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 Five On The Relative Existence

In one discussion, the following was offered: Who could have cares if free of the fear of death and punishment, if free of the uncertainty of what happens when your body “ends,” if free of the desire and hope for eternal reward, and if free of the constant struggle to meet man-made definitions of “good vs. bad,” “right vs. wrong,” and “moral vs. immoral” in order to get rewards both now and later? All of the struggling ends [when realization happens].

Relatedly, the subject of the next Personality Type comes to a very early and profound awareness of “death,” of the transitory nature of the elemental body, and of wondering about “post-life” events.

The next discussion will focus on the basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Five - “The Investigator / The Knower / The Knowledge Gatherer.” Russ Hudson pointed out the following about Personality Type Fives:

BASIC FEAR AND BASIC DESIRE

The Type Five’s BASIC FEAR is the fear of being overwhelmed by reality

The Type Five’s BASIC DESIRE is to be competent and knowledgeable

The Impact of That Personality Type On The Relative Existence

As a result of their early awareness of death and the transitory nature of the physical body, Type Fives focus on the relative world and its finite aspect and become overwhelmed by (a) knowing all of “this” is relative but without (b) understanding at all that which is “after this.”

They can, therefore, become cynical and schizoid at an early age. They can feel as if they don’t belong…not to their family, not to their culture, and not even on the planet. They become acquainted with the duality of a sense of separation even as children.

More sense of duality results and can leave Fives feeling intellectually arrogant, distant, critical, and negative. The isolation of the unhealthy Four can be practiced to the extreme by the non-realized Five.

The duality of feeling “separate” sets them up for belief in more and more dualities of the types described in the 2005 quote above. Rather than being free of the “thinking mind,” “thinking” becomes their very raison d’etre.

That further separates them from being in touch with the natural, intuitive, sixth sense. As a result of not being able to shut down the illusion-filled “mind” and its endless gyrating, sleep disorders and dreadful nightmares result and levels of madness eventually seem to manifest.

Why Personality Type Five Interrupts Happiness

In their quest to be seen as competent and knowledgeable, Fives develop a love of titles that reinforce the image of their being “experts” in one or more fields. That seeking of labels reinforces duality and blocks any effort to seek the “True Self.” They become “self”-contained instead of finding the Real “Self.” Focusing on a fictional, frightful “future” and on the finite nature of a body that has no continuity, how could any sustained happiness possibly happen?

Freedom from Personality Type Five Effects Via Realization

Their independent and challenging nature can allow Fives to question not only what they observe but to question authority as well.

That challenging of authority provides an opportunity to Fives - a chance to become free of the programming and conditioning that authorities impose on members of all cultures and that reinforce belief in concepts and ideas and dogma and all else contained in that unlimited pool of nonsense that has been dreamed up by men who would control.

Fives’ ability to observe with detachment can initiate their movement along a “path” to realization that results in their living out the remainder of the manifestation in an AS IF fashion. Via realization, Fives (as is the case with all personality types that finally realize) can be freed of the incessant whirling and twisting and movement of the “mind.”

They can get in touch with their instincts, can be freed of the effects of their programming and conditioning, and can begin living in a reasonable, sane, AS IF fashion.

Realization allows Fives to transcend their focus on a fictional, scary “future” and to live more in the present . . . in the moment. As with all types, realization can allow Fives to be less “self”-conscious and less “self”-absorbed. 

Then, rather than having a fear of being overwhelmed by reality, realized Fives will understand Reality (and will enjoy the AS IF living that accompanies being in touch with Reality).

They will no longer be driven to create and sustain an appearance of extreme competence or be driven to display all of their vast “knowledge.”

Learned ignorance will be set aside and natural living will happen. No matter what your personality type, would that not be preferable (relatively speaking) to the chaotic existence that results when persons believe in dualities?

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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