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seven hours of satsang with floyd guiding seekers through all seven steps (in their exact order) to Realization. See details at the end of this post.
F.: The second pointer from the first post of this series that is to be elaborated upon is this:
“The longer the pure consciousness witnesses personality—which is the driving force among the non-Realized—the clearer it becomes that personality is the bane of the relative existence….”
This business of wanting to change the world and wanting everyone to love everyone else has nothing to do with You—with the Real You, the True Self, the Pure Witness. It has only to do with the fears and the desires that are generated by certain of the basic personality types.
Before the personas are discussed, understand that all fears and all desires are rooted in personality, that all misery and suffering evolves from fears and/or desires, and that all misery and suffering, therefore, is rooted in personality.
Each persona adopted as an identity has an agenda that is hidden and that becomes another of the blockages that prevent the consciousness from seeing clearly. Each persona, functioning as a subconscious motivator, will determine thought, word, and deed.
As a result, persons will believe that they have free will and that they have choice when they actually have neither when being driven by personality.
Review the basic types that exist (but understand that persons will add on hundreds of other false roles throughout the relative existence, such as “The Lover,” “The Spouse,” “The Homeowner,” “The Employee/Employer,” “The American,” “The Indian,” “The Guru,” “The Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” “The Parent,” ad infinitum):
THE BASIC TYPES:
1. The Perfectionist, The Reformer
2. The Helper, The Savior, The Rescuer, The Seeker of Love, The Caretaker
3. The Performer, The Achiever
4. The Idealist, the Romanticist
5. The Knower, The Analyst, The Knowledge Person, The Answer Woman/Man
6. The Fearful One, The Seeker of Security, The Loyalist (that is, loyal to those that are Caregivers)
7. The Escapist, The Adventurer
8. The Controller, The Boss, The Ruthless One (and even The Sociopath sometimes)
9. The Peacemaker, The Lazy One
So consider again this notion that some want everyone to love everyone else and that some want to improve the world. See that both of those desires are rooted in personality:
WHO (which personality types or ego-states) are failing to understand that the world is in them, are failing to see that they are not in the world, and are deluded into thinking that they can change “the world”? WHO (which personality types or ego-states) are so arrogant as to believe that they know how the world needs to change and they can effect such change?
Of those basic types above, certainly The Perfectionist/Reformer will be subconsciously motivated to want a perfect world and to believe that he/she can bring about the necessary changes required to bring that kind of world into fruition.
The Helper / The Savior / The Rescuer will most assuredly believe that she/he can help people to be better and can rescue the world in general, one “good deed” at a time.
The Idealist will have certain romantic but totally unrealistic notions about what the world should look like and might expend energy for years in an effort to bring that vision into fruition (but if they live long enough, they will eventually give up on the idea that people will change and will eventually go into isolation or into the solitude, depending upon the level of psychic health or unhealthiness).
The Fearful One will most assuredly want the world that he/she perceives as being dangerous to change, and that is the basic personality type of 50% of the population of the planet.
The Peacemaker, preferring passivity and avoidance, will desire the same.
So across the globe, persons who are being driven by one (or more) of those types will talk about what they want and what they think about the way things are and about the way things should be; then, many of those will take actions that they think are being taken freely and by choice but that are really actions which are being driven by the thoughts and words and subconscious agenda of a persona (or of several personas).
They will truly—but erroneously—believe that they are choosing such thoughts and words and deeds when, in fact, they are being subconsciously driven by nothing more than personality.
Personality always brings with it what some psychologists call “the personality trance” or “the ego-trance,” and because fewer than ½ of 1% will ever be liberated (that is, freed of the effects of being driven subconsciously by personality), then most will walk about in their sleep, thinking in a trance, talking in a trance, and behaving in a trance.
