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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 point in this series is that the non-dual message has long been widespread but has seldom been understood either then or now.

So, to move on . . .

NON-DUAL POINTERS IN THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 

QUOTATIONS #6 and #7 (Continued – Part Three) 

“Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” 

and

“It’s all much ado about nothing” 

Only in the absence of sound—only in the total silence—does the consciousness reveal to itself all of the false beliefs that have been programmed into a "mind." Thereafter, the pure consciousness will ignore the false and realize the final, unspeakable truth. 

[Recall: “The loudest, who also have had the largest audiences, are not the truth tellers. Again, Grandmother's Cherokee kin and fellow indigenous peoples say, ‘Truth is nothing more than the space between exhalation and inhalation’." 

While those trapped in the Ultimate Sickness espouse "freedom of speech," the wisest sages have long extolled the virtue of "freedom from speech."] 

Since that can only happen in the total silence, wherefore the needs for the sound of voices or chants or bells or humming or messages or sharings for those who would realize fully? Conversely, the ego expresses (sometimes with sound and sometimes with fury) all of the false beliefs it believes and that it would force on “others” and would have them believe. 

(Why sometimes with sound and at other times with fury? The adoption of personas as identities produces charming actors who would be in control. If they can control "others" with the sounds of their charming ways and feigned kindness, they will try that tact; if that does not work, they can be mean and vile and try to force their control over people with fury. 

Persons want power in order to control, and they will do all that is required for them to gain it; once acquired, they will then use their power to force the desires of their self-will on others. Some personas will be content to control those in the home; others want to control those at work; 

others want to control all of those in their communities, in lines, in traffic, at checkout counters; some want to control their nation; some want to control all of the peoples of the entire planet. Personas—being ego-based as they are—will want as many as possible to think as they think and believe as they believe and act as they act, and they are willing to destroy all those who refuse. 

They want to go to the four corners and influence all “others” to be a reflection of them. In furthering that goal, everything observed ends up being a reflection, a play in light . . . nothing more than one image after another.) 

The instant that a person accepts an ego-state as an identity, ego-defense mechanisms are simultaneously activated. Those mechanisms are used by personas to maintain their false images. Truth is about reality; ego and sound and fury are about the lie, so the poet makes clear that the tales that they tell about life are also lies . . . tales told by idiots. 

The ego is the tool used by personas to maintain their image; the pure consciousness is that which dissolves images and appearances and personas and thereby eliminates the egotism that uses both sound and fury. Find noise…find the non-realized. Find quiet . . . find your self (that is, find what is real and find all that is not you which you have been nevertheless been told defines you). 

How is it that sound and fury are both by-products of the ego and never accompany the pure consciousness? WHO (that is, what non-realized persona, which ego-state / false identity) is furious when cut off in traffic? 

[Note: To differentiate: that which is called a "human" is merely a composite unity, an elemental plant food body circulating air and conscious-energy; a "persona / ego-state" is a false identity which - among the non-realized masses - is stored in an always-nonsense-filled mind along with a host of other false identities. A composite unity does not involve any "WHO's"; personality identifications involve nothing but false, imaginary "WHO's." That is why it can be said here, unequivocally, that in regards to "floyd," there is no WHO-ness at all.]

Thus, seekers are invited to find the answers to all of the "WHO" questions to find the truth regarding false identities and false beliefs:

WHO are the personas that are so furious that they become willing to destroy marriages and families, in the relative existence, because they think that their partners are not “honoring” them enough? 

WHO is furious enough to physically attack “others,” whether persons or nations? WHO are the persons who believe that their physical appearance entitles them to have the expense of their physical needs met by “others”? WHO wants a life that signifies something? WHO are the personas that are flattered by having lives of magnificent “meaning”? 

WHO becomes furious when others do not recognized how meaningful and significant they are? WHO are the persons who are furious when, instead of being given special consideration, must pay their own way? WHO is furious when they are treated in the same fashion as all others are treated? 

And in all cases, how much sound is produced by those egomaniacs who are furious that they are not getting the special treatment that they are convinced by egotism that they deserve? 

