FROM A SITE VISITOR: Hello, Floyd. Art here (I’ve written before but not in a long time). After further reading about a series you wrote on nine personality types, I came across a term referring to three instinctive subtypes, sexual, social, self-preservation. I am lost. It seems from what you say, we need to be rid of the self to “live naturally” but if self-preservation is instinctive, wouldn’t that make it natural? (I know—maybe too much analysis but it’s only for fun anway, right?)
F.: Just as yesterday’s post showed that the drive for sex can be (a) natural or can be (b) unnatural if "mind" and personality are involved, so too can the drive for preservation be (1) natural or can be (2) unnatural if "mind" and personality are involved.
When walking through the woods and startling a bird, the bird will typically fly away and light on another limb of a tree. That behavior is the result of a natural instinct for preservation. Even in a bird, the consciousness is conscious of its presence even though the bird will assume neither personality nor a "mind." It truly is merely being, naturally.
By contrast, when a person attends meetings, talks to imaginary powers that are thought to reside in other worlds, and gives away money—all in the hope that a body and mind and personality will be preserved and rewarded for eternity—that is not the result of a natural instinct. That is a result of being programmed, conditioned, enculturated, and fooled. That is the result of the influence of an "instinctual personality subtype" that you asked about in your e-mail.
Are you seeing the difference in being in touch with the inner resource, the inner guru, the sixth sense, the intuition, and the natural instincts as opposed to being driven throughout the relative existence by instinctive personality subtypes?
It is one thing to seek out food, clothing and shelter in order to facilitate the preservation of the body-cum-consciousness-that-is-manifested-for-a-limited-time. It is quite another when persons are driven to preserve the false self (or selves) that are mistakenly taken to be the Self.
It is one thing to seek out clothing and shelter in order to facilitate the preservation of the body-cum-consciousness, but it is quite another when persons are driven to accumulate designer clothing and larger-than-required residences in an effort to fabricate and maintain an image rather than abiding as the Authentic Self. Those driven to accumulate are typically driven by a desire for false-self preservation rather than by natural instincts.
It is one thing when the instinctive sex drive manifests, but it is quite another thing when sexual urges are being driven by personality disorders, by warped programming, by distorted conditioning, by cultural influences, and by the desire to preserve one or more ego-states.
It is one thing for the sex drive to manifest; it is a far different thing when sexual dysfunction occurs as a result of the abnormalities of the corrupted “mind” and assumed personalities rather than any physical abnormality.
It is one thing to engage in natural social arrangements, but quite another when such arrangements are engaged in to preserve images and false identities.
Finally, Art, no “self” can be "preserved" and no Self-ness will last either. That Which You Truly Are is beyond both beingness and non-beingness…beyond self and beyond any individualized Self and beyond individualized Self-ness as well. There is nothing to “preserve”...nothing to be "saved." There is only THAT Which Was, Is, and Shall forever Be. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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[The book entitled LIBERATION is a guide to elimination of personality; the BULLSHIT book is, among other things, an invitation to reject cultural influences to accumulate, including the accumulation of money and excess property and personas and more and more religious beliefs and/or spiritual knowledge and co-dependent entanglements that are intended to provide “happiness”]
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