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THE DARK TRIAD
Susan Krauss Whitbourne’s
“20 Signs That Your Boss May Be a Psychopath”
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Be the case one which involves a foolish man who is spending millions to surround himself with women deemed to be “physically beautiful” or a case which involves parents who are normalizing abuse in their homes and modeling that for their children or involves the case with people who claim to be modest but are so arrogant that they now identify with something “Supreme” or even “God,” it all involves ignorance. And ignorance can come in the “commonplace, phenomenal variety” or in a “'unique' Noumenal variety.” Yet in the end, it’s still just ignorance.
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Yet to be forewarned is to not be forearmed for those trapped in what Maharaj eventually came to see as a mental illness called “the Ultimate Sickness.” To be forewarned is to be forearmed only among those who are awake, aware and conscious and thereby freed from the symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness and thereafter able to function in a wisdom-based manner.
Maharaj noted that a key symptom of the Ultimate Sickness is “ignorance.”
Regarding that he said: “Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent deity is a clear sign of ignorance.”
Those making such a claim are just as ignorant as those among the masses who are never likely to give the slightest concern about their bogus identities or the effects of their false personality identifications.
“The Dark Triad” disorders may be a personality-identification problem, but they are also a mind identification problem because the false ego-states which are assumed and / or assigned are stored in the mind.
Maharaj said that the words of those with the understanding “have the power of dispelling ignorance and darkness in the mind.”
Throughout their entire relative existence, most persons (a "person" being one who is those assuming "personas," false personality identifications) will fail to understand how significant a part is played by personalities - and the disorders which they bring - in determining what persons think and say and do and how they feel.
Maharaj was once asked, “What may be the cause of their failure?”
Maharaj replied: “Some are addicted to trances, with their consciousness in abeyance. Without full consciousness, what [success] can there be?”
It has been said here many times over the years, “The readiness is all.” Maharaj said that “the ripening factor is earnestness.”
The rub with those who have one, two or all three of the disorders known as “The Dark Triad” is that those disorders are always accompanied by the Perfectionistic Personality Disorder, so those with any of those disorders will likely never seek, already believing they have found everything they need to know and believing that they are perfect.
Why would persons who believe that they are perfect seek to change? They will not, and that is why it is always futile for persons living with those types, working with those types, or supposedly “in love” with those types to believe that those types will ever change. That is all about useless wishing and futile hoping. One might as well spend a lifetime looking for a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow rather than expending the same amount of energy seeking a job instead.
The next invitation is to wake up and understand that if a narcissist, a sociopath, or a psychopath says to you, “I love you” that they are lying. Maharaj said that “when all the false self identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.”
Why would persons who believe that they are perfect seek to change? They will not, and that is why it is always futile for persons living with those types, working with those types, or supposedly “in love” with those types to believe that those types will ever change. That is all about useless wishing and futile hoping. One might as well spend a lifetime looking for a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow rather than expending the same amount of energy seeking a job instead.
The next invitation is to wake up and understand that if a narcissist, a sociopath, or a psychopath says to you, “I love you” that they are lying. Maharaj said that “when all the false self identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.”
Because those with any of “The Dark Triad” disorders (A) love only their false self identifications, then they will never (B) "throw them away" so (C) they will never be able to feel and give “all-embracing love.” Love of self is all they know.
“The Dark Triad” disorder and “love” are always mutually-exclusive. Those with any of the three "Dark Triad” disorders, as noted, also have the Perfectionistic Personality Disorder (a.k.a., “The God Complex Disorder”). Note, too, that there is no such thing as “A Loving God” version of “The God Complex Disorder."
Moreover, for those “Spiritual Giants” who now identify as “A Supreme Self” or “The Supreme Self” or “The One at One with God” or even “God,” again Maharaj said:
“Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent deity is a clear sign of ignorance”
and
“Get rid of all ideas about yourself, even of the idea that you are God.”
“The Dark Triad” disorder and “love” are always mutually-exclusive. Those with any of the three "Dark Triad” disorders, as noted, also have the Perfectionistic Personality Disorder (a.k.a., “The God Complex Disorder”). Note, too, that there is no such thing as “A Loving God” version of “The God Complex Disorder."
Moreover, for those “Spiritual Giants” who now identify as “A Supreme Self” or “The Supreme Self” or “The One at One with God” or even “God,” again Maharaj said:
“Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent deity is a clear sign of ignorance”
and
“Get rid of all ideas about yourself, even of the idea that you are God.”
Rather than believing that all light comes from a God or from gods and goddesses, Maharaj advised:
“See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being.”
He added: “You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy.”
Why?
Because (a) via that light, wisdom will come and Real Love will be understood - as in, “Love is knowing that I am everything” - and (b) “infinite energy” will be understood because the composite unity which you presently are is made of plant food body elements, air, and conscious-energy, and all three are infinite.
Because (a) via that light, wisdom will come and Real Love will be understood - as in, “Love is knowing that I am everything” - and (b) “infinite energy” will be understood because the composite unity which you presently are is made of plant food body elements, air, and conscious-energy, and all three are infinite.
In fact, all is energy-matter, and neither energy nor matter can be created or destroyed; thus, elements air and consciousness are infinite . . . have always been and shall forever be. Every composite unity in the past which has temporarily come together has – per the Second Law of Thermodynamics – subsequently come apart and has stayed apart.
