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ENTERING INTO "THE CHILD IGNORANCE STAGE" OR "THE CHILD NO-KNOWING STATE"
[Included are excerpts from the book entitled The Relative Results of Returning to "The Child Ignorance Stage" or "The Child No-Knowing State"]
RECOGNIZING PREVIOUSLY-HIDDEN PERSONALITY DISORDERS WHICH ACCOMPANY THE ASSUMPTION OF PERSONALITY IDENTIFICATIONS
It is being said that “cold and flu season is approaching in the northern hemisphere” or “in Canada and the U.S.”, etc.
Soon, persons will once again begin researching certain symptoms online to try to determine whether they have a cold or the flu or something else and whether they need to seek professional care or not.
Some women have researched and found that the pain or discomfort suddenly being experienced during sex might be indicative of a reproductive health issue, only to learn that was the case.
Other people have searched to find the possible cause of recently-occurring black stool and found that they might be bleeding internally, only to learn after tests that such was the case.
A friend received a rare early warning sign that he had prostate cancer only because his tumor happened to press against and rupture a vessel which in turn caused him to begin passing blood will urinating.
Others have heard reports on the news about one particular physical illness or another which is “increasingly going around,” recognized some of the symptoms, had themselves checked by a physician, and found that they did, indeed, have that same sickness.
Other previously-hidden physical conditions have been discovered because certain symptoms or events triggered an awareness of, and a focusing upon, an illness which had not previously been in one’s consciousness.
If my friend had been passing blood all his life, seeing blood once more would have caused no alarm and would have provided no inspiration to investigate the cause.
While self-destructive or severely-depressed or avoidant types can regularly ignore any call for action, most signs of physical problems are often taken quite seriously among the masses and inspire the taking of immediate action because the masses are so identified with, and attached to, their body identification.
In contrast to the way many react to warning signs about some new physical illness, what is often totally ignored among the masses are long-standing mental and emotional problems (which also had not previously been in their consciousness).
In the earlier example, if someone were passing blood every day, another instance of passing blood would caused no alarm, but the case with mental and emotional problems is that they have been on-going for so long - even from early childhood and throughout all of one’s adulthood - that those illnesses have become “normalized.” Seeing the manifestation of the effects of one's personality disorders will usually be ignored because the effects have been around for so long.
Over the years I have dealt with hundreds of people whose lives are blackness and bleakness personified and who present with the affect of death on a cracker. Yet many often response as did one such type when I asked if he was interested in addressing the depression which he was obviously suffering from. His reply:
[Angrily. Showing for the first time any sign of life.] “I am not depressed!!”
What inspired the anger? The fact that he had assumed the personality identification of a Spiritual Giant who had over twenty years in a Twelve Step program and who saw himself as someone who was so spiritual and totally in constant contact with his Higher Power that he had to be “happy, joyous, and free” and, therefore, could not possibly be depressed, dammit! Per that belief system, I had just diminished and even negated twenty years of his work and efforts that had made his life great.
I recently observed a woman who has been displaying an extreme case of anxiety for years and who was in the midst of being overwhelmed by a disappointment and overreacting to it in full voice. When I suggested she use what I had provided long ago, an all-natural supplement which has a history of helping with anxiety, she said: “Yeah, I’ve still got it but I’ve been doing much better lately so I haven’t had to use it yet.”
[Ahhhh. Right.]
Later, the "definitely-not-depressed man" mentioned above contacted me and reported that he had visited three different therapists, all of whom diagnosed him with depression among several other disorders. He was finally allowing the third to treat his Depressive Personality Disorder.
The usual case if that persons may often respond to warning signs in the physical realm but can totally ignore warning signs in the mental, psychological realm.
Yesterday, warnings were offered here once more about the relative effects of the untreated personality disorders which come with the assignment and assumption of personality identifications.
Those disorders are at the root of the neuroses and psychoses and insanity which are all part and parcel of the Ultimate Sickness, and the widespread ignorance about those disorders is at the root of humankind’s misery and suffering because their warning signs are usually not even seen, must less observed but then ignored.
To that end, the upcoming posts will offer additional information about the disorders discussed so that the interested might react to mental and emotional issues as readily as they do to warning signs of physical problems and say of their previously-hidden personality disorders, “Oh my gosh! Look at those symptoms. I have many of those! I need to seek treatment for that condition that I see now I’d had for many, many years.”
Earlier, the effects of the use of the combination of the ego-defense mechanism of egotism, along with the Narcissistic / God Complex Personality Disorder that can come with the assumption of a personality as an identity, was discussed.
While the result of that amalgamation may well be the most detrimental to the re-manifestation of the unconditional happiness that was last enjoyed prior to leaving "The Child No-Knowing State" and prior to being exposed to the learned ignorance that cultures pass on to their youth via programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing, and indoctrination, all other personality disorders will also mar the relative existence.
