ITS Chapter 08 Useless Pursuits

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04c785a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Discover YOUR Inner True Self !</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Discover YOUR Inner True Self !"><U><B>Back to  I T S  Home Page</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> Back to  <A HREF="inner_true_self_text_index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Book Text Version"><U><B>ITS Book - Text Version</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04dd2b03.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="its_chapter_01__inner_self_truth_vs_belief_systems.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Chapter 01 Inner Self Truth vs Beli"><U>ITS Chapter 01  Inner Self Truth vs Belief Systems</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="its_chapter_02__where_what_why_etc.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Chapter 02 Where What Why Etc"><U>ITS Chapter 02  Where What Why Etc</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="its_chapter_03__gods_game.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Chapter 03 Gods Game"><U>ITS Chapter 03  Gods Game</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="its_chapter_04__the_necessity_of_self_realization.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Chapter 04 The Necessity of Self Re"><U>ITS Chapter 04  The Necessity of Self Realization</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="its_chapter_05__the_way_to_revelation.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Chapter 05 The Way To Revelation"><U>ITS Chapter 05  The Way To Revelation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="its_chapter_06__on_evil_etc.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Chapter 06 On Evil Etc"><U>ITS Chapter 06  On Evil Etc</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="its_chapter_07__magic_mind_control_etc.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Chapter 07 Magic Mind Control Etc"><U>ITS Chapter 07  Magic Mind Control Etc</U></A></div> <div> <B>ITS Chapter 08  Useless Pursuits</B></div> <div> <A HREF="its_chapter_09__i_didnt_ask_to_be_born.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Chapter 09 I Didnt Ask To Be Born"><U>ITS Chapter 09  I Didnt Ask To Be Born</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="its_chapter_10__the_ultimate_pleasure.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ITS Chapter 10 The Ultimate Pleasure"><U>ITS Chapter 10  The Ultimate Pleasure</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="507" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="501"><div> <B>I T S  -  Chapter 8</B></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2037 WIDTH="501"><div> <B>SEX and</B></div> <div> <B>OTHER USELESS PURSUITS...</B></div> <div> <B>UFO'S, PSYCHICS,</B></div> <div> <B>ASTRAL TRAVEL, DREAMS</B></div> <bR> <div> There is no such thing as "the ultimate sexual orgasm".  Sex is a lower level creative energy designed for procreation.  It is pleasurable in order that the race continue.  Its pleasure stops shortly after consummation of the act, so that we may get on with other things, like eating, sleeping, building.  No matter how much you try, no matter how much you are advertised to, sex will not jump out of its divine mould and become something which it is not. Please note I did say DIVINE mould.  Sex is not evil, just as eating and defecating are not evil.  However, these three things are limited to the physical body, and do not exist in higher levels of consciousness.  In the Eternal Now of Revelation of God, there is NO recognition of, no need of, no desire of, no feeling of, sexual being, hunger, or waste.</div> <bR> <div> Therefore, you cannot (that reads CAN NOT) screw or eat yourself into bliss.  So give up trying.  Get on to looking within.  The Ultimate Pleasurable Experience does exist, it is for real, but it isn't in the places Madison Avenue would have you believe it is.  Yes, good old advertising.  Say it loud enough and often enough, and you'll sell it.  Keep the money rolling in.</div> <bR> <div> Don't let anybody sell you, convince you, of anything.  The salesperson only has its own interest at heart.  The interest may be monetary, it may be power; it is always ego support.  Bast industries would collapse if the consumer were more interested in looking inside itself for the answer to satisfaction, than looking outside.  The ECONOMY would not collapse, it would change and increase.  One aspect of the Essence of Life is total abundance and total security.  This is for the individual to dis-cover for itself, within yourself, when you meet your Inner True Self.</div> <bR> <div> While we're at it, let's look at some other myths about fulfillment from everyday living.  People of both sexes may believe that marriage and/or having children will bring fulfillment, happiness in life.  Not true.  People get married with the idea of correcting their mate's behaviour after they're married, and then they'll be happy.  Impossible.  People have children and work on giving the children everything they (the parents) never had, in order that the children will wind up happy, smart, and rich.  Sorry, another useless pursuit.  Let's examine why.</div> <bR> <div> First of all, life begins within.  It is an energy which is not dependent on food, behaviour, social disposition, or smarts.  It is not dependent on physical beauty or physical strength.  A person's life is pretty well mapped out for it before it even leaves the womb.  This mapping out has not so much to do with physical situations, as a cause, but with spiritual development; the spiritual experience of the entity.  Therefore, each individual is here on earth to learn specific spiritual lessons, and these take priority over all material gifts.  The only way any being can be fulfilled is upon the dis-covery of its Inner True Self.  Only AFTER the dis-covery of its Inner True Self will the marriage work, will the family be known as perfect, will the material circumstances of existence be perfect.  Only through dis-covery of Inner True Self will a person change inside; that change then being reflected on the outside.  Just as your thoughts are private now, so you may not see anyone's inner nature from the outside.  The only way you can KNOW others is to know your own Inner True Self.  Only upon knowing your own Inner True Self are you able to help others achieve satisfaction... spiritual first, then the spiritual satisfaction reflects (manifests) into the physical.</div> <bR> <div> Some other useless pursuits include all art, humanitarianism, political reform, educational reform, technological security, medical research and security, prison and prison reform.  All for the same reason.  An individual may be an accomplished technical artist, but without knowledge of Inner True Self, it is uninspired and dis-harmonious.  Actually harmful.  This includes ALL fields of art.  The humanitarian without knowledge of Inner True Self does not know what humanity is, so it can't possibly help.  The politician acting without knowing the flow of the Energy of Life cannot possibly work productively.  The educator who is itself uneducated of the very essence of being cannot teach productively.  The teacher who is not itself interested in learning cannot teach without actually killing the desire to learn in the student.  The only complete security is found within.  God's law(s) CAN NOT be broken.  And on and on and on.</div> <bR> <div> Now let's touch on psychic awareness, astral travel, out-of-body experience, etc.  These things all exist, but they are lower levels of consciousness than Inner True Self, and therefore should not be pursued as a means to an end.  They are just means to more means.  First dis-cover your Inner True Self, then let the lower experiential stuff happen to you... you don't have to seek or force it.  The same goes for dreams, astrology, and religion.  Discovery of Inner True Self gives you the clear vision necessary to discriminate between the true and the false, the good and the bad, the useful and the useless.  Religious dogma and ritual, for example, is only to help you gain faith and keep you interested.  However, when the ego gets a hold of it, the dogma becomes more important than the discovery of Truth, and war breaks out.  It may be small-scale war or large-scale war, but it is war none the less.  War breaks out because the various egos involved are all trying to protect themselves from being wrong, and therefore being destroyed.  Discovery of Inner True Self lets you observe the workings of your ego and not take it seriously when it begins to demand its own way, like a fearful child with nothing to fear.  Various religions would have you believe that chanting the name of god will guarantee your soul's safety; of course the various religions all have a different "true name" of God.  Discovery of Inner True Self will reveal the Name of God to you, and will also reveal that there is no name of god which can be spoken by human lips, or thought of in human mind.  Again, religion is relying on your belief system, your ego, to support it, and the ego can not know god, can not know The Truth.  So it is very important that you dis-cover your very own Inner True Self, so that you may KNOW what is real, and so that you may KNOW how to worship divinity.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>