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Evil and the Diabolical
Wickedness, moral depravity, sin; whatever is
censurable, painful, malicious, or disastrous; the evil part or element of anything. 2 A wrongdoing, a
crime, a sin. 3 the evil people. 4 A disaster, a misfortune. 5 A disease, a sickness Oxford Dictionary
In ‘normal’ society we are socially trained to be good
and have good feelings. As a back-up when the ‘good’ fails we have laws, lawyers, psychiatrists, police, fines,
jails, armies, etc. to stop the ‘bad’ feelings from running amok. The spiritual solution is to pump up the good
feelings to become divine feelings resulting in feelings of superiority, grandness, oneness and wholeness which, if
practiced assiduously, leads to the feeling that one is indeed Divineness Itself.
Rajneesh says ‘Unconsciousness is evil and
consciousness is Divine’ which is nothing other than the Eastern version of Western morality of good and
bad. Good and bad (or conscious and unconscious) is as pathetic a division of instinctual passions as is right and wrong
a pathetic division of social values. Human beings actually fight horrendous wars over these divisions.
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The initial stage of
Actual Freedom involves investigating these socially and spiritually implanted morals and ethics in order to
discover what lays beneath – the genetically implanted instinctual passions of fear, aggression, nurture and desire.
Of course, there is no Divine or Diabolical,
bliss or despair, malice or sorrow or any of the instinctual passions in the actual world. All these feelings and
beliefs, ideas and fantasies exist only because they are the psychological and psychic machinations of a wayward
identity within the flesh and blood body. These feelings may well be real, and are felt to be so because of the
chemicals that surge through the human body from the reptilian brain … but they are not actual, as in existing in the
physical world.
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