by
Robert Farmilo
OR: How NOT To Become The Cautionary Tale
Right...this is a continuation of my sad, sad story of the ear infection...MY ear infection.
IF you've been following this series on The Devil...you know that I went to the walk-in medical clinic last week...first visit on Monday, February 25, 2016...to get my right ear inspected by a doctor.
"You have an ear infection...I can see puss in there..." is what I was told.
Great. Fantastic.
"Here's a prescription...you can get it filled at the drug store across the street."
Okay...thanks, Doctor.
So I go and get the prescription filled.
And I am back the next evening...Tuesday, February 26, 2016.
The ear infection hurt more.
Same clinic, another doctor...and he tells me the infection has spread, and I am going to need another prescription...for anti-biotic drops. And to keep taking the other anti-biotics that I started the night before.
So...I go to the same pharmacy...give them the prescription.
And I don't wait for the prescription to get filled.
I leave.
And I am thinking that I can't afford the money for the anti-biotic drops.
Also...I didn't want to wait the 30 minutes to get the drops.
Next day, I don't get the prescription. I blow it off.
Combination of laziness and not wanting to spend the money and a vague hope that the pills I am taking will kick in and get rid of the infection.
The infection doesn't get better.
The pain gets worse. But I am sneaking around the pain by taking basic tylenol pain killers.
The infection gets worse.
I miss a day from work.
Too much pain and suffering going on.
Next day, I tough it out and go to work.
That night...man-oh-man, the pain spikes out of control.
I am in pure torment. The torture level is in the key of Spanish Inquisition.
My wife calls the Help Nurse Government Service to get some advice.
She gets me to the phone to listen to what the nurse has to say.
I am told to go to the hospital immediately...I am running the risk of the infection spreading into the rest of my body.
"Sure, sure...good idea..." I say.
I take a bunch more tylenol...and go to bed.
I tell my wife, "Right...let's get some sleep and then go to the hospital."
LATER...
...the next day, yeah, I go to work. And the infection continues. It gets worse. That night the pain spikes, and I hit a zone of pain...epic..."the horror," and, well...I basically lose the plot.
At some point in this little pocket of insanity, I find myself outside, naked...wondering what the bleep I am doing. I think I was thinking of throwing myself into Shawnigan Lake...in January. Not a good scheme. The lake water is...near freezing.
And I totally could have jumped into the lake. Our house is just a few feet away from the shoreline.
Hey, what this link talks about is NOT what was happening...by the way:
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Anyway, I realize my acting-out is..was...well, a form of acting out. So I sucked it up, go back inside the house, and...hmmmm...what happened next? Oh yeah, I got dressed, and my wife and I got in the car and drove to Duncan (AKA Drunken), BC...to the hospital.
By now it's three in the morning, and over the next hour, the emergency room doctor cleans out my ear, gives me some anti-biotic stuff, and some pain killers...and two prescriptions for more auntie-bio-ticks.
We leave the hospital...and are home by five in the morning.
I call my work and leave a message: "I won't be coming to work today..."
Let's add this all up:
IF I'd just got the prescription for the ear drops...the first time...probably none of this other suffering, time and expense would have been necessary.
- No lost wages
- No fuel expense
- No extra drug costs
- Much less suffering
Now...you may well be wondering where the XYZ The Devil is in this story.
How am I going to connect the dots to Satan, Lucifer...The Devil?
More about that in a bit.
So last week I am driving my step-daughter to her office (she's a tutor)
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And I tell her about my experience, and how I am going to write about it, and label it the cautionary tale. And she tells me by way of asking me a quesiton, "How do you know it would have turned out any differently IF you'd got the drops after the second visit to the doctor's? Your ear might NOT have got better. I followed EXACTLY what the doctors told me to do with my ear infection, and it's still not better."
I paused and thought about what she'd just said.
Yes, maybe.
Of course, we'd need three of me to really get to the bottom of all that: one who did what I did, another who got the ear drops right away (and used the ear drops as prescribed), and the third me...who would not get the ear drops at any point in time.
I think that's what we'd need...to get the clarity...to really know what would have happened...IF.
