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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.)

4. Some prefer paperback books even if they have to wait a day or so to receive it and have to pay more for a printed book and its shipment. Now, 10 paperback books by Henderson are in print and available in two anthologies through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and over 40,000+ booksellers around the globe including in the Americas, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, China, Spain, Brazil and South Korea. See the end of this post in red text for details.

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Is it possible that seeking is probably triggered more than anything else by unmet desires and / or ongoing fears? That possibility would be of special interest to those familiar with the non-dual understanding which makes clear that all desires and all fears are rooted in some always-false personality identification.

And when throughout human history it has been unmet desires and / or ongoing fears which are driving persons, how many of those persons have sought out a God or gods or goddesses in an effort to try to get what is desired but not yet attained or in an effort to try to get some sense of being protected by some other-worldly Power from what is being feared? 

In that regard, Maharaj explained: "You have invented a God and worship such a God and pray to that God for something good to happen to you," be that "something good" the fulfillment of something desired or the avoidance of something feared. 

Note, too, that the "something feared" which inspires the endless flaunting of one's "Super Religious" role or one's "Spiritual Giant" role often involves the fear that one's "super-good image" might be exposed for what it actually is: a totally bogus, totally inauthentic fabrication that is being presented to the public. That fear inspires a constant public displaying of, by word and / or by deed, one's supposed devotion to and supposed closeness to God and God's "One True Prophet."

Let's see what that looks like in practice with a recent incident which illustrates the pointer:

Once I sent a text to one of those types who was tending to an ill relative of ours in order to check on the status of the sick one. The response from her included three lines.

The first line reported the status as "some improvement," which was all that needed to be said.

But then another line was added, saying, "Thank you Jesus."

Then a third line was added, saying, "I am praying."

(I checked with my attorney, but she said I could not sue that caretaker for reimbursement of cleaning costs simply because the woman's texts triggered a spontaneous gag reflex which led me to toss my cookies all over my phone. Impartial witnessing really is being called for in every moment on this planet. 😀 ) 

So there came three text messages when only one was called for. The two extra texts were there to reinforce an image, and those extra texts were the inspiration of the subconscious agenda of false ego-states - which are believed by her to be "really good ones" - and which were being typed by one who can only talk / type from a subconscious state (and therefore "in her sleep"), driven as she is by the agendas of her false identities to maintain and constantly show off their supposedly High Holy State. So it is.

What might Maharaj have counseled in that case? 

This, which he once said: “All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define your self.”

All fears and all desires begin with the assignment or assumption of an identity because it is each assigned or assumed personality which brings with it a primary desire and a primary fear. Maharaj understood that religions generate false identities, so he kicked out of the loft those who came to flaunt such identities; 

he understood that spirituality generates false identities as well, so he also kicked "spiritual giants" out of the loft and eventually began advising seekers to "stop reading the 'spiritual classic' I AM THAT" and to "give up spirituality"; and he also came to understand that Self-Inquiry - leading to the notion that one is some sort of "Supreme Self" - can generate a singular, but nevertheless false, identity as well. 

Eventually his message focused on the point that it is “self”-inquiry which makes clear who you are not; that realizing all that you are not can eliminate the bogus belief in both personal and special identities; and that - since false identities generate all fears and desires - that freedom can come only after all identities are cast aside. 

Should one find all that one is not, and abandon belief in all identifications (including the “good” ones and the “bad” ones and the “common, everyday ones” and the “Special One or Ones”) then only can one abide naturally in an agenda-less fashion - the same way in which all living things on the planet abide . . . except for humans). 

Should one become who-less and WHO-less and identity-less and Identity-less, then the abidance can unfold as it does here. 

Again, Maharaj: “All you need is to get rid of the tendency to define your self” 

and 

“I really do not see myself related to anybody or anything. Not even to a Self, whatever that Self may be. I remain forever - undefined.”

(See why he said “knowing who you are not is enough”? If he eventually gave up all involvement with seeking a Self or knowing a Self or relating to a Self, then why would Self-Inquiry be a requirement for becoming freed from misery and suffering which he said is "the teacher's sole concern"? It is not.) 

