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(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.”
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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 EIGHT
The Relative Effects of Personality: Fears, Desires and Interrupted Happiness:
Type Eight
For those who are awake and aware and conscious to any degree - whether already realized or still seeking full realization - a review of certain presently well-known Type Eights can give students of the Enneagram (and what it can offer non-dualists regarding freedom from personality identifications) what unhealthy Eights look like in action. The list can include:
Dr. Phil, Mark Cuban, Bernie Sanders, Clint Eastwood, Sam Elliott, Adolf Hitler, Stalin, Alec Baldwin, Mel Gibson, Donald Trump, Vladimir Vladimirovic Putin,
Alexander Lukashenko, Xi Jinping, Adel Fattah al- Sisi, Kim Jong-un, Abdullah Azzi al Saud, Mohammed bin Salman, Recep Erdogan, and some 47 other rulers of countries around the globe.
By profession, these have a higher than usual rate of Type Eights: business owners; members of the military; members of law enforcement (who often served in the military at some point); politicians; lawyers, and many sports figures; sales directors and directors in any other field; advertising executives; top ranked people in finance; and marketing strategists to name but a few. One could also include Type Twos who have disintegrated.
So, let’s discuss Type Eights.
The following pointer was offered when a protégé mentioned remote tribes people and some unique qualities about their language:
The personal “I” is avoided by the members of certain members of indigenous tribes because they consider its use to be a sign of arrogance. Find a person who is arrogant and you’ll have found a person self-absorbed and totally occupied with the “I,” with the “ego” (Latin for “I”).
The protégé continued: A Jiukiukwe child would not say, “I want water” but would report instead, “There is thirst.” The focus is on the thirst, not on the wants or desires or needs of a personal "I" - of a persona or a "personality.”
This post will focus on the basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Eight - “The Boss / The Challenger / The Asserter” The Controller” which is another of the types who is often driven by arrogance and by the false perception of the wants or desires or needs of a personal "I"—of a persona or a "personality." Russ Hudson pointed out the following about Personality Type Eights:
BASIC FEAR AND BASIC DESIRE
Type Eights have a BASIC FEAR of being harmed, violated or controlled by others
Type Eights have a BASIC DESIRE to protect themselves, to gain control of their lives, and to control all other persons
THE IMPACT OF THAT PERSONALITY TYPE ON THE RELATIVE EXISTENCE
The observation that “The Bully is really a very frightened individual” can apply to Type Eights. They often become “The Boss” or “The Assertive One” in order to be in control.
In their fear of being harmed or violated or controlled, they work diligently to place themselves in positions of authority. Once there, they can become insensitive, aggressive, and self-centered. As a result, they (ironically) harm, violate, or try to control others.
Peace is never a goal for these fighters. They will take any steps required to appear to be strong and thereby avoid feeling dependent or weak. They can become blunt, impatient, resentful, demanding, defensive, intolerant, and over-reactive.
WHY THE PERSONALITY TYPE EIGHT INTERRUPTS HAPPINESS
Ultimately, these "warriors" can reach a state of fatigue that is debilitating mentally, emotionally, and physically. To assume the ego-state (that is, the persona) of “Chairman of the Board of the Universe” leads to behavior that becomes very tiring.
At least in a boxing match the fighters brawl for three minutes but then sit down and rest for one minute. Type Eights never take a break from engagement and hostility if they feel they are not in total control of all of the people they must deal with, of all places wherever they are, and of all situations.
To be embroiled in identification with the personas of “The Boss” and “The Challenger of All That Seems a Threat” and “The One Who is in Charge of Space and Time” will eventually take a heavy toll.
Type Eights wear themselves out and wear out people around them as a result of being so forceful, so insensitive, so hyper-vigilant, and so self-absorbed.
In the office, their bluntness and “bottom line” approach might generate profits for a time, but their overbearing nature will eventually produce an environment of fear and hatred and passive-aggressive conduct among workers that becomes counter-productive in the end.
In traffic, they are overly-aggressive, going into a rage if anyone tries to enter into “their” space. In “personal relations,” they are dictatorial. Their belief that they are in charge and don’t have to “put up with anything” leaves them completely intolerant.
At their worst, these megalomaniacs become so hard-hearted that they can become ruthless. Just like the non-realized, unhealthy Type Threes, Type Eights can “wish people dead” or actually become murderous.
Also like Threes, when totally absorbed in the worst traits of their personality, they can become sociopaths. Who could possibility be happy with those personality traits and the behavior they inspire?
Some minimize the true degree of an Eight’s sickness by labeling him or her as a “narcissist.” While narcissism is a part of the picture, the typical Eight’s psychological issues run far deeper and are far more serious.
FREEDOM FROM PERSONALITY TYPE EIGHT EFFECTS VIA REALIZATION
While realization comes as rarely to unhealthy Type Eights as it comes to unhealthy Type Threes and unhealthy Type Sixes, it can happen. If they live long enough and suffer the consequences of their personality enough, Eights may become tired enough to seek another way.
Should they follow a “path” to full realization, they - just as happens with all personas who abandon personality - can accept the vulnerabilities and limitations of the physical body and stop feeling the constant fear of threat.
No longer self-absorbed, they can know the unicity and can care about “the welfare of others” (relatively speaking).
They can become aware and can live deliberately but spontaneously, yet their spontaneity is of a nature that is diametrically opposite that of their spontaneous raging from days past.
As with all who realize, their conduct during the remainder of the AS IF living can take on the flavor of what dualists call “moral behavior.” Why?
They had lived with the fear of being harmed, of being violated, or of being controlled by others. By overcoming their false perception that everything is a threat - and by relinquishing identification with the physical body - they can also abandon automatically their false perception that they must fight constantly in order to protect themselves.
WHO (what ego-state or states) are believed in and lead to the assumption that they need to be protected? Their
desire to defend (by engaging, controlling, raging, fighting, dominating and
overcoming) dissolves if full realization happens. Their sense of entitlement can diminish.
What are the odds? Low. Very low.
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"
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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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