Such will be the case with all current composite unities as well. It is the elements and air and energy which "survive" the forever-ongoing "comings together" and "comings apart," never a specific composite unity formed when those three only come together temporarily.
Such will be the case with all current composite unities as well. It is the elements and air and energy which "survive" the forever-ongoing "comings together" and "comings apart," never a specific composite unity formed when those three only come together temporarily.
Key is understanding the proper answer to this question: Will any particular composite unity which has ever come together and come apart them come back together to enjoy an eternal reward, to suffer an eternal punishment, or to enter into another cycling? No.
Therefore, again, forget all concepts and ideas and notions about some kind of “Self” which will survive the relative existence. Forget facing a God who will judge you post-manifestation. If nothing has ever been created, then there is no creator and no Creator.
[Can you see how much freedom and peace can come with that realization? For this present "you," there is only NOW. Enjoy the only time which can be enjoyed, namely, NOW. Don't sweat "later" because "you" will not be "there" or anywhere later. Whoa! What a relief!]
Therefore, again, forget all concepts and ideas and notions about some kind of “Self” which will survive the relative existence. Forget facing a God who will judge you post-manifestation. If nothing has ever been created, then there is no creator and no Creator.
[Can you see how much freedom and peace can come with that realization? For this present "you," there is only NOW. Enjoy the only time which can be enjoyed, namely, NOW. Don't sweat "later" because "you" will not be "there" or anywhere later. Whoa! What a relief!]
Understand that your parents did not create you. They were but instruments in an ever-continuing cycle which involves an act of friction; which involves a transference of seeds moving from one plant food body into another;
which involves a seed contacting an egg; which involves the one with a fertilized egg consuming plant food or things which ate plants;
and which involves in the case of humans involves nothing more than a spontaneous process whereby plant cells convert into human cells and form - routinely and instinctively and automatically - organs, arteries etc. without any consciousness effort on the part of the “mother-to-be.”
Never has a man heard after asking his pregnant wife, “How was your day?” this reply: “I am worn out. I made the brain today, and it really required a lot of straining and grunting and concentration and all-out-effort; but I don’t mind because the last thing we want is an ignorant and insane child.”
Never has a man heard after asking his pregnant wife, “How was your day?” this reply: “I am worn out. I made the brain today, and it really required a lot of straining and grunting and concentration and all-out-effort; but I don’t mind because the last thing we want is an ignorant and insane child.”
[That they will “create” later on, after they and their culture start “educating the kid.”]
Maharaj said, “The personality is only an obstacle.” Will a perfectionist, narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath see that? Never. They live a life of assumption, never a life of truth or reality or fact.
Maharaj said, “The personality is only an obstacle.” Will a perfectionist, narcissist, sociopath, or psychopath see that? Never. They live a life of assumption, never a life of truth or reality or fact.
The assumption drawn by all four is that they are perfect; therefore, all which flows out of them from that point of assumption results from an unconscious, unawake, unaware, oblivious kind of ignorance-and-delusion-and-distortion-based arrogance and inflated sense of self and inflated sense of self-worth.
Recently, many have been able to see on national television broadcasts in the U.S. a very wealthy man who is so trapped in that mode that ignorance and delusion and distortion and arrogance that he believes that the women who have entered into relationships with him throughout his life were attracted to “him” rather than to his money. That is the kind of conclusion which comes with ignorance-and-delusion-and-distortion-based arrogance and an inflated sense of self and an inflated sense of self-worth.
Recently, many have been able to see on national television broadcasts in the U.S. a very wealthy man who is so trapped in that mode that ignorance and delusion and distortion and arrogance that he believes that the women who have entered into relationships with him throughout his life were attracted to “him” rather than to his money. That is the kind of conclusion which comes with ignorance-and-delusion-and-distortion-based arrogance and an inflated sense of self and an inflated sense of self-worth.
Be the case one which involves a foolish man who is spending millions to surround himself with women deemed to be “physically beautiful” or a case which involves parents who are normalizing abuse in their homes and modeling that for their children or involves the case with people who claim to be modest but are so arrogant that they now identify with something “Supreme” or even “God,” it all involves ignorance. And ignorance can come in the “commonplace, phenomenal variety” or in a “'unique' Noumenal variety.” Yet in the end, it’s still just ignorance.
Maharaj said that three key symptoms of the Ultimate Sickness, which now manifests on a planet wide basis, are “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
All misery and suffering are merely parasites. The hosts of those parasites which sustain them are the widespread “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity.”
Additionally, “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” are parasites and their hosts are the minds of humans which store the taught nonsense and the learned “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” which are passed down from one generation to the next via nonsensical and ignorant and stupid and insane programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing and indoctrination and the nonsensical and ignorant and stupid and insane modeling which parents provide for their children.
The chain has a multi-million-year history which has become even more aggravated during the last 5000 years. Is it not time to break the chain?
Efforts to change others will be futile, but one can change the results which have come about because of ignorant and insane programming and conditioning and domestication and acculturation and brainwashing. Freedom awaits, and freedom is available if one allows the light to come and illuminate the dark ideas and concepts and notions (a.k.a., “beliefs”) which are the curse of the present-day human experience for almost all humans on the planet.
“Light” or “darkness?” The invitation is to investigate and see which prevails with you. And equally significant is the invitation to investigate and see which is prevailing among those with whom you regularly associate or whom you are exposed to, for the thoughts and words and actions of those persons will also affect your relative existence as well.
To be continued.
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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.
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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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