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When seekers came here in the past for satsang, and when seekers now come for retreats or engage via use of any of the internet offerings available here, two personality-identification-related exercises were be (or are) included:
One is to list as many of the personas / personality identifications assigned or assumed throughout one's relative existence;
and
the other is to list where those identifications were assigned or assumed and by whom.
In the first case, many usually stop in the 25 to 30 range and think they've done a thorough job. When they are told that their list is not even close to being complete, they pick up their pen and continue and eventually their lists increase to a total of 80 or 90 false identifications which they've been assigned or which they have played over the years (and, if they are middle-aged, then even that list is not complete but is an adequate start).
As for the second assignment, the source of their false identities - especially those picked up early on - are credited to "parents" and "relatives" and "teachers." After that, for the 80% to 90%+ who are taken to a church, a temple, a mosque, a spiritual group, a cult that does not admit it's a cult, etc. for some period of time, the source list is expanded to "religious teachers and leaders," "spiritual leaders," etc. . . .
(be that a priest, a pastor, an associate pastor, a minister, an imam, an ayatollah, a bishop, an archbishop, a cardinal, a pope, a chaplain, a clergyman, a clergywoman, a deacon, a dean, mullah, rabbi, sexton, vicar, layman, caliph, blah, blah, blah, or - from within other venues - a holy woman or holy man, a guru, a spiritual guide, a sponsor, a life coach, the Dalai Lama, etc., etc., etc.)
At any rate, it can help fix the understanding in humans' brains if they see (1) the phony roles they have been assigned and see (2) who gave them those suffering-and-misery-and-delusion-generating identities in the first place so they can avoid listening to those kinds of influencers in the future.
Maharaj said, "After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay."
Moreover, it is added here that "after the information given to you that you are a good boy or a good girl or a bad boy or bad girl, then many of those acquisitions and any further acquisitions - and any further false personality identifications which will be assigned by others or assumed by you - will be rooted in sources which have been influenced directly or indirectly by so-called 'religious' or 'spiritual' personas who are passing on their hearsay." How can that be?
The people of the planet are dominated the most by influencers from government, business, and religious or spiritual venues, and those running the first two venues are usually influenced by those running the third. (Proof? 97% of the people on the planet claim a religious affiliation, though few of those are as active as their religious leaders would prefer.)
To continue with the postings given in reply to this:
FROM A SITE VISITOR: Like Raja, I’m new to Advaita--but never had any religious training. It is easy enough to know that I am more than a body but why do you say I should not have a personality? Thank you.
Yesterday, the focus was on the way that Personality Type Six sets up fifty percent of the population of the planet to be both afraid and desirous, explaining why three billion persons on the planet have a blind propensity for falling under the influence of charlatans.
As a result of their personality with its excessive fears and excessive desires, they will be blindly predisposed to manipulation; therefore, anyone who can assure them, via a fear-based message that includes promises of (a) immediate and eternal protection and (b) immediate and eternal desire fulfillment, will find that 50% of all persons will unquestioningly and willingly allow the bearer of that message to control them. Indeed, "He is the shepherd and we are his sheep" is an appropriate metaphor for the masses who so willingly and loyally follow their leaders.
Today's invitation is to see how the other personality types set people up to buy into magical dogma and/or nonsensical teachings:
Type Ones want to be perfect, so they can be easily persuaded to accept the teachings of any dualistic dogma that promises to “purify them” and “make them right.” (See for example “the Methodist cross and flames” with its implied message of duality that the cross will both “justify” and “purify,” just as fire accomplishes that result with metal: “You’re bad, but we can make you good.” Nothing which claims that you are bad or that it can make you good can have anything to do with the teachings of non-duality. Here, specks of consciousness are invited to transcend both sin and virtue.)
