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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
Nine Relative Existence Actions Which Can Help Shift Persons from Unhealthy Stages of Disintegration to Liberation
Since ego takes the composite of all of its false identities to define “who it is,” there is a major emotional investment among persons in terms of the value given to their false roles and to the amount of energy that ego is willing to expend in trying to preserve and sustain ego’s false images.
The resulting emotional intoxication prevents the re-purification of the consciousness and prevents any shift from (a) the unhealthy stages of personality disintegration to (b) the highest level of liberation.
(Liberation here refers to freedom from the influence of ego, freedom from the misery and suffering that are always generated by the corrupted consciousness, and then true freedom, period.)
Only a quality of consciousness - only the completely re-purified consciousness - can provide any quality of happiness. Ego dulls the quality of the consciousness; then, the ego-driven disintegration of the personality can lead not only to misery and suffering but also to physical destruction as well.
For one to be happy, the lies of the ego must be abandoned (which will happen if the consciousness is re-purified). Even if you find that you’re unable to reject immediately the influences of whichever of the Nine Personality Types are driving you, you can at least begin to wear those types with a lightness rather than as a weighty armor that the ego is using to shield its false identifications and personas.
So what actions can free you from the unhealthy stages and shift you into a state of total liberation?
The nine actions begin by providing a method to address the needs of those at level nine and then provide a step-by-step process to shift persons from there to the highest level: total liberation.
The Nine Actions
(The early actions on the list are about survival in the relative existence. The Later actions are methods for reaching a state of Full Realization and Full Liberation)
Action One
Action one is recommended for those who have disintegrated to the ninth level: intervene by relocating to an environment that can provide safety; move away from triggers
Action Two
Start to understand the personality and what causes it to disintegrate; begin to study the ego and its role in that process; seek out those who are in touch with reality
Action Three
Along with removing yourself from triggering people, triggering places and triggering things, begin to consider the possibility that a false “self” (or selves) might have been driving you throughout the entirety of your life and preventing you from finding the authentic
Action Four
Engage in activities and exercises that can begin to deflate the ego; begin uncovering the personas (the states-of-being) that inspire aggressive behaviors in defense of ego-generated identities
Action Five
Continue to uncover the roles that you have been playing, the images that you have cultivated (or accepted when assigned to you), and the ego-states or states-of-being that have taken away from you an ability to control your own behavior and life
Action Six
Engage in exercises and disciplines that lead to an awakening, to an awareness of all that you have not previously been aware of; submit to a process of inventory that allows the understanding of “psychological projection” in order to inventory yourself (your “self”), to be free of belief in every false, imagined “self” and in every false, imagined “Self.”
Action Seven
You are re-integrating by this point, but not totally free of ego-identifications; as you continue seeking to be totally free of ego and false personas, consider ways in which your individual strengths and newly-gained awareness might be employed in order to provide for your own basic needs as well as to set the stage for your assets to be used to the benefit of other
Action Eight
Commit to spending whatever
time and effort is required to become free of the illusions of false
identities, of ego-states, of states-of-being, of roles, and of anything that
is artificial and that blocks awareness of the authentic
As for “Action Nine,” understand that my Cherokee Grandmother’s family and her ancestors for thousands of years did not use allopathic medicine methods but used holistic and naturopathic medicine methods to heal the body.
Grandmother was said to be a “Medicine Woman / Healer.” She often used products made from botanicals / plants to compound herbal treatments for (a) shorter-term illnesses such as migraines, cuts or lesions, flu, pneumonia, etc. and herbal supplements for (b) longer-lasting illnesses.
While those are available as pills, powders, or tinctures, Grandmother more often blended them and brewed them as tea.
It should be noted that
while some herbal supplements being marketed nowadays are not safe at all, the forms Grandmother
used were side-effects-free and often highly effective. Beginning with my days with Grandmother treating me and continuing to this day, I use only those products that have been tested for purity and efficacy.
For example, I has a cousin named Delores who was plagued with migraines of the most serious type. Some migraine sufferers might have 3 to 5 serious effects during a seizure; other sufferers might have 3 to 5 other serious effects.
Delores had almost all of the effects which can come with such seizures and could be debilitated and bed-ridden for days unless she was driven to our Grandmother’s cabin for immediate treatment.
The moment Delores and her family drove up to the front of the cabin, without any words being spoken, Grandmother and I went into action. I would grab the basket I used to carry the plants Grandmother would cut and she would head off into the woods with me following.
She would fill the basket and then we would return to the cabin. During the time Grandmother and I were collecting plants, my uncle (the father of Delores) would have built a fire in Grandmother’s wood burning stove and would have a pot of water boiling.
Grandmother and I would usually separate the other parts of the plant from the stem (though she did use the stems as well on occasion) and then Grandmother and I would place it all in the boiling water and she would make what I still recall as a rather bitter brew each time I used one of her tinctures.
After a short boil, she removed the brew from the pot and poured it all into another pot, cover it with a lid, and then allow it to to steep or soak for a time.
Then she would pour part of it into a cup for Delores to drink. Depending on the severity of the attack, Grandmother might give her additional doses every 15 minutes or so.
Then Grandmother would put her in a bed and cover her eyes to block out the hurtful light and let the herbs do their work. In less than an hour, Delores was completely healed. The migraine ended and the symptoms disappeared.
If they were traveling and Delores could not reach Grandmother in the early stage of a seizure, she regurgitated several times and then screamed in pain for days.
So that was how Grandmother compounded herbal treatments from botanicals / plants and that is how effective her treatments were. During the months I spent each year with Grandmother, I would witness hundreds come to her and leave after being treated.
None paid her with cash, but some would bring a chicken or - if during harvest time - some food from their gardens. Some might hang some deer meat or ham in Grandmother’s smokehouse.
So that was how Grandmother treated the physical symptoms of those who came to her; however, neither Grandmother nor her fellow indigenous people stopped with the addressing of what ails humans physically.
She and the indigenous peoples also knew that there are mental and emotional aspects which also need treating, so they passed down the tradition of each person having a “Medicine Place” to “visit” as well.
Grandmother taught me how to “find” a Medicine Place and how to visit it psychologically or vicariously. It is an imaginary place though it often has elements of a peaceful place or places which have been visited literally.
She told me it would be “a safe place” or “a happy place” or “a mental location” that is visualized and that I could “go to” whenever a need arose to re-center and return to a peaceful state.
A key event in my realization process involved a vision which came one afternoon when I was in a theta state, that state which is associated with intuitive insights, dreams, or creative imaginings.
Visitors that have come to this site with some regularity throughout the years are aware of that vision and how it unblocked the “gaps” in understanding which finally allowed me to complete the steps to liberation and realization.
In the vision, many of the images were based in the Medicine Place that I used during those pre-teen years with Grandmother, a Place which contained some of the specific locations I spent time visiting which were in the forests surrounding Grandmother’s cabin.
That said, we can now move on to a discussion of “Action Nine” “envisioning.”
More on that tomorrow.
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.
