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FROM A SITE VISITOR: [This series is a response to the comments and questions in the e-mail posted in its entirety on
**about those not conscious of the suffering in the world
**about the Realized being aware of such suffering
**about the relative not being real “so what does it matter”
**about current and past killing and genocide, including
**about all the deaths involving nothing more than the end of those manifestations of consciousness and
**about Realization not preventing killings and not “changing the world for the better”]
F.: Presently, the linkage of (1) personality, (2) the way personality can generate a disintegration of the human psyche, and (3) the inability to show empathy is being discussed via a case study of one of a company’s managers whose disintegration shows clearly what happens when personality drives all thoughts, words and deeds.
Yesterday’s post said that “tomorrow, the impact of his assumed persona upon that (work) environment will become clear as it is explained the way persons assume a personality in childhood, allow it to drive them through adulthood, and then disintegrate into the lowest levels of psychic unhealthiness when stressed and/or arrogant.”
So, why is it that the Realized are aware of suffering but that many persons have no awareness of it and could not care less about the suffering of persons on the planet? Understand that the cause of such a lack of empathy—related to having no awareness of the Oneness—is linked to personality.
Here is how the relative pain and suffering is rooted in personality which is formed in childhood, which continues to drive thoughts and words and deeds throughout the adulthood of the non-Realized, and which generates disharmony and psychic deterioration (all relatively speaking):
In addition to the scores of personas that are assigned or assumed during a person’s lifetime, initially each person displays one of nine basic personality types. All persons form one dominant type during childhood in an effort to adapt and survive often dysfunctional circumstances or traumatic events.
(For example, Personality Type Two is “The Helper,” a role often assumed by a child whose father abandoned the family, died, or was present but “unavailable.”)
There is no balance in the number of different types since there is no balance in the nine basic sets of dysfunctional circumstances that children face. Thus, 50% of all persons on the planet are fear-based Type Six “Loyalists” who support the troops, their leaders, their god, their police…any person or group that they think will protect them.
By contrast, only one-half of 1% on the planet are Type Fours (who happen to be the ones most likely to refuse to play “The Follower” role and who are likely to search someday for the Authentic Self. You can see now another reason why so few will ever realize.)
Next, understand that persons can integrate the “relative assets” of a type other than their dominant one or can disintegrate into being driven by the “relative liabilities” of another type. The disintegration happens when one is stressed, arrogant, highly pious, or playing the role of “The Spiritual Giant.”
In the example of the director mentioned yesterday, the rest of the staff members are dealing with a Type Two who has disintegrated into the Type Eight “Boss” or “Challenger” or “Leader” or “Powerful Aggressor” or “The Ruthless One.” Anyone who has worked as an employee for any length of time may have encountered a person displaying an unhealthy psyche and playing the roles above.
When psychic deterioration declines to the severest levels, no matter which of the nine types is being considered, major personality disorders manifest. (In the most extreme cases of deterioration, clinically-diagnosable mental illnesses can also manifest.)
In the case of the director—a Type Two—he has disintegrated into a Type Eight and reached the lower levels of psychic disintegration. As a result, he is now displaying dozens of the traits that are common to lower-level Eights and the disorder that manifests in unhealthy Eights, namely, the Sociopath Personality Disorder (SPD).
That is the relative explanation of what causes persons to lack empathy and/or behave in the uncaring or ruthless fashion about which you inquired. The Advaitin pointer is this: suffering does not precede personality assumption but follows it instead. Please enter the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
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