They will live in a prison while thinking they are free. Because you have undertaken a search and found this site, You need not be trapped in the trance prison for the remainder of the relative existence;
instead, there are some specific options available that can guide You along the “path” to the end of the “journey.” Only there can freedom manifest. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
“The longer the pure consciousness witnesses personality—which is the driving force among the non-Realized—the clearer it becomes that personality is the bane of the relative existence….”
This business of wanting to change the world and wanting everyone to love everyone else has nothing to do with You—with the Real You, the True Self, the Pure Witness. It has only to do with the fears and the desires that are generated by certain of the basic personality types.
Before the personas are discussed, understand that all fears and all desires are rooted in personality, that all misery and suffering evolves from fears and/or desires, and that all misery and suffering, therefore, is rooted in personality.
Each persona adopted as an identity has an agenda that is hidden and that becomes another of the blockages that prevent the consciousness from seeing clearly. Each persona, functioning as a subconscious motivator, will determine thought, word, and deed.
As a result, persons will believe that they have free will and that they have choice when they actually have neither when being driven by personality.
Review the basic types that exist (but understand that persons will add on hundreds of other false roles throughout the relative existence, such as “The Lover,” “The Spouse,” “The Homeowner,” “The Employee/Employer,” “The American,” “The Indian,” “The Guru,” “The Religious One,” “The Spiritual Giant,” “The Parent,” ad infinitum):
THE BASIC TYPES:
1. The Perfectionist, The Reformer
2. The Helper, The Savior, The Rescuer, The Seeker of Love, The Caretaker
3. The Performer, The Achiever
4. The Idealist, the Romanticist
5. The Knower, The Analyst, The Knowledge Person, The Answer Woman/Man
6. The Fearful One, The Seeker of Security, The Loyalist (that is, loyal to those that are Caregivers)
7. The Escapist, The Adventurer
8. The Controller, The Boss, The Ruthless One (and even The Sociopath sometimes)
9. The Peacemaker, The Lazy One
So consider again this notion that some want everyone to love everyone else and that some want to improve the world. See that both of those desires are rooted in personality:
WHO (which personality types or ego-states) are failing to understand that the world is in them, are failing to see that they are not in the world, and are deluded into thinking that they can change “the world”? WHO (which personality types or ego-states) are so arrogant as to believe that they know how the world needs to change and they can effect such change?
Of those basic types above, certainly The Perfectionist/Reformer will be subconsciously motivated to want a perfect world and to believe that he/she can bring about the necessary changes required to bring that kind of world into fruition.
The Helper / The Savior / The Rescuer will most assuredly believe that she/he can help people to be better and can rescue the world in general, one “good deed” at a time.
The Idealist will have certain romantic but totally unrealistic notions about what the world should look like and might expend energy for years in an effort to bring that vision into fruition (but if they live long enough, they will eventually give up on the idea that people will change and will eventually go into isolation or into the solitude, depending upon the level of psychic health or unhealthiness).
The Fearful One will most assuredly want the world that he/she perceives as being dangerous to change, and that is the basic personality type of 50% of the population of the planet.
The Peacemaker, preferring passivity and avoidance, will desire the same.
So across the globe, persons who are being driven by one (or more) of those types will talk about what they want and what they think about the way things are and about the way things should be; then, many of those will take actions that they think are being taken freely and by choice but that are really actions which are being driven by the thoughts and words and subconscious agenda of a persona (or of several personas).
They will truly—but erroneously—believe that they are choosing such thoughts and words and deeds when, in fact, they are being subconsciously driven by nothing more than personality.
Personality always brings with it what some psychologists call “the personality trance” or “the ego-trance,” and because fewer than ½ of 1% will ever be liberated (that is, freed of the effects of being driven subconsciously by personality), then most will walk about in their sleep, thinking in a trance, talking in a trance, and behaving in a trance.
They will live in a prison while thinking they are free. Because you have undertaken a search and found this site, You need not be trapped in the trance prison for the remainder of the relative existence;
instead, there are some specific options available that can guide You along the “path” to the end of the “journey.” Only there can freedom manifest. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. (To be continued)
SIX WAYS THAT SEEKERS HAVE REALIZED:
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond.
