F.: After body and “mind,” personality is the third snake that persons ignore but which generates much of their misery and suffering in the relative existence. In fact, persons seek—sometimes subconsciously and sometimes with deliberate effort—to concoct personality and to calculate ways to maintain personality. They take false roles as identities, work to make their images seem real to self and to "others," and then are driven by what their ego-states think is required to be “sustained.” Yet persons are driven not only by the perceived needs and desires of their ego-states, of their personas. They are also driven by the influences of their personality type and by the adjacent types (such as when a Type Three shows traits of the Two and the Four as well). Also, they are driven by the alternate personality type to which persons regress when stressed or when assuming a pious stance (a religious or spiritual Three, for example, regressing and exhibiting the worst traits of a Type Nine).
That should make clearer why you’ll never “know” or “understand” any person: you’ll never know “which person” (which persona or which personality type) you’re dealing with on any given day. Have you ever met someone and thought you “really knew” him/her and began sharing accommodations, only to scream someday later, “I don’t even know who you are!” Millions in “relationships” eventually feel like fools, like they were “fooled” by someone who put up a false front, a false image, only to discover that their mate, friend, lover, spouse, etc. is a fraud. Of course that will happen, because all personas are fraudulent. Of course, the person is right in saying “I don’t even know who you are.” Persons don’t have a clue about Who/What They Truly Are, much less what “others” Truly Are. And of course, they're all fools, fools being those who do not understand that I Am the Absolute (which is beyond beingness and non-beingness) and that They Are the Absolute as well. Only fools believe that they are defined by their personality traits and their personas.
As an example of the instability brought on by personality, ask whether or not (on any given day) if you are dealing with the Type Three personality traits that were exhibited when you met, or are you dealing with the persona that is influenced by the negative traits of a Type Two or the negative traits of a Type Four? Or, are you dealing with the negative traits of a Type Nine that Threes regress to when under stress or when playing a pious role? Persons, absorbed in personality, are in a constant state of flux and ambivalence and instability and chaos and insecurity. If you're living with a person, then last night you went to sleep with a "persona type A"; this morning you awoke with a "persona type B"; tonight, you'll be greeted by a "persona type C"; and tomorrow "those" will all be gone and you'll find that you're living with a "persona type D." And as for that partner living with you, the same applies. When two personas share one domicile, there are not two people living together; those two are really living with dozens and dozens of "other persons." Talk about a case for misery and suffering, trying to live with "self's" internal instability each day and with the same type of instability in friends or spouses or employers. Talk about maddening, and such instability and turbulence and chaos in persons become the standard in most cultures, underscoring why most societies are overwhelmed with insanity and unrest and dis-ease. Such is the state of the “human condition” when marked with personality and marred by the assumption of personas. And of course it will all eventually be noted, but seldom understood, with two comments: "I don't even know who you are" and "I don't even know who I am." Please enter the silence of contemplation.
That should make clearer why you’ll never “know” or “understand” any person: you’ll never know “which person” (which persona or which personality type) you’re dealing with on any given day. Have you ever met someone and thought you “really knew” him/her and began sharing accommodations, only to scream someday later, “I don’t even know who you are!” Millions in “relationships” eventually feel like fools, like they were “fooled” by someone who put up a false front, a false image, only to discover that their mate, friend, lover, spouse, etc. is a fraud. Of course that will happen, because all personas are fraudulent. Of course, the person is right in saying “I don’t even know who you are.” Persons don’t have a clue about Who/What They Truly Are, much less what “others” Truly Are. And of course, they're all fools, fools being those who do not understand that I Am the Absolute (which is beyond beingness and non-beingness) and that They Are the Absolute as well. Only fools believe that they are defined by their personality traits and their personas.
As an example of the instability brought on by personality, ask whether or not (on any given day) if you are dealing with the Type Three personality traits that were exhibited when you met, or are you dealing with the persona that is influenced by the negative traits of a Type Two or the negative traits of a Type Four? Or, are you dealing with the negative traits of a Type Nine that Threes regress to when under stress or when playing a pious role? Persons, absorbed in personality, are in a constant state of flux and ambivalence and instability and chaos and insecurity. If you're living with a person, then last night you went to sleep with a "persona type A"; this morning you awoke with a "persona type B"; tonight, you'll be greeted by a "persona type C"; and tomorrow "those" will all be gone and you'll find that you're living with a "persona type D." And as for that partner living with you, the same applies. When two personas share one domicile, there are not two people living together; those two are really living with dozens and dozens of "other persons." Talk about a case for misery and suffering, trying to live with "self's" internal instability each day and with the same type of instability in friends or spouses or employers. Talk about maddening, and such instability and turbulence and chaos in persons become the standard in most cultures, underscoring why most societies are overwhelmed with insanity and unrest and dis-ease. Such is the state of the “human condition” when marked with personality and marred by the assumption of personas. And of course it will all eventually be noted, but seldom understood, with two comments: "I don't even know who you are" and "I don't even know who I am." Please enter the silence of contemplation.
