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WHEN SOCIOPATHS AND PSYCHOPATHS RULE
Of the nine basic personality types as defined by the Enneagram Personality Analysis Method, one type above all has had the greatest impact on increasing such relative-existence happenings as abuse (including sexual, mental, emotionally, and physical);
as fighting; as starting wars; as enslaving people; as creating anxiety among the working force in businesses; as inspiring gang formations and the resultant violent gang activity; as creating fixed hierarchies which preserve the highest positions in a society and which trap those at the lower levels in those positions;
as perpetuating a “them vs. us” mentality; as perpetuating “different from” as well as “better than vs. worse than” belief systems; as bastardizing the ranks of political leaders with tyrants and fascists and dictators and tyrants and autocrats;
as setting the stage for discrimination in terms of religious preferences or no religious preferences and sexual preferences and discrimination over age and disabilities and national origin and equal pay and race and skin color and in all duality-based belief systems.
Hence understanding the Type Eight - and how psychically-unhealthy Eights generate the Sociopathic and Psychopathic Personality Disorders - is called for.
The Enneagram Institute (IE) offers this about the Type
Eight Personality (which is the type most likely to develop the Antisocial
Personality Disorder):
Eights are self-confident, strong, and assertive . . . but can also be
egocentric and domineering (which is the potential with all personality
identifications). Eights feel they must control their environment, especially
people, sometimes becoming confrontational and intimidating. Eights typically
have problems with their tempers and with allowing themselves to be vulnerable.
Thayer is a stockbroker who has worked intensively on understanding her Type
Eight personality. She recounts a childhood incident in which she could clearly
see the development of this pattern:
“Much of my tenacity and toughness comes from my Dad. He always told me not to ‘let
anybody push you around.’ It was not okay to cry. I learned to master my weaker
side early on. At the tender age of eight, a huge horse ran away with me. When
an adult caught the horse, I resolutely dismounted without a tear. I could tell
my father was proud.”
[F.: Note, as alluded to earlier, not all Eights develop as a result of abuse.
It is more about programming and conditioning and domestication. A simple
statement from “Dad” can be the impetus, a statement that takes seconds to say
but that can remain in a mind for a lifetime and can drive thoughts and words
and actions.
Note how little is required to set a child off on the path that
leads to the formation of a Type Eight Personality which can eventually lead to
a person’s psychic deterioration that can result in the development of the
Sociopathic Personality Disorder.]
The IE continues: Eights do not want to be controlled or to allow others to
have power over them (their basic fear), whether the power is psychological,
sexual, social, or financial. Much of their behavior is involved with making
sure that they retain and increase whatever power they have for as long as
possible.
An Eight may be a general or a gardener, a small
businessman or a mogul, the mother of a family or the superior of a religious
community. No matter: being “in charge” and leaving their imprint on their
sphere is uniquely characteristic of them.
[F.: Note that Lanza and the Tsarnaev Brothers were about the task of “being in
charge” and “leaving their imprint.”]
The IE: Type Eights often refuse to “give in” to social convention, and they
can defy fear, shame, and concern about the consequences of their actions.
Although they are usually aware of what people think of them, they do not let
the opinions of others sway them. They go about their business with a steely
determination that can be awe inspiring, even intimidating to others.
[F.: If you have seen the tape of the Tsarnaev Brothers on their way to placing
and discharging their bombs, you do not see “evil personified,” as some commentators
have claimed. You saw the sociopath’s and / or the psychopath’s “steely
determination.”]
The IE: Because they fear that they will be rejected (divorced, humiliated,
criticized, fired, or harmed in some way), Eights attempt to defend themselves
by rejecting others first.
[F.: Their belief is that the best defense is a good offense, so Adam Lanza and
the Tsarnaev Brothers eventually went the offensive route.]
The IE: The result is that average Eights become blocked in their ability to
connect with people or to love since love gives “the other” power over them,
reawakening their basic fear.
The more Eights build up their egos in order to protect themselves, the more
sensitive they become to any real or imaginary slight to their self-respect,
authority, or preeminence. The more they attempt to make themselves impervious
to hurt or pain (whether physical or emotional), the more they “shut down”
emotionally to become hardened and rock-like.
F.: As Eights become more stressed and more driven by the egotism-supported
ego-states / personalities / personas that they have assumed, they can
disintegrate through several levels. The final five levels of deteriorating
psychic health, as Eights become more stressed and egocentric, reveal the
following:
From the IE:
Level 5: Begin to dominate their environment, including others: want to feel
that others are behind them, supporting their efforts. Swaggering, boastful,
forceful, and expansive: the “boss” whose word is law. Proud, egocentric, want
to impose their will and vision on everything, not seeing others as equals or
treating them with respect.
Level 6: Become highly combative and intimidating to get their way:
confrontational, belligerent, creating adversarial relationships. Everything a
test of wills, and they will not back down. 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, possibly also band together
against them.
Level 7: Defying any attempt to control them, become completely ruthless,
dictatorial, “might makes right.” The criminal and outlaw, renegade, and con-artist.
Hard-hearted . . . and potentially violent.
Level 8: Develop delusional ideas about their power, invincibility, and ability
to prevail: megalomania, feeling omnipotent, invulnerable. Recklessly
over-extending self.
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. Vengeful,
barbaric, murderous. Sociopathic tendencies. Generally corresponds to the
Antisocial Personality Disorder.
F.: It takes years for personality to develop and then deteriorate to the point
that persons feel no sense of the Oneness, no sense of the unicity, no ability
to understand Maharaj’s pointer that “wisdom is knowing that I am nothing . . .
Love is knowing that I am everything.”
It can take years to become “hard-hearted” and “violent”; however, as mentioned in prior posts, some counselors nowadays are seeing five and six and seven and eight-year-olds who are showing near-full-blown sociopathic behavior.
[Consider the recent case of a six-year old who shot his teacher in a Virginia school.]
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.