The big, fat IFFY if.
The...ifnessy if of IFness.
Now...what does any of this have to with The Devil?
Stick around...this is going to get a bit messy before it gets any clearer.
As you know, I like to read books that intrigue and delight my consciousness-raising propensities. And I tend to get my hands and eyes on a book, and then work that book until the print is inscribed in my fetid neurons.
I like to absorb the inner goo...and that means (for me)...reading stuff more than once. I find I get more out of the word-wich with repeated feastings. I like the way knowledge trickles in to me...and I get that wonderous "Aha!" response going on.
The Ego and The Pain Body Are Personifications of Satan and The Demons
Yes, I have written that head-line, and, yes...you just read those words. I confess...I like using terms like "The Devil," and "Satan," and, "Lucifer," and transferring these terms and applying them to modern terms like, "Ego," and "The Pain Body."
In a great book written by Eckhart Tolle...first published in 2005...called, "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,"...
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...I discovered this great idea about The Pain Body. Along with The Ego, it is a self-awareness eraser that ultimately serves the purpose of awakening self-awareness!
Ha!
I LOVE it.
This is so very much like the role that Satan (AKA Lucifer, The Devil and the demons) play...that I have decided to make them synonymous with each other.
Now (ha!) in his book, Mr. Tolle does make a specific distinction between The Pain Body and the ego. And that is cool...for sure. And you-you-you can read all about it...or watch some videos about it...and get more of a feeling for the concept.
Link to a video about The Pain Body:
You know that I LOVE to put in links with the articles that I write for you. And I hope you go off and get tripping on the various strings that lead, from one link to the next that catch your fancy.
Check out this link to Mr. Tolle's official website:
The ultimate irony is that the very loss of your self-awareness is the inevitable awakening of your self-awareness. It's just that it can take a lot of submerging into personal and group suffering for you to FINALLY catch the rising wave that lifts you up enough to see the storm...that YOU are self-creating.
Oh well...pay me now, pay me later...but pay me you will.
That's the song of The Devil and The Demons...that hit band that rocks the cosmos with such great hit-songs as, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction."
==> Link to Song
It is the role of The Devil to assume the identity of disassociation from reality...in your mind...and to create a dysfunctional relationship between you and the present moment that you truly do occupy.
The Ego has been called (by Albert Einstein), "The optical illusion of consciousness."
All you have to do to get closer to the truth of the actual situation is to substitute the word ego with the term, "The Devil."
Thing is, these days, The Devil has been co-opted by the various tyrannies of religion...like, say...some versions of Christianity...and the Islamic slant. Basically what happens is somebody comes along and proclaims that unless you believe a certain way, and do stuff a certain way...you ain't going to heaven...and you are going to hell...and that you sure won't be One With The Lord.
Something like that.
And The Devil plays a big part in that sort of deal. The Devil is the one who gets blamed for bleeping with your mind and keeping you in a state of sin, and even willful ignorance about the one true faith and way.
And because of this...I am going to be seen by people who have this view...that I am deluded by Satan...and have become The Devil's tool to mislead people...and stop them from being saved.
Okay, so in fairness to that entire deal, I decided to include some links to a few of the evangelical websites that brew up a good Devil-Enemy scenario for you to get some chills of fear and loathing.
Image source: http://www.victorious.org/pub/devil-adversary-134
Aha! It's the ego! And The Pain Body...conspiring to suck you into a state of true ignorance and suffering. And it will do anything to survive, and strengthen it's nefarious purpose...which is to to take you deeper and deeper into the pit of personal hell.
Let's get a taste of the Islamic version:
Image source: http://submission.org/friday_Satan_in_Quran.html
So there it is...that business about illusion that I've been going on about in this series about The Devil. And here is the thing...to defeat Satan is to be present with your self-awareness. This means that you are NOT taking refuge in your thinking of thoughts.
The way out of the hall of mirrors is to let the stillness of your mind take over. Be quiet inside. Let yourself become aware of awareness. That is the space between thoughts. That little, tiny junction gap...that small, small moment when you are aware of NOT thinking thoughts.
