F.: Many persons read Enneagram descriptors of personality types and find that they’re unable to “pin down” the one exact category that is their dominant personality. That is understandable. It was pointed out earlier that all personas are driven not only by their own dominant type but also by the two adjacent types/wings and by two other types that they attach to either via integration or via the disintegration that happens when persons become stressed or pious. (Research shows that stress or piety lead to the same result: either will trigger a disintegration into the worst traits of another type.)
It should be seen, therefore, that these discussions of personality types are not the pointers, whether the listings are found in the enneagram or on some astrological chart. The pointer is that any person (that is, any persona, any “one” trapped in personality identification) will be impacted by personality, will suffer throughout their relative existence from behaviors and a thought-life that are driven by personality, and will never know the true happiness of AS IF living. The pointer is not that you will receive any benefit from understanding which type you are or which types influence you. The pointer is to see that identification with personality is insane, that the “you” which can be influenced by personality is not real, that allowing something as nebulous as "personality" to control every facet of an existence will prevent personas from ever being in touch with reality, and that identification with personality will preclude any opportunity for living out the manifestation in a sane manner that is characterized by reason and logic. As with all Advaita teachings, therefore, the point is to see the concepts being discussed as concepts, to use the discussions to free persons of the influence of forces that are unconsciously driving them, to discard all of those influences, and then to be truly free.
That point having been offered, today’s discussion will focus on the basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Six—“The Loyalist.” Russ Hudson pointed out the following about Personality Type Sixes:
BASIC FEAR AND BASIC DESIRE
The Type Six has a BASIC FEAR of having no support or guidance
The Type Six has a BASIC DESIRE to have support and guidance
THE IMPACT OF THAT PERSONALITY TYPE ON THE RELATIVE EXISTENCE
Because Type Sixes can disintegrate into a Type Three—especially when stressed or pious—they often exhibit many of the traits of an unhealthy Three. [See entry on 23 October 2006 for details on Type Threes.] Because the Type Six personality generates high-stress situations—and because their type automatically listens to anyone who seems to know what he/she is talking about—they often allow persons to control them. They are frequently stressed and frequently pious, so they frequently exhibit the worst traits of Type Threes who have adopted religious or spiritual personas as their identity. Non-Realized Sixes have no ability to discriminate, so they listen to anyone in a position of authority. That leaves them especially vulnerable to...
It should be seen, therefore, that these discussions of personality types are not the pointers, whether the listings are found in the enneagram or on some astrological chart. The pointer is that any person (that is, any persona, any “one” trapped in personality identification) will be impacted by personality, will suffer throughout their relative existence from behaviors and a thought-life that are driven by personality, and will never know the true happiness of AS IF living. The pointer is not that you will receive any benefit from understanding which type you are or which types influence you. The pointer is to see that identification with personality is insane, that the “you” which can be influenced by personality is not real, that allowing something as nebulous as "personality" to control every facet of an existence will prevent personas from ever being in touch with reality, and that identification with personality will preclude any opportunity for living out the manifestation in a sane manner that is characterized by reason and logic. As with all Advaita teachings, therefore, the point is to see the concepts being discussed as concepts, to use the discussions to free persons of the influence of forces that are unconsciously driving them, to discard all of those influences, and then to be truly free.
That point having been offered, today’s discussion will focus on the basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Six—“The Loyalist.” Russ Hudson pointed out the following about Personality Type Sixes:
BASIC FEAR AND BASIC DESIRE
The Type Six has a BASIC FEAR of having no support or guidance
The Type Six has a BASIC DESIRE to have support and guidance
THE IMPACT OF THAT PERSONALITY TYPE ON THE RELATIVE EXISTENCE
Because Type Sixes can disintegrate into a Type Three—especially when stressed or pious—they often exhibit many of the traits of an unhealthy Three. [See entry on 23 October 2006 for details on Type Threes.] Because the Type Six personality generates high-stress situations—and because their type automatically listens to anyone who seems to know what he/she is talking about—they often allow persons to control them. They are frequently stressed and frequently pious, so they frequently exhibit the worst traits of Type Threes who have adopted religious or spiritual personas as their identity. Non-Realized Sixes have no ability to discriminate, so they listen to anyone in a position of authority. That leaves them especially vulnerable to...
The entire discussion of this topic is available in the book, LIBERATION (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization) at www.floydhenderson.com
WHY PERSONALITY TYPE SIX INTERRUPTS HAPPINESS
Their personality can leave Sixes in a constant state of hyper-vigilance. They can become bad-tempered, paranoid, controlling, rigid, defensive, disparaging, and volatile. Identified with body and personality, they can become obsessed with...
WHY PERSONALITY TYPE SIX INTERRUPTS HAPPINESS
Their personality can leave Sixes in a constant state of hyper-vigilance. They can become bad-tempered, paranoid, controlling, rigid, defensive, disparaging, and volatile. Identified with body and personality, they can become obsessed with...
The entire discussion of this topic is available in the book, LIBERATION (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization) at www.floydhenderson.com
FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY TYPE SIX EFFECTS VIA REALIZATION
Realized, the Type Six will no longer be obsessed with a search for support and guidance. The desire for support will dissolve as independence manifests. The search for external guidance ends as contact with the inner resource manifests. Being in touch with reality restores sanity, and being restored to sanity frees Type Sixes—and all other personas as well—of their tendency to accept the nonsensical as sensible. Natural, innate awareness will replace dependency on outer authority figures and external “power sources” that have been dreamed up by men over the ages. Magical, supernatural thinking will end and then the (former) Sixes will live naturally instead. True independence, the prerequisite for true happiness to happen, will manifest. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
TOMORROW: The basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Seven—“The Adventurer/Enthusiast”
FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY TYPE SIX EFFECTS VIA REALIZATION
Realized, the Type Six will no longer be obsessed with a search for support and guidance. The desire for support will dissolve as independence manifests. The search for external guidance ends as contact with the inner resource manifests. Being in touch with reality restores sanity, and being restored to sanity frees Type Sixes—and all other personas as well—of their tendency to accept the nonsensical as sensible. Natural, innate awareness will replace dependency on outer authority figures and external “power sources” that have been dreamed up by men over the ages. Magical, supernatural thinking will end and then the (former) Sixes will live naturally instead. True independence, the prerequisite for true happiness to happen, will manifest. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
TOMORROW: The basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Seven—“The Adventurer/Enthusiast”
