HOW TO (AND WHAT TO) REALIZE

TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj] 

2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that. 

3. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.) 

THE THIRD DEGREE OF SEPARATION FROM REALITY: 

False Identifications with the Last to Go Being 

“The Super Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” and “The Super Seeker” 

[Excerpts are from the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE which includes transcriptions of talks offered during one of the last series of satsang sessions that I led.] 

[Continuing with the topic of the last session discussed in the previous post] 

F.: “If freed of the bondage of the illusions of a mind exposed to years of enculturation, you’ll be sane—no longer believing lies to be true. That restoration to sanity activates natural behavior—rather than the subconscious mind or the thinking mind—to conduct one through the relative existence. 

[Referencing the events seen in the last post when a man became angry, cursed, screamed, and then walked out of the session because one of his key false identities was being challenged]: 

"We just saw a demonstration of why these two roles form their own category of major obstacles on the path. Nothing impedes the shift to the sanity of touching reality like emotional intoxication and the resulting madness that is generated by these two states-of-being . . . of being ‘religious’ or being ‘spiritual.’ [Pause] 

“Now, my original intent for this session was to start with a pointer from Maharaj. Actually, his words will probably be even more relevant now than before. Maharaj said, ‘There are so many who take the dawn for noon, [who take] a momentary experience for full realization and destroy even the little they gain by excess of pride.’ Why pride? 

“Who, claiming to be a religious person or a spiritual person, will not also claim that he or she is unquestioningly ‘better’ as a result? Typical is the claim, ‘I'm a better person for being religious,’ or ‘I live a better life since becoming a spiritual person.’ The truth is, both are assumed personas, mistaken for the real but nonetheless limiting.” 

Questioner 3: “But don’t you think the world does need to be better?” 

F.: “My world is perfect. ‘Perfect’ comes from the Greek 'teleios,' meaning ‘complete.’ Christ was not perfect as a result of being without sin. The text said he was teleios . . . complete. He understood his 'completeness' after receiving the non-dual understanding and then demanding, 'When you speak of me, speak of me as I AM.' 

"For me, I need nothing. That's ‘perfect,’ meaning complete . . . meaning whole, meaning I'm not fractured into dozens of false identities. 

"[In non-dual terms, “perfect” - as with the post-realization "Christ," simply means “absolute” and “complete” and “not missing any ‘parts’ but instead having all that is ‘required’ for natural abidance to happen.” It does not mean - as ego-states supported by egotism believe - “as ‘good’ as it is possible to be” or “completely free of the faults or ‘defects’ which can come during the AM-ness.” To continue]: 

“I'm not even two. As we discussed earlier, if you assume a role as an actual identity, you will always be incomplete, will always be missing elements of the understanding, will always be missing out on truths by accepting lies instead, and will not be free because you will be driven by the subconscious agendas of each fear and each desire which comes with each false personality identification. Why?" 

Q.3: "You said every role requires another person to play the counterpart. This gentleman [pointing] thinking he had to have a woman willing to play 'wife' for him to exist as 'husband,’ felt incomplete without her." 

F.: "Excellent! I am no role that requires a co-dependent partner to complete a false identity. No roles . . . no dependencies. No dependencies . . . no incompletion. I'm whole. I'm . . . 'perfect' in that sense. What's with this imagined need to be better if you're already 'perfect'?" 

Q.3: "Finally!" [Pause, then laughter from others] "Well . . . I got it!" 

F.: "[Pauses, allowing for full absorption of the awareness. Then . . . ] For most of you, your questions and comments show that your case is different. Instead of being in the world, the world is actually in you, meaning . . . in your mind. 

"The world you see is you, projected by you, so it's not whole. It's incomplete and imperfect and fractured. That leaves you with a sense of being unfulfilled—you have unfulfilled desires and imagined fears about the state of 'the world.' You haven't yet lost your mind.” 

[When Maharaj said, "You are not in the world - the world is in you," "in you" meant, "in your mind." There are as many views of "the world" as there are humans.]

Q. 3.: “I've spent my entire life up to now thinking the ultimate goal was to be spiritual and to work forever at being better." [Exhales, slowly. Looks down, then to side. Looks up. Shakes head, seeming to reveal a new understanding.] 

F.: [Continues to wait, then . . . ] “The religious and spiritual levels are only the beginner’s stage. Those who stop there on the journey haven't even reached a halfway point. If you complete this journey, you’re going to see exactly, step-by-step, how you got from the Absolute state to the false belief that you’re a body. 