It is there...in that precious little space...in the present moment...when you are NOT thinking about the past or the future...not daydreaming...or praying...or thinking about what you are feeling. And you are NOT asleep. Like it says in The Bible, "...be still and know that I AM God."
This is NOT a saying or a nice little ditty to preach to the great unwashed...NO Sir.
It is a state of BEING.
Imagine...for a moment...being peaceful, tranquil, calm...and FREE of inner turbulance and commotion...and to BECOME still and quiet inside...and to enter into a state of being that witnesses the witness. This is a state of being...of becoming aware of being aware...without an object or form as the focus of your awareness. This state of being is when you become aware of the source of your awareness...of your consciousness...and this state of being is one aspect of God Consciousness.
This does not mean that you are going to necessarily start having a dialogue with God. Not that it won't happen. But it doesn't mean that it will, either. It might mean that you are just going to be awareness...source...a very simple state of awareness.
In the book, "God Consciousness," (written directly by God)...the central teaching of God to you is that to have God Consciousness, all you have to do is ask God to for you to have God Consciousness, and God will give it to you.
Seriously.
You don't have to believe or renounce or swear allegiance or deny or...anything like that. You just have to ask...and here is an excerpt from the book to help you start the dance party:
Hey, keep in mind that there are some people who think that the ego is a necessary part of you-you-you...and that to try and deny or suppress the ego is a mistake. And that the ego has really good stuff that we need to pay attention to...that will help us become more spiritually mature. And that part of that spiritual maturity is founded in becoming more emotionally mature.
Well, for sure...when you try and squash the ego...you are in for some significant blow-back from the ego and it's related correspondent, The Pain Body.
So what exactly is The Pain Body?
Here is a brief description:
Now, I don't see a single reference to The Devil, Satan, or Lucifer in this description. And for that matter...when I read about the ego, I have yet to find anyone saying that this is another form that Satan hides within. And that the ego is just another way of saying The Devil, and that the ego is a state of mind that is controlled by Satan to trip you up and take you down the path to hell and damnation.
I have found injunctions within certain Christian sources that practicing meditation leaves you wide open for Satan to step inside your mind and take you over. Or that demons will enter you and take possession of your mind when you practice meditation. This is not exactly silly...but it does seem to contradict specific teachings found in The Holy Bible.
Becoming aware of the present moment...FREE from the distractions of being absorbed in thoughts about the past or the future...and being quiet inside your mind...stillness and being aware of this present moment...of the only moment you will ever really have...and that is right NOW...this is simple and pure. Perhaps for a very brief spackles of moments you will experience the presence of NOT being absorbed in thought, and aware of the source of your awareness...and that is God.
And yes, the ego may coming rushing back in, and take over...not too happy about being NOT the center of your attention. And you may well think that these thoughts of the ego are real...the actual reality of the situation.
But you can change this...when you become aware that you are thinking a thought...in that little, tiny moment when you have a brief sparkle of self-awareness: "...Yes...I am thinking...oh...hmmmm...well...what do you know? I am thinking about (insert subject) and, oh my...let's take a little pause here...and wait for a moment..."
This is a type of mindfulness...of witnessing...especially when you take the next step and just...experience being aware of being aware...NOT thinking...and let that gap stretch out...and extend...with no particular agenda or goal or reward or possession or...anything.
Just be...with nothing.
The Pain Body, AKA Satan...cannot be defeated by fighting. That will only make it stronger. It loves conflict. Oh, yes...it LOVES to get you riled up.
The inner store house of infinite bliss and self-realization is helped along by catching the little sliver of self-awareness as it pops into your awareness...that moment when you catch yourself noticing the madness inside...becoming aware that you are suffering...that you are angry...upset...sad...hurting, and so on.
That is a treasure chest. It is a source of great wisdom. Your feelings are telling you what it is you really want...and what you really want is to feel...what? What do you really want to feel?
In the book, "God Consciousness," (written directly by God)...the central teaching of God to you is that to have God Consciousness, all you have to do is ask God to for you to have God Consciousness, and God will give it to you.
Seriously.
