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the end of this post. 7. You may click here to visit Floyd's bookstore which offers both digital books and paperback books which deal with non-duality, non-duality-based fictional adventures, recovery, financial sanity, financial planning, and more. LIBERATION (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization) “Both intelligent humans and foolish humans are a dime a dozen. Foolish is the glue which attaches persons to their false personality identifications; moreover, intelligence is also useless in freeing persons from the bonds and bondage of their belief that their false identities are real. Only the understanding brought by wisdom can destroy the glue and only the understanding brought by wisdom can break the bonds and the bondage those bonds bring. The prerequisite for wisdom to manifest? The purging of all that has been taught and all that has been learned.” --f.h. Now the discussion will turn to understanding the relative effects of the basic personality styles which include the generating of fears and desires which interrupt happiness, beginning with . . . PERSONALITY TYPE THREE The Relative Effects of Personality: Fears, Desires and Interrupted Happiness The following was offered in response to a question about coming to really know or understand another person: “You’ll never ‘know’ or ‘understand’ any person because you’ll never know ‘which person’ (which persona or personas or which personality types) you’re dealing with on any given day at any given moment. Have you
ever met someone and thought you ‘really knew’ him / her, only to scream later,
‘I don’t even know who you are!’ Millions in ‘relationships’ eventually feel like
fools, like they were ‘fooled’ by someone who put up a false front, a false
image, only to discover that their mate, friend, lover, spouse, etc. is a
fraud. Of course that will happen, because Thus, to be free of fear, desire, foolishness, and unhappiness, personality must be transcended. But before such transcendence can happen, personality and its fraudulent nature must be understood. Of all the personality types, none put up that false front or false image more than the type discussed in this post. The basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Three - “The Performer/Achiever” - will now be discussed. Russ Hudson pointed out the following about Personality Type Threes: BASIC FEAR AND BASIC DESIRE The Type Three’s BASIC FEAR is the fear of being worthless The Type Three’s BASIC DESIRE is to feel valuable ;"font-size: 18pt;">THE IMPACT OF THAT PERSONALITY TYPE ON THE RELATIVE EXISTENCE Those trapped in the Type Three personality identification fear that “the way they really are” - if discovered - would make them worthless; therefore, Type Threes above all else engage in (1) “image-building” and in (2) seeking an audience to display that image and then hopefully receive praise or positive feedback. And often, they will succeed quite well in that effort. Threes are “praise addicts.” They cannot get enough of it. When Type Three Performers / Achievers act or sing or speak or perform or manage or accomplish, they are seeking the applause or praise that their persona desires. Then, in an act of self-delusion, they take the applause or praise as a sign that they are truly loved and therefore valued and worth something. A Three will, therefore, do all within her / his ability to create and maintain what they take to be a “positive” image. “Style over substance” is the hallmark of these persons trapped in their love of their relative world existence, identified as they are with their physical bodies and their “good looks” and thus having little chance of ever understanding the Absolute. These personas lose contact with authenticity and with reality, far more than most other types. They suffer from distortion, from faulty perception, and from their inability to differentiate between what is true and what is false . . . between what is real and what is unreal. Three’s live in the mirror - they live “on stage” (on the stage in the Theater of the Lie). They will literally live out their lie throughout their relative existence if they do not realize, otherwise truly believing all along that their false image really defines who they are and never having the slightest clue about what is involved THAT or “this,” this relative existence. They become susceptible, if exposed to religious or spiritual teachings, to adopting with a vengeance the false personas which are generated by religious or spiritual beliefs and concepts and dogma. Ironically, even as they proclaim to love, they are the most capable of hating when they think they are not getting enough honor or respect or praise. Their need for praise is limitless, but since they cannot get limitless praise, they develop deep resentments and anger. Many of this type are so consumed by the Borderline Personality Disorder that they keep people off balance, others dealing with them never knowing which version (the kind or the mean version) is going to present. Some, however, to maintain their image of being wonderful and charming, might suppress that anger and then rage builds within. The result is a continual series of explosive, raging episodes through their lives. Eventually, if they adopt a “Religious Giant” or “Spiritual Giant persona, they come to believe that they are perfect; therefore, they fail to see any need to look within; thus, they will typically never see the defects which characterize their personality type. They are so capable of hating that they can become quite capable of destroying anything that they think is interfering with their two, primary preoccupations: image-building and image-maintenance. Few are as invested as Threes are in creating false selves, in adopting false identities as definitions of “self,” and with ruthlessly destroying anyone or anything that interferes with their desire to be the epitome of what their culture considers “attractive,” “good,” and “valuable.” Note: If you study the enneagram, you see that Threes are part of the “Type 3-6-9 triangle,” so those other two types can display the same type of behaviors as a Three. Some estimates are that majority of the population of Aryan nations such as Germany, Austria, Great Britain and the U.S. are either Threes or are persons inside the 3-6-9 triangle and then behave as Threes behave WHY PERSONALITY TYPE THREE INTERRUPTS HAPPINESS That desire to be the epitome of what their culture considers “attractive,” “good,” and “valuable” results in a never-ending drive to be more, to be better, to be better than, and to be perceived as “the best.” Such egotistical pursuits place them in a competitive mode and drive Threes to feel that they are being challenged or threatened in most situations. They demand the spotlight and resent people and situations that force them to share the spotlight. In their effort to look perfect and to say the perfect thing in each case and to appear to be the best, the result is an inordinate fear of failure and a consequent need to exploit and control or manipulate in their effort to maintain their image and their sense of superiority. They become charming actors, performers who are always “on stage” or who are in need of finding an audience if an audience is missing. In their effort to stay in the spotlight, they can become jealous, vindictive, deceptive, narcissistic, vain, and self-righteous. They become obsessed with being the center of attention and receiving crowd approval in order to believe that they really are “OK.” They project their personality defects onto others and then do all that is possible to destroy other persons who evidence the Three's own personality traits and phony personas. On some level, they really hate their false self, even as they work so diligently to create it and to maintain it. That is the typical discontinuity which exists for all persons identified with the body-mind-personality triad, and that is the reason to understand the influences which personality has on the relative existence and then discard identification with personas. Threes will appear to be the most charming among the nine types, and though they are the opposite at their core, their use of denial results in their believing their own lies. Far from being truly charming, they can say the vilest, most hurtful things, can spin their failures into success stories in an instant, and can literally kill when angered over not receiving the degree of honor that they think they deserve or when someone questions them or exposes their faults. “Isn’t all this relative existence stuff?” it has been asked. Of course. It’s always the “relative existence stuff” that must first be seen in order to realize what must be discarded. Only then can the “absolute, authentic stuff” be understood. FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY TYPE THREE EFFECTS VIA REALIZATION Along with realization comes authenticity as images are seen to be images and nothing more. With realization, honesty replaces the lie that the relative existence of most Type Threes eventually becomes. The distorted thinking and twisted perspectives that prevented the manifestation of happiness disappear. That said, with the degree of attachment that Threes have to image, few will ever see all of the lies about their “selves” that must be seen before the truth can explode into consciousness. Again, the justification for the teachings to invite protégés to recognize the influences of personality on relativistic behavior and to then be free of it should be clear. To be continued. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. |
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