"And you’re going to see how to get from believing that you're a body to realization of the Absolute. And seeing that complete cycle, then you’re going to understand all the cycles, how the happenings happen over and over and over again.” 

Questioner 4: “I'm processing what you said about completion, but I’m still thinking about what he said earlier, [pointing at Q. 3] about making the world better. Don’t you think, over all the years, that religion has helped millions?” 

F.: “You love your religious and spiritual identities, don't you? [Pause] Aren't you seeing the relief that's coming to him as he's dropping this burden of working all his life to be better? And imagine the relief that'll come to others around him who won't be dealing with him trying to force them to be better. [Laughter. Q. 3 smiles. Then to Q. 4:] 

"You may have reached the end of your road. I suspect you're going to be stuck right here. For me, I deal in facts. I know that millions and millions have died from fighting over religious beliefs, but that’s not the pointer. 

"The point is that, when I was assuming religious and spiritual roles—which I played with just as much enthusiasm and anger as that person who walked out of here—I was seeking eternal existence for a body-mind-personality triad. Required was the transitioning beyond the dogma and doctrine and beliefs as well as the continuation of the questioning that ultimately revealed the lies which in turn allowed the truth to be seen in order to be free of fears and desires. 

"Until then, I remained trapped in anticipation and regret, focusing on the ‘everlasting fate’ of a personal body. I was seeking the ‘good’ label to earn my reward and working to avoid the ‘bad’ label in order to dodge eternal damnation and punishment. Don’t you see that the religious seeker is still being driven to have his desires fulfilled and to have his fears abated?” 

Q 4.: “Aren’t there at least some who are motivated simply by a desire to help?” 

F.: “Again with this ‘helping.’ Again with ‘desire.’ An entirely new ego-state is given birth to if one goes out to reform the world and make it a better place. The closest you are to 'complete' right now is being completely trapped in your ego. 

"Your words tell me that you really do want to change the world, and that's the height of ego if you think you can. But you're not willing to let dissolve that which is within you that you're projecting as 'the world'." 

Q. 4: [Frowns] 

F.: "The irony is that anyone seeing a horrible world is simply projecting himself onto what he calls ‘the world.’ And how would the world be a better place via a reformer's religious or spiritual service, according to his beliefs? All would eventually think and feel and behave as dictated by his doctrine. They would live in the image of the reformer. They would think, feel and behave as he does. 

"The egotistical belief is that the world would be better if all would just become clones of the reformer. Foster that belief system, and those with contradictory religious views—all trying to compel others to model them—will meet as they travel to the ‘four corners of the earth’ and they will clash at every turn. As those persons go forth, the rest of the people of the world will have their every thought, feeling, and behavior labeled as ‘bad’ or ‘good’ and the misery and destruction of dual-mindedness spreads. 

"If you think that the power of a parent's definitions of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ can drive one all his life, imagine the power of believing in a god of duality as he defines what is ‘good’ and what is ‘bad’ and describes in vivid terms exactly what eternal reward or never-ending punishment will look like. 

"The no-single-cause understanding will be missed and another concept of a divine plan will be assumed to be the cause. The cause of all is all that has ever happened before, but if you seek a prime cause—or a singular ‘causer’—then a person playing a religious or spiritual role will be glad to fabricate some concept of causation for you or will encourage you to dream up your own.” 

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.] 

Here's 

the direct link to the VIDEO VERSION 

of the "Awakening Together" satsang session with Regina and Jacqueline referenced earlier, 18 MARCH 2018

or 

You can click on the picture link which has now been added for video "Number Ten" in the upper right-hand column on this page. 

If preferred, here's 

the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION 

of that session.

HOW TO (AND WHAT TO) REALIZE

TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj] 

2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that. 

3. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.) 

THE THIRD DEGREE OF SEPARATION FROM REALITY: 

False Identifications 

with the Last to Go Being 

“The Super Religious One,” 

“The Spiritual Giant,” 

and 

“The Super Seeker” 

[Excerpts from the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE which includes transcriptions of talks offered during one of the last series of satsang sessions that I led.] 

[NOTE: When Maharaj was using a Hindu / non-duality version of the Ultimate Medicine, attendance at his 2-per-day satsung sessions held steady. The same was true even after an influx of Western visitors influenced him to focus more on a spirituality / non-duality version of the Medicine. When he eventually abandoned both of those methods and began using a psychology / non-duality version of the Medicine, the number of critics of Maharaj increased and the number of visitors dropped somewhat. The same has happened here over the years. 

