Thursday, March 13, 2008

“This” is all relative…THAT is Absolute, Part Five

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FROM A SITE VISITOR: [Please see the 9 March 2008 posting for the e-mail which is being responded to in this series]

F.: [Continued form yesterday] Interestingly, many persons who have disintegrated to Personality Type Eight talk the religious or spiritual talk, desiring as they do the ability to tap into and use all forms of power: physical, financial, military, celestial, ad infinitum. Consider the fact that the invitation on this site is to live naturally rather than supernaturally or unnaturally.

Then, look to the wars Danny mentioned as well as the current battles underway and consider: are the combatants living naturally, or are they trying to living supernaturally? Across the globe today, is it not clear that those starting and fighting in most of the wars are divided along religious and/or spiritual (supernatural) lines?

Is it not clear that personality is at the root of not only all conflict and fighting and war but also the false sense of separation that the non-Realized take to be real separation and real differences which, in turn, prevents them from realizing the unity beyond the wrongly-perceived multiplicity?

In the case of the director whose co-workers outlined dozens of disagreeable behaviors on his part, all of the traits they listed could have been extracted directly from the DSM-IV’s description of a sociopath, yet he is quick to report that he is “a spiritual person deeply-involved in a spiritual program.”

He really believes that, if workers are not supposed to be “friends,” then surely they must be “enemies.” It was suggested during the session with him that he consider a middle ground—a position of neutrality—to the extent that employees not be labeled as “friend” or “enemy”…that they not be labeled at all.

He was invited to abandon his dualistic practice of applying labels and to consider a no-label approach by which workers could be treated with an element of social decorum (relatively speaking) that allows peace rather than conflict to manifest. Could that not be applied to the relative issues that arise on a national or an international basis as well?

That suggestion was dismissed as lunacy…as an approach that would doom any business to failure since no employees would “stay in line and do what they are told.” When witnessing those operating under the influence of the sociopathic personality, one can see that “The Leader” or “The Boss” or “The One Taking Charge” will begin personal wars in the work environment.

It can be seen that they will begin personal wars in the home. It can be observed that they will begin personal wars on both a national and an international level that become a (relative) burden on all involved. And they will not care in the least. Such is the result of personality.

In fact, do you now see how personality and personality disorders are behind all of the instances of war and genocide you cited, both historical and current, as well as all the daily chaos throughout the relative existence?

The Advaitin knows why the sociopath is a sociopath and knows why “The Fearful Employee” and “The Fear-Based Citizen” are afraid. Yet in the case of the Realized, to be free of fear is not to be free of feeling the pain being felt by so many persons on the planet.

To understand the sociopath is to understand the director, is to understand the persons who are driving events across the globe, is to understand what is happening that is resulting in the condition that so many wrote about recently (wondering why so many persons have no ability to feel or to empathize) and is to understand why relative pain and phenomenal suffering is so prevalent.

All of this information about sociopaths notwithstanding, the pointer for those who would be free is that it is not as necessary to understand sociopaths as much as it is to understand all personality, all personas, the false selves adopted by so many, and, more to the point, your own false “self” or “selves.” Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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