The Five Human Character Structures - Their True Significance

Introduction

Important note - This page is meant to be read in conjunction with The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks, which explains the degradational sequence of soul reincarnations that is mentioned below. It is therefore best to read that page first, and you would then find that it links you back to this page.

I appreciate that many people would not want to read anything about 'dark forces' and their various 'entity' manifestations, but, as I have come to know from hard life experience, the dark force (actually singular) and all its various manifestations is an observable fact of life*, whatever its true nature, and indeed it interferes with everyone, so if we are serious about healing and self realization / self actualization, somewhere along the line we have no sane option but to acknowledge and address the issue - which, although it is undoubtedly challenging, is not the scary matter that so many people believe, as I show on this site.

* Before anyone gets wound up or dismissive because of my talking of 'the dark force', let me emphasize that I myself do not care for that expression at all, for in certain ways it is quite unhelpful. I use it only because it does succeed in giving a fair number of people a tolerable idea that the troublesome influence that I am talking about is something they already know of in some (usually small) measure. In fact that term gives a fairly misleading impression of what this troublesome influence really is, so it is far from ideal for the purpose. My own personal term for it is simply 'the garbage', or, more formally, 'the universal kak' - but if I used those terms in my public writings a lot of people would be confused and would assume that I was claiming to have discovered some new troublesome influence that other people do not know about, and would therefore most commonly dismiss my writings out of hand as some sort of paranoid delusional rant - or rather, significantly more people would do so than are already doing so!

One particularly important aspect in which I have had to step out of line with almost all healers is that I understand the most 'open', aware and wise people to be NOT old, highly evolved souls at all (as healers almost universally believe), but direct incarnations of fundamental consciousness (actually no-soul incarnations), who are the least fettered, least distorted or obfuscated manifestations of fundamental consciousness ('the Ultimate' as far as anyone can tell). Thus, according to my understanding, the people who are the least aware - the poorest and most distorted manifestations of fundamental consciousness - are actually incarnations of the oldest and thus most DEGRADED souls.

Barbara Brennan, in her classic books on spiritual healing, Hands of Light and Light Emerging, describes five 'character structures' - what you could loosely call character types - that are recognised in Bioenergetics and whose description and understanding she has considerably extended to take into account their significance in spiritual healing. I strongly recommend* these two books for gaining an understanding of this phenomenon - albeit still with some distortions. In Light Emerging, Brennan shows how we can apply understanding of these five character structures to enable us to produce healing responses rather than compulsive, pattern-driven ones to these 'structures' (which are really defences that hide the real person and get in the way of any prospective self healing / self actualization of theirs).

* This does not, however, indicate a full endorsement or recommendation of those books, for Barbara Brennan shows clear signs, like virtually all healers, of being led astray by the dark force. For example, she works with, and 'sees' guides, and has a personal guide called Heyoan for her healing work. What she does not realize is that ALL these 'guides' would be illusions created by her own mind under hijack-control from the dark force, as I explain in Better Without Channelling and The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks, and that the reason why Heyoan comes out with so much wise and insightful information is because the dark force relays to her information and insights from her own deepest aspects (which she cannot 'hear' directly), presenting it all as though it is from an external being - and of course, while the dark force keeps much of the information intact as a lure, in applies distortions, insertions and deletions according to whatever 'story' it is seeking to get her to take on board.

One particular problem about her explanations of the character structures is that they are based on the notion that affected people have had particular types of past life trauma experience that have carried over into the present lifetime. It is not that she is wholly wrong about that, but rather, that she does not know about the effects of parasitic lost souls* (which the dark force is hiding from her), and herself believes in evolutionary sequential, karmic soul reincarnations for everybody, which is actually a fiction given to us from the dark force for an extremely pernicious reason. So I would describe her explanations as not fully wrong but distorted and seriously misleading - albeit given with the best of intentions.

* You can read about the parasitic 'lost' soul phenomenon and the troublesome agenda of the dark force in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks.