Next, consider the implications of this bit of syllogistic reasoning: 

Maharaj: 

(A) "The teacher’s sole concern is with ‘suffering and the ending of suffering’.” 

(B) "To me, dependence on anything for happiness is utter misery." 

Ergo, 

(C) the job of the teacher is to eliminate dependence.

(Combine that with his other "mission statement" - that it is the job of the teacher to eliminate belief in all learned ignorance - and the ignorance-dependence connection is made clear.)

Here, there is no dependence so there is no misery or suffering. The same can manifest during the remainder of "your" relative existence as well. 

Key, though, is understanding this: misery and suffering can only be experienced during the relative existence. Post-manifestation, there will be no “one" to be miserable, no “one” to suffer, and no “one” to be happy or joyous or blissful. (Maharaj: “Both experience and experiencer will disappear.") 

Recall the response from the woman in St. Louis when she was offered these considerations: 

“All is energy-matter. Neither energy nor matter can be created nor destroyed; thus, there can never have been any 'creator' or 'Creator.' All has always been. Babies are not created . . . energy-matter simply cycles. No 'Sustainer-God' has ever existed because there is no 'one' to be sustained. No 'Destroyer-God' exists because nothing can be destroyed. And no 'Creator-God' exists because nothing has ever been created."

Her response: “Floyd, millions of people cannot be wrong about their belief in God.” 

The reply: 

“Right you are. Millions of people have not been wrong. The fact is that it is billions and trillions of people that have been wrong . . . in their beliefs.” 

Such distortion and delusion continue today. Billions of persons are concerned about avoiding misery and suffering in “the next life” or on “the next plane,” having been programmed to believe in such things because they have been programmed to believe, dualistically, in "themselves" and in "lower selves" and in "higher selves" and in "their Supreme Selves." 

There is no Creator-God or Destroyer-God or gods or goddesses, so there has been no creation of either a better world or a worse world which awaits you / “You”; thus, Maharaj abandoned talk about dogma and about spirituality because 

(1) “The teacher’s sole concern is with ‘suffering and the ending of suffering’” and with 'ignorance and the ending of ignorance'"

and because 

(2) misery and suffering-inducing-ignorance can only happen now, never later.

"Later" (post-manifestation and post-mahasamadhi) there will be no "one" to experience either suffering or pleasure, either punishment or reward, either ignorance or wisdom. All of that can only happen during the NOW.

Therefore, it only makes sense, if the teacher's sole concern involves the elimination of misery and suffering and ignorance, to discuss the way that the actual relative existence is unfolding now rather than discuss the dreamed up way that a imaginary existence is supposedly going to unfold "later."

To be continued.

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“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”;

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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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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.)

4. Some prefer paperback books even if they have to wait a day or so to receive it and have to pay more for a printed book and its shipment. Now, 10 paperback books by Henderson are in print and available in two anthologies through Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and over 40,000+ booksellers around the globe including in the Americas, Germany, India, Italy, Poland, Russia, China, Spain, Brazil and South Korea. See the end of this post in red text for details.

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To be free of the belief in the concept of “Being Somebody” instead of “Not Concluding That One Is Somebody or Something” and thus becoming able to merely be and enjoy that state, Maharaj's point that science can validate and facilitate the understanding can come into play and assist seekers in grasping the truths of beingness and non-beingness and that which is beyond both. 

The man mentioned early - the one seeking an alternative means of seeking from those which are the most popular - was not alone. In the last thirty-one years during which I've been sharing non-dual pointers for consideration, hundreds upon hundreds has joined him in expressing that same sentiment. 

A woman wrote to ask if there might be some non-traditional, alternative approach - other than those being used by most seekers - which her nineteen-year-old son might try. After years of seeking in several traditional venues, he shared with her that he felt that the non-dual understanding could possibly lead to some clarity and peace but it was clear that he had "burned out" trying religious and spiritual and mythical and SELF-Inquiry approaches and had found them all to be tiresome and ineffective, at least in his case. 

