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F.: Yesterday it was shown how certain personalities generate melancholia or depression, how some generate fear, and how some generate anger;
furthermore, because persons can (1) internalize the types of others around them and because (2) egotism always manifests to defend personas, then persons will disintegrate to other types and the result of that subsequent multiple personality disorder will be that they will “experience” all three: depression and fear and anger.
The result is that some shift in and out of depression and fear and anger throughout a day or a week or a month. Is it understood why the Ultimate Medicine offered by Advaitin sages throughout the ages to those seeking peace and harmony and freedom has focused on personality after addressing body-mind delusions?
What signals a shift away from persona assumption? Maharaj described the post-personality circumstance thusly:
“Now the last traces of personality or individuality have left me” and "My dwelling place in the grosser world is gone now; presently it is in the subtler sphere, as in space."
The result of liberation from personality is that that there is no longer any personal identification. It is personal identification which drives persons to believe that they have the ability to choose and that they have free will when, in fact, there is no person who can have anything.
Yet there are personas that drive everything among the non-Realized. All subconscious motivators—which include personality—are eliminated when only the impersonal consciousness remains.
Maharaj said of that impersonal consciousness: "In this realm of consciousness all that is going on is dynamic playfulness, a process of functioning. There is no differentiation in this process as to a person, an entity, a community, a creed, a religion."
Yet it is personality that creates the illusion of differentiation. To measure personality levels by use of the test that is employed here as one part of the teaching process can also determine on an exact scale the levels of psychic healthiness or psychic unhealthiness; can track which personality types are manifested; and can reveal the level of influence that is manifesting via each.
There is a 1:1 correlation between (a) disintegration from one personality type to another and (b) mental / psychic unhealthiness.
For some who are dissociated from the effects of the sickness, and for those who have normalized or minimized the effect that personality plays in controlling thoughts and words and actions, such empirical evidence is sometimes required nowadays to awaken them to the effects of the many components of their Ultimate Sickness and to inspire them to seek the Ultimate Medicine.
If persons see how “textbook” they are when being driven by personality, how predictable their thoughts are, how totally non-unique they are, how exactly their thoughts and words and actions align with the thoughts and words and actions of others of their same type, then some will begin to grasp exactly how ineffective they are when living under the influence of personality.
The effects of living under the influence of drugs or alcohol is nothing compared to living under the effects of personality. Some who abandon their use of those addictive substances feel as if they have accomplished something that is of great significance to them and the “world.”
Little do they know that giving up the use of those substances has no effect at all in treating the personality disorders that were driving their insane-like thinking and behavior in the first place.
It is as if someone who is suffering light-headedness due to a recurring medical condition falls in the bathtub and decides that the proper course of action afterwards is to stop taking baths, as if that addresses the cause(s) of the initial fall.
On the other hand, if persons were to see the ways that personality completely determines thoughts and words and deeds, then they would understand that they are not choosing to think or say or do anything...that it is all being chosen for them instead (by personality).
When living under the auspices of personality / personalities, it is as if one is a ventriloquist’s dummy. It looks as if the dummy is thinking about what it is saying, as if it is the one speaking, as if the movements are being chosen by the dummy.
To the contrary, it is the force behind the dummy that is driving all of that. When you witness persons moving about and acting like dummies, understand that it personality that is driving that dumb behavior. Such is the force of personality in separating persons from an awareness of who / what they are not.
If persons are ever to find what they are, then they must find all that they are not. And what is it that they are not? They are not the scores of personas—the false identities assigned by a culture or adopted by persons post-programming, post-conditioning, post-acculturation, and post-domestication.
If persons were to realize how predictable their thoughts and words and deeds are, and how helpless they are as a result of being driven by their illusory personas, they might understand that they have no free will at all and that they are not making any conscious choices at all.
Then only might they see that subconscious motivators are driving every thought and word and deed, the result being this: they (being non-Realized) are walking about in their sleep, are talking in their sleep, and are involved in insane-like behaviors while totally asleep.
Then only might they become ready to understand personality and become ready to accept these teachings that can free them of this part of the Ultimate Sickness; otherwise, they will be destined to suffer the misery of unmet desires, fears, depression, and anger while also being driven by subconscious influences that rob them of all free will and choice. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
furthermore, because persons can (1) internalize the types of others around them and because (2) egotism always manifests to defend personas, then persons will disintegrate to other types and the result of that subsequent multiple personality disorder will be that they will “experience” all three: depression and fear and anger.
The result is that some shift in and out of depression and fear and anger throughout a day or a week or a month. Is it understood why the Ultimate Medicine offered by Advaitin sages throughout the ages to those seeking peace and harmony and freedom has focused on personality after addressing body-mind delusions?