Sound is the tool of the ego—used by those caught up in the false belief that their ego-states are real—in order to attract the attention that ego-states need in order to feed their insatiable appetite for attention, reputation, respect, admiration and honor. 

Is it not obvious, the connection between (1) ego-states—and the arrogance that they generate—and (2) the sound and the fury that personas exhibit? Is it clearer now why the Realized are free of fury and why the Realized become very quiet? 

Consciousness only speaks to consciousness; ego, conversely, speaks to every persona who will listen. To believe that a persona—a fake and phony image—is actually real is to be trapped in the depths of insanity. As the two Advaitins being quoted point out, it is an “idiot” or a “fool” who believes in false images and tells tales about how life signifies something very meaningful. 

According to the Advaitin teachers being quoted (Krishna and Shakespeare) what are two additional ways to detect foolishness and idiocy . . . or, better yet, their opposites? Which would be an indicator of sanity . . . of being in touch with reality: (A) sound and fury, or (B) silence and serenity?   

QUOTATIONS #6 and #7 (Continued – Part Four) 

“Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” 

and 

“It’s all much ado about nothing” 

Silence and serenity are the by-products of realization but sound and fury are the by-products of the ego-producing bastardized consciousness that leads persons to believe that their personas and images and appearances are real. The challenge facing persons has a Catch-22-element: 

sound and fury preclude the silence required for realization, and the absence of realization produces more sound and fury. That leaves personas so thoroughly trapped in their ego-states that one jnani predicted that only one-in-a-million will ever escape the foolishness and idiocy of self-delusion and of being completely fooled by "others." 

Sound and fury are the tools of the ego . . . sound used to attract the attention that ego wants and fury used to demand the respect and honor that ego thinks it is due. “Truth,” the realized poet said, “has a quiet breast.” Silence and serenity reveal the real; sound and fury reveal the arrogance and egotism of “idiots” or “fools” who haven’t a clue who they are but who fight to preserve the images and appearances that they are not. 

Have you not dealt with personas and seen that the sounds coming out of their mouths reveal that the poet is right and that they are truly “idiots”? Have you not dealt with personas and seen that the fury they exhibit reveals that they are truly “fools”? 

Have you ever emitted senseless sounds or behaved furiously, only to see later that you were behaving in a foolish or idiotic manner on those occasions? Or have you not realized that yet? Does the question itself offend you? If so, WHO (what ego-state / what false identity) does it offend? 

It should be seen that there is only . . .

(A) the reality of Pure Consciousness or 

(B) the fiction (the tales told by idiots) that result in self-consciousness . . . in only being conscious of the false self or selves and having no consciousness of the real. 

Pure Consciousness (that is, the unblocked consciousness) allows the knowing of the real and That which is beyond; corrupted consciousness results in the belief that the false self or false selves are real and define who you are. 

The re-purification of the corrupted consciousness leads to the elimination of being fooled by "their" tales (that is, to the elimination of beliefs, concepts, lies and false identities), and the elimination of belief in those tales leads, in turn, to the end of sound and fury. 

How much of "human existence" is evidence that it has been driven by believing in the fictional tales told by the culture? How many observable experiences would suggest that someone would be a “fool” or an “idiot” if he / she had consciously chosen a life to go the way it has gone? If trapped in ego, one's answer will be “none.” If beginning to awaken to the truth, the answer might be “some.” 

If you are at the point of realization, the answer might be:

“Oh . . . my . . . gosh! My entire life I’ve allowed myself to be fooled by listening to the tales told by idiots and believing them. They were telling me what makes a ‘good life’ and what makes a ‘bad life' and what makes me 'good' and what makes me 'bad,' and really all the tales they told were all just dualistic, relativisitic nonsense." 

Yes . . . anyone who would have made those self-destructive choices would have to have been a fooled. If that is the case, how unburdening to know that you never choose any of that. 

You had no ability to choose anything as long as you were under the influence of the false personas that were driving you and under the influence of "their" programming and conditioning; however, relief is as close as realization ("realization" simply meaning, according to Maharaj, freedom from believing in learned ignorance).

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 god / 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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THE NON-DUALITY MESSAGE HAS LONG BEEN WIDESPREAD BUT IT HAS SELDOM BEEN UNDERSTOOD EITHER THEN OR NOW

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 point in this series is that the non-dual message has long been widespread but has seldom been understood either then or now. 

