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Enneagram Main Board Archive Re: Riso's Star PersonalityPosted by JWS on October 02, 1998 at 23:57:48: In Reply to: Re: Riso's Star Personality posted by Perciever on September 30, 1998 at 14:06:27: I refer again to Scot Peck and his confession of his own marital difficulties that he reports in his book, "World Rediscovered." If memory serves me, he stated that he & his wife were in therapy for over seven years before they were able to truly share themselves with each other. I believe this was also after his international bestseller, "Road Less Traveled," was published. An important book for me at the beginning of my journey of discovery some twenty years ago. Peck's was/is a practicing Psychiatrist, a recognized behaviorist, and an authority on relationships yet he described his extreme difficulty dealing with the whole self-awareness process. I furthermore suspect that he and his wife were probably dealing with Riso's "average" levels and not the depths of 7-9. Using the moving "Fatal Attraction" as a example, one can distinguish average and unhealthy levels when identifying problems with self-awareness. Douglas was overwhelmed with the degree of Close's character traits. A possible BPD model with narcisstic, histronic, etc. personality disorders, and potentially MPD alters. A situation no one would ever want to consciously face much less live with. Yet, if the tale took Douglas to the matrimonial alter and young ones were conceived. What then? Would Douglas move on to his next "sweet suffering" victim or confront the "reality" of his immediate and long term situation and begin to take repsonsibilty for his actions. I realize this to be somewhat an abstraction to the issue of my original Riso's "Star" personality question, but I'm obviously aiming for something bigger. My original question, albeit rather dramatic (for the sake of attention as a newcomer on this board), was intended to be one expressing serious concerns. As, I believe, the Genius pointed out, I have been true to my average 5w4 form and have researched/studied/read considerably, under the circumstances, for the sake of survival. Continuious stress is toxic. Chronic stress breeds whole bodily dysfunction. My only salvation has been to increase self-awareness. Some say that knowledge and experience= wisdom. I should be a guru!
If this society is moving toward "disintergration" then there are many who are enduring the hell that Douglas faced in his "Fatal Attraction," and there will be many more. My experience is that self-awareness will definitely move the soul to a high spiritual level. To begin the process...? Anne Wilson Schaef interprets "living process" as one who must live their own experience notwithstanding all others interference including the helping profession. On the surface this statement seems trite or at least simplistic in its understatement. However, the primary concern is WILL the process require the individual to reach the lowest point on the aforementioned Dr. Charles Whitfield's, inverted bell curve, "bottoming-out" before moving unconscious states to consciousness. From denial, rigidity, isolation, control...to the beginning steps toward self-awareness and spiritual/inner harmony. Didn't Carl Jung have to experience this depth of dsyfunction and self-heal over a period of four years before resurfacing a more "aware" person?
Me thinks...perhaps to dream.
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