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THE EFFECTS OF PERSONALITY ON THOUGHTS AND WORDS AND ACTIONS ARE DAMAGING ENOUGH, BUT THE EFFECTS OF A DISINTEGRATED PERSONALITY ARE EVEN GREATER
Yesterday’s
post ended with this:
What does psychic health look like in contrast to average or unhealthy psychic
health as one begins to disintegrate? The following is an example from the
Enneagram Institute that shows what happens as psychic disintegration moves
through the nine levels. This particular example applies to a Personality Type
Eight.
I’m using Type Eight as an example because so many persons deal with them on a daily basis. They are the business owners and the bosses - bosses who - when stressed or when their personality disintegrates, are the unpredictable, aggressive, controlling and hostile people in charge.
They are the violent and assertive and uncompromising cops who are in the news so often.
They are politicians who want to be in control of everything . . . all persons, all places, all things.
They are the lawyers who attack witnesses, including the victims assault or rape rather than their clients.
They are the road ragers who drive like maniacs and who think that everything should treat them like ambulance drivers and pull to the side of the road the let the raging Eight speed through traffic.
At their worse, they exhibit sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies. Relationships with them always exact a heavy toll.
Here are the various levels which they - and all persons - can go through:
Type Eight - Healthy Levels of the Psyche
Level 1 (At Their Best): They can become self-restrained and magnanimous,
merciful and forbearing, mastering self through their self-surrender to a
higher authority. They can be courageous, willing to put self in serious
jeopardy to achieve their vision and have a lasting influence. They may achieve
true heroism and historical “greatness.”
Level 2: They can be self-assertive, self-confident, and strong: many have been
taught to stand up for what they need and want. They can exhibit a resourceful,
“can do” attitude and passionate inner drive.
Level 3: They can be decisive, authoritative, and commanding: they can be a
natural leader whom others look up to. They can take initiative and make things
happen: they can - relatively speaking - champion people, be a provider, be protective,
and be honorable, carrying others with their strength.
Type Eight - Average Healthy Levels of
the Psyche
Level 4: For them, they can practice self-sufficiency, financial independence;
having enough resources are important concerns: they - relatively speaking - can
become enterprising, pragmatic, “rugged individualists,” wheeler-dealers. They can
engage in risk-taking and become hardworking, denying their own emotional
needs.
Level 5: They can begin to dominate their environment, including others: they want
to feel that others are behind them, supporting their efforts. They can become swaggering,
boastful, forceful, and expansive, the “boss” whose word is law. The can be overly-proud
and egocentric, wanting to impose their will and vision on everything, not
seeing others as equals or treating them with respect.
Level 6: They can become highly combative and intimidating to get their way, being
confrontational and belligerent as they inspire adversarial relationships.
Everything becomes a test of wills, and they will not back down. They use
threats and reprisals to get obedience from others, to keep others off balance
and insecure; however, unjust treatment makes others fear and resent them and
possibly also band together against them.
Type Eight - Unhealthy Levels of the
Psyche
Level 7: Defying any attempt to control them, they become completely ruthless and
dictatorial, believing that “might makes right.” They become the criminal, the outlaw,
the renegade and the con-artist (whom they hate).. They become hard-hearted,
immoral and potentially violent.
As a cop,
they will be glad to kill unarmed people for what they take to be “the greater good.”
Level 8: They develop delusional ideas about their power, invincibility, and
ability to prevail: they suffer from megalomania, feeling omnipotent and feeling
invulnerable. They recklessly over-extend themselves.
Level 9: If they get in danger, they may brutally destroy everything that has
not conformed to their will rather than surrender to anyone else. They can become
vengeful, barbaric, and even murderous. They sociopathic tendencies are revealed.
They will display why they are generally diagnosed as having the Antisocial or Pathological
Personality Disorder.
Note: Those are not the “Nine Levels Of Good And Evil.” Those are the nine
levels which trace personality disintegration from a healthy psychic level to
an unhealthy psychic level.
Here’s a non-dual consideration regarding part of an earlier point offered to a
seeker: several emails were received from people who ignored the request to
hang on to their comments, some of them charging that if I didn’t understand
that 20-year-old Adam Lanza was both evil and crazy - having shot his mom,
twenty elementary-age-children, six staff members at a school, and himself -
then I was the insane one.
In fact, the non-dual take on insanity is rather unique, seeing that insanity
is rooted in a belief in hierarchies and ego and a competitive “us vs. them”
mentality which sets the stage for some persons to act out as the school
shooter did.
The insanity picked up by the shooter in a dysfunctional home was accompanied
by a series of ego-crushing events that set up a competition, and competitions
usually involve rivalry and antagonism and struggle and fighting and clashing;
with the insane who have withdrawn from society, though, the competition takes
place in the warped “mind” of an individual. Such was the case with that
shooter.