When persons at the third step have been invited to abandon all roles - all false identities - the attitude has generally been, “Sure, fine with me.” But when they find that the invitation to abandon all role-playing includes giving up “The Super Religious persona,” “The Spiritual Giant persona,” and “The Super Seeker persona,” well at that point the number of visitors always drops off as was the case when Maharaj recommended to seekers that they give up those three false personality identifications. And at times (with an acknowledgment to Welsh poet Dylan Thomas) some of those who leave “do not go gently into the night” and “do not vanish without a fight”! That scenario will be seen in today’s post. So it is.] 

To continue: 

Q.2.: “I wasn’t in the last session, but my own experience shows that my Higher Power has given me the power to accept the things I cannot change . . . things like you, for example. So I’ll keep doing my spiritual work, and He’ll keep giving me power and peace.” 

F.: “Actually, since you weren’t in the last session, and since we’re taking the steps of a journey in a specific order, you won’t be able to make this journey with us at this time, but I’ll finish our discussion. You speak of having to work to get peace. My life is without toil since all work involves working to ignore mirages or working to accept mirages. No more mirages . . . no more work.” 

Q. 2.: “You know what? It's obvious that you've got nothing to give, so you can't really be of any service to anyone.” 

F.: “I agree. I am not of service and I have nothing to give; in fact, I'll take everything away from those who can hear.” 

Q. 2: “Say whatever you want. The fact is that I serve God and help others while all you're doing is harming others. And someday when we both stand in judgment before Him, I’d a helluva lot rather be me than you.” 

F.: “You have merely been re-programmed while what is called for is to be de-programmed. When your mind dissolves, so will every concept that you've ever dreamed up, including the god of your own conception. As far as helping others, who can know what any ‘others’ need, long term? Since there is no separation, my teacher advised that each should focus on helping the only one he or she can help—herself or himself. Then, the relative improves for all.” 

Q. 2: “I can’t help myself, but I can help others.” 

F.: “So a man who cannot swim can rescue others who are drowning? Hummm. And how do you claim to help these ‘others’?” 

Q. 2.: “I share my experience, strength, and hope with them.” 

F.: “All experience is about the five-sense, phenomenal existence, which is a mirage. Strength is about power, and power is about control, and control is about ego, and ego is a mirage. Ultimately, ego is about fear . . . generated as a result of one knowing at some level that he has no power. Hope is merely about desires for the future, but the future is a mirage; therefore, your experience and strength and hope are all mirages, outgrowths of phenomenal desires and phenomenal fears. What help is derived from sharing ideas about mirages that are based in desires and fears? Worse, fear and desire are the sources of anger, and anger is the source of all hostility. Hostility becomes the source of all harm. [Look of hatred from questioner] Right now, it seems that anger is what you’re experiencing, so the point I offered earlier—that your peace is fragile and can be destroyed by words alone—is confirmed.” 

Q. 2: [Expletive, suggesting I do something to myself that is anatomically impossible.] 

F.: “I’ll offer a final consideration, and then suggest you go find a quiet place and follow my grandmother’s three-moon rule. She advised that each take any consideration into three days of quiet contemplation before accepting or rejecting the point. So here’s the final consideration for you: before dedicating your life to serving others, why not first serve yourself by investigating whether or not there might be a reality beyond your current spiritual identity that could lead you into a stable and never-ending position of neutrality around the words or actions of others? If it’s peace you want, realization can result in an unshakable peace.” 

Q. 2.: “I think instead that I’ll follow my sponsor’s advice and go home and pray for you. I can’t hate anyone I pray for.” 

F.: “So be it.” 

Q. 2.: [Harshly] “Yeah, so be it!” [Exits noisily] 

F.: [Pause, then to group] “Turbulence.” [Laughter]   

F.: “Well . . . it seems the pointers that I intended to offer verbally, you have now received experientially. Ha. [Laughter] In that exchange, you didn’t see “The Super Religious persona,” “The Spiritual Giant persona,” and “The Super Seeker persona,” at their worst—they can be far worse, even deadly—but you did see the emotional intoxication that those roles can generate.” 

Q.: “So, is his attitude about you right . . . you don’t believe in God?” 

