William, you speak of going back to the One but when I wrote my chapter on Banishing the Ego you wrote in an e mail you did not believe a person could live without ego (but banishment of the ego is the path to connect with the ONE) - & I do understand your point & agree that without some connection, affiliation with time & space it would be difficult to function in this world, take care of ourselves & those around us. To be completely & at all times TOTALLY abstracted in the One (yogis call it SELF, Christians call it CONTEMPLATION or something similar) one would be IN A TRANCE such as Ramakrishna was for months (was it six?) where he did not eat - but a wise yogi would rouse him & make him swallow rice water, another yogi would beat him with a stick to wake up, eat, then Ramakrishna fell back into his trance.
When Ramana Maharshi, at age sixteen, magically entered the state of nonduality, he went to a far-off region with a sacred mountain, Aranchula threw away his money, bowed down to the local Temple saint, submitted himself, & stayed in trance for THREE YEARS. He would lie around in the Temple or around it where WICKED BOYS would torture & tease him - he did not respond. Insects crawled on him & bit him - he didn't notice. (Luckily a kind man noticed his condition & locked him in a gated garden nearby, providing him the meager food he ate - he was skin & bones.)
(Similar to the Christian saints who sequestered themselves either in a cave, or on a high mountain such as Jesus & Moses, or their private room like St. Catherine of Sienna & dealt little with the world--such experiences lasted two, three years. After coming out of this they were transformed but could function well in the active life. I went through this in my apt in B'klyn. The length of time is not crucial, Jesus did the same in forty days & nights, my time alone was partial for a year, then almost total another year--I HAD to take care of myself & could not go completely 'OUT' but I attained the same graces these saints did. I saw God FACE TO FACE TWICE & that is PROOF I entered NONDUALITY completely, not partially, because I saw that I WAS GOD, GOD WAS ME. This state is in some way reached by all saints in all religions, whatever they call it, however they describe it.)
Being in the One, according to the teachings of Ramana Maharshi as well as my own experience, is being INSIDE oneself, the focus or attention on the Eternal Consciousness within, or one could also say ABOVE THE WORLD, seeing it objectively, where one's mind/focus is NOT HERE SUBJECTIVELY, not here like 'I am in my body, I feel pain when people insult me' but I am 'here in the realm of infinity, above the world, above people....they cannot affect me or hurt me, flatter me or defame me, as I feel no reaction, I am not there inside my body within the character I play - these characters are all fronts, they are not me, I am an Infinite Being, I am watching the world, people, their reaction to who they think is me, but they cannot move me, I am NOT THERE, I am even watching my own self like I am in the front row watching a play.
William speaks of women having to return to this state which he calls THE ONE which means the same as Nonduality - Finding the God Within, the God Self - which we originally were in, representing a MOTHER, & controlling/guiding men into righteousness. He says this is the solution & when women do this & take back the men under their wings we will have peace.
What is THE ONE based on other terms? I began writing this religion explaining how women must find the God WITHIN THEMSELVES--& have reiterated that now we must step apart from men & work on this angle - safe space for women - our autonomy - create our own world, religion, spirituality, zeitgeist, POV, moral compass, OUR AGENDA.
I suggest that those who can should forfeit marriage to work on finding this God - those who can't should spend enough time each day, on themselves, alone, in meditation when possible - not interrupted by family, & this will SAVE THEMSELVES. Saving themselves first will enable them to save others - their family & the world.
I also put forth that those women who have the vision should find relationships with other women - gay or straight relationships, without fear of reprisals, criticism or judgement from this society. They can set up female dormitories, female co-op apartments, or women-only families (they can get sperm from outings which could be regular, 'night out for fun' but not permit the males to know anything about the progeny, put on the birth certificate 'father unknown'--the males are irrelevant & have no parental rights over the child.) This would be stepping apart from Patriarchy in a big way.
As to the religion I propose, the one of finding GOD WITHIN. I shall only give a brief synopsis now & will enlarge upon it in future.
One of my gurus, Sri Ramakrishna, had this to say about THE GOD WITHIN - NONDUALITY - ADVAITA (prodounced Adoita):
Sri Ramakrishna: "I" and "mine" indicate ignorance. Without ignorance one cannot have such a feeling as "I am the doer; these are my wife, children, possessions, name and fame".