So, to move on . . . 

NON-DUAL POINTERS IN THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 

QUOTATIONS #6 and #7 (Continued from yesterday) 

“Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" 

and 

“It’s all much ado about nothing” 

To be sane is to be free of both sound and fury. Truth is uncovered in the absence of sound, not in the presence of sound. The realized realize in the quiet, and then they become very quiet. No fury is experienced after realization since there are no persons to experience fury. 

Egomaniacs (persons assuming ego-states as identities and then using ego-defense mechanisms to preserve their image) love to hear their own sounds. They love to sing before audiences and then play back their performances and listen to the sounds being emitted from their mouths. 

They love to talk at meetings or gatherings or before large crowds; they love to listen to the sounds coming from their mouths; and they love to listen to the playback of their sounds. They love the spotlight and the applause that their sounds receive. 

They are performers who require a captive audience or play-actors who manipulate circumstances so that their own sounds can be heard, and all who are performing are merely playing out their false roles “on stage.” 

In fact, those loving their own sounds and those loving the sounds of others are both “fools” and / or “idiots” (per the qualifications set forth by the two Advaitins being quoted above) because they are all reinforcing the false belief in ego-states or false identities or assumed roles. 

Persons who suggest that “truth can be found by listening to them,” to the sounds coming from their mouths, are actually removing your opportunity to know truth. Why listen to the sounds coming from any person(a)? All persons who are living in the false ego-state of “the one who has knowledge that you need” will be full of sound. 

And if you do not listen to them and follow their instructions, they will also be full of fury. What need for sound when the truth cannot be stated? Are you seeking to escape the foolishness and the idiocy of “life” as lived by persons on this planet by attending daily meetings where sound dominates? 

Are you going to a place once a week to hear the sounds in your effort to escape the idiocy and the foolishness? Is so, have you not yet seen their inherent contradictions that are exposed via the sounds that come from personas during those daily or weekly meetings? 

What of persons who think they are “more spiritual” if they hear the sound of a bell or the sound of humming or the sound of chanting or the sound of singing or the sound of the "preachings" offered by self-proclaimed “leaders” who earn salaries to tell them that they need the knowledge their leaders have? 

What of those who believe that they are more religious or more spiritual if they join voices with those who are furious that people are not living according to their rules and dogma? 

What of those who really believe that such "leaders" are so special and so different that "The Truth" is being delivered directly to them but cannot be known directly by them? 

No “Realized Advaitin” will ever suggest you learn what she / he knows. “No Realized Advaitin” will ever suggest that any sound emanating from a space can give you the answer. You have the answer. It is within. 

You need learn nothing; however, you do need to unlearn much, namely, your belief in the lies that block you from seeing the unspoken and unspeakable truth. 

“Non-dualists” do not offer knowledge and they never solicit a commitment to attend anything regularly in order to listen to them or to their sounds. If it is suggested that you read anything, it will not be a “holy” book. 

It will be a book that ends the need to read all books. Book studies are for personas who are trapped in ego-states. If you read the “right” book at the “right time” - meaning that "the readiness is all" - then truth will explode into consciousness, you’ll set down the book, and all seeking will end. 

Spiritual workaholism will end. Spiritual intoxication will end. Believing that you need more knowledge will end. The realized invite you to enter the silence, to contemplate, to reject all knowledge, to find all the lies, to know less and less until you finally reject it all (after which the unspoken, unspeakable truth will spring into consciousness). 

Too, the poet makes clear that (1) the more fury witnessed in a person, the more idiocy they will also observe and that (2) the more idiocy they observe in a person, the more sounds they will hear and the more fury they will also observe. 

Finally, those who claim that their life has meaning and signifies something (and that they can give “your life” meaning and significance) are also idiots - are non-realized persons who have been fooled - according to the poet. 

For those who would not "be an idiot," they must refuse to believe idiots who tell stories (fictional tales) about “life,” about what it is, about what it means, about how significant it should be, and about why you should think as they think and believe as they believe. Peace only comes in the belief-free state. 

