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[Walter Driscoll asked to interview me in order to preserve on video some of the latest modifications and evolutions in the versions of the message offered here since 1989. He would label the discussion, "Unlearning with Floyd Henderson."
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ARE YOU AT THE WET CHARCOAL STAGE OR THE GUNPOWDER STAGE?
(Most haven’t a clue and must be told)
Pointers from Maharaj make clear that both (2) keeping the relative existence simple rather than complicated and (b) casting aside belief in any and all personality identifications are vital.
“. . . Personality is only an obstacle.”
“The dissolution of personality is followed always by a sense of great relief, as if a heavy burden has fallen off.”
“How utterly dependent is the personality.”
“You are deeply complex, mysterious, hard to understand.”
“Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.”
“It is all very simple; it is the presence of the person that complicates.”
and
“You are afraid of being impersonal”
The pointer has been offered on this site for nearly twenty years that freedom and independence cannot happen
(1) when persons have not been freed of that frustrated child within that is controlling the adult, especially after it becomes the brat within;
(2) when persons have not been freed of the accumulation of lies they believe, an accumulation also known as “the mind”;
and
(3)
when every thought from their warped minds and every word from their mouths and
every action which they take is being determined by and driven by and controlled
by a personality formed during childhood and which is giving voice to one or
more false personas.
The source of the frustrated child / brat within - that is, the residual
effects of unresolved trauma that later combine with arrogance – has been
discussed. Today, the distortions of the “mind” and the illusions of personality
will continue.
The “mind” supports a belief that false identities and images and personas
are real. That “mind” further contributes to a lack of freedom and
independence, therefore, since it generates an attachment to personality and
traps people in their belief in their false personas. What is an example
of the fact that every word coming from the mouths of the non-realized is being
driven by a personality (which was formed during childhood) and is being spoken
by some persona? Consider:
A guest on a television show was once discussing the effects of 47 million
people in the U.S. not having any medical coverage. A man telephoned the show
to offer his opinion, and his comments serve as a perfect example of the way
that persons function exactly like a ventriloquist’s dummy.
In the case of a dummy, an unseen force behind it causes the mouth to move, and the appearance is that the dummy is speaking. In fact, the voice is really coming from somewhere else. In the case of the non-realized, it is personality / personas that are really doing the talking.
The words only appear to be coming
out of the mouth of the dummy, which is also the case with the mouth of the
non-realized whose bodies house the “mind” which convinces persons that their false identities are
real.
In the example of the TV show caller, he bragged that he and his wife - both
sixty years old - have never had health insurance but “have done just fine.”
His “mind” then worked in tandem with his personas to generate the
thought that, instead of discussing the inefficiencies in the health care
system, the guest on the show “needs to stop talking about the negative things
in the U.S. and put out positive messages about America” because “America is
the greatest country on earth.” And the caller really thought that those were
ideas that he came up with and that he was sharing.
To the contrary, his personas were speaking via the mouth of the space
that he takes himself to be. In enneagram terms, he is trapped in the Type Six
personality and has disintegrated to the worst of the Type Three. Sixes are
blindly and proudly and unquestioningly loyal to their country and their
leaders, always exhibiting their “my country . . . right or wrong” mindset.
Sixes expect others to guarantee their security (often receiving their health
care from charitable hospitals and from doctors who are being paid with money
from others). Under stress or driven by arrogance, those types also exhibit
Type Three traits: image is everything and “my country is better than every
other country on the planet” (and therefore, by egotistical extension, “I am
better than the people in every other country on the planet”).
So a person places a phone call to a show, unconsciously gives voice to his
Muitiple Personality Disorder, and then believes that he has expressed
some profound opinion. Consider how unfounded is the arrogance being revealed .
. . arrogance expressed by one trapped in the persona of “The Proud
American.” Here is an adult male whose greatest claim to fame is the fact that
sixty years ago, a particular birth canal at a particular time of delivery was located
within the borders of a particular geographic region on the planet.
That is what it looks like when “every word coming from the mouth of the non-realized is being driven by a personality formed during childhood and is being spoken by one or more personas." In addition to those personas already listed, other ego-states which were revealed include, “The Braggart,” “The Childish, Immature One,” “The Brat,” “The Defender of His Country Who Has Experienced a Personal Affront,” and “The Blind Loyalist” who is angry that the guest is discussing a crisis in “his country.”
The
caller really wants to be able to control a guest (and any others who point out
problems in “his country”), wants to limit what another can say and do, and
wants the guest to brag about how wonderful his nation is and only
discuss things that are not problems. What a useless exercise in building even
more egotism and generating even more arrogance. Meanwhile, the illusions of
freedom and independence will be reinforced by those who are actually bound and
dependent.
Note how his false identities result in a sense of separation and in a
dualistic sense of being “better than.” Notice how the warped “mind” and the
false personas generate both false pride and complete arrogance in
regards to his citizenship (which he now holds in such high esteem, as if he
had something to do with it).
Notice how childhood programming that included daily pledges of allegiance to a flag and to a country now drive an adult-age male. Notice how that programming now drives him to give value to fabricating and maintaining a "good" image for his country while giving no value at all to having health insurance for himself and his spouse.
Such
nonsense is common among the non-realized who give significance to such things
as geographic locations and affiliations and memberships and other concepts
that sustain false identities and that support an irrational thought-life that
is completely disassociated from reality. So it is when personas are the
ventriloquists behind the dummies. Are you seeing that any words spoken by a
false persona must also be . . . false? Every word that is inspired by
an ego-state is either an ego-based lie or an ego-generated distortion.
What about you? Are you feeling great pride (or smugness or conceit or
arrogance) because a certificate says that you were born within a certain
geographic region? Do you see the sense of separation that generates? Do
you see the many personas that such unfounded pride will generate? Do
you see how adoption of those personas will also generate fears and
desires?
Are you seeing how insane or insane-like it is when the non-realized
define themselves in terms of the arbitrary labels that have been dreamed up by
arrogant and egotistical persons who are separated from awareness and
authenticity as a result of not having a clue about “who or what they truly are”?
Are you seeing how all of the fighting between individuals and among nations
are a result of persons having accepted false identities around geographic
regions and / or national boundaries and / or religious and political
affiliations? Such is the source of the nonsense of the relative existence, but
you can be free of all that.
You can declare your independence from an inner child, from the corrupted consciousness which produced a “mind,” and from the personas that generate all sense of separation and conflict and disharmony and chaos.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
To watch the most recent talk and Q&A with Walter and his guests, click:
Walter Driscoll and Floyd Henderson
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