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THE CURSE OF HUMANKINDS’ RELATIVE EXISTENCE: IDENTIFICATIONS
"Science will someday advance to the point that it will confirm the validity of all [legitimate] non-dual pointers.”
--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Why might seekers be encouraged to focus on and understand the Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Because it is the essence of the non-dual understanding.
Because it is what the wisest among non-dual guides most focused on since the earliest days of sharing pointers about non-duality and since writing about non-duality.
Yes, many tried to associate non-duality with religion. Many have tried to reduce non-duality to some sort of spiritual movement. Maharaj was pulled into those approaches by the ones who influenced him early on. I did the same.
But in both cases, it came to be understood that the Ultimate Sickness is a mind sickness; that it is not a sickness rooted in persons having mastered too little dogma; that it is not a sickness rooted in a spiritual malady; that it is a psychological sickness; and that the Ultimate Medicine, therefore, must address problems centered in the mind.
That means that body and mind and personality identifications must all be understood to be false identities; that all personal identifications are illusions; that mind problems drive persons to dissociate from reality and Reality (that is, from things relative and from THAT).
And that dissociation drives the thoughts and words and actions of persons to be determined not by conscious, wise choices but by false beliefs and false identities and other subconscious influences and agendas.
The science of psychology has advanced to the point that it has made the informed and the wise able to understand what non-duality has been trying to share since the beginning.
Thus, to paraphrase Maharaj, “Science had indeed advanced to the point that it confirms the validity of the core non-dual understanding.”
That includes understanding how personal, WHO-based but false identities have come into being; how they are so widespread; how they remove the ability to make conscious choices;
how one human can be assigned and / or can assume and play the roles involved with 80 or more false identities while believing they are real; how personality defects are the key drivers of persons’ thoughts and words and actions;
how cultures can be led to ignore truth or not seek truth and therefore blindly accept as truth the lies they are taught based in nothing more than faith or laziness;
how there are certain basic personality types / styles which exist among all programmed persons and how scores of other false personal identities can spring forth via acculturation and domestication and brainwashing and indoctrination.
Hence, this series.
Note that DID can share certain traits with the Borderline Personality Disorder. The “split personality” can seem to appear with those suffering from either disorder.
To be dissociated is to be out of touch with reality and authenticity.
Scholastic points out that “sometimes ‘I love you’ can rapidly change to ‘I hate you’ with what seems like little reason.”
It has been said that people with DID often report the experience of severe repeated physical and / or sexual abuse during childhood and also frequently have concurrent symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), including inflicting harmful behaviors (of self or others), impulsive behaviors, and instability in relationships.
One mental health source affirms that “a person with DID will experience the presence of two or more distinct identities or personalities, also known as ‘alters.’ These personalities recurrently take control of the person's behavior and they often experience a loss of memory of what happened while another personality or alter was in control.”
Their moods can also flip instantly. I lived with a woman who was both dissociated and borderline. When I parked my car in the garage after a day of work and headed to the back door to enter the house, I often felt as if I were a bigamist and was entering a house where my two wives were waiting inside.
Some evenings I was greeted by Mrs. Hug; other evening I was greeted by Mrs. Slug. One evening after Mrs. Slug and I has been stuck in a “pretty rough patch,” she had gone into another room. I went into that room and asked if we might talk to try to resolve the issue (whatever the hell it was, totally unknown to either of us).
She stood and walked over to me and put her palms on my cheeks and drew my face to hers and kissed me in what seemed a sincere and most intimate way. Then she said, “Everything is going to be okay,” then turned and returned to where she had being sitting.
I went to bed that night, got up the next morning, looked in on her and she was still asleep, left the house and drove to work. At 10AM when I had a break, I telephoned her and said, “What you did last night was very sweet.”
In a gruff voice she said, “Well forget it! I’m leaving you today. We’re done!” and slammed down the receiver on the home phone into its cradle.
After the initial shock, I reviewed the events. “Let’s see. 10 PM. ‘Everything’s going to be okay.’ 10 AM the next day, ‘I’m leaving you.’ Alrightttttttt. Par for the course. Just one of hundreds of ‘flips’ over the years.”
Ever had a boss compliment you one day and call you in the next and fire you? Ever had a neighbor appear to be super friendly and then curse you out the next?
With Borderlines and with DID’s, the rule of the game is, “I love you . . . I hate you” or as the title of a book by Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus puts it, “I Hate You - Don’t’ Leave Me.”
Of their latest edition, it is said that “after more than three decades, the third edition of I Hate You—Don’t Leave Me now reflects the most up-to-date research”
and
“After more than three decades as the essential guide to borderline personality disorder (BPD), the third edition of I Hate You—Don’t Leave Me now reflects the most up-to-date research that has opened doors to the neurobiological, genetic, and developmental roots of the disorder, as well as connections between BPD and substance abuse, sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress syndrome, ADHD, and eating disorders.
The authors explain: “Inconsistency is the hallmark of BPD. Those with Borderline Personality Disorder are walking paradoxes, human catch 22’s”
and
“For someone with BPD, much of life is a relentless emotional rollercoaster. For those living with, loving, or treating someone with BPD, the trip can seem just as wild, hopeless, and frustrating.”
For those with firsthand experience with a BPD, that last sentence almost reads like an understatement.
With DID tossed into the picture, imagine the chaos. Yeshu’a said over 2000 years ago, “a dual-minded person is unstable in all ways.”
Now yes, dual-mindedness might happen when the belief in two ego-states / personas / alter-egos / false personality identities or personality disorders are taken to be real identities.
Consider what the relative existence is going to be like for the sufferer and the suffering when 20, 30, 40 or more false identities are assumed or assigned and are functioning in the mind of one person. It’s one thing to try to function with, say, an ultra-cerebral, Personality Type One perfectionist.
It’s quite another thing when trying to function in a “relationship” with someone who is beyond cerebral and who is totally cacarebral.
See how widespread DID is among the non-realized masses and then take a guess at what the odds are that most humans will find themselves at some point either being the sufferer, being the suffering, or both.
Never has the call for the non-dual understanding and the call for freedom from the duality of being driven by multiple personalities been so relevant as it is nowadays.
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."
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"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
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