LIBERATION (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)

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LIBERATION (Attaining Freedom from Personality via Realization)

“After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or girl, all your further acquisitions [false identities] are by hearsay.”

--Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Impact of Abiding As a Personality Type Eight On The Relative Existence and the Relative Effects of Personality: Fears, Desires and Interrupted Happiness

This pointer about remote tribes people and their language was offered: 

The personal “I” is avoided by the members of that tribe because they consider its use to be a sign of arrogance. Find a person who is arrogant and you’ll have found a person self-absorbed and totally occupied with the “I,” with the “ego” (Latin for “I”).

For example, a Jiukiukwe, indigenous child would not say, “I want water” but would report instead, “There is thirst.” The focus is on the thirst, not on the wants or desires or needs of a personal “I” - of a persona or a “personality” or a false identity.

This section will focus on the basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Eight - “The Boss / The Challenger / The Asserter / The Sociopath or Psychopath” another of the types that is often driven by arrogance and by the false perception of the wants or desires or needs of a personal “I” - of a persona or a “personality.”

In this series, only the Type Eight calls for a two-day discussion of that personality style rather than the single day given to others.

Why focus on Type Eight when - per the enneagram system of personality analysis - there are nine basic personality types?

1. Because throughout human history, Type Eights have been the most cruel, the most warlike, the most abusive, and the most sociopathic and pathological chaos-generators ever. And that is still the case today

and

2. because if one would find a way to be at peace, one must find a way to block Types Eights from having power.

To vote for an Eight as a political leader is to welcome chaos and fighting and a sense of separation among the population. To support Type-Eight controlled institutions - such as businesses and religions and governments which tolerate and hide abusive behaviors of all sorts - is to welcome and endorse more abuse.

To enter into relationships with Type Eights is to welcome chaos and fighting and a sense of separation. To allow a Type Eight at one end of the spectrum to be a child’s athletic coach or to allow a Type Eight international leader at the other end of the spectrum is to invite problems is either case and in all cases in between.

To be versed in the ways of personality is to be moved along the path to realization and peace.

So, yes, a discussion of the Type Eight which might facilitate a wider understanding of what they are like and what dealing with them is like can free persons of much of the learned ignorance and insanity which sucks persons into accepting Eights’ conduct and the misery and suffering which comes with that.

Consider two Type-Eight controlled institutions which tolerate and hide abuse behaviors: the military and their former members who leave and then receive preferential hiring treatment in law enforcement institutions.

George Carlin said of the rampant but ignored police brutality in the U.S. and around the globe: 

Six policemen arrested a black man and assaulted him with a lamp pole and ripped his intestines out. The police department announced those six officers are going to receive “sensitivity training.”

Carlin continued: “Hey, if you need special training to be told not to jam a large, cumbersome object inside another human being, maybe you’re too screwed up to be on the police force in the first place.”

He said that “they should have two new requirements to be on a police force: intelligence and decency. You never can tell . . . it might just work. It certainly hasn’t been tried yet.”

The same applies to bully politicians, to bully coaches, to bully bosses, to bullies in relationships, to bully sports figures, to bully teachers, to bully students, and to all bullies everywhere.

Is “sensitivity training” what many famous Eights needed?

Do you believe that Type Eight Hitler would have changed if only he’d received some “sensitivity training”?

How about Type Eight Phil McGraw?

Just a little “sensitivity training”?

How about Type Eight Kanye West?

Just a little “sensitivity training”?

How about Type Eight Donald Trump?

Just a little “sensitivity training”?

How about Type Eight Putin?

Just a little “sensitivity training”?

How about Type Eight Jeffrey Epstein?

Just a little “sensitivity training”?

How about Type Eight Bernie Madoff?

Just a little “sensitivity training”?

How about Type Eight Charles Manson?

Just a little “sensitivity training”?

Is every Type Eight as extreme as those on the list above? No, only the one who have not realized and who likely never will. So that leaves . . . ?

Of course there is a spectrum along which the extreme sociopaths and psychopaths can fall. The discussion yesterday and today will make that clear.

Thus, we continue with the following final five levels of deteriorating psychic health, as Eights become more stressed and egocentric. The descriptions below reveal what often shows up during the stages of an Eight’s deterioration:

From the EI: On the way down to the lowest depth of deterioration:

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 what they perceive to be “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. 

It often 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 so “hard-hearted” and “violent”; however, as mentioned in previous posts, some counselors nowadays are seeing young children who are exhibiting near-full-blown sociopathic and / or psychopathic behavior. 

When there is no understanding of non-duality, there is no realization; when there is no realization, there is no sense of the Oneness; when there is no sense of the Oneness, there is no Real Love;

and when there is no Real Love, there is instead ignorance, judging, hatred, resentment, violence, a sense of separate-from-ness, apart-from-ness, different-from-ment and - ironically - a sense of inferiority alongside a sense of superiority and better-than-ment. 

That’s not evil. That’s insane. And that is why Maharaj made clear that his pointers were aimed at addressing false personality identifications and “ignorance, stupidity, and insanity” . . . not “evil.”

 Thus he said: “Only that person will visit this place [his loft] whose virtue and sin have come to an end.”

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

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"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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