HAPPENING AS IF YOU ARE DANCING LIGHTLY OR AS IF YOU ARE DOING A STIFF, BOOT-STOMPING, GESTAPO-STYLE MARCH?

 

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IS YOUR RELATIVE EXISTENCE HAPPENING AS IF YOU ARE DANCING LIGHTLY OR AS IF YOU ARE DOING A STIFF, BOOT-STOMPING, GESTAPO-STYLE MARCH?

 THE MOST PREVALENT OBSTACLES WHICH BLOCK PERSONS FROM DANCING LIGHTLY THROUGHOUT THE RELATIVE EXISTENCE

To discuss - relatively speaking - the negative impacts which manifest when the hidden agendas of personality identifications control the thoughts and thus the words and thus the actions of humans and plague the relative existence with their selfish fears and desires, two levels of impact should be explained.

ONE LEVEL OF PERSONALITY IMPACT

There are the impacts which manifest more gradually and are more remote and then eventually work their ways into the lives of humans. That is the way Type Eight Bosses, Controllers, Dictators, Sociopaths, and Psychopaths function.

For example, Hitler’s Type Eight impact would first manifest slowly in the town of Munich in the south of Germany. He immigrated to Germany from his Austrian homeland in 1913, renounced his Austrian citizenship in 1925, and in 1932, became a citizen of Germany. At that point, his impact accelerated because he was a citizen and could therefore hold public office. 

He would be elected Chancellor and soon colluded with Nazi Austrians to annex that country; soon after he led Germany in invading Czechoslovakia.

So, it took twenty years for his Type Eight Sociopathic Personality Disorder and his Type Eight Psychopathic Personality Disorder to expand his impact.

Within a couple of years, his impact had spread across the Atlantic; it worked its way into Northwest Louisiana; then the impact entered into the room that my parents and sister were renting from one of mom’s relatives. It was in that room that he opened the envelope with a notice to report for induction into the U.S. military.

See? That’s an example of how the gradual and remote impact of The Type Eight personality can manifest.

A SECOND LEVEL OF PERSONALITY IMPACT

The second level of impact is one which reveals that personality identifications can generate a more immediate impact fairly quickly and can manifest on a daily basis.

That is the case with two personality disorders, namely, the Perfectionistic Personality Disorder and the Borderline Personality Disorder. Of those two, the Perfectionistic Personality Disorder can begin blocking almost immediately any chance of being able to dance lightly through the relative existence.

I was asked once by a visitor to a satsang session in my home what exactly I studied and read to gain such a spot on understanding of the Perfectionistic Disorder and its daily impact on couples and families abiding under the same roof. He was obviously “ready to go.”

I said that what I was sharing with the group regarding perfectionism came from nothing I had studied and nothing I had read; I explained that - to my misfortune (and as a result of having had a “broken picker” in the past) - that what I came to understand was a result of experience and witnessing as I tried to negotiate my way through the years when I had shared a common roof with not one but with two Type One Perfectionistic spouses.

One therapist was asked, “What is it like to live with a perfectionist?”

The reply: “Their world and perspective can feel so rigid, there is no room for mistakes, and threats of emotional pain or feelings of unworthiness are around every corner. A partner (or a child and usually both) can feel resentful, controlled, stifled, and alone, even when they love their perfectionist partner.”

“A perfectionist may avoid talking about fears, inadequacies, insecurities, and disappointments with others, even with those with whom they are closest. Naturally, this greatly limits emotional intimacy in a marriage. Perfectionist individuals can also be fiercely competitive, even with their partners.”

“Being a perfectionist can be a terrible disadvantage because a perfectionist will avoid a task that they know they cannot perform perfectly. Since no one can be perfect at all times or even most of the time, it leads to a lot of anxiety and failure.”

“Studies have revealed that self-oriented and socially-prescribed perfectionism were positively associated with anger dimensions, and negatively associated with anger control dimensions.”

“Perfectionism, anxiety, and anger are all associated with a high need for control, which can obviously interfere with your relationships and happiness in a big way.”

“Toxic perfectionism is a mindset that is rigid on holding yourself or others to unrealistically high standards. These high standards are not attainable and result in burnout and strained relationships.”

Of course those with the Perfectionistic Personality Disorder show higher than usual degrees of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder as well.

In the U.S., perfectionism has kept alive nearly 400 years of Puritanism which is still highly influential in this nation and among its pandering politicians who know that their support of Christian nationalism is truly a vote-getter.

In just the last twenty-four hours at one of the major annual gatherings of Republicans, Neo-Nazi collaborator Jack Posobiec told the crowd, “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t quite get there on January 6,” but we will. Then he held a cross into the air and endorsed the notion of making America great again by establishing a religious theocracy to make the U.S. “a Christian nation” once more.

The crowd’s supportive reaction showed that they believed his idea was perfect.

From my own experience, I can testify that when a child is raised in a perfection-dominated home, that child will likely still be working into its adult years to break the bondage that the Perfectionistic Disorder generates.

Moreover, partners and mates and spouses will also have years of work ahead of them to free them of the effects of being abused is that type of environment.

What can be done to begin breaking the chains? First and foremost, awareness which can lead one to say:

“Oh, so that’s why I do this and that and this which are not in the best interest of my being able to relax and accept being less than perfect.”

I once suggested to a teen girl who had a parent who demanded that “she must always do her best” a different consideration:

“So let me ask. If you have a test in your math class tomorrow, does it make sense that you could do your best on that test if you also had tests in English and science as well?”

I continued: “The answer is, “Of course not. So how about trying a different perspective instead: do the best you can . . . under the circumstances. That should be enough.”

She paused. Then she smiled.

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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