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 Seven On The Relative Existence and the Relative Effects of Personality: Fears, Desires and Interrupted Happiness

“Body,” “mind,” and “personality” are concepts, rooted in ideas dreamed up – typically - by controlling men and passed on today via programming, conditioning, and acculturation.

Among the masses on the planet, little progress has been made in eliminating belief in concepts and dogma and myths and magical, supernatural thinking since those early times when an eclipse was perceived to be the result of an action taken by an angry god (the same explanation many modern persons cited as the cause of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent damage and deaths).

Any discussions of any pointers - including these on personality - are offered, therefore, in the spirit of thorns being provided for use in removing thorns. To see that archetypes, programming, personality traits and conditioning can drive persons subconsciously and / or unconsciously to think and behave in certain ways is a prerequisite for being free of those subconscious and unconscious influences.

Only by being free of those influences can one move into a state of enlightenment and awareness and then live out the remainder of the manifestation in the type of AS IF living that happens after the consciousness has been re-purified.

Today’s discussion will focus on the basic fear and the basic desire of Personality Type Seven - “The Adventurer / Enthusiast.” Russ Hudson pointed out the following about Personality Type Sevens:

BASIC FEAR AND BASIC DESIRE

The Type Seven has a BASIC FEAR of being trapped, deprived or in pain (be it mental, emotional, or physical)

The Type Seven has a BASIC DESIRE to be free, to have the “need” for exciting or enjoyable activities fulfilled, and to avoid all pain

(be it mental, emotional, or physical)

The Impact on The Relative Existence

Type Sevens are busy, fun-loving types who enjoy the spontaneous but hate the routine. While they can be free-spirited at some point, they can eventually deteriorate into excessiveness and becomes escapists.

In the extreme, they can disintegrate into manic compulsiveness, and their relative existence can become marked by panic attacks and fits of hysteria and histrionics. Sevens can become the “bliss seekers” of the relative existence or the “bliss seekers” among evangelical extremists or even the “bliss seekers” among those on the non-dual path.

Of course, all such seeking and desiring eventually lead only to more frustration as all perceived (but unreal) “needs” are never fully met. Typically, the non-realized Sevens experience the highest highs and the lowest lows, so stability is not common among that group.

Why Personality Type Seven Interrupts Happiness

Sevens would rather be excited than happy. They would rather be ecstatic than at peace. They will use activity and “doing” to treat their anxiety and can become “go-ers and do-ers and zoomers” in the style of Type Threes and Sixes and Eights.

Their tendency to “anticipate” leaves them discontented with the present, and even when an anticipated activity eventually happens, Sevens are frustrated. Why? When that which was anticipated eventually comes about, it is never as great as what was anticipated.

They are constantly “living in the future” and are, therefore, deprived from living in the moment . . . similar in that way to many Type Fives. Living in the illusion of their “mental future,” NOW becomes anathema and further separation from reality results.

Sevens want to find “that magnificence that IS,” but they are actually in fear that they’ll never find it; therefore, they can become cynical and can turn to drugs or alcohol to deaden any pain or frustration that they might be feeling.

They can become so determined to avoid all pain and all uncomfortable situations that they can engage in impulsive, insane relative existence conduct to avoid pain and all physical, mental, or emotional discomfort.

That leaves them “emotionally unavailable” in their relative existence “relationships.” They hate commitment and seriousness and confronting and analysis and suffering so much that they, ironically, induce more suffering in their efforts to avoid or to escape.

Eventually, they can become more impulsive, restless, and self-destructive in economic, emotional, or social ways (but their hatred of slowing down and analyzing the things that are driving them and finding out Who / What They Truly Are prevents many Sevens from ever reaching a state of full realization). Who could possibility be happy with those personality traits and the behavior they inspire?

Freedom from Personality Type Seven Effects Via Realization

If Sevens realize, their basic fear of being trapped disappears. They are able to ask “WHO feels trapped?” and are able to understand that no “one” exists to feel trapped.

The fear of being deprived ends as they are able to ask “WHO feels deprived?” and can then understood that no “one” exists to feel deprived. And the fear of mental or physical or – especially - emotional pain ends. Why?

With realization, feelings are witnessed as they rise and fall, but no ego-states exist that stimulate emotional intoxication. There is no longer any “one” to “experience” anything. The ego prefers the search, the going, the doing, the zooming.

When the “magnificence” which they were searching for is finally found in the “magnificence” of understanding the authenticity and then living in an AS IF style, then ego dissolves. The overwhelming pain of the frustrating search (which in the past had ended so often in futility) comes to an end.

Only the re-purified consciousness can result in the bliss that the Sevens had sought for so long with such vigor. The desire to be free ends as freedom truly manifests.

Exciting or enjoyable activities can happen, but even if they don’t (and even if a state of bliss is never maintained) the Sevens can still be content. And then, for those who could never find enough of what they had been seeking, merely being content suddenly becomes . . . enough.

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.

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