She is a typical 'advanced' healer - having masses of non-physical awareness, but in very poorly grounded form so that she is extensively open to the astral sub-reality and thus to the interference of the dark force. People like her would do well to stop completely using such ungrounded awareness and ignore all supposed non-physical beings or purported higher realities (including ALL that she is calling 'Higher Sensory Perceptions', which are ALL ungrounded perceptions and actually being relayed to her by the dark force), and take up the strongly grounding self actualization methods that I present in Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way - and thus to develop proper grounded 'energy' awareness and progressively get clear of her own dark force interferences.

So, let me repeat this here for emphasis - the character structures or types do NOT describe the person but rather, they describe the person's particular defences that are rooted in past traumas - which have usually originated from previous lifetimes either of the person or/and of attached parasitic 'lost' souls (which traumas are being experienced as though they belonged to the person), no matter whether such traumas have been repeated in any form in the current lifetime. Thus, it would be incorrect to regard a person as being, e.g., a schizoid or a masochistic type, but it would correct to say that the person had a predominantly schizoid or masochistic 'character structure' or defence strategy.

The names generally given to the five character structures (what I would prefer to call defence strategy syndromes [or packages]) are: schizoid, masochistic, psychopathic, oral and rigid.

I view the first four of these names with considerable distaste* as they label a person with connotations of demeaning psychiatric diagnoses, and I feel that more loving and 'human' (and indeed usefully informative) terms are needed for these character structures. I have therefore included my own preferred terms in the table below.

* Actually, it is more than just a matter of my distaste. Unfortunately, to the average person, the root 'schizo' in any term or epithet used for a person becomes immediately 'schizophrenic' in that person's mind. So, anyone who is described as 'schizoid' or 'schizotypal' is immediately assumed to be schizophrenic and thus supposedly to be extremely seriously disordered, and, very likely (i.e. in the general public's eyes), a menace to the public at large and best heavily drugged and locked away in a secure unit.

One purveyor of healing methods and paraphernalia, who chose, for his own personal and business reasons, to launch a private character assassination campaign against me, actually exploited that very fact, producing a character assassination dossier on me, consisting of a carefully composed string of distortions and untruths about me, which was being sent out privately to individuals who asked for his views about me and my work, as part of his 'proof' to them that I was "mentally disordered" and "emotionally unstable" and thus to be steered well clear of. In that dossier he made a big meal of the fact (transiently mentioned in my page My Little Brush with Psychiatry) that a psychiatric consultant had 'diagnosed' me as being "mildly schizotypal" just because I was having experiences, perceptions and insights that went beyond the very limited horizon of awareness of himself and other psychiatric and medical workers.

One person who had a telephone consultation with that purveyor of healing methods / paraphernalia reported back to me that the particular person had described me dismissively as a "diagnosed schizophrenic" (and thus for keeping well clear of), and indeed in that character assassination dossier the pile of carefully composed misinformation was used to 'prove' to the reader that I was a sufferer of "paranoid schizophrenia", and thus was a dangerous person, for everyone to keep well clear of. This is the sort of thing that is liable to happen once a person has got tagged, even in the most innocent of situations, with any sort of 'schizo-' label.

A particular irony about that is that in reality, that healing products purveyor, if he ever talked honestly to a psychiatric doctor or consultant about his own supposed 'higher perceptions' and healing methods, would at once himself be 'diagnosed' as having schizotype personality disorder!

Most or all of these five 'character structure' defences actually occur for most of us at different times according to our responses to other people's defences. Only in a smallish minority of people is one of the defences so dominant that it manifests as the person's overall character structure. This happens most frequently for people at the opposite poles of their dark force controlled degradational soul reincarnation sequence:

• no-soul incarnations - quite commonly schizoid, though I have encountered the odd individuals who appear to be more or less no-soul people who were superficially manifesting the rigid character structure. These latter were actually university academics, and I get the strong impression that a fair proportion of scientists would fit into this category.
• those who have been through many soul reincarnations and so are advanced in the degradational process being administered to them by the dark force - to some extent always rigid.

