THE DARK TRIAD

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THE DARK TRIAD

So the three personality disorders which are referred to collectively as the “The Dark Triad” have been identified and discussed in general terms. They include: The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (or "The God Complex Disorder"); the Sociopathic Personality Disorder (a.k.a., "The Machiavellian Disorder" or, "Malignant Level Narcissism); and the Psychopathic Personality Disorder.

As with all personality identifications and their accompanying personality disorders, those three mark and mar the relative existence of far more people than most will ever realize. But what of those who claim to have transitioned beyond "things relative" and now abide as "Something Noumenal"?

Among those who claim the “status” of “fully realized" or "fully enlightened," many of those claim to be “a Supreme Self” or "at one with God" or "god-like" or - for some - “God, period.”

What should be clear is that among those at least one of the "Dark Triad" personality disorders - The God Complex Disorder - is definitely at play. Too, consider the narcissism that "Self-perception" involves: claiming such status and believing that one has reached some "higher level" is what “Noumenal narcissism” looks like when it runs amok, and that picture is no prettier than the ones of “phenomenal narcissism” when it runs amok. 

Maharaj said, "There is no question of elevating to a higher level. Here it is only a question of understanding."

Understanding what, among other things? Understanding the validity of both identity-less-ness and Identity-less-ness. 

Michael Reisig wrote the following about a character in one of his novels: 

“There was just a weird malevolence that exuded from him – an indifference to fear, conscience, or consequence that stared back at you thorough those strange eyes. Most of us, even the ‘tough guys,’ generally have limits to what we’ll do, how far we’ll go in a given circumstance. But there are some people with whom you realize intrinsically that there are just no limits, no boundaries to restraint, no scruples, and those are the really frightening people.” 

Those types are most often persons who are being driven by the agenda of either the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (or The God Complex Disorder); or the agenda of the Sociopathic Personality Disorder; or the agenda of the Psychopathic Personality Disorder; or by elements of the agendas of all three. 

The only difference in the three disorders is the degree to which their malevolence has manifested; the degree to which their conscience is not functioning; the level of their indifference to consequence and their indifference regarding the feelings of others;

the degree to which there are no limits to what they are willing to say and no limits to what they are willing to do; the degree to which normal limiting boundaries which restrain normal people are not functioning in them; and the degree to which their unscrupulousness presently exists. 

Now some persons (also mentally sick) can actually admire narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths, claiming, “They tell it like it is,” but how would their admirers like it if a narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath said, “Hey Buddy, your wife is the ugliest woman I’ve ever seen” or “Hey lady, that butt of yours is three times wider than it should be, so how about backing off the groceries a bit”? 

Wouldn't like that? Why not? Isn’t that just "telling it like it is"? No, it is not. It is merely proof that narcissism or sociopathy or psychopathy or all three are manifesting alongside a full-blown case of assholism, another now-prevalent symptom of the Ultimate Sickness.

The fact is, narcissists and sociopaths and psychopaths are not about the business of telling it like it is; instead, they are actually telling anyone who is awake enough to see and conscious enough to hear and aware enough to realize that narcissists and sociopaths and psychopaths are like six-year-olds who were spoiled by parents who set no boundaries; they are telling one and all that they have no conscience; 

they are telling one and all that the part of their brain which regulates impulse control in a normal brain is damaged in their case – that they are literally brain-damaged humans even as they claim to be "stable geniuses"; that they are dangerous, relatively speaking; and that they are indeed either narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths or a combination of all three. 

Solutions? First, for narcissism: 

Lose all concern with both self and Self. 

In the beginning, Maharaj lost interest in self:

Maharaj: “During your entire lifetime, you do not have any permanent identity. Whatever you consider yourself to be changes from moment to moment. Nothing is constant."

and

“You have been continuously changing; you are in a state of flux. No identity of yours has remained as a permanent feature.” 

Also early on, Maharaj spoke much of Identity and “finding the True Self.” Later, he abandoned that, saying "I got involved in spirituality, in the business of spirituality; finally, I lost that love of Self also. I have no more love for the Self" 

and 

"I have no form, no identity." 

Eight years ago, this was shared: 

Only personas (roles, personalities, stage characters, false identities, ego-states, etc.) have wants or desires and fear. 

The questions then become, "WHO wants self-ness?" and "WHO desires Self-ness?" and "WHO fears no-self-ness and no-Self-ness?" All of that deals only with the personal (or so-called "Personal"), which is rooted in personality and which, in turn, is always marked by fears and desires. 

Maharaj said, "This knowledge is for those who have no desires."

Additionally, it is for those who have no fears - no fear of "losing face," of losing identity, of forfeiting relative identifications, or of abandoning lofty or superior or "Supreme" identifications beyond the relative ones adopted. WHO rejects Maharaj's pointer that "you have no identity" (and that would include no phenomenal identity and no noumenal identity)? 

WHO is opposed to no identity at all? One sign of full realization is that accumulating stops and de-accumulation begins, so how can some claim that they "have realized" and in the same breath lay claim to all sorts of "new and improved and even grander roles," associated with the THAT-ness or with something "Supreme"? WHO desires something that is thought to be "Supreme"? 

WHO are those still attached to some forms of WHO-ness, which they take to be their "advanced" identity? WHO has accumulated a new identity that is supposedly "different from" and "on a higher plane than" all former identities? WHO rejects that which is simply natural in favor of that which is thought to be supernatural (but is not)?

It a tiny step from white supremacists who believe that they are better than others who have brown or black skin to those claiming "full realization" who believe they are better than others who have beliefs about being "Supreme" or "Infinite" or "Paramatman" / "Parabhraman" / "Paratma" or "The Atman" or "The Absolute Atman" or "the Self Beyond" or the "Higher Self," etc., etc., etc.

Most persons believe that their phenomenal roles define them and expand them and make them more than they would be otherwise; similarly, most persons who assume Noumenal or spiritual or supernatural identities believe that their "noble" and even "elevated" identities make them different and better and Special.

No person in either of those groups has actually attained wisdom. If they had, then their narcissism would have vanished, their arrogance would have vanished, their egotism would have vanished and they would truly understand this: 

Maharaj: “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing.” 

 See? I am nothing . . . identity-less and Identity-less.

“Bragging rights” only manifest when one takes himself / herself to be something (or Something, including, Something Really Special . . . Something Really Supreme). Either way, it’s evidence of the presence of full-blown narcissism even as that charge is instantly denied and rejected by those types.

Over the years, they have told me that I "have missed out on 'SO much'."

The reply, "Whew! What fortune!"

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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