Two’s will be driven unconsciously to try to help themselves and others to salvation; Three’s will buy into the pomp and circumstance of religious performances that are heavy with dramatic, emotion-inspiring elements and images; Four’s (with their propensity for seeking the Authentic Self) and Fives (with their drive to understand the functioning of the totality) can be vulnerable to accepting a dogmatic or ideological message if it seems to provide answers to their questions;
Sevens will find the concept of “an eternal life of bliss” exactly what they’ve been looking for in their quest for adventure and pain avoidance; Eights (always trying to accumulate power of any kind, including earthly, financial, celestial, military, etc.) will be drawn to a message about an omnipotent force with power that they can tap into and use as a means to their ends;
and Nines will find the idea of being taken care of and the concept of not having to work for eternity to be the perfect plan that suits their personality exactly. These effects further validate the logic and reason behind the Advaitin suggestion to be free of the whims and vagaries of personality.
Of course all of the influences of personality materialize unconsciously, whether the effects are manifesting via a child using personality to survive or manifesting via an adult who is still being driven by a personality that was formed during childhood. Trying to survive can be considered “normal” and natural among children doing whatever is required to try to adjust to abnormal circumstances, but for an adult to continue to live under the auspices of a childhood tool is neither normal nor natural.
While nonsensical thinking and childish talk and immature actions might be expected among children, the relative existence curse of personality is that it inspires the same type of thinking and speaking and behaving among non-Realized adults.
Those specks of consciousness that have been restored to some degree of reason and logic will set aside their earlier childish confidence in outlandish tales they were told, will employ logic and reason to re-consider beliefs not previously questioned, and will therefore be able to shift beyond a mode that sets persons up for being consistently fooled.
Yet driven by the influence of personality and the illogical conditioning and programming to which most specks have been subjected, the use of logic and reason will seldom ever happen.
Additionally, persons / personas, taking their identities to be real, will fight (often to the death) to preserve the mirages which they think are real. The warped or blocked consciousness will remain in that condition, in most cases, throughout the entire manifestation.
Such is the toll of personality / persona identifications.
RELATED TO TODAY’S TOPIC:
LIBERATION
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One is to list as many of the personas / personality identifications assigned or assumed throughout one's relative existence;
and
the other is to list where those identifications were assigned or assumed and by whom.
In the first case, many usually stop in the 25 to 30 range and think they've done a thorough job. When they are told that their list is not even close to being complete, they pick up their pen and continue and eventually their lists increase to a total of 80 or 90 false identifications which they've been assigned or which they have played over the years (and, if they are middle-aged, then even that list is not complete but is an adequate start).
As for the second assignment, the source of their false identities - especially those picked up early on - are credited to "parents" and "relatives" and "teachers." After that, for the 80% to 90%+ who are taken to a church, a temple, a mosque, a spiritual group, a cult that does not admit it's a cult, etc. for some period of time, the source list is expanded to "religious teachers and leaders," "spiritual leaders," etc. . . .
(be that a priest, a pastor, an associate pastor, a minister, an imam, an ayatollah, a bishop, an archbishop, a cardinal, a pope, a chaplain, a clergyman, a clergywoman, a deacon, a dean, mullah, rabbi, sexton, vicar, layman, caliph, blah, blah, blah, or - from within other venues - a holy woman or holy man, a guru, a spiritual guide, a sponsor, a life coach, the Dalai Lama, etc., etc., etc.)
At any rate, it can help fix the understanding in humans' brains if they see (1) the phony roles they have been assigned and see (2) who gave them those suffering-and-misery-and-delusion-generating identities in the first place so they can avoid listening to those kinds of influencers in the future.
Maharaj said, "After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions are by hearsay."
Moreover, it is added here that "after the information given to you that you are a good boy or a good girl or a bad boy or bad girl, then many of those acquisitions and any further acquisitions - and any further false personality identifications which will be assigned by others or assumed by you - will be rooted in sources which have been influenced directly or indirectly by so-called 'religious' or 'spiritual' personas who are passing on their hearsay." How can that be?