You don't have to believe or renounce or swear allegiance or deny or...anything like that. You just have to ask...and here is an excerpt from the book to help you start the dance party:
Image source: http://thegodconsciousnessproject.com/
Hey, keep in mind that there are some people who think that the ego is a necessary part of you-you-you...and that to try and deny or suppress the ego is a mistake. And that the ego has really good stuff that we need to pay attention to...that will help us become more spiritually mature. And that part of that spiritual maturity is founded in becoming more emotionally mature.
Well, for sure...when you try and squash the ego...you are in for some significant blow-back from the ego and it's related correspondent, The Pain Body.
So what exactly is The Pain Body?
Here is a brief description:
Now, I don't see a single reference to The Devil, Satan, or Lucifer in this description. And for that matter...when I read about the ego, I have yet to find anyone saying that this is another form that Satan hides within. And that the ego is just another way of saying The Devil, and that the ego is a state of mind that is controlled by Satan to trip you up and take you down the path to hell and damnation.
I have found injunctions within certain Christian sources that practicing meditation leaves you wide open for Satan to step inside your mind and take you over. Or that demons will enter you and take possession of your mind when you practice meditation. This is not exactly silly...but it does seem to contradict specific teachings found in The Holy Bible.
Becoming aware of the present moment...FREE from the distractions of being absorbed in thoughts about the past or the future...and being quiet inside your mind...stillness and being aware of this present moment...of the only moment you will ever really have...and that is right NOW...this is simple and pure. Perhaps for a very brief spackles of moments you will experience the presence of NOT being absorbed in thought, and aware of the source of your awareness...and that is God.
And yes, the ego may coming rushing back in, and take over...not too happy about being NOT the center of your attention. And you may well think that these thoughts of the ego are real...the actual reality of the situation.
But you can change this...when you become aware that you are thinking a thought...in that little, tiny moment when you have a brief sparkle of self-awareness: "...Yes...I am thinking...oh...hmmmm...well...what do you know? I am thinking about (insert subject) and, oh my...let's take a little pause here...and wait for a moment..."
This is a type of mindfulness...of witnessing...especially when you take the next step and just...experience being aware of being aware...NOT thinking...and let that gap stretch out...and extend...with no particular agenda or goal or reward or possession or...anything.
Just be...with nothing.
The Pain Body, AKA Satan...cannot be defeated by fighting. That will only make it stronger. It loves conflict. Oh, yes...it LOVES to get you riled up.
The inner store house of infinite bliss and self-realization is helped along by catching the little sliver of self-awareness as it pops into your awareness...that moment when you catch yourself noticing the madness inside...becoming aware that you are suffering...that you are angry...upset...sad...hurting, and so on.
That is a treasure chest. It is a source of great wisdom. Your feelings are telling you what it is you really want...and what you really want is to feel...what? What do you really want to feel?
And now comes the part of this article where I wrap it all up...and pull in the very beginning...the part about NOT becoming the cautionary tale. You remember my story of the ear infection...and NOT getting the prescription filled for the ear drops until AFTER I became really bleeped up.
And how I could have avoided the suffering that was yet to come. And how I didn't.
I bet you...that in your own life...there are some examples you could bust out that are similar to my little saga of the ear drops. I think you know how you can deceive yourself, right? Lots of times you ignore the warning signs of approaching suffering that you could easily avoid...IF only.
Is that The Devil at work?
Is THAT Satan?
Or the demons that work under special license to The Devil?
What do you think?
Er...what do you NOT think?
Let me know.
All the Best!
Robert Farmilo,
Translator, TGCP
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And how I could have avoided the suffering that was yet to come. And how I didn't.
I bet you...that in your own life...there are some examples you could bust out that are similar to my little saga of the ear drops. I think you know how you can deceive yourself, right? Lots of times you ignore the warning signs of approaching suffering that you could easily avoid...IF only.
Is that The Devil at work?
Is THAT Satan?
Or the demons that work under special license to The Devil?
What do you think?
Er...what do you NOT think?
Let me know.
All the Best!
Robert Farmilo,
Translator, TGCP
PS-Invite to get the book at a very crazy price...LIMITED TIME OFFER...with the famous and true 60 Day Money Back Guarantee:
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