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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 n On The Relative Existence and the Relative Effects of Personality: Fears, Desires and Interrupted Happiness
In March of ’05, the following was offered in response to a question: The problem [in the relative existence] is always the personality - those ego-states that generate personas and the use of ego-defense mechanisms that they always generate.
Non-dual pointers offers an invitation to put an end to ego and arrogance in the relative existence by ending all false beliefs in ego-states.
Identification with personality (which has been seen to include identification not only with the dominant type but with several of the other nine types) always results in the assumption of labels, personas, and ego-states.
The phoniness of role-playing eventually mars the entire relative existence and prevents most persons from ever realizing fully “What They Truly Are, and Are Not.” To be inspired to become free of the effects of personality, the malfunctionings of personality must first be understood;
therefore, the next discussion will focus on the basic fears and the basic desires of Personality Type Nine - “The Indifferent One / The Mediator / The Peacemaker / The Sloth.”
Note: The Nine is actually less of a “Peacemaker” and more of a “Keeper of My - the Nine’s - Peace.” Generally, their take is, “I don’t care who is fighting or how much they are fighting as long as they don’t disturb me.”
Russ Hudson pointed out the following about Personality Type Nines:
BASIC FEAR AND BASIC DESIRE
Type Nines have a BASIC FEAR of loss and of separation
(and of not being taken care of)
Type Nines have a BASIC DESIRE for continuity and for “peace of mind” (and for reaping the benefits of their perceived entitlement and being taken care of).
The Impact of That Personality Type On The Relative Existence
Type Nines are evidence of the fallacy of the concept “Blessed are the peacemakers” - at least as far as personality is concerned. As far as the Absolute is concerned, there are no blessings to be had at some future point since there is no future (and no future “one” to be blessed.)
As far as the relative is concerned, nothing is farther removed from the concept of “being blessed” than personas living under the whims and the influences of identification with personality…with their assumed personas.
And most certainly that is the case with non-realized persons who are identifying with their Type Nine personality. Non-realized Nines have an unstated motto: “Never do today what can be put off until tomorrow or that - better yet - can be avoided forever.”
Because they have a desire to avoid confrontation, to avoid ever having to be in a challenging situation with other persons, and to avoid any occasion that ever has the slightest possibility of leading to any degree of conflict, they can eventually avoid all of the relative existence functions that are required for meeting the basic requirements of food, clothing and shelter.
That means avoiding regular employment and, instead, seeking out Type Two Helpers who will care of the Nine or seeking out Type Sixes or Threes who have assumed religious or spiritual roles.
Those three types can find themselves being “used” by apathetic and lazy Nines in order for the Twos, Threes, and Sixes to support their own fabricated, altruistic image.
Eights can also be dragged into a Nine’s game because Eights love to “jump in” and take charge of situations that “need fixing.” Ones can be snared by Nines since Ones have a personality-driven desire to “make all things right.”
Fours can be “moved” by the eloquence of Nines who are masters at detecting Type Four personas with romantic ideals and who want to “make the world a better place” by helping those who “need help.”
(Since non-realized Fours disintegrate to Type Two and adopt Helper traits, they fall into the Nine trap as well.) A Seven might consider it an “adventure” to move in a needy Type Nine person, having no idea that it’s far easier to get a Nine to move in than it is to get them to move out;
thus, it becomes clear why Nines are able to find so many other persons who are willing to care for them: so many among the varied personality types are driven in ways that make them susceptible to manipulation.
Additionally, Nines can become “The Great Manipulators” because they can “read” the other types and know how to appeal to that within each personality type that will elicit the support that Nines desire (and believe they deserve).
Being adept at rationalization, they can make a comment like, “I’ve surrendered completely because God will take care of me.” If asked about when they might start looking for a job, a typical response would be, “In God’s time . . . not mine.”
They can eventually become quite stubborn with those who would encourage them to exercise, to move about, or to seek employment. Still avoiding confrontation, they become passive-aggressive but will use their skill of apologizing or “making amends” in order to defuse anger in others and to reestablish codependency.
Their laziness or apathy is often mistaken for “a state of divine peacefulness” that comes as a result of “working their religious or spiritual disciplines.” One person said of an unemployed Nine,
“He’s my ideal. He lost his job, but his level of spiritual development has left him with such peace that he can live in the back of his car and be okay with that.”
The truly awake and aware did not see that Nine as a “Spiritual Giant” but as one who is really dedicated to avoiding work at any price.
Why Personality Type Nine Interrupts Happiness
The toll on Nines is cumulative. Eventually, they are criticized for their refusal to mobilize by those who do not understand the effects of their personality type. After years of such criticism, Nines become disparaging of themselves, exacerbating the destructive traits of their type, relatively speaking.
Their predilection for procrastination leaves them perpetually in a dependent state . . . often appealing to a god or some external power to intervene and take care of them. To meet basic requirements, Nines can become adept at impressing others;
at making others believe that the Nines are special; at earning respect and admiration; and at creating through those actions a network of idealizing supporters who will be willing to take on the task of meeting the basic needs of the Nines.
The Nine, at that point, is never freed from playing the game. When stressed or pious, Nines disintegrate to Type Threes. Embroiled as Threes are in the tasks of image-fabrication and image-maintenance, disintegrated Nines can eventually become exhausted.
They deplete their energy with (a) appeals to relatives and friends and acquaintances to meet their basic requirements or (b) with constant efforts to manipulate.
Once they exhaust all sources of support, they can become frustrated and angry and fatalistic. Dissociation further blocks any possibility of coming to know the authentic.
Rather than seeking awareness, they try to block out all awareness. Eventually, they can become totally dysfunctional. If they worked as hard at a job as they work at (1) avoiding work and at (2) finding other persons to take care of them, then Nines could be completely independent, but that is seldom their goal.
Having no independence and thus never being truly free, who could possibility be happy with those personality traits and the behavior they inspire.
Freedom from Personality Type Nine Effects Via Realization
Realized, Type Nines - just as is the case with all other types that realize - can stop their avoiding and can become productive enough to meet their own basic requirements for food, clothing, and shelter.
Being realistic for a change, Nines can function in the natural way whereby each meets his / her own basic survival needs. The Nine can then abandon the dependency-producing, supernatural, magical thinking that makes him / her believe that either some supernatural power, or something or someone external, is supposed to take care of the Nine.
Then, the Nine can realize, can meet his / her own basic needs, and can then live naturally. Naturally? Yes. The deer, which lives naturally instead of supernaturally, does not expect another deer to do its grazing for it.
Post-realization, an element of practicality begins to mark the relative existence of Type Nines . . . an element that had never manifested before. Realized, the Nines automatically stop the past behaviors that led to such a sense of separation.
Taking care of their own physical requirements, the fear of not being taken care of disappears (along with the sense of entitlement that led them to believe that they deserved to be taken care of by others).
They leave that fantasy world that they had “lived in” where they preferred the escapism of oblivion and the avoidance of reality. Contrary to what many persons imagine realization can lead to - such as “not feeling anything” or “being fatalistic” or “never having any pleasure” - the realized Nine (as is the case with all that realize) can become truly free and independent.
Only if truly free and independent can the fullness and pleasures and joys of AS IF living happen.
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."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