They will tell you that it is much ado about something, but it is all just much ado about nothing . . . nothing more than a tale being told by an idiot. And who would listen to an idiot? 

Do not believe those who tell you that you need more knowledge in order to know how to live “life.” The realized poet Shakespeare explains that they are offering you nothing more nor less than a "tale being told by an idiot." 

Imagine: human-like beings have walked the planet for 14.5 million years and have made it just fine - continuing a line which evolved into homo sapiens 200,000 years ago and which survives to this day - but now there are those who would tell you that you need to add (to all that you already know) their special knowledge in order to know how to live your “life.” 

Intuitive motivations, sixth-sense clarity, and the absence of frontal-brain “stuff” (such as beliefs and ideas and concepts and distorted memories) allowed 14.5 million years of natural living, but now those are no longer workable? 

Really? There are priests and medicine men and gurus and jnanis and preachers and “life coaches” and spiritualists ad infinitum who would distract your attention from the only real guru (the inner guru) and have you believe that they know the secret to life. 

They will tell you a tale, explaining that they alone know the way that “life” should be lived (and their methods are always based in information contained in their “holy” or “special” text which needs to be “studied”). Their tales are also based in their misunderstanding of what “realized teachers” have long explained. 

For example, how many Christians understand and can explain the actual teachings of Christ when he said, “When you speak of me, speak of me as I AM” and “Before Abraham was, I AM”? 

And how many have even the slightest clue about what was meant by the words I AM THAT I AM as cited in their “holy text” during “The Talking, Burning Bush” yarn (especially since the semicolon was left out of that version of the summative statement of non-duality)? 

And how many truly understand that “the THAT” referenced by Krishna is beyond both being and non-beingness?

Only "the realized" will suggest that you need nothing more and that you need far less. Only the realized will admit that you need no significance. Of all the sounds to be heard, only the ego will shout with fury that you need more and more and more; 

and conversely, only the Pure Consciousness will “speak” in the “sound of silence” and reveal that you need nothing more than to remember the truth which had already within (though the awareness of that truth has been blocked by the miasma of nonsense stored in the minds of almost all humans).

Early on, children have an active BS detector:

Adult: "Women have painful periods every month because the first woman named Eve was very bad and fell under the influence of a snake that told her to tempt her husband to violate god's order not to eat the apples from one particular tree and she did so God now punishes all women to remind them every month not to ever encourage anyone to defy God's commands."

Child: "What?! Nuh uh!!"

Adult: "A whale swallowed a man and it was in the whale's belly for three days but God kept the  man alive and then the whale regurgitated the man and he was fine."

Child: "What?! Nuh uh!!"

Adult: "God became so angry at humans that he drowned all of them in a great flood except for the members of one family and a male and female pair of every species on earth."

Child: "What?! Nuh uh!!"

After children are punished or threatened for questioning authority figures who spread BS, their BS detector eventually becomes de-activated and, thereafter, those children become adults who buy into all the BS taught in their cultures and who then take up the task of spreading it to others.

All that you need to "get" in order to begin the “journey” to realization is the following: 

that which separated you from an ability to differentiate between the true and the false came about after years of being exposed to ignorant and insane programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination and threats of punishment, all of which was rooted in idiocy and sounds and fury. 

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 god / 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

If preferred, here's 

the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION 

of that session.

THE NON-DUALITY MESSAGE HAS LONG BEEN WIDESPREAD BUT IT HAS SELDOM BEEN UNDERSTOOD EITHER THEN OR NOW

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 point in this series is that the non-dual message has long been widespread but has seldom been understood either then or now. 

To continue with . . . 

NON-DUAL POINTERS IN THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 

QUOTATIONS #3 and #4 

“O what a goodly outside falsehood hath.” 

and 

“All that glitters is not gold.” 

Shakespeare often addressed in his plays the lie of “appearance” vs. the truth of reality. He warned against accepting the “outside” as an indicator of what the “inside” was like. The lie—the “falsehood”—is always based in an outer appearance, in an outer power, in an outer resource. In fact, he saw that the "outside" (the physical body) and the "inside" (the supposed "mind") were both lies. 