Actually it looks as though two different types of character structure would tend to get labelled as 'rigid' - or at least they would be different with respect to how they have arisen and the sort of people who manifest them.

I am not going to try to repeat here the wealth of information on the character structures given by Barbara Brennan in her books, but I give a summary table below, derived from her information but including my own observations too, showing how each character structure is typically linked to and indeed derived from a specific stage in the soul degradation process. As far as I can tell, this is information that has not been published before.

In the case of the 'schizoid' and rigid character structures I can see a reasonably obvious cause for their association with the stages on their 'downhill' progression (at least, if one overlooks the cases of 'rigid' no-soul people), but the reason for the intermediate states in the degradation process being linked to specific character structures in this particular order eludes me completely.

Notes

A healing priority especially for people with the 'Schizoid' or 'Ungrounded' character structure or defence

Existential terror all too often results in a defensiveness and unwillingness to engage in the sort of self scrutiny that would enable it to be cleared, and would similarly block self scrutiny and positive life change in areas of one's experience that are being distorted or unbalanced by the existential terror. Therefore using a simple means to address that existential terror, and to prevent any residues of it from interfering in one's life, are a high priority.

In Some Potent Healing and Self Actualization Practices I present two particularly relevant practices that would generally not be felt threatening for such people and would assist their grounding. Both of them need using - Self-Power Walking, which progressively clears the trauma energy of all emotional issues, and Grounding Point, for dissolving specific troublesome or limiting beliefs and fears. In my description of the latter I give some suggestions for specific types of (probably hidden) belief or illusory reality to 'zap' using that method, including some that are key ones for ending the stranglehold of existential terror upon one's life.

Aura shapes and structures

The aura descriptions in the table do seem to portray in a figurative way particular aspects or qualities of the respective character 'structures' - which is why I give them a mention at all here. However, I caution about them for the following reason. Perception of aura details (including chakras and discrete levels or 'bodies' of the aura) are at least almost always a manifestation of ungrounded, astral perceptions, and are clearly so in Barbara Brennan's case. When using such 'perceptions' we are actually NOT directly 'seeing' at all. What actually happens is that the person who is 'seeing' such non-physical things or manifestations is being shown a schematic representation of configurations within consciousness itself that are actually much more subtle than could be seen by us in any comprehensible way.

Theoretically that would be fine if we were receiving such images directly from our own deepest aspects, but in practice, because almost all of us are not sufficiently self actualized to be able to receive such data 'audibly' directly from our deepest aspects, the dark force exploits the situation and, just as with verbal channelling, relays the original data to our ordinary minds, with distortions, additions or deletions according to what the dark force is seeking to get us to see or believe.

So, while on the face of it the story of different aura manifestations for the different character structures looks convincing, and many people who are similarly 'psychic' (i.e. they have similarly ungrounded perceptions) do see roughly what Barbara Brennan sees, and indeed the apparent aura appearances do appear to reflect something observable about each type of 'character structure' package, I would still be cautious about any aura descriptions or depictions, because at least almost all of them have dark force involvement and are thus bound to contain distortions that are aimed at leading us astray.

Indeed, further, I have more recently come to the understanding that it is actually harmful for us to entertain the notion of the objective existence of any sort of structured 'energy system' or 'aura', including well known structures such as chakras, as I explain in the relevant glossary entry for 'energy system'.

The 'schizotype' / 'normal' polarity - who is healthier?

Schizotype* 'personality disorder' is a diagnosis imposed by psychiatrists and mental healthcare workers upon people with various unorthodox perceptions and generally poor grounding (at least of their awareness) - because the psychiatric workers almost universally do not understand that weak grounding is the underlying issue and so do not understand what the true healing requirement is.