F.: “I don’t believe in the mind, so I certainly don’t believe in what someone says is a concept dreamed up in the mind. Some use the term Brahman to point to the Absolute Reality and some speak of the ‘matrix’ or of 'Prakriti.' In the West, some claim that those terms refer to their ‘God’ (which has personal traits) but the Absolute Reality is not some omnipotent person. The Absolute is impersonal. Better for you, go to the end of this path and see for yourself. For me, the issue is moot. There’s no reality in any concept, so this is the stage where the serious move on and the players stay behind. It’s time to start purging the mind and being rid of all concepts.” 

Q.: “But I’ve always had a sense that some kind of external power must exist." 

F.: “Of course external power exists. The sun is an external power source, but someone thousands of years ago projected himself onto an imagined source, gave it personal traits, and ever since, humans have repeated the tale to impressionable children. More to the point, you never had any innate sense that some personal external power exists any more than you had an innate sense that Santa Claus exists. You believed what you were told. You believed for years that there was a super-human male at the North Pole who was omnipotent and omniscient because you were told he exists. You believed that he knew if ‘you’d been good or bad’ and you also believed he was old, white-bearded, kind, giving, loving, residing in a remote location, unseen, etc. You also believed he could be angry and punishing and would withhold gifts from those who have been 'bad' during the previous twelve months. You didn’t come up with all that, but you believed it when it was told to you as fact by people you trusted. An entire culture joined in, and if you asked any of them about this far-out tale, they supported the lie. But inside, as you became older, you had a notion that the story was rubbish. Even then, though, it’s possible that when an older mate on the schoolyard first suggested 'Santa isn’t real,' you were probably ready to fight, not unlike the man who just stormed out of here.” 

Q.: “Ha. Guilty!” 

F.: “Why? You wanted to believe . . . in order to receive forever the gifts from that super-powerful being. And when did you finally learn that there was no Santa? Did they come to you voluntarily to tell you the truth? No. They didn’t say, 'Hey, we need to come clean. We need to be honest with you. We lied. Somebody just made up all that rubbish and we just repeated it. All of that wonderful story and all of those wonderful traits rolled into one super-powerful being . . . it was all a lie. Sorry to set you up with such great hope and then disappoint you.' No, you found the truth when someone offered an opposing view and suggested that you question what 'they' - parents, relatives, your entire community - told you. You had to confront your bogus belief systems. You had to say, “This Santa tale actually sounds like a bunch of rubbish. Is this real, or not?” That’s my invitation to you. Go into the silence and question it all. Ask the tough questions.” 

Q.: “Easier said than done.” 

F.: “Why would you delay, having already seen exactly how the minds of the people who programmed you actually worked at that time? Their minds told them, ‘We think it would be a great idea to lie to this child and tell him that he's being watched every second—asleep or awake—by an unseen male who lives at a faraway location and who knows if he's been good or bad. We'll also tell him that the male is keeping a list and will either give a reward or withhold a reward depending on the good-bad label earned.’ The same people who thought it would be good to lie you—and then later admitted that they were liars—those very people then gave you the same story over again but used a new name for the male. But you didn’t question that story the second time around. Why not? You questioned the first lie they told you, even knowing you’d end the illusion and not receive any rewards eternally. Why do you not have the courage right now to question their revised version as well? Seek the answer, knowing that this time, you need ask no one. The answer is within. Ask, ‘Is it possible that personal power sources were dreamed up and tales of them are now passed on as a result of human desires and human fears and human resistance to the fact that man can do nothing, and need do nothing, to become free of the bondage of misery-causing fear and frustration-causing desires that result from accepting the body-mind-personality as self?’ You’ll see that all misery comes when fear and desire meet at the same point.” 

Q.: “Meet at the same point?” 

F.: “Take as an example the display of misery you witnessed earlier. The dream of having power now and being guaranteed eternal life for the body-mind-personality creates a desire that is accompanied by fear. The body-mind-personality desires power and eternal life, but at the same time it fears eternal punishment. The desire and fear met at the same point—at the point of the concept of eternal continuity. You witnessed the result when that man cussed me and stormed out of here. If you challenge the method that someone is following to pursue a desire or to avoid a fear, then expect emotional intoxication to ensue. In the same fashion, when ‘husband’ thought he was dying, the misery resulted when desire and fear met at the concept of ‘wife.’ The role of ‘husband’ desired her and feared he would lose her.” His desire and fear met at the same point . . . at the concept of ‘wife’.” 

Q.: “You’re right!” 

F.: [Staring at Q., without comment. Eventually smiling. Light laughter from the group.] “Let’s return to the original pointer. The journey we are on aims to put us fully in touch with reality. To be out of touch with reality is to be insane. This journey is about getting in touch with reality in order to be free of the bondage of the illusions and falsehoods of a mind exposed to years of enculturation.” 