The trophy wife—not unlike the trophy—might glitter on the “outside,” but what (via closer inspection) does one discover is on the inside . . . within the trophy? Likewise, the dominant male—often believed to be a great catch before the acquiring—can prove to be something quite different after the acquiring. 

How many persons have you thought to be one way in the early going, only to find later on that they were quite different from the image being shown? How many have thought you to be one way in the early going, only to find later on that you were quite different from the image being shown? 

A man named Bill Wilson wrote, "It is being constantly revealed, as mankind studies the material world, that outward appearances are not inward reality at all." Just as what appears to be a steel beam to the naked eye can be seen to be something quite different when observed via an electron microscope, so it is with persons, so it is with trees, so it is with cars, so it is with everything observable: nothing is as it appears. 

Everything is something quite different from its appearance. The Realized are aware that everything is only one thing, so all the varied appearances have to be illusions. Do you take the multiplicity to be real? Do you believe that appearances have anything to do with truth? 

Do you think everything that glitters is gold, or have you come to understand that whatever glitters is only fool’s gold? Do you know what That is which is the unicity beyond the seeming multiplicity? Are you consistently able to see past the “goodly outside” and past the glitter and see the reality instead, or are you still being fooled on occasion? If so, how often are you being fooled by “others,” and how often are you just fooling yourself? 

QUOTATION #5 

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” 

Revisit these two questions: (1) Do you take the multiplicity to be real? (2) Do you know what That is which is the unicity beyond the seeming multiplicity? 

How is it that the “one touch of nature” can make “the whole” kin? Because that most basic ingredient in nature that makes all manifestation possible is but One. The whole is One. All is One. Understand how everything on this planet evolved from only one single atom (and how this entire universe evolved from one single atom) and you’ll begin to grasp the understanding of the Functioning of the Totality. 

Even “kin” goes too far because of its implication of duality, as if this thing or person is “kin” to that thing or person. There is no “relationship,” ever, since all is One. Nothing is “relating.” All just is, and all is just One. So why do persons always eventually end up feeling “torn” or feeling as if they are being “shattered into a million pieces”? 

(A) Because they have been programmed that way, to believe that they are many things and because 

(B) everything they think they are—even role assumed as an identity—has multiple agendas and perceived needs and demanding expectations and unmet demands and 

(C) because every one of those roles has dozens of requirements and needs and 

(D) because each has a "voice" that constantly "talks" to you about all its needs. That means that persons are constantly exposed to the sounds of hundreds and hundreds of internal voices and the pressures of hundreds and hundreds of perceived needs being generated by each false role. 

That leads persons to give credibility to all those voices and thus feel shattered into many pieces. The insanity is that persons believe that dozens and dozens of roles can actually define who they really are. They believe that multiple personas can equal one true identity. They believe that multiplicity can equal unicity. 

Persons are taught to believe that they are many things instead of one thing. They are told that they are a baby, a child, a pre-teen, a teen, an adult, a senior, a spouse, a homeowner, an employee or an employer, an acquaintance, a friend, a helper, a lover, a husband, a wife, an enemy, a mortal enemy, a bill payer, 

a Jew or Christian or Advaitin or Mormon or Muslim (ad infinitum), a spiritual giant, a good religious person, an invalid, an alcoholic, an addict, a leader, a farmer, a car owner, a provider, a citizen, a devotee, a Realized person, a teacher, a good person, a guru, a bad person, a jnani, a knower, a seeker, the knowledgeable one, 

the answer man, the savior, a prostitute, a saint, a gift from god, a special one, a guide, a father, a mother, an aunt, a cousin, a sister, a brother, an American, a Frenchman, an Afghan, an Iranian, a Syrian, a North Korean, etc., etc., etc. 

And it is the erroneous belief that all of those assumed identities can actually define who you really are that also generates a sense of separation as well as egotism and hatred. Those, in turn, provide the platform from which all fighting and war is launched. 

The understanding of that “one touch of nature” eradicates all misperceptions of separation and duality. It is that one touch of nature, a touch that never amounts to anything more than an act of friction, that allows nature to function the way nature functions in its totality. 

Whether that act of friction happens between two humans, two bird, two snakes, two gnats, or any of the pairings that can pair, fertilization happens and that one touch allows conscious-energy to manifest. All is That (and is nothing more), and that touch has been happening repeatedly and will continue to happen repeatedly. 