As far as the relative existence is concerned, all personality disorders will result in a chronically-maladaptive manner of interacting with people and the challenges that are guaranteed to mark the relative existence. So, consider if you will the effects of the following:
THE OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER
Regarding the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (O-CD), understand first that the term "obsessive" deals with "the mind" and characterizes the activities of the bogus-but-nevertheless-highly-influential "mind." O-CD involves fixating on any particular thought or event and causes the "mind" to be preoccupied with that thought or event; causes a person with O-CD to remain in the grips of that thought or event;
and causes a person with O-CD to suffer the misery of having almost every waking moment consumed with and possessed by that thought or event. Such are some of the effects of an obsession of the mind. Other effects can include a high level of anxiety, stress, anger at times, and an inability to focus on anything else that should be focused on.
(Note that an obsessive mind is actually one of the prerequisites for the manifestation of both the Addictive Personality Disorder and the Perfectionist Personality Disorder and is also a contributing factor with many other disorders.)
Is it any wonder that Maharaj invited seekers to be free not only of body identification but also to be free of identification with the content of the mind and with identification with personalities as well?
Consider spending an entire existence during which one cannot control her or his mind but is controlled by an obsessive, often insane, mind instead. Consider spending an entire relative existence that is preoccupied with ideas and concepts and beliefs and thoughts that never go away, no matter how unwanted they might be and no matter how much anxiety and stress and / or anger they generate.
Once someone obsesses on something, eventually they are likely take action around their obsession, and usually the action is compulsive in nature: a "compulsion": is defined as "a strong, usually irresistible impulse to perform an act, especially one that is irrational or contrary to one's will." So first there is the obsessive thought; then comes the compulsive behavior.
As noted here on occasion, thoughts lead to words and words lead to deeds. (To see that there can be actions that are "contrary to one's will" is too understand the part of the teaching here which notes that persons functioning under the auspices of ego-defense mechanisms and personality disorders have no ability to make conscious choices; instead, they are blindly driven by unconscious agendas and urges.)
Once obsessing leads to compulsive behaviors, then persons will be driven to use totally unrealistic solutions to try to address what they take to be a problem, or they can be driven blindly to repeat actions that are ineffective or unnecessary. One was witnessed years ago as she always entered the kitchen and double-checked to be certain that all of the knobs of the stove were turned off before she left the house.
On occasion, she could be fifteen minutes away from the house but would turn around, come back, and check the knobs again. When counseling and a supplement program was suggested, the witnessing of O-CD driven behavior was replaced with the witnessing of looks that revealed pure hatred;
furthermore, the desire to be rid of O-CD inspired anxiety and fear and, often, even a pending sense of doom can lead to addictive behaviors because any chance to use effective coping skills will be blocked by O-CD, after which the use of substances or activities to try to escape can begin.
Also, the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder will block the ability to be rid of items that no longer have any value, as if they ever did. (These teachings always include an invitation to de-accumulate, but if the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder is driving thoughts and words and deeds, then one will not be able to de-accumulate their mental preoccupations or anything else.
Sometimes, the O-CD will also trigger the Hoarding Personality Disorder, further preventing any chance to de-accumulate.) Additionally, those with O-CD will be quite rigid and inflexible and unyielding. They will be strict and severe and will never enjoy unconditional happiness if they remain trapped in the hidden agendas of this personality style / disorder.
They will be excessive, whether dealing with work or family or when acting out their addiction, and they will be overly-preoccupied with rules and details, so trapped in the minutiae of the relative existence that they never see "the big picture" and are never able to relax and take it easy. The "mind-noise" of the person suffering from O-CD can be likened to the chatter of a thousand monkeys; thus, the questions posed previously can apply as well to any and all of the results of personality assumption and the always-accompanying personality defects, so the reader is invited to once again consider:
Is it clear that the prerequisite for persons to be driven by personality disorders is the assumption of false identities / roles / ego-states / stage characters / facades / masks / personas? Is it clear how miserable the relative existence is doomed to be if one is dealing with those who have assumed a personality (or many personalities) as identities and are then suffering from one or more personality disorders?
Is it clear how miserable the relative existence is doomed to be if you have assumed a personality (or many personalities) as identities and are then suffering from one or more personality disorders? Is it clear why the invitation here is to at least reach the fourth step of seven on the "path" to realization where all personality identification is forfeited, including the personalities that are thought to be "the good ones," including the personalities that drive persons to believe that they are "different from," and including the personalities that lead persons to believe they are "better-than"?
Is it clear why neither you nor anyone else can be unconditionally happy unless there is a return to the condition that existed the last time unconditional happiness was happening? Is it now clearer why all are invited to return to "The Child Ignorance Stage" or the "Child No-Knowing State"?
To be continued.
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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.
THE EXPLANATION
If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.
Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."
The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").
Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.
"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you."
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
but are states of mind, nothing more than
concepts dreamed up by men."
--Pope John Paul II
"There is no hell."
--Pope Francis, the current pope
in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,
a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.
And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?
Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?
The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)
With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.
The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.]
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