* Again, having uttered a disgusting 'schizo-" word, I must emphasize that schizotype is nothing to do with schizophrenia, and indeed very many people who are functioning much better than 'normal' people would get diagnosed as being schizotypal. Indeed, as already noted, I myself was at one point labelled as being "mildly schizotypal" by an uncomprehending psychiatric consultant, and that is now indelibly in my medical records. (see My Little Brush With Psychiatry.) What does that diagnosis tell one? -- Certainly nothing actually useful about the supposedly 'diagnosed' person. In an important respect it tells one that the diagnoser himself is disordered! It is simply a matter of one person seeing things in one way and another seeing them in another, and one of them being so locked into belief that his own view is 'right', that he 'diagnoses' another person who happens to have a different world view as being disordered, as part of a personal fixation on having a sense of his own superiority and personal power over other people. ALL psychiatrists are inherently 'disordered', for it takes a particular level and type of 'disorder' to motivate a person into being a psychiatrist of any kind.

As noted in the table, paradoxically it is overall the incarnations of the most degraded category of souls (generally speaking, apart from the real rock-bottom ones)* who tend to get regarded as the mentally healthiest and often the physically healthiest too - though actually if you look more awarely at the situation you can see that the medical and psychiatric professions are turning a big blind eye to something quite important.

* - That is, with the exception of the 'rigid' no-soul people, who would probably get regarded as the mentally and physically healthiest of all, the latter at least with regard to retaining a certain vigour and 'youthfulness' into old age. Such people are currently something of an anomaly for me in seeking to understand the character structures and their significance, so I am sure there is more to find out here.

If 'rigid' people are really the healthiest, why is it they who are most inclined to decline into dementia conditions? And why is it that people in that category do not live particularly longer, and in particular are actually less motivated than others towards truly healthy lifestyles or preserving their environment? And why is it that such people also get so much less out of life than the other people (while typically believing that they are getting all there is for them)? And why is it these people who generally most depend on the medical services to try to patch them up, rather than take charge of their lives and their physical state as much as possible and become their own healers? And why is it these people who, first and foremost, regard any mental / emotional stresses as medical issues for which to take medication instead of considering even for one moment actually using healing / lifestyle change methodology to address underlying causes?

By the same token, if people who are no-soul incarnations are really so flaky and unsound and really have a personality disorder (so-called schizotype), how come that it is they who have the maximum capacity to experience life, to excel in all manner of fields of creativity, and who have the strongest motivation to improve their lives still further? And how is it that it is these people overall who are most interested and motivated in looking after their own health and addressing underlying causes of issues so that the latter can actually be resolved?

Is it really saner or healthier for people to regularly slump back into their armchairs and watch television (living vicariously) or to get on with actively creative and invigorating pursuits as no-soul people are most inclined to?

I have really implied the answer to all these questions in the table, for it is actually NO-soul people who are fundamentally and at least potentially the healthiest, but they do have the need to get more strongly grounded before their health potential (physical and non-physical) can be fully manifested. The healthiest state that a person could be in would be that of a no-soul person who has a relatively high degree of self actualization. That is, one who is optimally grounded and has cleared out any negative or obstructing influences that have been covering up or clouding that person's true nature as a full and undistorted Earthly manifestation of none other than fundamental consciousness - what you could call 'the Ultimate'. We are all manifestations of fundamental consciousness, but the development of the soul and the associated degradation process of the whole being over many reincarnations progressively increases the distortions and outright blockages in that manifestation process for each person (actually not all of us, because some - virtually all no-soul people - succeed in reverting to fundamental consciousness at death, thus escaping the dark force imposed degradation process).

On the face of it, for anyone to have a significant 'character structure' is a great hindrance towards self healing and self actualization - but on the other hand, particularly for no-soul people with the Ungrounded ('Schizoid') character structure, the latter often serves a useful function in drawing certain healers' attention to the person's true healing needs, and especially the grounding issue, thus enabling the person to at last start understanding what he needs to change in order to resolve various issues that have been troubling him, and to then be able to turn his life around in more of a self actualization direction, towards a state of great balance and health in all his aspects, both physical and non-physical.

No matter what your own status with regard to being or not being a no-soul person, you could start virtually right away clearing yourself of your various obstacles to yourself becoming self actualized and optimally functioning in mind and body - by taking on the methodology presented in Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way.