Only the variance in vibrational patterns accounts for the “appearance” which That seems to take. Only the variance in the pulsation of the manifested conscious-energy allows subjects to perceive objects as being different when they are in fact all the same. Do you understand that one touch? Do you understand that the whole really is . . . whole? 

QUOTATIONS #6 and #7 

“Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” 

and 

“It’s all much ado about nothing.” 

[First, understand that the poet was not calling persons "idiots." Why? Because he knew that there are no "persons" and that the term was merely another label used to point at the blocked consciousness that cannot know Truth and that will accept and repeat falsehoods instead. Too, when you read in upcoming passages that Krishna spoke of "fools," he too knew that there are no persons . . . that there are those specks of consciousness that have been blocked, that have been fooled.] 

It has been noticed that persons have reacted most to discussions of three subjects more than any other: One is their religious and / or spiritual personas which they take to be so sacred that they think even mention of those false identities should be avoided. 

The second is a discussion of the arrogance that accompanies all of their egotism-supported ego-states. The third is any talk which reveals how they meet Krishna’s definition of being “fools.” Now, add to that Shakespeare's definition of behaving as an "idiot." If “you” feel offended by any pointers offered in the postings over the next few days, the suggestion is that you find WHO thinks she/he is being attacked, find the falsity of that persona, and then move on . . . or not.] 

One seeker asked: (1) Do you think everything that glitters is gold, or have you come to understand that whatever glitters is only fool’s gold? and (2) Are you still being fooled on occasion? If so, how often are you being fooled by “others,” and how often are you just fooling yourself? As you conduct your day-to-day activities, do you cross paths with some people whom you take to be fools? 

“Do you cross paths with some persons whom you take to be idiots? Do you find yourself using the phrase, "Look at that idiot!" more and more? Only persons—the non-Realized—can be fooled. Only persons—the non-Realized—can behave as idiots. How did Krishna define "a fool”? How did Shakespeare define "an idiot”? 

Krishna said, “Those alone who understand that I, the Absolute, am beyond the states of being and non-being realize my true nature, and all others are fools.” So Krishna suggested that fools can be known by these facts: 

1. Fools - those fooled - do not understand that states-of-being (of believing that they are being “this” or being “that” and playing roles and accepting them as a true identity) are false. 

2. Fools do not know that, post-manifestation, there is no beingness or even non-beingness. There is no false self that will be; nor is there any Self that will be, so there is not any Infinite Self or Supreme Self that will be, either. Nothing with an identity or shape or defined space will be. No selfness (or Selfness) exists. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj made clear that, ultimately, he had no identity at all. 

Only That which is beyond both beingness and non-beingness shall remain. All that there will be is the unmanifested energy in the universal pool, and those who do not understand that truth are fools (that is, they are persons who have been fooled by taking the dreamed up beliefs of other humans as gospel. One famous social critic said, "There is no belief that has been dreamed up by men that is worth believing"). 

Reviewing Shakespeare’s quote above, one can see he suggests that "idiots" - those who have been fooled - can be known by these facts: 

1. They tell tales about “life” and they believe that “life” is real and is exactly as they perceive it. 

2. They are full of sound and fury (because egotism—which is generated by taking ego-states to be true identities—always loves the sound of being heard and because the frustration of ego-states’ unlimited fears, unmet desires and unreasonable expectations always generates fury in persons. 

Hell hath no fury like any egomaniac assuming an ego-state and imagining that it is being scorned or not being shown due "honor"). 

3. They do not know that it all signifies nothing (that is, that “it don’t mean a thing” and that only fools make mountains out of molehills and then live in the darkness of the valleys they create). 

To be sane is to be in touch with reality. To be sane is to not be a fool. To be sane is to not think or act like an idiot. To be sane is to know what is real and what is not. This “life” is not the real. What persons call “life” is nothing more than a chain of perceptions made by uninformed observers, and no two observers will perceive it the same way. 

Thus, that which is supposedly observed is not real at all but is illusion instead. When you “die,” the world ends. When you "die," I "die." Why? Because “anyone” you think you know is only a perception in your “mind,” an image you have formed that is not real. 

