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ENTERING INTO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
[Included are excerpts from the book entitled The Relative Results of Returning to "The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State"]
“Conditional Happiness” or “Unconditional Happiness”: Only One Is Rooted in Wisdom and Sanity
Unconditional Happiness
This was offered for consideration:
If Maharaj's estimates were spot on, [that few will ever Realize Fully] then you too might ask: "If Maharaj was right and almost none who seek to understand ever will, fully, why even try?" To those who raise that question, the reply is the same to all: "In terms of that beyond the manifestation, there is no reason at all. In terms of the way that the present manifestation can happen - or not - there is a key reason why you are invited to 'try'."
Later, there will be a more complete discussion of why the invitation to begin the "journey" along the seven-step "path" to Full Realization is extended . . .
1. even if the chances of completing that "journey" are slim, and
2. why completion of even four of the seven steps can make the effort worthwhile.
First, though, there is absolute concurrence here with another pointer from Maharaj which is relevant at this point. His caution for the seeker whose relative existence was marked by pain and misery and suffering, and who sought to be awakened fully in order to be free of living under the influence of either a dream or a nightmare or both, was this:
there is likely no greater obstacle to realization than accepting guidance from one now stuck in the mentally-ill condition of someone standing in the dim light of the dawn while believing that he or she is being bathed fully in the bright light of the noonday sun.
Such "experts" have only reached the third of seven steps where they have cast off old, former identities that their cultures deemed "bad" and have assumed new and improved - but as equally false - identities which their cultures or friends or relatives deem "good" or even "great," such as "The Super Religious One," "The Spiritual Giant," “The Super Seeker,” "The One Who Formerly Knew Nothing But Who Now Knows It All," "The One Who Can Rescue You," and "The One Who Wants to Pass On His or Her Knowledge to All."
Here, no knowledge is offered. Here, no pointer is offered so one can learn more, be taught more, or be re-programmed. Here, any pointer offered is shared in order to facilitate un-learning, un-teaching, and de-programming. The suggestion shared with a woman last week who questioned the condition of this speck of consciousness was the same that is shared with all who are seeking guidance but questioning what is offered here:
"Read some of the words spoken by the consciousness here. If those words trigger a resonance within, then stay awhile; if not, then move on." So, with Maharaj's warnings to seekers having been noted, specifically,
a. to guard against fixating at the religious or spiritual level and thereby failing to complete the entire "journey," and
b. to guard against fixating rather than moving beyond all persona-assumption and beyond belief in all ideas and concepts and beliefs, including the ones assumed at the third-of-seven steps on the "path" by religious or spiritual personas,
then this might now be considered:
"even if the chances of completing the entire 'journey' are slim, completion of even four of the seven steps can make the effort worthwhile."
How could reaching only the third step on a seven-step "path" to realization be so detrimental while reaching the fourth step on that "path" could possibly be "worthwhile" as far as the relative existence goes?
Those who are miserable and who are suffering often say, "I just want to be happy."
Here, those are asked: "When was the last time you were unconditionally happy,” considering that fact that almost all humans are trapped in a ‘conditional happiness’ mindset?”
Some say, "When I first married the man that I now want to divorce."
The reply: "That was 'conditional happiness,' not unconditional happiness."
Some say, "When my child was born."
The reply: "That was 'conditional happiness,' not ‘unconditional happiness’."
And all of the examples of such exchanges over the years are far too numerous to count.
When was the last time anyone who is presently miserable was actually unconditionally happy? The correct answer, using non-duality terminology, is:
"When I was in 'the Child Ignorance Stage' or at 'The Child No-Knowing Step'," which is the fourth of seven steps and which is the step beyond the third religious or spiritual role-playing step.
At that point, a child that is dry and fed and not sick is perfectly content, is unconditionally happy. During the "coming-into-manifestation-and-eventually-identifying-with-the-body leg," that "No-Knowing Stage" is the last of the pre-Ultimate Sickness states - the last of the pre-conditional happiness states. Why?
Because it the state prior to being exposure to insane and nonsensical programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination which contribute to the manifestation of the Ultimate Sickness and which set the stage for misery and suffering.
At that fourth step, the child knows it IS but does not believe it is "this" or it is "that"; therefore, the child suffers no persona-driven agendas, hidden or otherwise.
If only four of seven steps are completed, that is worthwhile because it is far more significant for those who are miserable to be able to recognize the "not-you's" (and their agendas) than to be able to understand what the “supposedly-Real You" is. Why?
Because it is the "not-you's" that generate identification with false personas which, in turn, generate belief-based fears and belief-based desires; then, it is those personality-generated fears and desires that generate misery and suffering. To be happy and to be free of misery and suffering, the condition of the brain must be restored to the same condition it was in the last time that you were unconditionally happy.
There is a computer virus circulating presently that is masquerading as a virus-protection program. It will flash on-screen, inform you that you are infected with such-and-such a virus, and ask if you would like it to remove the contamination. If you click "Yes," your computer is doomed. When it struck the computer here last week, the action taken immediately was to run the "restore" program.
