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(Believers, Non-Believers, and “No-Belief-ers”)
“-ISM’S” and Personality, continued
Personality - the belief that “I am this” or “I am that” - must be understood completely in order to be discarded completely as an identity and to be eliminated as the key hidden motivator of dualistic thoughts and words and actions.
Further, realization cannot happen unless the seeker understands personality; understands how personality drives persons via misery-producing desires and fears; understands the full impact of personality on the relative existence; understands how it generates a sense of dis-ease and separation;
understands how personality produces emotional instability; and understands how it blocks any and all opportunity to know the Oneness (reinforcing instead the false belief in “different-from” and “better-than” and “higher than” and “apart from”).
One of the most ancient of all methods used to “treat” the sicknesses that are generated by personality is the non-dual understanding, and the Non Duality-Enneagram connection is ancient as well, though the enneagram or enneagram-like revelations that were a part of the ancient teachings appeared in a variety of versions.
The science-based
version used here is relatively new, now offering the ancient understanding
with more clarity and validity than ever before and allowing the transitioning
beyond personality-identification to happen more quickly and efficiently for
many seekers of Full Realization.
That said, the kind of information that is revealed by the testing and
personality typing that is employed here is the information that non-dual
guides have shared for hundreds and thousands of years, making the
understanding of one’s personality (actually, “personalities”) central to the realization
process.
It is one thing to speak of personality in the most general of terms, but when persons are shown on a scale of 1-100 the exact rate of their personality-based anger or pride or lust or laziness, then more awareness seems to come (which allows for many the ability to detach from the personalities that are blocking the “path” to realization).
To understand the Non Dual-Enneagram linkage, consider some of the historical background, with gratitude to the early teachers such as Evagrius and Ichazo and to the more recent instructors that are versed in the use of the Enneagram (called by some “a matrix of personality structures that recognizes nine observable points of view” among persons).
To understand the historical background is to understand how persons become separated from the essence and authenticity; how that separation results in passions that generate the most despicable “personality defects” imaginable, relatively speaking;
and why the non-dual “path” has become necessary as a means by which persons can “re-connect” with the essence, with authenticity, and with Real Love.
Ichazo, who early on made the link between the non-duality teachings and the
understandings that can be revealed via the Enneagram, said:
“We have to distinguish between [humans] in essence [vs. how they are] in ego
or personality. In essence, every [human] is perfect, fearless, and in a loving
unity with the entire cosmos;
there is no conflict within the[human] between head, heart, and stomach or between the [human] and others. Then something happens: the ego begins to develop, there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity, and [humans] fall from essence into personality.”
(Beliefs Rooted in Personality and “-ISM’S,”
Part “A”)
1. There are those who are truly seeking peace.
2. There are those who are not seeking peace because they are attached to
control and are addicted to the excitement of chaos in an effort to relieve a
dull existence of its tedium and boredom and depression and monotony.
3. In an effort to escape monotony, both chaos and dualism seem appealing.
4. For those truly seeking peace, it cannot happen unless one is freed from
belief in and attachment to any “-ism.”
5. Nor can peace happen unless one is freed from belief in any false identity
or role or personality or personas because they are the prerequisite for misery
and the driving force behind all suffering.
6. The peace / “-ism” dilemma is this: attachment to “-ism’s” reinforces
attachment to “-ism”-related personas, and “-ism”-related personas reinforce
attachment to “-ism’s.”
Example #1:
“We are a helping, civilizing people when we invade nations with their
backwards populations and share our advanced culture with them,” which actually
means “we have a history of imposing our high cultural standards upon lesser
people to our economic advantage.”
To assume the role of “The Helping, Civilizing People” reinforces attachment to colonialism; colonialism reinforces the false belief that the invaders are “helping” and “civil.” That is not unlike the parent who says . . .
“I am disciplining
you by whipping you because I love you” while the child is thinking, “Then just
stop loving me, you ignorant ass. Your version of ‘love’ is killing me.”
Example #2:
“We (Jews / Christians / Muslims) are the only ones whose beliefs are right”
reinforces belief in and attachment to Judaism / Protestantism or Catholicism /
Islamism. Attachment to Judaism / Protestantism or Catholicism / Islamism, in turn,
reinforces the false belief that “I am a Jew” or “I am a Christian” or “I am a
Muslim.”
Such beliefs, in
turn, support duality and a sense of “separation from” and “better-than-ment”
and “different-from-ness,” and those concepts and false identities and drivers
of attachment to “-ism’s,” in turn, have resulted in more murdering than any
other single factor in human history.