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: XX"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.] 

Here's 

the direct link to the VIDEO VERSION 

of the "Awakening Together" satsang session with Regina and Jacqueline referenced earlier, 18 MARCH 2018 

or 

You can click on the picture link which has now been added for video "Number Ten" in the upper right-hand column on this page. 

If preferred, here's 

the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION 

of that session.

HOW TO (AND WHAT TO) REALIZE

TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj] 

2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that. 

3. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.) 

THE THIRD DEGREE OF SEPARATION FROM REALITY: 

False Identifications 

with the Last to Go Being 

“The Super Religious One,” 

“The Spiritual Giant,” 

and 

“The Super Seeker” 

[Excerpts from the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE which includes transcriptions of talks offered during one of the last series of satsang sessions that I led.] 

Yesterday: 

Q.: “I see the problem with some of the roles you discussed earlier, like the way the ‘husband’ role or ‘employee’ role or ‘wife’ role traps people. But it just seems that the positive role of ‘spiritualist’ would have some benefit. It seems different from the others.” 

F.: “So let's say that you're a patient in a study group among those dying of cancer. Your group is receiving the placebo and the other group is getting the real thing. You’re telling me that you’d be willing to stay in the placebo group of cancer patients and not get the real thing if the researchers will just give you another placebo that is ‘different from the other’ placebos that you've been taking . . . but a placebo nevertheless? [Q. frowns] 

Q.: “You have a knack for turning around my statements in a way I don’t mean them.” 

F.: “I’m not trying to turn statements around or even offer a different perspective. All perceptions are illusions, so I suggest their dissolution. The personas you’re trying to defend are just more states of being 'this' or being 'that.' Some want you to adopt all of their beliefs. I invite you to abandon all of your beliefs.” 

Q.: “So you’re claiming that these two states have never helped anyone?” 

F.: “What is ‘help’? [Pause] Let’s try this: can a canoe help one cross a river?” 

Q.: “Of course.” 

F.: “Then imagine that seven rivers separate you from a destination. Imagine also that at each crossing point is a canoe. I ask you, if you use a canoe to cross a river, do you need to drag that canoe along to the next river if a guide assures you that another canoe will be ready to help cross the next obstacle? Is there any reason you should carry along the first and second and third canoes as you approach the fourth river? Why drag with those three canoes the fourth, fifth, and sixth canoes when the seventh canoe awaits? Why burden yourself by dragging along all those canoes that can only inhibit free movement along the path? Now, did the canoes help? They were there and you used them. So be it. But to say, 'Well, I had to do everything I did on my journey' is a lie. The truth is that you could have crossed the rivers in other ways, and some of those other ways might have been much easier. Not far from the canoes were footbridges. In some places, the rivers narrowed to shallow streams that you could have walked across. Large traffic bridges crossed the rivers elsewhere. Did the canoes help . . . or hinder? The more relevant question now, since you've gone the canoe route, is 'Don't the canoes now need to be abandoned so you can move on effectively?' The answer to that is, 'Yes'.” 

Q.: [Raises eyebrows] 

F.: “I’ll take that look as an affirmation that you get the point. When I speak of transcending, I refer to the fact that you must transcend all body identity, all mind identity, and now . . . all religious or spiritual personalities as well. You might feel they have helped you along, but they are not the end and they need not be taken along after having served whatever purpose you think they served. All identities must dissolve between now and the end of the fourth degree of separation or you cannot go on and know the child ignorance and the witness, nor the True Self, nor the beingness, nor the non-beingness . . . much less be fully in touch with Reality and know the Absolute. It will be impossible. We have reached the point along the path where religious and spiritual roles must be transcended. Any benefit that you believe they might have provided up to this point, so be it. But in order to continue, these roles too must dissolve.” 

Q.: “If all roles are dreamed up in the mind and played out by the body, why are these two in a separate category from the other mind identifications you discussed?” 

F.: “Excellent question. The answer is, first, because in the vision in which these seven degrees came to me, these two roles were the third degree." 

Q.: “What vision?” 

F.: “The vision I’ll share later at a more appropriate time. That said, these personalities also deserve a category that allows for their thorough investigation since they have far greater impact in the relative existence than any other body or mind identifications. Look to yourself and see how they are 'fighting for their lives.' Typically, these personalities are the earliest to be planted in the conditioned mind. Being the oldest ego-states, these personas are the longest held. Like an obnoxious guest at a party, they are often the first to come and the last to go. Even if the roles are assumed during the adult years, their power to dominate the behavior of those with a conditioned mind is demonstrated daily.” 