The people of the planet are dominated the most by influencers from government, business, and religious or spiritual venues, and those running the first two venues are usually influenced by those running the third. (Proof? 97% of the people on the planet claim a religious affiliation, though few of those are as active as their religious leaders would prefer.)
To continue with the postings given in reply to this:
FROM A SITE VISITOR: Like Raja, I’m new to Advaita--but never had any religious training. It is easy enough to know that I am more than a body but why do you say I should not have a personality? Thank you.
Yesterday, the focus was on the way that Personality Type Six sets up fifty percent of the population of the planet to be both afraid and desirous, explaining why three billion persons on the planet have a blind propensity for falling under the influence of charlatans.
As a result of their personality with its excessive fears and excessive desires, they will be blindly predisposed to manipulation; therefore, anyone who can assure them, via a fear-based message that includes promises of (a) immediate and eternal protection and (b) immediate and eternal desire fulfillment, will find that 50% of all persons will unquestioningly and willingly allow the bearer of that message to control them. Indeed, "He is the shepherd and we are his sheep" is an appropriate metaphor for the masses who so willingly and loyally follow their leaders.
Today's invitation is to see how the other personality types set people up to buy into magical dogma and/or nonsensical teachings:
Type Ones want to be perfect, so they can be easily persuaded to accept the teachings of any dualistic dogma that promises to “purify them” and “make them right.” (See for example “the Methodist cross and flames” with its implied message of duality that the cross will both “justify” and “purify,” just as fire accomplishes that result with metal: “You’re bad, but we can make you good.” Nothing which claims that you are bad or that it can make you good can have anything to do with the teachings of non-duality. Here, specks of consciousness are invited to transcend both sin and virtue.)
Two’s will be driven unconsciously to try to help themselves and others to salvation; Three’s will buy into the pomp and circumstance of religious performances that are heavy with dramatic, emotion-inspiring elements and images; Four’s (with their propensity for seeking the Authentic Self) and Fives (with their drive to understand the functioning of the totality) can be vulnerable to accepting a dogmatic or ideological message if it seems to provide answers to their questions;
Sevens will find the concept of “an eternal life of bliss” exactly what they’ve been looking for in their quest for adventure and pain avoidance; Eights (always trying to accumulate power of any kind, including earthly, financial, celestial, military, etc.) will be drawn to a message about an omnipotent force with power that they can tap into and use as a means to their ends;
and Nines will find the idea of being taken care of and the concept of not having to work for eternity to be the perfect plan that suits their personality exactly. These effects further validate the logic and reason behind the Advaitin suggestion to be free of the whims and vagaries of personality.
Of course all of the influences of personality materialize unconsciously, whether the effects are manifesting via a child using personality to survive or manifesting via an adult who is still being driven by a personality that was formed during childhood. Trying to survive can be considered “normal” and natural among children doing whatever is required to try to adjust to abnormal circumstances, but for an adult to continue to live under the auspices of a childhood tool is neither normal nor natural.
While nonsensical thinking and childish talk and immature actions might be expected among children, the relative existence curse of personality is that it inspires the same type of thinking and speaking and behaving among non-Realized adults.
Those specks of consciousness that have been restored to some degree of reason and logic will set aside their earlier childish confidence in outlandish tales they were told, will employ logic and reason to re-consider beliefs not previously questioned, and will therefore be able to shift beyond a mode that sets persons up for being consistently fooled.
Yet driven by the influence of personality and the illogical conditioning and programming to which most specks have been subjected, the use of logic and reason will seldom ever happen.
Additionally, persons / personas, taking their identities to be real, will fight (often to the death) to preserve the mirages which they think are real. The warped or blocked consciousness will remain in that condition, in most cases, throughout the entire manifestation.
Such is the toll of personality / persona identifications.
RELATED TO TODAY’S TOPIC:
LIBERATION
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"From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality");
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“There’s No Such Thing As Peace of Mind (There’s Only Peace If You’re ‘Out of Your Mind’)”
“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”
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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
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"
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."
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
--Yeshu'a (Jesus)
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
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."
"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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