Thursday, June 24, 2010

THE FEAR / PERSONALITY / MISERY CONNECTION, Part One

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Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.

F.: Please review several pointers from yesterday:

1. Maharaj said that "anxiety and hope are born of imagination - I am free of both. I am simply being and I need nothing to rest on"

and that

2. god is "born of fear and hope"

and

3. every personality type (every persona) has a primary desire and a primary fear.

and

4. Maharaj said: "You have enclosed yourself in time and space, squeezed yourself into the span of a lifetime and the volume of a body and thus created the innumerable conflicts of life and death, pleasure and pain, hope (desire) and fear. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions."

Just as there is the direct connection between hope (desire) and misery discussed in the last series, so there is a direct connection between personality and fear and misery.

Fifty percent of all persons on the planet have a Type Six Personality, and the Type Six is the fear-based type. If you are reading this, the odds are fifty-fifty that you are a fear-based Type Six unless you have transitioned beyond all personality identification.

If you look at the four pointers above, much about fear can be understood:

1. Fear is born of imagination. The child fears "the boogie man" under the bed, fears the potential attacker in the closet, and fears all that is imagined to be in the dark shadows. Persons imagine that the rope is a snake and experience needless fear as a result of not seeing clearly.

2. Out of fear, persons dream up a god or gods. One man who stated unequivocally on Sunday night that he knew full well that there is no god, yet he began praying on Monday morning when a client was threatening to sue him and shut down his business. He turned to "the god born of fear."

3. Fear is based in the illusion of personality. Every persona is driven by fear. Consider the nine basis types:

1. Perfectionists fear that others will see that they are flawed or wrong
2. Helpers fear that they will not be loved by all
3. Achievers / Performers fear failure and a lack of admiration
4. Romanticists fear that they will never find the Authentic Self
5. Analysts fear looking foolish or not knowing as much as (or far more than) others
6. Loyalists / Questioners fear that they will be harmed or not protected and not cared for
7. Adventurers fear emotional pain and boredom and commitment
8. Bosses / Controllers fear being weak or not having all the power they want
9. Peacemakers fear conflict, work, or having to "stand up for" themselves

Now, those are but the nine basic types. Next, to understand completely how much fear is generated by personality identification, note the desire and fear associated with every persona:

"The Spouse" desires that his/her spouse will remain and fears that the spouse might leave during times of argument.

"The Employee" desires to keep his/her job and experiences fear when being chastised, fear that he / she might lose that job.

"The Parent" desires that her/his child stays healthy and fears when the child is drastically ill.

And the list goes on and on. Some insightful seekers over the years have listed 80-90 roles that they have assumed and played during recent years. That means that they have 80-90 sources of fear and anxiety and worry (as well as 80-90 sources of the typically unmet hopes discussed yesterday).

Any sense of feeling threatened, and therefore anxious or fearful, is rooted in personality. While the pure consciousness can witness feelings as they rise and fall, only an ego-state can be so terrorized by sensations of being interfered with or threatened that a state of emotional intoxication results.

Furthermore, unless one is totally free of personality, and only a few thousand on the planet are in that category at any given time, then there is nothing that is thought or said or done this is by choice. Nothing. If one would "understand 'others' completely" and "understand one's 'self' completely," then no pointer offered during the 5+ years of postings here is more relevant than this.

If the subconscious motivators of a person are not understood, then any conclusion drawn about a person's thought or words or actions has a 99.9% chance of being false. Yesterday, a man reported that a woman he knows "has a passion for attending certain meetings and being with the people there."

The response was, "Her 'passion' is neither for the rooms nor the people nor the message nor anything else associated with those meetings. It is all about some subconscious need of a persona (or, most likely, many personas). That is not a criticism...the same applies to everyone not Realized and being driven subconsciously by personality."

Consider that case as an example that can show you how totally in error persons can be when they think they understand motive but have no clue at all (if personality is not understood) about what is driving persons to do what they do. If driven by one or more of the basic personality types, the real motive(s) of the woman mentioned involve:

** a desire to be heard and show off knowledge (if the agendas of types 1 or 5 are present)

** a desire to talk and impress and be seen as "helpful" so people will love her (if the agenda of a type 2 is present)

** a desire to have a captive audience and to be admired, not loved (if the agenda of a type 3 is present)

** a desire to appear to be authentic while being narcissistic (if the agenda of the type 4 is present)

** a drive to create dependencies, seeking rescuers and caretakers and helpers (if the agenda of the type 6 or 9 is present)

**a desire to be able to control people and influence them (if the agenda of the type 8 is present)

The same lack of understanding results in the millions of erroneous conclusions that are drawn by persons on a daily basis when they do not understand that personality unconsciously determines what thoughts will be thought, what words will be spoken, and what actions will be taken by the 99.9% who are not Realized and who are, therefore, driven by personality.

Consider these examples of fallacious conclusions that are drawn, and taken to be truth, by persons who do not understand the way that the hidden agendas of one or more personalities are actually driving the non-Realized:

"They are religious because they are trying to be the best they can be."
(Could you now list any alternative, unconscious motivators(s)—rooted in personality associated with childhood or adult-age programming and conditioning—that could possibly be inspiring that behavior?)

"He wouldn't be that emotional with me, and sometimes that physical with me, if he didn't care so much about me."
(Could you now list any alternative, unconscious motivators(s)—rooted in personality associated with childhood or adult-age programming and conditioning—that could possibly be inspiring that behavior?)

"They are right to tell me that I cannot survive without them and without following their directions exactly."
(Could you now list any alternative, unconscious motivators(s)—rooted in personality associated with childhood or adult-age programming and conditioning—that could possibly be inspiring that behavior?)

"I will never give up being spiritual and doing my spiritual exercises. They keep me on track and make me a better person."
(Could you now list any alternative, unconscious motivators(s)—rooted in personality associated with childhood or adult-age programming and conditioning—that could possibly be inspiring that behavior?)

"I think my child is a really good child."
(Could you now list any alternative, unconscious motivators(s)—rooted in personality associated with childhood or adult-age programming and conditioning—that could possibly be inspiring that behavior?)

"My parents may have made a few mistakes, but they did the best they could."
(Could you now list any alternative, unconscious motivators(s)—rooted in personality associated with childhood or adult-age programming and conditioning—that could possibly be inspiring that behavior?)

"I've just always known that people of that _____ (race, class, country, orientation, etc.) are inferior."
(Could you now list any alternative, unconscious motivators(s)—rooted in personality associated with childhood or adult-age programming and conditioning—that could possibly be inspiring that behavior?)

"The people who are willing to follow orders, no matter what, and who are willing to fight and even die to protect our country and preserve our rights are special and deserve our respect and appreciation."
(Could you now list any alternative, unconscious motivators(s)—rooted in personality associated with childhood or adult-age programming and conditioning—that could possibly be inspiring that behavior?)

In fact, is it possible that everything you have ever been taught or told or now believe has been a lie, including beliefs about yourself, others, the world, your nation, your favorite organizations, your favorite leaders, your friends, your lover, your spouse, and people of other races as well as about nations with differing economic and political systems or about why people you know did "this" or why they did "that" or why they said "this" or why they said "that" or why they think "this way" or why they think "that way"?

Is it possible that you and all persons you know who are not Fully Realized—and who are therefore living under the auspices of personality—have never truly had any free will at all; have never made a single, conscious decision at all; and have never thought or said or done anything that was not the unconscious result of personality?

Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)

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