For example, reports are that the shooter had no friends, having been allowed
by his mother to drop out of school and become “home schooled” because - as she
reported - “he could not deal with school.”
Another report is that his home schooling amounted to his being allowed to sit in the windowless basement of his home, playing for many hours each day a variety of violent video games from the multi-thousand-dollar collection that his mother had bought for him, games in which he killed people.
(There
is no connection being drawn between such games and violent acts. The
conclusions of the research vary. There is a connection between parents who are
not available and who use such games as electronic babysitters so that the
parents can go do their thing.)
Lanza had no friends. He had no girlfriend. He had no relationships with
teachers. He had no educational successes. He had been assigned by events - or
had adopted the persona himself - of “The Loser” . . . “The Failure.”
That
may have come about as a result of his personality disorders and an enabling
mother and other factors, but it set the stage for a mental competition that
played out like this in that twisted mind:
“I am in last place in friend-accumulation. I am in last place in
girlfriend-accumulation. I am in last place in accumulating scholastic
accomplishments and the ‘attaboys’ that others receive.”
Thus,
the stage was set for a competition that he wanted to win so he would no longer
be in last place - in at least one category or another. And the mind that had
undergone a 20-year process of warping eventually found something he could do
that would made him #1. What did he find?
His mother’s preoccupation with firearms was shared with him, so he began to
focus on shooting. His mother had taken him again to the gun range for target
practice just days before the mass killings. When not at the range, the video
games he played allowed him to shoot “virtual-reality people.”
With a growing focus on guns and shooting people, he began to explore instances
involving mass murderers who were “#1” in their involvement with guns and
shooting people, the use of his computer having been totally unsupervised.
That
led him to find information on Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik who, on 22 July
2011, bombed government buildings in Oslo that killed eight people, followed by
a mass shooting at a camp on an island where he killed an additional sixty-nine
people, mostly teenagers.
Now a competitive goal could be set: Breivik was, in modern times, #1 as a mass
killer. His total: 77 dead. Adam Lanza, in order to take the #1 spot away from
Breivik, needed to kill at least 78 people. Then the 20-year-old who was dead
last at friend-accumulation, at girlfriend-accumulation and at accumulating
scholastic accomplishments and ‘attaboys’ would become #1 at something . . . specifically,
mass murder.
The self-centered basis of the competition advanced: in the area of
accumulating friends and a girlfriend and scholastic achievement and “attaboys,”
Lanza was at the bottom of the dualistic hierarchy.
He
was dead last in having his former ego-states supported by ego-boosting
feedback. He was dead last in regards to the stuff of ego and egotism,
including “self-worth” and “self-esteem” and “self-love” and “a positive
self-image.”
But now he had a plan that was going to move him to the top in a global
category: the highest number of people killed by a modern-day mass murderer.
And
THAT is the stuff of duality, of false self, of persona identification, of
self-ish-ness, of belief in a hierarchy, of the belief that one’s place on a
dreamed-up hierarchy matters, and of a complete absence of any sense at all of
the Oneness.
Thus, those with this understanding can see that among the insane, even a
remote understanding of the Oneness that allows for an understanding of Real
Love is absent; therefore, what many take to be “hatred” and “evil” involves to
one degree or another a failure to understand Maharaj’s pointer that
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything . . . .”
Lanza was not at-one with the children he intended to slaughter in his plan to
finally be #1 at something. Were they the “others” in his “me vs. all others”
mentality? Possibly, to some degree. But more than anything, they were the
means to an end, pawns in the final competition that would make him #1;
then,
his egotism told his multiple ego-states that he could be remembered for many
generations to come. Finally, the fame and recognition that ego and egotism
long for was no farther away than the short drive from his home to an
elementary school.
The time was nearing to bring on the competition and address with extreme,
duality-based irrationality all of the frustrated and unmet “needs” of his
ego-states. Crazy? Yes. Insane? Yes. Trapped in the neuroses and psychoses that
come when personality disorders are allowed to run rampant? Yes.
(Do you see how the explanation that any given event is rooted in “evil” leads
to vast oversimplification and preempts any chance of understanding the entire
chain of causation involved?)
The dysfunctionalism and ignorance and stupidity and insanity which drive adults
to take a child’s blank tablet and to write on it the most insane and dualistic
and nonsensical beliefs and ideas and concepts and notions and thoughts and
opinions and judgments and views and perspectives, year after year after year,
is the architect of the resulting ignorance and stupidity and insanity that
generate such widespread pain and misery and suffering all around the
globe.
No matter which of the nine personality types one might be dealing with, that person's thoughts and words and actions will be mad; ergo, dealing with anyone being driven by the agendas of personality identifications will be maddening.
Why do adults set their children up for that? Because crazy cannot spot crazy, though it can most
assuredly pass itself on. The Ultimate Medicine is available, but those who do
not have a clue that they are Ultimately Sick will never seek that Medicine.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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