What signals a shift away from persona assumption? Maharaj described the post-personality circumstance thusly:
“Now the last traces of personality or individuality have left me” and "My dwelling place in the grosser world is gone now; presently it is in the subtler sphere, as in space."
The result of liberation from personality is that that there is no longer any personal identification. It is personal identification which drives persons to believe that they have the ability to choose and that they have free will when, in fact, there is no person who can have anything.
Yet there are personas that drive everything among the non-Realized. All subconscious motivators—which include personality—are eliminated when only the impersonal consciousness remains.
Maharaj said of that impersonal consciousness: "In this realm of consciousness all that is going on is dynamic playfulness, a process of functioning. There is no differentiation in this process as to a person, an entity, a community, a creed, a religion."
Yet it is personality that creates the illusion of differentiation. To measure personality levels by use of the test that is employed here as one part of the teaching process can also determine on an exact scale the levels of psychic healthiness or psychic unhealthiness; can track which personality types are manifested; and can reveal the level of influence that is manifesting via each.
There is a 1:1 correlation between (a) disintegration from one personality type to another and (b) mental / psychic unhealthiness.
For some who are dissociated from the effects of the sickness, and for those who have normalized or minimized the effect that personality plays in controlling thoughts and words and actions, such empirical evidence is sometimes required nowadays to awaken them to the effects of the many components of their Ultimate Sickness and to inspire them to seek the Ultimate Medicine.
If persons see how “textbook” they are when being driven by personality, how predictable their thoughts are, how totally non-unique they are, how exactly their thoughts and words and actions align with the thoughts and words and actions of others of their same type, then some will begin to grasp exactly how ineffective they are when living under the influence of personality.
The effects of living under the influence of drugs or alcohol is nothing compared to living under the effects of personality. Some who abandon their use of those addictive substances feel as if they have accomplished something that is of great significance to them and the “world.”
Little do they know that giving up the use of those substances has no effect at all in treating the personality disorders that were driving their insane-like thinking and behavior in the first place.
It is as if someone who is suffering light-headedness due to a recurring medical condition falls in the bathtub and decides that the proper course of action afterwards is to stop taking baths, as if that addresses the cause(s) of the initial fall.
On the other hand, if persons were to see the ways that personality completely determines thoughts and words and deeds, then they would understand that they are not choosing to think or say or do anything...that it is all being chosen for them instead (by personality).
When living under the auspices of personality / personalities, it is as if one is a ventriloquist’s dummy. It looks as if the dummy is thinking about what it is saying, as if it is the one speaking, as if the movements are being chosen by the dummy.
To the contrary, it is the force behind the dummy that is driving all of that. When you witness persons moving about and acting like dummies, understand that it personality that is driving that dumb behavior. Such is the force of personality in separating persons from an awareness of who / what they are not.
If persons are ever to find what they are, then they must find all that they are not. And what is it that they are not? They are not the scores of personas—the false identities assigned by a culture or adopted by persons post-programming, post-conditioning, post-acculturation, and post-domestication.
If persons were to realize how predictable their thoughts and words and deeds are, and how helpless they are as a result of being driven by their illusory personas, they might understand that they have no free will at all and that they are not making any conscious choices at all.
Then only might they see that subconscious motivators are driving every thought and word and deed, the result being this: they (being non-Realized) are walking about in their sleep, are talking in their sleep, and are involved in insane-like behaviors while totally asleep.
Then only might they become ready to understand personality and become ready to accept these teachings that can free them of this part of the Ultimate Sickness; otherwise, they will be destined to suffer the misery of unmet desires, fears, depression, and anger while also being driven by subconscious influences that rob them of all free will and choice. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
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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.
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[It is recommend that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]
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
[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 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]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
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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.
[It is recommend that you watch the video with pen and paper in hand. Write whatever you need clarified. You'll see that there are constant reviews and you might find an answer later in the seven-hour presentation. Then, after you watch it all, there will be a common ground for discussion. Purchase of the DVD’s or the file will include the right to clarifications and answers to your specific questions via e-mail.]
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
[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 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]
Purchase an e-Book now and begin reading it in minutes (except with e-checks that can take 7-10 days). Trusting our clients as we do, all e-Books are provided to you in printable form.
SAVE IF YOU BUY ALL ELEVEN AT ONCE:
(You may order the books one at a time or you may use the following link to acquire the entire 11-e-Book set on sale for $99 if ordered at one time with the “Buy Now” button below. For this option, there will be no download links provided; once the near-instant notice of payment is received from PayPal, your e-Books will be sent to you as e-mail attachments. All are printable for your convenience.)
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4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being 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:
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3. BY ENROLLING in the Online Advaita Classes
For information, visit Information on the Advaita Classes on the Internet
To enroll visit Enroll in the Advaita Internet Course
4. BY ATTENDING an Advaitin retreat for satsang with floyd and being 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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