Thereupon Keshab said, 'Sir, if one gave up the "I", nothing whatsoever would remain.'
Sri Ramakrishna: I am not asking you to give up all of the "I". You should give up only the "unripe I". The "unripe I" makes one feel: "I am the doer. These are my wife and children. I am a teacher." Renounce this "unripe I" and keep the "ripe I", which will make you feel that you are the servant of God, His devotee, and that God is the Doer and you are His instrument.
What is non duality in Christianity?
In spirituality, nondualism, also called non-duality, means "not two" or "one undivided without a second". Nondualism primarily refers to a mature state of consciousness, in which the dichotomy of I-other is "transcended", and awareness is described as "centerless" and "without dichotomies".
another research:
What does non duality feel like?
Right now, have a go at feeling out the space around you. ... You are always in a non-dual state, even if you feel like everything is duality. Non-dual awareness is supposedly like being the entire space and any feeling of a “body” is dissolved. There is no feeling of effort when going about your daily life. another research concerns Ramakrishna endowing his disciple Vivekananda for the first time with nonduality:
On Vivekananda’s second visit, Ramakrishna placed his foot on his body, with the result that the room vanished and Vivekananda felt like he was about to merge into a void; this apparently far surpassed any of his childhood experiences: “I was terribly frightened and thought I was facing death, for the loss of individuality meant that. Unable to control myself, I cried out, ‘What is this that you are doing to me? I have my parents at home!’ He laughed at this and stroking my chest said, ‘All right, let it rest now. Everything will come in time.’ No sooner had he said this than that strange experience vanished. I was myself again and found everything...as it had been before. All this..revolutionized my mind. I thought what it could possibly be. It came and went at the mere wish of this wonderful man!”
RASA SAYS: IF YOU MAY RECALL MY WRITINGS ON NONDUAL EXPERIENCES, HOW SPOOKY THEY WERE. I WAS IN 'OUTER SPACE' WITHOUT ANYTHING TO HOLD ONTO THE FIRST TIMES IN 1982, AFTER WHICH I SAW GOD FACE TO FACE TWICE. ONLY RECENTLY I BEGAN MEDITATING ON THIS THEME AGAIN & AT THE EDGE OF IT FELT LIKE I WAS ON A CLIFF IN THE GRAND CANYON WHERE I COULD FALL IN & SNAPPED BACK FROM FEAR. UPON STUDYING THIS LOOKING BACK I THINK THE FOUR DAYS & NIGHTS OF BEING 'ABOVE IMAGES,' A BLISSFUL TRANCE-LIKE STATE, A GIFT GIVEN ME UPON FINISHING THE FOUR VOLUME 'MYSTICAL CITY OF GOD' - WAS NONDUALITY. THIS WAS LATE 1981.
My last Yoga guru was Ramana Maharshi. He guided me into nonduality in 2007 -
I had started the journey with a female living guru, 'Swami G', but we had a falling out as she simply did not like me & insisted I DID NOT have the 'Divine Stigmata'--(she failed to understand the Interior Divine Stigmata which is real & harbored by several known female saints - St. Teresa of Avila, St. Catherine of Sienna, St. Faustina, St. Gertrude the Great - & said if I did not have bleeding wounds I didn't have it. I asked her if her Kundalini was real &she said yes. But it is invisible, is it not? So is my Divine Stigmata.)
There is an excellent video on You tube with teachings from Ramana. It's called 'Sri Ramana Maharshi - JNANI, uploaded May 25, 2018.
This philosophy/discipline/consciousness is not easy to attain but there are formulas. I reviewed with you my Christian formula which led to the Beatific Vision in chapter XXVII 'Ego Banishment.' In future I will discuss the Yoga formula & my recent attempts with it. Meanwhile, remember,
Woman Thou Art God,
finding the God within, realizing Her, living her, will free you from Patriarchy, the slavery to it & men, will save you, bring you happiness, enable you to help others & save the world - Go for it!
To be continued Rasa Von Werder 11-4-19
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