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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 . . .
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, continuing with . . .
PERSONALITY TYPE SEVEN
The Relative Effects of Personality: Fears, Desires and Interrupted Happiness:
Type Seven
“Body,” “mind,” and “personality” are concepts, rooted in ideas dreamed up - by controlling persons and passed on today via programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication, brainwashing and indoctrination.
Among the masses on the planet, little progress has been made in eliminating belief in concepts and dogma and myths and superstition and magical, supernatural thinking since the early days when an eclipse was perceived to be the result of an action taken by an angry god.
(The same types of explanation are cited by many persons today. Consider how many blamed the angry god of Abraham as the cause of Hurricane Katrina as well as well as all of its subsequent damage and death).
Any discussions of any concepts - including these on personality - are offered, therefore, in the spirit of thorns being provided for use in removing thorns. To see that archetypes, programming, genetics, personality traits and conditioning can drive persons subconsciously and / or unconsciously to think and behave in certain ways is a prerequisite for being free of those subconscious and unconscious influences.
Only by being free of those influences can one move into a state of enlightenment and awareness and then live out the remainder of the manifestation in the type of AS IF living that happens after the consciousness has been re-purified.
Relatedly, the content of this chapter will focus on the basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Seven—“The Adventurer / Enthusiast.” Russ Hudson pointed out the following about Personality Type Sevens:
BASIC FEAR AND BASIC DESIRE
The Type Seven has a BASIC FEAR of being trapped, deprived or in pain (be it mental, emotional, or physical)
The Type Seven has a BASIC DESIRE to be free, to have fulfilled their “need” for exciting or enjoyable activities, and to avoid all pain (be it mental, emotional, or physical)
THE IMPACT OF THAT PERSONALITY TYPE ON THE RELATIVE EXISTENCE
Type Sevens are busy, fun-loving types who enjoy the spontaneous but who hate the routine. While they can be free-spirited at some point, they can eventually deteriorate into excessiveness and becomes escapists.
In the extreme, they can disintegrate into manic compulsiveness, and
their relative existence can become marked by panic attacks and fits of
hysteria and histrionics, often eventually being driven toward escapism via isolating or substance abuse.
Sevens can become the “bliss seekers” of the relative existence or the “bliss seekers” among evangelical extremists or even the “bliss seekers” among those on the non-dual path.
Of course, all such seeking and desiring eventually lead only to more frustration as all perceived (but unreal) “needs” are never fully met.
WHY PERSONALITY TYPE SEVEN INTERRUPTS HAPPINESS
Sevens would rather be excited than happy. They would rather be ecstatic than at peace. They will use activity and “doing” to treat their anxiety and can become “go-ers and do-ers and zoomers” in the style of Types Threes and Sixes and Eights.
Their tendency to “anticipate” leaves them discontented with the present, and even when their anticipated activities eventually come about, Sevens are still frustrated. Why?
When that which was anticipated eventually comes about, it is never as great as what was anticipated; therefore, Sevens are constantly “living in the future” and are, therefore, deprived of living within the moment . . . especially similar in that way to Type Fives (and to any of "the non-realized," actually).
Living in the illusion of their “mental future,” NOW becomes anathema and further separation from reality results. Sevens want to find “that magnificence that IS,” but they are actually in fear that they’ll never find it;
thuse, they can become cynical and can turn to drugs or alcohol to deaden any pain or frustration that they might be feeling.
They can become so determined to avoid all pain and all uncomfortable situations that they can engage in impulsive, insane relative existence conduct to avoid pain and all physical, mental, or emotional discomfort.
That leaves them “emotionally unavailable” in their relative existence “relationships.” They hate commitment and seriousness and confronting and analysis and suffering so much that they, ironically, induce more suffering in their efforts to avoid or to escape.
Eventually, they can become more impulsive, restless, and self-destructive in economic, emotional, or social ways (but their hatred of slowing down and analyzing the things that are driving them and finding out Who / What They Truly Are prevents many Sevens from ever reaching a state of full realization).
Who could possibility be happy with those personality traits and the behavior they inspire?
FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY TYPE SEVEN EFFECTS VIA REALIZATION
If Sevens realize, their basic fear of being trapped disappears. They are able to ask “WHO feels trapped?” and are able to understand that no “one” exists to feel trapped.
The fear of being deprived ends as they are able to ask “WHO feels deprived?” and can then understood that no “one” exists to feel deprived.
And the fear of mental or physical or - especially - emotional pain ends. Why? With realization, feelings are witnessed as they rise and fall, but no ego-states exist that stimulate emotional intoxication.
There is no longer any “one” to “experience” anything. The ego prefers the search, the going, the doing, the zooming. When the “magnificence” which they were searching for is finally found in the "magnificence" of finding authenticity and then living in an AS IF style, then ego dissolves.
The overwhelming pain of the frustrating search (which in the past had ended so often in futility) comes to an end.
Only the re-purified consciousness can result in the bliss that the Sevens had sought for so long and so vigorously. The desire to be free ends as freedom truly manifests.
Exciting or enjoyable activities can happen, but even if they don’t (and even if a state of bliss is never maintained) the Sevens can still be content.
And then, for those who could never find enough of what they had been seeking, merely being content suddenly becomes . . . enough.
To be continued.
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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"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
