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 Relative Effects of Personality: “How Personality Always (A) Generates Fear and Desire and (B) Prevents Sustained Happiness” and (C) Dual-mindedness and (D) Mental and Emotional Instability

All persons (being mentally and emotionally unhealthy as a result of non-realization) can exhibit traits of any or all of the nine personality types. The prior descriptions of the varied personality types, combined with an understanding that anyone not realized can exhibit the traits of almost any of the nine types, makes clear why persons suffer from . . .

multiple personality disorder

and

unlimited fear and unmet desires

and

rarely-sustained happiness or contentment

and

dual-mindedness

and

mental and emotional instability.

Moreover, that is why the typical relative existence is marked by instability, chaos, and an inability to sustain any degree of true happiness. It has been seen that identification with the body-mind-personality triad will result in persons / personas - always trapped in their dualistic beliefs as a result of personality, programming and conditioning - experiencing the fear of being “corrupt” or “evil” or “defective”;

the fear of not being loved; the fear of being worthless; the fear of having no identity; the fear of being overwhelmed by “reality”; the fear associated with the dependence of seeking external support and guidance from others; the fear of being trapped;

the fear of being deprived or in pain; the fear of being harmed or violated or controlled by others; the fear of loss and a constant sense of separation;

and

the fear that their perceived needs will not being met. All of those will be experienced by the non-realized who are trapped in their identification with personality.

Too, all persons trapped in personality identification will be frustrated by their unfulfilled desires . . . desires rooted in their wanting to be free of their fears. Trapped as they are in their false identity and duality - and driven by their fears, as all personas are - all persons at one time or another can have the desire to be seen as being “good”;

can have a desire to be “loved”; can have a desire to prove how valuable they are; can desire to understand who / what they truly were, are, and shall be; can desire to prove that they are competent and knowledgeable;

can desire external support and can thereby become dependent on others for guidance and sustenance; can desire a level of freedom that they will never find without realization; can desire to gain control of others;

and will desire freedom from the sense of emptiness and misery that results from (1) desiring continuity of the physical body, (2) desiring “peace of mind” when the “mind” is actually the source of their lack of peace, and (3) desiring that their personality and assumed roles can last eternally.

The reasoning behind the non-dual pointer that personality identification should be abandoned should now be obvious. The Original Understanding preempted the assumption of personas, roles, labels, concepts, dogma and – yes - even any rationale for offering teachings. The influence of personality in regards to the manifesting of perceived fears, unmet desires, and forestalled happiness should be clear.

How Ego / Personality Can Lead to Disintegration and Destruction in the Relative Existence

There are nine stages of disintegration that each personality type can undergo. The farther removed a persona is from reality, the more insane they behave in the relative existence. Please note the role that ego plays at each stage in the disintegration of the personality, recalling that “ego” is Latin for “I” or “I  myself”; thus, “I” or “ego” = “my [false] self.”

See, in fact, that personality identification prevents realization and that realization eliminates personality. As far as the relative existence is concerned, see that the more persons become trapped in personality and the more trapped they become in their ego-states, the more their relative existence lives degenerate through stages of delusion, chaos, and destruction.

See as well that professionals know what the realized know: “healthy” AS living happens only after full realization happens. 

FUNCTIONING STAGES: 1-3

STAGE 1:

LIBERATED

(At this stage, ego is transcended; therefore, truth, balance, freedom and awake-ness manifest; there is an ability to differentiate true from false; the True Self is known; Awareness, complete freedom, sanity, and independence manifest; AS IF living happens)

STAGE 2:

IDENTIFIED w /  MIND-BODY-PERSONALITY

(At this stage, ego begins identifying with states-of-being as a result of programming, conditioning, and enculturation; co-dependency results)

STAGE 3:

FUNCTIONING IN A “SOCIALLY-ACCEPTABLE” MANNER

(At this stage, ego operates, but in a manner considered “acceptable” within societies)

DECLINING STAGES: 4-6

STAGE 4:

DISTURBED / “ASLEEP”

(At this stage, ego blocks any sense of Presence or Awareness; persons exhibit evidence of being irritable, restless, discontent or being disturbed by “others”; beginning of being “asleep”)

STAGE 5:

SCHEMING

(At this stage, ego works to control and manipulate other persons; ego expends more energy to defend roles / images / ego-states)

STAGE 6:

AGGRESSIVE / DEFENSIVE

(At this stage, ego inflates; personas behave aggressively to defend false identities)

DISFUNCTIONAL STAGES: 7-9

STAGE 7:

ABUSIVE

(At this stage, ego is so dedicated to “self”-preservation that persons become willing to violate self and others; persons become abusive if need be to fight for the preservation of identities and to exert power over “others”)

STAGE 8:

FANATICAL / IMPULSIVE

(At this stage, ego / self is out of control and out of touch with reality; perceptions are 180-degrees in opposition to actuality; major mental disorders manifest)

STAGE 9:

DESTRUCTIVE

(At this stage, persons become destructive toward self or others; acute mental disorders emerge; persons degenerate into sociopaths; persons can become willing to kill themselves or others)

With acknowledgment to Russ Hudson, for his research into how personality degeneration happens in steps and for his training.

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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