The computer was returned to its clean, pre-contamination state . . . to its original virus-free, sickness-free condition. That is what the "journey" discussed here is about, and the full "journey" restores the consciousness to its original, cleansed, pre-contamination, pre-Ultimate Sickness state.
Likely, there are still certain malware infections that are hiding in the background of the computer, but the main threat to the system has been addressed for now. And that is what this "path" and "journey" are about, so if you only reach the fourth of seven steps and only remove the main threat to your system (namely, belief in the "not-you's" and the fears and desires they drive), then completion of even four of the seven steps can make the effort worthwhile, relatively speaking.
Faulty Programming, Distorted Conditioning, Bizarre Domestication, Duality-Reinforcing Acculturation, Debilitating Brainwashing, Freedom-Robbing Indoctrination and the Relative Curse of Conditional Happiness
Whereas “Unconditional Happiness” manifests alongside wisdom and sanity, “Conditional Happiness” is rooted in ignorance and insanity. Why? Because it constantly blocks any chance to be happy (or at least to feel contentment) most of the time.
Conditional statements are marked by “if / then” thoughts, and the realized - those freed from accepting as true their former body of false concepts, ideas, notions, thoughts, perceptions / misperceptions, impressions, theories, conspiracy theories, and views (a.k.a., “beliefs”) already understand that all of humankind’s dreamed up beliefs over the ages have been untrue and are best forfeited.
The same applies to all instances of “if / then” thinking, as illustrated in these examples:
“If only that person will marry me, then I’ll be happy.”
“If only I can find a rich person who will marry me and pay all of my expenses forever, then I will be happy.”
“If only I can get a nose job and belly tuck and a breast enhancement and a butt enhancement, then I’ll finally look the way I want to look and then I will feel good about myself and then I will attract the kind of people I want to attract and then I will be happy.”
“If only my political candidate can win, then the country will be in good hands and I’ll feel okay and then I will be happy.”
“If only my spouse will die, then I can collect the insurance proceeds and be free and then be happy.”
“If only the company would fire my supervisor, then I could take that person’s place and get more money and more control and then I could be happy.”
“If only I could raise my batting average this coming season, then my agent would be in a better position to negotiate with the front office personnel of the professional baseball team I play for and then I could get a much better contract and then I can be happy.”
“If only my cruel, always-drunk spouse were to find God, then our family could be happy.”
“If only my parents would stop drinking and drugging, then we could have a happy family.”
“If only we could get rid of all of the non-whites, then our country will be fine and then we can all prosper and be happy.”
“If only we could build a wall along one particular border, then we could all feel safe (until seconds later when people figure out that they can go around it, over it, through it, or under it).”
Earlier, the invitation to understand the difference in conditional happiness and unconditional happiness was offered. As long as the consciousness is manifested, there will be externals involved with the basic requirements of even the unconditional variety of happiness, yet the requirements are minimal: food, clothing, shelter, and wellness.
What blocks the manifestation of unconditional happiness and encourages conditioned and conditional happiness? Most know that early on with children, conditioning has already begun, but it can actually begin during a child's earliest days. Here's an example where that scenario is playing out:
A woman with an eating disorder has been observed over the years as she has used food mainly to try to provide comfort rather than to provide nutrition. The complications that followed her Lap-Band Surgery are still manifesting a year after the process.
Recently, there has been a witnessing of the behavior of one of her daughters who is trapped in the same addiction and who recently “gave birth” (as it is called). She began overfeeding the child from day one and now wonders why the child cannot keep down all of the large quantities of milk that are being consumed and then being regurgitated.
After only three months, the pediatrician has warned that the child is overweight and must be fed less - adumbrating the warnings given by many of the friends and relatives of the mother. The point? It was noted above that conditioning "can actually begin during a child's earliest days," and that is the case here.
Now, the child at the age of three months is already desiring more food than it needs, and the food is being provided for comfort and to quiet the child and to keep it so full that it sleeps far more than is normal and natural. The overfed, typically sleepy child is seemingly making the mother's life easier - some vomiting and stomach discomfort with the child notwithstanding - and the result is that the beat goes on for another generation.
This is certainly the third generation in that family that is behaving in an ignorant and addictive manner, and likely there were many generations before with ancestors having been addicted to something, even if not food. The child is experiencing conditional happiness as a result of externals being used to provide comfort, and the mother is doing the same, just as her mother did before her.
Yet it is the sickness that is internal (while being dependent on an excess of externals which is at the heart of the mother's and the daughter's and now the child's conditional happiness).
Imagine the effects on a planet-wide basis as distorted conditioning is happening, not only in regards to eating habits but in every realm. Early on, children are conditioned to think a certain way, to talk a certain way, and to behave in certain ways, all of which are shown - by scientific research - to be evidence of ever-increasing rates of distortion and ignorance and insanity on a global basis. Why?