Should there not be such an alternative, say for those who were abused or molested in a church and cannot seek through that institution? Should there not be an alternative for those types who can see clearly enough to know that, often, “spirituality” - as practiced in many venues nowadays - is little more than another form of religion with a membership who have not been freed from their false ego-states and their egotism but think that they are actually better than, or on a higher plane than, religious people? 

Also, should there not be an alternative for the practical, no-nonsense, matter-of-fact types who cannot relate to “deep philosophical talks” and who cannot relate to the enigmatic and mythical language of such approaches as neo-vedanta (which was structured in a fashion which would allow its key spokesman to tap into profitable Western audiences by blending religion and spirituality in order to come up with what would be a popular message among those people)? 

And what about current Western seekers? Should something not be available for those who are reportedly leaving organized religion but know not where to seek next? During the last few years in the U.S., this is how the religious landscape has changed: in 2014, seventy-one percent of U.S. adults claimed to be Christians (which was the lowest percentage to date with a decline of five million adults and a drop of eight percentage points since a similar Pew survey in 2007). 

More significantly, it has been determined that, among U.S. adults who claim to be Christian, fewer than 28% of those people are actually “active, regular participants” in their religion. In one church where I had access to their attendance records, it was seen that 75% of those listed on the church rolls as "members" almost never attended services. The pastor said he had observed the same in all of the churches where he had worked in his career and where his friends had worked during their careers.

Many more nowadays are seeming to reach a point where they ask, “Is this all there is?” and when they find that the truthful answer is “Yes, that’s all we have to offer,” they are leaving. Yet what if they should reach a point later on where they feel the urge to seek, to try to find “the rest of the story,” or to try to find what is be understood that has not yet been grasped? 

Many of those were exposed to dogma early on with no lasting results and are now seeking "relief" or "power" or "reformation" via spiritual avenues. How's that working? Some alcoholics try that approach, but a U.S. Government / major university research project spent $22,000,000.00 to study in the U.S. and in many “developed” nations around the globe the actual results achieved by the most popular organization that is offering “a spirituality-based treatment plan for addiction.” 

What they found: the groups only have a “2% to 5% success rate,” and amazingly, they list in the “success” column the members who are able to run up a grand total of . . . “five years of sobriety.” 

"Success"? Really? 

For those types as well, when some of them ask, “Is this all there is?” they eventually find out that the answer is “Yes, that’s all we’ve got for you”; thus, they leave but may well have the urge at some later point to seek via another avenue. Should there be an alternative for those types? 

Maharaj’s conclusion in regards to all of those questions about an alternative was “Yes,” and he acted on that. Seeing that his religious / non-dual version of the Ultimate Medicine was not treating the Ultimate Sickness effectively, and seeing that his next variety of the Medicine – a spirituality / non-dual version – was not treating the Ultimate Sickness effectively, he tried a new version of the Medicine designed to address the roots of the Sickness, namely, the “mental / mind-based / ignorance / insanity” problems of humanity. 

Why did so few accept his shift, and why do so few try that approach nowadays? Because it does not promise to provide that which the masses are addicted to. Which is? It is two-fold, actually: 

The primary addiction of humans is to a desire to control, and the secondary addiction is to the desire for power / Power in order to be able to control. All other addictions come after those two primary and most widespread addictions. 

Contrary to the popular message being shared by many who falsely claim that they are “non-dual teachers,” Maharaj’s final version of the Medicine promised no gaining of power and no merging with a Power whose "celestial muscle" can be tapped into in order to be able to control events and people on planet earth. Maharaj offered instead to take away all desires, including the desire for control and the desire for power / Power. 

So much for those promising that their approach / their latest book / their seminars etc. can give you “power”; can provide you “power by way of intentions”; can provide “power now”; can lead to your “ambitions being met now”; can reveal “the secrets of success”; can assure you “an ageless body and timeless mind”; can lead to “the spontaneous fulfillment of your desires”; can lead to the “fulfillment of your dreams,” yada . . . yada . . . yada. 