Q.: “So why do they have a greater impact than other roles?” 

F.: “For several reasons. First, playing a religious role will either prevent the journey from beginning or will end a journey that has begun. This Teaching requires that we question everything. Faith in dogma requires that you question nothing. The journey only begins when questioning begins. The journey only continues if questioning continues. Second, having been told he has all the answers and having been trained to ask no questions, how could anyone so programmed continue the journey? Next, the programming and conditioning administered in such venues create minds with unwavering belief in dogma or theory, resulting in a rigidity that prohibits the consideration of opposing views. That I know from my years of being mired in both roles. Further, no other ego-states trigger more emotional intoxication. Also, most persons have had their entire phenomenal existence frustrated by the dualities of ‘good and bad,’ 'reward and punishment,' ‘heaven and hell’ and the struggle for their souls by 'dual gods': the god of good and the god of bad. These two personalities are the seat of those concepts of dualism that are so debilitating, but to suggest that the concepts are harmful and should be questioned will usually earn you a new label, maybe something like, ‘New Age Agent of Satan.’ [Loud laughter] Don’t laugh. That’s one I’ve actually heard. Ha. Next, imagine how difficult it is to shake off decades of such conditioning and programming. Finally, all roles are ego-states and thus foster egotism. Once the stance that ‘Our way is right and your way is wrong’ is taken, no room remains for facts or truth or opposing views. Fix bayonets . . . cock and load.” 

Q.: “Your talk about moving beyond these roles is scary because I’ve always been taught this is my only hope.” 

F. : “How’s that hope working for you? Can losing false identities harm your True Self, or would the loss of all false identities finally reveal your True Self? What you find ‘scary’ is not this talk. What you fear is the loss of continuity of the body and mind and personality. You want immortality for something that is temporary! Set the personas aside and your fear will be replaced with peace. See the immensity of the Totality, not the limited life of a body-mind-personality. Get free of your unachievable desire to make the transient into the permanent. Seeking the unachievable will assure you a lifetime of feeling separate and angry. You'll exhaust yourself with needless effort.” 

Questioner 2.: “You really bother me, saying religion and spirituality aren’t the final answer. I’m only alive today because I found a spiritual solution to my problem.” 

F.: “The best question I could ask in reply would be, ‘Who is bothered?’ but I’ll go with second-best and ask, ‘Who said to let religion or spirituality dissolve?’ I see no likelihood that either will fade from the screen. Each of you, on the other hand, has an opportunity to be free of two additional, limiting personalities. I identified the next two obstacles that must dissolve in order for the journey to continue: religious and spiritual persons. Personas are false. How can anything false progress? The journey halts when personalities believe they have arrived. Don’t consider the inseparable I Am / Absolute as ‘separates’ by believing that these ‘Seven Degrees of Separation from Reality’ are real. They are the illusions.” 

Q. 2: “I think that I’m a spiritual creature having a human experience.” 

F.: “I read that book too, so you now think what another person thought. Aside from what any human or religious or spiritual person thinks, what do you know . . . within?” 

Q. 2.: “I know I have the power of faith, which it doesn’t sound like you have.” 

F.: “Ha. Oh, I have faith . . . faith that the totality will function. Functioning will happen. My teacher said that there’s a current of energy that flows within the space when manifested. He suggested that I know that energy and its functioning. I do, so I have faith that happenings will happen, infinitely.” 

Q. 2.: “I think your problem is that you must have been given a negative concept of God along the way. I came up with a God of my own conception. If you can’t like that God you were raised with, I suggest you come up with a God of your own understanding that you can be comfortable with.” 

F.: “Yes, I’ve also read that book, but after making that suggestion to choose your own idea of God, it tells you to ‘cast aside all ideas.’ So which is it?” 

Q. 2: “I don’t care what you say. The bottom line is, I have a Power that you don’t have.” 

F.: “Actually, you’ve proved that your Power doesn’t exist.” 

Q. 2.: “Hardly.” 

F.: “You told us that you have chosen your own conception of god, that you 'came up with a god.' You created god. That itself is a very interesting twist in the dogma. But more to the point, you admit that your god is a concept—an idea fabricated by a conditioned mind. You’re admitting that you dreamed up a concept and now believe in the dream. If one dreams that he's sleeping with his favorite starlet, he's no less alone. If he awakes from that dream and still believes that she’s there, a delusion exists. We’re supposed to be moving away from the dream state and to the awakened state. All concepts are just notions or inventions or conceits. We’re on the path to no concepts, not more concepts.” 

