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SEEKING: WHY, WHAT AND HOW?
“Billions of humans are each living a life that is nothing less than a totally staged, performative act. Understanding that, it can be understood why sages throughout the ages have suggested that seekers prioritize the search for authenticity (which actually requires abandoning phoniness).”
“A false identity (being false) can only speak the false; the pure universal consciousness - on the other hand - can only speak the truth.”
--Floyd Henderson
They are Type Sevens who are connected to the Type One (which can bring with it the OCD PD), usually to an extreme degree, so those with an addiction will think obsessively and talk obsessively and behave obsessively throughout the day.
See why those who were drinking obsessively but enter a program to find freedom from their use of alcohol become just as obsessive over “their concept of God” or “their program” or “meetings: or “their Big Name Speakers” or “their sponsors” or “their group and its members”?
Once more, there’s a case of a person’s main disorder (which he or she needs to be freed from) actually being reinforced instead.
Rather than suggesting that treatment should be sought to free such persons of their OCD PD, those with such obsessive personality disorders are merely encouraged to develop new, substitute obsessions.
Recall the testimony in that regard from the woman who reported here that she and her children – after witnessing “an obsessive ass” for many, many years and after now having witnessing “the obsessive saint” for a little over a year – had all decided that “the obsessive saint” is less tolerable than was “the obsessive ass.”
All seeking can involve an obsessive personality which can result in the search becoming the be-all-and-end-all and which can result in levels of self-absorption (or supposed “Self”-Absorption) and which can turn a simple process into a long and arduous and endless “journey” to nowhere while believing that one has arrived somewhere, or “Somewhere Truly Special.”
The example in this neighborhood which offers the closest example to full realization and nisarga living is provided by the deer. They have no personal identification, no mind, and no anger.
(Okay, granted, mess with a buck’s fawn, as some children in this area have learned the hard way, and sure, the deer will kick butt; otherwise, that deer will remain at ease . . . calm . . . relaxed).
So, WHY do deer seek? Because they are in contact with their “inner resource” and thus know intuitively and instinctively know exactly what is missing and exactly what they have a need for as long as the manifestation continues; moreover, they want nothing more than the minimum requirements.
[Programmed and conditioned and domesticated and acculturated and indoctrinated and brainwashed persons no longer have that contact, so they require a guide that can assist them in re-connecting with that inner guru or inner resource from which their parents and cultures separated them.]
Next, as deer seek the basics - water and plant food and shelter - HOW do they seek that which is truly needed throughout the Am-ness?
They seek calmly, slowly, quietly, unobtrusively, selflessly, "limitedly" rather than endlessly, and, therefore, moderately, reasonably, sensibly, sanely, non-continuously, and only to a moderate degree. Once they meet their basic needs, they stop seeking.
Finally, WHAT does a deer seek? A tree with heavy growth to provide some shelter during a storm; trees on a hot day that offer the cool, blue shade; the silence; the peace; the quiet; plant food; a mate to mate with and hang out with during the day and night; and that’s about it.
What are you seeking? More than that? A lot more than that? Nothing as nearly simple as that? Really? Hummm.
To continue:
It was seen that HOW seekers seek is usually . . . obsessively.
What are some of the markers of the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
Obviously, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder symptoms usually include both obsessions and compulsions. Obsession is of the mind, and that which is obsessed over - and over and over and over again - will usually, eventually, lead to compulsive behaviors (meaning uncontrolled and uncontrollable behaviors).
Obsession involves constant thinking; compulsion involves the action that is inspired by obsessive thinking.
Obsessive persons function as if mesmerized or hypnotized; they are excessively driven, extremely compelled, and markedly fanatical, totally in the grip of their extreme beliefs which lead to their compulsive, radical actions.
They are enormously vulnerable to being radicalized (by cults, cultures, sects, factions, extremists, religions, spiritual groups, and all others who engage in programming, re-programming, indoctrination and brainwashing).
They are susceptible to fads and crazes and trends, and if a group or movement is in the news, they will often align with them in order to share in the spotlight or to become famous . . . or infamous. Actually, either one will do with those types.
Like a dog stopping at every bush or mailbox to leave its mark, so too will those with OCD behave in a similar fashion, wanting to leave their mark on the world but actually just making a mess everywhere they go (imagining themselves to really be the roles they have assumed: “The Super Reformer of Persons” and “The Super Reformer of the World”).
Those with the OCD Personality Disorder are highly-dedicated, fervent, fixated, zealous, and insanely passionate about their belief systems; they are besotted (that is smitten with) whatever they are focused on.
It is as if they are infatuated or love-struck (but not with people as much as with their burning, impassioned, emotionally-intoxicating beliefs).
They are usually perfectionistic, and they see themselves and their beliefs as being perfect. They are judgmental and moralistic and believe that they are always right; thus, they suffer from the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (or, The God-Complex Disorder), and - in the extreme - believe that they have the right to decide who lives and who dies. They are inflexible, dogmatic, critical of others, overly-serious, controlling, anxious, and jealous.
Fit the bill? Fit even a part of that bill? Then the suggestion is to seek professional help, not help from armchair psychologists or amateurs. Obsessive persons cannot treat OCD. They reinforce it.
Are you in a group that is telling you that you have an obsession of the mind? They may be spot on, but do not expect them to provide a proper treatment for that disorder. They have it in spades themselves.
Living with someone with OCD? The suggestion is also to seek professional help. Not only will you never find bliss, if that is something you are seeking. You will not even find a slight degree of happiness in the environment those with OCD create.
They will have you walking on eggshells, at the least; or, they may prove to be quite dangerous because - whether below the surface or right out in the open - their anger is real and is extreme. At their very core, it is anger that drives them (and often drives them in insane and unrestrained ways).
Like a Borderline Personality type, they can be kind or they can be mean in order to get their way, but they will most assuredly be manipulative and scheming and calculating.
In the extreme, they can hurt, maim, or kill those who resist their beliefs and their efforts to control and their desire to change everyone to be just like them.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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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.