Because global levels of ignorance and insanity are increasing as a result of increasing levels of faulty programming, distorted conditioning, bizarre domestication, duality-reinforcing acculturation, debilitating brainwashing, and freedom-robbing indoctrination; then, more and more ignorant and insane persons are breeding and passing on their learned ignorance and personality disorders and the fictional content of their "minds" that have been filled with ideas and concepts and beliefs that were also based in faulty programming, distorted conditioning, etc.
And because the seat of the main problem involved with the Ultimate Sickness is the fictional content of the "minds" of the non-realized persons around the globe, it is the near-universally-distorted "mind" which generates the misery and suffering that is also manifesting on a global basis.
And the "mind" is an internal problem (though most try to "treat" the problem with externals). The reason that research is uncovering more and more ignorance and personality disorders and insanity is because persons are looking more and more to externals to address the internal problems, all based in bogus beliefs:
"If only she will marry me, I'll be happy."
"A man is my plan."
"If I have more children, I will have more people that are guaranteed to give me the love I did not get as a child but am now driven to try to get in huge quantities."
"An excess of externals - such as food, sex, alcohol, drugs, shopping, spending, gambling, work, money, material things, supposedly supernatural and spiritual or religious experiences, ad infinitum - can address the internal condition that is presently uncomfortable."
The common belief: "I do get some relief from those externals, Floyd. They do help some." The additional, usually subconscious belief: "An internal condition marked by an always-present sense of dis-ease must be addressed with externals."
The result of those beliefs: the internal state becomes dependent on externals, so any "happiness" or "brief respite" or "finite relief" is only a conditional version of happiness rather than an unconditional (and unconditioned) sense of happiness.
Once while walking past a copse of trees and nearby underbrush and thickets, a dozen deer were observed as they rested in the "cool blue shade." Only a minimal of externals were involved with their sense of peace: they had grazed earlier, had eaten enough (but not more than enough), and had found some temporary shelter because some approaching clouds indicated there might be a chance of rain. But that was it as far as externals were concerned; with those minimums, they were internally content.
That internal contentment was very much like the "unconditional happiness" being discussed and is evidence of the reason that the sages for thousands of years have endorsed de-accumulation rather than accumulation. That is why, here, the de-accumulation of ideas, concepts, perceptions, etc. (a.k.a., “beliefs”) is endorsed, rather than the accumulation of more but different ideas, concepts, perceptions, etc., (in fact, all beliefs).
This was offered earlier for consideration: That is what this "path" and "journey" are about, and if you only reach the fourth of seven steps and only remove the main threat to your system (namely, the "not-You's" and their false beliefs), then completion of even four of the seven steps can make the effort worthwhile, relatively speaking.
Reaching the fourth of the seven steps from identification with the false "I" to the Absolute is a step towards de-accumulation, not towards accumulating more knowledge (a.k.a., "learned ignorance"), more religious knowledge, more spiritual knowledge, more accoutrements, more things, more stuff, or more externals.
It is at the fourth step that one has gone beyond the assumption of any roles as identities and moved back to the Child No-Knowing State after following the same "path" by which the "coming in" happened, but in reverse order.
Going back to the same conditions and circumstances that were in place the last time that unconditional happiness was experienced is the only way that it can be experienced again, and that is the only way that "You can come unto Me."
Abiding as a child in the No-Knowing, pre-programmed, pre-conditioned, pre-domesticated, pre-acculturated, pre-Ultimately-Sickened state, one can be free of dependence on externals which can only provide conditional and limited intervals of happiness;
thus, to reach even the fourth of seven steps on the "path" is worthwhile, relatively speaking. To be free of all false identities and their hidden agendas that are rooted in personality disorders and in the other corrupt content of the "mind" would leave one freer than most on the planet will ever be.
Otherwise, one will abide in a totally dependent state, never truly free. Because being free is a prerequisite for being happy, then happiness can never come when one believes that she or he is dependent (co-dependent) on external things and people and places in order to be happy.
When one's supposed "happiness" is conditional - as is always the case if operating under the influence of the conditioned "mind" - then one cannot be happy if one's child is not happy; if one's mate or lover or friends or family members are not happy; if one's employer is not happy; if one's customers are not happy; if one's fellow citizens are not happy; if the people of "the world" are not happy.
It should be clear why conditional happiness is not true happiness at all. For true, unconditional happiness to begin to manifest, you must reach the fourth step and be as the little child who has no ideas or beliefs or concepts; who does not believe in mates or lovers or friends or family members; who does not believe in employers or employees;
who does not believe in customers or fellow citizens or the people of "the world" or even "the world." Then, the freedom of AS IF abidance can manifest and "husbanding" or "wifing" can happen even in the absence of "The Husband" or "The Wife" and especially in the absence of the soon-upgraded versions that follow, namely, "The Super Husband" and "The Super Wife."
Abandon all identities and ideas and concepts and beliefs and then all else can happen that must happen to provide a minimum of required externals so that the internal condition is no longer dependent on an endless count of externals and so that unconditioned and unconditional happiness can manifest and remain. Then, just "living" will no longer be a second full-time job.
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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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