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Excerpts from the book entitled FREEDOM from BELIEFS (Believers, Non-Believers, and "No-Belief-ers") will continue with a discussion of the way that personality-invoking "-ism's" are another source which generates a plethora of distortion-riddled beliefs:
"-ISM'S" and Beliefs Rooted in Personality
("-ism's," Part "G")
In describing the way that humans have fallen into a supposedly-awake-but-actually-asleep-state (resulting in their moving through the relative existence while under the spell of their personality trance) a glimpse was provided earlier of what the pre-personality existence was like for humanity.
Challenges happened. Sometimes humans overcame the challenges, and sometimes the challenges overcame them. Problems arose. Sometimes solutions were found, and sometimes they were not.
Therefore, the existence had always been complicated enough as it was, challenging enough as it was, problematic enough as it was, without the additional hardship of trying to negotiate the relative existence while being sightless . . while being blindly driven by personality-based agendas and personality-based motivators that are even hidden from self . . . while being torn between a personality-driven desire to be kind at times but a personality-driven desire to control-by-brutality at other times.
Yet that is exactly the case after personalities developed and, in the case just mentioned, when the kind Helper Personality Type Two disintegrates to the vicious Controller Personality Type Eight. Note the way that personalities always manifest at first in tandem, generating diametrically-opposite, dualistic behavioral patterns that now ensure for the non-realized masses an existence that is marked and marred by instability. Consider another possible scenario, for example:
Troublesome enough it is that the Personality Type Four can waver between a desire for authenticity and a tendency to perceive things in the most unrealistic manner imaginable; add stress and then the Personality Type Four will disintegrate into the state of histrionics and emotional intoxication that is typical of the Personality Type Two.
Then watch the Type Four shift to the Type One when influenced by the egotism that accompanies the assumption of an ego-state as an identity; at that point, everyone will be judged, expected to be perfect, and found to be lacking. Being inflexible and dogmatic and critical will characterize the Four that shifts to the One.
If the Four was raised by a Type Eight parent, then the worst traits of the Type Eight can be internalized alongside the Four and the result is a Four that, at times, feels the pain of others and of self to such an extreme degree that guilt, shame, melancholia, self-absorption, depression and withdrawing manifest;
at other times though, if the internalized Eight is triggered, then no empathy for anyone will manifest; instead, there will be an inability to care at all; there will only be coldness and insensitivity and meanness and heartlessness that can reach sociopathic / pathological levels of cruelty.
And all of those possibilities will be guaranteed to manifest with a Four who has internalized an Eight, who will exhibit Eight traits when in arrogance, and who will disintegrate to the worst of a Type One or Type Two when stressed. And those are just a few examples of the chaos and disharmony that manifest when personality manifests.
Tragic enough (relatively speaking) that persons living under the influence of a personality trance can be so predictable (without understanding at all why) when driven by even one personality type.
However, to appreciate the full impact of the way that the nine personality types generate fluctuation and unsteadiness and instability and unpredictability and volatility and emotional and / or feeling intoxication, consider the mathematical possibilities:
a. with every person showing at least some evidence of all nine types, and
b. with persons being driven most by their primary type, but
c. with all persons also being influenced by what is called their "wings" (the types on either side of their primary type, such as a 4 being influenced also by the 3 and the 5) and
d. with persons disintegrating to another type when stressed, and
e. with persons exhibiting the traits of various types that they internalized as children or have since adopted along the way,
then the mathematics involved show that
1. with 1 of 9 types able to appear in combination with each other in 2's or 3's or 4's, etc. and
2. with the variety of other combinations that are possible, then
you will find, if you do the math, that with 9 types potentially at play in a variety of combinations, the possible permutations come to . . . 387,420,489.
Driven by personality, it is possible that 387,420,489 factors - personalities and combinations of personalities - will control a person's thoughts and words and actions at any given time during the day through one's relative existence.
Moreover, adoption of the persona of "The Believer" can only happen after exposure to the repository of beliefs in any given culture, namely, the culture's "-ism's."
Then, any culture's "-ism's" will give support to an assigned or adopted persona and will give rise to more and more personas and will support the upgrading of the assigned or adopted persona as well.
As a result nowadays, the assumption of multiple ego-states (personalities) as identities is the abnormal global "norm"; the result is that the billions of non-Realized personas on the planet are all suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.
As a further result, insanity and chaos and instability prevail as billions of persons are being driven subconsciously by the hidden agendas of millions of assigned or assumed or internalized or disintegrated combinations of personality which generate fear and desire and misery and suffering.
Moreover, if it is insane to assume that you are something that you are not, and if it is insane to not even know who (what) you truly are, and if it is insane to believe beliefs without knowing why you believe them, and if it insane to be unable to differentiate true from false, then the mental ("mind") state of billions of person's on the planet should come as no surprise at all.
A woman recently emailed the following: "My gosh - I've just realized - my husband is totally insane!"
The reply: "Right you are, and that is half of what you need to know to begin the 'journey' that can lead to your being restored to sanity."
She: "Half?"
The reply: "But of course. The other half is for you to realize that your assessment and diagnosis of his condition is also an assessment and diagnosis of your condition."
The reply continued: "To find all of the things that you are not - even as you believe that all those things define who you are - is to (1) reveal the depth of insanity that is actually at play and is to (2) pave the way for casting aside those false identities and beliefs and then for possibly finding That Which You Truly Are.
"To find all the falsehoods that you take to be truth - about you, him, "the world," your friends, your family, your religion or some "spiritual program," your culture, your favorite political party, your dogma, your god and / or gods and goddesses, your 'values,' your beliefs, etc. - is to pave the way for moving away from your self-deception that is rooted in 'their deceptions' and in 'their deceiving' of you.
"That, in turn, is a prerequisite for eventually being free of living under the influence of insane ideas and multiple personalities as well as under the influence of the impact of all of the false beliefs based in the conceptualized "-ism's" and the conceptualized "power" which you allow to drive your thoughts and words and actions without ever having questioned those beliefs and determining if they are rooted in proven fact or if they are, instead, merely more of the vast compilation of the learned ignorance which your culture blasts persons with in its willy-nilly fashion and which you have blindly accepted along the way (right along with all of the wounds from having been blasted as well . . . wounds which you also unquestioningly accept because you do not even know that you have been wounded and made sick . . . made Ultimately Sick)."
Yesterday, a woman asked a man about "his" beliefs and about "floyd's" beliefs. The pointers offered here in such cases always include the following for consideration:
(A) There is no one here who could be said to be "A Believer" or "A Non-Believer"; and
(B) it should be of no concern to her when she crosses paths with those who take themselves to be "Believers" or "Non-Believers."
The only questions that she should ask are:
(1) "What do I believe?" and
(2) "Exactly why do I believe what I believe?"
Behind her questions was evidence of her beliefs as well as evidence of her judging those who do not believe what she believes and concluding that they are not only "wrong" but are also "not as good as"; thus, visitors are provided with another example of how dreamed up concepts and bogus ideas (a.k.a., baseless beliefs) generate a false-but-seemingly-true sense of separation, a duality-based sense of separation from understanding the Oneness, and an egotistical sense of better-than-ment.
The belief that "I am better than you and him and her and them because of my beliefs" is among the most foolish beliefs of all.
To be continued.
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