Q. 2.: [Raising voice] “I know for a fact that my Higher Power is real. He’s given me the power and peace I never had.” 

[Note: “Q2” was in a Twelve-Step program. Few persons in any such program seem to be aware of what their founders had to say about the “Higher Power” and “God,” but what they said is relevant to all readers at this point . . . whether “Twelve-Steppers” or "Advaitins." In the appendix of their book, an appendix entitled “Spiritual Experience,” they make clear that though earlier in the text the writer used gender-specific pronouns such as “He” or “Him” to refer to a male god with personal attributes, that is not what most of the founders took the Higher Power to be. 

Q2 had the same gender-specific concept of the power. The appendix in their book reveals that those founders who had a “spiritual experience” no longer saw the Higher Power as a male entity but saw it as an “inner resource,” to use their words. (That "resource" is, of course, the pure / unblocked universal consciousness.) The appendix goes on to say that it is only their religious members who speak of “God-consciousness.” So according to their own literature, most of their founders had a spiritual experience and were conscious of the consciousness within—of the “inner resource” as they called it or of the "inner guru" as many Far Easterners call it. Only the religious members continued to speak of a male “God.” The point made in their appendix is exactly in line with the non-dual understanding, as is their point that, after having had a spiritual awakening, they tapped into their “sixth sense” and “intuition” and lived in a fashion that was “automatic”—not unlike the “spontaneous living” of the Advaita teaching. Now the dialogue will continue.] 

F.: “You seem to read a wide range of books. You find in your books what you don’t know and then you believe you know it. The content of all those books you’re quoting amounts to learned ignorance. I hear you quoting what you’ve read, but I hear no evidence that you have found what you already know . . . within. You and I both know what’s in the books you’re quoting, but do you know what is beyond those texts? If not, whatever peace you claim to have received is tenuous, vulnerable to being shattered with a few words, as your voice seems to be confirming. Fix bayonets . . . cock and load.” 

Q. 2: [Frowns, shouts] “I wasn’t angry until you started talking blasphemy!" 

F.: “Make no connections where connections don’t exist. That’s just more duality. A common reasoning fallacy claims, ‘I am unhappy; I am in your presence; you are making me unhappy.’ See the truth: one, you are unhappy; two, it just so happens that you’re also in my presence.” 

Q. 2: “You’re a real piece of work.” 

F.: “Let’s stay with your conception. You’ve created a concept in your ‘mind,’ and now you depend on that concept. My teacher cautioned against anything that makes one dependent. You also probably concentrate on that concept, you likely pray to that concept, you perhaps even try to model yourself after that concept, but you admit it’s just your conception—an invention of your ‘mind.’ Other ideas you've believed about that god were ancient concepts fabricated in the minds of other men. In the last session, you obviously didn’t grasp that the personal mind produces powerlessness, not power. The variable mind doesn’t provide peace. It robs you of peace. If you want lasting peace, abandon your mind, your concepts, and your ego-states. Then, seek within to know the Real."

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.] 

Here's 

the direct link to the VIDEO VERSION 

of the "Awakening Together" satsang session with Regina and Jacqueline referenced earlier, 18 MARCH 2018 

or 

You can click on the picture link which has now been added for video "Number Ten" in the upper right-hand column on this page. 

If preferred, here's 

the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION 

of that session.

HOW TO (AND WHAT TO) REALIZE

TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

1. [See the offer in gold text following this post for details on how you can watch a retreat on video which includes a detailed discussion of all seven of the steps on the path as used by Maharaj] 

2. 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. See the green text after today's post for the full meaning and implications of that. 

3. A new video ("Number Ten: Awakening Together Satsang, March 2018") has now been added in the far right column of this page, offering the opportunity to view a recent 2018 satsang session with Floyd being interviewed by Regina and Jacqueline of "The Awakening Together Group." (See the details in the blue text after this post.) 

THE THIRD DEGREE OF SEPARATION FROM REALITY: 

False Identifications with the Last to Go Being 

“The Super Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” 

and 

“The Super Seeker” 

[Excerpts from the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE which includes transcriptions of talks offered during one of the last series of satsang sessions that I led]:

From yesterday: 

F. : “What do you take ‘spiritual’ to mean?” 

Q.: “Spiritual to me simply means abandoning the material to deal with that beyond the material.” 