For those who want to seek all that, rock and roll. For those who think they need no longer seek because they have “found it all” by way of their religious or spiritual organizations, rock and roll. But for those that would seek, yet have tired of seeking through the traditional approaches which claim "a very high success rate" - though the facts reveal a very high failure rate in terms of delivering what is sought - there is an alternative. Does the alternative promise a high success rate? Hardly. 

Yet it is there to be tried by those who have figured out that they do not need more but need far less than they already have; for those who had wanted to learn more but have finally realized that they need to un-learn all; and for those who have already been programmed and conditioned far too much but have spent decades allowing leaders to program them and condition them even more. 

For them, there is an approach which makes clear that more programming and more conditioning and being re-programmed are not the proper treatment for the Ultimate Sickness and for learned ignorance and for insanity but that de-programming and de-conditioning and de-programming are being called for instead. 

For those who are tired of working to try to “be somebody” and working to try to “be something” or who now believe that they really are “some Supreme Something,” there is an alternative. It is a natural and easily-managed alternative which can allow persons to give up the second job which they have made out of what should be mere living; 

which can allow them to be freed from their religious or spiritual or mythical workaholism; and which can allow them to unwind and calm down and dance lightly and loosen up and lighten up and take a break and chill out and take it easy and sit back every now and then and just relax for a while in what Maharaj called “the cool blue shade.”

To be continued.

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The Advanced Seekers' Series (344 pages) is an anthology of four books that share Advaita-based, non-duality pointers that can guide seekers to abide as their original nature. Included in the anthology are

"From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality");

"Consciousness / Awareness: The Nature of Reality Beyond SELF-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding As the Absolute)";

"From the Absolute to the Nothingness";

and

"The Final Understanding."

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This anthology (438 pages) contains the six books that make up what has been called The Blissful Abidance Series for those seeking to live blissfully and happily for the remainder of the manifestation, including,

“What BLISS is and what BLISS is not”;

“There’s No Such Thing As Peace of Mind (There’s Only Peace If You’re ‘Out of Your Mind’)”;

“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”;

“Freedom from Shifting Between States of Happiness and Unhappiness”;

“Why You Must Be Empty If You Would Be Full”;

and

“When REALITY Is Overlaid on the RELATIVE.”

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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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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.

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“Ego” is the Latin word for “I.” In non-duality discussions, “ego” points to the false “I” (and "egotism" is one of the many ego-defense mechanisms which minds use to preserve false identities and appearances). 

[More accurately, the proper term to use would be the false “I’s” because no single identity is ever assigned or assumed. Identities always appear in multiples, so all persons eventually suffer from the Multiple Personality Disorder;

relatedly, most also suffer from the Dissociative Identity Disorder, the assumption of Alter Egos, the Schizophrenic Personality Disorder and / or the Schizo-Avoidant Personality Disorder - and usually all of those manifest very early on, leading to an abandonment of authenticity.] 

Assigned personal identities are those handed down by parents, relatives, etc. Assumed personal identities are those supposedly chosen by persons from a pool of potential identities that have been catalogued within communities and cultures and by governments and religious organizations, etc. 

An “ego” or false “I” as used by Maharaj after he finally began focusing on the psychological / mind-roots of the Ultimate Sickness could refer to a concept, specifically referring to a false self-concept or to multiple "false selves"-concept. 

The “I” or multiple “I’s” are stored in a part of the brain called “the mind.” In that process, humanity loses touch with the original, post-manifestation of consciousness intimations of immortality which are pre-stored in “an inner guru” or “the inner resource” which allows for a sense early on one’s Original Nature and for an understanding of the fact that “who they have told me I am, that is not who I am at all.” Among some that sense that fact early on, questioning begins. 

In the case with Andy Gugar, Jr. (and in the case here as well), he explained that questions were being raised by the age of 5 or 6. In some young people, the questioning intensifies by the teen years when angst manifests because of the conflict between “who 'they' would have you be” and the sense that "you are not who they are telling you that you are” along with the awareness that “you do not want to be what they are telling you they want you to be.” 

