as a way to avoid meetings, deadlines, events, or responsibilities.

Personality Type Sevens can eventually exhibit the God Complex Disorder, the Bi-Polar Personality Disorder (BPPD) known in the past as the Manic-Depressive Personality Disorder and the Histrionic Personality Disorder when they become stressed, overly-pious, or highly-spiritual, or when paid to play a role.

Earlier discussions covered all except the BPPD, often marked by extreme states of mood. High vs. low moods can change throughout a day or over the course of months. They tend to develop highly dualistic perspectives and see everything as all black or all white, meaning everything is totally positive or totally negative. The disorder can appear with levels of seriousness but, by definition, supports duality to the extreme. Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued] For additional information about the book which these excerpts are being drawn from (There's No Such Thing As "Peace of Mind") click

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COMING IN THREE DAYS: A RIVER THAT FLOWS INTO THE OCEAN OF REALITY

WHY MOST PERSONS WILL NEVER REALIZE, Part Three

FROM A SITE VISITOR: Dear Mr. Henderson, Re; your am post of this date.[8 Feb 2007] Can you speak about how to move beyond the fear of losing \"this\" to embracing \"That\". When I think about \"Why not Realize\". It is fear. Fear of losing parts of the little self that I have allowed to define me. Peace,Peace,Peace Virginia

F.: [Continued from yesterday]

DENIAL
When persons read the February 7th and 8th postings that describe the insanity that marks the relative existence of the non-Realized, most will deny that anything in those two postings applies to them. Even as validated research confirms that 95% of people in “developed nations” suffer depression to some degree and that most persons suffer from MPD/DID and that bi-polar disorders have reached an all-time high and that 95% or more are addicted to something, most persons will deny that they are depressed or that they have any really significant problems. The ego always reports to itself that “it is doing just fine” and then reports the same to any who would question that delusion.

Among persons, the case is usually that denial and distortion re-frame miserable experiences as “normal” or as “OK, really” or as "That's just the way it is." It is also usually the case than unbelievable pain—of the mental and emotional and physical varieties—must manifest before persons will take action. When people are asleep, they must be shaken to be awakened, and who that is sound asleep would want to be shaken or awakened? Even those who are having nightmares usually prefer that their nightmare-filled sleep continue as opposed to taking the seven steps that are required in order to be fully awakened.

GREED
Finally, persons are controlled by greed. At the root of that greed is, once again, the desires of false personas and the fear that there will never be enough or that they will not always have enough to sustain all the images that the non-Realized adopt. Whereas Realization is about not wanting and about de-accumulating, body-mind-personality identification is about wanting and accumulating. “Giving up” rather than “getting” is anathema in the planet’s cultures of accumulation. Simplification, therefore, is also scorned, so complications ensue. Trapped within those conditions, the corrupted consciousness will usually remain corrupted throughout its manifestation. (Relatedly, the question that triggered your question was, "Why not Realize?" That could as well be stated as, "Why not clean up the corrupted consciousness that you have become and be restored to the state of pure consciousness that You Were?" or "Why not get free of all the myth-based lies that you've been taught?" or "Why not take out the garbage rather than letting it stay inside and contaminate your home and infect your very being?")

If the consciousness were re-purified enough to understand that “this” is a mirage and that THAT is all that’s real, Full Realization would happen. That understanding happens only after seeing how many lies have been told to humanity for thousands of years. Yet most persons—driven by fear, desire, arrogance, denial and greed—will continue to take lies and myths and superstitions to be true. Furthermore, in cultures where fear, desire, arrogance, denial and greed are now taken to be “the norm,” little inspiration to be free of any of those will manifest.

Thus, most will never Realize because fear, desire, arrogance, denial, greed and chaos have become preferable among the persons of the planet; therefore, the results of Realization—namely, an awareness that there’s nothing to fear, that there are no real requirements that should trigger desires, that having less lightens the load, and that awareness of truth results in peace—have no appeal at all. Because persons have such low tolerance for self-awareness and for self-inventory that reveals their relative-existence liabilities, they automatically have no interest in self-awareness, in Self Awareness, in relative shortcomings and abnormalities, or in truth.

Therefore, most will remain trapped in their body-mind-personality identification. If one would hate to lose even one single finger, think how much more he/she would hate to give up the body. If one is proud of her/his learned ignorance and "mind," why would the person consider giving up the lie-filled mind as the path to peace? If a person is so proud of the roles being played, why would he/she even consider discarding those phony roles and stop playing all the phony games? Most never will, and so it is. But anyone reading this post certainly has the opportunity to begin the seven-step “journey” to Full Realization. Please enter the silence of contemplation.