When you “die,” the image of me, or all others, ends. Thus, the world as you perceive it is an image that is unique to you. No other person perceives the world exactly as you do, so it is an image. "The world" is never anything more than a view that varies from one person to the next. 

There is no “one” who is “in the world.” The world is in you, in your “mind.” When you die, the image ends. All is subject to relative interpretation and distorted perception, so it cannot be real. To not know that makes persons foolish and drives them to behave in idiotic ways. 

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 god / 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 https://youtu.be/k24ro24uMbo 

If preferred, here's 

the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION 

of that session. https://awakening-together.org/awakening-together-satsang-with-floyd-henderson/

THE NON-DUALITY MESSAGE HAS LONG BEEN WIDESPREAD BUT IT HAS SELDOM BEEN UNDERSTOOD EITHER THEN OR NOW

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 point in this series is that the non-dual message has long been widespread but has seldom been understood either then or now. 

To continue: 

For years, the #1 and #2 top selling written works of all times have been listed as: 

#1: The Bible 

and 

#2: The writings of William Shakespeare. 

There is some evidence that the order of the two top sellers may shift at some point because the sale or downloading of the works of Shakespeare (which offer a non-dual message throughout) are on the increase and that the sale or downloading of the Bible is on the decrease as more and more leave Christianity and organized religion. 

Those lower sale numbers of the Bible are inversely proportional to the higher number of people, especially in the U.S., who report that they have left organized religion, especially Christianity. 

As for the focus of this series, Shakespeare’s writings are the perfect example of works which offer a non-dual message even though most are not aware of that message by name. 

While his readers may not be interested in non-duality by name, his non-duality-dominated writings have triggered something inside billions of humans who long for that which non-duality could provide, including among other things: 

Love; an end to feeling “split” or “torn”; peace; harmony; stability; understanding; sanity; an end to being driven by ignorance and by emotional intoxication; 

and an end to the conflict and misery and suffering which an absence of those non-dual, relative-existence “perks” always generate. 

A more in-depth discussion of Shakespeare’s non-dual messaging is available in the book 

William Shakespeare the Advaitin 

In the introduction to that book, this is offered: 

As far as there being any documented evidence or historical proof that William Shakespeare studied the non-dual teachings, none exists; however, there is proof in his writings that he was well along the "path" to realization; moreover, many of his pointers provide excellent opportunities for seekers to consider some of his teachings that paralleled those of the "ancient masters." 

For the next few days, some of his non-dual based pointers will be shared: 

NON-DUAL POINTERS IN THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 

QUOTATION # 1 

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” 

Consider "The Drama of the Lie": What persons think they are seeing and what they believe is happening in "this world" is nothing more than a play or a false drama. Persons, being asleep and thus unaware, take the play to be real and take their roles to be real when in fact it’s all nothing more than an illusion or appearance. 

Persons are living in the “Drama of the Lie.” They "live" on stage in “The Theatre of the Lie,” constantly playing one role after another and taking their roles to be their real identity. Just as an actor can take his part too seriously and internalize the role as an identity, so too can programmed and conditioned persons act out their roles so often and so seriously that they take the drama that they are a part of to be the real. 

Persons are performers, always “on stage,” always acting instead of being real. To the detriment of any opportunity to realize, they believe their own act. It has been reported that enneagram Type Threes are performers and that the U.S. is the nation given most often as the best example of a “Type Three Nation” (Britain and Germany and Italy being the other three mentioned most often). It was reported that . . . 

. . . they have the greatest propensity for “getting lost in the play,” motivated by a desire to create an image, enhance an image, or restore an image. If you live in the U.S., or in many of the other so-called "Western" nations, then you may well have a greater chance of being programmed and conditioned to behave as an actor, you may well have a greater chance of "getting lost in the play," and you may well face a far greater task in terms of setting aside the images and becoming fully in touch with reality. 

Persons strut about the stage playing their assumed roles of “leader” or “religious zealot” or “spiritual giant” or "wonderful helper" or "victim" or “boss,” so they are all lost in the false identities of their assumed ego-states and are all thus driven by levels of egotism of a degree that reinforces their false beliefs in duality and separation. 