Is it any wonder that persons reach their early adulthood years without having any clue at all about anything at all? Confusion reigns, and when confusion reigns, chaos follows. [“A dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”] 

Yet pressure comes from those in positions of influence: “Stop with all the destructive stuff that is preventing you from being a success. Set a course for your life and get a career or go out there and find someone to take care of you and stop with all the feely-feelings and the philosophical questions and all the mental angst and trying to analyze and trying to understand everything. Move on, dammit! Fit in and make something of yourself! Go be somebody!” 

So these sorts of advice take over: 

and 

and 

 And once all of that is accepted as truth, these become the guiding principles: 

 and 

and

Thus the accumulation of an assortment of usually-life-long-distortions begins with "I was born"; continues with the assignment or assumptions of a host of false identities which supposedly identify and label that "I"; then the false selves begin self-upgrading after persons become trapped in the false identities of multiple assigned and assumed ego-states; and then full-blown egotism kicks in and takes over: 

"Since being born, I have really become somebody" and "Now, I am really something, huh?" etc.

Having been robbed of the ability to understand (as a result of programming and conditioning and acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination) most eventually just give up, fall in line, and walk in file with those making up the long line of the planet's Night-of-the-Living-Dead”-type zombies. Or, some might march to the beat of the drum of "success," whatever the definition of "success" might be in their culture. 

Because the masses become inundated with the perverted advice offered as “wisdom” from parents and relatives and community leaders, or whatever is being modeled by those in the public spotlight, most will eventually start marching in step with all of the other sleepwalkers and sleeptalkers and will just “play the game,” whichever game they might find and settle into playing. 

Most will become a part of the 97% on the planet who unquestioningly accept the teachings of whichever organized religion their parents introduced them to. A few will be pulled away from dogma and introduced to "spirituality" (which claims to involve things of a far-higher plane than religion). Some will be pulled into groups whose members pass on their mythical and myth-based and superstition-based belief systems. 

All will become "unteachable" except for the few who never got past those original, internal sensations which were emanating from within, from “the inner guru” or “the inner resource.” Thus, all will feel dis-eased (by the effects of the Ultimate Sickness); few will ever even recognize their dis-ease because most have become dissociated as a result of their programming, conditioning, etc.; 

therefore, even the few who were originally engaged in a quest for answers - but who were forced off course by those influencing them - will not return to the "path" which they had only begun to consider during a brief period in the past. 

While most among the masses will march off in their sleep - just as they were programmed and conditioned to do - in order to receive their weekly or daily doses of the mental opiates served up in churches and other sky cults and in synagogues and in temples and in mosques and in communes and, yes, even in ashrams; 

and while others who are following their orders to keep coming back will march off in their sleep to attend their daily meetings - just as they have been re-programmed to do; and while a few will find something mythical or supposedly "extraordinary" which now blocks them from being in touch with reality; only a few will stop seeking along those conventional avenues and move to the road less traveled. 

A few might finally ask the question “Who am I, really?” and then move into what often becomes a lifetime of seeking (driven by magical and deep and philosophical and theoretical and dreamy thinking). Fewer still will reach an awareness of their Original Nature when nothing was known, nothing was thought, nothing was said, and nothing was done because there was no “one” to know or think or say or do anything. 

Only a few with move beyond “I am really something” and “I am really somebody” and reach, via the Self-Inquiry process, the conclusion that “I Am Really Something Special in an Other-Worldly Way” and “I Am Really That Which is Something Supreme.” 

And only fewer still (per Maharaj’s final guesstimate, “one in ten million”) will reach a state that is void of any sense of “WHO-ness” or “beingness” or “non-beingness” and will then, for the remainder of the manifestation, be able to just be, finally being truly free (by virtue of the fact that they have reached a state of “zero concepts,” zero beliefs, zero identities, and a state with no "Identity," either). 

Tomorrow: More on “Being Somebody” vs. “Not Concluding That One Is Somebody or Something” and merely being instead.

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.

You may click here to visit
Floyd's bookstore

which offers both digital and paperback books.