IS YOUR RELATIVE EXISTENCE 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

The non-dual understanding can free persons of the obstructions placed into the mind part of the brain which form persons' barrier-belief-systems. How are those placed there from early on?

Those encumbrances to dancing lightly throughout the relative existence are first handed down by adults to children via the use of - to use Maharaj’s words - “ignorant and / or stupid and / or insane” programming, conditioning, domestication, acculturation, brainwashing and indoctrination.

What is the goal of those passing down their nonsense? To assign personal identifications which children will accept and which they will then allow to determine their beliefs and to control their behavior.

The core of the non-dual message has long been to encourage humans to discard all false identities, including body identification, mind identification and personality identifications.

The greatest obstacle to finding contentment has long been recognized by non-dualists to be false personality identifications.

The programming, conditioning etc. begins with the earliest assignment of false identities: “You are a girl / boy.” That is expanded over a multi-year period to upgrade or downgrade each child’s self-concept by saying, “You are a good boy / girl when you do this or that, but what you just did makes you a bad boy / girl! You are not going to get that reward I promised until you change your way.”

Later, most will be taught in religious venues that there is a supposedly “Ultimate (usually male) Authority” who has provided you with a “holy book” which codifies labeling with a host of laws and rules, principles, commandments, etc. and which is to be used to make damn sure you know how to get the “good” or “super” label and avoid the “bad” or “evil” label (which involves eternal punishment and suffering both now and forevermore).

The message becomes confusing to children at that point when they hear, “He loves you . . . but he will burn you forever if you disappoint him, so don’t disappoint us (your earthly authorities) or him (your heavenly, eternal authority). We and he both want you to be perfect so you can be rewarded now and forevermore.”

Hence, personality (and multiple personalities) continue to be taught and learned. I have had visitors come for satsang and those that has been manifested for 30 to 40 years can usually name 80 or more false identifications which they have been assigned or adopted over the years.

As a result of programming, the tendency of humans is, once they accept a false identity or ego-state as real, then ego-defense mechanisms are triggered and they upgrade their false identities;

therefore, “The Boss become “The Super Boss”; “The Religious One” becomes “The Super Religious One”; “The Spiritual One” becomes “The Spiritual Giant.” Good luck trying to share a roof with those types.

Of all of the nine basic personality types or styles, one may be more prevalent that all others; that one can completely destroy any chance of a child becoming an adult that is capable of dancing lightly throughout the existence.  

All humans have varying degrees of the nine basic personality types. The more influence any given type has will determine which desires and fears will drive a person’s thoughts and words and actions. Look at the types:

[TYPES 2, 3 AND 4 ARE CENTERED IN THE HEART, IN FEELINGS, IN IMAGE]

2

THE HELPER / THE LOVE SEEKER

WHEN HEALTHY: Demonstrative, Sensitive, and Generous. WHEN NOT: People-Pleasing, Martyr-like, Manipulative, Hysterical, Love and Affirmation Seeking, and Possessive.

3

THE ACHIEVER / THE PERFORMER / THE ADMIRATION SEEKER

WHEN HEALTHY: Adaptive, Energetic, Optimistic, Assured, Excelling, Goal-Oriented, Driven. WHEN NOT: Image-Conscious, Vile-Tongued, Narcissistic, Pretentious, Vain, Superficial, Vindictive and Overly-Competitive.

4

THE MAVERICK / THE ROMANTICIST

WHEN HEALTHY: Expressive, Strong Feelings, Warm, Dramatic, and Perceptive. WHEN NOT: Self-Absorbed, Depressed, Guilt-Ridden, Moralistic, Isolationistic, Stubborn, Moody, and Temperamental

[TYPES 5, 6 AND 7 ARE CENTERED IN THE HEAD, IN THINKING, IN FEARS]

5

THE INVESTIGATOR / THE OBSERVER / THE KNOWER

WHEN HEALTHY: Analytical, Persevering, Wise, Objective, Perceptive, and Innovative. WHEN NOT: Secretive, Intellectually-Arrogant, Stingy, Distant, Critical, Unassertive, and Negative.

6

THE FEAR-BASED / THE DEPENDENTS

WHEN HEALTHY: Engaging, Responsible, Loyal, Caring, Compassionate, and Practical. WHEN NOT: Anxious, Suspicious, Controlling, Unpredictable, Paranoid, Defensive, Rigid, and Self-Defeating.

7

THE ENTHUSIAST / THE ADVENTURER

WHEN HEALTHY: Spontaneous, Energetic, Optimistic, Versatile, and Lively. WHEN NOT: Distracted, Scattered, Impulsive, Histrionic, Undisciplined, Self-Destructive, and Restless.

[TYPES 8, 9 AND 1 ARE CENTERED IN THE GUT, IN INSTINCTS, IN ANGER

8

THE CHALLENGER / THE ASSERTER / THE BOSS

WHEN HEALTHY: Self-Confident, Direct, Self-Reliant, and Decisive. WHEN NOT: Willful, Confrontational, Controlling, Domineering, Aggressive, Destructive, and Self-Centered.

9

THE PEACEMAKER / AVOIDER of DISTRESS

WHEN HEALTHY: Receptive, Good-Natured, Reassuring, and Agreeable. WHEN NOT: Passive-Aggressive, Complacent, Lazy, Spaced Out, Obsessive, Judgmental, Concerned Only about One's Own Peace, and Users with a Sense of Entitlement.

1

THE REFORMER / THE PERFECTIONIST

WHEN HEALTHY: Principled, Purposeful, Self-Controlled, Realistic, Conscientious, Productive, Honest, Orderly, and Self-Disciplined. WHEN NOT: Extremely Perfectionistic, Judgmental, Inflexible, Dogmatic, Obsessive-Compulsive, Critical, Overly-Serious, Anxious, and Jealous.

Here’s a partial breakdown of the planet’s population in terms of personality type:

Type Six - the dependent, often entitled types who believe that they should be taken care of by other people or institutions. They make up 50% of the planet’s population.

Type Fours - often interested in seeking authenticity - make up only ½ of 1%. But all persons, because of the rearing methods discussed earlier - have a major Type One influencing element.

Personality types are the sources of so much misery because they all allow for the development of personality disorders.

Type Eight Bosses and Controllers can develop into sociopaths and psychopaths and become very dangerous - relative speaking - but those being driven by a heavy Type One agenda can be seen to exert their Perfectionistic Personality Disorder and make the relative existence miserable for all who end up dealing with them.

A singer nailed one of the most prevalent obstacles among humans:

Perfect

Song and Lyrics

by

Alanis Morissette

And

Glen Ballard

Sometimes is never quite enough
If you're flawless, then you'll win my love
Don't forget to win first place
Don't forget to keep that smile on your face

Be a good boy
Try a little harder
You've got to measure up
Make me prouder

How long before you screw it up
How many times do I have to tell you to hurry up
With everything I do for you
The least you can do is keep quiet

Be a good girl
You've gotta try a little harder
That simply wasn't good enough
To make us proud

I'll live through you
I'll make you what I never was
If you're the best, then maybe so am I
Compared to him compared to her
I'm doing this for your own damn good
You'll make up for what I blew
What's the problem, why are you crying

Be a good boy
Push a little farther now
That wasn't fast enough
To make us happy
We'll love you just the way you are . . .
If you're perfect

A mentally unhealthy Type Eight might kill you, but a Type One perfectionist sets children up to kill themselves a little each day. There is a way to break that chain.

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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