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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)
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.
There is the opportunity for that to happen either here or via one of
the many other venues that offer an insight which will finally - for the first
time ever - allow persons to understand:
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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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.
