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FREEDOM FROM BELIEFS
From “Give Peace A Chance”:
“This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m”
by
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Beliefs Rooted in Personality and “-ISM’S”
(continued)
It has been shown how the seeds of personality are sown in children as they attempt to adjust to the familial dysfunctionalism that all children are now exposed to and how the primary personality type is usually in place as early as the age of six.
That personality, and the others that exert influence over thoughts and words and actions, are reinforced by the “-ism’s” that are dreamed up by cultures around the globe.
To be “liberated” is to be liberated from belief in
personas and the concepts and ideas and beliefs that are propagated by the
plethora of “-ism’s” that are so pervasive in societies all over the planet.
Here and elsewhere, one tool that is used by willing seekers to advance the
cause of liberation is the Enneagram test, accompanied by an analysis of the
test results that are shared with the seeker - a process which can require only
about two hours in most cases.
Additionally, background information is being shared
which will allow seekers to see how personality came about and why these
teachings - and the understanding they offer - are required for seekers to
understand completely how (on a universal basis now) ...
a. persons become trapped in the personality trance and how
b. stress leads to psychic deterioration (and to totally-predictable behaviors
among the mentally and emotionally unhealthy as their personality types
unconsciously drive thoughts and words and actions).
So, to review some of the main pointers offered so far:
1. At some point, it was seen by the most observant people in their community
that all persons were being driven by one of nine dominate traits or “passions,”
that is, by whatever they were seen to be “most passionate about.”
2. It was also seen that their behaviors were “textbook” in the way that those
behaviors manifested so consistently and unwaveringly and in how unsurprisingly
foreseeable and predictable their thoughts and words and deeds were going to be
in any given situation.
3. Thus it was realized that “distinctions” and “dualities” were born with
personality. “Differences” and “personal characteristics” were noted.
4. That gave rise to “self”-ishness which, in turn, blocked the original sense
of Self and sense of Oneness. (The same happens around the age of two when a
child - previously identified totally with its mother - becomes aware of its
own body, becomes conscious of itself, becomes self-absorbed, and is thus said
to be “A Terrible Two.”
Indeed, once one loses a sense of Self and identities with body and mind and personality, then the results, relatively speaking, could indeed be said to be “terrible.”
Such is a microcosm of what happens planet-wide as
persons are separated from a sense of Oneness, replace the innate sense of “Is-ness”
with a false sense of “self-is-ness” / selfishness, develop a primary
personality type, and eventually assume dozens and scores and hundreds of false
personas as actual identities throughout the relative existence.)
5. It was Evagrius who discussed the early Greeks’ version of the nine passions
(or the “nine obsessions” or “nine dominant personality traits and types”).
6. He showed how those passions (i.e., dominant personality traits / types)
distorted human perception and limited the human search for the essence and for
authenticty.
7. Religions further limited the search . . . to the confines of their
buildings and texts only.
8. People were dissuaded by their religious / spiritual leaders from seeking
answers scientifically or objectively and told to accept unquestioningly the
answers that were provided via dogma and “holy texts” only.
9. With the few remaining seekers who used the non-duality teachings to uncover
the root of all personality-driven disharmony and emotional instability and
chaos, early teachers discussed the way that everyone developed a primary “point
of view” from the list of nine possibilities.
10. It was seen by some that it is those “views” or “passions” or “primary
personality traits / types” that mark and mar the human condition. The patterns
of thoughts and words and behaviors associated with the passions now align with
the nine personality types of the Enneagram.
11. Those “separated from Self” will be blindly driven by their dominate and
secondary personality types and will be ruled by unconscious but habitual
responses as well as the hidden agendas of their personality / personalities.
Now, to continue:
Those lost in the trance of personality / personalities will be driven by the
passions or personality traits of either wrath and resentment and anger; or
pride; or deceit; or melancholia and jealousy and envy; or greed and avarice;
or panic and cowardice; or conceit and gluttony; or lust; or indifference and
laziness.
Moreover, each of those passions aligns with one of the nine personality types
identifiable via the Enneagram method of personality identification and
analysis. For the dedicated Advaitin seeker that is attempting to
1. understand the extreme (and extremely-adverse) effects that personality has
played as it has controlled all thoughts, all words, and all deeds and to
b. understand the degree to which an assortment of the nine personality types
has bastardized the relative existence and to
c. understand why personality must be transitioned and to
d. understand how to accomplish that transcendence,
then it must be seen exactly which of the passions (or personality traits) have
been driving the seeker; it must be seen exactly to what degree that has
happened; and it must be seen exactly how to be free of personality
identifications and their effects.
So here is some of what is revealed when the Enneagram and the Advaita
enlightenments regarding personality come together and uncover which passions
or traits align with which types:
Personality Type Ones are especially driven by wrath and resentment and anger;
Personality Type Twos are especially driven by pride;
Personality Type Threes are especially driven by deceit;
Personality Type Fours are especially driven by melancholia and jealousy and
envy;
Personality Type Fives are especially driven by greed and avarice;
Personality Type Sixes are especially driven by fear or panic or cowardice (and
occasionally reckless courage when they shift to a counter-phobic phase);
Personality Type Sevens are especially driven by conceit and gluttony;
Personality Type Eights are especially driven by lust (their primary lust being
for power and control and their secondary lust being sexual . . . but even
their sexual drive is about power and control and dominance); and
Personality Type Nines who are especially driven by indifference and inertia
and avoidance or laziness.
Most persons that have lost contact with the essence and with authenticity will
be driven by a combination of at least four of those types.
Some are driven by even more than four; furthermore, without their concrete personality test results before them in black-and-white, most will move through the entire manifestation without a clue about the personality-based motivators that subconsciously drive them.
Drive what, specifically? Drive the way they think, drive what they think, drive how they think, drive them to feel or emote the way that they feel or emote, drive them to talk how they talk, and drive them to behave the way they behave.
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.
