Beliefs Rooted in Personality and “-ISM’S” (continued)

 

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“This-ism, that-ism, is-m, is-m, is-m”

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Beliefs Rooted in Personality and “-ISM’S”

(continued)

Are you aware of which of the nine basic personality styles identified by the enneagram system have been driving you? Are you aware of the degree to which that is happening? Have you come to understand in what order should they should be focused on to remove the most “detrimental obstacles to seeing Truth” first?

Which specific desire and fear of each type is most adversely impacting your relative existence and contributing to your misery and suffering? Most will never know. You can. 

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1. why they have done what they have done throughout the relative existence, even when much of it made no sense and proved to be most harmful relatively speaking;

2. why they continue to make the same mistakes over and over;

3. why they repeat the same unhealthy patterns in one relationship after another;

4. why they have felt totally powerless and helpless and have been unsuccessful when they try to change; and

5. why they are driven by fears and desires which also make no sense at all.

In describing the way that humans have fallen into a supposedly-awake-but-actually-asleep-state (resulting in their moving through the relative existence while under the spell of their personality trance) a glimpse was provided earlier of what the pre-personality existence was like for humanity.

Challenges happened. Sometimes humans overcame the challenges, and sometimes the challenges overcame them. Problems arose. Sometimes solutions were found, and sometimes they were not.

Therefore, the existence had always been complicated enough as it was, challenging enough as it was, problematic enough as it was, without the additional hardship of trying to negotiate the relative existence while being sightless . . .

that is, while being blindly driven by personality-based agendas and personality-based motivators that are even hidden from persons while being torn between a personality-driven desire to be kind at times but a personality-driven desire to control-by-brutality at other times.

Yet that is exactly the case after personalities developed and, in the case just mentioned, when the kind Helper Personality Type disintegrates to the vicious Controller Personality Type.

Note the way that personalities always manifest at first in tandem, generating diametrically-opposite, dualistic behavioral patterns that now ensure for the non-realized masses an existence that is marked and marred by instability. Consider another possible scenario, for example:

Troublesome enough it is that the Personality Type Four can waver between a desire for authenticity and a tendency to perceive things in the most unrealistic manner imaginable;

add stress and then the Personality Type Four will disintegrate into the state of histrionics and emotional intoxication that is typical of the Personality Type Two.

Then watch the Type Four shift to the Type One when influenced by the egotism that accompanies the assumption of an ego-state as an identity; at that point, everyone will be judged, expected to be perfect, and found to be lacking.

Being inflexible and dogmatic and critical will characterize the Four that shifts to the One. If the Four was raised by a Type Eight parent, then the worst traits of the Type Eight can be internalized alongside the Four..

The result is a Four that, at times, feels the pain of others and of self to such an extreme degree that guilt, shame, melancholia, self-absorption, depression and withdrawing manifest; at other times though, if the internalized Eight is triggered, then no empathy for anyone will manifest;

instead, there will be an inability to care at all; there will only be coldness and insensitivity and meanness and heartlessness that can reach sociopathic / pathological levels of cruelty.

And all of those possibilities will be guaranteed to manifest with a Four who has internalized an Eight, who will exhibit Eight traits when in arrogance, and who will disintegrate to the worst of a Type One or Type Two when stressed.

And those are just a few examples of the chaos and disharmony that manifest when personality manifests. Tragic enough (relatively speaking) that persons living under the influence of a personality trance can be so predictable (without understanding at all why) when driven by even one personality type;

however, to appreciate the full impact of the way that the nine personality types generate fluctuation and unsteadiness and instability and unpredictability and volatility and emotional and / or feeling intoxication, consider the mathematical possibilities:

a. with every person showing at least some evidence of all nine types, and

b. with persons being driven most by their primary type, but

c. with all persons also being influenced by what is called their “wings” (the types on either side of their primary type, such as a 4 being influenced also by the 3 and the 5) and

d. with persons disintegrating to another type when stressed, and

e. with persons exhibiting the traits of various types that they internalized as children or have since adopted along the way,

then the mathematics involved show that

1. with 1 of 9 types able to appear in combination with each other in 2’s or 3’s or 4’s, etc. and

2. with the variety of other combinations that are possible, then

you will find, if you do the math, that with 9 types potentially at play in a variety of combinations, the possible permutations come to . . . 387,420,489.

Driven by personality, it is possible that 387,420,489 factors - personalities and combinations of personalities - will control a person’s thoughts and words and deeds at any given time during the relative existence.

Moreover, adoption of the persona of “The Believer” can only happen after exposure to the repository of beliefs in any given culture, namely, the culture’s “-ism’s.”

Then, any culture’s “-ism’s” will give support to an assigned or adopted persona and will give rise to more and more personas and will support the upgrading of the assigned or adopted persona as well.

As a result nowadays, the assumption of multiple ego-states (personalities) as identities is the abnormal global “norm”; the result is that the billions of non-Realized personas on the planet are all suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.

As a further result, insanity and chaos and instability prevail as billions of persons are being driven subconsciously by the hidden agendas of millions of assigned or assumed or internalized or disintegrated combinations of personality which generate fear and desire and misery and suffering.

Additionally, if it is insane to assume that you are something that you are not, and if it is insane to not even know who what you truly are, and if it is insane to believe beliefs without knowing why you believe them, and if it is insane to be unable to differentiate true from false, then the mental (“mind”) state of billions of person’s on the planet should come as no surprise at all.

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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