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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 SIX
The Relative Effects of Personality: Fears, Desires and Interrupted Happiness :
Type Six
Many persons read Enneagram descriptors of personality types and find that they’re unable to “pin down” the one exact category that is their dominant personality. That is understandable.
It was pointed out earlier that all personas are driven not only by their own dominant type but also by the two adjacent types / wings and by two other types that they attach to either via integration or via the disintegration that happens when persons become stressed or pious.
(Research shows that stress or piety lead to the same result: either will trigger disintegration into the worst traits of another type.) It should be seen, therefore, that these discussions of personality types are not the pointers, whether the listings are found in the enneagram or on some astrological chart.
The pointer is that any person (that is, any persona, any “one” trapped in personality identification) will be impacted by personality, will suffer throughout their relative existence from behaviors and a thought-life that are driven by personality, and will never know the true happiness of AS IF living.
The pointer is not that you will receive any benefit from understanding which type you are or which types influence you. The pointer is to see that identification with personality is insane, that the “you” which can be influenced by personality is not real, that allowing something as nebulous as "personality" to control every facet of an existence will prevent personas from ever being in touch with reality, and that identification with personality will preclude any opportunity for living out the manifestation in a sane manner that is characterized by reason and logic.
As with all non-dual understandings, therefore, the point is to see the concepts being discussed as concepts, to use the discussions to free persons of the influence of forces that are unconsciously driving them, to discard all of those influences, and then to be truly free.
That point having been offered, the next discussion will focus on the basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Six - “The Loyalist.” Russ Hudson pointed out the following about Personality Type Sixes:
BASIC FEAR AND BASIC DESIRE
The Type Six has a BASIC FEAR of having no support or guidance
The Type Six has a BASIC DESIRE to have support and guidance
THE IMPACT OF THAT PERSONALITY TYPE ON THE RELATIVE EXISTENCE
Because Type Sixes can disintegrate into a Type Three - especially when stressed or pious - they often exhibit many of the traits of an unhealthy Three. [See the early post on Types Threes to review those traits.]
Because the Type Six personality generates high-stress situations - and because their type automatically listens to anyone who seems to know what he / she is talking about - they often allow persons to control them.
They are frequently stressed and frequently pious, so they frequently exhibit the worst traits of Type Threes who have adopted religious or spiritual personas as their identity. Non-realized Sixes have no ability to discriminate, so they listen to anyone in a position of authority.
That leaves them especially vulnerable to the effects of programming, conditioning, and acculturation; thus, they are very susceptible to influence from those who would control them.
That susceptibility to accepting blindly the influence of persons (specifically, the influence of egotistical persons who assume positions of authority) also leaves Sixes especially prone to accepting as truth the false, non-duality teachings of the authority figures in their cultures.
The persons that Sixes often listen to unquestioningly can include preachers, priests, politicians, military officers, police, speakers in spiritual movements, other so-called “religious leaders,” etc.
Their openness to influence and loyalty to “leaders” or “experts” also deprives them of that skill that is required for even beginning the “journey” toward realization, namely, the willingness to question authority or to suspect the validity of superstitions or beliefs or dogma or myths.
The fact that some estimates suggest that 50% of the persons on the planet are Type Sixes makes clear why so few persons will ever Realize and why so many persons can be compared to sheep, walking willingly off to the slaughter and cheerfully behaving in the most nonsensical manner in order to please their “shepherds.”
These are the types who become cannon fodder for their political and military
leaders, the ones who shout, “I will follow any order that is given to me,” as
was the case in Germany in the ‘30’s and as is still the case in many nations
today (including most of the members of the Russian military though some are finally rebelling against Putin's Hitlerian orders).
Threes are the ones who proudly proclaim that they are “willing to die
for god, for country, for their beliefs, for their concepts, for their leader”
or for any one of a thousand other “causes” that are dreamed up as a result of
the egomania of the controlling personas who influence Sixes. Nationalism and a sense of supremacy and xenophobia reign in their minds. (Persons on the right in the U.S. are no different. See them following the orders of an authoritarian ruler in their attempted overthrow of the government during the Jan 6 insurrection.)
WHY PERSONALITY TYPE SIX INTERRUPTS HAPPINESS
Their personality can leave Sixes in a constant state of hyper-vigilance. They can become bad-tempered, paranoid, controlling, rigid, defensive, disparaging, and volatile. Identified with body and personality, they can become obsessed with obtaining a sense of security (but trusting in leaders or leaving it to the authorities to protect them rather than being independent, rather than meeting their relative existence needs themselves, and instead of finding truth themselves as opposed to taking the word of leaders who would control them).
Often, these types are self-contradictory. Typically the types who are most often loyal to religious leaders, to political leaders, and to a god, they ironically claim on one hand that they “are turning it all over to god” while occasionally admitting on the other hand that “god will not do for you what you can do for yourself.”
They will give blind loyalty to their politicians but can become stressed and bitter when (a) their politicians fail them but when (b) they still feel driven to continue to support them or their ruinous policies.
Because of their obsession with security, their basic, constant desire is to seek out support and guidance from others, mostly those they see as authorities. Being so dependent gives controlling persons the ability to manipulate Sixes quite easily.
Losing all confidence in their own abilities, they can reach a point where they can do nothing without getting advice or approval from the figures they respect as “experts” or “authorities.”
They can become burdened by doubt and will question their own judgment while refusing to question the judgment of the authorities they remain loyal to and dependent upon.
How blind can such dependent and / or co-dependent “Loyalists” actually be? Being drawn as they are to religion, they can see no contradiction in such teachings as “God loves you unconditionally but He will also subject you to eternal torture in the flames of hell.”
Thus they become studies in contradiction, sometimes following rules but at other times breaking rules and then trying to hide that conduct. They can be fearful at times and at other times can confront their fears, but only with assistance from their advisors. (Is it becoming clear why so many are prone to accept dualities as truth?)
They seldom have an ability to “make up their minds about anything” and are constantly under the pressure of being pushed in one direction while being pulled in another.
They often worry and are always on guard - watching out for danger and fearing that persons are out to take advantage of them. That leaves them susceptible to such lies as “I will take care of you for all your life” or “I can show you the way to save your soul and to have eternal life.”
Sixes are especially drawn to those who make the illogical claim that they know how to provide continuity for the body-mind-personality triad. Who could possibility be happy with those personality traits and the behavior they inspire?
FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY TYPE SIX EFFECTS VIA REALIZATION
Realized, the Type Six will no longer be obsessed with a search for support and guidance. The desire for support will dissolve as independence manifests. The search for external guidance ends as contact with the inner resource manifests.
Being in touch with reality restores sanity, and being restored to sanity frees Type Sixes - and all other personas as well - of their tendency to accept the nonsensical as sensible. Natural, innate awareness will replace dependency on outer authority figures and external “power sources” that have been dreamed up by men over the ages.
Magical, supernatural thinking will end and then the (former) Sixes will live naturally instead. True independence, the prerequisite for true contentment and even happiness to happen, will manifest.
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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"
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"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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