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Those two provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of false personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
(Use the Contact link for details on a reduced-price fee if the entire set is ordered at one time.)
Visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.
3. BY ENROLLING in the ONLINE ADVAITA CLASSES
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and be guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally:
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.
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Submitting Advaita Vedanta Poetry for Publication
DONATIONS
FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.
FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!
FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.
F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,350+ Advaitin essays archived on the site.
That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.
1. BY WATCHING the 4-Disk Video (DVD) Set, or the same retreat available as a downloadable file. Either will provide an entire seven-hour retreat / series of satsang sessions showing three seekers being guided through all seven steps by Floyd and can provide viewers with an “experiential,” step-by-step series of satsang meetings that will move the viewers from identification with the I to abidance as the Absolute and then to abidance as That Which Is beyond.
Some seekers are already using the computer file version and the DVD sets for meetings in groups in homes, playing the retreat, pausing for discussion, etc.
To find out more or to purchase the DVD set or the downloadable computer file version of the retreat, click:
DVD or Downloadable computer file versions of the Four-Day Advaita Retreat
Option “A” is for the downloadable file version, Option “B” is used to order the DVD set for delivery inside the U.S., Option “C” for international orders.
For the download, Paypal will send me a notice that payment has been received and then I will send by e-mail the downloading instruction, password, etc.
2. BY READING these books in this exact order:
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT (And Why Knowing It Sets You Free)
SPIRITUAL SOBRIETY (Recovering What Religions Lost)
[Those two prepare the seeker to question it all]
THE MEDITATION GUIDES
[Those two provide a broad overview of the understanding]
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I DIE?
[Begins to free the seeker of body identification and the desire for body continuity]
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "PEACE OF MIND" (There Is Only Peace if You're Out of Your Mind)
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of the false content of the “mind”]
LIBERATION
[Shows the seeker how to be free of the subconscious motivators of false personas]
THE ESSENCE OF THE TEACHINGS
[Provides the final preparation for the seeker to be directed along the “path”]
FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality)
[Directs the seeker along the “path”]
CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: The Nature of Reality Beyond Self-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding as The Absolute)
[Allows the seeker to understand the functioning of the totality, the manifestation, and what is involved with the un-manifestation]
FROM THE ABSOLUTE TO THE NOTHINGNESS
[Provides the seeker the wisdom to understand the Noneness as well as the Oneness]
(Use the Contact link for details on a reduced-price fee if the entire set is ordered at one time.)
Visit The Official Website of Floyd Henderson for information on each book.
3. BY ENROLLING in the ONLINE ADVAITA CLASSES
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and be guided through all seven steps. For details of the retreats offered, please visit the retreat information site.
5. BY ARRANGING satsang by telephone in the U.S. or by Skype internationally:
Use the Contact link for details or for information on making arrangements for a session
6. BY ARRANGING for floyd to travel to your location and meet with you or your group. Use the contact link above to discuss details.
SUBMITTING ADVAITA VEDANTA POETRY FOR PUBLICATION
Visit
Submitting Advaita Vedanta Poetry for Publication
DONATIONS
FROM SIM IN KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: How about a donate button? I give monthly to a blog about locations and reviews of a particular type of restaurant we like. I’d sure donate to this blog.
FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Almost every visitor brought Maharaj food or flowers. I’d like to treat you to a meal if you tell me how to do so with my credit card!
FROM LOUISE, SOUTH AFRICA: [Consider the case of an acquaintance who] added a donate button to his site. Regular blog readers were happy to support the site in this way.
F.: Okay—so it’s done, but note that the postings and responses are offered without charge, as is access to the library of 1,350+ Advaitin essays archived on the site.
That said, any donation will be appreciated. Thank you.