7. Attachment to “-ism’s” will always nurture duality; distortion; illusion;
delusion; learned ignorance; varying degrees of psychic unhealthiness as a
result of personality disorders;
a variety of
neuroses; an assortment of psychoses and full-blown insanity; and the resulting
inability to be in touch with reality or Reality either one.
8. So, personality and “-ism’s” work hand-in-hand to support each other and to
nurture attachments and personality-assumption.
9. Personality-assumption robs persons of the ability to choose thoughts and
words and deeds and leaves persons at the mercy of the hidden agendas of
personality (which is the root of all usually-unfounded-fears and all
unmet-and-thus-frustrating desires).
10. Fears and desires generate misery and suffering and rob persons of any
chance of finding peace.
11. To understand personality and which personalities are generating the
personality-trance which traps persons in an endless cycle of misery-producing
thoughts (“mind”-chatter) and which determines subconsciously all words and
actions, the Enneagram provides a tool that can uncover the subconscious
drivers of thoughts and words and deeds and can reveal - on an exact scale -
the degree to which each assumed personality is driving a person.
Thus, the tool that
can assist seekers with seeing which personalities are driving them - and to
what degree and with what consequences - was introduced earlier.
It was noted that Ichazo used Enneagram analysis to show seekers exactly how “the
ego begins to develop, [how] there is a transition from objectivity to
subjectivity, and [how humans] fall from essence into personality.” \
Ichazo saw the
Enneagram as a tool that can be used to examine specifics about the structure
of essence and particularly about the ways in which the qualities of essence “become
distorted, or contracted into states of ego.”
In developing his Enneagram theories, he drew upon the teachings regarding “the
nine divine forms”; the teachings of Plato; the teachings of Plotinus;
and teachings by early mystics who focused their studies on “the loss of the divine forms in ego consciousness” (those forms including tolerance, humility, sincerity, gratitude, non-attachment, courage, patience, temperance, and discernment).
Therein lies the
core non-dual message: when trapped in “an ego-state / personality
consciousness” as opposed to being free as a result of awareness of the essence
and authenticity, then tolerance, humility, sincerity, gratitude,
non-attachment, courage, patience, temperance, and discernment will never
manifest during the AM-ness.
The opposites of the “divine forms,” in the course of their travels from Greece
to Egypt over the course of a century, became distorted and reduced by religion
to “seven deadly sins” which pointed at the means by which “the divine forms”
became distorted into the so-called “sins” of anger, pride, envy, avarice,
gluttony, lust, and sloth.
Ichazo’s non-dual
message that was delivered with a focus on personality and “personality-driven
defects” also drew from the teachings of the Kabbala, but his key contribution
as far as “non-dualists” are concerned was in discovering how these “divine forms”
and their corresponding distortions connected with the already-existing
Enneagram symbol and with human thinking, feeling, and instinct.
With that understanding, he showed how a person loses both awareness and the
sense of pure presence, falling away from essence into the trance of the
personality; how the loss of awareness becomes a person’s ego-fixation; how the
loss of contact with essence and authenticity eliminates tolerance, humility,
sincerity, gratitude, non-attachment, courage, patience, temperance, and
discernment;
and how the loss of
contact with the essence and authenticity sets the stage for persons to be
driven by their “characteristic passion” (or “passions” or “personality traits”),
including wrath and resentment and anger; pride; deceit; melancholia and
jealousy and envy; greed and avarice; panic and cowardice; conceit and
gluttony; lust; and indifference or laziness.
The link with the non-dual message is this: when one loses contact with the
essence and with authenticity and falls into a personality trance, then the
combined effects of
(1) that loss of contact with the essence and authenticity and
(2) the subsequent identification with body and mind and personality become so acute that the person’s ego-states become preoccupied with recreating the contact.
To be continued.
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The Advanced Seekers' Series (344 pages) is an anthology of four books that share Advaita-based, non-duality pointers that can guide seekers to abide as their original nature. Included in the anthology are
"From the I to the Absolute (A Seven-Step Journey to Reality");
"Consciousness / Awareness: The Nature of Reality Beyond SELF-Realization (Peace Every Day When Abiding As the Absolute)";
"From the Absolute to the Nothingness";
and
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This anthology (438 pages) contains the six books that make up what has been called The Blissful Abidance Series for those seeking to live blissfully and happily for the remainder of the manifestation, including:
“What BLISS is and what BLISS is not”
“There’s No Such Thing As Peace of Mind (There’s Only Peace If You’re ‘Out of Your Mind’)”
“Liberation (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)”
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"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.