F.: “Good enough. We’ll use your definition for our discussion, but let me ask first, ‘What might be the detriment of shifting one's focus to the spiritual and abandoning the material before having thoroughly examined all of the 'material'?” 

Q.: “I don't think there can be any detriment.” 

Continuing today:

F.: “On my ‘journey,’ when I turned too soon from the material and began focusing only on what I called ‘the spiritual,’ I merely developed a new persona: the role of a ‘Spiritual Giant.’ I did not move farther along ‘the path’ until my teacher’s words returned my focus to the material long enough to see every falsehood. 

“Many want to see the truth before they have seen all of the false. It cannot happen. So far on this ‘journey,’ we’ve focused on nothing but the material—the false material body, the false mind concerned with the material, and the personality concerned with the material. 

”As for the 'spiritualists' you mention, they are as dual-minded as the pious if occupied with material trappings and posturing. My teacher gave short shrift to those playing spiritual roles, showing up in his loft with saffron robes, wooden crosses, beads, gold crosses, special beards, restricted dietary plans to please gods supposedly concerned with gastronomic issues, drums, bells, crystals, rituals, whatever. They were often ‘asked out,’ so to speak.” 

Q.: “I don’t see what any of that hurts.” 

F.: “It’s diversionary, misdirecting the focus from the I Am and The Absolute, accumulating more material 'stuff' on what is supposed to be a journey toward de-accumulation, and thus halting the journey. It supports the false beliefs that 'I have arrived' and 'the path ends here' and 'this material stuff helps me be more spiritual' when, in fact, the journey is not yet even half complete. 

“Some want to flaunt material evidence of their assumed spirituality. So be it. My words are for those who know they have not reached the destination. My teacher knew that nothing external could abet the process of knowing that which is within. Even the guru is within, he said.” 

Q.: “Maybe those elements bring a touch of the material to the spiritual, but that doesn’t make the spiritual dualistic.” 

F.: “Of course it does, along with many other aspects. All roles are dualistic as soon as a person assumes an identity and then assigns attributes to that false personality. 

"By assuming a role-with-attributes as a new and improved identity, one takes that which claims to have transcended the material but then assigns material attributes—an act which immediately gives the role a phenomenal character. Duality is an inherent component of any role, but it especially marks these two limiting personalities that are the repository of all 'good-bad' concepts and all 'reward-deserver' and 'punishment-avoider' personas. 

"While body identifications and mind identifications prevent taking the first two steps of this journey to Realization, these two dual-natured roles will bring any journey already begun to a halt if not transcended. Before anyone here who is assuming a religious or spiritual personality wants to rush to the defense of a false persona, let me make this point: an interesting shift can occur at this juncture. The remaining obstacles I’ll discuss can still separate travelers from reality, but they also have the potential to facilitate the journey to realization. The key lies in transcendence.” 

Q.: “Transcendence meaning what, exactly?” 

F.: “Meaning, if one transcends level three and the levels that follow, the stages can become stepping stones used to continue along 'the path.' The challenge is that along the way two hindrances usually appear. 

“First, some encounter what they take to be a cool oasis of religion or spirituality, tempting places to stop, to abandon the journey, and to spend the remainder of one’s life; in fact, anything prior to reality is a mirage and ultimately offers no stability. 

“Second, along other parts of the path, many obstacles appear and some become frustrated and abandon the journey. To continue, all roles must dissolve, including the limiting religious and spiritual personalities.” 

Q.: “I see the problem with some of the roles you discussed earlier, like the way the ‘husband’ role or ‘employee’ role or ‘wife’ role traps people. But it just seems that the positive role of ‘spiritualist’ would have some benefit. It seems different from the others.” 

F.: “So let's say that you're a patient in a study group among those dying of cancer. Your group is receiving the placebo and the other group is getting the real thing. You’re telling me that you’d be willing to stay in the placebo group of cancer patients and not get the real thing if the researchers will just give you another placebo that is ‘different from the other’ placebos that you've been taking . . . but a placebo nevertheless? [Q. frowns] 

“All personas are false. Nothing false can help differentiate the true from the false.” 

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.] 

Here's 

the direct link to the VIDEO VERSION 

of the "Awakening Together" satsang session with Regina and Jacqueline referenced earlier, 18 MARCH 2018 

or 

You can click on the picture link which has now been added for video "Number Ten" in the upper right-hand column on this page. 

If preferred, here's 

the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION 

of that session.