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THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS
(To continue with some relevant comments from the Cleveland Clinic in their Q and A section regarding DID)
While the clinic does offer some spot-on remarks about DID, they are no different from the majority of clinic and therapist and psychiatrists who miss the boat completely regarding DID.
Consider:
Is there a test for DID?
The Clinic: “There isn’t a single test that can diagnose DID. A healthcare provider will review your symptoms and your personal health history. They may perform tests to rule out underlying physical causes for your symptoms, such as head injuries or brain tumors.
“Symptoms of DID often show up in childhood, between the ages of 5 and 10. But parents, teachers or healthcare providers may miss the signs. DID might be confused with other behavioral or learning problems common in children, such as ADHD. For this reason, DID usually isn’t diagnosed until adulthood.”
The fact: there are some treatment facilities that use questionnaires which allow some sufferers of DID to identify where their disorder is manifesting along a continuum the degree to which they can relate to some of the more extreme cases of DID.
The questions usually do apply to the most drastic consequences of dissociation.
To clarify: There is likely no one on the planet that has not been assigned certain false identifications which block them from associating with authenticity, but that does not mean that everyone on the planet experiences the most extreme versions probed by the questionnaires:
Some people have the experience of finding themselves dressed in clothes that they don't remember putting on.
(Never) (Always)
Some people are told that they sometimes do not recognize friends or family members.
(Never) (Always)
Some people have the experience of looking in a mirror and not recognizing themselves.
(Never) (Always)
Those are extreme cases, but some cases are even more extreme though sufferers never forgot dressing nor failed to recognize family members nor failed to recognize the reflection in the mirror.
There is a test which can register both the presence of DID and the degree to which it is manifesting: it is the Enneagram Institute personality inventory. An accurate indicator of the presence of DID can usually be confirmed on the test when - showing up at the same time - are very high scores in the Type Four Personality and the Type Six Personality
On the other hand, no one suffering from DID recognizes what they are actually seeing in a mirror’s reflection.
They are not seeing “themselves” but are seeing the reflection of composite unities.
To review:
In reality, there is no “who-ness,” no WHO-ness,” no “self,” no “Self,” no “you” and no “You.”
Rather than ask, “WHO am I?”
one might ask “What Am I” and “What is this which is temporarily
manifested and which 'I' have been trained to refer to as 'I'?”
WHAT that is is a triad, a composite unity made of three parts. All three parts are constantly coming into the composite unity and leaving the composite unity, so the “I” (or the “you” as some refer to me”) has no continuity at all.
What the composite unity is one second is not the same composite unity the next second. The skin of a human is replaced every 28 days. The stomach lining is replaced every few days. Various parts are always coming and going.
Why else?
Because the three parts of the composite unity are constantly in movement, constantly manifesting in the space formed by the unity and then constantly unmanifesting from that space.
The three parts are:
1. elements which form a temporary plant food body;
2. oxygen circulating into and out of the space formed by the elements;
and
3. conscious-energy which is also manifesting within the space and then unmanifesting.
One of the grandest delusions regarding “the consciousness” is the notion that there is this quantity of consciousness which has existed within “me” since day one. That is a hoax, a complete misunderstanding, rooted in the illusory concept of “memories.”
Consciousness is transferred in a way that scientist Szent-Gyorgyi explained thusly: “What drives life is thus a little electric current, set up by the sunshine.”
Recall the process, the sequence, if you will:
The sunshine interacts with plants, and plants transfer that
sunshine-to-electric-current
(a.k.a., energy, including conscious-energy)
to-composite-unities
when unities consume plants or consume something which ate plants.
As for the elements, the process whereby unities come into existence happens when two already-existing unities enter into an act of friction which propels millions of sperm cells out of one unity and into another unity.
If one sperm among the millions propelled into a second unity wins The Race to the Egg, then the egg might become fertilized as those sperm and egg elements come together.
From that, an expanding number of elements will continue to come together as a unit, as a unified composite of elements, and a third unity may emerge nine months later, in the case of “humans.”
The number of composite unities on the planet is near infinite. “Humans” are composite unities; “birds” are composite unities; “fish” are composite unities; etc., etc., etc.
Those unities are nothing more than elements which provide a space in which air can be circulated temporarily and in which conscious-energy can be circulated temporarily by consuming plants or things which ate plants.
Is it clear that the so-called “parents” of a composite unity did not “create” anything? Their bodies merely and spontaneously circulated elements and air and conscious-energy.
All three of those parts are “what's,” not “who's.”
Thus, neither elements nor conscious-energy have any “who-ness” or “WHO-ness” or “self” or “Self” or “you” or “You.”
All that comes and goes and which forms and temporarily sustains the form of a composite unity will eventually stop coming and stop going.
At that point, the composite
unity will no longer exist as a unit, though the elements etc. will remain
forever, though never together again.
That being the case, when all that came together to form a composite unity eventually all comes apart (See the “Second Law of Thermodynamics”) then nothing about that unit / composite unity and no part of that unity can survive intact.
No gauzy, floating, invisible,
half-bird / half-human “something” will survive the total coming apart of the
unit.
No gauzy, invisible “something” (a.k.a., “soul”) will survive the total coming apart of the unit because it was never among the three parts which were there to begin with.
No self or Self was ever a
part of any composite unity, so how could either of those possibly be a part of
what remains when a composite unity no longer remains?
All of those bogus concepts / false beliefs are rooted in the magical thinking and programming and conditioning which are the tools of religious or spiritual or business or government persons who dreamed up those concepts and beliefs in order to use them to control the masses NOW, not to protect the masses in some LATER existence and other-worldly place.
So, there is no post-manifestation SELF of SELFNESS in any form or variety or mode or manner.
So, when the non-realized look in a mirror, they recognize a composite unity but they have no inkling that the body identification they are engaged in is a total illusion. Indeed, they do not recognize themselves, but not in the way that one totally dissociated from reality cannot understand that the reflection being seen is of a “what,” not a “who.”
The thing about the masses suffering from DID is this: Just as a “functioning alcohol” can function for considerable periods of time - especially when they have enablers at home and work - eventually a toll will be taken.
Similarly, most persons with
DID are “functioning” though they will spread confusion with their mood and
thought instabilities (“I love you; no, wait, I hate you!”) People around them are usually walking on eggshells, so to speak.
People living with DID sufferers or working for DID sufferers are dealing with the type whom Yeshu’a referred to in his pointer from more than 2000 years ago:
“A dual-minded person is
unstable in all ways.” And DID symptoms and effects do only get worse as time passes.
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"
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.