Do you appreciate the full import of Shakespeare’s pointer that “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players”? 

QUOTATION # 2 

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” 

Consider this actual scenario: 

A.: “I got a job.” 

B.: “That’s good.” 

A.: “No, it wasn’t—the job was unbelievably stressful and paid very little.” 

B.: “That was bad.” 

A.: “Not really because I met a very attractive woman there.” 

B.: “That was good.” 

A.: “Actually, no. We had an affair at the office and I got fired.” 

B.: “Well, that was bad.” 

A.: “Not really—there’s only god’s will and he opened the door to a better job. I am now a very wealthy man.” 

B.: “Well that was good.” 

A.: “No, it was bad. When I was poor, no one bothered me and I didn't worry because I had nothing to lose. Now, I’m making a fortune and people are lining up to sue me for money.” 

Do you see (via the actual example above) how relative and capricious and inconsistent any definition of “good” or “bad” is? Do you see that anything that is variable and changeable cannot possibly define truth? 

Do you see, therefore, that anything that is constantly changing is always a lie, is always an illusion . . . be it a role, a body, a “mind,” perceptions, thoughts, beliefs, concepts, views . . . anything and everything of this relative existence? 

That which is real cannot vary. That which is real and true is always What It Is and is never subject to relativistic interpretation or inconsistency. It is Absolute instead, and no absolutes apply in the relative existence. 

“Good” and “bad” are among the earliest dualities (that is, among the earliest "false absolutes") that are programmed into children, and belief in the "good-bad" duality will inspire a lifetime of inconsistency: “We do not judge people; however, we do know when they are not behaving in a good way and we can show them how they are bad and we can teach them what they should do and think and believe.” 

Persons will take that “good-bad” duality into adulthood and behave as children, trapped in a lifetime of trying to be a pleaser, trying to get praise, never feeling enough "love," and always feeling "apart from" as a result. That mindset makes persons judgmental separatists, moralizing zealots, arrogant abusers and hate-filled destroyers of whatever they choose to annihilate after applying the “bad” label to it. 

And as Shakespeare pointed out, all of that labeling—and its subsequent destruction and separation and arrogance and hatred—results from thinking: “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” And what is thinking? 

Nothing more than the incessant movement of contaminated consciousness which results in persons being convinced that the contents of the “mind” are accurate (when, in fact, the “mind” is actually nothing more than the accumulation of all the lies, beliefs, concepts and dogma that is programmed into persons). 

Thinking generates the lack of peace that individuals suffer; thinking generates the conflicts that occur among persons and within nations; thinking produces the wars that occur between nations. Thinking is the curse of persons, the blight of humanity, and the source of all dis-ease in the relative existence. 

The curse of the "mind" ends only when realization happens. Simultaneously--at that moment of peripetia when it is seen that one has been fooled all along--in that instant all the lies are seen, the “mind” is seen for the cesspit that it is and is abandoned, and pure consciousness springs forth with the realization of all that was false and of the only thing that is true. 

And in abandoning the “mind,” the dualities of “good” and “bad” (as well as all other dualities) vanish. There is no such thing as “peace of mind.” There is only “peace before the mind” and “peace after the mind.” Until the “mind” is discarded and the natural brain re-engages, thinking will happen. 

And when thinking happens, persons will believe that they know what is “good” and what is “bad,” their beliefs will perpetuate a sense of separation, they will experience a disconnect with self and "others," and dis-ease as well as chaos will prevail. 

Are you tired of chaos? Are you tired of feeling disconnected and not even having a clue about Who You Are? Are you tired of all the thinking and tired of that incessant chatter of a thousand monkeys that is going on in your “mind”? Are you tired of fighting over what is “good” and what is “bad”? 

Are you tired of judging and tired of trying to change others to behave and think and feel and behave in your way—the “good” way? If not, you’ll continue with your addiction to power and control and chaos. 

But if you are tired enough to give up on all those efforts to control and to try to make others over into your image, then you have an opportunity to take the seven steps to realization and then relax and take it easy (and finally let those around you also relax and take it easy). 

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 god / 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 

If preferred, here's 

the direct link to the AUDIO VERSION 

of that session.